What a shame! Gov Oshiomhole tells a crying widow to go and die

Welcome to Face Of Agulu's Blog News,: What a shame! Gov Oshiomhole tells a crying widow ...: "You're a widow, go and die!" That's what Governor Adams Oshiomhole said to widow during a sanitation exercise of Benin ...

Brad Pitt not getting an island from Angelina Jolie

While Angelina Jolie probably has lots of surprises in store for Brad Pitt's 50th birthday next month, a $20 million island isn't one of them.

Khloe Kardashian could be O.J. Simpson's daughter, claims his manager

The old rumor that O.J. Simpson is Khloe Kardashian's biological father has reared its ugly head again, as the former professional football player's manager, Norman Pardo, has come forward, effectively telling In Touch  magazine, it's possible.

Florida woman kills daughter holding baby, mistook her for boyfriend

A Florida woman allegedly shot her daughter to death Monday night because she thought the person knocking on her door was the boyfriend she had just fought, police said Tuesday.

See what they did to 2 ladies and a man accused of stealing in Calabar

 Age restriction: Parental Guidance
Two ladies and a man who was accused of stealing was humiliated and abused by a very angry mob in Calabar.

We thank God that they did not burn them alive. But should we really be beating people like this?

Bring your investments home, Igbo businessmen urged

 Proprietor and Chief Executive Officer of Rojenny Tourist Village, Oba, Anambra State Chief Rommy Ezeonwuka has appealed to wealthy men of Igbo extraction to have a re-think towards investing outside the south east region of the country.

Mysterious goat delivers human-like kid

A mystery was recorded  in the  rural community of Olori Oko near Ogotun Ekiti in Ekiti South-West Local Government of Ekiti State as a goat allegedly gave birth to a strange creature.

FACT! A female duck's vagina have multiple entrance to prevent rape

Bi­ol­o­gists have found ana­tom­i­cal de­tails about the fe­male re­pro­duc­tive tract in wa­ter­fowl that they say in­di­cate male and fe­male an­atomy have co-e­volved in a “sex­ual arms race.”

Murdered Nigerian: UK Police place £10,000 bounty on killer

The London Metropolitan Police has offered £10,000 reward for information that will help track down and arrest a convicted murderer on the run for killing a Nigerian student in London.
Lerone Boye, 27, the alleged murderer, was sentenced to 28 years last December for the murder of 17-year-old Nigerian, Kelvin Chibueze.

Brad Pitt gets $19m Island as birthday gift from wife

According to new reports, Angelina Jolie just dropped $19 million for a secluded heart shaped Island located in Lake Mahopac, 50-miles away from New York City, which she reportedly plans to present to her partner Brad Pitt on his 50th birthday on December 18th.

Lagos Police boss, Manko, honourned

Lagos State Police Commissioner Umar Manko has been honoured with an award as ‘The Best Commissioner of Police in Community Policing’ at the last edition of Celebrity Award Night held at Golden Tulip Hotels, Lagos.

Oldest Buddhist shrine uncovered

There are about 500 million Buddhists worldwide, but it's unclear exactly when in history this religion began. The Buddha's life story spread first through oral tradition, and little physical evidence about Buddhism's early years has been found.

Now, scientists for the first time have uncovered archaeological evidence of when the Buddha's monumentally influential life occurred. Excavations in Nepal date a Buddhist shrine, located at what is said to be the Buddha's birthplace, to the sixth century B.C.

Doyin Abiola, Ex-Concord Newspapers boss, arrested for alleged fraud

Former Managing Director of the defunct Concord Newspapers, Dr. Doyin Abiola has been arraigned before the Federal High Court, Lagos, for alleged fraud.

Police probe shows fake ‘Assam Rape Festival’ came from Uganda

A biting story circulated by a United States website about a mock atrocity called the “Assam Rape Festival” has provoked a major dispute, and the police are continuing to search for the cyber criminals.  The Assam Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is investigating the prank.  The CID Superintendent, Nirmal Baishya, said they have launched a police probe that shows the “Assam Rape Festival” came from Uganda, but the website probably came out of Houston, Texas.

20,000 drivers’ licences ready in Lagos

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has revealed that over 20,000 drivers licence are ready for collection across the state. Speaking when he went for his drivers’ licences, at the Ojodu centre in Lagos, Fashola, who went through eye and written tests with the Vehicle Inspection Service (VIS) and photo data capture, with the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), stated: “I was told that there is a batch of drivers’ license that people have not come to collect. So we, at the state level, and the FRSC, will have to put on our thinking caps about how to create public awareness on this.

2015: I heard rumours presidency bribed 400 Northerners to betray North –Gov Aliyu

Chairman of the Northern States Governors Forum (NSGF) and governor of Niger State, Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu has said he heard speculation that 400 prominent Northerners have been bribed to betray the region and deliver the Presidency to President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015.

Man who murdered in-law granted bail, absconds

In March, 2011, 31-year-old Basil Ogbonnaya was murdered in cold blood in the Ejigbo area of Lagos. He was brutally killed by his brother-in-law and friend, one Israel Okafor Okereke.
According to the police, Okereke invited Ogbonnaya to his house at  Ejigbo, drugged and axed him to death. He afterwards dumped his body in a blue plastic drum at a dumpsite in the same area of Lagos.
According to the account, the accused  claimed that he killed the deceased because he owed him N3.6 million. Meanwhile, the victim’s widow, Mrs. Uzoma Ogbonnaya  dismissed the claim, saying that it was even the accused  that owed her late husband the same amount of money.

Dr. Conrad Murray: 'I held Michael's penis every night'

Dr. Conrad Murray says he and the late pop star Michael Jackson were so tight, he would hold his penis for him. In a bizarre, rambling interview with The Daily Mail, Murray says: "You want to know how close we were?  I held his penis every night to fit a catheter because he was incontinent at night."
Murray went on to say, "He wore dark trousers all the time because after he went to the toilet he would drip for hours."

UK police arrest couple suspected of holding 3 women captive for 30 years

British police have arrested a couple on suspicion of holding three "extremely traumatized" women captive for more than 30 years, Scotland Yard announced Thursday.

DSS parades varsity don who recruits for Boko Haram

The Department of State Services, (DSS), has announced the arrest of a university lecturer, Dr. Muhammad Nazeef Yunus, who allegedly acts as Recruitment Co-ordinator of the Boko Haram sect and four other members as they were plotting to launch violent attacks in Igalaland, Kogi State.
Meanwhile – Zaria city which  has not been known as an Islamist stronghold but revelations that a French engineer was kept hostage there by militants before dramatically escaping have shocked locals.

Hunting celebrity stirs controversy after killing lion in South Africa

A hunting TV show host who used social media to share a photo of herself posing with a lion she killed in South Africa has sparked outrage among animal rights advocates who want to have her banned from returning to the country.

Catch of 900-pound sunfish creates stir in Jamaica

The massive sunfish was so bizarre looking that Desmond Phillips, one of two Jamaican fishermen who caught the estimated 900-pound behemoth on Sunday, thought it was from another world.
“At first I thought it was an alien, and I was somewhat frightened,” Phillips told the Jamaica Gleaner. “It was difficult to bring the fish to the surface, and even more challenging to get the monster into the boat.

Police nab Godogodo’s informant, arms dealer

The Police in Lagos State, said that they have arrested an informant and an illegal arms dealer who supplied arms and ammunition to notorious robbery czar, Abiodun Ogunjobi, aka, Godogodo, who terrorised Lagos and other states in the South-West for 14-years.

Fidson enlightens Nigerians on diabetes prevention

Concerned over the increasing rate of diabetes in Nigeria, Fidson Healthcare Plc has joined the International Diabetes Federation, World Health Organization (WHO) and other global organisations in educating Nigerians on the prevention of diabetes, in commemoration of this year’s World Diabetes Day.

Car prices to rise by 250%

Price tags on cars and buses are likely to go up by about 250 per cent next year, following the introduction of new fiscal measure by the Federal Government, as part of the new development plan for the country’s ailing auto industry.

Student to hang for stealing phones, recharge cards

An Effurun high court, in Delta State, south south Nigeria, has sentenced a 24-year-old secondary school student, Moses Akatugba, to death by hanging for robbing GSM handsets and recharge cards, just as a commercial motorcyclist, popularly called ‘okada’ rider was also jailed 15 years imprisonment for robbing a female passenger of  her GSM handset.

Robbers on rampage in Lagos

It was like a war situation  in Lagos at the weekend when armed robbers raided a new generation bank at Ayobo area of Ipaja, Lagos. Policemen engaged them in a gun battle. When the smoke settled, two policemen and four members of a dare devil armed robbery gang lost their lives. Four members of the gang were also arrested by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad [ SARS].

APGA’ll take over southeast states -Ezeonwuka

The Ogirisi Igbo, Chief Rommy Amandi Ezeonwuka has congratulated Chief Willie Obianor for winning the Anambra gubernatorial election under the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), saying the party will soon take over other southeast states.

Female serial killer pleads guilty to 3 murders

Joanna Dennehy was expected to be sent for trial when she appeared in court accused of murdering three men. Instead she shocked the court, including her own defence team, by confessing to the killings – and the attempted murder of two other men.

Gunmen invade Nigerian hospital, demand new born babies

Five gunmen, suspected to be ritualists on Sunday invaded the government hospital in Ado-Ekiti, demanding for new born babies.

Dancehall star, Fada U-Turn dies at 36

One of Nigeria’s most popular 90s musicians Olufemi Mayomi, a.k.a Fada U-Turn, is dead.
P.M.NEWS learnt the dance-hall artiste passed on in Lagos on Sunday, following a protracted illness.He was 36 years old.

Man, 38, tortured to death

A 55-year-old mother in Ejilewe Ukwuagba Ngbo community, Ebonyi State, Mrs. Alice Nwakpu is now beset by deep regret for handing over her son to a vigilance group in their community on the suspicion that he stole her two cellphones.
Rather than recover the phones, she got a dead son back: the young man was virtually tortured to death by the vigilance members.

Youngest person executed in 100 years may get new trial

Community activists are demanding a new trial for a 14-year old African-American boy who was executed in South Carolina in 1944 for the alleged murder of two young white girls.

WHAT DO YOU THINK THIS POLICEMAN IS SMOKING? (PICTURE)

This is a policeman of the Federal Republic of Kalakuta.....or is it Nigeria? May God save the unlucky person that gets in his way.

Window of successes at Ombatse panel

A ray of light began to beam on Nasarawa State, six months after the May 7 murder of security operatives at Alakyo, a small village barely at the outskirt of Lafia. What was widely thought to be impossibility, became obviously achievable: one after another, persons of Eggon origin, who initially bolted out of the public hearing being conducted in facts finding, turned 360 degrees to return to the courtroom to participate in the proceedings of the judicial panel set up to investigate the killing.

10 things you didn’t know about vaginas

Number one on the list is that an Orgasm Is An Excellent Pain Reliever. Next time your woman gives you the excuse that she doesn’t want to have sex with you because she has a headache, you can tell her she’s full of it. An orgasm is an excellent pain reliever, and can work as well as over the counter medicines or even some pharmaceutical grade pain relievers. You just have to actually make sure you give her a great orgasm!

Electricity: New investors plan tariff hike, $1.8bn capital injection

Strong indications have emerged that investors in the recently privatized power sector may be forced to raise electricity tariff to reflect the cost of their huge investments.
According to Daily Sun  the move was part of the survival strategies of the investors who are reacting to the challenges ahead of the industry including huge capital investment needed to boost generation and transmission infrastructure.

Woman raises lions, leopard in home

Ten-month old white lioness, Vati, is on the loose and she's hungry, very hungry. 130 pounds of muscle and razor sharp teeth, she makes a beeline for the house of Annel Snyman and hops right up on the counter. Vati acts like an overgrown housecat which is basically what she is. She was raised by Snyman right  in her kitchen. Even as the lioness growls and bares her teeth, Snyman doesn't show a hint of hesitation or fear.

Cattle rustlers kill 42 people in Zamfara

No fewer than 42 people were reported to have died in Zamfara State following attack by cattle rustlers in some parts of the state.

MASSOB reaffirms support for APGA

The Anambra State chapter of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has expressed support for the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the November 16 governorship election in Anambra State.
The group said it is the only party the late Ikemba, Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu supported, while he was alive.

Why Jonathan, wife are fighting me —Amaechi

The Governor of Rivers State, southern Nigeria, Rotimi Amaechi, has disclosed that he incurred the wrath of President Goodluck Jonathan because he was seen to be exposing a lot of corrupt activities going on in government.

Anambra poll: Onitsha traders urged to vote credible candidate

President of the New Motor Tire and Tube Market Union, Nkpor, Onitsha, Anambra State, Chief Sunday Ezenwobi has called on all traders to ensure that they come out en masse and vote for the candidate of their choice in order to move the state to a higher level.

Spanish police arrest 25 Nigerians for sex trafficking

Spanish police say they have arrested 25 people in a sex-trafficking ring that brought women from Nigeria to work as prostitutes.

Russian teenager sells her virginity for £17,000 in online auction

A Russian teenager has sold her virginity online for over £17,000. The Siberian beauty known as Shatuniha auctioned her virtue online, describing herself as "new, not used."

Woman killed, man loses legs after train hits them during sex on the tracks

A woman was killed and her boyfriend’s legs cut off when they were hit by a train while having sex on a railway line.

Man jailed after having SEX with his neighbour's inflatable PUMPKIN

A man has been jailed for 11 months after having sex with a swimming pool raft and his neighbour's inflatable pumpkin.

over 10,000 killed as world's strongest storms hits Philippines

The death toll from one of the strongest storms on record that ravaged the central Philippine city of Tacloban could reach 10,000 people, officials said Sunday after the extent of massive devastation became apparent and horrified residents spoke of storm surges as high as trees.

Nigeria, China trade volume hits $6.2bn in 6 months

The Project Manager, Brightway International Exhibition Ltd, Mr. David Zhao, has said that the trade volume between Nigeria and China has increased by 18.6 percent with a total of 6.2 billion dollars in the first half of 2013 as against the 4.5 billion dollars in the corresponding period of 2012.

Falling satellite to hit Earth

A 2,000-pound European satellite is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere within hours, its controllers announced Sunday as the craft circled gradually downward.

Walking may cut breast Cancer risk

You can't change your genes or your family history, both known risk factors for breast cancer. But a new study suggests that walking for an hour a day could cut your risk by 14 percent.

Mandela movie 'Long Walk To Freedom' gets South Africa premiere

It was decades in the making but the long-awaited film based on Nelson Mandela's autobiography is finally here. Starring British actor Idris Elba as the beloved South African icon, "Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom" had its South African premiere Sunday in a buzzing Johannesburg cinema.

Amnesty accuses Shell of making false claims on Niger Delta oil spill

An Amnesty International report has blasts Shell Oil Company for its handling of the hundreds of oil spills that occur each year in Nigeria and accuses the company of "serious deficiencies and abuses" that render "wholly unreliable" its claims about how much oil is spilled and how often.