Police Seize Cynthia’s Corpse In Lagos

The police in Lagos state, western Nigeria refused to release the corpse of Cynthia Osokogu, the Facebook girl murdered by suspected kidnappers in a hotel in Lagos, to her parents for burial in her hometown today.

According to sources, the police had planned to do an autopsy on the body yesterday at the Ikeja General Hospital morgue. Police Commissioner Umaru Manko told P.M.News that the pathologist did not complete the autopsy and hence the decision not to release Cynthia’s body for burial.

Presidential Persecution Complex by Olusegun Adeniyi

Olusegun Adeniyi

Without conducting a poll or a content analysis, Dr Goodluck Jonathan has declared himself the most criticized president in the world. That I guess is what he is being told by some favour-seeking politicians and ‘media consultants’. But from experience I know why the people who peddle those tales to the president do so: one, to make his media managers look bad; two, to bring in their own men if possible; and three, to make money. Before I however conclude on what President Jonathan’s real problem is, I want to share my experience with the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua on this same issue.

Indecent Dressing In The Work Place

I walked into a youth gathering of about forty people a few weeks ago and about four of the young ladies there were dressed in a rather indecent manner. Every where you turn to nowadays, indecent dressing seems to be so rampant. It seems to be a cancer that has eaten deep into every nook and cranny of our society. I give talks on etiquette in schools across Nigeria and to my greatest shock, I found out even some school uniforms are indecently sewn.

IBB, Abdulsalami, Tinubu Lead Battle for PHCN Assets

Two former heads of state, retired Generals Ibrahim Babangida and Abdulsalami Abubakar, as well as former Governor of Lagos State and leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Sena

tor Ahmed Bola Tinubu, are the promoters of some of the bidding consortiums contesting for the 18 companies unbundled from the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), THISDAY investigations have revealed.

GSM providers threaten to leave the North

The major GSM providers in Nigeria-MTN, Airtel, GLO mobile and Etisalat have threatened to leave the Northern part of the country after attacks on their base stations which have made them to lose up N1.03 billion.

The umbrella body of the telecoms operators, the Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria(ALTON), on Thursday that it has become too dangerous to operate in the region.

The major GSM providers – MTN, Glo, Airtel and Etisalat – are all members of ALTON.

Okorocha accuses Ohakim of stealing billions, plans probe

The Rochas Okorocha-led Imo state government announced on Thursday it was finalizing plans to probe ousted governor, Ikedi Ohakim, accused by the government of stealing billions of n

aira.
The incumbent governor, and his predecessor, Mr. Ohakim, have been embroiled in prolonged political wrangling after Mr. Ohakim lost a reelection in 2011.

Fuel Subsidy Scam: EFCC declares fleeing oil marketers wanted

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has just issued the statement below declaring wanted, marketers who allegedly “obtained billions of naira as subsidy payments from the Petroleum Support Fund under false pretence, and disappeared in the wake of the Commission’s investigation of the subsidy regime.

How to cope with stress in Nigeria

Most of us who were born in Nigeria take a lot of things for granted. The kind of trauma we experience daily would send the average Japanese guy flying out a 23rd floor window. Make no mistake about it, Nigeria is a warfront. Don’t ask me to explain -- if you are a Nigerian, you experience it every day and if you are not, well, Google it. 

Cossy Orjiakor gives it to randy fans

It is hard to ignore Nollywood actress and singer, Cossy Orjiakor.

 But the voluptuous actress, who embraced controversy with her half nude performances in Fuji artiste Obesere’s, music video, Apple Juice, seems to easily forget just how hard it is for some men to ignore her.

Bored and feeling ‘a little mischievous’, the actress made some of her 9,663 Twitter fans pay for her ‘memory lapse’ by tweeting explicit pictures of herself and asking them not to get carried away.

“Make me your attendant tonight. I will gladly play my roles,” she tweeted along with the pictures which showed a generous view of her ample bosoms and backside.

Barack Obama’s 2012 Democratic National Convention Speech: Full text

Below are Barack Obama’s remarks, delivered Thursday in Charlotte, North Carolina:

I watched dad kill mum –Only child

An 11-year-old boy, Onyebuchi Eze, who witnessed how his mother was gruesomely murdered by his father has relived the bizarre incident.

Sunday Eze Jnr. killed his wife, Anthonia, on Tuesday night, leaving residents of Agbani Village on the outskirts of Nsukka Urban in Enugu State bewildered.

We did not banned wande Coal “Go Low” video – NBC

Contrary to ongoing speculation that the NBC last week banned Wande Coal “Go low” video from being air on Terrestrial TV, the agency has denied such allegation.

Quote from thenetng, Spokes person of NBC explained that the commission ‘merely verbally advised stations should edit the musical video’ before using it on Terrestrial TV stations.

‘We have no issues with the lyrics; the issue is with the video clip and just a tiny part of it. The advice is to edit that part before use on broadcasting stations’ said Francisca Aiyetan, a rep from the Broadcast Content and Zonal Coordination of the commission.

She also explained the importance of NBC’s strictness with videos aired on terrestrial free-to-air stations.

Obinna, Livi Ajuonuma’s Son call for action against Dana Air operation

Obinna Levi Ajuonuma, son of Dr Levi Ajounuma, Group General Manager NNPC before he lost his life in the ill fated Dana plane crash in IIju, Ishaga, Lagos is appealing to Nigerians to join forces at stopping the restoration of the Dana Air operating license as announced by the federal government. The government had earlier lifted  the ban placed on the airline as a result of that crash

According to Obinna: