SOS! Millions Of Crabs Attack Island! (PHOTOS)

Once a year a small island becomes a scary place for tourists as it gets covered by millions of migratingcrabs.

Christmas island is a small, mountainous island that’s located off of the cost of Australia. For most months out of the year, it is a beautiful paradise,

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UNBELIEVABLE PHOTOS: Popular Pastor Makes His Members Eat Grass

A South African pastor, Pastor Lesego Daniel is making his members eat grass.
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Pastor Daniel, who is the founder and Head Pastor at Rabboni Centre Ministries, situated at Zone 2 Ga-Rankuwa, north of Pretoria, has said that he was basically trying to prove that humans can be

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Bomb blast kills top Pakistan Police chief

A senior police officer, known in Pakistan for campaigning against the Taliban, has been killed in a bomb blast in Karachi.
Chaudhry Aslam Khan, the head of the city’s anti-terror operations, and three others died in an attack

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CBN introduces new payment system

The Central Bank of Nigeria has introduced a new payment system called Real-Time Gross settlement system as part of efforts to implement Payment System Vision 2020 strategy.
Mr Tunde Lemo, CBN Deputy Governor (Operations), made this known while briefing newsmen on Thursday in Abuja.
Lemo, who is expected to proceed on retirement on January 11, said that CBN put live operations to the new system on December 16, 2013.
He said that the new RTGS was integrated with Scrip less Security Settlement System and would replace the old payment system in use since seven years ago.
“The SSSS, on the other hand, is a new initiative to issue, manage and settle government and other

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Four feared dead as cultists clash in Ilorin

No fewer than four people were feared dead after clashes between suspected  two rival cult groups at Baboko in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital,  in the early hours of Thursday.
Though the immediate cause of the clashes was not certain, a source told our correspondent that the suspected cultists fought over an unnamed young lady.
As of the time of filling this report, only one of the dead victims had been identified as Babatunde Sulyman.

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Uduaghan to run for senatorial seat in 2015

Gov. Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta on Thursday declared his intention to run for the Delta South Senatorial district election in 2015.
Uduaghan while speaking with journalists in Asaba said that there was an unwritten zonal arrangement on where the senatorial race would go at every point in time.
“This unwritten understanding gives the opportunity to the Itsekiri race, in the senatorial district, to take its turn and I have every right to go.
“When it comes to the issue of election, I have a lot to offer, but the election being one year from now  is not what I should break my head  over,” he said.
Refuting the allegation that he was defecting to another political party, Uduaghan said that there was no need for such move.
He added that he was a foundation and a life time member of the People’s Democratic Party.

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Eid-el-Maulud: FG declares Tuesday public holiday

The Federal Government has declared Tuesday, January 14, as public holiday to commemorate the Eid-el-Maulud celebration.
A statement signed by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Mrs. Fatima Bamidele, on

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I’m ready to meet PDP BoT members –Obasanjo

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo  on Tuesday  said  he was not losing sleep over recent attacks on him by presidential aides and a former Federal Commissioner  for  Information, Chief Edwin Clark,  because of the letter he wrote to President Goodluck Jonathan.

Obasanjo, who spoke with The PUNCH   through his media aide, Mr. Tunde Oladunjoye, also said he was ready to meet with the Peoples Democratic Party’s Board of Trustees members, over his reported feud with the

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Bayelsa APC accuses police of dismantling flags, signpost

The All Progressives Congress, Bayelsa State chapter, has accused policemen in the state of dismantling its party flags and signpost.
The removal came barely 24 hours after the APC hoisted its flags, signpost  and unveiled its secretariat in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital.
The leadership of the party also fingered the opposition party for allegedly hiring the policemen  to carry out the “dastardly” acts.
The party also called on Nigerians not to disregard the letter sent by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to President Goodluck Jonathan, noting that the letter contained elements of truths.
The APC had on Wednesday hoisted its flags and signpost in its proposed secretariat complex along the Tombia round-about.
The development was said to have attracted crowds, passersby, politicians and motorists to the amazement of the members of the ruling party in the state.
Reacting to the dismantling of the party’s flags and signpost, Interim Secretary of APC, Mr. Sidi Godwin,  described the act as undemocratic, unconstitutional and political atrocity.

Sidi said he received telephone calls from private security men of the party that some plain clothes policemen stormed the secretariat on Thursday morning and dismantled all the party flags and signpost.
He alleged that after the action was carried out, the security operatives took them to an unknown destination.

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Bodies of US aircrew recovered from helicopter wreckage

The bodies of four American servicemen have been removed from the wreckage of their helicopter which crashed in a deadly training exercise on the north Norfolk coast.

The four US airmen, who were based at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, were taken from the wreckage by a private ambulance on Thursday afternoon after what investigators described as a complex recovery operation.

The bodies of the servicemen – captains Christopher Stover, Sean Ruane, technical sergeant Dale Mathews and staff sergeant Afton Ponce – will be flown to the US air force’s mortuary affairs centre in Dover, Delaware, once they have been released by the coroner in Norfolk.

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PDP remains strong in Katsina – Gambo

The Chairman of the Katsina State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Rabiu Gambo, said the party remained strong and organised in spite of the defection of some members to the APC.
Gambo stated this while receiving PDP Women Awareness Group which paid him a courtesy visit at the party’s secretariat in Katsina on Thursday.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Alhaji Abdullahi Aminchi, former Deputy Governor to Umaru Yar’Adua of the state, had defected to APC.
Aminchi was also Nigeria’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
“PDP in Katsina is stable and united and is not facing any crisis. In spite of the fact that some members benefited from the party, yet they chose to dump it for selfish reasons.
“PDP will continue to wax stronger in spite of what people say or do against it,” he said.
Gambo said the administration of Gov. Ibrahim Shema had executed numerous projects that had impacted positively on the lives of people of the state.

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Russia’s southern Stavropol region on alert after bodies found

Russian investigators are trying to determine who killed six men whose bodies were found in four cars abandoned in an area of southern Russia close to the volatile Caucasus mountains.

Three of the cars had been rigged with explosive devices, but only one of the bombs went off and no one was hurt.

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JTF winning war against oil theft, pipeline vandalism – Commander

The Joint Task Force (JTF) operating in the Niger Delta on Thursday said it was winning its fight against oil theft, pipeline vandalism and kidnapping among other crimes in the region.

Maj.-Gen. Modibbo Alkali, the outgoing Commander of the 34 Artillery Brigade, Owerri, said this at the sideline of the inauguration of a four-classroom block and ICT centre in Elele, Rivers.

The project embarked upon and completed by the Commanding Officer of the 343 Artillery Regiment, Elele Cantonment, in Rivers aimed to reduce classroom deficit at the barracks.

“The Nigerian Army, particularly, the 34 Artillery Brigade, with the corporation of civilians and the general public, we are able to contain a lot of security challenges bedevilling our area of operational responsibility.

“We have reduced kidnapping, armed robbery, oil theft and pipeline vandalism to the barest minimum.

“The work done by the unit (343 Artillery Regiment) and the army Brigade conform to the vision of the Chief of Army Staff to transform the Nigerian army into a force better able to meet contemporary challenges.

“The four-classroom block and computer centre, and other renovations and action done by the Chief of Army Staff have made our soldiers comfortable in their living environment.

“So, the welfare aspect in the Nigerian army is very good.”

Alkali commended the classroom project and synergy that existed among the various security agencies in their bid to end illegal oil bunkering activities in the Niger Delta.

The Commanding Officer of the 343 Artillery Regiment, Elele, Lt.-Col. Murkhtar Adamu, said the formation had reduced spate of attacks on pipelines belonging to Agip and Shell Petroleum Development Company.

Adamu said

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Dangote’s $400m Zambia cement plant ready February -Envoy

The Nigerian High Commissioner to Zambia, Mrs Sifawu Momoh, has said one of the Nigerian’s foremost investors, Dangote Group Plc, will soon complete the establishment of a cement factory estimated at $400m in Zambia.
She said the factory, which was billed for inauguration in February, was part of the Federal Government’s strategy to strengthen economic ties with  Zambia.
Momoh stated this when she received a team of the Technical Aids Corps led by Mr. Salmon Shittu, from Nigeria, who briefed the envoy on new strategies being adopted by the agency to ensure the effective operations of the TAC scheme in its mandate countries.
The High Commissioner, according to a statement by TAC in Abuja on Thursday, explained that the Dangote’s cement firm, when fully operational in Zambia, would give direct employment to many citizens of the country and boost the economic ties of both countries.

She explained that Nigeria had a lot to learn from Zambia in areas of agriculture and tourism.
She also added that her home country  was ready to help in the development capacity assistance of the Zambia

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PDP will not sink -Mark

Senate President David Mark said on Thursday that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party will not sink as being anticipated by some people as a result of the current crisis within the party.

Mark stated this in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity,  Mr. Kola

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