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A 48-year-old Southern California real estate broker, identified as Catherine Kieu drugged her husband, tied him to the bed and cut-off his penis. Kieu threw the severed penis into a garbage disposal and turned it on, mutilating the organ. The couple married in late 2009, were involved in divorce proceedings at the time of the attack. Kieu drugged a dinner meal she served her husband, shortly before her Monday night attack. Garden Grove police arrived the couple's home on the 14000 block of Flower Street after the wife called 911 emergency. The police found the husband tied to a bed and bleeding profusely from his crotch. They untied the 60-year-old victim and rushed him in an ambulance to University of California at Irvine (UCI) Medical Center, where he underwent emergency surgery. The severed mutilated organ could not be reattached. He was listed in serious condition at the time of this report. Kieu acknowledged committing the crime to police. She was arrested on charges of ag...

President Goodluck Jonathan                                                        July 13, 2011 12:45AM President Goodluck Jonathan has called for enhanced remuneration for two key aides – the National Security Adviser and the Chief Economic Adviser – amid increasing tumult over national insecurity and state governments’failure to pay the N18, 000 minimum wage. With the NSA, often criticised for the government’s response to unabated bombings in the north, Mr Jonathan said Tuesday both aides be remunerated with a ministerial pay. Currently, ministers earn about the same salaries with a senator, fixed at N9.118 million per annum. That is besides the huge allowances they draw. Ministers also earn enormous pe...

                                                                                                          July 13, 2011 12:34AM   An official of Taraba State Government House, Maigari Umar, yesterday told an Abuja High Court how the former governor of the state, Jolly Nyame summoned him through a former commissioner of Finance in the state to a hotel in Jalingo and asked him to pay a contractor N200 million for the supply of stationery and office equipment. M...

Some suspected Boko Haram members Photo/NAN                                                                                                                                                           ...

The Ogba Road Around Area f, Plolice Station, After the Heavy Downpour in Lagos Yesterday. Photo: Femi Adebesin-Kuti                   Thousands of residents of Lagos are still reeling from the effect of weekend’s heavy downpour in Lagos, which has rendered many homeless and left property destroyed. Some residents were forced to stay back at home on Monday to scoop water from their houses and to estimate the damages to their property as a lot of companies permitted some of their staff to work from home. Areas most affected by the flood include: parts of Lagos Island such as Victoria Island, Lekki, Ajah, Ikoyi, while those on the mainland include: Surulere, Ijegun, Satellite town, Mafoluku, Ogba and Mile 2. As NEXT moved round the city on Monday, most residents were seen tryin...

  Uncle of the victim accuses the police chief to have links with the gunmen responsible for such crimes. The 12-year-old victim (Anisa) cries while describing the incident. The poor father and mother of the victim. While crying they say the whole family will commit mass suicide, if justice is not done. Awaz, father of Anisa is paralyzed and can't move and talk. Anisa, a 12-year old schoolgirl was gang-raped by five gunmen in Sarpul province in Northern Afghanistan. The girl and her family asked Hamid Karzai to prosecute the rapists and take their case seriously. They threatened that if they are not provided justice, the whole family will commit mass suicide to get rid of such life. They say, the local authorities keep silence on such cases and did not act to arrest those responsible. While crying, the rape victim told journalists that she was raped in a village called Baghabi in Sarpul province. She says five gunmen poured into their house in mid-night and after bea...

Residents of Ijegun, Ijedodo, Abaranje and Bucknor Estate say the construction should be top priority for Fashola government                 The rain came down like in the days of Noah, non-stop and with all drainages blocked by the on going contruction in the lagos metropolis, the whole streets and roads got flooded properties where destroyed people were made homeless and the list goes on. Which way do we turn. Residents are begging the state goverment through it's ministry of environment to come come quick to their aide. 

Frederick Fasehun addressing the conference, flanked by other leaders of some of the ethnic groups present. Photo: SEGUN BALOGUN                 The need of an efficient social security and reform of the Nigerian police force are some of the panacea recommended to the federal government to address the recent surge in the nation's security challenges as against suggested called for a break up. This was the postulation of an emergency conference of ethnic groups within Nigeria. The conference was organised by the Coalition of Ethnical Nationalities in Nigeria (CENN), last week in Lagos, to deliberate on the nation's precarious internal security and it was attended by representatives of 16 ethnic groups, with each group airing its grievance in a no-holds-barred manner. The high-point of the conference noted that the idea of secession, being mooted as the ‘only' solution on the recent security imbroglio in t...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), was working on modalities that would put a cap on what bank executives in the country could earn. Photo: FEMI ADEBESIN-KUTI            It is a good job if you can get it. Despite Nigerian banks not being ranked among the top ten banks in Africa, a NEXT investigation has revealed that Nigerian bank directors are the highest paid in the continent. Our analysis of the 2010 financial reports of Nigeria commercial banks alongside those of the biggest banks in the continent shows that directors in Nigerian banks earn far above their counterparts in other parts of Africa, who run even more stable, bigger and more profitable banks. Following concerns over the extravagant and reckless lifestyles of some bank chiefs, there were recent reports in the media suggesting that industry reg...

  Suleija: An explosion near a church outside of the Nigerian capital on Sunday killed at least two people, police said, the latest of a spate of deadly blasts to hit Africa's most populous nation. The explosion outside the All Christian Fellowship Mission was in the town of Suleija, which was also the target of a deadly bomb attack at an electoral office on the eve of April's parliamentary elections. "There was an explosion close to a church in Suleija," police spokesman Yemi Ajayi told AFP of the town on the outskirts of Abuja. "Two women seriously injured were later confirmed dead." Church pastor Joseph Olowosagba said services had ended, but some church members were still inside when the explosion went off outside of a window. "We just ended service in the church and we were having a meeting," he said at the scene. "Then we heard the explosion and some of our people were affected. As at now, two of them are...

A struggling pregnant woman's life was cut short Tuesday, June 28 at a roadside market in Uzuakoli, Bende LGA of Abia State from police loss of N20 ($0.13) extortion money. Madam Chinyere Chima an indigene of Alayi in Bende LGA of Abia State met her untimely death when a bus driver ran over her at her petty market post in Uzuakoli. The petty market is a short distance from the railroad crossing and has mostly female subsistent traders baking under the sun or sheltering from the rain on the roadside selling to motorists and travelers. Items sold by these women are mainly snack items that travelers can munch on to quench hunger and thirst, and include but not limited to bananas, groundnuts, kola nuts, bitter nuts, bread, and pure water. Foodstuff such as garri, crayfish, vegetables (such as ugu, uhah, ukazi, dried oligbu), rice, stockfish, etc. are also sold, but in small quantities. The bus driver according to witnesses was being pursued by police after refusing to giv...

  Published Wednesday, July 06, 2011 Nov. 8, 2006 file photo, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger arrives in Mexico City, Mexico, with his wife Maria Shriver. (AP) Arnold Schwarzenegger is set to give Maria Shriver a "very generous divorce settlement". The 'Terminator' star - who admitted in May to fathering a boy named Joseph with his family's housekeeper Mildred Baena 13 years ago while he was still married to the 55-year-old writer - is reportedly willing to give Maria more than she is owed under Californian law. An insider revealed to RadarOnline.com: "Arnold realises he is to blame for the collapse of his marriage. Maria was a loving wife and mother, and he doesn't think that any amount of money can minimize what he has put her through. He wants to do the right thing, and go above and beyond what is required of him under the law. "This is going to be a very amicable divorce, and it won't be played out in the media. ...

A faceless group calling itself Unknown Soldiers Squad (USS) Network that sent a threat email last week to a Masterweb writer, has given Nigeria federal government a three week ultimatum. In a comment post made on July 5, the group gave the federal government three weeks to convene a Sovereign National Conference (SNC) or face terror in the land. They wrote that if their deadline for a SNC is not met, the country would witness their wrath which would not spare both the army and Nigeria State Security Service (SSS) at roadblocks. They said the ratio of their casualties at roadblocks would be 50 to 1 (apparently 1 suicide bomber). USS comment post, just like their threat email of last week was apparently sent from a cyber cafe. The comment post was made on July 5, two days after the article on their threat email titled " Nigeria Terror Alert: Masked Group Threatens To Blow Abuja Into Pieces " was published. USS comment post is republished unedited below. ____...

Tambuwal Wins Speakership … 252 Votes Landslide: BREAKING NEWS!!! Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal (Sokoto), emerged Speaker, Nigeria’s Federal House of Representatives this afternoon… this victory boosts opposition who mobilized for him… to win with landslide 252 votes against 90 garnered by Hon Mulikat Adeola-Akande…

Oyo workers stone leaders over minimum wage July 6, 2011 11:08PM Officials of the Oyo State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress incurred the wrath of their members yesterday for accepting the old minimum wage as the June salaries for workers in the state. The state civil servants had threatened to begin a strike last Monday when it was confirmed that the government did not honour its promise to pay the workers N13,500 as their June salaries. Instead, the government paid the old minimum wage of N9,400, which the workers had vowed never to go back to. When Bashiru Olanrewaju, the state chairman of the NLC, mounted the podium to give a report on the meeting between the government's team and labour on Wednesday, he was not just booed by the highly disappointed members, pebbles were hauled at him and his executive committee members for accepting the offer. As it is the case in other states ...

Bauchi government rebuilds houses destroyed during crisis by armstrung bakam July 6, 2011 11:08PM print email The Bauchi State government has commenced the rebuilding of places of worship, houses, and shops destroyed during the January 27, 2011, Tafawa Balewa violence that led to the loss of lives and properties in the area. The chairman of the committee set up by the state government to assess and rebuild the places of worship, houses and shops, Tanko Dutse, disclosed this yesterday while briefing journalists on the activities of the committee in Bauchi. According to him, "the committee had so far assessed over 800 houses destroyed in Tafawa Balewa alone and there are some other wards that we have not yet assesed, but we have identified over 500 buildings in these wards. "The re-building of the houses," Mr Tanko added, "will be in batches, because we are going to start wit...

Posted by NigerianEye at 8:26 AM   A four-storey building collapsed at the early hours of Wednesday in Idumota/Ebute Ero area of Lagos, killing at least 18 persons. Report said over 35 persons were rescued from the debris while an unspecified number were, at press time, still trapped under the debris. The collapsed building An eyewitness who worked with the rescue team told our correspondent that 18 corpses were recovered from the debris and were taken to Agoro mosque in Idumota. He, however, did not explain why the corpses were taken to the mosque instead of the mortuary. The building... Among the casualties were persons from two different families, including children and women. The building, located at 4, Mogaji Lane, comprising several apartments and shops was reportedly constructed 10 years ago. Trouble started at about midnight, following a deafening sound which left the occupants in the dark. Some of them, particularly those on the ground floor, managed to esc...

Tribunal adjourns indefinitely hearing on Jonathan presidency petition                              The petition filed by the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) challenging the result of the 2011 presidential election has run into stormy waters, as the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, has adjourned indefinitely, hearing on President Goodluck Jonathan application asking it to dismiss the petition because it was filed on Sunday, which was a non-working day. Presiding judge, Ayo Salami, adjourned indefinitely the tribunal's ruling on whether to dismiss the petition or not. At yesterday's sitting, Wole Olanipekun, counsel to Mr Jonathan, said Sunday was a non-working day and that the registry of the court, under the applicable rules, is not to be opened on a Sunday for the transaction of any business. Mr Olanipekun ...

Central Bank unaware of bank’s minimum balance policy The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday dissociated itself from the United Bank of Africa Plc’s proposed N25,000 minimum balance for savings and current accounts held by its customers, saying it is unaware of the proposed policy. The apex bank’s deputy governor, Banking Operations, Tunde Lemo, told reporters yesterday in Abuja that the directive to that effect did not receive any approval from the banking sector regulator. Mr Lemo, who was giving clarifications on its recent cash collection policy, said the CBN would discuss with the management of the UBA to determine the rationale behind the proposed policy, pointing out that it would not encourage any commercial bank to initiate policies that would undermine the effort aimed at bringing the un-banked and under-banked Nigerians into the banking system. “This is not a Central Bank policy. We do not prescribe how banks conduct their business to a point that we begin to spe...

Sanusi Concerned about the negative impact the absence of an active commodity exchange is having on agricultural commodities trading in the country, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday asked the federal government to allow it take over the Abuja Securities and Commodities Exchange (ASCE) to help it deliver on its mandate. CBN governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, who was speaking at the opening of a two-day stakeholders’ conference on Nigeria’s Incentive-based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) in Abuja, said if properly positioned through adequate funding and clarification of its corporate governance policies, the Exchange could provide the platform fortrading in agricultural commodities. According to Mr Sanusi, following the dissolution of the country’s commodity marketing boards in 1986, commodity merchants had exploited the dearth in the coordination of the small holder farmers’ produce, thus creating a disconnection between primary producers, processors and ma...

Okonjo-Iweala pledges tighter Nigeria fiscal policy World Bank managing director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala laid out her vision for the Nigerian economy on Wednesday, pledging she would create jobs and ensure the country "lives within its means" if approved as a cabinet minister. President Goodluck Jonathan has asked Okonjo-Iweala, a respected former finance minister who helped negotiate debt relief in 2005, to return to her old position with broad powers over economic management, government sources have said. She appeared before the Senate on Wednesday to be grilled by lawmakers over what she would do as a minister, part of the process of approving Jonathan's cabinet nominees. "I am really worried about the issue of making sure our budget is not eaten up by recurrent expenditure. How can we invest in capital if we're spending all our money on recurrent expenditures," Okonjo-Iweala told the hearing. "Can we run a budget that is not negative? Absolutely. We ca...

Controversy heightens over Aganga’s ministerial nomination BY INI EKOTT July 5, 2011 11:48PM print email The controversy over the appointment of Olusegun Aganga for a fresh ministerial term escalated Tuesday with the House of Representatives urging President Goodluck Jonathan to abide by the law that backs a minister per state and a court being asked to declare Mr Aganga’s nomination on the slot of Lagos State illegal. Mr Aganga, the immediate past Finance Minister, was re-nominated as a representative of Lagos State by Mr Jonathan for an unnamed portfolio, and is expected to be approved today by the Senate. Following constitutional provisions that entitles each state to a ministerial slot, the decision has rekindled debates about Mr Aganga’s Lagos State claim - a controversy that first erupted during his first term in 2010, with officials and lawmakers from the state pressing for a replacement. They allege Mr Aganga hails from Edo State, an argument not yet count...