A 14-year-old pupil was crushed to death on Monday by a fast-moving vehicle while being pursued by a masquerader, aka okorosha, at Ogbaku, in the Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State.
A witness said that the boy, who was on his way to school at about 9am, took to his heels on sighting the masquerader, while the masquerader took advantage of his fright to chase him till he ran into the path of the vehicle on the Onitsha-Owerri Road, a few metres from a police division in the area.
After the incident, the masquerader was said to have mixed with other masqueraders, leaving the boy in a pool of blood.
Another witness, Mr. Linus Iwuji, blamed the community leaders for allowing the masqueraders to roam freely on busy roads rather than restricting them to the village square.
“I blame the community leaders for allowing the masqueraders to walk about chasing people. They and their guides even rob and rape women at late hours,” Iwuji said.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Andrew Enwerem, confirmed the incident.
He added that the police were investigating the incident.
The wife of Nigerian President, Muhammad Buhari, Aisha Buhari, who is presently in the United Kingdom to see her ailing husband, has given an insight into the power play at the Nigerian seat of power in the wake of a sickness that has kept her husband out of the country for over two months.
Her husband had flown to London about 65 days ago to resume medical treatment after an earlier round early this year.
In a Facebook post yesterday, She took a cue and alluded to some elements around her ailing husband as “the hyenas” and “the jackals,” hoping that they would soon be sent out of “his Kingdom”.
The post was a response to a proverbial Facebook post by the senator representing Kaduna Central District, Shehu Sani.
Mr. Sani’s post read:
“Prayer for the absent Lion King has waned; until he’s back then they will fall over each other to be on the front row of the palace temple. Now the hyenas and the jackals are scheming and talking to each other in whispered; still doubting whether the Lion King will be back or not…
“It is the wish of the Hyenas and the Jackals that the Lion King never wakes up or come back so that they can be kings. It is the prayers of the weak animals that the Lion King comes back to save the kingdom from the Hyenas, the wolves and other predators”
Responding to Mr. Sani’s comment also proverbially, Mrs. Buhari said:
“God has answered the prayers of the weaker Animals. The Hyenas and the jackals will soon be sent out of the kingdom. We strongly believe in the prayers and support of the weaker animals”.
The post then attracted some comments from her followers on Facebook, wishing her husband quick recovery.
Recall, Mrs. Buhari had returned to the UK last week after an earlier trip last month after which Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, claimed she was not allowed to see the president by an alleged cabal around him and upon her return to Nigeria back then, the President’s wife had said he was recovering well and that he expressed appreciation to Nigerians praying for him.
Veteran nollywood actor, Olu Jacobs is a year older today, and Joke Silva has wished him a happy 75th birthday on Instagram. She wrote;
“Happy Birthday gorgeous….75 is not beans !!!Thank you for all you do for me and the kids…the sacrifices.With you we are always first. ?Thank you for all you have done for the industry…theatre …film…television.????? Here is to many more years of impact. Happy Birthday????????”
Popular singer, David Adeleke aka Davido took to social media to show off his second daughter Hailey Adeleke whom he recently welcomed with US based girlfriend, Amanda.
The singer’s new Baby mama has been making waves on social media over her wild ways and the unconventional means she has been using to raise their kid.
Notwithstanding, the proud father of two shared the adorable photos:
Osinachi crooner, Humblesmith has spoken of his aspirations in a new interview with Broadway TV .According to him,he wants to break Micheal Jackson’s record.
He said
I want to break Micheal Jackson’s record.It sounds funny,i sounds
crazy.It sounds as if this boy dey mad oh,he don dey craze.But it’s
all about belief you know .When I was young,watching Micheal Jackson
back then,he was more like a god,people worship Micheal Jackson.I’m
not saying that people should worship me oh.But you see that standard,
that is what I ant to break.So my future is very bright,very huge.
Telecoms firm, Etisalat International, has just threw a blow at the telecommunciation sector in Nigeria after announcing its exit from the Nigerian market yesterday, July 10.
Etisalat owes a consortium of banks some money and have been unable to pay back. The firm is expected to be phased out in three weeks according to reports.
Etisalat International’s Chief Executive Officer, Hatem Dowidar, revealed that the exit process became inevitable since the company could not convert some of its dollar debts to naira.
“The Nigerian lenders may try to continue to operate the company until they find a buyer; or they may merge the company with the existing players in Nigeria”, Dowidar noted.
He said he isn’t sure what the lenders would do.
“The brand agreement in either of these two scenarios won’t be a long-term thing, so we take out the brand; in the long term, Etisalat won’t be in Nigeria.”
“There’s a new board and we are not part of that company. We have sent our termination letter for the management agreement,” Dowidar said of the ongoing discussions with Etisalat Nigeria.
A Facebook user, Adesuwa Omo, excitedly shared this post of her younger brother, Godswill Omoregie and wife, Onyinyechi Onyemere, who had a set of triplets (all girls) after 10 years of a childless marriage.
She wrote:
“ HALLELUJAH! HALLELUJAH!! HALLELUJAH!!! SOMEBODY HELP ME SHOUT HALLELUJAH ON THE ARRIVAL OF MY YOUNGER BROTHER’S TRIPLETS, AFTER WAITING ON THE LORD FOR TEN YEARS!
Congratulations on the arrival of the triplets! The fact that both of you are such wonderful human being are proved by this act of God who bestowed upon you with thrice the blessings and happiness. But one thing is for sure that both of you guys are going to have your hands full, quite literally. Best of luck and God’s favour in Jesus Mighty Name Amen.”
According to KFB, it has been gathered that Big Brother Naija finalist and songstress, Debie Rise, and Big Brother Africa finalist Melvin Oduah are in a relationship! Although we had this gist for a long time now, we did not publish it as we couldn’t confirm it to be 100%.
However recent photos of the Kogi born singer and the South-South born actor cum model suggests so.
The duo are currently touring Dubai like new couple on honeymoon and sources whispered to paparazi that they are there to ‘bond’ and get to know each other better
Fellow finalist Bisola Aiyeole had to ask some questions after seeing their loved up photos!.. She wrote:
“Debieddd I wanna ask a kweshion. Is it a love sturves I’m seeing here?”
Madam Dame Patience Jonathan, the wife of the former president of Nigeria has just alleged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC of plotting to terminate her life.
She claimed the EFCC withheld her phone and has sent assassins after her on two separate occasions.
The letter written by her lawyers, Granville Abibo (SAN) & Co reads:
“There have been assassination attempts, at least twice, between February and April, 2017, against our client ostensibly by the operatives of the EFCC along the Yenagoa-Mbaima Road, Bayelsa State, in furtherance of its unlawful actions against the former first family.”
“The EFCC and its agents have repeatedly bugged the personal telephones of our client and her relations through its many operatives and has inundated her with numerous threatening calls and text messages.”
According to her, other government agencies like the Federal Inland Revenue Service have also intimidated her.
“On May 3, 2017, officials of the FIRS, in a convoy of about 20 trucks and over 70 personnel, raided our client’s NGO – Aridolf Jo Resort Wellness and Spa Limited – situated at Kpansia Expressway, Bayelsa State, and orchestrated a massive destruction of personal properties belonging to our client without any lawful court order or search warrant and caused mayhem there under the guise of trying to collect unpaid taxes without following any due process provided by law to do so.”
Meanwhile, the anti-graft agency is yet to react to this fresh allegation from the former first lady of Nigeria.
Popular Comic Nollywood actor Babatunde Omidina AKA Baba Suwe has lent his voice to the ongoing Badoo tragedy in Ikorodu Lagos.
In this chat with Encomium, the actor said the activities of the ritualists have turned Ikorodu into a hot spot where vigilante groups embarrass visitors with barrage of questions especially at night.
“I was born and bred in Lagos but I have been living in Ikorodu for over ten years. Since I have been here, nothing like this has happened before. Personally I am very afraid of these boys and my prayer is that I should never encounter them in my life.
With all that I have heard about their activities, I am scared of them. Their activities have hindered my movement because it is no longer advisable to move around at night.
In fact you would be shocked at the number of vigilante groups you would meet on the way. Ikorodu is now hot and a lot of people do not want to come here.
It is so bad that lots of landlords have vacated their homes for fear of these boys. They ran for their lives.
“What these boys are doing is very terrible and they are embarrassing a lot of people. If anyone wants to come to Ikorodu at night, they would meet so many security men who would begin to question them.
This kind of embarrassment is getting too much but I am sure that God would save us,”
Embattled Nigerian Singer, Oyindamola Johnson Emmanuel AKA Dammy Krane gave out 100k on Twitter on Sunday.
Though details of his court hearing which of on tje 23rd of June has been kept away from the media, the ‘my dear’ singer seems to be enjoying a lot of free time.
Last night he also promised to give out 150k to his followers on Snapchat.
Mercy Aigbe is quite excited about her daughter’s stunning beautiful as she celebrates her for completing secondary school, in a school thanksgiving ceremony.
Michelle who turned 16 today, donned a dazzling blue dress which was designed into a ball dress.
The dress was designed into a three-step flowing dress with a glamorous one shoulder ruffled bow.
She completed her looks with a white turban scarf, silver heels and matching silver earrings.
The teen beauty, who wore the sequined dress to her school’s thanksgiving service, had the help of her mom and her glam team.
The proud mother shared the photos with the caption,
‘When your aunties are the best at what they do and your momma loves fashion …….. you gotta shine!
It’s thanksgiving Sunday in school, thank you Jehovah for seeing my princess @michelleio__ tru this journey ……..
Proud Momma
Makeup by @beautifixx
Dress by @ceolumineeofficial
Styled by Mummy Mercy Aigbe .’
Mary Akpobome, the wife of the Nigerian comedy star, Ali Baba (born Oshareme Ovu-Ovu) is celebrating her 48th birthday today, July 11.
Ali Baba has now employed a sorts of sweet words to overwhelm his beloved wife. One of such is that:”mummymary is the joke supiiler” to the comedy legend. Alibaba might just have been drawing his inspirations to crack everyone up at once from the beautiful wife.
Ali Baba also inferred that the recently ended #HalleluyahChallenge got the attention of his darling from him.
He wrote this on his Instagram early this morning:
“Happy birthday to my MTO. You turn a year older today and I pray that God will make all your desires come to fruition. Please when you are less busy later today drop by @mummymary_ and wish her a happy birthday for me. She has been a friend, a lover, an adviser, a mother of my kids, a prayer warrior, a financial consultant, jokes screener, jokes supplier, family glue, babe, marketer, my PR manager, Personal Assistant, my wife and the real Olori. Happy birthday Ochuko.”
See pictures:
Al baba legally married Mary in 2006 after a long time.
Defiling the court order, which was granted to suspend all process of Senator Dino Melaye’s recall, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has continued with the recall process of the Kogi West Senatorial district representative, saying that the electoral body could not be stopped from performing its constitutional duty.
The Nation reported that INEC on Monday pasted the notice of the verification of the recall process at its Kogi state office.
Melaye, is facing a recall by his constituents who have filed a recall with signatures; the recall will run from July 10 to August 19.
INEC decided to continue with the process based on precedents and judicial pronouncements, especially the Appeal Court judgement of 2001.
Mallam Mohammed Haruna, National Commissioner of INEC in charge of North-Central, said the Court of Appeal had since 2001 decided that a court cannot stop the recall of a lawmaker.
The INEC “Notice of Verification”, states:
“In accordance with Section 69 of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999(As amended), notice is hereby given that the verification for the recall of the member representing Kogi West Senatorial District of Kogi State shall hold as follows:
“Date: 19th August, 2017; Time: 8am-2pm; Location: All polling units in Kogi West Senatorial District.”
A source said:
“If you look at the provision of Section 87(10) of the Electoral Act, 2010(As amended), which is applicable in this instance, INEC cannot be stopped from doing its work of conducting election in any manner whatsoever.
“The provision of Section 110 of the 1999 Constitution is actually explicit on the recall. As an institution, INEC has nothing against Melaye or any lawmaker. We are expected to follow the constitution and the Electoral Act. Implementing a recall process is not a suicide mission for any lawmaker. If a lawmaker has the backing of his or her constituents, the recall process will be dead on arrival.”
Haruna said:
“We have a Court of Appeal judgement on why court cannot stop the process. This judgment is dated back to 2001.
“Since there is a subsisting Court of Appeal judgment, we will abide by it.”
The notice, dated July 3rd, 2017, reads :
“In exercise of the powers conferred on the Independent National Electoral Commission(“the Commission”) by Sections 69 and 110 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999(as amended); Section 116 of the Electoral Act 2010(as amended) and of all the powers enabling it in that behalf, the Commission hereby issues this timetable schedule of activities for the recall of the Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Kogi State.”
The Anglican Chaplain for Uganda’s Parliament has advised Christians who give “regular offering” in shillings (Uganda’s Local Currency) to up their givings, to dollars and pounds. DailyMonitor Reports.
Rev Canon Christine Shimanya said this during a sermon at Namugongo Martyrs Church, just outside the capital, Kampala, on Sunday:
“Some Christians have dollars and pounds earned from international conferences; instead they change the money to shillings before bringing it to church as offertory. Bring those dollars and pounds, God needs them.”
Another clergyman, Canon Henry Ssegawa, has come out in support of Rev Shimanya call, saying the church needs money with higher purchasing power, the Daily Monitor reports.
Last year,photos of Ghallywood actor Majid Michel praying in church went viral.Many people doubted his claims of being a born-again Christian, with some saying it was a stunt. But it appears he is truly a changed man, and it was not nine-day-wonder as we initially thought.
The 36-year-old on Wednesday, June 28, attended the “Armageddon Prayer & Fasting 2017”, which was organized by the RoyalHouse Chapel International. He was joined by his beautiful wife Virna and three adorable kids.
Banky W posted a video of his fiancé, Adesua Etomi fighting on a movie set. He captioned it;
“Remind me to never piss this @adesuaetomi girl off ohhh kai LOL see bae!!! Adesualina Jolie of life!!!! Ah ahn their Daaardy’s Daaardyyyy #tooproud #aretheymadddt #theymustbemaddt #munathemovie coming soon and I can’t wait to see it my GASH!
Nwankwo Kanu has recalled the day his wife Amara saved his life and then nursed him back to health. After putting their three children to bed, the Arsenal legend and his wife were enjoying the peace and quiet. .
They were about to go to sleep, but the former striker’s hammering heartbeat was keeping Amara awake. She recalls:
“His heartbeat sounded much louder than normal. I was listening to his chest and it sounded odd.”
In 1996, Kanu had needed lifesaving open-heart surgery after being diagnosed with a heart valve defect. Amara, 30, couldn’t shake the niggling feeling that was something wasn’t quite right and insisted her husband get it checked immediately. .
Kanu, now 40, says:
“She was saying I should go for a check-up so I took her advice.” And Amara was proved right because experts told him there was further damage to his heart and he urgently needed a second operation. .
“It was the same faulty valve,” “It was like a ticking time bomb. It’s just one of those things we were lucky to find out.”
Not only did she save his life, Amara also nursed him back to health. .
Kanu’s first open-heart surgery was in 1996 after a routine medical examination at Inter Milan revealed the serious heart defect. He was a professional athlete at the top of his game and had just helped Nigeria win gold at the Olympics. .
It was a complete shock but Kanu says:
“Now I know that being fit and strong doesn’t make your heart 100%.”
A reporter with the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Benin, Mr Lawrence Okojie, was allegedly shot dead by gunmen on Saturday night in Benin.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Okojie was said reported to have been killed around Ogunola Junction, off Siluko Road.
The spokesman of the State Police Command, DSP Moses Nkombe, who confirmed the report, said one person had been arrested in connection with the incident.
NAN gathered that the late Okojie, who was dropped off by NTA staff bus at Ogunola Junction around 8: 00 p.m. on Saturday, had called his wife on phone and informed her that he was on his way home.
It was, however, several hours later that the wife, after repeated calls to his phone without any response raised an alarm that her husband, who was supposed to have arrived home could not be reached. It was gathered that some of his colleagues at NTA joined by some family members on a search mission, discovered his corpse in a morgue in Benin on Sunday night.
As at the time of filing in this report, the circumstances surrounding the death of the reporter are still sketchy. The police have, however, promised to thoroughly investigate the matter. NAN reports that Okojie’s death brings to five the number of journalists killed in the state in the last six years.
As we all know fam, it’s no longer news that Paul and Anita Okoye have welcomed a beautiful set of twins.
And as expected, their names are just as adorable.
LIB reports that the happy couple exclusively revealed the names of their newborn twin babies to be, Nathan Obinna and Nadia Adaobi Okoye.
As earlier reported, Paul of P Square took to Instagram to announce the birth of his twin babies, after they were born in Atlanta on Sunday, July 9, 2017.
He wrote:
“God!! Na me be dis!!?…#twins #papaejima #babaibeji #babayanbiu #doubledouble. what else can I say? God we thank you. now the house is complete full house soon. et me come and be going to #church.”
Rosaline Meurer is threatening to expose a very influential politician, who has been disturbing her to come break his home.
The actress who was called out and accused by Tonto Dikeh of breaking her home, revealed via her Snapchat that this Politician, an influential one has been sending her series of messages for an affair.
According to Rosy, she says she isn’t a home breaker, and she doesn’t do married men, adding that she’d expose the sad politician if he doesn’t desist from sending her messages.
President Buhari’s daughter, Zahra Buhari-Indimi has finally said something about her father, the President’ health.
It’s been over 60 days since President Muhammadu Buhari left Nigeria for London, and the whole of Nigeria is worried about him.
Today, his daughter, Zahra Buhari-Indimi made a comment on her father’s health..
While replying to a comment by a concerned Nigeria who asked about him, she said “He’s doing pretty good”.
Another respondent says: “Masha Allah. May Allah grant him good health…”
But someone was unimpressed, as he notes, angrily, “And I think it’s better not to greet us at this point especially not from Zahra.”
Someone however came to her defence: “For what reasons? She doesn’t have her own life to live just because she’s the daughter of the president? What nonsense!”
Another person tweets in support of Zahra, “Most Nigerians are just crazy. See replies!”
In the early hours of today, A Fuel station manager identified as Mr Sampson, was killed by suspected armed robbers on Meza Filling Station along Calabar-Ugep-Ikom Highway in Ugep, Cross Rivers
The hoodlums attacked him with what looked like machetes or axes as his body had cuts.
Farmers who were going to farm along the ITM Ugep farm roads found the deceased’s body was found as early as 5am.
Last weekend, Dr Ademola Adeleke, father of singer B-Red, was elected the senator to represent Osun West Senatorial district in the senate. B-Red went on twitter this afternoon to express his joy over his father’s electoral victory.
The Royal Majesty Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi, the Ooni of Ife was snapped while he was courteously greeting the number three citizen of Nigeria, the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki by bowing to him.
At the wedding ceremony of the children Special Adviser to the President On Foreign Affairs, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa and the Governor of Ogun state, His Excellency Ibikunle Amosun, the Senate President was warmly greeted by Oba Enitan Ogunwusi by so much respect.
Some Twitter users are however lashing out at the royal majesty for seemingly stooping so low to greet the Nigerian Politician.
Photos of this beautiful Nigerian lady who sells banana for a living is trending across social media after her photos was shared online.
According to the Facebook user, whose identity remain undisclosed, the beautiful lady has become very successful selling banana on the street.
It was stated on the page that the young lady has been able to live a comfortable life with her earnings from hawking banana.
“She still climb 911 to bring down her goods.she sales Banana on the road.travels by aircraft.is there any girls that is pretty as she is that has traveled by aircraft that can still be humble to this extent. umu Igbo let’s show this girl some love and encouragement.”
Moments ago, the German Juice singer took to her Twitter to serve Mc Galaxy a harsh response to the diss the Sekem master shot her way last week.
Here’s how it all started: Wizkid and Davido had been having a go at each other lately, and Tekno, who felt he was missing out on headlines, decided to jumped into the messy affair and insulted Wizkid. The duo dragged each other and shortly after, Banky W intervened, reminding the younger acts to stick together as a family.
Mc Galaxy ignored Banky’s wise words and chose to diss Tekno. His meddling earned him a roasting from Cynthia Morgan who read him for filth on her Instagram. An upset Galaxy warned Morgan to ‘keep my name out of your mouth.”
But Cynthia Morgan is not done, y’all. The reggae-dancehall singer has now taken to her Twitter to not only put Mc Galaxy in his place, she says he is nothing but a dancer.
Nigerian regulators intervened last week to save Etisalat Nigeria from collapse after talks with its lenders to renegotiate a $1.2 billion loan failed.
Abu Dhabi’s Etisalat has terminated its management agreement with its Nigerian arm and given the business time to phase out the brand in Nigeria, the chief executive of Etisalat International told Reuters on Monday.
Nigerian regulators intervened last week to save the telecom company from collapse after talks with its lenders to renegotiate a $1.2 billion loan failed.
All UAE shareholders of Etisalat Nigeria have exited the company and have left the board and management, Hatem Dowidar said in an interview.
Dowidar said discussions were ongoing to provide technical support, adding that it can use the brand for another three weeks before phasing it out.
An anonymous man has been caught to be a vulnerable robber using the Muslim hijab in a local area of Minna, Niger state to perpetrate evils in the local environment.
One concerned individual identified as Jonpaul Oshioke Umoru, however revealed the ploy of evildoers as such as this recently caught, using disguise in hijab to operate.
Read below his facebook post:
” PUBLIC NOTICE!!!
Dwellers of 3 Arms Zone, Eastern bypass/Maitumbi Axis,Minna in Niger State.
Pls take heed, there is a latest prank used by Handset robbers after dark, they wear hijabs and trail you from behind to portray a feminine character whilst you let down your guard, they catch up and strike at any resistance.
Nemesis caught up with this one yesterday, he has since been apprehended and put in custody. “
JonPaul also posted some picutrres of the man caught in hijab.
