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All is now set for the second edition of the Lagos Street Cardinal scheduled to hold on Sunday 3rd December, 2017, along the entire stretch of the Oba Akran Avenue, Ikeja from 12noon. The 12 hours Carnival, consisting of Parade of Colours and Music is packaged by the Lagos State Government in collaboration with HEAT Entertainment outfit, as a private sector initiative is expected to set the tone for the Christmas and New Year Celebration. Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Mr. Fola Adeyemi in a statement said the 2017 Lagos Street Party, which has now been rebranded and transformed into Street Carnival, is a private sector initiative with the support of the Lagos State Government packaged to provide fun and Entertainment for the entire family as well as set the stage for the One Lagos Fiesta which is to come up in all the five divisions of the State at a later date in December. He said the Carnival will witness a parade of colours by represen...

     Khloe Kardashian is still hiding her pregnancy in recent photos she posted yesterday and today.In all the photos she was busy using her hands to block her baby bump.At the end we will still see the baby,let her come out and rock the pregnancy the way her two elder sisters rocked their pregnancy.To be pregnant is a pride of every woman.Well I wish her a safe delivery.She captioned the photo above ''  💫 Positive Mind! Positive Vibes! Positive Life!!   💫 ''.Then she captioned the photo below '' 💕   I choose to start each day with a grateful heart and a happy state of mind   💕  ''.More photos below.

        The Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has expressed his readiness to commence the payment of the outstanding pension arrears his administration inherited from past governments, dating back to the years the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) held sway. Obaseki’s decision is in fulfilment of his earlier promise to settle the outstanding pension arrears of the State Government pensioners in phases. Conveying the governor’s approval, the Office of the Head of Service in the Edo State Government, in a circular signed by the permanent secretary/chairman Pension Bureau, I.D.S. Juwobor, on Thursday, explained that the payments will begin with pensioners in Batches 37 and 38. “In order to ensure that only bonafide pensioners are paid, all pensioners in the aforementioned batches 37 and 38 are invited to present themselves for physical and documentary verification at the small hall of Imaguero College, Sapele Road, Benin City on Wednesday 6th and Thurs...

  The Obituary of 8-year old killed by her brother,Ifeanyi,a Uniport student,who kidnapped,defiled and harvested her private parts for rituals 3 months ago.She was buried yesterday. It will be recalled that: The Plateau state Police Command has apprehended the runaway ritual killer suspect in Rivers state, Ifeanyi Dike. He escaped from the custody of the State CID in Port Harcourt after being paraded at the Police Headquarters. A policeman, Sergeant Johnbosco Okorinize is in prison custody for the escape. The twenty-three year old suspected child killer and ritualist, Ifeanyi Dike, has said no one aided his escape from police custody in Port Harcourt. On his extradition to Port Harcourt, Dike told newsmen that he escaped on his own. He said he got frustrated by traveling from Rivers state to Jos. According to him, “I am a student of UNIPORT. When I got to Jos, I started hiding again even though I know that nobody knows me there. “I was living inside an uncompleted building in t...

        During day two of   # RoyalVisitFinland , The Duke of Cambridge met Father Christmas at one of Helsinki's beautiful Christmas markets. During the meeting, The Duke hand-delivered a letter to him, written by Prince George. The Duke also dropped into classes at one of the city's school to see how they are combatting bullying and putting student well-being at the top of the agenda. In the morning HRH attended Slush – an exciting event for tech start-ups.More photos below.

         When I was a kid growing up in black New Orleans in the 1960s, O.J. Simpson was a god. We imitated his moves, his swagger. We didn’t want to just play like him. We wanted to be him, gorgeous and running in the California sun. We practiced his juking moves in the mirror, our hands too small to hold the ball loosely, the way he did. We even wanted to go to U.S.C., where he led the nation in rushing two years in a row. We were angry when he lost the Heisman Trophy to the white, All-American, clean-cut U.C.L.A. quarterback Gary Beban, known as “The Great One.” We were triumphant when he won it the next year. But O.J. was not a perfect hero for young black boys, even though he launched himself from poverty in San Francisco to superstardom. He was racially ambivalent. At a time when other athletes were starting to make their blackness a cause, he was trying to make his a footnote. So when I was invited to interview Jay-Z, I wanted to talk about his song “The...

        President Muhammadu Buhari will December 2-3, 2017, join other Heads of State in Aqaba, Jordan, to review strategies in fighting terrorism, and reinforce joint security structures that will be more proactive in preventing attacks.   Tagged, AQABA RETREAT, the meeting, hosted by His Majesty, King Abdullah II of Jordan, is expected to be attended by West African Heads of State, represe ntatives of governments of 48 countries and a number of key Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs).At the meeting, the President is expected to share Nigeria’s experience on terrorism and its spread across West Africa, with a view to soliciting more support for pre-emptive measures that will neutralise the activities of insurgents in the sub-region.The Nigerian leader will also hold bilateral meetings with some Heads of State to strengthen relations. President Buhari and his delegation will attend the official dinner to be hosted by King Abdullah II in honour of visiting...

       Sokoto/Kebbi/Zamfara Command Anti-Smuggling Activities. The command has discovered another way of smuggling Foreign Rice in to the Country using Local sacks to conceal it. The Comptroller has made it clear that Nigeria Customs would not allow any form of smuggling in to the Country and appealed to the people to avert smuggling activities.More photos below.

           In attendance are the CP Taraba State Command, Davis Akinremi (Chairman Police Shooting Association), DCP Aliyu Abubakar, Force Sports Officer (Chairman Police Polo Association), ACP Bankole Lanre (Chairman Police Weight Lifting Association) ,ACP Austin gbaraba (Chairman Police Golf Association) and CSP Shu'aibu Bello, CO 45 PMF Squadron (Chairman Police Swimming Association). Nigeria Police Force won 210 Medals: 108 golds, 65 Silvers and 37 Bronzes.More photos below.

    Chinenye Genevieve sent in this story with some pictures which she captioned '' There were ecstatic jubilation of some awaiting trial men on wednesday at the Enugu high court complex when five of them who had spent five years in prison were discharged and acquitted of a crime they said they did not commit. One of the freed men told me that their journey started since 2013 when they were detained by Enugu SARS at their cell but that it happened that one of the inmates who was as magic and was tortured by SARS men and that led to his death. Consequently according to the young man in his late twenties they were accused falsely of killing the young asthmatic boy. Five of them were as a result in ASA rated for five years but were discharged and abated for want of diligent prosecution by Hon. justice CI Nwobodo ,29/11/17''.More photos below.

        The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has denied the allegation that officials of the anti-graft body shared 222 properties which the former Chairman of the Presidential Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina’s panel seized from pension fund thieves. Ibrahim Magu, Acting Chairman, EFCC, made the clarification on Thursday November 30, 2017 when he appeared before a Committee of the House of Representatives investigating the sack and reinstatement of Maina into the civil service after he was declared wanted by the EFCC for pension fraud. “All the pension fraud assets that are in the recovered assets inventory of the Commission were products of independent investigation by the EFCC, for which Maina and his cohorts had no clues”, Magu said. He added that a record of all the recovered assets from both the police pension and the pension office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation remained intact. The EFCC boss said that there was ...

          As a popular saying goes, Everyday for the thief one day for the owner of the house. According to a report, these 2 men pictured below have been stealing turkeys from a farmer who rears them. Unknown to the thieves, the man set a trap for them. He pretended as if he was leaving the house but sneaked back through his backyard and kept vigilance of the compound. As expected, they crept into the compound through a dilapidated part of the fence, stole two turkeys and made their was to the Ehulu market to sell them. He followed them all the way to the market where he raised alarm. They were apprehended and flogged mercilessly.More photos below.