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Former President, Mr Goodluck Jonathan has confirmed the theft of his property from his house in Abuja. He confirmed the incident in a statement by his spokesperson, Ikechukwu Eze, following some media reports that the home was stripped bare and some of the items stolen were being sold in markets. "The house, which the former President bought from CITEC estate developers in 2004, was totally stripped bare by the thieves who stole every movable item in the house including furniture sets, beds, electronics, toilet and electrical fittings, as well as all internal doors and frames." Premium Times had exclusively reported the burglary. While some other media reports stated that over 36 Plasma television sets and 25 refrigerators were moved out of the apartment, the former president denied the claims, stating that the number of items stolen was less than that. According to the statement, however, Mr Jonathan noted that investigations commenced immediately which led to the arrest an

THEME: WANT YOUR PRAYERS ANSWERED?     Memorise:   Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard. Proverb 21:13   Read:  Psalm 22:1-5   1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? 2 O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. 3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. 4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. 5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.     Message:   There was a popular Mexican soap opera on the Nigerian television scene a few years ago titled "The Rich Also Cry". The title of this drama gives credence to the fact that every human being, no matter how intelligent, wealthy, powerful or highly placed, would at one time or the other in life require assistance to deal with circumstances

A  14-year-old girl, Obiamaka Ngozichukwu Orakwe, was raped to death in her parents' apartment in Abule-Ado area of Lagos State by miscreants. The act was reportedly carried out by a group of miscreants, who usually hanged out in a smoking joint in the area, following the deceased's negative response to their advances. Tragedy, as gathered, occurred last Monday, while the Junior Secondary School 3 student was alone at home. The miscreants were said to have gained entry into Orakwe's apartment from the back of the house, scaling the fence. They were said to have gagged her, took turns to rape her and, thereafter, abandoned her in a pool of her blood. Obiamaka Ngozichukwu Orakwe Her distraught mother said she was contacted on phone by residents, who saw the miscreants leaving the building through the fence. Curious residents were said to have knocked several times on the gate to ascertain the miscreants' mission, without any response from within. Her mother's story On

A man has been nabbed in Lagos by the police for allegedly enticing underage girls with N500 to fondle his manhood. File photo: Man being arrested by the police   A 36-year-old man, who allegedly enticed some underage girls to pat his sexual organ affectionately for N500, was on Friday in Lagos nabbed, according to the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team (DSVRT). The suspect, whose name was not given, was apprehended by some residents of Silver Crescent Estate, Oke-Afa in Isolo area of Lagos. The Coordinator of the team, Titilola Vivour-Adeniyi, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the agency's intervention followed a report by residents of the community. DSVRT is a collection of professional service providers and officials that respond as a group and in a timely fashion to the various needs of domestic and sexual violence survivors by providing legal, medical and emergency assistance. It also provides counselling and psychological and psychosocial support

A local government worker, Mercy Oluwafeyibunmi, has been arrested by the police and detained at the Force Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (Annex), Alagbon, Ikoyi, Lagos State. It was gathered that the woman, who had been in detention for two weeks, had also been admitted to the police clinic at Alagbon after falling ill. Punch Metro gathered that the offence of the mother of three was that she bore the same middle name, Adetokunbo, with one Eileen, a Nigerian based in the United Kingdom. Punch correspondent gathered that Eileen sent a representative to an Ondo State High Court, who swore to an affidavit, claiming that Mercy's middle name was "imposive." Mercy, 35, was subsequently arrested and detained at the Force CIID Annex, Alagbon, since July 7. Investigations by Punch Metro, however, revealed that Mercy and Eileen's differences were beyond a middle name. The two women's ex-lover, Bankole Ogunnowo, who is based in the UK, was at the centre

•'I've been released' •Police: he's in hospital Does Alhaji Alaka Abayomi who was arrested by the police on Monday have anything to do with the notorious Badoo gang? This was the poser yesterday as Abayomi and the police traded words over his arrest. He told  The Nation  yesterday that he had been released, but the police alleged that he was still in custody. Abayomi, a landlord in the highbrow Magodo, said he was not a sponsor of  Badoo . According to Dr Paul Umoh, officer-in-charge of the Inspector-General of Police' (IGP) Special Tactical Squad (STS), Abayomi is being prepared for "surgery for enlarged testis". Abayomi was arrested by STS and paraded before reporters who were taken round a shrine in Agbowa, near Ikorodu, described as the largest in the area. Umoh, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), described Abayomi as a suspect, adding that he denied being a  Badoo  sponsor. He said: "The man admitted he was a traditionalist and that he worsh

How we make money by killing and kidnapping "It  is my destiny to become a kidnapper, stop asking me why I did it. It is true that my parents are rich cattle rearers, I have no excuse except that it is the wish of Allah," retorted Abduraham Ahmed, a Fulani herdsman who was obviously irritated by the repeated query as to why he decided to abandon cattle rearing for a career in abduction.     He is among several kidnap suspects recently arrested by operatives of the Special Tactical Squad (STS) deployed by the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to check the wave of kidnap and robbery attacks along the corridors of Kaduna, Kano, Kogi and Niger states' highways in the past months. His other accomplices netted by the team, headed by an Assistant Commissioner of Police, Yusuf Kolo, are Mohammed Mujumu, Umar Garba, Jabbi Mohammed, Suleiman Mohammed, Ali Bello, Habu Mamoni and Jubril Musa. The arrest of members of the gangs, who had unleashed terror on hapless residents

The Enugu state command of the Nigeria Police Force in its renewed onslaught/manhunt against the daredevil who are torn on the flesh of the members of the public in the early hours of 31/7/17 through its operatives of the TransEkulu Division of the Nigeria Police Force encountered suspected hoodlums numbering about four through a distress call in which the operatives responded swiftly. It was gathered that suspects armed with a pump action riffle had allegedly gone to a house situated at Onuakpa street Transekulu Enugu from where they allegedly broke into the owners house and allegedly robbed occupants of their valuables and thereafter was about abducting and whisking away one of the occupants of the house, a 76 year old mercy chijioke in her own car before the operatives of the Trans Ekulu Division who responded swiftly to the distress call that was raised encountered and in the ensuing gun battle, one of the suspects was gun down and later confirmed dead while others were fatally inj

A woman has found herself in more trouble than she can handle after she was found out to have had unprotected s*x with a businessman.   Photo credit: H-Metro The marriage of a Zimbabwean woman has collapsed amid recent revelations of her alleged unprotected s*x romp with a popular local businessman. According to H-Metro, it is claimed that Junior Takuranarwo, decided to drink beer as a way of relieving stress but things escalated and ended in an unprotected s*x romp. When details of this escapade emerged, her marriage ended. Junior confirmed that her marriage has irretrievably broken following her one-night stand with the businessman named Noah. She claimed she intended to relieve stress since her husband was out on business. "I regret drinking beer when my husband was away. I got drunk and I was lured into unprotected s*x by a local businessman who promised me money to start business. My life is no longer the same, I feel bad for cheating on my husband. "To be honest with yo

A woman just got into serious trouble with her husband after he scrolled through her phone to see photos of her cheating on him with another man A yet to identified married woman, has scored an 'own goal' after reportedly forgetting to delete photos of herself and her lover having a good time half n*ked at a lodge in Zimbabwe. According a Citizen Reports, the jilted husband took to social media to expose the illicit affair of his wife and her lover. He shared the photos and wrote;  "A married Mabvuku woman ku lodge nechikomba murume ari kubasa vaitorana mapic mukadzi akanganwa kubvisa mufoni."