BBC Journalist Questions the Rejection of EFCC Boss, Ibrahim Magu

A producer and journalist working with the British Broadcasting Corporation has aired her seeming disaffection with the decision of the Nigerian Senate to reject the confirmation of the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu.

After a lengthy period of screening of Mr. Ibrahim Magu by the Red Chamber, a majority of the lawmakers rejected his confirmation for a second time.

Gunmen Assassinate Popular Benin Pastor "Prophet Speed" In Edo

Unknown gunmen assassinated the founder and head pastor of Love Fire Ministry, a Pentecostal church located at 3, Ugiagbe street, off Country Home Motel Road, in Benin, Edo State.

Pastor Godwin Emmanuel popularly known as Prophet Speed, was shot dead on Sunday night along Oko Central road, off Airport road, Benin, Edo state.

Photos: Man caught on camera having sex with a motorcycle

CCTV near a university in Chonburi, Thailand caught a man making a slit in a motorcycle seat then getting out his manhood to have sex with the vehicle. 

The five minute clip first shows him touring the bike park of the student quarters. He caresses several bikes then finds one he fancies. 

Rostov ground shut after Mourinho pitch complaint

Russia’s Premier League has closed Rostov’s stadium because of the poor condition of the pitch, a week after Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho slammed the surface as unplayable.

The league said Wednesday that it was banning matches at the Olimp-2 arena — as well as the Central Stadium in Kazan — until the pitches meet its standards.
Rostov’s pitch was described as “a field” by Jose Mourinho.

Obsessed colleague stabbed woman 20 times when she didn't want to be his girlfriend

How on earth do you claim to be in love with someone then have the heart to harm them just because they do not share your feelings? This is indeed sick. Here's the story of a man, Brian Deakins, 46, who was so obsessed with his friendly female colleague, Deborah Evans, to the extent that he had to resort to violence.

Photos: Kogi state govt destroys house owned by kidnapping ring leader

The Kogi state government today ordered the destruction of a one-storey building owned by one Alhaji Tijanni Bakare, a self confessed kidnapping syndicate ringleader. B

akare who was recently apprehended by the police, confessed to being the ring leader of a gang that has terrorised residents of Kogi state and travelers along the state roads. 

Judge orders removal of bullet logged in defendant’s leg

Justice Halilu Yusuf of the FCT High Court, Jabi has ordered the Nigerian Prisons to plan for surgery to extract the bullet lodged in the leg of a defendant for trial.
The judge gave the order on Wednesday before adjourning  the case of the alleged robbery preferred against 10 men to  March 27.

He said that this should be done before the defendants were brought to court on the next adjourned date.

Chelsea set for £100 million raid on Everton this summer

Chelsea have been heavily linked with a move for Romelu Lukaku in recent days, and now it seems they have their eyes on another Everton player as well.

Antonio Conte is a fan of Ross Barkley, and is considering bringing him and Lukaku to the Bridge, in a £100 million spending spree this summer.

Woman Cuts Her Husband’s Cousin With A Blade Over N20 In Lagos

A trader identified only as Iya Keji, has been declared wanted, for allegedly cutting her husband’s 12-year-old cousin, Bose, with a blade, in different parts of her body, on Tuesday, on Tayo Kehinde Street, Egbeda, Lagos State.

The mother of one, who is a trader, later escaped. She has been declared wanted by policemen from the Shasha division. However, her mother, aunt and daughter were detained by the police pending the arrest of the trader.

How I was gang raped by three women in South Africa

A Hluhluwe man has said he will not be able to forgive the three women who raped him. A video of the incident appeared on social media and has since gone viral. The man, whose name is known to the Daily News, said he was at home when a woman whom he knows called him over, saying she needed help with an electrical problem at her home.

“I went into her house and when I got there, I saw another girl in the room. I did not pay any attention to her. Then another girl who was hiding behind the door closed it, that’s when I realised that something was wrong.”

Ile-Ife Crisis: 20 Suspects Arrested by Security Operatives

Twenty people have been arrested in connection with last week’s violence in Ile-Ife, Osun State according to The Nation.

Governor Rauf Aregbesola said this yesterday when the senator representing Kano Central, Rabiu Kwankwaso visited him in Osogbo, the state capital

The duo cautioned the media against reports that could jeopardise the peace of the country. Aregbesola said the suspects will be punished.

Photo: Tinashe grabs Travis Scott’s junk in the latest issue of GQ style

No evidence Obama had Trump Tower wiretapped

The leading Republican and Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said Wednesday that they have seen no evidence to support President Donald Trump's March 4 claim that the Obama administration had tapped his phones at Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign.

Businessman’s bodyguard shoots sporadically, injures 14 in Anambra

About 14 persons have sustained gunshot wounds following sporadic shooting by a bodyguard working for a businessman, Chief Vincent Udeobi on Wednesday during ‘Ede Opoto’ festival at Ifitedunu community in Dunukofia council area of Anambra State.

According to eyewitnesses, the guard whose name was simply given as Mungo Park, released some shots in the air, to scare away the crowd following his master who was said to be spraying money.

Court Remands 7 Boko Haram Leaders In Kuje Prison

The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered that seven suspected Boko Haram leaders, who were allegedly involved in the kidnaping and murdering of 11 foreign nationals between 2011 and 2013 in the North be remanded at Kuje Prison pending their trial in the criminal charges brought against them by the Federal Government.
The Federal Government filed an 11-count charge against the seven suspected leaders of the Boko Haram sect, to which they all pleaded not guilty when read out to them in the court.

How Ibrahim Magu failed integrity test

The Senate received a letter from the Department of State Security, DSS, yesterday night stating that acting chairman of EFCC, Ibrahim Magu who was rejected by senators today, failed the integrity test carried out on him by the agency. In the report, the agency said it carried out investigations on all the nominees for the board of the EFCC.

Video: Dumb Girl Risk Her Life as She Twerks on a Moving Car

Bout to die for the twerk 😒

A post shared by Baller Alert (@balleralert) on Mar 14, 2017 at 10:40pm PDT

Why I flog my wife regularly - Man reveals his reasons to court

An Omu-Aran Area Court in Kwara on Wednesday dissolved a 15-year-old marriage of a carpenter, Akeem Abiodun, over battering of his wife.

The judge, Mr Adebola Banigbe, said that the court had to dissolve the marriage since Akeem and his wife, Omolara, consented to the dissolution.

Apostle Suleman being persecuted by APC – Fayose

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has described the adultery allegation against Apostle Johnson Suleman of the Omega Power Ministry by one Miss Stephanie Otobo as “high-level conspiracy meant to destroy the integrity of the pastor and silence his critical and principled voice of truth and dissent in a nation fast becoming a one-party state.” 

Senate Issues Warrant Of Arrest On Hameed Ali

The Senate has agreed to issue a warrant of arrest to compel the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), retired Col. Hammed Ali, to appear before it on Thursday,

The senate unanimously passed the motion at their plenary on Wednesday.

The decision of the Senate came at the time that the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) suspended the implementation of its policy for duty payments on old vehicles.

Photos: Airline passenger suffers horrific injuries after headphones explode mid-flight and catch fire

Australian authorities will investigate why a pair of battery-powered headphones caught fire two hours into a flight between Beijing and Melbourne, blackening and blistering a female passenger's face and hands.

The woman was sleeping and listening to music about two hours into the trip when she heard an explosion.

Donald Trump Tweets at Snoop Dogg Over Video, Says His Career is Failing

Snoop Dogg evidently got under the President's skin after he released a music video for the song "Lavender," by jazz/hip hop quartet BadBadNotGood, the highlight of which was Snoop firing a joke gun at a clownishly face painted version of Donald Trump.

President Trump's New Travel Ban Against Muslim Countries Under Serious Challenge

President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban will be scrutinized in federal courtrooms across the country on Wednesday, when it is to take effect. In Maryland, a U.S. judge will hear arguments from the American Civil Liberties Union and others who want to stop the new directive.

According to Associated Press (AP) more than a half-dozen states are trying to derail the executive order affecting travelers from six Muslim-majority nations. Hawaii’s lawsuit is heading to federal court in Honolulu, while Washington state, which successfully sued to block the original ban, wants its own hearing before a federal judge in Seattle.

Photos: 3-Year-Old Girl Falls Into Pan Of Boiling Oil In Maiduguri, Suffers Burns

3-year-old Hauwa Abubakar Ali is in serious pain from severe burns sustained after she fell into a local kossai seller's hot oil pan. She was immediately rushed to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital. According to Advocacy for Human Value Foundation, that shared the photos on March 11th, doctors have requested for N120,000 to help Hauwa undergo plastic surgery. More pics after the cut...

Graphic Photo: Woman Stabs Own 8-month-old Baby In Ebonyi

It was a gory sight at the Accident and Emergency Unit of the Federal Teaching Hospital (FETHA), Abakaliki, in Ebonyi State, as an 8-month-old baby boy was stabbed by his reportedly mentally-sick mother and brought into the ward for surgery with the knife still stuck in the boy’s abdomen.

Though Daily Sun could not get full details of the incident as the suspect, who was said to be a wife of a serving police Sergeant, was said to have been taken to hospital for treatment, it was gathered that the incident happened at the police barracks, Abakaliki.