Belgian footballer Junior Malanda dies in car crash, aged 20

Belgian Under-21 midfielder Bernard Malanda-Adje, nicknamed Junior Malanda, died yesterday Jan. 10th in a car crash in Germany. The VfL Wolfsburg footballer died when a car he was traveling in as a passenger crashed on a motorway near the German city of Bielefeld. He was on his way to the airport to meet up with his team-mates to fly out to South Africa for a training camp. He was just 20.

Yar’adua Is Responsible For Nigeria's Failure - El-Rufai

 Former minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT Nasiru El-Rufai has blamed the ”backwardnes” of the nation on the choices of  late President Umaru Yar’adua and Governor Patrick Yakowa of Kaduna state.

Mallam Nasir El-Rufai

He accussed both past heroes of choosing inadequate deputies and making their nation and state badly governed.

Mbaka Is Wrong, The Church Is Not A Place For Politics - Catholic Church

 The Director of Social Communications at the Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos, Rev. Monsignor Gabriel Osu has come out and talked of the recent political declaration by Father Ejike Mbaka.

Father Ejike Mbaka

The Reverend said that Father Mbaka does not speak for the church but only for himself and is therefore responsible for his own utterances.

Singer Faze meets with Bola Tinubu

The singer paid a courtesy visit to the leader of the APC at his home in Lagos yesterday January 10th. Wonder what he's up to.

German newspaper attacked 'over cartoons'

Daily tabloid Hamburger Morgenpost targeted in arson attack after reprinting French magazine Charlie Hebdo cartoons.

According to police, stones and an incendiary device were thrown through a window of the building [EPA]

A German newspaper in the northern port city of Hamburg that reprinted caricatures of Prophet Muhammad from the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was the target of an arson attack, according to police.

Policewoman Who Stole A Honda Crosstour worth N5.m

Police in Ogun State have arrested a 35-year-old dismissed policewoman, Funmilayo Balogun, and 13 others for criminal offences ranging from stealing, armed robbery, murder and rape. The state Commissioner of Police, Ikemefuna Okoye, paraded the suspects at the office of the Special Anti- Robbery Squad (SARS), Magbon, Abeokuta. Okoye also disclosed that eight vehicles were recovered from some of the suspected armed robbers, who had been terrorising people.

Jonathan's Campaign Bus Incident: Buhari Reacts

The attack on President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election campaign bus has been denounced by presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Muhammadu Buhari.

Buhari said that he won’t and wouldn’t support any act of terror by any supporter who resorts to violence.
‎”I have received news of violence in Jos today. I condemn this violence in its entirety. I reject any supporter who resorts to violence. Like I said after the attack on our supporters in Rivers this week, elections are not war. Electoral violence is unacceptable,” Mr. Buhari said in a Twitter post.