Eko Direct News

The winner of the WEEKEND FOOTBALL PREDICT AND WIN is JBABY She predicted the scoreline to be: Liverpool 1: Stoke 0 She is winning this competition for the second  in two weeks. She has won herself N2000 airtime of her choice. Please leave a comment below as soon as u get your airtime. Congrats jbaby.

The sixteen months old baby is already living up as a celebrity.

Vanguard reports that, 59 passengers and four crew members aboard an Overland  Airlines plane  escaped death, yesterday, in Ilorin, Kwara State capital,  when the jet crash landed.The aircraft, with  registration number, 051175/1176, was said to be on its way to Ibadan when it developed fault.

Cyberthieves who used stolen credit cards to buy airline tickets have been targeted in a series of raids. British Broadcasting Corporation reported on Friday, that Europol co-ordinated the raids at airports, targeting people who were trying to travel using a fraudulently bought ticket. In total, 118 people were arrested at 80 airports in 45 countries during the raids.

AY and wife, Mabel, celebrates six years marriage anniversary yesterday. He released this picture on his IG and also this emotion message to his lovely wife; aycomedian Within the twinkle of an eye, it is already 6 yrs of marital bliss and 10 yrs of companionship. I met u when i had nothing.... but as a woman of substance and integrity, u believed in d man u decided to spend d rest of ur life with. Thru thick and thin we have grown into being there for each other, and understanding what it means to love and be loved. You are still the wind beneath my wings... that's why i fly so high in d place of grace and devine favour. I love and will always love u Mrs Makun. Happy anniversary

David Beckham and his 16 year-old son Brooklyn were involved in a car accident Saturday in England  and luckily, they both avoided serious injury. According to reports, the

The Emir of Kano, Muhammed Sanusi II, on Saturday visited the city’s bloodstained central mosque, 24 hours after coordinated bomb and gun attacks there that left at least 120 people dead.

Kylie Jenner is an American reality television star known for appearing on the E! reality TV show Keeping Up With Kardashians.

PUNCH reports that, Forty-nine-year-old Fred Obi was about to board an Ethiopian Air flight from Abuja to Tel Aviv, Israel with a strange cargo allegedly concealed in his stomach when the law caught up with him. He had ingested 1.594kg of cocaine.

Lol!

                               This guy will not kill me with laughter, He seems to be better as a writer than a singer. This is a must read,

Isn't she beautiful?

Gunmen in Nasarawa State attacked a Police van, killing two of the policemen and one was reported to be seriously injured. other three were said to survived without any injuries. According to PREMIUMTIMES , Two police officers on patrol were on Friday ambushed and killed by unknown gunmen along Wamba road in Akwanga local government area of Nasarawa state.

Three bomb explosions was reported to have taken place simultaneously at the Emir of Kano`s mosquethis afternoon. Among the worshippers was the Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido. The bombs exploded while worshipper gathered for the Friday prayers. Many were fared dead. No figure yet on numbers of casualties.

Some years back, if you see a man carrying a handbag, so many things would definitely run through your head.

A 25-year old armed robbery suspect, John Sunday arrested by the police has confessed that most of robbery gangs operating in Lagos metropolis recruit their member from traders at

This week's game is: LIVERPOOL FC VS STOKE CITY Predict the scoreline of the above match and win N2000 airtime of your choice. How to participate: Leave a comment with your prediction(scoreline), email address and your preferred airtime network. Goodluck.

According to Sahara ReportersThousands of people have fled the ancient towns of Kukawa and Gubio in Borno State for the state capital, Maiduguri, after a letter reportedly written by the Islamist terror group, Boko Haram, threatened an imminent attack.

Afrobeat Star, Femi Kuti has revealed in a recent interview with Encomium that he still regrets that he is not the father of two of his five children. Out of his alleged five children: Made, Afolabi, Dupe, Tosin and Ayomide, two of them, Dupe and Tosin (a boy and a girl) have been discovered not to be his biological children, according to a recent DNA test.  He confessed being disappointed and pained

Vanguard reports that, No fewer than 35 people, including five military personnel and a local hunter, were said to have been killed by a bomb explosion yesterday morning around Mararaba-Mubi area of Adamawa State.

Hedge fund billionaire Sir Chris Hohn is set to pay his American-born ex-wife $530m in what is thought to be the biggest divorce settlement ever awarded by an English court.

The Senate yesterday challenged former President Olusegun Obasanjo to prove the allegation that members of the National Assembly are corrupt.The upper legislative chamber consequently described Obasanjo’s allegation as unfortunate and a deliberate attempt at denigrating the parliament.

Sean John Combs aka P. Diddy, And his six children, including his step-son, Quincy, during thanksgiving.

THE United States (US) Embassy in Nigeria, on Tuesday, announced opening of its new DHL Document Collection Centre in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, saying applicants who are interviewed in Lagos or Abuja can now choose to pick up their passports in Port Harcourt, in addition to existing facilities in Abuja and Lagos.

Former Stationery Stores of Lagos goalkeeper and coach, Yomi Peters is dead. He died battling cancer at the Lagos University Hospital at about 8.55am on Wednesday, just as the Lagos State Football Association has condoled with the family.

According to Vanguard, A thirty-year-old first class graduate of Economics from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Moses Murtala Aminu was shot dead by a constable with the Nigeria Police. Moses had on Sunday, left his No. 67 Ahmadu Ahidjo Street, Narayi High Cost family residence for a party in Barnawa, Kaduna State.

Official trailer of Chika Ike's Miss Teacher is out. Check it on the link below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe6Fmq1MWkA

                                  PUNCH Metro  learnt that Bibire’s 20-year-old daughter, Sa-adat, was abducted by the gang on Thursday, November 6, in Uzoro, Delta State. Our correspondent gathered that the kidnappers, who were students of a polytechnic in Delta State, had opened a fake  Facebook  account where they posed as Alhaji Aliko Dangote.

Vanguard gathered from a reliable source that Buhari, alongside his entourage, was travelling from Bayelsa State to Makurdi to woo delegates of his party ahead of the APC delegates congress scheduled for December but had their flight denied permission to touch down in Makurdi.

The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved the purchase of N9.2billion worth of clean cook stoves and wonder bags for rural women under the National Clean Cooking Scheme.Wonder bag is a non-electric slow cooker invented by Sarah Collins, ‎a south African eco-entreprenuer, who came up with the idea six years ago during a power cut, when she decided to keep her dinner cooking by surrounding the pan with cushions.

Jordin Sparks puts even Taylor Swift to shame by mercilessly going after ex-BF Jason Derulo, calling him out as a vengeful ingrate. Sparks' SCUD missile takes the form of a mixtape, "#BYEFELICIA," featuring "How Bout Now (Remix)" ... it's a Drake song reworked to rip Derulo.

Don Jazzy, CEO of Mavin record turns 32 Today. Happy birthday!

John Legend, nine-time Grammy winner, admitted to Los Angeles Confidential magazine that it wasn't love at first sight when he met his now-wife Chrissy Teigen seven years ago.

Four members of a polio vaccination team were killed in an attack by militants in western Pakistan's Balochistan province on Wednesday, police said.

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf speaks at the opening ceremony of the Ebola treatment center in Monrovia on Nov. 25, 2014. Mir photos below....

As many as 153 sachets of narcotics weighing 1.7 kilograms have been found in the stomach of a 20-year-old man in a city in Iran’s northeastern province of Khorasan Razavi. According to Colonel Reza Ghadamgahi, the police chief of the province, on Tuesday, the narcotics were taken out of the stomach of the young man at a hospital in the city of Gonabad after he was admitted for injuries sustained in a car accident, IRNA reported.

The Lagos State police Command are battling to unravel the killers of a former director of the Lagos State Government, Mrs. Oluremi Jaiyesimi. The 63-year-old was found dead in her house in the Abraham Adesanya Estate, Ajah area of the state.

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, yesterday revealed that he is a cancer survivor. Speaking at a press conference in Ogun State, he revealed that early detection and intensive treatment were factors that helped save his life,

An Eko direct blog reader sent me this today, and urgently needs your advice;

The University of Jos has been shut down indefinitely after a protest by students over hike in fees turned violent. The protest started yesterday morning with students holding university administrators hostage in their offices.

Kate Middleton's baby bump was camouflaged in a stunning red dress as she launched the East Anglia's Children's Hospices (EACH)'s latest appeal at the Norfolk Showground in Norwich, England this morning, Tuesday, Nov. 25.

A suicide bomber suspected to be female attacked a crowded market in northeast Nigeria’s city of Maiduguri on Tuesday, moments after a bombing rocked the same spot, witnesses said. “People rushed to offer assistance to the victims (of the first blast) and moments later a second explosion went off,” said Laminu Habib, who was in the targeted Monday Market and whose account was supported by two other witnesses.

A teen man kidnapping gang led by an aide to the House of Representatives Deputy Majority Leader, Mr. Leo Ogor Okuweh, is reported to have kidnapped the legislator's stepmother last week. SaharaReporters learned that the lawmaker’s stepmother, Mrs. Martha Ogor Okuweh, was kidnapped at her home at Idheze community, Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State by an armed gang led the federal lawmaker’s aide, Mr. Edafe Oriomaro.

President Jonathan meets President Idris Deby in Chad Republic today. Another pic below....

Premium Times reports that, A federal court in Abuja has freed Aminu Oguche, the suspected mastermind of the Nyanya bomb attack in Abuja, the News Agency of Nigeria has reported. The court struck out a two-count terrorism charge against Mr. Ogwuche on Monday, after months of trial for the April 2014 attack which killed more than 70 people.

Bleona Qereti's dress to the American Music Awards yesterday.