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A host of star names attended Lionel Messi's hometown inn Rosario Argentina, for his wedding to his childhood sweetheart, Antonella Roccuzzo. However, while team-mates Luis Suarez, Neymar and Gerard Pique were among the 260 guests in attendance at the intimate ceremony, there was no invite for former bosses Pep Guardiola, most of the Argentina squad or legend Diego Maradona. According to Argentine newspaper La Nacion, Messi, invited only four of his international team-mates - Sergio Aguero, Javier Mascherano, Ezequiel Lavezzi and Angel Di Maria. The couple, who have known each other for about 25 years, banned mobile phones at the ceremony. Staff were also sworn to secrecy and 450 police officers were on hand for the big day. The couple, who now live in Barcelona, have two sons together. Lionel and Antonella

Troops of 146 Battalion, 16 Brigade Nigerian Army while on routine patrol on Wednesday along Sucrucho-Kalarogbana Fishing Ports general area, discovered and destroyed a reactivated illegal oil dump.  Items recovered include 1 Cooking pot, 2 Storage tanks (iron and plastic) loaded with suspected stolen crude oil, 1 Cylinder, and a pumping machine. In a related development, on the same day, troops stationed at Forward Operation Base Ahoada, while on routine patrol around Ogbogu general area arrested a suspected cultist.  Items recovered from the suspect include local charms and substances suspected to be marijuana. The suspect has been handed over to SARS at Erema for further interrogation. Similarly, on Tuesday 27th June 2017, following a tip-off from well-meaning citizens, about suspected armed bandits terrorizing residents of Ogbolo-Ogbolo community, combined troops and personnel of Mobile Police stationed at Akinima Division, carried out cordon and se

Etisalat Directors Resign To Escape Criminal Charges IN an attempt to absolve themselves of criminal and civil liability for the non-payment of a $1.2 billion loan taken from 13 Nigerian banks, the directors of Etisalat Nigeria, save for its chairman, Hakeem Belo-Osagie, have resigned en masse from the seven-man board of the network operator. According to sources close to Etisalat, the six Mubadala and Etisalat Group-appointed Non-executive Directors (NEDs), all nationals of the United Arab Emirates, resigned last week, following Emirates Telecoms Group Company’s (Etisalat Group) reporting disclosure on the Abu Dhabi Stock Exchange that it was transferring 45 per cent of its stake and 25 per cent of its preference shares in its Nigerian subsidiary to United Capital Trustees Limited, the legal representative of the lending banks. Other shareholders of Etisalat Nigeria include Mubadala Development Company with a 40 per cent stake and Emerging Markets Telecommunications Se

6-yr-old boy dies, as flood sacks ex-milad’s wife, others in Aba     ABA— A six-year-old boy has been reportedly killed while three others were rescued as flood swept through Garden Avenue, Nwankpa, and adjoining streets along Okigwe Road area of Aba, Abia State due to heavy rain in the area. Vanguard also gathered that no fewer than 20 families, including the widow of former military administrator of Cross River State, Navy Captain Edet Archibong, Rosemary, were sacked by flood. Narrating their ordeal during the visit of the member representing Aba North/Aba South federal constituency, Ossy Prestige, Mrs Archibong said the area had become prone to flood due to shoddy work done by the construction company handling the rehabilitation of Garden Avenue and adjoining roads.

Two escaped Chibok schoolgirls meet President Donald Trump and Ivanka Trump at the White House Joy Bishara , 20, and Lydia Pogu , 19, two of the Chibok schoolgirls who were able to escape from Boko Haram in 2014, met with US President Donald Trump at the White House Wednesday, June 28. The duo and several other girls who escaped moved to the United States to complete school. With the help of a Christian nonprofit, others, they were able to attend boarding school in Virginia. Bishara and Pogu transferred their senior year and recently graduated from Canyonville Christian Academy. They will be attending Southeastern University in Florida in the fall.

Fayose: Buhari On Life-Support, Needs Prayer, Presidency Must Tell Us Truth   Buhari on life-support for 20 days, needs prayer, presidency must tell Nigerians the truth always - Fayose Today, it makes 53 days since our President; Muhammadu Buhari left Nigeria to attend to his health challenges abroad. No official information as to his whereabouts and his state of health. Like every other Nigerians, I do not wish the president dead, I have therefore maintained dignified silence since we were told that the President embarked on his second medical trip abroad this year. However, the recorded audio message which was released by the Presidency as the President’s Ramadan message to Nigerians necessitated my setting the records straight today. No doubt, the audio message was only a damage-control strategy aimed at further deceiving Nigerians. I have therefore elected in good conscience to state as follows: That the audio message does not represent the truth as our President does

Sorry Mods I don't know which section to post this, Forgive me if I violate any rule, This is the condition of roads in Ejigbo,, idi-ape area, Osun State after heavy Rainfall, This is so pathetic, Imagine, - the speaker, house of assembly, Hon. NAJEEM FOLASAYO SALAM, is from this local government, - house of representatives, federal constituency, Hon. Mojeed Alabi is from this same town - Infact the APC contestant contesting for Osun West senetorial District ( late Isiaka Adeleke post) Hon. Mudasiru Hussain is from this same town, And lastly, which I know will surprise most, The mother of the vice president of Nigeria (Prof. Yemi Osibanjo) is from this same town, Osinbajo made this known to everybody when he came to ejigbo during his campaign in 2015, Infact I wept for this governments, Re: The Deadly Condition Of Ejigbo After Heavy Rainfall (PHOTOS)

The wife of a Lagos State University (LASU) lecturer, Mrs Kafayat Oyekunle, who revealed that she was pregnant for her bricklayer lover, Fatai Alimi has given birth to a baby girl for her lover. P.M.EXPRESS reports that she was also living with Alimi as his wife in their one room apartment in Igando area of Lagos despite the comfort of the home of her embattled husband. This was confirmed by Kafayat who said that her embattled husband has left them alone after he discovered that she was pregnant for her lover. Fatai Alimi was arraigned in court for allegedly snatching her from her husband, Suraju Oyekunle in Lagos, Nigeria. The 36-year-old woman made the revelation when she went to the court to bail Alimi from custody and met her embattled husband there. She also said her decision to dump her husband and move into Alimi’s home was due to her inability to bear another child after 13 years she had lived with Oyekunle. She revealed that after their only son was born 12 years

JAMB UTME 2017 Rescheduled Exam Slip, Centre & Exam Time Out - How To Check by ElitesNG :  The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) wishes to inform all 2017 Supplementary Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidates that they can now re-print their registration slips to access their CBT examination centres online. JAMB is currently sending to candidates information about their examination date and CBT venue via the email they used to register for the 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Note that the exam notifications are being sent in batches. If you are yet to get your exam notification, follow the outlined procedure below to print your JAMB UTME slip by yourself anywhere. How To Re-Print 2017 UTME Slip: 1. Visit the JAMB UTME Slip Printing page on the e-Facility portal via www.jamb.org.ng/PrintExamslip/PrintExaminationSlip 2.Enter your Reg Number or your registered e-Mail address, 3.Click on the “Pri

NEMA launches information software for emergency response The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has hinted that it is about to launch a software which will provide easy access to the agency by people who are ready to give prompt and useful information wherever they may be. Director General of the agency, Engr Mustapha Maihaja, who disclosed this in an interview in Abuja, noted that the new software is designed to reduce NEMA’s response time to the barest minimum in line with international best practices. He said, “In furtherance of our effort to be accessible to all for effective coverage, we now have a software that people can begin to download within the next one month or there about and use in reaching us as quickly as possible in any emergency situation irrespective of wherever they may be. “We are also working very hard to reduce our response time to the barest minimum and in line with international best practices. In this regard,

N-power: FG Explains Reasons For Delay In Payment Of Some Volunteers  The federal government has absolved itself and the various state governments, particularly the coordinators of its youth employment scheme, N-Power, of responsibilities over the non payments of some of the volunteers of the programme in the state. Making the clarifications at the weekend, a Senior Special Assistant to the President on Job Creation, Mr. Afolabi Imoukhuede, said that the few persons who were yet to be paid were still having issues bothering particularly on irregularities in their bank details, especially the Bank Verification Number (BVN). The presidential aide, particularly noted that in Delta state, out of the 7,149 volunteers who were engaged in the programme, 5,916 were being paid as at May, this year, adding that 857 others were just cleared and paid last week. He explained that while others were still having issues relating to their BVN as their accounts could not be verified by the Nigeria In

Fed govt withholds stipend of 17 N-Power volunteers File Photo Advertisement No fewer than 17 volunteers in the federal government’s job creation scheme, N-Power, will no longer be paid stipends until they explain their truancy from the scheme since their deployment. Mr Afolabi Imoukhuede, Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the President on Job Creation, made the statement on Thursday in Awka during a meeting between the state’s institutional partners and N-Power Monitoring and Evaluation team. “The stipend for 17 volunteers from different states have been on hold since May due to the inability of their supervisors to see them at work for months,’’ he said The Presidential aide said that the federal government would not continue to shoulder the financial burden of those who failed to understand the scheme and treat it with the seriousness it deserved. He said that a common trend that ran in some of the states already visited by the M&E team was that v

The worst oil tanker fires, around the world Advertisement At least 123 people were killed and scores injured in central Pakistan early Sunday when a fire erupted after crowds rushed to collect fuel from an overturned oil tanker. Here are the most serious such incidents around the world over the past decade. In many of the most deadly of these, people were trying to recover spilt fuel and were caught in the subsequent fire. – November 17, 2016, Mozambique: At least 93 killed and dozens wounded when an oil tanker carrying petrol explodes in the west of the country. Hundreds of people were trying to siphon off the fuel at the time. – May 8, 2016, Afghanistan: At least 73 killed after two buses collided with an oil tanker, sparking a massive fire on a road in the east of the country. Most victims died in the fire. – September 16, 2015, South Sudan: At least 203 killed and 150 injured as people try to recover fuel from an oil tanker following a road accident

Pastor Adeboye: "I Still Iron My Wife's Clothes"   WHEN I AM ALLOWED TO, I STILL IRON MY WIFE'S CLOTH. ANY REDEEM PASTOR THAT IS PROUD IS NOT FROM ME - PASTOR ENOCH ADEJARE ADEBOYE, GENERAL OVERSEER OF THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD (RCCG) HAS SAID THAT HE STILL IRON, PRESS HIS WIFE’S CLOTHES. ADEBOYE WHO MADE THIS KNOWN ON HIS TWITTER HANDLE FURTHER SAID THAT ANY RCCG PASTOR WHO IS NOT HUMBLE WAS NOT  ORDAINED BY HIM OR HER. 7 Likes  1 Share

PHOTOS: Lekki Main Gate Flooded  Entrance and exit from VGC Lekki at a standstill due to flood

'I was trying to brake!' Woman is arrested 'after ploughing her car into families gathering for Eid prayers near Newcastle mosque', leaving two children in intensive care The woman pictured in the middle, was arrested after she accidentally injured six people including three children when her car (bottom right) careered out of control in a field full of hundreds of Muslims who had been celebrating the end of Ramadan. Bystanders(left), including a man with a bleeding shoulder,(top right) fled in horror as the vehicle sped around a field packed with 300 to 400 people who had celebrated Eid at nearby Newcastle Central Mosque. Two children and one adult remain in intensive care after the incident at Westgate Community College. Witnesses said the driver, a 42-year-old Muslim woman, had got into her car on a grass verge at 9.14am after attending prayers when she 'pressed the gas rather than the break' and sped into the crowds. The woman was arrested