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A fake officer of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, has been remanded in Kirikiri Prison, Lagos, southwest Nigeria over extortion of motorists. The fake LASTMA officer, Obalufemi Obadeyi, was arrested by a patrol team of LASTMA on Saturday, 28 December, 2013 and was later arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrate’s  Court  for impersonating  as an official of the agency to extort money from unwary motorists. The accused, a 33 year old graduate of Business Administration from the Yaba College of Technology, was employed into the Lagos State Civil Service in 2002, before he was dismissed by LASTMA for misconduct in August, 2006. After his dismissal, he was said to have sewn a new LASTMA uniform and changed his name to avoid being detected. According to the prosecuting officer, the father of one was arrested by the patrol team of LASTMA after receiving a tip off from some motorists who reported illegal activities of someone parading himself as...

According to the report by  Sahara Reporters, Aviation Minister Stella Odua's Master's degree which she claimed to have obtained from St. Paul’s College Lawrenceville, Virginia, US and presented to the Senate in 2011 as a ministerial nominee, is fake, because the school does not offer graduate programs. Sahara Reporters learned from the President of the college that it has never in its 125-year history had a graduate school or graduate program. The Provost Vice President of Academic Affairs, and the Vice President of Institutional Development said “We don’t offer any graduate programs here.” Premium Times  went digging and it looks like the allegation is true because by 4pm today, her profile page on Facebook was edited and all traces of St. Paul’s College was removed from the account. It was also removed from her Wikipedia page and her biography on the Ministry of Aviation website . See screen grabs after the cut... Her Wikipedia page only says she received her...

Delta state born beautician and skincare expert,  Pela Tonye   Okiemute  (pictured below in his before and after bleaching phase) who specializes in skin whitening and sales of bleaching product says there is no negative effect to it. He recently granted an interview to Encomium mag. Excepts below... Why do you deal in bleaching despite the fact that it has a negative impact on the skin? The negative impact from bleaching is when you use bad product. Gone are those days when people use bad products like Hydroquine and other forms of chemicals that cause damage to the skin. We use advanced products and herbs which makes our skin look healthy. We have discovered some other products like Gluthatione. They are pills that are medically good and needed for the body, which has its side effect as lightening the skin.  So it is not a bad side effect because many people want to lighten up so they lighten up and become healthy. Gluthathione kills and reduces Cancer. It kill...

 The season of letter writing may not be over in Nigeria yet as elder statesman and former Minister of Information, Chief Edwin Clark joined the fray to excoriate former President Olusegun Obasanjo over his 18-page letter to President Goodluck Jonathan. In his 10-page delayed response to Obasanjo, titled: ‘Let The Truth Be Told Before It Is Too Late,’ and made available to P.M.NEWS this morning, Chief Clark described Obasanjo as “a mischief maker” and “an ego maniac who always want to play to the gallery.” Obasanjo wrote his letter to Jonathan on 2 December last year, titled ‘Before It Is too Late’, triggering a political tremor that is yet to quieten down. The Ijaw pre-eminent chief and political godfather of President Jonathan, condemned Obasanjo for writing what he called a treasonable letter to the president, adding that Nigeria does not belong to Obasanjo as pointed out by Iyabo Obasanjo in her open letter to her father. “Ordinarily, I never intended to join in the...