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   By Saharareporters  SaharaReporters has obtained documents further exposing the depth of corruption and mismanagement of public funds at Nigeria’s Ministry of Aviation headed by Stella Oduah. One of the documents details how Ms. Oduah compelled the cash-strapped Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) to purchase two armored BMW cars for the minister. NCAA is the agency charged with ensuring the airworthiness of commercial planes flying within Nigeria’s airspace. Two officials of the agency told SaharaReporters that the NCAA did not have enough funds to upgrade equipment, send staff for critical training, and hire enough qualified staff. “Yet, all the minister is concerned about is to have two exotic BMW cars from the little money we have for operations,” one of the sources said. The documents obtained by SaharaReporters indicate that the transaction for the purchase of the two BMW vehicles started in June 2013. However, the request for delivery of and pa...

  The 76 destitute people, who were deported by the Lagos State Government and dumped on the Upper Iweka Bridge, Onitsha, Anambra State on July 24, 2013, have dragged the Lagos State Government to a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos.  7 of the deportees - Joseph Aniebonam, Osondu Mbuto, Osondu Agwu, Nnenna Ogbonna, Emily Okoroariri, Friday Ndukwe and Onyeka Ugwu filed the N1billion suit as the applicants, on behalf of the 76 others, while the Attorney-General of Lagos State and the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State are the respondents. The victims want the court to declare that their deportation from Lagos State of Nigeria to Anambra State of Nigeria on July 24, amounted to a gross violation of their rights and a breach of the provisions of the 1999 Constitution, as amended. To declare that they, as Nigerian citizens are entitled to the enjoyment of their fundamental rights, that their arrest and detention in various camps, Oshodi rehabilitation centre, polic...

  Sir Alex retired at the end of last season after 26 years in charge that saw him become the most successful British manager of all-time. To honour him, former Waters Reach, a road that runs alongside United's stadium has been renamed Six Alex Ferguson Way. He will also be given the freedom of the borough. That's a traditional honour given to people to recognize their status within a town or city.  Big congrats to him.

BBA contestant Beverly Osu in her latest interview stated that she had wanted to become a catholic Nun, but could not not after she dropped out in the fifth year in convent. “I thought I would be a reverend sister but I abandoned the vision when I dropped out in my fifth year. I finished my secondary education in a secular institution before moving to Babcock University. “I could not finish from Babcock because I had some personal issues. Again, I dropped and enrolled at the National Open University,” she said.

BBM for Android and iOS could be with us in days, as the struggling company admits to the world it faces "challenging times." Yeah, we won't hold our breath. The Blackberry Messenger app was scheduled for a release date weeks ago for iOS and Android, but the deadline came and went before BlackBerry finally admitted it wasn't ready to release the app, blaming imposter apps on the Google Play -- despite coughing up the iOS app onto the Apple App Store in a couple of lucky countries. But now BlackBerry marketing boss Frank Boulben told Reuters he expects the app to surface for iOS and Android "within days." We'll believe when we see it, Frankie. In an unusual move, the struggling company behind the new Z30, Z10, Q5, and Q10 has published an open letter in various newspapers such as Canada's Globe and Mail today, assuring customers they "can continue to count on BlackBerry." The open letter highlights what th...

  Avicious would-be suicide bomber is heading for Nigeria’s vast metropolis of Lagos and only a down-on-her-luck prostitute can stop a horrific attack. This ominous fiction forms part of “Boko Haram,” a new film by Ghanaian-Nigeria director Pascal Amanfo, which has been banned by censors in Ghana and shunned by cinema owners in Nigeria. A movie inspired by the very real and brutal militant group active in Nigeria was potentially so inflammatory that it was released in the country with the title “Nation Under Siege” to avoid a backlash. “Boko Haram,” loosely translated, means “Western education is forbidden” and the group has said it is fighting to impose a strict religeous state in northern Nigeria. Amanfo admits his film raises uncomfortable questions about the Boko Haram conflict, which has left thousands dead in northern Nigeria since 2009 — including the 40 students massacred in their sleep at the Yobe State College of Agriculture on September 29. “I want to provoke ...

  Just a few months after he proposed to his baby mama,Lola Omotayo, Peter Okoye, one of the singing sensational duo, Psquare has taken a step further by picking a date for their traditional marriage. According to a source close to the couple, their traditional marriage is billed to hold on Sunday, November 17, at Arc Events Center on the Lagos Island. Their white wedding will be held after the traditional one, but the date is yet to be fixed. Psquare publicist, Bayo Adetu confirmed the development saying, “It’s true, Peter Okoye and Lola Omotayo will be having their traditional marriage ceremony on the 17th of November, 2013.” Peter will be joining the long list of celebrities who wedded this year. Arrangements are on top gear as Peter is said to be leaving no stone unturned to make the day a memorable one. Given Peter Okoye’s grand proposal to Lola, we can only guess what might be in the works for the two lovebirds’ wedding.

  A crazed father axed his eight-month-old infant to death as a sacrifice to the Indian goddess of destruction and rebirth. Rajkumar Chaurasia told police he had killed his son because he had been ‘ordered to do so by the goddess Kali’. Chaurasia reportedly gave his son a bath and took him for a prayer at a temple dedicated to Kali, also known as Durga. He then took the child home and axed him to death infront of an idol of the goddess placed in a temple he had built in the house in Narain Purva village in Barabanki district of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Chaurasia’s wife is understood to have seen him striking her son with the axe twice on his neck. Chaurasia, known locally as Hemant, then attempted to flee but he was apprehended by other members of the village who handed him over to the police. A police spokesman told the Deccan Herald: ‘Hemant had planned to kill the infant soon after his birth. ‘He thought that the sacrifice will bring happiness in the live...

   The President of the market women association, Mrs Felicia Sani, who led over 200 women to protest the lingering strike by ASUU in Abuja on Monday said the federal government has no blame in the matter. She said ASUU should call off the strike immediately otherwise they will take their own action.  Speaking on the strike which is now more than 100 days, Mrs Felicia said:

   A sister of President Goodluck Jonathan’s Special Assistant on Research and Strategy, Mr. Oronto Douglas, was kidnapped by gun men on Monday night in Ogbia, the President’s Local Government area in Bayelsa State.  The victim, Augusta Douglas Ayam, who runs a shop at her residence in Ogbia, is reported to have been picked up in her home by the abductors.  The kidnappers were said to have arrived, shooting into the air to scare people away. They then seized Augusta and took her away in a boat to an unknown destination in the creeks. Sources at the Joint Task Force headquarters in Yenagoa confirmed that the incident has been reported. A manhunt for the kidnappers has been launched.  A family spokesperson, Gift Douglas, also confirmed to SaharReporters that Ms. Augusta was abducted stating that the kidnappers have not contacted the family. A sister of President Goodluck Jonathan’s Special Assistant on Research and Strategy, Mr. Oronto Douglas, was kidnapped by ...

  The woman in question is identified as Asampete Fatima Usman, a graduate of the University of Maiduguri who lives and works in Abuja. Fatima hails from Hong city in Adamawa state. According to sources, depressed Fatima sent out an apparent suicide letter to a couple of friends on Facebook on the 1st of October 2013. In the suicide note, Fatima informs friends of her intention of killing herself but her friends thought she was joking. One of her friends who got the mail late was convinced that Fatima would kill herself for using the term “end it all” but she was pacified by those she told who assured her that perhaps she had read too much meaning into the mail….she let it be but alas a few days later on October 8, 2013 exactly 3 hours after her last Facebook post, people started commenting that she had died. To everyone’s surprise Fatima’s corpse was found by her family on the same day…. Alas she had killed herself. People should try to act on time anytime a message of t...

SOME school-based cult groups in Edo State have come together in an alliance against the spate of kidnappings, armed robberies and other violent crimes in the state. The cult members, belonging to various fraternities in schools across the state converged at the Sand Beach Resorts, Benin, on Saturday for a summit tagged “Interactive Peace Summit: Strategy for Social Cohesion.” At the summit, the groups, which came together under the aegis of Rainbow Consolidated Forum said they were not satisfied with the spate of violent crimes and insecurity in the state and vowed to fight the situation. Some of the fraternities at the summit included the Green Circuit (a.k.a Maphites), Norsemen (aka Vikings), Black Axe, Eiye confraternity, Family Fraternity of Nigeria and Avarian Organization of Nigeria. Governor Adam Oshiomhole, Oba of Benin, the Edo State Commissioner of Police, the State Security Service, and the Commandant of the National Security and Civil Defence Corps sent repre...