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How I met my husband at 27- Lagos First Lady shares her love story

Dame Abimbola Fashola says she met her husband, the Governor of Lagos state, Babatunde Fashola at a party after his father introduced her to him. She shared their love story with City People mag...

"I met my husband at age 27. That was at my best friend's engagement then. I was serving and making sure everyone was okay and well taken care of, attending to people and all that. And then his father saw me and then said "I have a son and I will like you to meet my son. So I said no problem sir. He said good. My son will soon come in. When he came, we introduced ourselves. We met. We exchanged our numbers and that was it. We took it off from there. He was cool, he looked cool-headed. He was friendly. He had no airs about him. He was a simple fellow. He was already working then as a lawyer. He was at Sofunde, Belgore & Co. He clicked with my sisters too. He was always going to parties with them. He was bubbling with them. I didn't use to go to parties with them. Since my sisters accepted him, I had no choice but to accept him" she said

Honest airport cleaner received N12million from TREM yesterday?

According to this person, Josephine Ugwu, the honest airport cleaner who found and returned thousands of dollars to the owner was allegedly gifted through donations, 12million naira by TREM. She was honored yesterday at a church service at TREM but did she get N12m? Can anyone who attended that particular service or attends the Church confirm this?

Two would-be suicide bombers intercepted in Yobe

Two would-be suicide bombers were intercepted in Biu town of Borno State yesterday April 5th. According to Premium Times, one of the suicide bombers, a male, was killed after he was caught trying to enter a crowded mosque where worshipers were observing their 2p.m. prayer. A resident of the town while narrating the incident said;

"Some of our youth(s) on guard suspected the would-be bomber carrying the decoder in his hand; and when they tried to frisk him, it was discovered the decoder was unusually heavy and the carrier began to fidget. As he was trying to escape the youths hacked him down and summarily killed him there and then”

Another suicide bomber, a male, was caught with bombs concealed in decoder devices of Satellite TV and made it to appear as if they were newly bought.

“The second bomber was caught at the Biu motor park. In fact, he was about to enter a bus that was already having passengers, when it was also discovered that he too had a decoder device in his hand and had a bomb concealed in it. Immediately he was beaten up but not killed; as he was later taken to the military barracks and handed over to the soldiers there” the resident

Photos: Celebs storm AY Live Special Easter show

Betty & Sunny Irabor, Gbenro Ajibade, Osas Ighodaro, Ubi Franklin, Lilian Esoro, Uti Nwachukwu, Toyin Aimakhu-Johnson, Onyeka Onwenu, Freeze, Empress Njamah, DJ Jimmy Jatt, Yaw, IK Ogbonna and many more stars attended AY Live Special Easter Edition which held last night at Eko Hotel, Lagos. See more pics after the cut...

A mother listens to the heartbeat of the recipient of her deceased son's heart

A beautiful photo which radiates a mother's joy. Pictured here according to Aljazeera journalist Femi Oke is a mother listening to her deceased son's heartbeat inside the recipient the heart was donated to.

Boko Haram kill 50 in fresh attacks in Borno, burn corpses

No fewer than 50 youths were killed and their corpses set on fire by suspected Boko Haram members in Kwajaffa village in Hawul LGA of Borno state last night. Journalist Ahmad Salkida shared the info on twitter this morning. More tweets after the cut...