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#SaveBabyDubem: Month-old Nigerian baby needs N4 million to fix heart hole

One-month-old Elizabeth Chidubem Kezie’s odds at surviving may soon drastically diminish, except we all do something about it…and on time.

Gordon Obua: “I’m alive,” ex-CSO shows up at Abuja press conference

Obua turned up alive at a press conference, Tuesday, effectively killing the rumours of his death.

PHOTO: Protesting UNIBEN students barricade Lagos-Benin expressway after “army vehicle kill two of their mates”

The aggrieved students said they will stage another protest if compensation is not paid to the families of the victims in seven days.

Gordon Obua: Nigerians wait for SSS to clarify whether detained Jonathan’s ex-CSO is dead or alive

Nigerians cannot figure whether Obua is dead or alive. Everyone’s waiting for the SSS to confirm either side of the report.

Why Islamic State may soon behead 36-year-old Nigerian, Adeola Ibrahim, it kidnapped in Libya

A Twitter handle which appears to be pro-IS, @TDecker75, said the fate of the Nigerian “is not going to end well.”

BBOG campaigner Aisha Yesufu rejects hijab ban, says it’s anti-Islam

“It’s like saying we should stop going to mosques, churches, markets and schools because they attack those places.”

“They shut my son out, but allowed my dog keeper in,” ousted NSA Dasuki berates “low-level” SSS officers

“The only person allowed was the man who feeds my dogs. And he only related with the dogs.”

#MTVMAMA2015: Don Jazzy, Mavins win Song of the Year; see the other winners

Dorobucci by Don Jazzy and his Mavins crew is the Song of The Year at MTV’s MAMA 2015.

Ambode wants TB Joshua, SCOAN prosecuted for criminal neglect; here’s “The Prophet’s” reply

Joshua says his version of the story is “the truth.”

Gombe deputy headmaster, “policeman” arrested for “posing as EFCC official, Hajj extortion”

EFCC: “It turned out that the suspect works with Gombe Local Government Education Authority (L.E.A) as assistant headmaster at Madaki Primary School Gombe State.”

Chelsea fans gloat, Nigerians prescribe arrest for runway dad of six who returned home wearing Arsenal shirt

The returnee father of three twins who fled from his home and heavily pregnant wife is on the receiving end of huge public backlash…and football jokes.

“Boko Haram” bomb Gombe market as people shop for Sallah

The central market in Gombe, capital of Gombe state, looks like a war zone after suspected Boko Haram bombers detonated explosives there, Thursday evening.

Nigerian woman scolds “lazy, ineffective” FRSC officials on Facebook

“As we speak containers are not properly tied on the trucks and you let them pass. But you stop jeeps and other luxury vehicles and ask for break light.”

Ebute-Metta residents quarrel with LASBCA officials for marking their “shaky” building for demolition

“We are waiting for the ultimatum,” a resident of the house angrily dared officials who were themselves angered by the response.

PHOTO: Tailors rescue IDPs from wearing rags as NEMA doles out new clothes in Borno camps

Nigerian children, and their parents, displaced by sundry environmental disasters and the Boko Haram insurgency have been given a reason to smile.

Man in hospital after surviving Sokoto auto crash

An unidentified man is being treated for injuries sustained in an automobile crash, Wednesday afternoon.

BREAKING! Another building collapses in Ebute-Metta, Lagos

The building is located at 29 Oloto Street in Ebute Metta.

Lagos bus driver threatens strike over fuel price hike, fraudulent filling stations, extortion by agberos

“I had to park my danfo (commercial yellow bus) the whole of last week because the price of petrol just doesn’t make any sense,” commercial bus driver Aliri said.