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One Chukwuma Okoro, yesterday (11 Oct, 2017) in Akure, the Ondo State capital, has confessed that the payment of his wife’s N300,000 bride price pushed him into robbery. Okoro made the confession when he was paraded alongside three other robbery suspects by the state Police Command. Speaking with newsmen, Okoro said he went into robbery to garner enough money to enable him pay N300,000 for his wife’s bride price as requested by his in-laws. Okoro was arrested after he attacked a salesgirl, Chinenye, who was going to the bank at Oyemekun Road in Akure, to deposit the sales for the day put at N550,000. He was said to have traced the salesgirl from her master’s beer distribution company on Okada before attacking her. We gathered that the suspect, while struggling with the salesgirl for the money, was pushed off the Okada and fell, after which he shot at the victim twice before he was overpowered and arrested by sympathizers.  Okoro told newsmen that he sells vegetable in Akur...

Power Dynamos striker Alex N’gonga’s family home in Chimwemwe in Kitwe (not Katwe) has been attacked by thugs following Zambia’s 1-0 loss to Nigeria in their  2018 World Cup qualifier match in Uyo on Saturday, zambianobserver.com reports. Copperbelt province police commissioner Charity Katanga says a group of people emerged from a white Toyota Landcruiser ACC 5492 and maliciously damaged two roofing sheets with stones. Katanga says the group accused N’gonga of missing scoring chances that crashed Zambia’s hopes of qualifying to the 2018 World Cup in Russia. She said  police had  launched a manhunt and a case of malicious damage to property has been opened. N’gonga’s mother Charity  told Muvi TV news that she feared for her life when she heard another person threaten to destroy the house completely. Nigeria became the first African team to qualify for the global showpiece courtesy of Alex Iwobi’s second half strike at the Godswill Akpabio Stadium in Uyo. ...

Dear Nigerian Movie Producers and Actors, please try and watch Queen of Katwe and learn how movies are made. The characterization, dialogue, sequencing, suspense, moral, story telling, cinematography, and all other elements of a good movie were on point in this movie. And if you have a heart and eyes not made of marble, you'll shed tears while watching this African movie of a female child chess protege. Uganda is not known for film making, they may not churn out 29 movies a day like Nigeria, but in the only movie they've made of note, they killed it. Queen of Katwe, excellent story telling. Not like Nigerian movies that are always about voodoo, get-rich-quick ideology, pathetic action sequence, recycled actors and lame romance. A Nigerian movie will unashamedly cast Mercy Johnson and Kanayo O Kanayo as secondary school pupils.  Watch Queen of Katwe and see how directors employed child psychologists and pediatricians to help get children to get ...

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Gov Lalong Against the backdrop of the rising tension in the country, Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State has warned against allowing the situation to degenerate into a violent conflict. He recalled that he narrowly escaped death when an Igbo man sacrificed his life for him during the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970) when the Biafran forces opted for secession. Governor Lalong said the Igbo man, who was his guardian, was brutally killed after saving his life during the crisis when he was three years old. He told the story on Sunday during the 57th Independence anniversary church service held at the national headquarters of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) in Jos, Plateau State. He said the gory images and experience of the civil war still remained in his mind. “The memory of what happened to me when I was three years old is still fresh in my mind; an Igbo man who was my guardian that married my aunty was killed; but before he was killed, he took me and locked me...