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 Zanotti Sandals Julius Agwu   turned 41 on April 7, 2014 and he spent the day with family – his beautiful wife and two kids and children in the orphanage.  The comedian says his wife Ibiere got him this lovely pair of Giuseppe Zanotti slippers and that’s the only bday gift he posted on his Instagram." ‘My birthday gift from wifey #GuisseppeZannotti #Sandals thanx my love‘, he wrote".

The president has cancelled his scheduled trip to Ibadan this morning to visit the Nyanya bomb blast scene. He was there with the senate president and also visited victims at Asokoro hospital, urging medical practitioners to do everything possible in their care to save the lives of the victims.  See more pics below. 

Civil Right Lawyer According to reports today Tuesday, April 15 , 2014, Mr. Ebun Olu-Adegboruwa talks about an assassination attempt on his life. Adegboruwa is a human rights lawyer who led protests against tolling of Lekki-Epe expressway by Lagos State government and Lekki Concession Company (LCC), and eventually won a suite against the Lagos state government. He attended Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife and thereafter the Nigerian Law School in 1995. He had worked with late Chief Gani Fawehinmi’s Chambers before he set-up a law firm, Adegboruwa & Company with corporate office in Lekki-Ajah. The lawyer claims those men were very mean and looked very determined, not like the usual armed robbers looking for material gain. He believes these men were attempting to kill him, and claims they were the enemies of people of the masses of Nigeria. “One of my neighbours has since confirmed that he actually saw a car that dropped off these armed men around my fence at abo...

Helen Ukpabio The Home Secretary Theresa May is being urged to step in to prevent a Nigerian “witch hunter” returning to the UK after she flew in to preach to congregations in London. “Lady Apostle” Helen Ukpabio, founder of the controversial Liberty Foundation Gospel Ministries, is believed to still be in the capital after addressing three gatherings last week. The born-again Christian Pentecostal preacher claims to have been betrothed to Satan as a teenager before being rescued from a cult at the age of 17. She now specialises in liberating captives in “deliverance sessions” that critics claim are little more than crude exorcisms.  Among her advice to parents is the suggestion: “If a child under the age of two screams in the night, cries and is always feverish with deteriorating health, he or she is a servant of Satan.” Campaigners say such beliefs, prevalent in some parts of the developing world, can put children’s safety at risk. They have written to M...

Suspects Two sex convicts charged with raping and murdering four Los Angeles-area women were wearing GPS monitoring bracelets for having assaulted children when they allegedly committed the serial killings that began last fall, police said Monday. Steven Dean Gordon, 45, and Franc Cano, 27, are registered sex offenders on parole for sexual acts with children younger than 14. The two transients were arrested Friday near an Anaheim trash-sorting facility where the naked body of 21-year-old Jarrae Nykkole Estepp, of Modesto, was found on a conveyor belt in March. They were charged Monday with raping and killing her and three other women living in Orange County, all of whom had been involved in prostitution. Police would not say whether the bodies of the other three -- Kianna Jackson, 20; Josephine Monique Vargas, 34, and Martha Anaya, 28 -- have been found. Police said at a news conference Monday afternoon that they were "confident" there is a fifth victim and poss...

High school girls According to reports, 103 girls were kidnapped after an attack on a Girls Secondary School located in Chibok, a town on the border of Adamawa and Borno state. Gunmen reportedly arrived at the school in Chibok around 9pm, killed the soldier stationed to protect the students and took 103 out of the 250 girls that make up the school. The men took the girls away in four lorries. A source who lives near the school told a correspondent of SaharaReporters that there was complete chaos during the attack, adding that the students could put up no resistance to the heavily armed attackers. The mass abduction lasted between 9PM -3 AM as sect members made several trips picking and choosing their victims out of the 250 students enrolled in the school.  Residents of the area also told Saharareporters that  the militants  razed 100 homes because some of the residents initially resisted the militants.

The Peoples Democratic Party on Monday accused the opposition All Progressives Party of culpability in the bomb blast which killed over 70 people in Nyanya, Abuja, on Monday. While condemning the act which it described as barbaric, monstrous and extremely wicked, the PDP said the attacks were politically motivated. National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, said this in a statement, in Abuja .punchng.com The statement partly read, “The PDP weeps. We are indeed grief-stricken. Our hearts go out to the bereaved, especially those who have been orphaned and widowed and those now deprived of their bread winners by this evil act. We share in their pain, their anguish and their loss and pray that those behind their grief must not escape justice.” Metuh said the attacks could not be justified under any guise adding that it was the handiwork of an opposition desperate to undermine and discredit the present administration and make the nation ungovernable for ...

Nex2, Miss Oge & Xolani It was all suprise as Nex2, Miss Oge,  and Xolani were announced as the second set of contestant to make it to the top 12 in Etisalat -sponsored Nigeria Idol season 4. It was a bitter-sweet moment for the trio as they hugged their fellow contestant who did not make it to the Top 12 stage. Expressing his excitement Xoani said " being in the top 12 is like a new level of grace. I'm do happy." Congrats to them...

Wande coal Oga Journalist: Oga journalist, you quick come back o, wetin happen?  I never finish the work o. Sidon make I sharply change the oil filter and put new engine oil make we dey go house. Oga Journalist: I know you won’t be done. No be Oga Journalist wey I don sabi since? Oga Journalist: No be so o. I wan make you drop me for my junction na why I delay the work till time wey you go close. You don hear your guy, Wande Coal, new song? The guy try for the song o, but the beat no just follow at all. Make him find better producer like Don Jazzy nah. Oga Journalist: I downloaded it but I’m yet to listen to it. Oga Journalist: Make I play am for you.  (#NP Baby Hello- Wande Coal, Produced by Maleek Berry). You no see say this beat dull this song? Oga Journalist: Errrrmmmm, you have a point. This beat lacks those type of ‘ajasa’ Don Jazzy’s beats have. But Wande did well on this song. I think the part he sang a few lines in French is nice and the ‘Mrs idikunle’ part got ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), early this month, 15 th  of April, 2014, arrested seven undergraduates in Lekki for internet scams. They were picked up after they were informed that the boys were into illegal acts. Somewhere picked up at Lekki County Homes and others at Lekki phase one. According to EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, the raid on the two houses on April 15, led to the arrest of seven suspects, all undergraduates, and study various courses in some of the nation’s tertiary institutions.

Kehinde and Taiwo The Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Lagos has arrested a set of identical twins for robbing a factory belonging to Reckitt Benckiser, producers of Dettol. punchng.com Police authorities told  PUNCH Metro  that the duo, Taiye and Kehinde Balogun, were welders and were hired by a robbery gang to break into the firm’s warehouse in May last year. The robbery gang, it was learnt, robbed the company of soap noodles and chemicals worth N17m. It was learnt that after the robbery, SARS detectives launched an investigation into the case and the prime suspects were arrested in February. The suspects were said to have implicated the twins who were subsequently arrested. The twins, who are both 27-years-old, told  PUNCH Metro  that they were not aware that they were being hired for a robbery operation.

Her face is so spotless now that you won't have ever believed she went through what you see below. The rapper in a step by step explanation revealed how she won a 6-year battle against acne on her face. Learn!

Yinka  Ayefele's house Yoruba gospel artist Yinka Ayefele’s mansion is on fire. We currently don’t know what caused the fire, but his journalist friends have started broadcasting the pictures of the scene on blackberry.We hope the fire stops soon.