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  A kidnappers’ den has been discovered behind a police checkpoint along Auchi-Abuja expressway.  The discovery was made on Thursday December 2. Prior to this, it was believed a mad man lived in the building.  Items recovered from the building include gun bullets, tear-gas canisters and water. Watch the video below... View this post on Instagram A post shared by gistoftheday.com (@gistoftheday)

60 members of Emmanuel Baptist Church, Kakau Daji, Kaduna, kidnapped by suspected bandits have regained freedom after spending one month in captivity.  They were kidnapped on October 31 by bandits who killed three of the victims and left two others critically injured after demanding ransom. Kaduna State Chapter of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN)’s Chairman, Rev Joseph John Hayab confirmed their release. Hayab who did not reveal if any ransom was paid, said nine other people abducted from a different village were also released alongside the church worshippers on Friday evening. The CAN Chairman said the church told him the release members were taken to the barrack by soldiers after being released. He said;  “Yes, the Kakau Daji church members have been released according to the Church last night and the Church told us that they played a vital role; so I commend them for that."

An explosion was witnessed at 1000 Housing Estate in Maiduguri, Borno State capital, on Saturday morning, December 4. Residents believe the explosion was triggered by Boko Haram fighters and this has reportedly sparked tension in the area. Daily Trust also reported that a rocket launcher landed at Gomari Airport, a community about four kilometres from the airport located in the state capital. Residents of the estate were seen discussing the incidents in groups in one of the houses affected by the explosion, in a video shared online. A resident of the area told Daily Trust that no life was lost.  A military source further told the publication that troops of 33 artillery, Njimtelo, opened fire when they sighted insurgents on the outskirts of Maiduguri and this led to a gun battle.

 Mrs. Deborah Okezie whose son, Don Davis, was allegedly sexually assaulted and tortured while he was a boarder at the Deeper Life High School, Akwa Ibom, has slammed parents who allegedly flew their kids abroad after they were accused of torturing Sylvester Oromoni, their school mate at Dowen college. Sylvester died on Tuesday in very controversial circumstances. In a Facebook live chat, Mrs Okezie called for justice for Sylvester Oromoni. She said as a mother and one who has a child that was assaulted by his school mates, she cannot keep quiet when such a thing happens. She demanded justice for Sylvester who she referred to as ''my son''. She called on state and federal government to ensure boarding schools have well-equipped hospitals as well as CCTVs mounted in their schools. Watch clips from her live video below View this post on Instagram A post shared by gistoftheday.com (@gistoftheday)

The Nigerian Navy has said that its personnel and comedian, Cute Abiola is serving a one-month punishment for ridiculing the Nigerian police.  The Instagram comedian was arrested on November 15, 2021, but has been released from detention to serve his ‘light corrective punishment’ in the cantonment. According to the Nigerian Navy, he was placed on one-month ‘extra duty’ for wearing police uniform in one of his skits and for ridiculing the Nigeria Police Force in the process. He is expected to end his punishment by December 15, 2021, and would be allowed to return home to his family. Naval spokesperson, Commodore Suleman Dahun told Punch's Saturday Beats that Cute Abiola was given a light punishment of a ‘one-month extra duty’ after a military trial. Dahun said;  “Cute Abiola has been placed on one-month extra duty after he was tried. He will be in charge of cleanship; supervising painting, electricians, carpentry, cutting of grasses, and others. He will be supervising civilians...

 Mr Femi Falana, the human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, has described as illegal the review of the Retired Justice Doris Okuwobi’s #EndSARS panel findings on the incident which occurred at the Lekki Toll Gate in October 2020. He said the White Paper committee set up by the Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu did not have the legal backing and competence to edit, modify, alter or reject the report of the commission. He said, “When the government set up a White Paper committee a fortnight ago, I questioned its legal validity. It was my view that since the committee is unknown to law, the members were not competent to edit, modify, alter, edit or reject the report of the commission, more so, that the members of White Paper committee did not have the opportunity of taking evidence from the witnesses who had testified before the commission. “The governor cannot reject the report, summary of evidence and findings of the Okuwobi Judicial Commission in any material par...

 The Commissioner for Education in Oyo state, AbdulRahman Abdu-Raheem, has debunked claims that some students in the state were turned into tubers of yam by a man claimed to be a ritualist. On Friday, December 3, LIB shared the story of how a middle-aged man was assaulted and accused of turning two students into tubers of yam at Bashorun area of Ibadan the Capital City of Oyo State. The man who was confirmed to be a mentally deranged person was alleged to have turned two pupils of Bashorun High School into tubers of yam, and this resulted in mob attack by some irate youths in the area that almost took his life. Read here . Reacting to the development, the state commissioner for Education said investigations carried out showed that the suspect was just a victim of circumstance. He described the incident as a mere figment of imagination. The Commissioner who visited the school of the said students said there was no record of any missing students. He said investigations have been carr...

Popular Nigerian actress, Chinwe Owoh was among many Nigerians, who yesterday took to social media to carpet a critic of Billionaire Prophet Fufeyin and Christianity. The critic, described as Mathias, who had described himself as a founder of a foundation that cure people had said there was nothing like miracle, stressing that pastors, especially Billionaire Prophet Fufeyin only perform fake miracles. Owoh, who said she watched the video of the critic online noted that it was by mercy of God through the ministry of Fufeyin that she could walk again miraculously. “I believe his God, Actress Owoh, stressing that the critic would only attract the anger of God if speaks wrongly against anointed men of God like Fufeyin. While the critic, in the video clip online said Fufeyin only provided money to sick celebrity, failing to heal, Owoh discredited the claim, noting that she was in critic condition that confined her to a wheelchair before meeting Fufeyin for prayers. “I saw something in the i...

 Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh, has called for the commemoration of Sylvester Oromoni’s 12th birthday at Dowen College premises in Lagos. Sylvester was a student of the college and died recently  after he was allegedly tortured by his school mates who allegedly tried to initiate him into a cult. In a post shared on her Instagram page, Tonto wrote; “I woke up with so much pain. How do you lose a child in a safe zone and whose birthday is today? Sending love and light to Master Sylvester’s family and loved ones. Happy birthday young champ, we promise you justice. #justiceforslyvester @dowencollegelagos, we will be leaving flowers and gifts outside your gate. Because today is a child’s birthday that died under your care! Please, if you are in Lagos, leave a little gift and prayer at the gate of Dowen College. Thanks.”  

She said her husband who is now dead, brought the young man over and introduced him to her as one of his relatives from the village. A housewife in Nasarawa state, Mrs Justina Agbumi has narrated how she was impregnated by her husband's biological son who she identified as Godwin.  Agbumi who was childless for 19 years prior to the incident, blamed the affair on a frosty relationship with her husband.  The lady told The Nation that her curiousity to establish whether she was indeed barren as claimed by her husband, pushed her into allowing the young man that was staying with them to sleep with her, not knowing he was the biological son of her husband. She said her husband who is now dead, brought the young man over and introduced him to her as one of his relatives from the village. Agbumi said;  “It got to a point that I asked myself if I was still living with the same man I married. He suddenly became a beast, calling me barren, harlot and useless, just because I couldn’...

 “We will celebrate his birthday on the 4th of December (today). Please, tell Nigerians to join us,” Sylvester junior’s bereaved father, Sylvester Oromoni, told City Round on Thursday; his voice steeped in grief. If not for his really untimely and gruesome death earlier in the week, the household of the Oromonis was supposed to buzz with excitement as Sylvester Oromoni (Jnr), a Junior Secondary School two pupil at Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos, would have clocked at 12 today, The PUNCH reports. His painful exit on Tuesday notwithstanding, the family would still mark his birthday posthumously. “We will celebrate his birthday on the 4th of December (today). Please, tell Nigerians to join us,” Sylvester junior’s bereaved father, Sylvester Oromoni, told City Round on Thursday; his voice steeped in grief. This is just as the Lagos State Government shut down the school on Friday till further notice to allow the police carry out thorough investigations on the circumstances surrounding the t...

John Cardinal Onaiyekan, a former Catholic Archbishop of Abuja Diocese, has raised fears that Nigeria may split before 2023 because of the sad realities in the country, including security challenges. He said Nigerian leaders would always want to remain in office even after their tenure because of “greed, wickedness and stupidity”. The cleric stated that one of the obstacles that had been threatening democracy in Nigeria was that incumbent governments did not want free and fair election. Onaiyekan stated these in an interview with Saturday PUNCH in Abuja. He said, “There is no reason why the spate of insecurity should continue like this till 2023. There is no reason why we should not be able to finally settle this problem before the year 2022 is over. “If it is not over, it means we have failed as a nation and the question will no longer be whether we can have election or not, but whether it makes sense even having an election because we don’t have a country; the matter is serious. “As ...

To understand Nigeria you need to know the history to explain the politics. When the British arrived in what became Northern Nigeria, there were by then lets say for arguments sake two nations ruling the North predominantly the Fulani and then also the Indigenous Hausa, the latter of which the Hausa kingdoms were constantly being attacked by the Fulani who are conquers by nature. The British to keep a balance assisted the Hausa and with their help confronted the Fulani. The Fulani understanding conquest took to their new masters the British and in return for their new found compliant attitude Lord Lugard made every Emir in every town in the north a Fulani, inadvertently giving power back to the Fulani. (I wonder if this is where the phrase “the only thing Nigeria understands is war” stems from). Then in 1914 for financial reasons the British amalgamated the Northern Nigeria Protectorate with the Southern Protectorates, now these were entirely two very different regions, as the southern...

Ini Edo, the very popular actress, has said that she decided to go the surrogacy route to have her child in order to avoid the drama that usually accompanies single parenthood. In an interview with a popular blogger, the 39-year-old said, “I opted for a donor for me and my baby’s peace of mind. Ideally, it should be marriage before children but we are not living in an ideal world. Another reason I opted for a donor is because it scares me so much when I see banter and controversies between a mother and a father over a baby on public forums or when I see the man insisting that he wants his child if things do not work out between both parties. For me, it is the fear of what that would mean for the child. I am not someone who allows any situation control me. I make lemonades out of lemons thrown my way and have no regrets. Life itself is so fragile and short to be striving for perfection. I am well and capable of taking care of my child as I have been taking care of myself. I wanted a chi...

 Bishop John Ikoko, the Founder of the Cherubim and Seraphim Holy Trinity Church, Oda Road, Akure, Ondo State, tells PETER DADA how he woke up to find a newborn baby dumped at his church’s altar recently For how long have you been in church administration? I started the work of God in 1970; this is my 51 years in the vineyard of God. Though, I was born into a Methodist Church family, when I was called by God in 1970, I joined the C&S Church.  I became independent in 1992. So, as I said, in totality, I’ve been into ministration for 51 years. When did you start living in this area? I have been living in this community since 1993. We learnt that a newborn baby girl was dumped on the altar of your church by a yet-to-be-identified person. How did it happen? On that fateful day, we heard the cry of a baby around 5am and we started wondering where that could be coming from because we live in the building behind the church and we did not have anybody with a newborn baby in our chu...

Ifeanyi Okowa, the Governor of Delta State, on Saturday, revealed that he spoke to Sylvester Oromoni, the father of a late student from Dowen College in Lagos, Sylvester Oromoni Jr. Taking to his social media platforms, the Governor stated that during the call, he expressed his agreement with the Lagos government to launch an investigation into the child’s death. He said, “Last night, I spoke to Mr. Sylvester Oromoni, the father of late Sylvester Oromoni Jr., the Dowen College student who unfortunately died under very controversial and unclear circumstances. “During the call, I expressed my agreement with the decision of the Lagos State government to launch an investigation into the death of Sylvester, a native of Warri South LGA in Delta State.” The Governor also condoled with the family, as he pledged to ensure justice over the case. “As we continue to watch this case closely, we extend our prayers and support to the Oromoni family. As they mourn the loss of their young son, I pray t...

Rivaldo, the Barcelona icon, has insisted that Paris Saint-Germain’s Lionel Messi is not the world’s greatest player of all time because he is yet to win a World Cup with Argentina national team. Rivaldo, who is Barcelona’s sixth top goalscorer of all time, believes Messi is behind football legend, Pele, in the world’s greatest player top three rankings. The former Brazilian international also said that Messi deserved his record seventh Ballon d’Or. DAILY POST reports that France Football named Messi as the winner of this year’s Ballon d’Or award ahead of Bayern Munich striker, Robert Lewandowski and Chelsea midfielder, Jorginho. “He [Lionel Messi] deserved the award based on his performances for Argentina as they won the Copa America – a trophy they’ve coveted for many years – and he was the best player of the tournament,” Rivaldo told Betfair. “There will always be arguments about the Ballon d’Or, as there are so many voters from all over the world and there is so much footballing ta...

Self-acclaimed street ambassador, Small Doctor has released a brand new single titled “Hain!!!” to end his run for the year 2021. The new single, “Hain!!!” serves as a follow up for his previously heard song “Mandema (Remix)” which featured Davido. Listen below:- DOWNLOAD HERE What do you think about this song? We want to hear from you all. Drop your comments

 Asa releases a new single titled “Mayana“ Nigerian-French singer, songwriter, and recording artist, Asa releases a brand new single titled “Mayana” after a very long hiatus off the music scene. “Mayana” is a mind blowing song which you would definitely have on repeat after your first listen. Listen below:- DOWNLOAD HERE What do you think about this song? We want to hear from you all.

 In recent weeks,  talk has surfaced of Joshua stepping aside and allowing Usyk to challenge Fury, who retained his WBC strap by knocking out Deontay Wilder in October, for the undisputed crown next. Anthony Joshua's team are reportedly in talks over a potential step-aside deal to allow Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk to battle it out for heavyweight supremacy.  The news was revealed by the Gypsy King's promoter, Frank Warren.  Joshua was defeated by Usyk back in September, losing his unified titles via unanimous decision at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The Brit then triggered his rematch clause after the defeat, handing him an immediate shot at redemption in a bout that could take place in March or April of this year. In recent weeks,  talk has surfaced of Joshua stepping aside and allowing Usyk to challenge Fury, who retained his WBC strap by knocking out Deontay Wilder in October, for the undisputed crown next. Joshua hinted in a recent interview with iFL TV,...

  Animals That Asked People for Help Trouble might find animals on land, in water, or even in the sky! And often they come to humans for help, showing a lot of trust. Watch this video until the end and you’ll be amazed!

An official of the Lagos state government was booed by some angry Nigerians at a gospel program, The Experience, that was held in Lagos last night December 3. The representative was called to give a speech at the program organized by House on The Rock. His speech was however disrupted by the angry Nigerians who booed him and asked him to leave the stage. The senior pastor, Paul Adefarasin, had to apologize to the Lagos state government after the incident. Watch a video showing the moment he was booed and Pastor Paul's apology below View this post on Instagram A post shared by gistoftheday.com (@gistoftheday)