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…alleges foreign nations aiding looters to bring in hard currencies to induce voters, undermine polls …Promises reward for whistle blowers with useful information By Soni Daniel, Northern Region Editor Ahead of the presidential election on Saturday, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has threatened to arrest and prosecute any politician who engages in vote-buying in any part of the country. The Acting Chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, handed down the warning in a statement made available to Vanguard on Wednesday, announced a special reward to Nigerians who would volunteer information on those buying or encouraging vote-buying during the polls. INEC seeks improved participation of women in electoral process Although the chairman did not specify the amount for each whistle-blower on voter-buyers, Magu made it clear that those who give out cash and those who receive the cash to undermine the electoral process would be treated as common criminals wherever they ma...

Update:: Justin Bieber is reportedly seeking treatment for depression. According to People, the 24-year-old is receiving counselling and is “very focused on his mental health”. An insider told the outlet that Justin is having sessions that contain both spiritual and secular religious components, and the treatment is “painful” for the Sorry hitmaker. “He’s feeling very positive that he’s uncovering some root issues, and everyone is optimistic that this will help him figure out his next chapter,” the insider continued. “He’s going to be a dad someday, and he knows that could happen sooner rather than later.” Justin, who wed model Hailey Baldwin back in September, apparently wants to make sure he’s “got his act together” before starting a family with his 22-year-old wife. And despite being happy and content in his marriage, the Canadian pop superstar has been “down and tired” in recent weeks, and is struggling with the downsides of fame, including being constantly papped by p...

Update:: More details have emerged on the lady who was stripped Unclad and tortured over missing phone in Benin city, Edo state.  The 24-year-old identified as Favour Ada, a commercial sex worker, had pepper inserted into her private part during the brutal ordeal. The Edo Police command paraded the suspects responsible for the act and remanded three in custody including one Lucky Igbinovia (One-Man-Squad), a former aide to Mr Adams Oshiomhole, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress on community security.  Narrating her ordeals in the hands of the suspects at the state police command headquarters in Benin, the lady who hails from Rivers State, told journalists that her worst moment was when they inserted pepper into her private parts, stripped her Unclad and videoed her. She said she was taken to a native doctor who mysteriously implanted bullets into her stomach and later threatened her with a live snake, adding that in order not to die, she admitte...

Update:: Jorja Smith was nominated for the Best New Artist Grammy Award this year, a career milestone that would please pretty much any entertainer. Somehow, the singer wasn't even aware of the event's date until after she booked a show on the same day - on the other side of the globe. Her world revolves around a tight group of people.   “I’ve just always done it this way,” she told The Guardian. “I did a distribution deal for my album, but I’ve always been independent without a major-label record deal. And I’m fine. I just feel the same as I was when I moved to London. My team has got bigger, but it’s still really small. How can you have problems when you’re doing what you want and no one’s actually telling you no? Not that no one’s telling me no. But no one’s telling me, ‘You must do this!’ or, ‘You can’t do this!’” Jorja's tendency move through the world as she pleases may have been born out of a difficult period. During her teenage years, insecurities r...

“Can salt and water prevent pregnancy?” is a very popular question among many ladies. Many women are interested in unconventional methods of contraception. However, you need to know whether such methods work and if they are safe to use before you decide to try them out. In this post, we have gathered the most current information on natural ways to prevent pregnancy using salt water. So, what should you know about salt and water and their effects when it comes to pregnancy prevention? Does salt and water prevent pregnancy? There are many individuals who want to know how to prevent pregnancy. It is unfortunate that there are people who still listen to the so-called “experts” who suggest using methods other than licensed medications or government-approved contraceptives to prevent pregnancy. One such method given is drinking a water and salt solution. Can salt prevent pregnancy? The answer is 'no'. Neither salt no water can prevent conception. Moreover, when you drinka s...

Update:: The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has reiterated its preparedness for the 2019 general elections. The electoral commission has since begun sensitisation for both candidates and the electorates on all they need to know about everything the elections will entail. The presidential election will hold on 16th February, and Nigerians are definitely ready to head to their polling units – well, INEC educates on one small but very important detail. INEC says a voter can use any finger to vote but should ensure that his or her mark is clear and placed inside the box of the political party of his or her choice and does not stray into another box. ON WHICH FINGER TO VOTE WITH A voter can use any finger to vote but should ensure that his or her mark is clear and placed inside the box of the political party of his or her choice and does not stray into another box.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP will not stage a public campaign in Ogun State in response to the decision of the Supreme Court to recognise Senator Buruji Kashamu as the candidate of the party, high level party sources have said. Members of the PDP No crack in PANDEF, we stand by Atiku – Nat’l Chair, Youth Leader Kashamu emerged as the candidate of the party vide the decision of the court and against the decision of the mainstream of the party’s leadership which is inclined to Oladipupo Adebutu who emerged as the candidate at the primaries organised by the national leadership of the party. The party leadership it was gathered is still to come to a conclusion as to whether Kashamu is being used by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC to cause confusion in the party. The APC in Ogun State is itself still mired in its own crisis which boiled over at the presidential campaign rally on Monday where dignitaries including the national chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole were p...

Update:: A 32-year old man, one Fasina Adedayo, arrested for rough handling and forcing a 14-year old girl into bed in Lagos, has confessed that he was tempted by her breasts and desired to sleep with her. Www.churchillchoken.blogspot.com reports that the incident happened at Eloseh Street in Ikate area of Surulere, Lagos where he resides with the victim’s parents. The lust has landed him in trouble after he lured the victim into his apartment, grabbed the tempting breasts and forced her to the bed for sex romp. The victim raised alarm and he was forced to leave her. She then told her parents what happened. The assault was reported to the police; Adedayo was arrested and detained at the police station in the area.

Update::              The world is a global village and people now have access to information or happenings in various parts of the world. The gaps between people and places have been bridged and people now have series of information at their fingertips. Some individuals have been able to make a name for themselves as talented creators who make social media more interesting. Top Nigerian comedian and actor Bright Okpocha, better known as Basketmouth, is one entertainer who has made the country proud. He was recently honoured by top social networking site, Facebook, with a tree planted in his name in a forest in UK. The tree was planted to remember the time he spent at Soho Farmhouse. This was done for the celebration of Facebook Creator Day ceremony. In a post shared on Basketmouth’s Instagram handle, it was explained that the tree had been planted in his name at the National Forest in the heart of UK. The comedian also shared a profound caption...

Actress Joke Silva loses sister to cancer on Tuesday, February 12 - Silva's sister had been the founder and artistic director of a well known art centre in Lagos - The actress shared a photo of her late younger sister on her Instagram page to honour her Bisi Silva, the younger sister of popular veteran Nollywood actress, Joke Silva, has passed away. The woman who was an artistic director reportedly died on Tuesday, February 12, after battling cancer. According to information, the late artistic director had died around 3:45pm, on Tuesday, in Lagos state. Joke Silva who is grieving the death of her sister shared Bisi's photo as tribute to the deceased on her Instagram page. She wrote: "Thou mastering me God..." The deceased is the founder and artistic director of the Centre for Contemporary Art. The centre was opened in 2007, she also founded the Asiko International Art School in Lagos. Bisi Silva loved her craft and she made sure she achieved as many deg...

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, has, Tuesday, suspended the over two-months old strike it embarked upon since last year’s December 12 over the failure of the federal government to implement the agreements it reached with her in 2017. The agreement was to implement the recommendations of the 2014 NEEDS assessment which recommended the increase of funding to the polytechnics. The ASUP President, Usman Dutse, announced the suspension of the strike on Tuesday during a press briefing in Abuja. According to him, the union “resolved to suspend the industrial action on the conditions that government commits to a reviewed memorandum of Action to solidify the resolutions and ensure its full implementation, failing which the union shall resume the action at its discretion.”

Update:: Another ritualist den was uncovered along Iwo road in Ibadan, Oyo state on Monday, February 11th.  An eyewitness said the killers den located along Iwo road, was uncovered by a resident of the area who just bought a piece of land around the newly built road safety station in Iwo road. According to the story, the new owner had gone to clear the bush on the land when himself and those who went to assist him discovered a secluded portion where they found the remains of persons that have been killed on the land. Among the remains of those found was that of a pupil of the Ayepe community school.   The police were immediately alerted and investigations have since commenced.  Female under wears and other shanties, which looked like charms, littered the tunnel area, fueling suspicion that nefarious activities were going on in the area before the discovery. Reports have it that unidentified security personnel had come to raid the tunnel and caugh...

Update:: The complainant therefore pleaded with the court to dissolve the marriage forthwith, saying that there was no more love between him and his wife, one Juliana. Juliana, 31, however, denied all the allegations, pleading with the court not to dissolve the union. She stated, noting that she was still in love with him and that life without him was meaningless for her, “Sunday is an ideal husband any woman should pray to have. My lord, my husband has a temper, anything he says is final. I am 31 years old and on hypertension drug. I am the one with no rest of mind. I am his fifth wife and what he is doing today, he has done to four other women. But in order to save my marriage from collapse like those of the other wives, I developed hypertension. My daughter is still young. I don’t want her to have a separated family. I don’t want her to go through the trauma the other children are passing through. He divorced his wives after they each had a child. I believe th...

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Nigerian lady stab her roommate after allegedly stealing from her in their hostel at Lome. Both girls are students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra state currently in Lome for French studies.     An Instagram user in a video post described the situation: "This is MRS MGBOJI AMARACHI PAULA @bekeepaula and that's her in the video holding a knife. Few days before the incident, they were robbed...the other girl @trish_choco lost her laptop and some other things. After security got involved, they found everything in their room which was thoroughly searched before...She blamed PAULA for everything and since then she has been a threat to her life. Just yesterday, 10th February, Paula requested that they divide their space in the kitchen because they are roommates and students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University presently in Lome, Togo. she refused saying there was no need because their management already said Paula would be removed from the room. Paula entered the k...

Update:: Among those who won big at the 61st annual GRAMMY awards celebrations was Childish Gambino who, depsite his absence, earned several of the night's highest honrs, including Song oF The Year for his "This Is America" track, marking the first time a rap song has ever won in the category. "This Is America" was one of the three total rap songs that were nominated for the award this year, beating out Kendrick Lamar and SZA's "All the Stars," Drake's "God's Plan," Shawn Mendes' "In My Blood," Maren Morris, Zedd, and Grey's "The Middle," Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper's "Shallow," Brandi Carlile’s “The Joke,” and Ella Mai’s “Boo’d Up.”  In addition to Song of The Year, "This Is America" also won the distinctions of Best Rap/Sung Performance, Best Music Video and Record of The Year. 

Update:: Alicia Keys is a legend in the music world with 15 Grammy Awards, a history of impressive collaborations (Eminem, Drake, and Jack White are just a few artists she's worked with), and, now, a chance to host the 2019 Grammy Awards. Her career is fascinating, so it may not surprise you to learn Alicia Keys' relationship with husband Swizz Beatz is just as spellbinding. Theirs is a story of lust, drama, healing and, ultimately, a seemingly unbreakable love. But to understand where they are today, let's take a look at their history. The not-so-cute meet-cute Keys and Swizz Beatz (née Kasseem Dean) met when they were teenagers in the '90s, just as she was kick-starting her illustrious career. While the two are madly in love now, Keys told Marie Claire U.K. that at the time, she couldn't have been less interested. "Honestly, I didn't really like him that much," she told the magazine in 2013. "I thought he was too ostentatious. Swizz wi...

Update:: Popular Nigerian Comedian, Seyi Law has made a shocking announcement that he has separated from his wife of eight years, Stacy Ebere due to irreconcilable differences. Seyi Law, born as Oluwaseyitan Lawrence Aletile, announced the end of the marriage which has produced a child, on his Instagram page early Sunday. On Saturday, Seyi Law hinted about a major announcement that he wanted to make in a post, under the photograph of the daughter of the marriage. “I find so much joy with Tiwaloluwa Oluwademiladeola Chiderra Aviella. You are the reason my pain don’t matter. Too many wishes in my life right. Major announcement later tonight. It is what it is. I am coming”, he wrote. Hours later, he dropped the bombshell. Seyi Law praised his ex-wife for her beautiful and good heart, but said it was sad that they had to part ways. “Due to irreconcilable differences would have been enough to announce this, but the kind and beautiful heart of my ex-wife must be stated. She i...

Update:: President Muhammadu Buhari again on Friday rained curses on the Peoples’ Democratic Party and its leaders, saying God must punish them. The President claimed that they looted the country for 16 years and that he was on a mission to recover what he said they stole. He spoke at the State House, Abuja, when he received members of the 1,000 Support Group. Buhari said, “Large scale abuse of trust, only God can give them punishment but those we can touch, we will get them prosecuted. “We have said properties confiscated should be sold and the money put into the treasury and we will use.”

Update:: Nigerian-American filmmaker, Chinonye Chukwu, has won herself the Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize for her movie, ‘Clemency.’ Chukwu has emerged the first Black woman to win Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize US Dramatic entry. The filmmaker has also been tipped to direct the adaptation of former Black Panther leader Elaine Brown’s memoir, ‘A Taste of Power’. Deadline reports that Chukwu will work with Alyssa Hill who will adapt the screenplay from the memoir, ‘A Taste of Power: a Black Woman’s Story.’ Chukwu, is a Nigerian-born, Alaskan-raised screenwriter, producer and director, whose works had received several recognition, grants and awards. She joins Desiree Akhavan, Ryan Coogler, Damien Chazelle, Rebecca Miller, and many more many more big names as winning the Grand Jury Prize for their U.S. Dramatic entries.

Update:: There's a viral voice note insisting that people now steal Natural hair of people in the salon and sell it for as high as 450, 000 Naira. Due to recent events, it appears that people who perpetrate diabolical rituals have shifted from stealing female panties to female natural hair Reports say these men are so desperate and there have been a case where even brothers and boyfriends are not left out, they steal and sell panties belonging to their sisters and girlfriends to ritualise for money. Does women's used panties fetch one lots of money? Are these real or stupid superstitious beliefs?! Reports say one of these men buy a bag of female natural hair for as much as 450k and that some salon owners are already in the business of selling to them their unsuspecting customers' hairs.

Update:: A  siamese man has died by electrocution after he used his earpiece while his phone was plugged into the socket. His corpse was found on his bed several hours after he died. Corps have issued a warning about the dangers of cheap chargers after Kritsada Supol was found dead with his Samsung plugged into a power point Supol , 24, appeared to have been listening to music or talking to someone, with the mic section of the earphones resting over his lips. The property owner visited the room in Chonburi, Thailand, on Sunday and found the 24-year-old’s body on the mattress with signs of burning around his ears. Police from the Phan Thong Provincial Police Station in Chonburi, Thailand, arrived and carried the dead body from the property. Police Captain Jaleuk Polthong said police believe that Kritsada was electrocuted while using the earphones and charging his smartphone at the same time. The captain said: ‘”We believe a short circuit caused his death ...

Update:: The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, said claims made on Monday by the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, that the country's power generation has improved by 100%, is fraudulent. While Fashola claimed that that there has been a 100% rise from 4000 megawatts in 2015 to 8000 megawatts in 2018, TCN, in its latest report, said the highest peak figure of power ever generated is 5,222 megawatts. Both the minister and the Transmission Company gave their statistics on Monday in Abuja, with Fashola insisting, during the visit of the Federation of Construction Industry to his office, that Nigerians now spent less on fuelling of generators and plants because of frequent and improved electricity supply nationwide. The minister also explained that the government was committed to renewing and expanding the Nigerian economy through the provision of critical infrastructure. TCN, in its own figures, showed that peak generation attained on February 3...