The five eastern states including Benue are to be in total darkness for 48 hours this weekend, the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has announced.
The outage is to enable the TCN complete the final works on the new double circuit 330KV transmission line from Benin Edo state to Onitsha in Anambra State.
The six affected states are Abia, Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi, Imo and Benue. While regretting the inconvenience to electricity consumers in the areas, the statement by the TCN Assistant General Manager, Public Affairs, Dave Ifabiyi said “the crucial final connection works (is) to be carried out by its (TCN) contractors, having completed the stringing of 330kV double circuit transmission line across River Niger. It is aimed at enhancing the transmission capacity in the area and improve grid power delivery and reliability nationwide.”
The Presidential Task Force on Power (PTFP) in a separate statement said it was working with the TCN to ensure that “scheduled power outage… will be as seamless as possible.”
Another contractor, MBH Power will also carry out pre-commissioning tests during this period, it said.
Chairman of the task force, Engr. Becks Dagogo-Jack, said “the benefits of energising the long-awaited 3rd Benin Onitsha Line amply justifies the regrettable inconvenience of two days which shall be limited to the Eastern states and part of Benue State.
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A youthful clergyman is nursing injuries at a hospital in Kakamega after he was badly injured by an angry husband who caught him red handed in a compromising manner with his wife.



The two had come from an evening service from the church when the woman, who is the youth leader in the church, invited the pastor to her house for a cup of tea.
The ‘cup of tea’ extended into the late hours of the night and as the husband stays in a nearby town, the good pastor was tempted to spend the night.
Unknown to them, however, word had already reached the husband that his house had been turned into a ‘brothel’.
Fury
The husband came home on that night raging with fury and ready to devour whomever he found in his house, even if it was his blood brother.
He arrived at around 11pm and noted that the front door was locked. Luckily, he had spare keys for the back door.
As he was getting into the house, the two sensed danger and the preacher ran out through the front door and sprinted to his house, which is in the neighbourhood, half unclad.
The angry man did not give up. He followed the preacher into his house and fished him out with the help of his brothers who had had been attracted by the commotion.
“When we caught him, he couldn’t say anything in his defense as even his wife was still crying at the mistreatment and shame he had exposed her to,” one of the brothers said.
Odd hours
The pastor, a father of two, for obvious reasons, remained mum when he was asked what he was doing in another man’s bed in the odd hours of the night.
His silence enraged the cuckolded man and his brothers into beating him senseless with kicks, bows and sticks.
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THERE is outrage in Okesa area of Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, following allegations that an 85-year old man, Pa Samuel Oladipupo, allegedly raped a 12-year old girl identified simply as Esther.

Oladipupo, who is now being detained by the Ekiti State police command at the command headquarters in Ado Ekiti, told newsmen in Ado Ekiti, on Tuesday, that he did not rape the girl, but that he attempted to have sex with her with her consent after he was seduced.

According to the octogenarian, he sent the JSS 1 student to buy recharge card for him, adding that she had helped him to enter the credit digits into his mobile handset at his home, and left.

He claimed further that “she came back and said she came to tell me that she was hungry.”

After a meal of bread and stew, Oladipupo claimed further, “She relaxed in the upholstery chair and took off all her dresses.”

  As a man, I began to lose control. But I’ve collected that it could be a plan to frame me an d I quickly stood up. So, I didn’t enter her.”

But the girl countered Pa Oladipupo’s statement, saying she did not seduce him but that it was the man that  grabbed her.

According to her, she had gone to mend her school sandal when Pa Oladipupo she had earlier helped to buy a recharge card, called her and accused her of stealing his mobile handset.

“When I told him I didn’t steal his phone, he then asked me to accompany him to his sitting room where we found the phone on the television and he apologised. As I made to go, Baba grabbed me and pushed me onto the couch and forcefully had sex with me. The loud noise I made attracted one woman who came to my rescue and took me to my mother.”
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When Emmanuela, 13, a JSS student of Shadoff Secondary school, Igbogbo, set out on that fateful day for her usual Thursdays fellowship and faith clinic service at a church, little did she know that it was going to be the most horrifying experience of her life as a teenager.

But by divine intervention, Emmanuela returned to tell the grueling story of her kidnapp and how she was slated for rituals before God set her free. But other ten passengers could not live to tell their stories.
According to her, “I entered the bus from Igbogbo around 7pm. I was going to my church for our Thursday vigil. When I entered the bus, I noticed that all the passengers in the bus were sleeping. They were about ten. I felt something was wrong and I quickly told the driver to stop for me that I had forgotten my transport fare at home.
The conductor then said that I should not worry that he would not collect money from me. I insisted I would get down, shouting that I was going to church and I would not be able to come back home even if he did not collect money from me. But he refused. As we were arguing on that, the conductor immediately brought out a handkerchief and waved it on my face and that was the last thing I remembered.

“I then saw myself at a shrine with other victims. The following day at the shrine, they began to kill others with knife and machete one after the other. Although we were blindfolded, yet, I was able to see a bit of what was going on. They decided Sunday would be my turn when they would conclude their rituals.”
“We were there without food or water, and when it got to my turn on Sunday, I was taken to the shrine again along with the remaining two. But I heard one of them saying ‘no, they should return me back to where they picked me. We were three left out of about eleven people.”
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As auditions for Nigeria’s Got Talent, a reality television series that aims to feature singers, dancers, magicians and other performers of all ages competing for the prize sum of N 10 Million (N 10,000,000) ended last Sunday.

Last Sunday, viewers saw Nollywood star, Kate Henshaw in a new light, when she got emotional when a 26 year old Albino contestant, Jude James got on stage to sing Michael Jackson‘s hit song “Heal the World”. She said “I’m just so emotional. I didn’t give you a chance, I judged by what  I saw, it’s there, I am so sorry.”

After getting 3 yeses from the judges; Kate Henshaw, Dan Foster and Yibo Koko, Jude James left the stage and told, the host of the show, Andre Blaze, that “I feel great and I am so humbled.”

According to a Nigeria’s Got Talent rep, the attendance in Benin, Abuja and Calabar was massive, the talents were impressive and for the not-so-takented, it was an easy task for the judges to give them the boot.

Three of which were an Abuja acrobatic group, Big Star Acrobatic Group, which Dan Foster found totally torturing.
He said “I know Nigeria’s Got Talents, but this is torture”, next was a 48 year old Ndanyomo Ogbonnaya, who came on stage to sing. Kate Henshaw was quick to tell him he wasn’t in his right element by saying “I hated it, every bit of it”
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Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi says he will give striker Shola Ameobi a chance to represent his country of birth at the 2013 African Cup of Nations.

The Newcastle striker has played for England Under-21s but has not featured for the senior team and was cleared by Fifa in November to switch nationality.
Super Eagles Head Coach, Stephen Keshi with Home Based Super Eagles at a News Conference
And Keshi is eager to persuade the 31-year-old to be part of his plans.

“Shola is a good striker and he has a chance to be on the plane to South Africa,” Keshi told BBC Sport.

“I’ve been watching him closely and he’s got something unique. He will definitely bring something different to the attack.

“I have Shola and [Everton striker] Victor Anichebe in my striking plans.

“I will give them,  Obinna Nsofor, Obafemi Martins, Chinedu Obasi and others a chance to fight for a place alongside other strikers.”

Keshi’s side qualified for next year’s Nations Cup after beating Liberia 6-1 on Saturday to record an aggregate 8-3 win.
And the coach is clearly intent on optimising the Super Eagles’ chances of success by trying once more to get Ameobi on board.

Ameobi, who was born in Zaria, northern Nigeria, before moving to England with his parents at the age of five, was first called up by Nigeria 11 years ago but rejected the chance to play for them.
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At about 4.15  a.m, M.I Abaga posted a tweet about an encounter with a ghastly accident involving 4 youths in a white Toyota Camry with plate number, TF787KJA.

The rapper called for help on the popular social media, Twitter. M.I and his team were returning from Club Octopus, the venue of the Hennessy Artistry event, where he performed alongside Naeto C.

Reports from his team reveal that although the artiste found the sight shocking, he is presently at home, and in good condition.
got to the site of the incident, the rapper and his team had left, and the victims had been taken away but a few people were gathered near the scene.

Officials of the Lagos State Transport Monitoring Agency (LASTMA) cleared the debris and towed the damaged car away from the road.

Although no one could say for sure what the cause of the accident of the accident was, eyewitnesses who spoke on the grounds of anonymity, assumed it was a case of either over speeding, drink-driving or both, as they suspect the victims could have been coming from a club.

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A 28 year-old student of University of Lagos was yesterday sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment for defrauding an American lady on the internet. The student, Michael Opaleye, allegedly defrauded Kathy Lunsford, a lady he met online of 9,200 dollars (N1.4 million) after making a bogus marriage proposal to her through e-mail.

According to the EFCC Counsel, Opaleye had convinced her to send him the money as part of his travelling expenses from the United Kingdom to the U.S. Using the alias, Bentley Lyon, he forged a bank draft which he claimed was issued by the Bank of Ireland, Dublin.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Opaleye is a student of computer science at the University of Lagos, and had entered into a plea bargain deal with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). He was arraigned on a three-count charge of obtaining by false pretences and forgery.

The judge sentenced him to 18months  imprisonment which would commence from March 15, the date he was first arraigned.

The judge also ordered him to pay N100,000 monthly to the victim, through the EFCC, after his release from prison till he offsets the full sum. He was thereafter asked to forfeit the electronic appliances and other items purchased with the proceeds of the crime, which were recovered from his house during the investigation of the EFCC.
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ANOTHER tragedy struck on Tuesday morning in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, when a middle-aged man, identified as Goodluck Amehule, allegedly committed suicide by jumping from the eighth floor of the Federal Secretariat Complex on Aba Road.

Though no one could ascertain what prompted Amehule to his action, an eyewitness, Florence Harry, said it happened at about 8.30 a.m.

According to her, the deceased removed his shoes, jumped off and died instantly.

It was further gathered that by the time officials of the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital annex within the secretariat complex arrived at the scene, he had died.

There was not much of identification found on his corpse than a Total E and P identity card.

When contacted, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Ben Ugwuegbulam, said “let us be careful about coming to conclusions when we are not certain about what really happened.

“We are investigating the matter already and I cannot tell you yet that it was a suicide.”

The corpse had been deposited at the Military Hospital, Port Harcourt.
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After eight years of trying different hands, organisers of the annual Gulder Ultimate Search have re-appointed actor, Chidi Mokeme as the anchor for this year’s edition of the reality contest show.



The announcement was made on the night of Sunday, October 7, 2012 at the Eko Hotel and Suites, Lagos during the final selection of the 12 contestants and the unveiling of some team members who will be on board.

The 12 finalists include Kofya Brown, Bornford Patience, Ayo Ojueromi, Uzor Osimkpa, Udodi Onyinyechukwu, and Ezeh Priscillia. Others are Ujam Emmanuel, Nuhu Haruna, Ogbuefi Michael, Ifet Iniobong, Ojezele Paschal and Adah James, all of who will proceed to the Usaka forest in the Obot Akara local government area of Akwa Ibom State.



Mokeme will be joined by past winners, Dominic Mudabai, Michael Nwachukwu, and Christopher Okagbue who will act as gate keepers while the show is on.

The show is in its ninth leg and has at different times been anchored by the likes of  Tin Tin, Darey Art Alade, Bob Manuel Udokwu and Genevieve Nnaji who hosted the celebrity edition.
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