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The Nigerian Army has called for an out-of-court settlement in the case involving a lady, Ruth Orji, who was brutally attacked and dehumanized by soldiers attached to the 174 Battalion, Ikorodu in Lagos state in March this year. There was a public outcry after photos of her battered body surfaced online. Ruth was viciously attacked by six military officers after she challenged them for slapping her brother. The officers have been arrested. An NGO, the Joint Legal Action Aids, picked up her case and filed a legal process at the Federal High Court against the Nigerian Army and her assailants, demanding for N250m compensation. According to a statement released by the General Counsel of JLAA, Kingsley Ughe today, the Army High Command called for out-of-court settlement few days ago. The Army requested that the meeting take place at the 9 Brigade Headquarters at Ikeja but the NGO requested that the meeting be held at its office at Akowonjo, Lagos. The request was granted. In attendance ...

Imo state governor, Rochas Okorocha this morning received in audience, the Imo state chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, led by Apostle Ifeanyichukwu Godson Ibeji and his executive at the state house in Owerri. At the meeting, Okorocha said despite the criticisms he has suffered from residents of the state, he indeed means well for them. "My prayer is that the Imo people understand me. When I started free education, they initially misunderstood me, when I built a chapel it was called a mosque and so on. I mean well for Ndi Imo. Our government intends to relocate the Police headquarters and Prisons to a more conducive environment. I am more interested in dedicating projects to God than commissioning them. I encourage you to introduce a Day of Peace, Reconciliation and Love in Imo. I am the most tolerant governor in this state. The press, our people and my opponents are free to talk and even insult me. No one under my watch has been disturbed for airing their v...

He might be a badass on the field but when it comes to his wife, Wayne Rooney is as mushy as they come. The professional footballer put everything else on hold to spend time with his wife and from the look of things, it was well worth it. The couple were seen  on Monday  sunbathing during a trip to Mykonos and the footballer was all handsy with his wife of nine years. Lying on a lounger, Coleen had on a red two-piece bikini which Wayne looked ready to pull off were it not for the other people around. Wayne Rooney climbed on top of his wife, wrapped his arms around her and passionately kissed her face, neck and chest.  See more photos below...

Imo State Commissioner of Police, Chris Ezike, has announced plans by the state command to confer posthumous promotion on the two officers, Sergeant Chukwudi Iboko and Sergeant Sunday Agbo, killed during a bank robbery in Owerri, the state capital in February this year. This awards come as Zenith bank where the police officers were stationed, also released funds as compensation to the deceased families. The CCTV footage of the bank robbery went viral last week with many Nigerians calling for the families of the brave mobile police officers to be adequately compensated. Sergeant Chukwudi Iboko was the officer who ran out of the security post during the robbery attack. He succeeded in killing one of the robbers before running out of the security post. Many Nigerians have applauded him for the bravery he displayed during the attack. At a press briefing in Owerri yesterday, the police boss said "Let me state for the avoidance of doubt that the trio of Sergeant Chukwudi Iboko, Serg...

Pan-Igbo youth group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council, OYC, says the only thing that can put a stop to the agitation for Biafra by the Igbos is for someone from the Igbo extraction to emerge President in 2019 with a Vice President from the North. The group said this in a statement released after its executive meeting in Enugu state yesterday. In the statement which was signed by its Secretary General, Okwu Nnabuike, the group said “it is Igbo president 2019 or Biafra 2020”. They alleged that the Igbos have been unjustly denied the seat of power for many years and that it is time they are allowed to become president or the calls for the Biafra nation will be actualized. The statement in part reads "It is sheer injustice and hatred, a situation where no Igbo has been allowed close to the seat of power for decades of years, whereas other geo-political zones have been taking turns either as military or civilian presidents. More annoying is the fact that the North, a major beneficiar...

The CCTV footage of the Zenith bank four-man robbery attack which led to the death of one of the robbers and many injured have surfaced online. The robbery occurred on 22nd February, 2017 at a Zenith Bank Branch along Wetheral road Owerri. The CCTV footage which was released online shows the moment the robbers drove into the bank premises and started to shoot sporadically. One of the policemen attached to the bank was able to gun down one of the robbers who went into the security office to see if anybody was there. According to reports online, the driver was caught at his father's burial and the policeman who succeeded in killing one of the robbers didn't die Watch the video after the cut.. 

An Oxford student who slashed her boyfriend with a knife may escape jail time because the judge thinks she is too clever to go to prison. 24-year-old Lavinia Woodward is an aspiring heart surgeon and is so brilliant she has published articles in medical journals. So despite the fact that she physically abused Thomas Fairclough then stabbed him, she will most likely be given a lenient sentence. The judge said it was "too severe" to lock up Lavina after she stabbed Thomas Fairclough in the leg with a breadknife and hurled a laptop, glass and jam jar at him. Judge Ian Pringle suggested he will waive the usual prison term when he sentences her so that her career will not get damaged.  He said: "It seems to me that if this was a one-off, a complete one-off. To prevent this extraordinary able young lady from not following her long-held desire to enter the profession she wishes to, would be a sentence which would be too severe. What you did will never, I know, leave you ...