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As the controversy surrounding the alleged padding of the 2016 budget continues, a member of the House of Representatives and Chairman House Committee on Legislative Compliance, Abiodun Olasupo, says they were elected to pad the budget as it is their constitutional responsibility to pad the budget. According to the Nation, Olasupo said this while inspecting some projects within his constituency in Oke-Ogun area of Oyo State yesterday August 10th.                                                                                    Read more » Follow @cool_jist  

Barely two weeks after the group Managing Director of NNPC, Maikanti Baru, disclosed that President Buhari had ordered the corporation to intensify its search for oil in the North East region, oil explorers and their machines have landed the region and are currently searching for oil.                                                                 Read more » Follow @cool_jist  

Football star Cristiano Ronaldo and his teammate Pepe  on Wednesday  returned to training at Real Madrid, a month after he was stretchered off in tears at the EURO 2016 final between Portugal and France.                                                                                   Read more » Follow @cool_jist  

A glum looking Dejan Lovren who plays for Liverpool and earns £65,000 per week was pictured at Liverpool Airport without his wedding ring after his marriage was rocked when he found out his wife was having an affair with a friend that earns £200 per month as a forestry worker.                                                                Read more » Follow @cool_jist  

20-year-old Armenian weightlifter Andranik Karapetyan crashed out of the Olympics in agony after he suffered a terrible elbow dislocation during the 77kg weightlifting event. Described as one of the favorites at the event, his left elbow gave way during a second attempt to lift 195kg (429lbs).                                                                                     Read more » Follow @cool_jist  

15 inmates in the Nsukka Prison in Enugu state have escaped after breaking their cells and scaling the prison walls. This incident happened yesterday night August 9th. The controller of prison, Lawrence Okonkwo, who confirmed the jailbreak, said he is yet to get more information about the jailbreak from the Enugu state prisons controller, Isaiah Amariri. Meanwhile there are reports that two of the escaped inmates have been re-arrested. Follow @cool_jist  

Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri has signed a new four-year contract with the Premier League champions. The 64 year old Italian, led the Foxes to their first top-flight title in his first season of managing the club, a title win that surprised the world of sports.                                                                                              Read more » Follow @cool_jist  

A 13-year-old boy was allegedly shot dead by a relative while testing out the charms prepared for him by a herbalist for protection against bullets. According to the Enugu State Police Command, on August 5th, one Ekene Oluka killed Obumneme Oluka, and is currently on the run. Ekene had successfully tested his charms at different occasions on the deceased but the last one went awry.                                                                      Read more » Follow @cool_jist  

Twenty soldiers comprising four officers and sixteen men of the Nigerian Army have been arraigned before a court martial in Maiduguri, Borno state over offences bordering on gun-running and murder during their operation in the state.                                                                                                              Read more » Follow @cool_jist  

Few days ago 'The rock' put up a post on Instagram where he slammed some of his Fast & Furious 8 male co-stars, labelling them as 'Candy Asses', but no one knew who he was referring to because he didn't mention names. According to new reports from TMZ, the target of his wrath was co-star Vin Diesel. The former wrestler is believed to have taken aim at his fellow action star because the pair reportedly clashed several times during filming of the upcoming eighth movie after falling out over decisions made by Vin in his extra role as producer.                                                                                                                     ...

The trial of eight Nigerian men and a Cambodian woman accused of dealing drugs crystal methamphetamine from a Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries Church in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, ended on Tuesday, August 9, with the woman claiming she had no idea that the smartphone boxes she delivered in 2014 were filled with drugs.                                                                   Read more » Follow @cool_jist  

Michael Phelps now has a total of 25 medals of which 21 are Gold medals after the American swimmer won Gold in the 200m butterfly and Gold in the 4x200-meter relay event on Tuesday in Rio de Janeiro. Phelps, 31, comprehensively beat defending champion Chad le Clos in the 200m butterfly before he helped the US win the men's 4x200m freestyle relay.                                                                       Read more » Follow @cool_jist  

Tiarra Becca from Love & Hip Hop has been slammed by critics after she released photos of herself all oiled up and in bikini with all her four kids in the pics. Many feel she was exploiting the kids, that it was inappropriate and weird. See more photos and tell us what you think..                                                                                 Read more » Follow @cool_jist  

Clearly not satisfied with their celebrations on the pitch following their 3-2 extra-time victory  on Tuesday over Sevilla in the Supercup, Real Madrid players decided to gate crash manager Zinedine Zidane's post-match press conference in hilarious fashion. Real Madrid stars like Sergio Ramos and Marcelo mobbed their match-winning coach while he was having his interview before spraying water all over him.                                                                             Read more » Follow @cool_jist  

A passenger on board the Emirates plane that crash landed in Dubai has won a million dollars on the lottery - just six days after the accident. All 300 people aboard an Emirates airliner survived a crash landing in Dubai last week, scrambling down emergency slides before flames consumed the plane. One firefighter was killed battling the blaze.                                                                               Read more » Follow @cool_jist  

Photos: Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, appears in new video Factional leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has appeared in a new video, his first since March 2016. In the 24-minutes video, Shekau who spoke in Hausa and Arabic "I, Abubakar Ash-Shakawy (Shekau), the leader of Jama’atu Ahlissunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, made it a duty for myself to fight Nigeria and the whole world. We have no desire to fight our Muslim brethren. I’m alive by the permission of Allah" he said                                                                                  Read more » Follow @cool_jist  

Manchester United has finally gotten their man. Four years since he left the club to join Juventus for £800k, France star Paul Pogba was pictured this afternoon arriving at Man U's Carrington training base to undergo a medical after jetting in from New York ahead of a record breaking £110million move, that will make him the World's most expensive player of all time. He is expected to sign a five-year contract worth £290,000 a week.                                                                             More Photos » Follow @cool_jist  

Parents who have children in Federal government owned schools (Unity schools) are complaining at the sudden increase in schools fees. A circular sent to the parents on June 1st stated that fees have been increased from N20,000 to N75,000, that is about 375% increment. At the end of its National Excutive meeting yesterday August 7th, the president of the National Parents and Teachers Association of the Federal Government Colleges, Gabriel Nnaji, said it is untimely and insensitive of FG to increase fees in this period of economic hardship.                                                                                                                               ...

W atch  : Wife catches husband with a call girl in their matrimonial home, kicks her out naked  A Thai man identified as Sonchai decided to save few coins by not taking a call girl to a short time hotel but instead invited her over to his house thinking that his wife was working late. According to reports, she was actually supposed to be working late but decided to leave early. She headed home to meet a surprise waiting for her.                                                                      Read more » Follow @cool_jist