Suspected Texas shooter had been monitored by FBI since 2006

The FBI had spent nearly a decade investigating one of the men who attempted to attack an event featuring cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad, it was revealed Monday as investigators attempted to determine whether the attack was directed by any overseas terror groups.
That suspect, identified by authorities as Elton Simpson, was killed by police officers in the Dallas suburb of Garland, Texas Sunday evening after shooting a school district security guard in the leg outside a center where a cartoon contest was being held. Simpson's fellow attacker and roommate, identified as Nadir Soofi, was also killed.

PDP Turns Against Fayose || Why Did Fayose Make This Statement? It Is Finished!!

Crises rocking the present leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Monday took another twist with the National Working Committee, NWC of the party, saying that as the leadership of the party, it was pained that Governor Ayodele Fayose whom they helped to power was pushing for the sack of the present NWC.

Duped SURE-P Employees Protest In Lagos Accused PDP Bode George

Recruited officers of the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) and Federal Task Force (FERMA) have accused the Lagos State coordinator of the programme of owing them three years salaries running into millions of naira.

The officers during a protest on Monday at the office of the National Human Rights Commission, Oshodi, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, equally protested against the fraudulent extortion of money from them by some executives of the programme.

Prison inmate escapes from security near Benin moat

Operatives of Nigeria Prison Service on Monday morning watched helplessly as an inmate at the Benin Central Prison escaped from their custody and ran away.
The inmate who was taken for menial fatigue work at the prisons headquarters, upon noticing that the supervising prison warden was inattentive, suddenly took to his heels and ran away through Reservation Road, in GRA.

Court reserves judgment on Fani-Kayode’s money-laundering case for June 18

A Federal High Court in Lagos has reserved judgment in the trial of a former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, who is charged with money laundering, for June 18, 2015.

The judgment date was fixed by Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia on Monday following the adoption of final written addresses and summary arguments by lawyers to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and the accused person.

Orekoyas reveal kidnappers were paid N2.5m ransom

Mrs Adebisi Orekoya, mother of the recently kidnapped children from Lagos state, over the weekend said the family paid a ransom of N2.5 million to the kidnappers to effect the release of the abducted kids.

She said this while recounting her ordeal prior to a group of working mothers in Lagos at the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, LCCI, Conference and Exhibition Centre, in Alausa.

The event was meant to sensitise and create awareness on child kidnapping in the country. The event was organised by Background Check International, BCI, with the theme ‘Averting the rising spate of child kidnapping in Nigeria’.

Niger Delta Minister denies donating N2bn to Jonathan’s campaign

The Minister of -Niger Delta Affairs, Dr Stephen Oru, Monday, denied donating N2bn of the ministry’s funds to the presidential campaign of President Goodluck Jonathan.
The minister made the denial on a live Radio Programme monitored in Abuja, on the heels of accusations by a group of Niger Delta youths sponsored to Isreal by the Niger Delta Affairs ministry for training in agriculture.

Don’t go abroad for medicare throughout your four years – LP tells Buhari

The Labour Party, LP, has called on President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, to stop public servants in his administration from going abroad to receive medical attention.

The party made the call on Sunday through its National Chairman, Alhaji Abdulkadir Salam, in an interview with journalists on Sunday in Abuja.

The party also said for Buhari to fight the corruption war, he must not spare “the first eleven.”

PDP crisis deepens as Jonathan’s associates reveal how NWC members enriched selves

Documentary evidence has reportedly been released by President Goodluck Jonathan’s allies, revealing that members of the National Working Committee, NWC, of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, actually stole funds belonging to the party’s treasury shortly after the President was defeated in the March 28 presidential election.

Two close associates of the president told Sahara Reporters about what one of them described as, “shameless stealing of party funds by officials entrusted with running the affairs of the party.” They added that President Jonathan felt betrayed by the “greedy actions” of the NWC members.

Ngozi Iweala To Buhari: Read What Iweala said to Buhari

Okonjo-Iweala To Buhari: You must do something about oil cartel
Nigeria’s finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has set an agenda for the Buhari administration: to tame urgently the oil cartel holding the nation to ransom.
She spoke in Abuja today to refute the claim by the oil marketers that the nation is owing them another N200.2bn, just after the government paid them N156bn.

She said by government’s computation, the outstanding amount is about N131bn billion.

Fighting Fayose is like battling the wind – Governor’s aide tells Ekiti APC lawmakers

Special Assistant to the Ekiti State Governor on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka has told the factional Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Dr Adewale Omirin and his All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmakers to desist from their voyage of self-destruction, saying; “fighting against Governor Ayodele Fayose is like fighting against the wind.”

Defection: Ondo indigenes want court to declare 22 lawmakers’ seats vacant

Some Ondo State indigenes have approached a Federal High Court sitting in Akure, asking it to declare the seats of the legislators elected under the platform of the Labour Party vacant, having defected to Peoples Democratic Party.

The plaintiffs, Ayo Agbomuserin and Taofiq Abdusalam, in an originating summon had sued the twenty House of Assembly members that defected from Labour Party to PDP in October 8th, 2014, the Independent National Electoral Commission, Inspector General of Police, Director General, Department of State Security Service and the. Ondo State House of Assembly.

Boko Haram’s fuel and food supplier nabbed; 260 women, children rescued in Adamawa

A man who specialises in supplying fuel and food to terrorists was this morning nabbed in Daban Shata in the suburbs of Baga Borno State . The military intelligence had been trailing him till he was eventually trapped in the early hours of Sunday. He is presently undergoing interrogation.
In another development, troops on patrol yesterday located 260 women and children in the outskirts of Chalawa village in Adamawa state where they had been held up while trying to escape from terrorists.

We don’t need a violent Minister – Group chides APC over slapping of Enugu Guber candidate

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has received fresh knocks over the alleged attack on the party’s governorship candidate in the April 11 election, Barr. Okey Ezea, by the party’s national vice chairman in the South East, Emma Eneukwu.

Ezea had over the weekend alleged that Eneukwu slapped him as a result of disagreements arising from ministerial slot in the incoming Muhammadu Buhari administration.

The guber candidate had in a text message to some journalists on Friday alleged that he was attacked by the national vice chairman.

BREAKING: Enugu lawmakers serve Chime impeachment notice

Members of the Enugu State House of Assembly, Monday morning commenced impeachment proceedings against Governor Sullivan Chime of the State.
Fourteen lawmakers, led by the Speaker, Hon. Eugene Odo sat early this morning where they read a notice of impeachment against Chime.
However, eight other lawmakers have voided the process and also allegedly impeached the Speaker, Hon. Odo. He was replaced by Hon. Chinedu Nwamba representing Nsukka East constituency.

Videos show how troops dislodged Boko Haram in Sambisa Forest [WATCH]

Operational videos about how Nigerians troops are battling and dislodging terrorists inside the notorious Sambisa Forest have shown the dexterity of Nigerian Air Force pilots as masters of their trade.
In some exclusive videos obtained by PRNigeria, pilots are seen taunting the terrorists with hundreds of the latter running helter skelter and fleeing into different directions. The videos show the dislodged and disorganized terrorists in flight on different directions and running helter-skelter in the expansive forest.

In another footage, the video depict how vulnerable women and children were cautiously and deliberately guided to safety by the Nigerian pilots.

Rio Ferdinand's wife Rebecca Ellison dies from cancer

The wife of former Manchester United and England captain Rio Ferdinand has died from cancer.

The QPR defender, 36, released a statement saying his "wonderful wife and soul mate" Rebecca Ellison had "passed away peacefully" at a London hospital.

Ms Ellison, 34, who married Ferdinand in 2009, had breast cancer.

She leaves behind three children, Lorenz, nine, Tate, six, and four-year-old Tia.

In a statement, Ferdinand said she died on Friday night.

Russian ballet icon Maya Plisetskaya dies aged 89

Maya Plisetskaya, considered one of the greatest ballerinas of the 20th century, died in Germany on Saturday at the age of 89, the director of the Bolshoi, Vladimir Urin, announced.

Plisetskaya danced for half a century and her modern choreography and performances charged with eroticism flouted Soviet convention.

"She died of a severe heart attack. The doctors tried everything, but there was nothing they could do," Urin said, quoted by the TASS news agency, after being informed by the ballerina's husband, Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin.

Arms sales becoming France’s new El Dorado, but at what cost?

France’s booming arms trade has proved one of the few bright spots for the country’s struggling economy. But as President François Hollande heads to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, will there be a moral and strategic cost to the deals he might bring back?

When Qatar agreed to buy 24 French Rafale fighter jets in a €6.3 billion contract at the end of April, it represented yet another major success for France’s arms industry, coming hot on the heels of further multi-billion euro sales of Rafales to Egypt and India.

Amaechi replies Wike: I don’t owe Rivers workers

Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi said he does not owe any civil servant in the state.
He made the clarification in response to a statement credited to Governor-elect, Nyesom Wike.
Speaking through his Commissioner for Information, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari, at the weekend, Amaechi said the PDP was being mischievous by its deliberate resort to falsehood.

Harrysong reconciles with ‘wicked’ step-mom at father’s burial {Video}

Five Star Music signee, song writer and producer, Harrison Tare Okiri, popularly known as Harrysong has reconciled with his step mother.
The artiste mended ways with Mrs. Tonye Okiri at his father’s burial on Saturday May 2, 2015.

Late Denis Osiris died Wednesday, April 8, 2015 in Port Harcourt after a brief illness and was buried in his hometown, Ogbe Ijoh community in Warri, Delta State.

Pastor Adeboye predicted my emergence as vice-president -Osinbajo

Nigeria’s Vice president-elect, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has disclosed that his emergence as the incoming number two man in the nation was predicted by his spiritual father and General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor E.A. Adeboye. Professor Osinbajo stated this on Friday night, May 1, at the May National Holy Ghost Service of RCCG at the Redemption Camp, kilometer 46, Lagos – Ibadan Expressway, Ogun State during testimony time.

Group slams judge for fining Igbinedion N3million over N25bn theft

The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) has condemned the slap-on-the-wrist judgment handed Michael Igbinedion, a younger brother to former governor of Edo State, Lucky Igbinedion, by a federal judge.

In a shocking ruling Thursday, Justice J. Liman of the Federal High Court in Benin, Edo State, fined N3 million for stealing N25 billion of public money.

The Executive Chairman of CACOL, Debo Adeniran, said the judgement was another proof that Federal Government was protecting corrupt people.

The tortuous wait for truce or impeachment: Fayose vs APC lawmakers

Since the return of Mr. Ayodele Fayose as the Ekiti State Governor on October 16, the state has not known peace. The unending bickering among the executive and legislature has continued to make headlines, with different angle to the saga each passing day. While some believe that the All Progressives Congress (APC) are the cause of the problems owing to the electoral defeat suffered in the hands of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the poll, others think otherwise. According to the last-mentioned, Fayose, having won the election should have hit the ground running by mapping out ways to fulfil his promises made during electioneering. But this is hard to achieve in a situation where the state House of Assembly remains divided since seven months. PDP, APC stalemate Shortly after Fayose’s inauguration, the opposing camps in the House loyal to Fayose/PDP and Bola Tinubu/APC have been trading words on which side that should control Ekiti legislature.

Ministerial Appointee Of SGF Slot Given To South-East Zone

The South-east zone of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is currently enmeshed in tussle over who becomes the next Secretary to the Government of the Federation as zoned to the area by the party.

It was gathered Wednesday that a meeting summoned by the leadership caucus of the zone in Abuja, ended without an agreement on the nominees to be submitted for the positions of SGF as well for ministerial positions. While confirming the stalemate, a top party source who was at the South-east caucus meeting held on Tuesday night at the Imo State Governor’s Lodge, said: “The leaders met to consider nominee for the post of the SGF which has been ceded to the zone.

Buhari strike again... Drops Governors Fashola & Fayemi - Tinubu MUST NOT Read This, Else…

All is not well with the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the party’s rank and file seems in disarray following the alleged dropping of the names of Lagos governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) and former Ekiti State governor Dr. Kayode Fayemi from the ministerial list of President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).

Early morning inferno burns six persons to death in Plateau

No fewer than six persons have lost their lives in a fire incident which razed down a storey-building in Jos, Plateau State. The incident happened in the wee hours of Saturday. The fire was said to have started around 2 am immediately after electricity was restored.  The victims are 26-year old Habiba Ahmed, her three children, Dalhatu, aged 6, Maryam 4 and one-year-old Fawaz. Others are Habiba’s sister, Rukayat 12 and a maid, named Maryam aged 13. The victims were said to have died of suffocation as they could not escape from the raging inferno.

Mayweather beats Pacquiao via unanimous decision

Floyd Mayweather Jr. remains undefeated as a professional, after he defeated Manny Pacquiao via unanimous decision, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. The American started the mega bout in strong fashion, before resorting to countering the Filipino’s aggressive counter-punching. Pacquiao forced Mayweather to backpedal and use defensive tactics to frustrate, while landing decisive blows of his own.

Dubbed ‘The Fight of the Century’, the showdown between the top two boxers of this generation took five years to stage and is ranked the richest fight of all time. Mayweather also trumped Pacquiao in the money stakes, as he will take 60% of all income. The 38-year-old’s impressive record now stands at 48-0. More Pics

Chief Imam of Abuja National Mosque is dead

The Chief Imam of Abuja National Mosque, Sheikh Musa Muhammad has passed on. The news of his death was conveyed in a release issued in Ilorin on Saturday and signed by the Secretary General, Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Professor Isha’aq Oloyede. Oloyede said the late chief Imam’s funeral rites would hold at the National mosque Abuja by 10am on Sunday (today). The statement said Sheikh Musa Muhammad died after a brief illness.

Missing NNPC $20bn: Senator-elect wants punitive action against PWC

The Senator-Elect for Lagos West Senatorial District and Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts, Hon. Solomon Adeola has called on the incoming Federal Government and relevant financial and auditing regulatory bodies to appropriately sanction the auditing firm, PriceWater House Coopers (PWC) for misleading and decieving Nigerians on the issue of the missing $20billion NNPC fund as alleged by the former CBN governor and present Emir of Kano, Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Sanusi.

APC leaders blast Jonathan for suggesting Buhari did not win election fairly

For insinuating that President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, did not fairly win the March 28 presidential election, President Goodluck Jonathan has attracted the ire of some All Progressives Congress, APC, leaders who described him as a bad loser.

They also alleged that Jonathan would rather continue to seek public sympathy than asking for forgiveness from Nigerians who rejected him at the March 28 poll due to bad governance.

PDP’s enemies made us lose elections – Bode George

The South-West PDP Presidential Contact and Mobilisation Committee, has once again hailed President Goodluck Jonathan for conceding defeat despite the noticeable irregularities in the just concluded presidential poll. It said the development had allowed Nigeria to remain united and prevent outbreak of post election violence.