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A television debate in India ended in horror when a spectator set himself alight before embracing a politician, leaving both men fighting for their lives. The man, named by police as Durgesh Kumar Singh, emerged from a crowd of about 150 onlookers, doused himself in petrol then grabbed the local leader of the Bahujan Samaj Party, Kamruzzama Fauji.

2face Idibia may have disappointed his female fans with his latest declaration that he was tired of having babies and that he wants to concentrate on his marriage to Annie. 2face said it was time for him to give more time to his wife and ensure that the family gets the best of his attention as they continue to grow together.

14 year old Endia Martin (pictured above) was killed on Monday April 28th by another 14 year old girl after they argued on Facebook about a boy. Is this what 14 year olds should be doing? Fighting over boys and killing each other? My goodness!

  And some publicist said it was all a stunt! Like P-Square needs a stunt to be relevant. Anyway, good to hear things are good again between the brothers. Long live P-Square!

Fans and friends of veteran actor, Kayode Odumosu, who is widely known as Pa kasumu, may begin to see their star actor in movies once again if the latest report emerging from the camp of The Movie Ambassador is anything to go by.

I thought i'd share Majek Fashek's 1992 performance on the David Letterman show. This period was the prime of Majek's career, and it makes you feel real bad how such a talented and good looking singer ended up where he is at today. Anyway, enjoy the nice performance of "So Long". Check out his dance moves too. Watch video here:    http://youtu.be/iSDJTesSMWE

  A video showing a single mother from Trinidad and Tobago whipping her 12-year-old daughter with a belt for sharing sexually explicit pics of herself on Facebook has gone viral, sparking a conversation about corporal punishment. see picture of how the mum was beating her daughter Watch on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKszFNDn4U4

Some of the female students abducted from Government Girls’ Secondary School (GGSS), Chibok, Borno State, may have been ferried around Lake Chad basin by their abductors – suspected Boko Haram gunmen.

Ongoing protest at the federal secretariat in Abuja disrupted by police with tear-gas and water aimed at protesters – lecturers of Nigeria’s universities. The police is using tear-gas and water to stop the protest that is right now going on at the building of Federal Secretariat in Abuja.

F oremost producer, writer, director and a leading player in the Nigerian motion picture industry, Amaka Igwe has passed on. She died last night April 28th in Enugu after an asthma attack. Mrs Igwe had gone to Enugu in company of her husband for pre-production preparations for a new Igbo soap when the sad incident occurred. She suffered an asthma attack and was immediately rushed to the hospital after initial intervention had failed but sadly died before getting there.  Mrs Igwe is survived by her husband of 21 years Charles Igwe, three children, an aged mother. So sad! May her soul rest in peace...amen. B orn Amaka Isaac-Ene, the deceased was an accomplished writer, producer, director, entrepreneur and teacher. She is the founder of BoBTV Expo, founder and CEO of Top Radio 90.9FM, Amaka Igwe Studios, and the newly-launched Q Entertainment Networks.

18-year-old Ana Rosa Mora has been arrested for killing her own child because the the new born looked like her ex-boyfriend. Ana wrapped her baby in a bag and left him outside to die because she feared the child looked like her ex-boyfriend and her current boyfriend would leave her.

  Leaders of the gang arrested • US, UK assist with advanced satellite imagery • A million women to march on Abuja to protest kidnapping

The expanded National Security Council meeting, presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday, tasked the military to ensure the rescue of the abducted school girls in Chibok, Borno. Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State said this after the six-hour meeting held at the Presidential Villa. The state governors, service-chiefs, heads of other security agencies as well as president of Christians Association of Nigeria, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor and the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Saad Abubakar attended the meeting.

The Nigeria Film and Video Censorship Board, (NFVCB), has banned the widely publicised and internationally acclaimed film, Half of A Yellow Sun which has been premiered in Nigeria. But reliable sources told our correspondent Abuja that the film promoters are making frantic efforts to remove the offensive sections and get the film approved.

  After weeks of bickering that would have torn apart one of Africa’s music powerhouses, P-Square -twin brothers, Peter and Paul Okoye, and their elder brother/manager, Jude ‘Engees’ Okoye-, news coming from their homestead indicates that peace has returned to the once united family.

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command yesterday took a suspected mosque bomber into custody after he was arrested by traders and residents around a mosque in Garki village, Abuja.

A woman said to be mentally-challenged escaped being lynched by an angry mob on Wednesday after she was allegedly caught with N100,000, two BlackBerry phones and an android phone two ATM cards were also found on the woman.

  WHITE WIDOW, Samantha Lewthwaite, may be the terror mastermind behind a horrific attack in Nigeria on Monday which left 71 dead and hundreds wounded. White Widow Samantha Lewthwaite has been linked to a huge terror attack at a bus station in Nigeria [REX].

THE over 100 schoolgirls abducted on Monday night at Chibok, Borno State, have been rescued. The military, in a statement, said only eight of the abducted girls were still missing.

About 80 students of the Government Girls’ Secondary School in Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State, abducted by the Boko Haram insurgents on Monday were reportedly rescued on Tuesday and Wednesday morning by a group of vigilante, local hunters and soldiers.

BLOOD flowed freely at Nyanya, an outskirts of Abuja, with several dead bodies and charred human parts littering the ground in and around el-Rufal Park, Nyanya, after a high-calibre explosive went off on Monday. It was a gory sight at the park used by Abuja Mass Transit Company and inter-city transporters, as the victims, mostly workers on their way to various workplaces, perished amid wailings, confusions and frustrations. Most of the pictures taken at the scene of the incident could not be published, because they were gory to behold. ADVERTISEMENT The explosive device was said to have been loaded in a Volkswagen Golf car by a suspected suicide bomber, who was said to have disguised himself in police uniform and driven his vehicle into the park before detonating the device. A security personnel gave the number plate of the vehicle used in the attack as XQ 299 LSD, but preferred anonymity. When the people at the park confronted the driver of the vehicle on wh...

•‘He always had sex with me by force’ A policeman, Anthony Ibemere, has told an Igando Customary Court in Lagos, Lagos State, that his wife should return the N1.2 million bride price if she insisted on divorce. Thirty-eight-year-old  Anthony was responding to a divorce suit filed by Uloma, his wife of four years, who accused him of  battery.

A suspected female kidnapper accused of abducting eight children was on Friday morning along Emir Road, Ilorin, Kwara State capital, lynched by a mob.

During the week, a message posted by Judith Mazagu (aka Afrocandy) went viral because the message was a plea to her fans for help: “I’m a single mother of two well-behaved, intelligent smart girls. I moved from Africa in 2005 to join their father who abandoned us after one year of living together. Since then, I’ve been struggling on my own without support from any particular person – except some friends that help out sometimes. I’m not on welfare; (I) don’t get child support and not on employment. I am highly talented; I write songs and scripts, edit, produce and even direct. All I need is an opportunity to be discovered.

  A female delegate, Ezenwa Ifeanyinwa, on Wednesday slumped at the National Conference, shortly after the resumption of the afternoon session Premium Times reports. Mrs. Ifeanyinwa, a representative of the Market Women Association, was returning from lunch break and was heading towards the plenary chamber when she suddenly fainted.

  Professor Dora Akunyili, the former strong woman of National Agency for Food, Drug Administration Agency caused a stir when she appeared at the National Judicial Institute venue of the ongoing national conference in Abuja on Monday looking very pale and emaciated, a far cry from her usual vivacious self. Many delegates could not recognise her at first glance as they were shocked by her almost ghoulish appearance.

Jailed James Onanefe Ibori, former governor of Nigeria’s Delta state has been facing a confiscation hearing at Southwark Crown Court. His lawyer has told the court that Ibori did not make a single penny from the £157million fraud, for which he was jailed by the same court two years ago.

The guy who tweeted live photos of soldiers during the Boko haram escape attempt on Sunday March 30th, has allegedly been picked up by the SSS for tweeting pics of a military operation.

Nigerian National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA reports that a suspected drug trafficker Chinelo Okorom Lynnette, who hid cocaine in her womanliness, has been arrested at the Lagos airport! The 36-year-old woman had 685 grammes of cocaine in wraps, which was discovered during inward screening of passengers.