WOW Photos!! Top 50 Colourful Photos Celebrating The River Goddess Osun Festival 2015

Photographs by Ife Martins

Held each year in a sacrosanct woodland on the edges of the southern Nigerian city of Osogbo, the Osun-Osogbo, Osun Festival is a two-week-long festival of the Yoruba river goddess Oshun. The celebration, which starts with a customary purifying of the town (Iwopopo) and closures in an individuals’ parade to the Osun-Osogbo holy grove, draws in participants from everywhere throughout the globe.

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EFCC invites and interrogates Diezani's ally, billionaire businessman Jide Omokore

Chairman of Atlantic Energy, Jide Omokore, who is a strong ally of embattled former Petroleum minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, was on Monday October 5th invited to the Abuja office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, as part of the ongoing investigations into the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. Omokore was invited by the Subsidy Unit of the EFCC, which is handling the probe of NNPC and all its transactions while Diezani served as Minister. He arrived the EFCC headquarters on Monday afternoon and was quizzed for several hours. He was later released on administrative bail. "I don’t think it would be right to say that he was arrested as he came to the office on his own and was interrogated. He was later released to go on administrative bail.” a source told Punch 

Ben Murray Bruce advises Buhari on how to handle his ministers

The Senator shared some 'common-sense' advice for the President to act upon concerning his cabinet of ministers & their conduct when screened and fully appointed. More of his tweets after the jump

Mother charged for injecting 14-year-old daughter with heroin

34-year-old Lynn Riffey has been charged for repeatedly injecting her 14-year-old daughter and another teen with heroin, prosecutors said Monday, October 6. The Chester County district attorney's office alleged that the Philadelphia woman supplied the 14-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy with heroin and injected them multiple times last month. She also tied a string around their arms to hide their veins. Riffey was charged with corruption of minors, endangering the welfare of children and drug delivery. She was jailed in lieu of $50,000 pending a preliminary hearing Friday. Prosecutors also alleged that Riffey's boyfriend supplied heroin for the teens to snort. He has been charged separately with drug dealing and other offenses. District Attorney Thomas Hogan said the family lived in a trailer in which numerous people were using heroin. He said the mother was supposed to be caring for and protecting her daughter and instead exposed her to the drug and enabled her use of it. "It's hard to make that leap as a parent, to think how you end up in that position," Hogan said.

Ministerial list: Rivers senator raises petition against Amaechi

Senator George Sekibo of Rivers East Senatorial district at the Senate's plenary session this morning raised a petition against Rotimi Amaechi's ministerial nomination but was shut down by APC Senators. 

Ebonyi state governor loses mother

The mother of the Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, Deaconess Margaret Umahi, has died. Family sources say she died yesterday October 6th at an Enugu based hospital after a brief illness. Her remains have been deposited at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki. She is survived by many children and grand children. Sun re O!! Ase 

Screening of ministerial nominees will commence on October 13th

Senate President Bukola Saraki says screening of all the 21 ministerial nominees will begin on Tuesday October 13th. See the full list of the nominees and their states of origin after the cut...



Babatunde Fashola-Lagos
Rotimi Amaechi- Rivers
Kayode Fayemi- Ekiti
Chris Ngige- Anambra

Photo: Nigerian army arrest suspected Boko Haram financier

Nigerian troops intercepted and arrested a suspected Boko Haram financier and stimulants dealer, Mohammed Maina in Bama, recently.

Of Warriors and Heroes Past by Femi Fani-Kayode

Article written by former minister, Femi Fani-Kayode. Read below...

Consider Generals Foche and Hague at the battle of the Somme. Consider George Armstrong Custer at the battle of the Little Big Horn, the Duke of Wellington at the battle of Waterloo and Napoleon Bonaparte, in his full glory and power, at the battle of Marengo. The warrior is noble and strong. His resolve is firm and his commitment is total. His is to kill, to shed blood and to be killed. His is to die for his king and for a worthy cause. His is to protect and lay down his life for his faith, his nation, his people and his loved ones.


What manner of men are these whose spirit speak of such valour and nobility? Consider the ancient Spartans and the Roman warriors of old. Consider the fearsome Vikings who believed that it was a curse to die a peaceful death and that the only way to heaven was to die violently and heroically in fearsome battle. Consider the greatest of all warriors that ever lived, the noble and gallant Achilles.

3 Boko Haram militants killed by own bomb in Niger republic

Three suspected members of Boko Haram died after a bomb they were transporting exploded in Diffa region in Niger republic. Local sources say the bomb exploded when the terrorists were about to enter Bosso town where they had planned to carry out an attack.