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In a YouTube video reviewed by SaharaReporters of this past Sunday’s sermon, Pastor Bakare added that “the cause was exhaustion: too much work, too much people’s pressure.” Pastor Bakare Explains What Happened to Him, Says He Supernaturally Escaped Death Pastor Tunde Bakare offered the first details after his May 18th collapse while on the stage of his Latter Rain Assembly church. Pastor Bakare told members of his church this past Sunday that “I was discharged on Wednesday with a clean bill of health.” In a YouTube video reviewed by SaharaReporters of this past Sunday’s sermon, Pastor Bakare added that “the cause was exhaustion: too much work, too much people’s pressure.” He also said that, “That I had not been taking enough water. So I am on compulsory medication of two liters of water per day.” Pastor Bakare explained that his exhaustion was caused in part because of his travels between Lagos, Abuja, London, and Atlanta, US. He also stated that he ignored the warning signs in the d...

A human trafficking ring that uses juju to hoodwink Nigerian ladies to work as prostitutes in European and Asian countries has been smashed by the police in Spain. The pimping ring, according to reports, is run by some Nigerians with their ring leader identified as Tina Osahon from Edo State, herself said to be a former prostitute. The s*x trafficking ring is said to use rituals, including animal and human sacrifice, to force ladies recruited from Nigeria into prostitution in the countries. Aside Osahon, six other traffickers were arrested while four of the victims were freed, reports the police. The women who told police they were recruited with the promise of good jobs in such countries, went to Europe on dangerous, makeshift boats, were recruited in Nigeria, but the truth would soon dawn on them when they get to their destination and are made to swear to dangerous oaths and forced into prostitution but with the provision that they pay up a certain amount, usually between €50,000 t...

Senator  Bukola Saraki  has been sworn in as Nigeria’s Senate President. Saraki was said to have been unanimously elected today, June 9, 2015. This follows a crisis which erupted in the  All Progressives Congress  (APC) after the party chose Senator  Ahmed Lawan  as its sole candidate for the position. Saraki however rejected the nomination and was subsequently endorsed by the  Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

As the crisis rocking members of the APC in the National Assembly deepens over choice of candidates for the election of National Assembly leadership, the PDP Senators and House of Representative members have picked the two main aggrieved APC contestants, Senator Bukola Saraki and Honorable Yakubu Dogara as their candidates for Senate President and Speaker, House of Representatives respectively. The National Assembly members will be electing their new leaders for the 8th assembly today June 9th.

National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has dropped a very shocking statement over President Buhari and the leadership of APC . According to him, President Buhari is not the Leader of the party(APC). He went ahead to describe Buhari as “mere Product of the party”. Mohammed Ali said this amongst others when he was speaking to Channels Television. When asked if the President is the Leader of the Party. He said: ” The Chairman of the party is Chief John Oyegun, the President of the country is by virtue of being the President of the whole of the country. “We have many Leaders in the party and i don’t want to be boxed whether the President is the Leader of the Party” “The President is a Product of the party”.. ” The President is not the party and i don’t see any contradiction, the party did not get involved but the party had to ensure that there will be no divisio...

 May, 2010, Kalief Browder, a sixteen-year-old high-school sophomore, was arrested in the Bronx for allegedly stealing a backpack. He insisted that he was innocent, but he was taken to Rikers Island, New York City’s four-hundred-acre jail complex. Browder spent the next three years at Rikers, awaiting trial while his case was repeatedly delayed by the courts. In May, 2013, the case against him was dismissed. This week, The   New   Yorker obtained two ​surveillance-camera video clips that depict the dual horrors of Browder’s years in jail: abuse by a guard and by fellow-inmates. He had been arrested in the spring of 2010, at age sixteen, for a robbery he insisted he had not committed. Then he spent more than one thousand days on Rikers waiting for a trial that never happened. During that time, he endured about two years in solitary confinement, where he attempted to end his life several times. Once, in February, 2012, he ripped his bedsheet into strips...

Rapper MI Abaga reported lately that someone is after his life over a girl he has once dated. According to the guy, the girl contracted his to kill the rapper. Read screenshots sent in by MI and his alarming tweets.

Operatives of Lagos State Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, have arrested a notorious car-snatching gang, which specialises in causing mild accident to rob their victims. One of the suspect, who identified himself as Sunday Uzor, revealed that the gang’s mode of operation was to make their victim have a mild accident. According to the 39-year-old indigene of Boki Local Government Area of Cross River State, “While our victims come down to inspect the extent of damage and who the culprit is, our gang would swoop on them and snatch their vehicles.” The other members of the gang arrested alongside Uzor are Ifeanyichukwu Chukwu, 33; Matthew Arome, 27; Ebere John, 32; and Ikechukwu Chilaka, 35. Vanguard gathered that the police recovered a barreta pistol, one locally-made double-barrelled cut-to-size gun loaded with two live cartridges, and six other live cartridges from the suspects operating within Iyana Iba, Igando, Igbo Elerin and other areas along Lagos-Badagry expr...

S imilar Report  Terrific!!! Five People Die After Eating Dog Meat In Rivers State The death toll in Rivers State food poisoning, linked to the consumption of dog meat and locally made gin known as Ogogoro, has risen to 38. Crisis began after some residents in some parts of the State in south-south Nigeria consumed the suspected poisonous items. Briefing reporters on Monday in Abuja, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) said it would collaborate with the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) to establish the real cause of the deaths. Heavy Doses Of Methanol The agencies urged the public to desist from the consumption of locally made gin, as the reported deaths were possibly linked to heavy doses of methanol in the gin. The Director General of NAFDAC, Paul Orhi, and coordinator of the NNCDC, Professor Abdulsalami Nasidi, told reporters at a joint press conference on Monday that samples of the locally produced gin had already been coll...

Outspoken Bayelsa East Senator and and Chairman of Silverbird Group, Ben Murray-Bruce, is back again with some political commentary shared via Twitter. This time, he is criticizing Borno State governor, Kashim Shettima, for accompanying President Muhammadu Buhari for the G7 trip to Munich, Germany. Here is what he said: It might not be in the best interest of Borno that both the President and Gov of Borno are abroad while our brothers there are being bombed! — Ben Murray-Bruce (@benmurraybruce) June 7, 2015

Its no news that the rich and powerful get away with any crime including murder or in this case manslaughter. According to BBC Africa: The eldest son of Zimbabwe’s First Lady has been fined $800 after being convicted of manslaughter. Russell Goreraza, the stepson of long-time leader Robert Mugabe, knocked down and killed a man in Harare, the country’s capital. The judge said he had decided against jailing the 31-year-old — and taking away his license — because of the defendant’s remorse. Goreraza was also a first-time offender. “I regret and want to apologise for the incident,” he said in court. The BBC claims the lenient sentence has shocked many in Zimbabwe. Two-year prison sentences have been handed down in similar cases. The accident happened in February.

The horrifying moment American tourist Katherine Chappell was mauled to death by a lioness through her car window after she stopped to take a pic in an SA safari park was captured on camera The pic, taken by another tourist riding in a car behind Katherine's, shows the lion peering into the vehicle seconds before it  attacked and killed Katherine  through the open window.     The tourist, Ben Govender, 38, described the 'terrifying' scene as he watched the animal take its first bite out of the passenger on the back seat before retreating from the vehicle, blood dripping from its mouth and paw.  Mr Govender said that at first the male and female lions did not seem interested - and that the lioness stood up 'without warning'. He said: 'It was terrifying. After the first bite the lioness retreated from the car with blood dripping from her mouth and paw. We all thought she was done and didn’t like what she’d just bitten. But then like someone in a te...

Barely one week after the inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari, the United States government has asked him to revisit the $182 million Halliburton bribery case and diligently prosecute all those involved in the scandal. President Buhari has, consequently, directed the appropriate security agencies to reopen investigations into the case and make appropriate recommendations, it was gathered on Friday. Informed security sources disclosed to Saturday Tribune that the U.S. government made it clear that unless those involved were prosecuted, part of the bribe money, about $140 million, recovered and still in the US, would not be repatriated to Nigeria. “Following this development, President Buhari has directed the investigation committee made up of representatives of all security agencies to dust off the file and complete the investigations and charge those indicted to court,” the source said. By Friday afternoon, key security officers involved in the investigations were...

At least four soldiers were killed in a blast that occurred at a checkpoint in Maiduguri, Borno state today June 4th. Eyewitnesses say a truck carrying firewood exploded near the gates of the Maimalari Barracks, killing the soldiers and injuring many others. "At least four soldiers were killed and several injured," one resident told AFP

The Senate today held its valedictory session to mark the end of the 7th Senate Assembly. At the session which was well attended by past Senate Presidents and Senators, the Majority leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba said out of the 591 bills brought before them in the last 4 years, only 123 bills were passed. The 46 passed in less than 10 minutes yesterday is included in the 123 bills passed in the 4 year period of the assembly. In his remark, the Senate President, Senator David Mark said he takes full responsibility for all the commissions and omissions recorded in the 7th Senate Assembly where he served as a leader. In his speech, Senator Mark said the abduction of the Chibok girls remains a scar on our national psyche. “I take full responsibility for all the commissions and omissions in the past four years. The last four years have been defining for our country in many respects,” he said. “The country was battered on all sides by security challenges that threaten...

Find the press release below. A Federal High Court in Lagos has asked the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency to suspend all actions on the move to extradite the Ogun East Senator-elect, Prince Buruji Kashamu, to the United States to face trial on alleged drug-trafficking offences. The presiding judge, Justice Ibrahim Buba, while adjourning hearing in all pending applications on the subject matter till June 19, said on Thursday that status quo must be maintained till all the applications were decided one way or the other.  Pending before Buba is the committal suit filed by Kashamu against the Attorney General of the Federation and the Chairman of NDLEA, citing them for contempt of court. In response, the NDLEA has filed preliminary objection challenging the jurisdiction of the court to entertain the matter. Besides, the anti-narcotic agency is seeking the reversal of the court order of May 26 which directed it to withdraw more than 50 of his operatives which had laid siege to...

A bomb explosion occurred in front of the Jimeta main market in Yola Adamawa state at about 7:45pm today June 4th. Eyewitnesses say the residents of the area had just finished observing their evening prayers at a nearby praying ground when the bomb detonated. It is believed the explosion was carried out by a male suicide bomber. Unconfirmed reports say as much as ten persons have been certified dead from the blast .

Two sisters identified as Essiet, 18, and Debby, 20, (not real names) were raped by a gang of six men at Ogundero/ Dahomey street in the Bariga area of Lagos state on Thursday May 28th. According to Punch , the sisters were returning from the hospital when they were accosted by the hoodlums. 4 of the men raped Essiet who was a virgin while two of the hoodlums raped Debby.  While narrating what happened, Essiet said “It happened on May 21 around 11pm. My sister and I went to give food to a family member who had just given birth to a baby in Oworonsoki. We were returning in the night when we saw the men. They had guns, cutlasses and other weapons. They waylaid us and said if we shouted they would kill us. They took us to a spot around Dahomey junction and raped us.” Debby who is older, described the incident as a painful experience "Two of them raped me, while four raped my sister. The third man wanted to rape me when a car approa...

A 24 year old woman identified as Marie Shade Adebayo was shot dead yesterday June 1st by a man believed to be her ex-boyfriend outside a Target store in Milestone Center, Montgomery County, Maryland. Police have arrested 27 year old Donald Wayne Bricker Jr for the murder. According to  NBC Washington , witnesses said they saw Shade and Donald involved in some sort of altercation inside a vehicle prior to the shooting. Shade then got out of the vehicle and Donald followed. Investigators say Donald fired his gun at Shade, striking her. According to police, he then walked up to her and fired again. He then took off in a white Ford Ranger. He was arrested by police an hour later. A gun was recovered at the scene of the crash, police said.

FIFA President Sepp Blatter has announced he will be resigning from office as President of the World football body soon. Making the announcement today, Mr Blatter, 79, who was re-elected for a fifth term only four days ago, said the world football governing body will hold an extraordinary congress to elect his successor as soon as possible. “I decided to stand again for election because I thought it was the best option. The election is closed but the challenges have not come to an end. FIFA needs a profound restructuring. Although the members of Fifa have re-elected me president, this mandate does not seem to be supported by everybody in the world of football. This is why I will call an extraordinary congress and step down.” he said This is coming after many called for his resignation following the bribery scandal that engulfed the football governing body and arrest of several top officials.