N’Korea Threatens War On US Over Movie

North Korea has promised “merciless” retaliation if a forthcoming Hollywood movie about killing Kim Jong-un is released, BBC reports.
A North Korean foreign ministry spokesman said in state media that the movie’s release would be an “act of war”.

I TAKE HOLY COMMUNION, I CAN’T STEAL —ATUCHE

    

 A former Managing Director of Bank PHB, Mr Francis Atuche, on Wednesday denied the N25.7 billion theft charge preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Atuche, who took to the stand in his ongoing trial, before Justice Lateefat Okunnu of a Lagos State High Court in Ikeja, told the court that he was not a thief.

EDO LAWMAKERS HOLD PLENARY AT ASSEMBLY GATE

 Warring lawmakers of the Edo State House of Assembly, on Wednesday, held two different parallel sessions at the entrance gate of the assembly complex.
Apparently uncomfortable with the scorching sun they had endured since Monday, some of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmakers in the assembly helped themselves with the party’s crested umbrellas.

2015: DON’T TAKE JONATHAN FOR GRANTED, FAYOSE WARNS APC

 Ekiti State Governor- elect, Ayodele Fayose, has attributed his victory at last Saturday’s governorship election to the insistence of President Goodluck Jonathan on party primary to choose the governorship candidate of the party.

Boko Haram Worse Than Civil WAar —JONATHAN

                   

 President Goodluck Jonathan, on Wednesday, insisted that the ongoing Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East is worse than the Nigerian civil war.
Receiving the College of Bishops of the African Church, led by Primate Emmanuel Udofia, who paid him a visit in State House, Abuja, he observed that whereas the battle line was drawn in the case of the civil war and the enemies known, the war on terror was complicated, because the enemies w...ere faceless and within.

Concern Ekiti Residents Call For Governor Fayemi's Probe

Members of the Ekiti Young Professionals (EYP), a group of young professionals from the state scattered all over the country, have called on the governor-elect, Ayodele Fayose, to probe the administration of Kayode Fayemi, saying that Ekiti youths will not forgive him if the allegations that the incumbent used the meagre allocations of the state to build a magnificient university in Ghana, apart from having housing estates in the ...country, were true.

Robbers Attack Bullion Van, Kill 4 Cops, Others In Delta, Cart Awaya Millions Of Naira

 

Hell was let loose yesterday at Ubulu-Okiti along the Benin-Onitsha expressway in Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta State when unknown gunmen struck killing both policemen and unsuspecting motorists and carted away millions of naira.

Police arrest 20 suspected B’ Haram members in Enugu

                         

Twenty suspected members of the violent Islamic sect, popularly known as Boko Haram, were arrested in Enugu on Wednesday after a commercial bus conveying them was intercepted by security operatives.The bus was reportedly stopped at Obollo Afor in the Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu State.

Stephen Keshi Hits Back At Nigerian Fans

 According to a Vanguard reporter who spoke with Stephen Keshi in Brazil, the Super Eagles coach is angry at Nigerian fans for abusing him over the team's performance at the on-going World Cup in Brazil. Keshi said there was absolutely no justification for fans to insult him and his family.
"It’s a shame, just a shame that we keep doing the same thing and then they come back and they say they are sorry. Sorry ...for abusing my mum? Sorry for abusing my siblings? For what? That I am representing Nigeria?”

Fayose's Victory Frightening To Democracy--- Fashola

         

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has described Ayodele Fayose’s victory at the last weekend governorship election in Ekiti State as frightening to democracy in view of the fact that people were induced with money to vote.
Fashola, who spoke with newsmen after a closed door meeting with Vice Chairmen of the 57 councils in Lagos, held at the State House, Marina, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria said the election is not ...foreclosed.