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No fewer than 83 Nigerians are expected to arrive in the country on Wednesday (today) following their deportation from the United Kingdom. The PUNCH gathered that among those to be deported were residents whose documents had expired and prisoners whose terms of imprisonment were nearing completion. The spokesperson for the National Emergency Management Agency, South-West Zone, Ibrahim Farinloye, said the deportees were expected to be in the country at 5am. He explained that they would arrive through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, adding that officials of the agency and other government workers were expected to receive them. Farinloye said the prisoners would complete their jail terms in Nigeria. He said, “We were informed that 83 Nigerians would be deported from the United Kingdom on Wednesday morning. Some of the people affected are those who haven’t completed their prison sentences. They would be taken to Nigerian prisons to complete their terms. Although we canno...

Governor of Imo state and leader of the APC governor's forum, Rochas Okorocha is seen in the photos flaunting his new APC membership card. On January 26,2017, Okorocha revalidated his membership at Ogboko ward 2, Ideato South LGA of Imo state. Another photo below; http://politicsngr.com/photos-rochas-okorocha-flaunts-new-apc-membership-card/

Lamborghini can make us do anything. This Nigerian man got out of his car and slapped a police man for daring to bash his Lamborghini Huracan in lagos. source:nairalandforum.com

There's a video circulating online showing an Illinois father beating up a young man who he claimed asked his 9 year old daughter to ‘Twerk for him’. After beating the young man, the infuriated father made him remove his clothes and “twerk” on video. The dad is getting for the beat down, as he should. Only God knows what else the man would have asked the 9 year old to do if he hadn't been caught. See the video after the cut...

Dear men, please emulate this gym instructor, please! No matter how much you are provoked, never raise your hands on a woman. Just see the muscle on him, imagine if he'd retaliated when that woman  slapped him twice at the gym in Abuja. Just imagine the damage he would have caused. We need more men like this. God bless you kind sir. Read the press statement from the gym after the cut... Laguru Health Club Commends its Gym Instructor that Took Two Slaps from a Customer  In response to an incident that happened earlier this morning at the Laguru Fitness Health Club at Utako, Abuja, the management of the popular fitness centre has commended one of its Gym instructors going by the name Monday Iliya for handling a difficult situation at the fitness centre.   Monday Iliya tactically and professionally handled a situation that could have gone out of control this morning when an apparently irate customer went ballistic and slapped him on two separate occasions as she screamed at ...

Former US President Barack Obama released a statement today Monday Jan. 30th supporting the protests going on around the country against Donald Trump's ban on travelers and refugees entering the US from 7 Muslim-majority countries. The statement, issued by Obama’s spokesman, Kevin Lewis, is the first time that the former US president will weigh in on Trump’s presidency. Read the statement after the cut.. "President Obama is heartened by the level of engagement taking place in communities around the country. In his final official speech as President, he spoke about the important role of citizens and how all Americans have a responsibility to be the guardians of our democracy — not just during an election but every day. Citizens exercising their Constitutional right to assemble, organize and have their voices heard by their elected officials is exactly what we expect to see when American values are at stake. With regard to comparisons to President Obama’s foreign policy decision...

Gambia's President, Adama Barrow has said that Gambia will no longer bear the word 'Islamic' in it's official name, he stated that the country's population is about 90% muslims and 10% christains and animists, therefore 'islamic' will no longer be part of the official name, the previous official was " The Islamic Republic Of The Gambia" the present will be " The Republic Of The Gambia. source:-http://thearticleng.blogspot.com/2017/01/gambias-president-adama-barrow-removes.html

Harrysong has indirectly reacted to his arrest by owners of his former record label, Five Star Music, yesterday. Posting a video on his IG page where himself and his friends were popping bottles of Champagne, he wrote "Thank you all so so much for the love and prayers... don't be scared..they can't pull us down...#samankwe all the way.. #@alterplatemusic". Watch the video after the cut...

Last night, President Buhari's personal assistant, Bashir Ahmad, shared a photo of the president in the UK where according to him Ogun state governor, Ibikunle Amosun and others went to pay him a visit. Immediately he shared the photos, conspiracy theorists started analyzing it. Many said the photo was from President Buhari's visit to the UK last year. Someone even claimed Amosun was in Ogun state yesterday and couldn't have been in the UK. See more after the cut... source:lindaikejiblog.com

As shared by Ifeanyi...... 'ALL HAIL VAMPIRE: THE NEW KING IN OWERRI TOWN ? The Nwangele Imo State International Armed Bandit, His Royal Majesty, Vampire Henry Chibueze is truly the King of the jungle. Two years ago, at the premises of Imo Police command, he was seen shouting down on the State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha before the Commissioner of Police and his men, Director of SSS and hundreds of security operatives who were at State command during his parade, being apprehended years after declared wanted. Two years after, his sophisticated but dependable gang in a commando style numbering more than 30, today Friday 27th January 27 between the hours of 10:45am went into Owerri High Court premises were he was facing criminal charges bothering on armed robbery, kidnapping, Murder, etc and successfully whisked him away unchallenged. What a crime ! What a bravity ! What a Vampire'

The Minority Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Senate and former Akwa Ibom State Governor, Godswill Akpabio, has said that about 20 senators from the All Progressives Congress (APC) are planning to defect to the PDP once peace returns to the party. Akpabio, who stated this  on Thursday , at the opening of the National Executive Committee (NEC) and expanded caucus of the PDP, held at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, said that despite some defections that hit the party recently, PDP senators in the National Assembly are still intact and very supportive of the party. He said just as the party has lost senators through defections, there are also some others who have joined the PDP through elections and the court pronouncements. Akpabio told the gathering that the chances of the party bouncing back to power is very bright today than ever, adding that “no election that will be conducted in the former PDP 28 states that the party will not win. "As I speak, so...

A woman whose name was given as Sonu Gupta, 26, was captured by a CCTV camera throwing her 3-year-old son down the stairs after having an argument with her in-laws in her home in southeast Delhi’s Pul Prahladpur area, India, on January 24. It was reported that her in-laws found out that the woman and her husband started having problems in their marriage five years after getting married and were addressing this issue. This led to an argument which escalated and the woman, in anger, flung clothes from the bed to the floor then picked her child and stormed out. Moments later she's seen opening a gate and throwing him down the stairs. Another woman comes moments later, pushes the mother out of the way and runs to rescue the child. Thankfully, the boy survived and the woman has been reported to the police by her family. See the video below...

Earlier today, LIB exclusively reported the arrest of Harrysong by his estranged label, Five Star Music. He was held at the the Onikan command zone of the state police command. Now we can confirm that he has been released. Details of his condition of release is yet to be made public. Harrysong and his team are currently preparing a statement to address the issue.

A senator representing Ondo South senatorial district, Yele Omogunwa has called for the legalisation of corruption in Nigeria. The senator argued that with the legalisation, corrupt politicians and public officials will have no reason to hide their loot abroad. Omogunwa said legalising corruption is a good way of cubing it since it has eaten deep into the fabrics of the nation. The official twitter handle of the senate also confirmed Omogunwa’s suggestion, writing:   source:naijaloaded.com

President Donald Trump has taken to Twitter to describe Chelsea Manning as an 'ungrateful traitor' for branding Barrack Obama a weak leader. Chelsea Manning who was one of the most prominent whistleblowers in recent American history was sentenced to 35 years in a military prison for leaking a trove of state secrets to the website WikiLeaks. In one of Obama's final acts as president, he cut her sentence and she is due to be released in May. Manning, a transgender woman on Wednesday, January 25, 2017, took to twitter and wrote that Obama's presidency had been insufficiently progressive. 'Takeaway from the @BarackObama legacy: What we need is a strong #unapologeticprogressive to lead us.' Earlier this morning, Trump took to his Twitter page to react to Manning's criticism about Barrack Obama's presidency 'Ungrateful TRAITOR Chelsea Manning, who should never have been released from prison, is now calling President Obama a weak leader. Terrible!'   so...

A video showing the moment an elderly woman was brutally beaten and stoned by youths of the Apostolic Gospel Church on accusation of witchcraft has emerged. According to the story told by a Facebook user, Sam Itauma, the church members claim that while they were having their youth vigil a bird fell into the Apostolic Gospel Church then turned into this old woman. In the video which is painful to watch, the woman is surrounded by church members who scream at her and call her a witch while whipping her. One of them can be heard asking her, "What did you come here to do? Who sent you here?" As the woman tried to escape, she was stopped by the congregation. At some point they began to rebuke her and started chanting in unison, calling down the fire of the holyghost to burn her. The height of it all was when a church member threw a stone at her when she tried to escape. See the sad video below if you have the heart.  source:lindaikejiblog.com

That empty picture frame at the LAX Tom Bradley International Terminal had Barack Obama's face there up until January 20th. Donald Trump's face should be there now greeting visitors when they land but it doesn't look airport officials have received Donald's photo or just don't care to hang it there

After months of strategic planning, networking and intensive research, leading Nollywood star, Osita Iheme famously known as Pawpaw, has finally floated his long awaited Young Boss Records. And to show that he is ready for business and poised to take over the industry, the A-list thespian, recently signed a mouth watering recording deal with two young and talented artistes, Barrister Max and Charisma, who are currently dictating the pace on his fresh label "From me to you., the passion to assist and impact in young talent made this happen. Pls support us as I unveil the newest record label and youngest artistes . ladies and gentlemen I present to you Max @ovicmax and Karisma @charismatunes from the Young boss family. #GodistheGreatest https://www.instagram.com/p/BPspJDsBilN/?taken-by=ositaiheme&hl=en

UNIBEN student uses over 6000 bottle covers to create a portrait of the university's V.C, the biggest bottle cap potrait in Africa.. See photo below

Two Ghanaians have been confirmed dead after a tyre they were fixing exploded at Hwidiem in the Asante Akyem North District of Ashanti Region on Tuesday. The deceased persons, a steel welder and a tricycle rider died on the spot. While two other persons who were standing close-by the scene of the accident also suffered injuries from the explosion. According to the Agogo Police, the welder with the assistance of the motorbike rider ignored the safety precaution of deflating the tyre before working on it. Few minutes later, the tyre exploded and chopped off the head of the steel welder and also mutilated that of the motorbike rider beyond recognition. The two other persons at the scene of the accident, a 14-year-old boy, and a 30-year old man are currently responding to treatment at the Agogo Presbyterian Hospital. The bodies of the two have been deposited at the Agogo Presbyterian Hospital morgue. Source: 3news

A Ugandan nurse who uttered false HIV results has been found guilty and sentenced to a 12-month jail term if she fails to pay a Shs2 million fine. Entebbe Chief Magistrates Court heard that on August 24, 2015, Ms Samali Mukooda, a nurse at JBK Medical Clinic in Kawuku, Wakiso District, carried out an HIV test on a one Don Byakatonda who tested positive for HIV. However, Byakatonda, requested Mukooda to make for him a medical document showing that that he was HIV negative which he could present to his wife. Court that was presided over by Ms Mary Kaitesi  heard that Byakatonda, a former employee of the Aids Research Centre in Kampala had carried out an HIV test at Ebenezer Clinic Laboratory in Kampala on March 3, 2015 where he found out that he was carrying the virus that causes Aids. In her defence, however, Mukooda who admitted to altering the results said Byakatonda pulled out a pistol and threated to shoot her if she defied his olders.  source :daily monitor

source:lindaikejiblog.com The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission ICPC, today displayed 40 vehicles it had recovered from former Directors in the Federal Ministry of Water Resources. See more photos after the cut...  

Justice Silvanus C. Oriji of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court sitting at Apo, Abuja, on sentenced a police officer, Olotu Owoicho, to 12 years imprisonment for causing the death of one Mrs. Doris Nonye Okere. The deceased Mrs Doris Nonye Okere, who was a cashier with the then Bank PHB at Wuse Zone 1 branch, lost her life on January 31, 2011 when the convict of Squadron 44 and chief security officer in charge of all security operatives at Zenith Bank, Mpape, opened fire on a taxi conveying the deceased with her barely 11-month old son to work. Owoicho was said to have pulled the trigger when the taxi driver allegedly ignored his warning not to make a u-turn in front of the bank. Bullets from his gun instantly killed late Doris, forcing sympathisers to set the bank ablaze. Owoicho, father of four, was subsequently arraigned on 28 June, 2011, on a two-count charge of culpable homicide punishable with death and also causing grievous harm by reckless use of firm arm. After lis...

Following the attempted arrest earlier this morning of Apostle Johnson Suleman, the president and founder of Omega Fire Ministry worldwide by officials from the Department of State Security (SSS), the church management has issued a press release condemning the development.     The statement jointly signed by Dr. Sule Emmanuel, senior pastor, OFM South Africa Churches and Director of Media (OFM Worldwide) and Barrister Samuel Amune Esq, Coordinator, OFM Legal Team Worldwide, reads;     “This is to inform the millions of followers and supporters of Apostle Johnson Suleman all over the world that the man of God is very safe, and that the attempted arrest by the Department of State Security on the man of God on the instruction and orders  of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari was unsuccessful.     Over the last couple of months, thousands of defenseless Christians have been killed across various cities in Nigeria, with nearl...