Former Arsenal striker Nicklas Bendtner has been sentenced to jail for 50 days after being found guilty of breaking the jaw of a taxi driver.
The 30-year-old was said to have refused to pay a taxi fare of £5 due to the driver after partying with his girlfriend in early September.
The 30-year-old was said to have refused to pay a taxi fare of £5 due to the driver after partying with his girlfriend in early September.
Bendtner, who currently plays for Rosenborg first punched the the man before kicking him as he lay on the ground. According to Mirror (UK), the former Gunners striker however admitted to the accusation because he felt threatened when the driver threw a can towards him.
Having being ordered to pay £176 in compensation, he told the court that he acted in self-defence and was released on appeal. The driver was acquitted of violence but fined £353 for using his phone while driving and not wearing his seatbelt.
Nollywood actor, IK Ogbonna has finally addressed rumours that his wife Sonia has walked away from their marriage.
In an exclusive chat with PUNCH’s Saturday Beats, popular Nollywood actor, IK Ogbonna, whose marriage is facing some challenges in recent times as, has addressed report making the rounds online that his marriage with ‘Oyinbo’ wife, Sonia Morales, has hit the rocks.
Speculations on their marriage break-up, had started after IK’s wife removed his name from her bio on her Instagram page, and the actor posted a caption that read, “Everyday opens up doors to new blessings. #husbandmaterial50000000yards,” suggesting that he was single.
Later on his Instagram page, the actor, however, insisted that his caption was not suggestive in any way. He wrote, “My caption is not suggestive in any way. Stop misinforming people. Somebody cannot write caption in peace without thinking how overfed adults would take it. My name is MR IK OGBONNA. Everything is stew here, thanks.”
In the new interview, the actor noted that his wife was an intelligent woman and that he gave the credit of their successful marriage to her because it was difficult being married to someone like him due to the nature of his job.
He said; “My wife is gifted; she is a very intelligent woman. You cannot sit down with her and not learn something; she is very expressive, she expresses herself regardless of what people think or say.
“It takes two people to make things work; on her own part, she does her best and she will keep doing her best. Being married to someone like me is very difficult because my career takes a toll on me. I am hardly around and available to give her enough attention as a woman, but I will keep trying.
“Most of the time, for a marriage to really work, it takes two people, but the woman has to be patient. So far so good, she has been doing a great job and I will give her all the credit.
“Any celebrity out there hardly has time because we work round the clock but whatever time I have no matter how little it feels, I spend it with my family. It is within that little time I go out with them and take pictures with them; that is when I go for events with them.
“I go to events with my wife, not to flaunt her but because in the little time I have to be in that event, I’ll rather be with her than go alone. It is never enough but I will always like to give it as much as I can,” he said.
IK Ogbonna accused some of his followers on social media platforms of not having genuine love for him, saying, “Some followers are there to hate, some get inspired, some are even there to do ‘eye-service’, and some of them are there as the press, just to pick things to gossip about.
“I have had a lot of people that come to me and tell me that following me has inspired them greatly; these types of feedbacks give me joy.”
“In my little way, I try to show people how to love and treat their family and be better people. I might not be right all the time with the things I express, but people can still learn from them,” he added.
Chief Sylvester Debe Ojukwu, the first son of the Biafran warlord, late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, has reportedly passed on, aged 62.
Chief Debe Sylvester Ojukwu, first son of late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumekwu Ojukwu, Biafran War lord is dead, according to an authoritative report by Vanguard.
A family source, who confirmed the news, said he slumped and died at a private hospital in Lagos.
The source who pleaded anonymity said that they are yet to issue a statement on it.
Meanwhile, speaking to PUNCH Newspaper, Bianca Ojukwu, the widow of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, said she cannot confirm the death of her late husband’s son, Debe Ojukwu.
When contacted on the telephone, Ambassador Ojukwu told a correspondent that it was not her duty to make announcements in the Ojukwu family.
When pressured further that as a stepmother of Debe, she ought to be one of the first persons to know about such things, she said Nnewi people had their customs and tradition.
“According to our tradition, it is not my role to make such announcements. We have elders in the family, who have such duties and functions. It’s not part of my duties”, she stated.
Calls to Emeka Ojukwu for a confirmation of the story were not picked.
All airlines operating in and out of Nigeria Airports will be affected as FAAN declares its intention to join the nationwide strike declared by NLC.
If the NLC goes on with the strike as declared, anyone who has plans of travelling around and out of the country might be unable to do so come Tuesday, November 6th.
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria has declared its intention to join in the nationwide strike declared by the Nigeria Labour Congress over FG’s refusal to meet its minimum wage demand.
Talks on a new wage have reached deadlock after state governors said they couldn’t guarantee the payment of N30,000 wage to workers. A court had ruled on Friday that the strike be cancelled, as it would jeopardize citizens’ livelihood. But the NLC insists it is well within the ambit of the law to embark on the strike.
FAAN said in a statement it was standing with the labour union, and will shut down operations in compliance with the nationwide strike.
Here are the first photos from the much awaited wedding ceremony of On Air Personalty, Gbemi Olateru-Olagbegi and Femi Ajayi, the manager of popular rapper, Falz, which is already taking place today November 3rd.
Though the bride and groom had hoped for a private wedding, fans got a wind of the information leaving Gbemi to flash her beautiful engagement ring in a photo she shared online weeks back.
The famous media personalty who had once been insulted by many over her single status finally ties the knots with her sweetheart today.
A Chinese man has gotten the beating of his life after he called a Kenyan man a ‘Monkey’ in his own country.
The Chinese, who was in Kenya, called a Kenyan man twice his size “Nugu” which means monkey. They were at a supermarket when this happened but that didn’t stop the Kenyan man from taking laws into his hands.
The Kenyan man dragged the racist Chinese away from the counter to a less crowded place and delivered a slap. As he tried to deliver another, others intervened.
Sharing the video Toziah Kbd wrote;
The Chinese man called the guy a ’nugu’ it means monkey in Kenya ??♀ clearly he wasn’t having it ?
Senator Dino Melaye of Kogi West district has reacted to the report of President Buhari receiving an attestation certificate from WAEC.
President Buhari was yesterday presented with an attestation certificate and confirmation of school certificate result by WAEC, following an outcry on social media.
The examination body’s registrar, Dr. Uyi Uwadiae, presented the certificate to the president at the State house.
Buhari receiving certificate
Reacting to the report, Dino Melaye wrote on his Twitter page;
Attestation certificate, egbami ooo. Where in the roots of our extant laws is this tapping annoiting from? Attestation ke! Haba kadan kadan ooo. Court must settle this Attestation wahala ooo. Not Army secretary again. Shame is foreign to APC. – SDM
An On-air-personality has just shared a touching story of how Toke Makinwa whose birthday is today, once replaced his entire salary that was stolen.
Osikhena Dirisu III who works with Beat99.9fm Lagos, has narrated how Toke Makinwa gifted him his entire salary which was stolen from him.
This was surely a very kind gesture which, Osikhena Dirisu III can never forget.
Taking to his IG page the OAP uploaded the above picture of Toke sharing the story of he she saved him.
7 years ago. I was doing my NYSC at 93.7fm Lagos and Toke was an OAP there. That is how our friendship started. After my NYSC i got my present Job at the Beat 99.9fm and Toke was so happy for me as we still stayed in touch. I was required to open a GTB or diamond acc at Beat for my salary. And i only had my NYSC access account. So that first month i was paid in cash ?
It was a lot of money for a 23 year old and i stupidly kept it in my back pack and went for some event that required i drop my bag at the security post.
Long story short my entire salary was stolen and i cried ehn. I cried to toke and she drove me inbtwn telling me off and chiding me to an ATM in her black honda accord and gave me everything that was stolen. She probably doesnt remember.
But its something id never forget. As you add another year today @tokemakinwa may God’s blessings be never far from you. May his grace follow you on every side. Happy birthday baby girl.
Nigerian controversial journalist, Kemi Olunloyo, has reacted to Laura Ikeji’s claim of telling lies against her sister, Linda Ikeji.
Recall that we reported yesterday, that Laura Ikeji wrote;
“So many lies being carried around, a child is any woman’s biggest achievement. My sister is very happy and in a beautiful space, how low can u go? You know yourselves, you’re the supposed classy ones, how low?? Leave us alone fam, we ‘re one big happy family. We ‘re good over here fam. FOH #somanyliesitsbecomingchildish #classlessbunch #wearegoodoverhere #doyouletsdous #icantkeepquietanymore #fakenews #foh”
However reacting to Laura Ikeji’s claims in the above comment, Kemi Olunloyo who advised the fashion entrepreneur to stop blocking her fans, reiterated her earlier claims of ‘Linda Ikeji never entering a hospital to deliver her baby.’
The journalist also said she will be dishing out a new gossip surrounding the marriage of Laura Ikeji to Ogbonna Kanu. She wrote;
#HNNGossip resumes tomorrow afternoon. #HNNHealth in the morning. I will be dishing you the latest on Laura Ikeji’s marriage to Kanu, Adeleke’s new cryptic song with Anidugbe and more… And more…about the Nkwerre villagers called #Ikejis GOODNIGHT!
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari was yesterday, issued a school certificate by the West African Examination Council.
In preparation for the 2019 Presidential Election, it was pertinent that the President produced his SSCE certification which is one of minimum requirements to contest for office (Buhari swore an affidavit in place of the certificate in 2015).
However, after the news made rounds, some Nigerians suspected foul play in the proceedings as they wanted to know why the President’s current passport photograph was used in the certificate for an exam which was allegedly written in 1961.
How Buhari wrote WAEC in 1961 with bald head, should be in Guinness book of world records.
First you say your original WAEC result is with the military, then WAEC suddenly re issues you one which is against WAEC Law. After forging the result you forget to add Mathematics in it.
WAce has now explained why the president’s current passport appeared on the certificate, saying that since it is an attestation and not the original certificate, the passport photograph that was submitted during application is the one that would appear on the certificate when ready.
Waec tweeted ;
Let’s educate ourselves a bit:
1. President Buhari was given Attestation of Results not a certificate;
2. Attestation of Results is given to a candidate whose certificate is damaged or missing;
3. It carries the passport photo the candidate submitted during application.
Let’s educate ourselves a bit: 1. President Buhari was given Attestation of Results not a certificate; 2. Attestation of Results is given to a candidate whose certificate is damaged or missing; 3. It carries the passport photo the candidate submitted during application.
Yesterday, the Ondo state police command arrested 22-year-old Togolese cook, Sunday Anani, over the murder of his boss, Chief Opeyemi Bademosi, a socialite and chairman of Credit Switch Technology.
Chief Bademosi was found dead in the pool of his blood by his wife, inside their home in Parkview estate on Wednesday, October 31st. (Read Here ICYMI)
Anani who is the prime suspect in the murder of Chief Ope Bademosi, was arrested at his hideout in Ondo State yesterday, October 2nd.
In a video posted online, Sunday alleged that some persons, believed to be assassins, came to their home on the day of the incident and killed the deceased.
In his words
”I am not the one that killed him. About four people entered the house that morning. They passed through the front door and opened the kitchen door. Immediately I asked who is that. They blew my face and neck and then started to drag me on the floor. They asked me where was chief? I used to call him Oga. So I asked them who be chief? I told them Chief is inside his room. They said where is his wife? I said his wife had gone out. They told me if I don’t say the truth, they would kill me. They blew me again and immediately I pointed to Chief’s room”
A Nigerian Lady has shared how she escaped being used for rituals.
She started off her story, narrating how she went out at exactly 4:48pm to get some stuff… But on returning back to her home, she entered a cab, which apparently was a “one chance” vehicle.
Taking to her Whatsapp Story, she wrote:
Continue below:
So, I told the driver I wanna highlight, and the man said in Yoruba (Oti di oun etutu), which means I would be used for sacrifice.
I was dumb for like 30 seconds, that was when I knew I was in deep shit… I started thinking of my life… Is this how I’m gonna die, is this how I won’t have my PHD, different thoughts was running through my mind and I don’t even know the ones to stick with at the time.
During this period, my phone had been collected and we are blind folded and tied, you know the normal drill. I couldn’t even shed a tear, I was busy thinking of how to escape once we arrive to the destination, thinking of different skills and shii.
We got to the destination and they they said let’s start with the fair lady, (in Yoruba) in my mind I was like this is end, so they started arguing amongst themselves, I could hear 2 female voice and 2 different male voices. They kept on arguing for a while and I have definitely lost track of time during this period.
They received a phone call but obviously I couldn’t hear the conversation, to cut the story short, one of the kidnappers said (ogbeni yii ma slow waa down ni sha) I was already happy for a second and they kept us all in a room, meanwhile, two of the male kidnappers were still arguing about he wanting to sleep with all the ladies before killing us.
The lady that kept us in the room forgot to lock it well, in short we found a way to escape and we found oursleves in IFO local government, here I am thanking God for my life.
Olori Badirat Olaitan Ajoke Adeyemi, one of the elegant wives and queens Of Oyo Kingdom is celebrating her 29th birthday today, with cute photos.
“CHAPTER 29…???
Happy Birthday to me…❤❤❤” she wrote.
As part of her birthday celebration, she paid a visit to her Alma Mater yesterday after 11 years to educate students on sex education.
The beautiful queen, and mother of twins is said to be the one attending to the king’s needs in the palace and she attends social functions together with the king and whenever you spot Oba Adeyemi at any official function, you are likely to see Olori Ola by his side.
Nollywood Actor, Benson Okonkwo has opened up on the question he has faced about his sexual orientation and he also gave reasons why people think he’s gay.
“I have talked about this gay issue endlessly and I am tired. People always accuse handsome men of being gay.
“I have played the role of being gay in three movies so maybe they are accusing me because I did justice to the roles. I am a versatile actor, so I was just being professional.
Speaking on the controversial picture he recently shared online, he said ;
“I took the picture for a movie. I have been living with this allegation and it is not fair; God will judge the people judging me. Whoever thinks he has clean hands should cast the first stone.
“Let them keep talking, talk is cheap and free; rumours even make me more popular. I have my fans, people still love me regardless of what some others say,”
The 13-year-old girl who died after she was constantly being raped by her Aunty’s husband, Andrew Ogbuja, and his son Victor has been buried.
She was buried amidst tears, yesterday at her home town, Ogene Amejo Okpokwu local government area of Benue State.
Ochanya who was buried yesterday, battled Vesicovaginal fistula (VVF) and other health complications at the Benue State University Teaching Hospital, Makurdi after being severely abused by one Andrew Ogbuja, and his son, Victor Inalegwu Ogbuja.
Speaking after the burial, a group under the aegis of Concerned Citizens For Ochanya, who commended the commended the thorough, transparent and unbiased investigation into the matter by the police and other related agencies, requested that the wife of the suspect, Mrs Felicia Ogbuja, be invited for questioning over her role, either by commission or omission, in the matter.
The group further demanded that Andrew Ogbuja, should immediately be suspended from carrying out his official duties as a lecturer and head of department in the Benue State Polytechnic, pending the outcome of the investigation into his complicity in the case.
The group also asked the Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom, to immortalise the late Elizabeth Ochanya Ogbanje as a martyr of child rape, sexual molestation and abuse to discourage future act of abuse, neglect and exploitation of children.
“The Benue State House of Assembly should also intensify efforts to pass the Violence Against Persons Prohibition Act (2015). We also call for a thorough review of the Judicial System to protect the rights of children against rape and sexual molestation.”
A 32-year-old man who had been raping women in Kaduna State, including his own mother, has, at last been, arrested by the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Special Squad.
Shekari David, who allegedly raped his mother and mother-in -law, has blamed his action on alcohol.
Currently detained at the Katari Police Division in Kaduna State, the suspect confessed that he had, on two occasions raped his own mother aged 65, and his mother in-law 70 in the dead of the night, while they were sleeping.
He said his behaviour made his wife to abandon him for another man. David said: “I am a farmer and I was once married, but my wife abandoned me due to my penchant for raping old women.
I don’t know if I am under a spell but whenever I am drunk, a spirit comes into me and I will be going around town looking for women to rape. ‘I have been beaten up over this issue severally, yet, I can’t still control myself whenever I get drunk.
I raped my mother during our last Moroha Festival, when I got drunk. I couldn’t find any old woman to rape and when I got home, I found my mother sleeping and I penetrated and raped her.
My mother screamed when she saw me on top of her and our neighbours gathered. Everyone saw that I was drunk and when I became sober I begged her to forgive me and she accepted.
Not long after that, I attended another festival in my wife’s community known as Mahuta and I became drunk again; in the dead of the night I went to my ex-wife mother’s house and found her sleeping and I raped her.
When the woman woke up and saw me on top of her, she shouted and people came around, and caught me. I was given the beating of my life before I was asked to go.
I don’t know what usually comes over me when I am drunk. That spirit is what normally pushes me to rape old women.”
We have received reports of a ghastly accident that happened along Abakaliki Road, Ebonyi state.
Two TSTC buses conveying Madonna University students from Jalingo, were involved in a ghastly motor accident at Abakaliki, Ebonyi State on their way to school from Jalingo yesterday, Friday, November 2nd, 2018.
One of the buses got burnt to ashes, roasting three of the students.
According to a source who spoke to us with condition of anonymity, he identified the students who died as Kerry Oliver (200L), Christable (200L, OPT) and Rita (200L, OPT).
Students who were rushed to the hospital were identified as Stanley (400L, MLS), Chidima Nwosu (200L, OPT), Divine (100L, EE).
A student who was in the other bus the moment the accident happened wrote: “One of my buses we chattered from Taraba state, containing only Madonna students (we chartered 2 buses) had an accident today around 6:PM, the bus somersaulted and caught fire immediately, the bus burnt beyond recognition, student were burnt inside the bus alive. 3 students were burnt to death beyond recognition (2 girls, 1 boy), 3 students managed to come out, but 1 broke her leg and head.
They were immediately rushed to the hospital (and they are all unconscious).
The buses contained 12 students (6 students in each bus, containing the driver, 7 people). It all happened in Ebonyi State, Abakiliki. (I don’t know the state of the driver, whether he survived or not.).
Currently I am in one police station in Abakalili, can’t travel again this night, I was actually in the bus in the beginning but later I changed to the other bus. (Thank God.) 5 girls and I’m the only boy in the second bus. We are all madonna students)
A 21-year-old woman, Shannon Barnard, was stabbed 46 times by her cheating husband, Michael and suffered multiple injuries to her limbs and body, including her lungs, liver and bowels.
Both her lungs collapsed and she has also been left with substantial scarring which may require skin grafts.
Mrs Barnard, who spent 17 days in hospital, later told police she felt ‘every blow’ and thought she would die, with doctors saying she was ‘extremely fortunate’ to have survived.
But in an unbelievable twist, a Maidstone Crown Court in Kent heard yesterday that she has forgiven her husband and plans to start a family with him on his release from prison.
Speaking during Barnard’s sentencing hearing for attempted murder, she replied when asked how she saw their future:
‘Just to be together and have the life that we both want with each other and have a family.’
The court heard she had also been visiting Barnard in prison ‘on every occasion possible’, and plans to see him twice weekly now he has enhanced status.
She agreed with his barrister David Taylor that he had told her he was sorry and how much he loved her, and when asked if she forgave him, Mrs Barnard replied: ‘Of course.’
Jailing Barnard, Judge Philip Statman said: ‘Your wife was extraordinarily lucky to have survived this ordeal.
‘The reason why she did so was down to the very quick medical response together with the extraordinary skill of the surgeons who undoubtedly in my judgment saved her life.
Davido is definitely a love-struck young man who loves to seize every opportunity to show off his girlfriend.
The singer has once again shown off his girlfriend Chioma but this time, also showing the faces of Chioma’s sisters. He referred to them as his ‘in-laws’ while referring to Chioma as his ‘wife’.
The video shows Chioma and her sisters all dressed up in their best to attend Davido’s lawyer’s wedding.
Sharing a clip of the sisters taken after they had gotten ready for the wedding, Davido wrote: “My wife and in-laws. No, I’m not tagging them.”
A fight between a bus driver and female passenger has led the bus plunging into a river in China.
Surveillance video released today shows the two physically fighting before the bus veered into oncoming traffic, smashed through a guardrail and plunged off the bridge into the Yangtze River on Sunday.
Police believe the passenger was arguing with the driver after missing her stop. No one is believed to have survived the accident. Chinese media reports 13 bodies have been recovered from the river.
A middle-aged man identified as Kingsley Chukwu, who had just been released from jail, posed as a genuine passenger, had dispossessed a commercial motorcyclist of his bike after knocking him unconscious with a sharp object.
A distress call was, however, received by Onipanu Police Division in Otta, about the incident, following which police operatives combed the entire area and succeeded in apprehending Chukwu, while his accomplice escaped.
The victim was immediately rushed to the hospital, where he is responding to treatment.
Popular Nigerian media personality, IK Osakioduwa, has penned down an emotionally sweet and heartfelt birthday message to his partner as she celebrates her new age.
Olohije Osakioduwa, the beautiful celebrant turns 36 years old today and IK on his Instagram post said she’s the one blessing in his life that always leaves him speechless.
He wrote ;
“It’s my amazing wife’s birthday today !!!??? Ok confession time: @kidskulture whenever I have to write you one of these messages, I think long and hard because as much as I live/love to talk, you are the one blessing in my life that always leaves me speechless.
So this year, let me just say that loving you is truly my pleasure, being married to you is definitely an honour and keeping up with your hair is a struggle. I love you Baby. God bless you”
The couple have been married for ten years and they have two kids together.
The man who drowned after he reportedly jumped into the Lagoon in Lagos on Friday has been identified as a staff of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reports.
A staff of FRCN, who pleaded anonymity, told the News Agency of Nigeria that the deceased was a driver attached to an Assistant Director in charge of Information Communication Technology unit of the corporation.
The source said that the deceased was newly posted from the FRCN Training School located in Shogunle to the Broadcasting House in Ikoyi, Lagos.
The source, however, described him as a gentleman.
Tunji Disu, Commander of the Rapid Response Squad, told NAN that his men got to the scene almost immediately and invited marine police and local divers who recovered the corpse from the lagoon.
“The deceased parked the vehicle he was driving on the Third Mainland Bridge and told other occupants of the vehicle that he wanted to urinate
“The occupants were shocked as he dived into the Lagoon,” said RSS Commander, Disu, Assistant Commissioner of Police.
RRS had earlier tweeted on its tweeter handle @rrslagos767: “A man has jumped into the Lagoon from 3rd Mainland Bridge.
“RRS riders got to the scene almost immediately and radioed for assistance from the Marine Police, LASG rescue Boats & local divers, who recovered the corpse.
“The remains have been taken to Ebute Ero division.’’
NAN recalls that on October 3, 2018, a middle-aged man drowned after reportedly jumping into the lagoon from the Third Mainland Bridge inwards Lagos Island.
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has been issued a school certificate by the West African Examination Council.
President Muhammadu Buhari has received an attestation certificate and confirmation of school certificate result from the West African Examination Council, Special Adviser Mr. Femi Adesina disclosed today.
Adesina, who is special adviser on media and publicity disclosed this on Twitter, Friday afternoon and taunted the President’s critics, who have been wailing over his certificate.
“WAEC presents attestation certificate and confirmation of school cert result to President Buhari. What will the naysayers say next?”, Femi Adesina wrote.
WAEC presents attestation certificate and confirmation of school cert result to President Buhari. What will the naysayers say next?
