DEAL OF THE YEAR, AS FACEBOOK BUYS WHATSAPP

Facebook Inc will buy fast-growing mobile-messaging startup WhatsApp for $19 billion in cash and stock in a landmark deal that places the world's largest social network closer to the heart of mobile communications and may bring younger users into the fold.

The transaction involves $4 billion in cash, $12 billion in stock and $3 billion in restricted stock that vests over several years. The WhatsApp deal is worth more than Facebook raised in its own IPO and underscores the social network's determination to win the market for messaging.

Founded by a Ukrainian immigrant who dropped out of college, Jan Koum, and a Stanford alumnus, Brian Acton, WhatsApp is a Silicon Valley startup fairy tale, rocketing to 450 million users in five years and adding another million daily.

"No one in the history of the world has ever done something like this," Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on a conference call on Wednesday.

Zuckerberg, who famously closed a $1 billion deal to buy photo-sharing service Instagram over a weekend in mid-2012, revealed on Wednesday that he proposed the tie-up over dinner with CEO Koum just 10 days earlier, on the night of Feb. 9.

Shut Up, You're Ignorant: Governor Shettima Blasts Okupe

For the second time in about 48 hours, Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State on Wednesday met with President Goodluck Jonathan over Boko Haram attacks in his state. Shettima said he was at the Presidential Villa to update Jonathan on the fresh attacks that took place in Bama and other areas.

Confession – How A Married Man I Met On BBM Almost Killed Me With s*x And Drugs.

I am a graduate and currently serving in Kaduna. I could have runced it, but I needed somewhere to clear my head and forget about my ugly encounter. 

Here is my story.

I happened to have a married man as a contact on my BBM. He had been asking me out for over six months and I refused to date him. As time went on, he invited me clubbing with him when his wife was outside the country, and I went with him all night. We spent most of the night at Swe bar, Lagos.

I also met his clique of friends, married as well with their various mistresses. We had ‘mad’ fun. After all the clubbing and drinking, he lodged me in a hotel somewhere in Obalende. I felt sort of safe with him. We did not have se’x, but he made sweet love to me and touched me in places I had never ever imagined.

WHO BE THIEF? This is the question as EFCC Arraigns Former Operative For Forging University Degree

 

The bubble burst for a former operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Femi Ajibade, as his former employers arraigned him for allegedly forging his university degree.

Men Who Poured Pepper Into Woman, Daughter’s Private Part Arrested At Oba’s Palace In Lagos

 

Saharareporters earlier  last month, has learned of the arrest of all the perpetrators of a bestial torture and sodomy of three women in Ejigbo which happened February last year.

 The arrest of the sodomy gang, Saharareporters was reliably informed, happened at the palace of Oba Moruf Adisa Ojoola of Ejigbo late in the month of January, 2014.

Read How 56yr-old Jane Cole Met 28yr-old Nigerian Man In Gambia, Married Him, Relocated To UK And Got Heartbroken Thereafter

Jane Cole, 56, knew that The Gambia in Western Africa had a reputation for being a hotbed of holiday romances between young local men and older British women.

But when she decided to take a break there with her friend Vanessa in 2005, she never thought she’d find herself caught up in one.

THIS IS EVIL - Cultists Murder 17-year-old Bowen Undergraduate In Broad Daylight, Rips Out Her Intestines For Rejecting S*xual Advances.

The life of this 17-year-old student of Bowen University, Opeyemi Odusanya, has been cut short by some cult members in Lagos. The beautiful girl murdered for allegedly rejecting s*xual advances from some youths in the area and also for “being too proud.”

SEE The Bad Things This Woman Is Doing With Her Son

Some ladies just have a way of introducing bad things into the world. Model and actress, Stephanie Seymore is tired of taking raunchy photos with the different men out there now she has resorted to her own sons. She has been creating a lot of buzz online for the provocative new photos she took with her sons recently.

And it’s all for the money as an agency is paying her for some of the photos. 

Delta Kidnap Kingpin, Kelvin’s Gang Member Arrested

Delta State Police Command has arrested a member of the notorious kidnap gang led by Kelvin Oniarah, who had implicated a lawyer, adding “although he has not given the name of the lawyer, but in course of our investigation, if the lawyer is found to be culpable, we (police) will have him arrested.”