Wealthy Nigerians, Pastors Spend $225 Million On Private Jets. God loves a cheerful giver or the pastor loves a cheerful giver? Which one?

caption: Bishop David Oyedepo inside one of his four jets

  Cabin of GLOBAL XRS

A few wealthy Nigerians spent at least $225 million acquiring private jets between March 2010 and March

'MPiece' NIGERIA'S RISING STAR IN EUROPE

 PICTURES FROM THE MAKING OF HIS NEW MUSIC VIDEO IN MAJORCA

CPC Alleges Plan To Arrest Its Chieftains

The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) today alleged the existence of a plan by the Federal Government to arrest and clamp its leaders into indefinite detention

Five Fatalities Reported In New Violence By Boko Haram

  Nigerian Police Force

A new outbreak of violence in the troubled region of Maiduguri claimed three lives over the weekend. Three security personnel are said to have died at the hands of militants of Boko Haram in Budum. The group also claimed reponsibility for the murder of two soldiers enforcing order in the troubled city in Gwange ward.
In another development, a bomb explosion placed near a police checkpoint in the city caused two fatalities. Authorities said the device was planted beside the road.

Police to pay N100m damages over shooting incident

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, weekend, affirmed its judgment for the award of N100 million and N10,000 as damages in favour of citizens Nnamdi Anyaogu and Felix Anyaogu, respectively, against the Nigerian Police Force for their illegal shooting and abandonment at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH.

Group cautions on US base

The Muslim Rights Concern has called on the Federal Government not to grant the alleged request of the United States to site one of its military bases in Nigeria.

In a statement on Sunday by its Director, Dr. Is-haq Akintola, the group urged the FG to consider the implication of allowing a world superpower to site its base within Nigeria’s territory.

“We are asking the question: Why must a foreign country set up a military base in Nigeria at this point in time? Who needs it and for what? Who benefits from it and how? Is Nigeria now a satellite nation? Have we turned the country into a banana republic?

“Has Nigeria been sold to the hawks? If so, who sold it? Is it a military base we need now in this country or food security, power generation, good health facilities, good roads, qualitative education, etc,,” the group asked.

Gunmen kidnap Briton, Italian in Kebbi

Gunmen have kidnapped two foreign engineers in Kebbi, the commissioner of the police in the state have said.

State police commissioner, Adamu Hassan, told the British Broadcasting Corporation that a British man and his Italian colleague were abducted from their lodgings on Thursday evening.

A Nigerian neighbour, who came to help, was shot and is in hospital.

The BBC correspondent in Birnin Kebbi city, where the raid took place, said kidnappings for ransom were uncommon in the North-west of Nigeria.

It is common in the southern oil-producing Niger Delta where expatriates are often targeted for kidnapping.

Our reporter said the victims were working for B Stabilini, an Italian construction firm based in Abuja.

During the incident on Thursday evening, another Italian employee managed to escape by scaling a fence.

“The kidnappers have not established any contact with us and have so far not demanded for any ransom,” Africa France Pressee quotes Hassan as saying.

He said immediately after the incident, all routes out of the state were blocked by the security forces.

The workers were involved in the construction of the state headquarters for the Central Bank of Nigeria in Birnin Kebbi.