A Church of England vicar who oversaw hundreds of sham marriages to help migrants settle illegally in Britain was jailed for four years today.

The Reverend Alex Brown, 61, presided over 360 bogus ceremonies over four years at his small parish church on the South Coast of England.

Will you pay pay £1200 to sleep with this girl for just one night? Wayne Rooney, England National and Premiership footballer did! He had sordid sex romps with this £1,200-a-night escort girl. The UK Sunday Mirror revealed yesterday how Rooney paid for sex seven times with Jenny Thompson, 21, even begging her to visit him at his home while wife, Coleen was away.

Written by Soji-Eze Fagbemi, Tribune, Abuja

Against the speculations that the Inde-pendent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will release the 2011 election timetable during the week, Saturday Tribune can authoritatively reveal that there is no specific date yet for the release of the timetable. This became evident on Friday as the commission gave reasons on why the timetable is yet to be released.

Forty-four years after, the controversy over how Nigeria’s first Prime Minister, Alhaji Tafawa Balewa died may have been finally laid to rest.

Politicians from northern Nigeria on Friday accused President Goodluck Jonathan of ordering corruption investigations against those opposed to his candidacy in upcoming elections. The country's anti-graft agency strongly disputed the accusation, which comes amid divisions in Jonathan's ruling Peoples Democratic Party over whether he should represent it in elections expected in January. Jonathan has not announced his candidacy, but is widely expected to run. His team is believed to be working intensely behind the scenes to line up support, particularly from the country's north.

•Onovo, Police IG

Desperate politicians have resorted to self-help ahead of the 2011 general elections, by  hiring and training thugs to use during the period.
A top police source in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, confided in P.M.NEWS today that  intelligence gathered by its officers and men across the country indicate that thugs are  already undergoing training ahead of the 2011 general elections.

There has been nauseating reports about what is happening in Sydney – Australia in relation to the e-Passport. After paying $65 online, then you should come along with$70 cash to physically hand over to Nigerian embassy officials for an e-passport. If you goggle the Nigerian High Commission, Canberra, Australia and there is no email address for the Nigerian high commissioner (Prof. Sunday Oluwadare Agli). A victim told Elombah.com that he has written to NIDO-Australia (Mr Richard Ehiozee) to do something about this ugly trend.

Distribution of food and money for political mileage Vs articulation and implementation of issues and ideas to positively impact the lives of The People permanently! How nauseating! But most of all, how pitiful, and shameful that the Diaspora population that (ought to) know better, therefore, come to the aid of our hungry masses, has such apathy, and hardly does anything beyond write complaints on the Internet.