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President Buhari this morning arrived Cross Rivers state for the flag off of the construction of the 260km Calabar-Katsina-Ala super highway.  More photos after the cut...

According to the Chairman of the senate Adhoc committee on media and publicity, Dino Melaye, the Senate decided to reduce to names of ministerial nominees for screening today to three so as to make the screening exercise more thorough.

On October 15,A 35-year-old Nigerian man was arrested in Mokopane, SA,  for being in possession of crystal meth, rock and cocaine to the value of more than R200 000. The arrest followed info that was supplied by crime intelligence and members of the K9 unit. Provincila Col Ronel Otto said the police also confiscated a laptop, three cell phones and cash from the Nigerian

A woman who attempted to sell her 19-month-old baby boy in an online classified and community board website Gumtree, has appeared in court on charges of human trafficking.

In a bizarre incident Sunday, a 24 year old man who was "running amok" on an Aer Lingus flight from Lisbon, Portugal to Dublin, Ireland died aboard the plane. According to the Irish Mirror, the man was acting violent on the flight and tried to bite at least one fellow passenger. A pilot told controllers the man had "injured one or two passengers," according to the paper.

Daniel Makanjuola, 26-year-old banker, has been arrested by the Police in Lagos for using a forged West African Senior School Certificate and Lagos State University’s statement of result to get a job at Wema Bank Plc, Marina branch,Lagos Island.

Rotimi Amaechi and his beautiful wife of 20 years and mother of his three children, Judith loved up in new photos shared by Debola Williams. See more photos after the cut...

A mother pushed her 11-year-old son in front of an oncoming train as travellers watched on in horror. The boy, named only as Leon, was severely injured when he fell onto the tracks at the station in Hamburg, according to reports in Germany.

The 90-year-old Hajiya Fati Koko who donated N1 million towards Buhari's election has returned from Dubai where she was taken to for medical treatment after suffering a stroke. Reports emerged in September of how the woman suffered a stroke and was allegedly abandoned by the APC. The party immediately released a statement denying they had abandoned her, and said the Kebbi state governor Atiku Bagudu, and his wife are in constant touch with the woman.

Just three ministerial nominees have been slated for screening today. They are as follows: Barr. Adebayo Shittu, Khadijat Abah-Ibrahim and Claudius Omoyele Daramola. Rotimi Amaechi's name was excluded. No reason has been given for this new development.

This morning, The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC invited former Kebbi state governor, Usman Dakingari over allegations of laundering N3.8 billion while he served as governor of the state between 2007- 2015. He arrived the EFCC headquarters at about 10am today and is currently being drilled by officers of the anti-graft agency.

In an interview with 104.5 radio show "The Breakfast Club" last week, Beyonce's estranged father Mathew Knowles subtly implied that she's actually 36-years-old, not 34 by saying she's same age as singer, Pink. "We signed to Daryl Simmons, who was partners with L.A. Reid and Babyface. These guys had this competitiveness, L.A. he had a girls group. Bet you don't know who his lead singer was. P!nk, she's the exact same age as Beyoncé. There used to be this battle, which group was better. Usher, he was the same age. They were all 14 or 15 years old." he said.

In the picture is the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike and his counterpart from Sokoto State, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal exchanging greetings after the Body of Benchers meeting held at the Supreme Court Complex Abuja this morning.  Another photo below...

  Its a pity! It's so sad and a shame. Read below... A single mother of three, left her three children to go and hustle for 2k. She went with her client for the night for just 2k. Left her kids, two boys and a girl. Locked them up inside the room with candle light on. From 11:58pm the room burnt down affecting her neighbors and killing her first son and daughter. Only one of them survived the fire.

Farmer Geoff Hunt's wife raged at him for being lazy as he sat watching Home and Away with their three kids. He calmly got up, made dinner and the school lunches - then he shot them all before killing himself. How you can kill your own kids is beyond me. Read full story from Daily Mail below The night Geoff Hunt killed his family before taking his own life his wife Kim had raged at him about finances, claiming one of her husband's brothers was stealing from the family trust. An inquest into the deaths of Lockhart farmer Geoff, nurse Kim and their children Fletcher, 10, Mia, 8, and Phoebe, 6, is taking place this week.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday October 7th arraigned Abubakar Ali Peters and his company Nadabo Energy Limited before Justice S.S Ogunsanya of the Lagos State High Court, Ikeja on 21 count charge bordering on obtaining money under false pretence, diversion of Federal Government funds and forgery.

Vincent Enyeama's wife Promise took to instagram to speak on her man quitting the national team "Yes! You did well! Hold your head up high my love! I'm so proud of you and your dedicated service to your fatherland for 13 good years. I have witnessed your passion and commitment firsthand. You spent sleepless nights just to analyze every goal you conceded, even if there was nothing you could do to save them. You played through injuries, pains and fatigue. You took the bullets of unjust criticisms, biased and false reporting/information, just to let peace reign.

The Former Cameroonian athlete and president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Issa Hayatou, 69, has been named FIFA acting president after the football governing body's president Sepp Blatter was suspended yesterday for 90 days following corruption allegations.

This morning, President Buhari had a meeting at the state house with former South African president Thabo Mbeki who has been in Nigeria since yesterday. See anothe photo below...

On Monday October 5th Chairman of Atlantic Energy, Jide Omokore, who is a strong ally of embattled former Petroleum minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, was invited to the Abuja office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, as part of the ongoing investigations into the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.

34-year-old Lynn Riffey has been charged for repeatedly injecting her 14-year-old daughter and another teen with heroin, prosecutors said Monday, October 6. The Chester County district attorney's office alleged that the Philadelphia woman supplied the 14-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy with heroin and injected them multiple times last month. She also tied a string around their arms to hide their veins.

This morning, Senator George Sekibo of Rivers East Senatorial district at the Senate's plenary session raised a petition against Rotimi Amaechi's ministerial nomination but was shut down by APC Senators.

A convicted car snatcher, Somadina Enyiobi, 26, confessed that he left his village in Oraifite in Anambra State to Lagos state with a mission to steal and become a successful rich man.

A woman is accused of wrapping duct tape around her dog's mouth to stop it barking, then laughing as she posted the pictures online.  Kimberly Ann Howell has been charged with animal cruelty after sharing the distressing photos on her Facebook page.

Winnie Daraja is locked up at the Webuye Police Station in Kenya, after she killed her children following an argument with her husband. On Tuesday, September 29, the 23-year-old mother of two from Shibanga, Kakamega North, laced queen cakes with rat poison and fed five year old Peris and three-year-old, Tairus, before taking some herself.

On Thursday morning, Van Heerden and her family, from Pretoria, South Africa were on board the 09:15am Air Mauritius flight MK851 headed for OR Tambo when she made the nauseating discovery. The Van Heerden's had just enjoyed a 9-day Sugar Bay beach break on the island of Mauritius but unfortunately it was not about to end well.

Yesterday, Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra state granted 25 prisoners freedom and gave each of them N1 million for start up. Governor Obiano granted them freedom as part of activities to celebrate Nigeria's 55th independence.

Yesterday, Sokoto state governor, Aminu Tambuwal paid a condolence visit to some families of the victims of the Hajj stampede that killed over 700 pilgrims. Among the families visited in the state was that of the Chief Imam of Sokoto state, Liman Dan-Ata, who died in the stampede.