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Lady who jumped into Lagos Lagoon a DSS staff The lady who jumped into the Lagos Lagoon on Thursday afternoon has been identified as Adetutu Adedokun, a staff of the Department of State Services (DSS). According to the Uber driver, Adedokun had an argument with her boyfriend and in the heat of the altercation, she ordered him to stop and disembarked from the cab. She had alighted from a Uber taxi, headed towards the railings of the bridge and plunged into the lagoon. About four months ago, she was said to have received commendations from the DG, DSS, as the best unarmed combat operative in her set. The victim’s fiancé was also reported to have proposed to her a few weeks ago. The Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu who confirmed the incident said a search and rescue team had been mobilised to search for her body. LRT officials, Men of Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA), and officials of the D...

  Hushpuppi will become pastor after jail term - Maduagwu Actor Uche Maduagwu has predicted about the popular convicted Nigerian fraudster, Ramon Abass Olorunwa aka Hushpuppi will become a gospel minister after his jail term. Hushpuppi was sentenced to 11 years and 3 months in federal prison, US by Justice Otis Wright II, for conspiring to launder tens of millions of dollars from online scams. He'll however be spending nine years in prison because he had spent two years already. The instagram celebrity was also ordered to pay over $1.7m in restitution to two fraud victims. Reacting to Hushpuppi's travail, Maduagwu stated he foresees him embracing Christ and becoming a pastor. Maduagwu said: "I See Hushpuppi Becoming A Pastor In Future And Preaching Salvation. There Is Nobody God No Fit Give Second Chance."

No going back on the planned Naira redesign President Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari says the CBN has given Nigerians enough time to deposit the present naira notes at various banks in exchange for the newly redesigned ones. The President said this on Wednesday after a meeting with King Charles the third at Buckingham Palace, UK. President Buhari also said there is no going back on the planned redesign of the 200 Naira, 500 Naira, and 1,000 Naira bank notes. He said the policy will hinder politicians from mobilizing resources and thugs to intimidate voters in the coming elections.

A two-storey building at Bigard Seminary Avenue by Hassan Lane Uwani, Enugu state, has been set ablaze by a 39-year-old mentally deranged lady.  The lady, whose mental breakdown was said to have started since 2017, was said to have run berserk when her parents attempted to send her to a psychiatric hospital in Enugu. The suspect who lives with her parents on the last floor of the two-storey building, started causing trouble lately, a development that forced her parents to invite policemen to help take her to the hospital. An eyewitness told The Nation;  “But when the policemen came early this morning, and the lady noticed that she was about being taken away, she took the gallon containing fuel and poured the content everywhere. “When the policemen climbed up the building, the lady lighted up the place. Her parents, who were coming up with the policemen and the cops themselves all ran for their lives. “Her mother’s shout of fire helped us to know that someth...

  Vigilante shot dead by his son while testing the efficacy of his charm in Adamawa A member of vigilante group in Jada Local Government Area, Adamawa state identified as Yusuf has been shot dead by his stepson, Suugbomsumen Adamu, while testing gun charms' efficacy at their home on Sunday November 6. Yusuf, who was said to be drinking a gin known whiskey, sighted the accused on his way back home on that fateful day when he called him and turned his dane gun on himself and asked him to fire it. The deceased who allegedly acted under the influence of alcohol was believed to have fortified himself with the protective charms, but the charms woefully failed him. The Adamu claimed his stepfather turned the loaded dane gun on himself by putting it on his stomach and asked him to hold it and shoot it. Adamu said he refused but the deceased insisted that he must do as he had commanded him. In obedience to his stepfather's command, the young man pressed the trigger of th...