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Man burnt to death in Abia for allegedly stealing a bike

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A LIB reader saw this incident in Abia State where a guy was burnt alive for stealing a bike...        See photos after the cut..

Impeaching Ekweremadu will worsen N’Assembly crisis, says Sani

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Senator Shehu Sani, representing Kaduna-Central senatorial district, said that the impeachment ofthe Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, will deepen the crisis rocking the National Assembly and impede the operations of the executive arm of government. Sani, who was elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, said although he didn’t vote for Ekweremadu, the plan to remove him was not the solution to the crisis rocking the National Assembly. The senator said this during an interview with Sahara TV on Monday. Sani said, “We have to tell ourselves the truth. We are in a difficult situation. The fact that we have a deputy senate president from the PDP is a better alternative to the election of a senate president from the PDP because we could have had that on June 9. “If we remove Ekweremadu and replace him with an APC senator, the PDP in the senate would be a potent opposition that would continue to oppose anything that the executive arm presents. “Now that the AP

College student blames parents after she blows her $90k college fund

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A 22-year-old woman talked about her financial woes on an Atlanta FM-radio show whose wisecracking hosts made fun of her spend thrift ways and whose listeners talked about and belittled her on Twitter as the millennial who was giving millennials a bad name. Kim, who did not mention her last name or her school, said she spent her college fund of $90k on expensive clothes, jewelry and trips to Europe and told     “The Bert Show” that it was all her parents fault for not showing her how to manage her money. *Sigh* “Maybe they should have taught me how to budget a little better, a little more carefully,” she told the show the other day. “They never sat me down and had a real serious talk about it. They said, ‘Here’s your college fund, it’s for classes only.’” Kim said her grandparents set up the college fund for her years ago. She contacted “The Bert Show” after the school had just mailed her the tuition bill for her senior year. She explained that she was short about $20,000 for

Another robbery on Apongbo Bridge last night (photo)

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A LIB reader was attacked last night in traffic in the very notorious Apongbon bridge in Lagos. Below is what he wrote.... This evening around 9pm , myself, sister were robbed on Apongbon bridge in m traffic. The robbers didn't even give a chance to wind down the mirrors, just broke the glass with all of us in it and dragged our bags out of the window. It's unfortunate that in a country like this, With all the news every day from a common spot that there is robbery every day, nothing has been done about it. Hopefully one day, something would be done to protect lives and property on Apongbon bridge...

More photos from the dinner hosted in honor of Buhari by the US CCCCA

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Here are more photos from the dinner organized by the US Chamber of Commerce & the Corporate Council on Africa yesterday in the US. Guests at the dinner included CEO Symbion Power, Mr Paul Hinks, Pres. & CEO of Exxon Mobil Mr Rex Tillerson, Wale Tinubu, Tony Elumelu and others. More photos after the cut.