Alleged N2.2bn fraud: FG files charges against S-Court Registrar, two others

ABUJA—The Federal Government, through the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, has filed criminal charges against the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, Mr. Saleh Gambo, before an Abuja High Court. Supreme Court Gambo was charged alongside the Assistant Director of Finance at the apex court, Rilwanu Lawal, and the Deputy Director of Finance, Sharif Abdulrahman. The trio will be answering to...

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HRW Report: IG raises team to probe sexual abuse of IDPs

Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has set up a special investigation team to immediately probe all cases of alleged sexual abuses, exploitation, harassments, gender-based violence and professional misconduct on Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in some North-East state...

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Harrysong opens up on relationship with Five Star music

BETTER “Pikin” crooner, Harrison Tare Okiri, popularly known as Harrysong has declared that he has no intention to dump his record label, Five Star Music, owned by business mogul, Emeka Okonkwo a.k.a E-Money and his elder brother, Kingsley Okonkwo a.k.a Kce...

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Runaway Wife: Bride jilts groom at wedding reception

Sapele—A 41-year-old man, simply identified as Julius, is finding it difficult to understand why his “wife” abandoned her marital vows midway into their wedding, shouting “I am no longer interested,” at the wedding reception in Udu Local Government Area of Delta Stat...

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Osinbajo calls on leaders to stand firm against corruption

ABUJA – Vice president Yemi Osinbajo has re-emphasized the need for leaders to stand firm against extremism, injustice and corruption in the country, saying it was the only way the anti-corruption war could be wo...

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Nuella Njubigbo set to unveil boutique in Lagos

SULTRY actress, Nuella Njubigbo-Chikere is set to join the growing list of actresses who have delved into business in recent times as she launches her mind-blowing, African-inspired online boutique called NuellAfrika, in Lago...

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South African man arrives Malawi airport in his briefs after smoking Malawian weed (photos)

According to Malawi news who shared the photos on Facebook, the man smoked Malawian weed at Cape Maclear and then arrived Kamuzu airport, Lilongwe, Malawi wearing only briefs. Lol! More photos after the c...

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Who Can Solve This Simple Maths, GOES HOME WITH AIRTIME?

You all will be Forming Baddo anytime who drop new songs on 247aproko. Posting your Reviews and all.. Its Okay – Here is a Question for you all  The first to get this question goes hom with airtime...

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'What makes you think you are older?' - IG user trolls Toolz for calling Ice Prince 'Lil bro'

Today is music artiste Ice Prince's 30th birthday and his friend, OAP Toolz took to IG to wish him a Happy Birthday!. She wrote: "Happy birthday lil bro!! God blessings always! @iceprincezamani" This appears to have disturbed a random man, who questioned her 'audacity' for calling him - 'lil bro'. Lo...

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[18+] leaked video of student having s*x

     Leak Sextape-student caught having sex and video leaked online in Leak Sex Tape,Leak Sex Vid...

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Tonto dikeh goes spiritual

               ….as she gets 2017 Lexus car from husband BY IYABO AINA Popular Hollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh, recently went spiritual after her hubby surprised her with a 2017 Lexus LX 57...

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S’Africa’s Mi Casa arrives Lagos ahead of tomorrow’s concert

South Africa’s musical big name and Soulful House Trio, Mi Casa are billed to arrive Lagos today ahead of this year’s one-night-only concert, ‘A Night At The Kazbah’ , holding this weekend  at Federal Palace Hotel, Victories Island, Lago...

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I’m tempted to forward our S3x video to his wife

Dear Bunmi, I am fed up to the teeth with my boyfriend’s unreasonable behavior. I knew he was married when we met and all I wanted was a fair share of his time, not marriag...

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Nigeria climbs 4 steps on FIFA rankings

                              Nigeria’s Super Eagles have moved four places up in the October world football rankings released by FIFA yesterday. With two straight wins against Tanzania in the Africa Cup of Nations qualifier and Zambia in the FIFA World Cup qualifier, the Super Eagles jumped from their 64th placing previously to berth at the 60th spo...

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Win Governor’s Cup Tennis: Lopez-Perez on course to win 2nd Leg

Tournament number one seed in the men’s category, Spain’s Enrique Lopez-Perez is justifying his rating in this year’s Governor’s Cup Lagos Tennis Championship as he is cruising his way to winning the second leg (Futures 6) of the competitio...

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Nigerian Comedian “I Go Save” to bury dad

Celebrated Nigerian Comedian, Otaghware Otas Onodjayeke, known by stage name ‘I Go Save’,  will bury his father, late Evangelist Joseph Pender Onodjayeke,  who died on June 1st, 2016 at age 74 on Saturday, October 2...

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Kayo-Kayo is religious, cultural festival — Olu Epe

The Olu Epe of the Epe Kingdom, Oba Shefiu Olatunji Adewale, has said that the ongoing Kayokayo festival is an annual religious and cultural festival cum carnival observed by the descendants of Oba Kosoko, who inhabited the area notably referred to as Eko-Epe in Epe. The festival which began last week in Epe will be rounded up tomorrow with boat ride symbolic of Prophet Noah ar...

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Monarchs to Delta govt: Stop creation of new kingdoms

ASABA—DELTA State Traditional Rulers Council has called on the state government to stop the creation of new kingdoms in the state and installation of unauthorized persons as traditional rulers without recourse to the law. The monarchs, in their resolutions at their inaugural meeting in Asaba, also condemned the act in very strong terms, saying that the purported carving out of a kingdom from Akubene-mien, Bomadi Local Government Area of the state and installation of a king, was unacceptable, null and void and of no consequenc...

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FG misses school feeding take-off target

Primary schools throughout Nigeria resumed  for the first term of the current school year shortly after the Sallah holidays in September 2016, with many Nigerians eager to see the commencement of school feeding involving 5.5 million pupils nationwide. School feeding was one of the major programs for which N500 billion was budgeted for 2016. Before the resumption of schools, the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, flanked by two All Progressive Congress (APC) governors had pronounced in Aso Rock, on June 9, 2016, that the food program...

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Does your wife belong to the Kitchen?

There is a lot of excitement over the dramatic outburst of Aisha Buhari followed by a chauvinistic reply of the President, all providing  comic relief to the battered nation. The most interesting part of it was the kitchen and inner room position of the first lady, sorry, the wife of Mr. Presiden...

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Buhari’s government has been hijacked by cabal – Aisha Buhari

                               KANO – The President’s wife, Mrs. Aisha Buhari has warned that her support for her husband for 2019 election rest on her husband’s readiness to shake up his government. The soft-spoken Aisha Buhari in a BBC Hausa interview monitored in Kano said that Buhari’s government has been hijacked by a cabal who are “behind presidential appoin...

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The 39th Oba of Benin kingdom emerges

                                           What came to the known as the Benin kingdom did not begin its existence as a kingdom in the sense of it being headed by a King or a Traditional ruler as it is known today. It really began as a conglomeration of villages, each at which was headed by the eldest man in the community, who was and still...

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Waje, Toolz, others want govt to prioritise health sector

Top Nigerian celebrities including Toolz, Ali Nuhu, Waje, Yemi Alade, and Hon. Desmond Elliot has come together through the theme, Make Naija Stronger, under the umbrella of the renowned ONE campaign to urge the government to adhere to its commitment to the 2001 African Union Abuja Commitment as it prepares to finalize the 2017 budget. Fifteen years ago, all African governments made a commitment in Abuja to increase health funding to 15% of their budgets. However, the commitment has never been met by the Nigerian government, and only 4.37%...

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Davido Is “Badder Than” In These Swanky Cover Photos For Thisday Style Magazine

Nigerian singer, Davido is on the cover of This day Style Magazine. He looked really dapper in an amazing photo shoot by TY Bell...

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[Photo] Barca thrash Man City 4-0 (Today's Champions League results)

scored a hat trick. Arsenal beat Ludogorets Razgrad 6-0 while PSG thrashed Basel 3-0. It was a good day for all the home teams except Napoli FC of Italy, Dynamo Kiev, Celtic & Rostov who lost to away teamsBarcelona on Wednesday night thrashed Manchester city 4-0, a match in which Lionel Messi&nbs...

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Are you having enough sex with your partner?

                            THE big question really is: How often should you have sex; how much sex makes you happy? According to a recent survey, couples who make love once a week are the most content. Meanwhile, there are some people whose libido is so low they look the other way when their partners look for sexual gratification somewhere else....

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Facebook now lets you buy food, movie tickets on site

Facebook will now allow Americans to order a meal, buy movie tickets or make an appointment at the hairdresser without having to leave the social networking site.&nbs...

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S3xual harassment in Nigeria’s ivory towers

IN Nigerian tertiary institutions, the issue of rape and s3xual harassment by lecturers has continued to be a huge problem. In May 2016, the Nigerian Senate moved a motion to hand a five-year jail term to lecturers who engage in sexual relationship with student...

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Nigerian Navy releases names of 2,850 candidates for 2016 recruitment

Abuja – The Nigerian Navy has released the list of 2, 850 successful candidates for its 2016 Batch 25 Recruitment Exercise. The Exercise was conducted from 15 August – 12 September 2016 at Navy Town Lago...

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Ambode sacks 4 commissioners

GOVERNOR Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has relieved the Commissioners for Tourism, Mr. Folorunsho Folarin-Coker, Finance, Dr. Mustapha Akinkunmi, and Transportation, Dr. Ekundayo Mobereola of their appointments in a minor cabinet reshuffle. This came as governor Ibikunle Amosun  reshuffled in membership of his Executive Council swapping, four Commissioners and four Special Advisers Unconfirmed reports said the Lagos commissioners were sacked for alleged maladministratio...

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Who, among Buhari’s ministers, do you think should be dropped?

Change some of his ministers. Many Nigerians have backed Aisha Buhari’s call for the President to Who, among the ministers, do you think should be droppe...

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Ozil treble, Sanchez gem inspire rampant Arsenal.

Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez showed why their value to Arsenal is priceless as the peerless duo inspired a 6-0 thrashing of Bulgarian minnows Ludogorets in the Champions League on Wednesda...

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RECESSION: Workers’ll no longer be sacrificial lambs, Labour warns.

THE 5th Quadrennial Delegates’ Conference, NDC, of the National Union of Chemical Footwear, Rubber, Leather and Non-Metallic Products Employees, NUCFRLANMPE, that took place in Abuja  was remarkable in many respects. One of it was that it provided another opportunity for Labour leaders to review the ongoing recession and its effects on workers declaring that Organised  Labour will no longer accept a situation where workers are being made scapegoats to the economic recession through non-payment of salaries, reduction of salaries...

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I usually steal N50 to buy food, boy beaten to death by father told neighbour

                                               THE 10-year-old Adekoya Wariz, who was beaten to death by his father in Ijebu-Igbo area of Ogun State, once told a neighbour, Baba Olaolu, that he usually stole N50 from his step-mother’s handbag because he needed it to buy gari and groundnut, as he was always denied foo...

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[shocking] 18 year old Indian teenager uses his shoulder blades to pull two cars (Photos)

18 year old Abhishek Choubey from Sagar, Madhya Pradesh in India showed how much superhuman strength he possessed as he used his scapula (shoulder blades) to pull two cars, hoping to break a world record. According to Abhishek, he has been pulling weights with his shoulder blades since he was 8 and hopes he's recognized for his talen...

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[news] 41 Boko Haram members beheaded in Biu

                           No   fewer   than   41 suspected members of Boko Haram sect were killed and beheaded by men of the Civilian Joint Task Force, a.k.a Civilian JTF, at Biu, Borno State following a failed attempt by the insurgents to overrun the Sabon Gari village, in Damboa Local Government Area of the state, Thursda...

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[Lifestyle] My mum is having sex with her boss

Dear Aunty Julie, I found out recently that my mother is having sex with her boss. He comes around all the time and I used to think it’s just office stuff but no, it’s not. I caught them pants down and I don’t feel good about it. What should I d...

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[news] Nigeria and Aisha Buhari’s frustrations

The informal office of the First Lady of a country or a state is a concept extremely African. Often, the world is assailed with the bogus appellation of the “First Lady” of Ghana, Ethiopia, Togo or Nigeria and the rest. In contrast, it is something of a taboo to hear of anything in the semblance of something like “The First Lady” of America or Britain or even Brazil. For instance they are known as “Wife of American President” or “Wife of the British Prime Minister.” Women are powerful as documented in the Biblical story of Adam and Eve...

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[news] Fayose tells Buhari- Save Nigerians from hunger, sufferings.

                        Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has told the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to pay attention to hunger and suffering ravaging Nigeria and its people and leave him alone, saying, “This project ‘Fayose must be implicated at all cost’ will definitely not put food on the tables of Nigerians and for all I care, the Economic...

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[sport] Mikel mobbed by Zambian girls

                     It took the intervention of security men to rescue Super Eagles captain, Mikel Obi from the clutches of Zambian girls who wanted autographs and selfies from the handsome Chelsea playe...

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Why I stopped DSS operatives from arresting judge, by 247APROKO

                                                  Rivers State governor, Mr Nyesom Wike, has explained that his action on October 8, 2016, where he allegedly intervened in the midnight raid on the house of a judge, was not geared towards stopping the Depertment of State Services, DSS, from arresting the judge, but to ensure...

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Poor agric budgetary allocations worry economists

                   OWERRI—The Nigeria Association of Agricultural Economists, NAAE, has advised that the nation may not actualize its paradigm shift to agriculture if the country’s agricultural budget was not beefed u...

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[NEWS] Despite militancy, warri refinery produce 2.5m litres of petrol daily

WARRI—DESPITE challenges posed by renewed militancy in the Niger Delta, reopened Warri Refinery and Petrochemical Company, WRPC, currently produces 2.5 million litres of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, and 2.2m of kerosene per da...

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[NEWS] Tell buhari to be sincere on his agenda, N-Deltans tells leaders

WARRI—NIGER Deltans across the divide, yesterday, urged the Pan- Niger Delta Forum, PNDF, headed by Chief Edwin Clark, meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, on October 29, for preliminary talks, ahead a proper Federal Government dialogue/negotiation with stakeholders, to tell Mr. President to come clean on his plans to develop the Niger Delta and resolve the crisis in the regio...

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[hot] Daddy Fresh urges- new generation musicians to produce impactful music

Lagos – Veteran Musician, “Daddy Fresh’’ born Innocent Onyemuwa, on Monday urged upcoming musicians to focus more on creating songs that would make meaningful impact in the natio...

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i'm a frustrated wife- says woman who paid assassin N500,000 to kill husband

LAGOS—A 41-year-old woman, who was arrested by policemen attached to Area ‘J’ Command, Ajah, Lagos State, for allegedly hiring assassins to kill her husband of 14 years over a disagreement which led to their separation, has said she was a frustrated housewife but that she only sent the thugs to beat him....

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Are you having enough sex with your partner?

                              THE big question really is: How often should you have sex; how much sex makes you happy? According to a recent survey, couples who make love once a week are the most content. Meanwhile, there are some people whose libido is so low they look the other way when their partners look for sexual gratification somewhere els...

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Man chops off neighbour’s ear over plantain

PORT HARCOURT—A 32-year-old civil servant in Rivers State, Mr. Braide Chinedu, has been arraigned before a Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Port Harcourt, for allegedly chopping off his neighbour’s ear over ownership of a plantain tree....

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Obiano offers automatic employment to physically-challenged graduates in Anambra

Awka—ALL physically challenged graduates of Anambra State origin have been offered automatic employment by Governor Willie Obiano as part of the state government’s determination to reduce their hardship...

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Edo Assembly hails Buhari over release of 21 Chibok girls

  BENIN—Edo State House of Assembly, yesterday, commended President Muhammadu Buhari on the recent release of the 21 Chibok girls held by the Boko Haram sect, urging Nigerians to be patient with the current administration as it was capable of finding solutions to the problems confronting the nation...

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Yoruba actress Funke Adesiyan under fire for attacking Buhari

                                      When it comes to football and politics, all Nigerians are pundits. And in this democratic dispensation, the freedom of speech right has become a sort of recreation. Moreover, in the wake of the DSS’ sting operation on some judges there have been more ‘open season’ on the government with President Buhari being the...

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Is our relationship doomed?

                                           Dear Bunmi, My husband and I seem to be drifting apart since we had our son 16 months ago. I know that caring for a child takes up a lot of time, but we don’t even seem to talk to each othe...

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Herdsmen kill 20 in Kaduna; 24-hr curfew imposed

KADUNA—Herdsmen, between Saturday and yesterday, allegedly killed no fewer than 20 persons after laying siege to Godogodo, a semi-urban settlement in Jema’a Local Government Area of Kaduna Stat...

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Big boobs cannot stand unless they are fake —Maserati

In this era of packaging, women are constantly taking men for a ride in the way they present their gifts of life, or put more bluntly, their endowment...

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Man gives policeman head-butt

After pleading not guilty to giving a policeman a head-butt, 36-year-old Temitope Fagbemi, is on temporary reprieve as he was granted a N50, 000 bail by a Lagos cour...

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M.I. signs new lookalike protégé live onstage in abuja concert

Chocolate City Music CEO, M.I. has just offered a new act, a one-year internship deal at Star Music The Trek in Abuja. MI was introduced to a lookalike, “Young Incredible” during his performance at the music concert held at Old parade ground, Garki, Abuj...

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Customs sacks 17 for drug addiction, certificate forgery

The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has sacked 17 junior officers for offences ranging from drug addiction, certificate forgery, theft and absenteeism from January to Septembe...

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Does age difference matter in marriage?

                       When it comes to marriage, do age differences really matter or should love prevail over all? What has age got to do with who you fall in love with and get married to?We sought the views of some celebrities on this sensitive but very important issue and here are their responses. Excerpt...

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