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Olamide and Burna Boy helped release Zlatan Ibile, not Davido – Aremo Gucci says

Aremo Gucci says

Nigerian Big Boy, Aremo Gucci has stated that the release of rapper Zlatan Ibile was secured by Olamide and Burna Boy, not Davido as widely publicized.

Zlatan Ibile was released yesterday after spending five days in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. He was arrested alongside four others which includes singer Naira Marley who was left behind when others got released.

Shortly after the release, news surfaced that it was on the orders of Davido who hired a lawyer for him. However, the news has been debunked by Aremo Gucci who revealed that it was Olamide and Burna Boy that helped Zlatan Ibile. Video below.

Nigerian woman cancels wedding after her fiancé abused her for four years

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Omolara Busari, 29, was left with no choice than to call off her wedding after she became a victim of domestic violence from her fiance, Adelekan Adelufosi.

Omolara, who is an indigene of Iseyin in Oyo state disclosed that she’d endured an abusive relationship with her fiance, Adelekan, 32, for four years.

The lady who spoke with Punch, revealed she’d only challenged her fiance when he asked her not to ever relate with any other woman who lives in their area.

Nigerian woman cancels wedding
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She said,

“There is a woman who lives in my area, close to my apartment. We were just discussing and greeting each other when he (Adelufosi) showed up.

“Later, he went to the woman’s shop and warned her not to ever see her around me again. When we entered my apartment that night, I asked him, ‘Why did you do that?’

“That was the last thing I remembered saying. By the time I opened my eyes, I found myself in a hospital.”

When asked why she held on to the man despite his abusive nature for so long, Omolara said it was because she had a daughter for him.

She said,

“Actually, I wanted to marry him because I have a daughter, who is two years old, for him. This is what kept me glued to the relationship. But this time around, I don’t care. Our relationship has ended and I have cancelled our wedding.

“Right from the beginning, my parents and siblings didn’t approve of our relationship, but I thought maybe after our wedding, he would change.

We were already planning our wedding for August 2019, but like I said, it cannot hold again.”

I regret ever going to church and believing in Jesus – Nigerian female traditionalist says

Nigerian female traditionalist says

A Nigerian traditionalist identified as Purity Nick, has taken to her Facebook page to state that she regrets ever going to a church and believing in Jesus Christ.

Purity in her post, said she does not believe in Heaven or that a man will someday take every believer to heaven.

Read what she wrote below:

Yahoo Boys take over Ekiti, Cast spell on women, steal destiny

When Yetunde Ogunje, a final-year student of the Ekiti State University, arrived Ado-Ekiti, capital of the state, three years ago, to resume at the institution, the first warming handed down to her by her uncle, Gbenga Adeseke, a lecturer at the school, was: “I congratulate you for being admitted to study a course of your dream, but I must warn you to beware of Yahoo Boys masquerading as children of the rich and the powerful on this campus, so that you won’t end up becoming their pawn for money-making rituals.”

The warning gave Yetunde the shock of her life as she had never heard of Internet scammers and fraudsters, commonly known in the local parlance as Yahoo Boys, being involved in voodoo.

In Lagos, where she grew up, she knew the Yahoo Boys as some smart Internet-savvy youngsters who outsmart gullible and/or greedy white women and men in search of fun or involved in some businesses that would bring massive interest on investment. She equally had identified the Yahoo Boys as those crazy youngsters who spent stupendously on ladies, ride very expensive cars, and lavish money on one another and the ladies in nightclubs and parties.

It never occurred to her that the smart guys had graduated from using their brains to using juju to make money. It is now called Yahoo Plus.

Yetunde said: “The Yahoo Boys who use girls for money-making rituals are real here in Ekiti. It appears that merely using their brains to cajole their white victims or some dubious moneybags no longer yields results. So, they have chosen other heinous ways to make huge money and this is, indeed, diabolical.

“I was curious about my uncle’s warning. I had some friends who were into Yahoo business in Lagos and what they did was to take ladies out and spoil them silly.

“ut on getting to the campus here, I heard so many gory stories of pretty campus girls missing after going out at night. The bodies of such girls were found later without some sensitive parts such as vagina and breasts. Sometimes, their bodies were never found at all. They were victims of Yahoo Boys.”

Funmilola Ojo, an undergraduate at the lkere College of Education, in Ikere Ekiti, is one of those who would have fallen victim of the rampaging Yahoo Plus boys, but for heeding the warnings from some friends on campus.

She said: “I am an outgoing person naturally and as such l like partying a lot. So, once I arrived on campus, I already had a mindset to indulge myself in partying and regular nightclubing. And I can tell you that there are many of such activities here in Ekiti.

“Although when you come to school from a bigger city such as Lagos, you are tempted to look down on Ekiti as a local place, where nothing really serious is happening in terms of social life, there are lots of fun places in Ado-Ekiti. The city bubbles at night because of the huge presence of Yahoo Boys.

“It does seem this is the headquarters of those boys in southwest Nigeria from my experience.

“So, when I started clubbing here, our friends, who already understood the terrain, gave us some tips on how to play safe.

“Asking too many questions from a rich Yahoo guy may land you in trouble as that gives him a warning signal that you might have had foreknowledge of what he really does and going to a club in a group of other girls may put you in safe company as this does not put you in lonely danger zone with a Yahoo Plus guy.”

Recounting some ugly experiences on campus, Rosaline Agu, an undergraduate of Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, said: “We have had cases of some girls who were used by Yahoo Boys. We know of a lady who suddenly became ill after spending a few days with her Yahoo boyfriend. She eventually bled to death and people said she must have been used for money rituals.

“While there are many cases of girls missing and never found, there are also instances of those who were found dead in the bush or gutter, with sensitive parts of their body severed. Such body parts include their public hairs and breasts.

“There was the case of Mercy, a student of Ekiti State University, who was taken away by her rich guy and when she returned to campus two days later, she started vomiting blood and blood gushing from her nostrils. She was rushed to the hospital but she died. What many people could make out of that strange thing was that she was used by Yahoo Plus boys.”

Saidi Adegbite, a secondary school teacher in Ekiti, told the reporter that the Yahoo Plus boys murder their victims in a most gruesome manner and harvest their blood or body parts. He recalled that some recent murders were speculated to have been carried out by Yahoo Plus boys.

Consider this: An old woman in Ajilosun, Ado Ekiti, a retiree from the old Ondo State civil service, Madam Akande, was found in a pool of blood, with her head smashed, by some church members and neighbours.

One of her daughters, who challenged the police to fish out the killers of her mother, said she suspected some Badoo or Yahoo Plus boys must have murdered her mother.

A 25-year-old mother of two, Kehinde Olomola, was on August 29, 2018, clubbed to death by a young man who had been making love advances towards her that she had reportedly rejected on a number of occasions on the ground that the man was involved in drug abuse.

A neighbour found Kehinde’s lifeless body one early morning in her one-room apartment in Igede Ekiti community, Ifelodun/Irepodun Local Government Area of the state. Her torn underwear and an axe were found in the room suggesting that she must have been clubbed to death after being raped and beaten mercilessly in her struggle with her assailant.

Similarly, some young men suspected of indulging in money-making rituals have been seen running mad on the streets of the city.

In October 2018, one of such young men suspected to be involved in Yahoo Plus had gone to have his expensive car washed in Ado-Ekiti.

He was said to have dropped his car key for the car wash attendants, who were as usual awed by the beauty of the car and decided to step beyond their boundary by ransacking the luxurious vehicle. They eventually found the abominable in the booth of the car: It was a live tortoise allegedly emitting crisp naira notes.

However, the shocked car wash boys were said to have stuffed some of the naira notes into their pockets and carefully locked the booth. But then, some signals had been sent to the Yahoo Plus boy who rushed back from where he had gone, panting and demanding to get the car key and immediately made for the booth.

“On seeing the strange object in the booth of his car and the strange thing it was doing, the Yahoo boy went wild with regret, asking “Why did this happen to me?” He instantly became berserk and started removing his clothes and displaying other insane manners.

“That was because his money-making secret had been blown open,” a witness said.

Yahoo Plus boys in Ekiti also do other appalling things to get rich. One of such is eating fresh human excreta.

A young man in his 30s said to be a cleric was caught consuming human excreta in the Odo-Ado area of Ado Ekiti on January 21.

An old woman who alleged that she saw the pastor feeding on the excrement raised the alarm, saying: “Everybody come. They have come again o. This one is eating shit. We have warned our people to stop open defecation but they would not listen. See this man; he is feeding on their excreta now.”

The man was promptly apprehended by an irate mob and he was lynched. He was stripped naked and paraded around the town. Thereafter, they put a used tyre around his neck, poured fuel on him and set him ablaze before security agents arrived the scene.

Encounter with Ekiti Yahoo Plus boys

The reporter was on an official trip to Osun State to cover the last governorship election. He had boarded a commercial bus that evening and found himself among some young men in the uniforms of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).

In a chat, one of them said: “With this iPhone, I make millions every hour. I have my laptop in my bag. I am doing the NYSC in Ekiti but I don’t ever teach at the school that is my place of primary assignment. I am a big boy. I ride Honda Evil Spirit and I have other cars such as Muscle Camry. I don’t downgrade myself following some corrupt politicians who will promise heaven and earth to their foolish supporters only to get there and become unreachable and unapproachable.

“I am a big boy. Once I have a tortoise or some object from my Baba under my laptop, whatever command I give to those white folks is promptly obeyed and I rake in millions of naira into my many accounts. I only pretend to be a small boy when I come to sign at my place of primary assignment in Ekiti. Back in Oshogbo, I am a big boy and my parents are happy with me.”

Determined to get more information from him and two others who joined the discussion, the reporter said: “But using juju to make money is evil and has consequences.” He replied: “Yahoo Boys don’t use juju to harm anyone. We only use what we have to retrieve the wealth of Africa the white men took when they colonised our forefathers. We are taking those things from them. When we were using our brains to take it, they got smarter over time and no longer fell for our tricks but now, except you have no human blood in your veins, my juju and incantations from the spirits must capture you for me.”

Herbalist’s view

It was learnt that some herbalists are usually consulted by Yahoo Plus boys to make juju that hypnotise their victims on the Internet. So, Daily Sun decided to investigate the veracity of the claims by visiting some herbalists.

For Chief Odofin Oluwo, he knows that Yahoo boys consult some of his colleagues who are fond of doing juju charms for them but he has never done it for anyone as his spiritual powers are not meant for such evil. He, however, narrated the encounters that some of his colleagues have had with Yahoo boys.

His words: “I recall an encounter a colleague of mine who used to be involved in such practices had with a certain Yahoo Plus boy whom he had requested to bring a lady that could be used for money rituals.

“The requirement, according to him, was that such a lady must possess some spiritual fortunes such as a bright future, which could be manipulated through diabolical means in favour of the Yahoo boy. Once such a lady is found, she would be used and the Yahoo boy would have to continue to take good care of her. The consequences for the lady is that she would never be able to have success or breakthrough in any of her endeavours in life as those fortunes have been converted to the Yahoo boy’s fortune who may end up marrying her or sending her away with a huge amount of money to fix her life.

“Such ladies who fall victim would end up not being able to give birth to a child or she would nurse a strange sickness throughout her lifetime.

“The way the Yahoo boys do this is to introduce the lady to the herbalist who normally would disguise as a friend or relative of the boy and, over time, administer some concoction or the other on the girl to cure some ailment such as menstrual pains or other common ailments for ladies.

“I feel so sad for ladies in Ekiti because one day my friend and colleague told me that there was a certain boy who was instructed by the herbalist to bring one of his girlfriends for such rituals. It happened that the boy had to bring up to 25 girls who were undergraduates for the money-making ritual but none of the girls qualified for the rituals because the herbalist found out that they had all been already used by some other Yahoo Plus boys who earlier dated them.

“Eventually, it was about the 26th or 27th girl the boy brought that qualified for the ritual, to show you how many young greedy girls have ruined their lives in Ekiti with their relationships with Yahoo boys.”

Responding to the issue of prevalence of Internet fraudsters in Ekiti, the state police public relations officer, Mr. Caleb Nwachukwu, said: “When you say that Yahoo-Yahoo boys are everywhere, how can the police know, when not informed, because we are not spirits.

“One of such cases on ritualists that we have caught, like you said, was in Odo-Ekiti, where we busted a shrine of suspected ritualists in their den. We can actually link that to money swindlers and we can say such people are fraudsters.

“But I want to urge members of the public to be very careful and be contented with what they have. It is when you are greedy that you can easily be duped or defrauded. We also wish to advise bank managers to ensure that they screen anyone they are hiring to man their use of technology for banking very well before hiring them. Customers of banks too should be very careful not to give out details of their banking activities such as their password and all that. What I can confidently say is that the police do not just go after some people. It doesn’t mean that we can’t work on suspected cases. If anyone reports cases of fraud to us, the police will investigate. And if such a case is one that doesn’t fall within our purview, we will refer such case to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the ICPC. There is a synergy between the sister organisations and this is being done to ensure effective and efficient security operations.”

Culled From TheSunNews

Davido celebrates Zlatan Ibile’s release from EFCC custody

Nigerian indigenous rapper, Zlatan Ibile regained his freedom, almost a week after he was arrested alongside his colleague, rapper, Naira Marley and 3 others.

Davido celebrates Zlatan Ibile’s release

All five were arrested over their alleged involvement with cyber crime – while Naira Marley is still in custody, allegedly due to some incriminating items found inside his laptop, Zlatan Ibile, Rahman Jago and two others person were freed on “bail”.

According to sources, their freedom comes after the intervention of a Senior Advocate of Nigeria that Davido hired for them, but they still have to report at the EFCC’s office, daily, till the end of the saga.

Davido celebrates Zlatan Ibile’s release

In light of this, Zlatan’s saviour, Davido took to his gram to celebrate his release. Sharing a photo of the rapper, he wrote,

Zankuuu Free ! People love u sha! Oya go back to making History ❤️ @zlatan_ibile

“I raped my neighbour’s daughter only three times” – Suspect says

A 40-year-old labourer, Sani Ibrahim, was on Tuesday, remanded in the Katsina Prison for allegedly raping his neighbour’s seven-year-old daughter.

Ibrahim, who will be in prison custody till June 26, 2019, is facing a rape charge under Section 283 of the Penal Code.

The police told the court that the victim’s father, Hamisu Lawali, reported the incident at the Bindawa Police Station on May 9, less than two hours after Ibrahim was allegedly caught in the act.

Ibrahim, Lawali and the victim were residents of Sabuwa Abuja Quarters, Bindawa, in the Bindawa Local Government Area of the state.

Lawali reportedly told the police that Ibrahim had at different times had unlawful carnal knowledge of the victim.

The police in their First Information Report informed a Katsina Senior Magistrates’ Court that Ibrahim during interrogation allegedly confessed that he had slept with the victim about three times.

Zlatan Ibile Regains Freedom, Naira Marley Remains in EFCC Custody

Indigenous Nigerian Rapper, Zlatan Ibile has regained his freedom.

Zlatan was yesterday, released after 5-days in EFCC custody, following his arrest alongside fellow rappers, Naira Marley, Rahman Jago and two others, over an alleged involvement in Cybercrime.

Zlatan Ibile Regains Freedom

Zlatan was released alongside two others, his personal assistant, Rahman Jago and Houseboy, Guccy Branch.

According to multiple reports, Naira Marley was further detained after the commission allegedly found some incriminating items in his phone and laptop.

IB9ja reports that Zlatan Ibile, Rahman Jago and two others person were freed on “bail” following the intervention of a Senior Advocate of Nigeria allegedly hired by Davido.

At the moment, EFCC is yet to give full details of Zlatan’s release and Naira Marley’s continued detention.

Speed Darlington shows off his mom in adorable throwback photo

Instagram sensation, Speed Darlington, showed a side to him that many haven’t seen before and it really is quite adorable.

The self-acclaimed “hottest African in America”, took to his page to share this lovely throwback photo of himself and his mom posing together.

Sharing the photo, he wrote,

‘Nwa mama aka Hot lava aka Speedometer da da da hottest African in America.’

Photo below,

Speed Darlington shows

“Lucifer is a movie Satan uses to make people admire him” – Stella Damasus says

Actress and talk show host, Stella Damasus has said movie series, Lucifer is Satan’s clever way of making people admire and get used to him.

Stella Damasus says

The actress made this known shortly after Joshua Bamiloye, son of Christian movie producer Mike Bamiloye criticized the movie on Twitter.

He wrote,

There’s a show
Called LUCIFER
Azin the devil o lol
And you,
Knowing how captivating foreign series can be,
You still watch.
Now you LOVE the character; Lucifer,
Like Jack Bauer.
And somehow you think,
the devil isn’t winning your soul over…

In reaction too, Stella Damasus revealed what she did when she caught her kids watching the series. According to her, she explained why they couldn’t watch it.

The information she passed to the kids about the movie was also passed to their friends.

She tweeted,

I had a conversation about this in my house weeks ago. Had to tell kids why they couldn’t watch it in my house or anywhere else. They understood and told their friends too. A clever and subtle way of getting one to get used to him and even admire. I no gree o..

“I declined movies roles in Nigeria because of cheap money” – Zari Hassan reveals

Estranged wife of Tanzanian singer, Diamond Platnumz, Zari Hassan, has revealed that she declined movies roles in Nigeria because the money wasn’t good enough.

According to Zari Hassan, the offers required that she traveled down to Nigeria for the shooting, but checking out the cost and comparing it with the amount offered was quite discouraging.

“For movies yes nimekuwa na offers kidogo from Nigeria, but the problem kidogo it needed me to move to Nigeria. Na shooting is not something you are going to do in a week, it takes a bit of time and some of the offers I declined because the time was too long and the money was not enough for me to leave my family, my work. So ikitokea a good offer for movie why not. I’m talented and I can multitask ,” said Zari Hassan.

The mother of five who is already engaged to her new man Kingbae was asked if she can be a video vixen.

“Video vixen I think I’m bigger than that honestly mtu kama atanilipa pesa ngapi for me to be a video vixen. Yaani I’ve gone past that stage,” she said.

US Embassy suspends visa interview waivers ‘Drop Box’ in Nigeria

The U.S Embassy and Consulate in Nigeria has suspended the interview waiver “Drop Box” application process, effective Tuesday, May 14th, 2019.

They made this known on the official US Visa Application platform.

US Embassy suspends visa interview waivers

The Interview Waiver Program (IWP), also called the Visa Interview Waiver Program, is a program managed by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Consular Affairs under which, under some circumstances, interview requirements can be waived for some non-immigrant visa applicants.

What this means is that if travel is necessary and your visa needs to be renewed, you must attend visa interviews like first timers.

“You changed my life forever” – Davido tells his first daughter, Imade, as she turns 4 today

Davido‘s first daughter, Imade’s 4th birthday is today, 14th of May, 2019 and her lovely parents, celebrated her as she turns a year older.

Davido tells first daughter

The singer and his baby mama, Sophia Momodu welcomed Imade in 2015 – in a birthday post on his IG page, the proud father of two, who was at his second daughter’s party last Sunday, expressed excitement at him having a 4 year old daughter.

He wrote,

‘My baby is 4!!!!! My First!! U changed my life forever ! I love you !! @realimadeadeleke ! Great news coming soon for the world !! @aurorabyimade !!! I can’t believe I gotta 4 year old!

Davido tells first daughter

Happy birthday to the youngster.

Music: 9ice – Epana

9ice Epana

Alapomeji Ancestral Records boss, 9ice, drops another banger just after he dropped “Ayo Ni”, earlier today, this one is tagged “Epana”.

“Epana” was produced by music maker, Shabba.

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Senate threatens to shutdown Bet9ja

PIC.23. SENATE CHAMBER DURING THE INAUGURATION OF THE 8TH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY IN ABUJA ON TUESDAY (9/6/15). 3023/9/6/2015/CH/BJO/NAN

Senate has on Tuesday, threatened to shutdown popular betting venture, bet9ja officers, if the company fails to honor its invitation for a second time. Vanguard reports.

While speaking on Tuesday, in Abuja, during the verification of Lotto companies with license to operate in Nigeria, Chairman, Senate committee on youth and sport, Senator Obinna Ogba, PDP, Ebonyi, who noted that it was unfortunate that Bet9a refused to honour their invitation, said,

“Clerk, write to Bet9ja again. If they did not honour your our invitation again, we will ask the National Lottery Commission to seal their offices.” Senator Ogba who noted that the Senate was making efforts to assist the lottery commission to generate money for the federal government, said,” We wanted to see bet9ja. They can’t runaway,”

According to Senator Ogba, their verification followed series of complains against the betting companies, adding that some do not even have offices while others have not been making remittances to the government.

He said that while verifying, about 20 betting companies that honoured Senate invitation, “some got the licenses but they are not operating. The new regulation only give them one year to start operations,”

Fans accuse John Dumelo of faking tears at his white wedding

We all know that John Dumelo is a fantastic actor. And He’s one who interperets whatever role given to him fantastically well.

Dumelo had his white wedding recently, and he shared a photo from the wedding, where he appeared to be shedding a tear. He captioned it “I hardly cry..”

Trust some fans to accuse him of ‘faking the tears’. While some were impressed that someone like him could cry, others weren’t buying the act.

15-year-old who scored the highest in JAMB cries out for help

Ekene Franklin, the Best student in JAMB Examination, 2019 has cried out for help, asking the government to help, as he’d not want to sit at home for a year, despite having the highest score in this year’s UTME.

Though Ekene is still hopeful that something can be done to avert him losing out in forthcoming admission exercise.

“I know it is their law and, if it is the will of God, something can done to change the situation. I know I cannot change the law on UNILAG admission criteria. But I hope someone can come to my aid on this age issue,” says hopeful 15 year-old Ekene.

“Initially, I wasn’t aware of the UNILAG law which states a student must be 16 years old. Based on that I picked UNILAG as first choice. It is the university law, no one is above it. If I don’t get support from government or JAMB on the age issue, I may wait for next year to write another UTME but if I get scholarship I will accept it. I prefer scholarship that will enable me travel abroad.”

Ekene, speaking exclusively to Daily Sun, said his focus is to get a scholarship and go abroad to study Chemical Engineering at MIT.

The 15-year-old student from Imo State, who is currently writing the May/June 2019 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), says if he does not get admission or a scholarship, he will prepare for another UTME next year.

”But I don’t want waste my high score,” he said.

According to him, he was expecting to be among the ten highest scorers in the UTME and that he prepared for the Matriculation examination like other candidates.

In the just released UTME results, Ekene emerged the highest scorer with 347, with the following subject scores: Englis, 78, Mathematics, 91, Physics, 86 and Chemistry, 92.

Kano police arrest man who attacked a nurse with knife at her duty post after she resisted rape attempt (Graphic photos)

Kano State Police Command has reportedly apprehended a 20-year-old man over an alleged attempt to rape a nurse at her duty post at a clinic in Taludu quarters, Gwale Local Government Area.

Spokesman of the command, DSP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, confirming the arrest, stated that the suspect, Bashir Yahaya, on May 12, trailed his victim to the clinic and used a sharp knife to inflict an injury on her neck in his wild attempt to rape her.

He further stated that the victim who was left with a deep cut on her neck was rescued by one Zayyanu Abdulhamid who also suffered a knife-cut injury from the suspect.

The injured woman has since been treated and discharged from the hospital while the suspect is in police custody under investigation. Kiyawa said the suspect, who was nearly lynched by the mob, was arrested at the scene and the exhibit of knife with blood stain recovered from him.

Kano police arrest man

He added that the suspect confessed to have attempted to rape his victim but that she resisted which pushed his decision to use the knife on her to force compliance.

The preliminary investigations revealed that the victim was a staff at the said clinic. The suspect would soon be charged to court.

Kano police arrest man

Hackers remotely install surveillance software on phones using a major vulnerability in WhatsApp

Hackers remotely install

Hackers were able to remotely install surveillance software on phones and other devices using a major vulnerability in messaging app WhatsApp.

WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, confirms that the attack targeted a “select number” of users and was orchestrated by “an advanced cyber-actor”. WhatsApp has urged all of its 1.5 billion users to update their apps as an added precaution.

The surveillance software involved was developed by Israeli firm NSO Group, according to a report in the Financial Times. Facebook first discovered the flaw in WhatsApp earlier in May.

However, the surveillance software would have let an attacker read the messages on the target’s device. Some users of the app have questioned why the app store notes associated with the latest update are not explicit about the fix.

How was the security flaw used?
It involved attackers using WhatsApp’s voice calling function to ring a target’s device. Even if the call was not picked up, the surveillance software could be installed. According to the FT report, the call would often disappear from the device’s call log.

WhatsApp told the BBC its security team was the first to identify the flaw. It shared that information with human rights groups, selected security vendors and the US Department of Justice earlier this month.

“The attack has all the hallmarks of a private company reportedly that works with governments to deliver spyware that takes over the functions of mobile phone operating systems,” the company said on Monday in a briefing document note for journalists.

‘Oldest man in the ‘world’ dies at 123

A Russian pensioner and shepherd who claimed to be the oldest person alive has died at the age of 123.

Appaz Iliev, a father-of-eight from the republic of Ingushetia, near Georgia, was born under the last Russian Tsar. He served in World War One but was declared too old to fight in World War Two.

According to Daily Mail, his birth records were lost so his age could never be verified. The oldest verified living human was Sarah Knauss of the USA – who died in 1999 at the age of 119 years and 97 days.

Iliev attributed his long life to getting 11 hours of sleep per night, retiring every day at 7pm before rising at 6am to tend his flock. He avoided doctors and medication as much as possible, although at the reported age of 121 he underwent eye surgery because of a cataract.

He ate only eat only fresh vegetables from his own garden, and local meat in his remote village of Guli in the Russian Caucasus Mountains. He drank dairy milk and fresh spring water.

Video: Asa – The Beginning

Asa The Beginning Video

Nigeria singer, Asa drops the musical video to her recently released song, which she titles, The Beginning.

The single ‘The Beginning’, Asa serenades us with her first single into equal parts 10 years. As the title of the tune recommends, the single flag the start of another time for Asa.

https://youtu.be/r-8IMK0V3sk

Two Nigerians charged with ‘Yahoo Yahoo’ in Singapore

In new reports, two Nigerian men who are said to be members of an internet love scam syndicate, have been charged in Singapore with recruiting local women to collect money for them.

According the police, such scams where victims part with cash after a fraudster feigns romantic interest in them are a growing concern in the city-state with police reporting 660 cases last year.

The Nigerians have been identified in local news reports as Oladayo Opeyemi Awolola, 34, and Gbolahan Ayobami Awolola, 37 – they were apprehended by Malaysian authorities in Kuala Lumpur last month and sent to Singapore on Monday.

The men allegedly recruited two Singaporean women “as money mules to receive criminal proceeds linked to internet love scams in Singapore” between 2017 and 2018, according to a police statement.

The women received Sg$85,700 ($63,000) during that period and turned the money over to syndicate members in Malaysia, police said.

The Nigerians could be jailed for up to five years each and fined if convicted. It is the first time that suspects based overseas are involved in internet love scams have been arrested and sent to Singapore for prosecution, police said.

Most of the internet love scams reported last year in the city-state involved fraudsters claiming to have sent parcels containing luxury items or money.

Their local accomplices would call the “recipients” and claim the parcels were being held by the authorities for inspection, and would only be released if they transferred money to a bank account.

Chioma swipes aim at Davido and his baby-mama, Amanda ?

Davido’s girlfriend, Chioma Avril appears to have thrown a shade at Davido and his Atlanta based baby mama Amanda.

This was after a picture surfaced showing Davido and Amanda cuddling and laughing excitedly at their daughter Hailey’s birthday party in America.

Shortly after the picture surfaced, it quickly went viral with many social media users amazed to see Davido show Amanda such open affection which they thought Chioma was only entitled to.

Well, fans are suggesting the post below is Chioma’s reaction to the viral photo.

My life is in danger over EFCC’s arrest of Naira Marley, Zlatan Ibile – Ruggedman

Nigerian rapper, Ruggedman, has said he has been receiving threat messages after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) announced that rising artistes, Naira Marley, real name Afeez Fashola and Omoniyi Temidayo Raphael aka Zlatan Ibile, will soon be arraigned.

Others are Tiamiu Abdulrahman Kayode, aka Rahman Jago, Adewunmi Adeyanju Moses and Abubakar Musa.

Tony Orilade, EFCC Head of Media, said the suspects were still in detention.

“They are still with us and expectedly will be arraigned in court this week. No date has been fixed yet but as soon as I confirm, I’ll let you know”, the spokesman said.

However Ruggedman, in a statement said despite the disrespect to his person, he has nothing against Naira Marley and hopes he will be discerning and utilise his position of influence appropriately.

He said:

“I have read and heard all sorts of comments pertaining to the Naira Marley case and seen the misinformation making the rounds which is quite unfortunate to say the least.

I do not know Naira Marley personally, the same way I do not know the over 300 Nigerians I have gotten justice for against police brutality. I do it because it is who I am.

All I did was caution a young artist, who has influence, against making utterances about an issue that by global standard is considered a crime. I believe correcting this was the way to go as an elder, but got insulted for this even by those being misled.

I never responded to Naira Marley’s invective nor those of his fans, same way I have not responded to any of the negative comments from social media.

I note that saying I was “happy in a way” about his arrest has evidently frayed some nerves and for that, I apologise. It was in hope that it would serve as deterrent for persons who might consider the said ills or need to make a u-turn.

It by no means was intended to wish for his downfall. It perhaps was not a good choice of word in hindsight. I do not look forward to anyone’s downfall but rather hope we all learn from the situation.

I hereby state categorically that I had nothing to do with his arrest. We all must recall that he glorified fraud on a public platform where security agencies like the Police, NDLEA and EFCC are also on.

I am sure they saw his posts and captions the same way we all did. I, however, was the one that cautioned him. I guess this was what led all the darts and arrows my way as a literal mortal retribution to my person.”

Music: 9ice – Ayo Ni

Alapomeji Ancestral Records boss, 9ice, is out here with a new jam, tagged “Ayo Ni”. This new piece was produced by Olumix.

This new songs has the typical Alapomeji vibe and it fills in as a follow-up to his at present humming song tagged “Arami”.

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Fight breaks out after a Nigerian man slapped a white man for insulting him

A video capturing the moment a fight broke out at an eatery, after a Nigerian man slapped a white guy in the US for raining insults on him, has surfaced online.

As seen in the video, the slap certainly made an impact on the white guy’s face which caused him to fight dirty with the Nigerian man.

Many chairs, tables and ceramic plates were destroyed during the fight, as people stood and watched them.

Watch the video below,

Mike Godson denies being married or expecting a set of twins with American lady, says she is retarded

Mike Godson denies being married

Actor Mike Godson has denied allegations that he is expecting a set of twins from an American lady, Latereece.

The lady reached out to LIB with photos and messages claiming she was expecting for Mike Godson and that they have been married since October 2018.

The actor who reached out to LIB to deny the allegation, said he has never met the woman and hasn’t even traveled to the US in the last four years. He says the woman is retarded and has apparently been dealing with a scammer.

Young man dies after the foundation he was digging at a construction site fell on him

A young man working at a building site in Ikirike, Enugu South Local Government Area of Enugu State, reportedly died on Monday after an underground foundation collapsed on him.

The incident happened near Ikirike police station in Enugu. The deceased has been identified as Chidera from Ngbo, Umuogudu oshia, in ohaukwu local government area of Ebonyi State.

“Devil is using the movie series Lucifer to win souls” – Joshua Bamiloye says

Joshua Bamiloye, son of Christian movie producer and evangelist, Mike Bamiloye, has criticized the series, Lucifer which he says the devil is using to win souls.

Joshua Bamiloye says

According to Joshua, series are very captivating and Satan has found it as a tool he can smartly use to win hearts to himself.

He tweeted:

There’s a show

Called LUCIFER

Azin the devil o lol

And you,

Knowing how captivating foreign series can be,

You still watch.

Now you LOVE the character; Lucifer,

Like Jack Bauer.

And somehow you think,

the devil isn’t winning your soul over…

He continued,

This tweet really exposes how bad things have gotten. Satan is far more smarter than we think. It’s not just sitting around waiting for rapture to happen. He’s turning as many hearts as he can to himself using MOSTLY the media. It’s the easiest most subtle way for him.

He added,

That being said, this isn’t to scare us, but to remind us to stay vigilant, wise, keeping our hearts and spirit on what glorify God. We are more than conquerors in Christ Jesus.

His post was buttressed by @Sucrexx1 who shared:

Totally agree…. The media is basically the root that stems into other branches of evil… the devil knows that through the eyes, he can capture a persons mind, heart and soul… and therefore what most people see drives their next action.

John Dumelo’s best man’s marriage crashes

Multiple reports are claiming that the marriage of Popular Ghanaian Movie Director, Fred Nuamah who was also the best man at John Dumelo’s wedding last weekend, has crashed.

Fred and his beautiful wife got married in 2018… Barely a year later, sources are saying it has packed up.

GHPage reports that the cause of the marriage crash is currently unknown, however it was learnt that Fred Nuamah who was John Dumelo’s best man and his now estranged wife are no longer willing to get back together.

While Fred’s marriage crashed, his friend John Dumelo is starting his. Last weekend saw stars from far and wide storm Accra for the white wedding of the Ghanaian actor.

John and his wife Gifty had already done their traditional wedding last year and welcomed a child shortly after.

During the white wedding where John was made to say his vows, he promised his bride that they will always stay together and that he would love to have her by his side when he leads Ghana.

He said: “I want us to spend our lives together and I hope and pray that, one day when I get to lead Ghana, you will be by my side”

Music: Asa – The Beginning

Asa The Beginning

Nigerian female singer,Asa is back with a new song after going 5 years without dropping a song, and this is titled “The Beginning”.

The single “The Beginning” is a song off her anticipated studio collection.

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