How ‘My stepfather serially raped, impregnated me!’ -13year old girl tell her story

13 -year-old Blessing Chia allegedly fell victim to regular beating by his step father, Mr Benjamin Richard, 35, who, as she claimed, later lusted after her.
The allegation by the girl that the step father serially raped her to the point of her getting pregnant is a subject of police investigations.
Blessing told Sunday Vanguard, “The first time my mother was not around, he took cane and was beating me and told me that if I messed up, he would kill me, that if I shouted or if my mummy heard anything about it, he was going to kill me.

Rape: Stephanie Okereke urges prosecution of brother, pledges support for victim

Actress Stephanie Okereke-Linus has reacted to the alleged rape incident involving his brother, Prince Daniel Okereke as reported by Vanguard Newspaper over the weekend.
I am distraught and devastated to hear of the recent allegation of rape brought against a relative of mine, Daniel Okereke (my brother).
While it is a very difficult time for me, and my family; I feel the need to make clear my position, lest there be any doubt. Rape is rape, regardless of who the face of the accused is.

Oil spill: Shell ordered to pay N75m compensation to impacted communities

Bayelsa State Government and National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency, NOSDRA, have ordered Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, to pay N75 million compensation to Biseni communities in Yenagoa Local Government Area impacted by the Adibawa North East 6″ Test Line oil spill.

The government and the regulatory agency threatened more severe sanction should the company fail to pay up before November 30 and also engage an independent team of experts to undertake a comprehensive technical assessment of the impacted area.

‘B’Haram slits throats of some fish vendors, throw others into lake’ Chad

Suspected Boko Haram extremists ambushed and slaughtered 48 fish vendors near Nigeria’s border with Chad, the head of their association said, the latest violence to hit the country’s volatile northeast.

“Scores of Boko Haram fighters blocked a route linking Nigeria with Chad near the fishing village of Doron Baga on the shores of Lake Chad on Thursday and killed a group of 48 fish traders? on their way to Chad to buy fish,” Abubakar Gamandi, head of the fish traders association, told AFP.

Be Prepared To Arrest 100 Legislators With Tambuwal – Dr. Ali Warns

The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Justice, Dr. Ali Ahmad, has warned the police against trying to make any attempt to arrest the Speaker of the House, Aminu Tambuwal, stating that 100 legislators would be prepared to follow him to prison. Ali made this statement yesterday in Ilorin, Kwara State, while inaugurating the vocational centre of the University of Ilorin Students’



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Bokoharam has damaged Jonathan’s administration- Cardinal Okojie

Retired Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese, Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie, said those with links to Boko Haram have infiltrated President Goodluck Jonathan’s government set up, hence the fueling of insurgency in the country.He told Sunday Independent that such Fifth Columns leak information to terrorists, thereby endangering the lives of the Nigerian forces.“If the president can be bold



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Be Prepared To Arrest 100 Legislators With Tambuwal – Dr. Ali Warns

The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Justice, Dr. Ali Ahmad, has warned the police against trying to make any attempt to arrest the Speaker of the House, Aminu Tambuwal, stating that 100 legislators would be prepared to follow him to prison. Ali made this statement yesterday in Ilorin, Kwara State, while inaugurating the vocational centre of the University of Ilorin Students’ Union, equipped by him...

Bokoharam has damaged Jonathan’s administration- Cardinal Okojie

Retired Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese, Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie, said those with links to Boko Haram have infiltrated President Goodluck Jonathan’s government set up, hence the fueling of insurgency in the country.He told Sunday Independent that such Fifth Columns leak information to terrorists, thereby endangering the lives of the Nigerian forces.“If the president can be bold enough and muster political will, they will be conquered,” Okogie said.

I scaled National Assembly Gate to Save Our Democracy- Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila

House of Representatives minority leader, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, has explained why he scaled the gate to gain entrance into the National Assembly premises. In a Facebook post, he said

Jonathan supervises a corrupt govt, says Amaechi

Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has said President Goodluck Jonathan “is supervising a highly corrupt government.”
He also claimed that “there is no democracy yet in Nigeria.”
The governor, who spoke in Abuja on Saturday, insisted that he had no personal quarrel with President Jonathan, adding that if governance could be separated from the President, he (Jonathan) “remains a good man.”