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A Nigerian lady, Ogechi Eke, was full of excitement after singer Timi Dakolo, surprised her with a live performance in her home.   Timi who posted the heartwarming video of him singing to the lady, said he was supposed to be at her wedding as the bride insisted that was the wedding gift she wanted. However, he had other engagements he had signed up for which he couldn't shelve.    To make it up to her, he stormed their home and gave her the performance she longed for. ''So I got a call for a wedding in abuja for a lady that just wanted me as her only wedding gift. Unfortunately I had committed to some other gig and the husband and other people kept calling . At some point, we had to come to an agreement, because they refuse to give up. I mean the calls kept coming with the line have you changed your mind ?. So we had to come up with a plan. Let’s wake her up and make her wish come true.Thanks to her colleagues (Planning committee ). Happy married life to OGECHI AND N...

  According to a community source, who preferred anonymity, the boy was found dead at a compound in the neighborhood where he was sent to buy sachet water. File photo In what will come across as a really shocking development, a five year -old boy who went missing in Imo state has been found dead inside a parked car. He was found dead in a car which was in a compound at Ishiuzor, Egbu Community, in Owerri North council area of Imo State, The Nation reports. According to a community source, who preferred anonymity, the boy was found dead at a compound in the neighborhood where he was sent to buy sachet water. The source said,  “the five year – old boy was sent to buy pure water at a particular compound in the neighborhood. The boy never came back. A search party was launched for the boy and he was never found till after five days. “His corpse was eventually found on the fifth day at the same compound where he was sent to buy pure water. The development was strange and it surpris...

  There was a fire outbreak at the Nigeria Immigration Service headquarters in Abuja today January 10.   The Service disclosed this in a statement on its official Twitter handle this morning. According to the service, the fire affected some of the offices in the headquarters.    The tweet reads ''A fire incident occurred in our Service Headquarters this Morning. It affected some of our Offices. 2.The fire has been put out by our Federal Fire Station&support from other agencies around the Airport. 3.The cause of the fire is being investigated.We assure the public that the incident will not in any way affect the discharge of our services.''  

  Two other officers were said to have sustained bullet wounds during the attack which occurred on Friday night. File photo As many as three Nigerian police officers have been confirmed dead after an attack by gunmen. They died after the attack by gunmen on Onueke police station in Ezza south local government area of Ebonyi state. Two other officers were said to have sustained bullet wounds during the attack which occurred on Friday night. The deceased were identified as two inspectors and sergeant. The attackers also reportedly carted away two AK 47 rifles from the police station. Loveth Odah, police spokesperson of the state, who confirmed the incident, said the corpses of the slain officers had been deposited in a mortuary, while the two persons who sustained injuries are receiving treatment. She said the command has launched a manhunt for the gunmen and urged anyone with useful information that could lead to the arrest of the hoodlums to reach out to the command. “Yes, three po...

  A two-year-old boy who was allegedly being maltreated and starved by his father and step mum has been rescued in Delta.   The child's plight was brought to social media by a Facebook user, Kwin Oge. She shared photos of the child on her page with the caption; ''Mr kwin Oge wall This is Zino. A 2 year old child whom the biological mother dropped with his biological father and step mother at No 113 Okumagba Avenue, Ojabugbe junction off Deco Road, Warri, Delta State. Since then the father and step mother has been giving this child all sorts of maltreatment and starvation. Please I call on the Delta state government and all human right activists to come to the aid of this child as the father and step mother has refused neighbours from feeding the boy even when they have refused to give him food. They lock him up in dark room and beat him up when he receives help from neighbours. Neighbours now are afraid to help so they don’t end up killing him. Please come to the aid of t...

  The Federal Road Safety Commission FRSC says beginning from the second quarter of 2021, the National Identity Number NIN will become compulsory whenever anyone is applying for vehicle registration.   According to the press release signed by Bisi Kazeem, the Corps Public Education Officer, FRSC , all applicants of vehicle registration will be expected to present their National Identification Number as a precondition for the registration of their vehicles, adding that there would be no waiver for anyone irrespective of their status in the society.   Explaining the importance of this to the national security architecture, the FRSC spokesperson further emphasized that the exercise has become very imperative seeing the critical role a harmonized database on citizens’ information will have on national development in terms of resolving the challenges of identifying individuals to assist security agencies in data collation and speedy retrievals to address critical national...

  Speaking in Hausa, Wada, the chief culprit, disclosed that he and Abdulrauf had gone to Kwata, the area the latter’s elder brother, who is married, lives. Two young men suspected to be ritualists have been arrested for allegedly killing and removing the vagina of a girl in Bauchi State. Following their arrest, they narrated their roles in the dastardly act. The duo confessed that they committed the heinous act for N500,000. The suspects, Abdulkadir Wada (19) and Adamu Abdulrauf (20), in an audio clip obtained by PRNigeria, said they were asked to bring the sexual organ of a female by a native doctor. The boys from Jama’are Local Government were nabbed by men of the Bauchi State Police Command. Speaking in Hausa, Wada, the chief culprit, disclosed that he and Abdulrauf had gone to Kwata, the area the latter’s elder brother, who is married, lives. He recalled that they waylaid a little girl, dragged her into an uncompleted building and strangled her to death. “Abdulrauf then remove...