Photo: 3 year old girl abducted in Ojuelegba, Lagos, today

3 year old Oluwabunmi Ajelero has been declared missing. Her family say she was abducted from Surulere Baptist Church today. Anyone with useful information should please call 08022289455. Biko, why are they kidding children these days?

Ondo mystery disease: Pesticides suspected, says WHO

The community people may think that what is happening to them is spiritually related but the World Health Organization holds a different theory. They say pesticide poisoning is the probable cause of the strange ailment that has hit two communities in Ondo state leading to 14 deaths.



Head of Public Relations/Social Media for the World Health Organization and the UN Organization for public health took to twitter to announce the new findings as WHO continues its research on the strange disease.

Reuben Abati responds to Punch Story - 'Jonathan demands N2trn election funds refund, audit'

The Presidential Spokesman has officially responded on behalf of the office of the president. Find it below...

The front-page story of the Sunday Punch of April 19 alleging that the Presidency spent a whopping N2 trillion on the 2015 General elections, and that a Committee of Five has been set up by President Jonathan to conduct an audit of how the funds were disbursed by party members and state officials is mischievous, false and embarrassing.

The President has not set up any committee as alleged in that story. It is also not true that the Presidency and the Peoples Democratic Party used state funds, or spent N2 trillion during the campaigns. The innuendoes are wrong-headed; the motives behind the story are suspicious.

The story alleges, for example, that the Presidency spent N2trillion on elections and embarked on a money-sharing spree to party

members, support groups and state officials. The authors of the story and their self-appointed megaphones further insinuate that public funds were deployed in this regard. Their allegation of a theft of public funds is extremely malicious.

How much is the budget of the Federal Government of Nigeria? The annual budget of the Federal Government is a little over N4 trillion.

The story is practically suggesting that half of the federal budget was spent on elections. This kind of reckless insinuation is meant to incite the public and instigate national crisis.

With FAAC having to do everything possible every month to ensure disbursements and with the Federal Government heavily committed to the war against terror in the North East, where is the alleged N2 trillion from the Federal purse?

President Jonathan and the People’s Democratic Party conducted the 2015 elections in strict accordance with the rule of law. The suggestion of any unlawful conduct cannot be sustained under any circumstances.

President Jonathan has done his best to protect and strengthen democracy and promote peace.

He justly deserves all the accolades that he has received from both Nigerians and the

international community for this. Certain persons and interest groups may not be happy that his profile has further risen and that his legacy is assured; but they do their country gross disservice when they act so unpatriotically.

Anyone who is engaged in imposing a crisis on the country by any means is not being fair to Nigeria. We can only appeal to the public to be wary of such reckless tactics now on display, which form the substance of an odd, malicious campaign after the elections.

We are particularly worried that since the March 28 and April 11 elections, some persons have continued to work very hard to diminish the Jonathan Presidency. They need to be reminded that the time for politics is over; it is now time to focus on the in-coming government, with emphasis on national development and moving the country forward.

Reuben Abati

Special Adviser to the President

(Media and Publicity)

April 19, 2015

Sen. Uche Chukwumerije dies at 75

Nigeria's former Information Minister, Senator Uche Chukwumerije died today Sunday April 19th after a battle with lung cancer. He was surrounded by his family according to a statement released by his son, Chidi Chukwumerije. May his soul rest in peace, amen.

Dear South Africans, you killed this man just because he was Mozambican?

Dear South Africans, you take a life just because he doesn't share same nationality as you? Shame on you as a people (for not publicly condemning this) Shame on you as a country (for not putting a stop to it). Shame on your president (for not having said anything about this so far). Shame on your security forces for standing by and allowing this to happen. Shame on the Zulu King who started this with his careless utterances. Shame on the stupid uneducated hoodlums carrying out these attacks. Miserable, lazy f*cks who blame their failure in life on foreigners, as if if all foreigners left, their lives would be better or they would be able to make a difference in their country.

Why have you South Africans who claim to be against this not taken to the streets to march against Xenophobia? Why are you not speaking out?

Why haven't your government deployed troops to the streets to stop the destruction of property and killing of innocent people - including children?

Last week they set fire to a car dealership owned by a foreigner, destroying ten cars.

There are now thousands of black foreigners living in police barracks because you've taken their source of livelihood, stolen from them and threatened to kill them.

I hope the rest of world boycotts you until you grow some sense.

Nigerian troops entered Sambisa Forest yesterday in search of missing Chibok girls

According to NTA, the Nigerian Army landed Sambisa Forest yesterday April 18th in search and possible rescue of the missing Chbok girls.

Omotola celebrates her youngest child as he turns 13 today

Omotola's youngest child, Michael Ekeinde is 13! Wow! The proud mum posted these photos on instagram and wrote "Happy 13th birthday kiddo! We love you! Welcome to the Teen world ...with no drama!*side eye*"