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The Nigeria Police in Delta State, on Sunday night confirmed that they have rescued Super Eagles player, Christian Obodo from the abductors who snatched him at gun point. The midfielder who has not played for the Eagles in recent years was early Saturday kidnapped by four unidentified gunmen

By Ogechi Ekeanyanwu   The paper's publisher says Mr. Kolawole is free to go in pursuit of other interest The editor of THISDAY, Simon Kolawole, has resigned in response to Sunday's new appointments at the newspaper which saw him removed as editor and reassigned as editorial director. In the new appointments, Ijeoma Nwogwugwu, who was previously Editor of THISDAY on Sunday was named Mr. Kolawole's replacement while Tunde Rahman, former editor of THISDAY on

Good and regular marital sex can help you live a longer and happier life. According to Dr Stella Eze, a gynaecologist with a Lagosbased private hospital, MAY Hospital, Ilasa, good sex not only promotes longevity but also keeps diseases such as the deadly breast cancer away. In an interview with IMOH ESSIEN, Dr. Eze describes sex, particularly between married couples as beautiful and specially designed by God and nature to keep people in good shape all year round. Here are some of the benefits of sex as listed by Dr. Eze:  Sex can cure headaches Some of the health benefits of sex are its ability to act as a pain reliever. The hormone oxytocin (a nine amino acid peptide that is synthesized in hypothalamic neurons and transported down axons of the posterior pituitary

President Godluck Jonathan couldn't hold back tears today when he visited the location of the Dana Air crash in Iju Ishaga area.I weep for my country.May God save the nation.

 John I. Nnorom, a former Executive Director for Finance at Air Nigeria, has warned Nigerians to stop flying the airline until they are sure that its planes are being properly maintained. In a blistering public petition, Mr. Nnorom, who resigned his appointment with the airline on April 1, 2012, blamed the situation on big businessman Jimoh Ibrahim, the chairman of Air Nigeria, whom he accused of being uninterested

LAGOS (AFP) - Rescuers recovered burnt human remains as investigators probed for clues Monday after a plane slammed into a Lagos neighbourhood, with all 153 on board killed and more feared dead on the ground. Police fired tear gas at a surging crowd seeking to get a look at the crash site at one point on Monday morning, while at other spots around the

Onyeka Anyene; Hurria Lawal; Maimuna Anyene; Bakisumiadi Yindadi; Ebuka Enuma; Oluchi Onyeyiri; Sunday Enuma; George Moses; Ogechi Njoku; Noah Anyene; Kamsiyona Anyene; Stanford Obrutse; Kaiyenotochi Anyene; Okeke Hope; Rev. Ayodeji Cole; Ngozi Cole; Noah Anyene; Ailende Ehi; Oluwasegun Funmi Abiodun; and Shehu Sahad Usman.  Others were Alade Martins; Onita Jennifer (Mrs); Onita Josephine; Ike Ochonogo; Joy Alison; John Ahmadu; Akowe Fatokun Anjola; Fatokun Olaoluwa; Fatokun Ibukun; Buhari Maikudi; Amina Idris Bugaje; Ajani Adenle; IkeAbugu; Adijolola Abraham; Obot Emmanuel; Otegbeye Hadiza; Ehioghae Sunny; Onwuriri Celestine; Abikalio Otatoru; Noris Kim; Eyo Bassey; Njoku Charles; Anibaba Tosin; Okocha Christopher; Sobowale Femi; and Phillip Chukwu Ebuka. Others were Sparagano Lawrence; Somolu Oluwakemi; Ariyibi Temitope; Meche Eke; Ojugbana Amaka; Ojugbana Christopher; Buna Walter; Coker Olumide; Lilian Lass; Mutittir Itsifanus; Yusuf Alli; Lt. Col. Jumbo Ochigbo;

Dana Airline plane crash in Lagos is devastating to the entire nation.Gistmaster was at the scene and we saw thousands of Nigerians who came from far and near to get first hand report on what happened and the number of casualties. About 147 people were on board the aircraft at the time of the crash.Houses,which included a two storey building and a church known as End Time Chapel Ministries were badly damaged and caught in flames as the Dana Airline coming from Abuja crashed with its belly on it. Dr.Levi Ajuonuma,the general manager in charge of media and public relations of NNPC is one of those feared dead in the Dana airline crash. In a bid to control the crowd at the scene of the crash,men of the Nigeria Airforce brutalised several onlookers,beating them like animals. Gistmaster gathered that the minister of Aviation,Mrs.Stella Oduah has arrived Lagos and she would be briefing the media shortly. Meanwhile, Nigeria's president Goodluck Jonathan has declared three days of

  The Aloko of Iloko Ijesha, Oba Oladele Olashore is dead. Olashore was a former Managing Director of First Bank Plc before he was appointed Secretary of Finance (An equivalent of Minister of Finance during the time of General Abdulsalam Abubakar as Head of State. Olashore also founded the well known Olashore International School in his home town of Iloko-Ijesha. Oba Olashore also established Lead Merchant Bank and Lead Capital.   Olashore would be remembered for his major contributions to his home town,investing his liquid cash and managerial experience towards the upliftment of the town.The traditional ruler died at the age of 77.

A Nigerian, Mrs Olanike Alabi will be running for the New York State Assembly elections in Brooklyn's 57th Assembly District billed for Nov. 6. Alabi's parents are Nigerians from Oyo State, but she was born and raised in Brooklyn where she is currently an elected District Leader in Fort Greene/Clinton Hill area. Speaking in an interview with the North America correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Friday, Alabi said that if elected `` I will fight for the issues most important to our community''. According to her, this will include maintaining and protecting rent stabilisation, affordable public housing for families in the community. The aspirant said she would also advocate for prevailing and living wage jobs and support workforce training and development programmes. "I will continue to support efforts that will provide access to quality, affordable primary and preventive health care programmes that residents of the district can count on,

Keith Richards MD Promisidor Contract staff working with Promasidor in Nigeria yesterday protested what they described as delay in payment of their salaries.   As a result of the protest, the management of Promasidor invited policemen to forestall a break down of law and order, which might lead to damages of the company properties.    Gistmaster gathered that two companies hire contract staff who work mostly in the production department for promasidor.One is known as Global Manpower while the other is called Sustainability.   Those employed by Global Manpower have been paid their May salaries on the 23 May but those employed through Sustainability are yet to be paid. Sources hinted that the recent development is giving room to suspicions about politics in Promasidor, especially between the management of Sustainability and Global Manpower in a bid to out do one another in the business of staff sourcing.Sustainability is allegedly owned by

 A United States-based Nigerian, Emeka Mazie, yesterday dragged his 96-year-old father to court for insisting to re-marry after the demise of his wife eight years ago. The suit with number HU/54/2012 filed before the Umuahia High Court 4, is presided over by Justice Agwu Kalu. Counsel to the defendant, Miss Ebere Orji, told the court that her client, Chief Israel Mazie, and father of Emeka, had contracted a marriage with Ebere Ndubuka under the Marriage Act.  She noted that his children from the

 Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, yesterday, arrested five suspected drug traffickers in connection with a large shipment of heroin worth N2.2 billion from Pakistan at the Tin Can Island Port, Lagos. The agency also arrested a lady, (names withheld) over substance suspected to be cocaine at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa, Rivers State. The lady allegedly ingested 839 grammes of the substance, and was arrested while on her way to board a London-bound Lufthansa Airline. She was

Charles Taylor was today sentenced to 50 years in prison after the war crimes tribunal convicted him for crime against humanity. The former Liberian President was in exile in Nigeria durning the administration of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo before he was arrested.   Charles Taylor was found guilty because he was a major sponsor of the civil war in Sierra Leone. Rebels that Charles Taylor sponsored raped and brutalised thousands of people before the war ended in 2002

 Tragedy struck in the early hours of Monday, when a fast-moving train crushed an unidentified Okada rider and his passenger at the railway crossing of the Nigerian Railway Corporation at   Guinness Road, off Agege Motor Road, Idimangoro, Agege, Lagos. According to eyewitnesses, the accident occurred at 11.15 am, when the train, heading towards Oyingbo area of the state, crushed the duo. The Okada rider, who was said to be impatient,  was said to have ignored the instruction of the flagman, who had stopped vehicles and Okadas for the train to pass. An eyewitness said: “He (Okada man) had made a quick dash but was unlucky, as all of a sudden, we heard the sound of broken bones and saw dismembered body scattered all around the area.” When Vanguard visited the scene, the badly crushed Boxer model motorcycle was seen at a corner, while the corpse of the passenger was covered with a cellophane, awaiting removal by the police. The dismembered body of the Okada rider, wh

Imo Transport Company has offered automatic employment to Mr. Matthew Ukuegbu, the father of a set of quadruplets recently delivered in Owerri. Managing Director of the company, Mr. Emeka Duru, said in Owerri yesterday, that the gesture was to enable the parents to face the enormous challenges of raising the babies. Duru noted that the challenges before the family had “quadrupled” owing to the birth of the babies, adding that the company was moved by the poor living standard of the couple. He also announced that the company had paid the medical bills incurred for the birth, and donated an undisclosed amount of money to the parents for the upkeep of the babies. In his reaction, Ukwuegbu commended the company for the gesture, pledging to be dedicated to his new job. The Chief Medical Director, Federal Medical Center, Owerri, where the babies were delivered, Dr. Angela Uwakwem, commended the management of the transport company for the assistance.

It is raining season here in Nigeria.We are enjoying the cool breeze and the rain except for the bad roads and water flow which is making movement a bit difficult. Some people have to relocate from their houses because raining season is usually a difficult period for them.Their homes are usually turned into 'emergency' swimming pool. In Lagos,areas mostly affected are usually part of ikorodu,Ijora Badia and so on. These people need more government attention. Between now and June 12,Nigerians would observe three public holidays. First would be on May 27 known as children's day.Yes,it fell on Sunday, a work free day but the public holiday will be observed by children on Monday May 28.The following day will be a general public holiday-May 29 will be declared as work free day because the government named it democracy day.Remember 29 May 1999 was the day democracy returned to Nigeria after many years of civil rule. However,Lagos State government will declare June 12 as a

The minister for Justice and Attorney General of the federation in Nigeria,Mr. Muhammed Adoke have reacted to the protracted delay in reinstating Justice Salami as President Court of Appeal. Justice Salami was suspended from the exalted position last year following recommedations from the National Judicial Council that he violated certain norms of the legal profession following his public outrage with former Chief Justice of the federation,Justice Alu. He has been recalled by the same NJC that suspended him. The only thing remaing is for President Goodluck Jonathan to sign the recommendation. However, Adoke speaking on behalf of the president at a ministerial press briefing said, Salami will not get his position back until a case pending in court is determined. Adoke noted that the a case was instituted against his recall by a group the same day NJC recommend his recall to Jonathan. But Nigerians within and in diaspora refused to agree with the federal government,insisting that th

  The embattled Alowa of Ilowa in Obokun Local Government Area of Osun State, Oba Adebukola Alli,  standing trial before an Osogbo High Court for alleged rape of an ex- corps member, yesterday, got off the hook on three of the four charges against him. Justice Oyejide Falola dismissed three charges out of the four counts preferred against the monarch for the failure of the prosecutor to substantiate the allegation before the court. Alli, who was accompanied to court by his wife, had, since 2010, been facing four counts charge of rape, kidnap,

Providence smiled on Nigerians on Monday when a man identified as John Akpamu  was arrested with three hand grenades and some rounds of ammunition at the Radio House, Abuja,  venue of the Ministerial briefing by the Ministry of Sports on their performance in the last one year According to a report monitored on Channels TV, in Lagos, the security officer in charge of the Radio House building confirmed the arrest saying “we arrested him with black bags containing three hand grenades and 37 live munitions. We snatched the bag from him at the gate as he was entering the compound at the gate.” Three ministers: Attorney General and Justice minister, Bello Adoke, Aviation Stella Oduah and Youth Development and National Sports Commission Bolaji Abdullahi, were the ones on hand to present their score cards in the last one year. The annual briefing which involves a daily briefing by all the federal ministries on their performance, commenced a fortnight ago. -Daily Independent