Beautiful Actress, Uche Jombo has reacted to the rumours flying around that she may be having marital issues.
Earlier this morning, we brought you reports that all may not be well with her marriage, after we noticed she removed her husbands’ name from her Instagram page.
Reacting to the reports, she says she did that to remove her family from social media.
“Good morning ujlovers. … Been on it for a while through my posts but officially taking my family off social media..please respect that! Thanks for understanding..stop with the evil insinuations.
The Lagos State Government has taken to its Facebook page to announce the evacuation of abandoned vehicles, disused vehicles and tricycles littering the state.
The State Government through the Office of the Special Adviser to the Governor on Central Business Districts, has inaugurated a Committee to proffer ways of eliminating the traffic congestion and also appointed vehicular scrap collection agent in line with Section 56 sub-section (1) of the Lagos State Harmonised Environmental Law, 2017 whose activity will commence from Saturday, July 1st 2017.
The General public is hereby advised to comply strictly with this directive while Security agencies are urged to ensure compliance.
Read the full statement below:
Evacuation of abandoned vehicles on Lagos roads
In furtherance of its spirited effort to make Lagos State cleaner, healthier and more liveable, the Lagos State Government has established a special taskforce for the removal of abandoned and disused vehicles and tricycles littering the State.
Similarly, the State Government has appointed vehicular scrap collection agent in line with Section 56 sub-section (1) of the Lagos State Harmonised Environmental Law, 2017 whose activity will commence from Saturday, July 1st 2017.
Consequently, Lagosians are hereby notified of the operational procedure of the Taskforce as follows:
i. Pasting of Removal Notice Stickers on identified abandoned vehicles with a 7-day period for self-removal by owners of the vehicle
ii. Upon expiration of the grace period, identified abandoned vehicles will be removed by the taskforce to a designated depot within the State.
iii. Where such vehicles are unclaimed within 30 days, the vehicles will be forfeited to the government and undergo proper disposal accordingly.
The General public is hereby advised to comply strictly with this directive while Security agencies are urged to ensure compliance.
LASG inaugurates committee to decongest traffic in central Lagos
The Lagos State Government through the Office of the Special Adviser to the Governor on Central Business Districts has inaugurated a Committee to proffer ways of eliminating the traffic congestion along the Apongbon-Marina axis of Lagos Island.
The Special Adviser to the Governor on Central Business Districts, Hon. Agboola Dabiri while inaugurating the Committee in Alausa said the traffic menace has become a source of concern for the government and therefore, it is being tackled head-on to find an enduring solution to the perennial logjam.
Dabiri urged members of the Committee to “please find a lasting situation that will reduce drastically the perennial traffic situation on the Apongbon Marina axis, just as it was done in Oshodi”.
Speaking further, he informed the Committee members that “about 5000 vehicles come into the Island daily and most of them come to do business in the Apongbon, Idumota and Marina axis” and asked them to proffer solutions on how well to manage the high traffic experienced daily along the routes.
The Special Adviser disclosed that as part of efforts at reducing the traffic situation in the area, a new park has been approved in Ajegboro, Leventis on Lagos Island for use by commercial vehicles to load and offload passengers instead of discharging passengers directly on the road.
The Committee is expected to submit its report within one week.
34-year-old mother, Laquita Lewis, has been arrested and charged in court on a capital murder charge for stabbing her young daughter to death.
The suspect who is currently held without bail was arrested after texting her boyfriend saying the girl was dead and in heaven.
The boyfriend then called 911.
Senior Harris County Deputy Sheriff, Thomas Gilliland told Fox 26 Houston that the 4-year-old, Fredricka Allen had been stabbed multiple times in the chest and was found dead on Sunday.
He added that after the stabbing, she bolted from the apartment and got into a crash on I-10.
He told the paper it wasn’t clear why she would want to kill her daughter as she had gotten into a fight with her boyfriend on Sunday.
He said:
“It’s a very horrific type scene,
“It’s a 4-year-old child. Anytime you have the murder of a child it’s very terrible.”
“The defendant told the father that their daughter was no longer alive and was in heaven,” the paper quoted prosecutors as saying in court.
“She told the father she stabbed the victim in the chest with a knife.”
The Chronicle reported that Lewis had been accused of threatening to kill a man she divorced in 2012.
She pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and was sentenced to probation which she was still serving.
A consortium of banks, led by Access Bank PLC and other Nigerian and foreign banks, has taken over the management of Etisalat Nigeria, effective June 15.
The takeover followed the collapse of the effort by Emerging Markets Telecommunications Services, EMTS, promoted by-one time Chairman, United Bank for Africa, UBA, Hakeem Bello-Osagie, to reach agreement with the banks on debt restructuring plan in the protracted $1.72 billion (about N541.8 billion) debt impasse.
However, EMTS Holding BV, established in the Netherlands, has up to June 23 to complete the transfer of 100 percent of the company’s shares in Etisalat to the United Capital Trustees Limited, the legal representative of the consortium of banks.
Etisalat Group, the parent company of Etisalat Nigeria, announced the takeover on Tuesday in a filing to the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirate.
The filing, with reference number Ho/GCFO/152/87, and dated June 20, 2017 signed by Etisalat Group Chief Financial Officer, Serkan Okandan, said efforts by EMTS to restructure the repayment of the syndicated loan by a consortium of banks to Etisalat Nigeria collapsed.
“Further to our announcement dated 12 February, 2017, Emirates Telecommunications Group Company PJSC, “Etisalat Group” would like to inform you that Emerging Markets Telecommunications Services Limited “EMTS” (“the company), established in Nigeria and an associate of Etisalat Group with effective ownership of 45% and 25% ordinary and preference shares respectively, defaulted on a facility agreement with a syndicate of Nigerian banks (“EMTS Lenders”).
“Subsequently, discussions between EMTS and the EMTS Lenders did not produce an agreement on a debt restructuring plan.
“Accordingly, the Company received a default and security Enforcement Notice on 9 June 2017 requesting EMTS Holding BV (EMTS BV) established in the Netherlands, and through which Etisalat Group holds its interest in the company) requiring EMTS BV to transfer 100% of its shares in the company to the United Capital Trustees Limited (the Security Trustee”) of the EMTS Lenders by 15 June 2017.
“Subsequently the EMTS Lenders extended the deadline for the share transfer to 5.00 pm Lagos time on 23 June 2017,” the filing said.
Etisalat has been under pressure since 2016, following the demand notice for the recovery of a $1.72 billion (about N541.8 billion) loan facility it obtained from a consortium of banks in 2015.
The loan, which involved a foreign-backed guaranty bond, was for the mobile telephone operator to finance a major network rehabilitation and expansion of its operational base in Nigeria.
Unable to meet its debt servicing obligations agreed since 2016, the consortium, prodded by their foreign partners, threatened to take over the company and its assets across the country.
But the intervention of the telecom sector regulator, Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, and its financial sector counterpart, the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, persuaded the banks to rethink their threat and give Etisalat a chance to renegotiate the loan’s repayment schedule.
Late last week, PREMIUM TIMES reported exclusively that Etisalat was sinking deeper into trouble, with Mubadala, its majority shareholder, representing Etisalat of UAE, on the verge of pulling out following irreconcilable differences concerning the loan issue.
In a recent interview with Realfm in America, Wizkid, disclosed that his parents are still living in the ghetto, and the reason is because they refuse to move to Lekki.
The ‘Ojuelegba’ singer who has been doing media rounds for his extended play (EP) “Sounds From the Other Side” set to drop on the 14th July 2017, added that he recently got them a better place and a nice house in Ojuelegba.
He said:
“My Parents Are Still Living In The Ghetto, They Refuse To Move To Lekki, I Just Got Them A Nice House And Better Place In Ojuelegba”
Gang members of the dreaded billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudi Dumeme Onuamadike, a.k.a Evans have all confessed to the police how they joined the dreaded gang.
One of the principal suspects in the dreaded Evans’ high profile persons kidnapping gang, Chukwuemeka Ikenna Bosah (32), said he joined the gang of the notorious kidnapper to enable him foot the bill for a cesarean operation his wife underwent.
The Nation revealed that some other members of the deadly gang, including Sola Paul (42), Uche Amadi (41) and Chukwumah Nwosu (42) also revealed how they were recruited into the deadly gang.
Explaining his involvement with the gang, Bosah said:
“I used to manage a restaurant at No. 9, Yakoyo Road, Sabu, which is under Ogun State. I later travelled to Ghana to engage in 419 (obtaining by false pretence).
“Luck smiled on me one day and I hit $43,000. I rented a shop for my wife and also rented a house where I lived with my family, which included two sets of twins. I also opened a bigger restaurant than the one I ran in Nigeria.
“I was doing well until six months later when the owner of the building where I resided gave me a quit notice, claiming that I paid the rent to the wrong person. The matter affected my business so badly that I decided to relocate to Nigeria.
“When I returned to Nigeria, I started doing Internet fraud to survive. I told a white woman who was desperate to marry a black man that I would marry her, and she started taking care of me. She was sending me a lot of money until some enemies of progress called her and told her that I was married with a set of twins. She cut off the relationship.
“Unfortunately for me, I was penniless at the time she cut off the relationship. The worst happened when my pregnant wife went for antenatal care and the doctor told her that her that the only safe way she could be delivered of the baby was cesarean operation because the baby was inside the fallopian tube.
“When I narrated my plight to my friend, Nwosu, he told me that there was a friend of his who had just returned from abroad. He assured me that he would talk to the man to help me with money for the operation my wife intended to undergo. That was at Cele Bust Stop (Lagos).
“We entered keke (commercial tricycle) to Jakande Estate. There we met Evans who came in a Lexus SUV. This was around the year 2015.
“Evans told us to enter his car and I saw some men with fez caps. I also saw one of them in the back seat give a gun to another one in the front seat with Evans.
“Before I knew it, the driver used the Lexus SUV to block a car and they ordered the big man in the car to come down at gun point. When the man came out, he fainted. Evans then ordered Nwosu and I to carry the big man and put him inside his (Evans’) vehicle and they zoomed off.
“While we were putting the man inside Evans’ vehicle, Nwosu stole his gold ring. He later gave it to me to sell in order to solve my wife’s problem. I sold the ring for N60,000 and used the money to settle the bill for the cesearen operation.
“When Evans discovered that we stole the victim’s ring, he became angry with me. He gave Nwosu the sum of N1.5 million to give to me as my share of the ransom, but Nwosu deducted N50,000 from it.”
Nwosu, however, denied deducting N50,000 from Bosah’s share, saying it was only N5,000 that he took from it.
He said:
“I am am a native of Aba, Abia State. I trade in female wears and accessories like bags and shoes. I met Evans in 2014 at Domino’s Pizza, Apo Junction, Festac Town (Lagos) while selling fuel and engine oil in the black market at Alafia. I later went to Yaba to sell shoes.
“I travelled to Vietnam for two years. When I came back in January 2015, I met Evans again. We discussed drug trafficking business and I told him how I lost all my money to drug business. He then promised to sponsor me on drug trafficking trip, but he said I should give him some time.
“When we and the other people in the car had passed Second Rainbow junction, Evans told me to join another car that was following his SUV. We turned to Abulabu Junction and car, Ikenna, telling him to keep moving. “On getting to Villa Park area, they over crossed a vehicle and took a man from it and we left. On getting to Cele Bus Stop, he asked Ikenna, the driver of the other car, to drop me.
“He gave each of us N1.5 million. Unfortunately, the person I gave the money to help me procure a South Korea visa embezzled it. I later gave another money to one agent and he also bolted with it. I was later arrested.
“I am married with three children. My problem now is that I gave my wife only N3,000 before I went to Abuja. I don’t know how they are managing to eat now. Tell the police that we have repented and should be given a second chance.”
The third suspect, Paul, said:
“I am from Bayelsa State. I was being paid N65,000 monthly for the amnesty they granted me, but my master used to deduct N10,000 from it every month.
“I then went into sea diving job for which I was paid sums ranging from N50,000 to N500,000 for items recovered. But while working as divers all of us were still in the militant camp at Bayelsa, Calabar and Delta. At times, we would break pipelines or kidnap oil workers, especially foreigners working with oil companies, and they used to pay ransom fast.
“It was my master, Mr. George Suboma, who owned the camp and the guns we used for militancy. We got annoyed with the oil companies because they did not care to employ indigenes of the states or develop the areas.
“The amnesty was granted us in 2009, during the late President Yaradua’s regime. In 2010, I met Evans because he used to come to camp to collect guns from my master, George. He would come to militants’ camp with Barrister Yellow to meet George. I do not have Evans’ phone number and he does not have my number too.
“When President Yaradua died, they started owing us amnesty allowance. I am not too educated. Evans later called me. He asked me about my children. I told him that my master, Ugboma George, was deceased.
“He asked me to text the number of the gang’s second in command identified as Peter. He said he would like to see us in Lagos. He sent N30,000 for our journey to Lagos.
“When we alighted at Cele Bus Stop at Ijesha (Lagos), one elderly man came and took us to one hotel at Iyana Ojugbo area. We stayed there for two weeks without seeing Evans.”
High-Profile Broadcaster, Reno Omokri has taken to his Twitter page to shade the heck out of Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed.
The Nigerian author, said he would have thought that Lai was Lie’s father and wished him a happy Father’s Day!.
He wrote:
I think it is high time we do a DNA test on lies to determine who is its real biological father between Lai Mohammed and satan #DNA
If not that The Bible said Satan is the father of lies, I would have thought that Lai was Lie’s father and wished him happy Father’s Day!
Father of Billionaire Kidnapper, Evans, has narrated how his son derailed.
While speaking to The Nation in his hometown in Nnewi, Stephen said his entire business collapsed in 1985 when he was defrauded.
He said Chukwudi’s mother abandoned her children and left his house.
Stephen added that he enrolled the now fearsome kidnap kingpin in the beat schools at the time but decided to stop school after writing his ordinary level examination.
He said,
“My son (Evans) insisted that he would trade in spare parts and I made arrangement with Cosmas Maduka, through his elder brother, to take him to Lagos, but the boy later rejected the plan, not knowing that he was being negatively teleguided.
“But in 1998, I left Nnewi for Lagos and I was living at Ikotun and started worshipping at T.B Joshua’s church, Synagogue, and when the boy came to me, I gave him money to go back to Nnewi after he found his way to Lagos where he said he had started learning a trade
“So, in 2005 again, he called me that he wanted to marry and I asked him how manage, because I was aware that he was not doing anything tangible, but he told me not to bother, that he needed my presence, which I obliged him.
“Chukwudi Onwuamadike who is being paraded as a kidnapper is my first son; there are other 10 of my children; eight boys and three girls, they were to be 12 but one died.
Stephen said he did not hear from his son for a long time but knew he was communicating with his mother.
“After his marriage in 2005, he moved back to Lagos with the wife and since 11 years, my brother, I will tell you that I don’t know his whereabouts.
“The only person who can tell you in and out of his movement, his connections and his dealings is his mother (Chinwe) because they are always discussing on phone and he does not call me.
“Anytime he wanted to call me, he would hide his phone number or any time his mother would be around, he would instruct his mother to give me her phone for me to answer.
“I met him in 2006 when I went for prayers at TB Joshua’s church (in Lagos). the last time I set my eyes on him was in 2012 during the birthday party of Prophet T.B Joshua in Lagos and I asked him what he was doing, he told me he was dealing in drugs.
“My son was a nice young man before he came under strange influences.”
Picture of these three best friends who all wedding in the same month have gone viral on Social Media.
They all displayed their engagement rings flamboyantly without any sign of fear or grief as they are all already attributed with their husbands’ names – Mrs Thomas, Mrs Maitre and Mrs Ulysse.
One of the pretty brides-to-be, Grace, revealed that they have a set goal where their wedding is just one week and a day apart.
She said:
When ur friends weddings are literally one week apart and ONE DAY before yours.
Nigerian rapper, actor, and songwriter, Folarin Falana aka Falz the bad guy, has revealed why he is still single.. and..seriously searching, despite being a handsome young man who could have all the beautiful girls at his beck and call.
In a recent interview with HIPTV, He blamed his current relationship status on his inability to find a partner who would truly love him for who he is and not for his celebrity status or for material gain.
He also explained why he is still single in spite of being every lady’s toast.
He said:
“You see, when it comes to the issue of having a girlfriend or heartthrob, it is difficult, because naturally nowadays what we see on social media or in real life are girls that just want to come close to you because of what they want to get from me. They are not girls that appreciate you for what you really have, and that is what I’m searching for. But it’s difficult to find; the ladies that come close to me tell me that they want to record a snap chat video, they want to post a picture with me online and all that, they want to exploit my celebrity status to become popular. I’m looking for someone that truly and genuinely has true feelings for me; as I am like this it is very difficult and I’m still searching”
Meraiah Ekeinde, Omotola Jalade’s second daughter just graduated from High School in the United States of Amercia, after she left Chrisland College, Lagos in 2015, where she was the Head Girl.
The 17-year-old shared photos from her graduation ceremony in the states, as she is set to embark to further her academic endeavors.
Nollywood Veteran Actress, Uche Jombo has just set tongues wagging, after she removed her Husband’s Name From Her Instagram page.
Pictured below is a snapshot of how the actress’ Instagram page looked like before. The snapshot shows her Husband’s name boldly written. Uche Jombo-Rodriguez.
..But then, recent checks on her Instagram page shows that she has yanked of her Husband’s surname from her page.
Yesterday, Daddy freeze disclosed that a friend of his, who lives 2 houses from Evans, revealed to him that his kids and Evans Kids both attend the same school.
He also revealed that Evans wife, Uche, drives the latest Lexus SUV, 2016/17 model.
Daddy freeze wrote on Instagram;
“Just found out today, from a friend of mine who lives 2 houses away from Evans, that Evans kids allegedly go to the same school as my kids? Can you imagine?? According to my friend, the latest 2016/2017 Lexus, like the one pictured above, is what he had allegedly seen the wife drive several times. He said that his own wife used to wonder how a woman who couldn’t speak english could drive such an expensive car. He assumed that he[Evans] was a successful igbo trader.”
This revelation didn’t go down well with a female fan who thinks Daddy Freeze’s criticism of Evans’ wife comes from a place of jealousy.
Here’s what she told Freeze:
Of course, Daddy Freeze had a reply for the Commenter, he wrote;
When trying to be a slayqueen has eaten a large portion of your brain and what’s left has turned into pap!
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Or are you one of the slayqueens Evans was slaying?
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Did this insipid cretin even read what I wrote at all or is her IQ this low?
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I can’t believe she is defending Evans, what a clodpate.
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The doltish little she goat should go and read what I wrote so she won’t continue brandishing how obtuse she truly is!
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This is what I wrote! “Can you imagine????????
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According to my friend, the latest 2016/2017 Lexus, like the one pictured above, is what he had allegedly seen the wife drive several times.
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He said that his own wife used to wonder how a woman who couldn’t speak english could drive such an expensive car. He assumed that he was a successful igbo trader.
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Join me for a live Instagram video in15 minutes as we discuss this.”
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#FreeTheSheeple
But what do folks think of Daddy Freeze and his criticism of Evans’ family?
Instagrammer @emdeenazir said:
“Enough of all these craps about Evans, why must anyone stigmatise the innocent kids or the poor woman. All this holier than thou attitude is disgusting. The crime of every governor or president in this country is far worst than whatever it is evans have done. Every corrupt politician is breeding more Evans for the society so what are we talking about. Charge the man to court as u did dasuki and the likes but we shouldn’t forget that ibori is a free man today alongside the likes of shema, makarfi, sheriff and atiku.”
Instagrammer @iphomane said:
“The parents must bear the consequences of their actions . The kids can’t be touched but a good foster home should be fine.”
Mavin Record Artiste, Reekado Banks has apologized to DJ Xclusive after the former called him out for being disrespectful.
Recall, Banks accused the DJ of dropping him off a song, he literally begged him to feature on, but then, Xclusive didn’t give a response to the said tweet.
Now, Banks is blaming miscommunication for the misunderstanding..
Meanwhile, DJ Xclusive released the audio and visual for his collaborative project ‘As e dey hot’ which features Mr Eazi and Flavour. It is believed that it is this song that Reekado Banks was left out of.
2 days ago, Social Media in Kenya was on fire after the story of a Kenyan rogue cop trended. The said cop went all ballistic on his girlfriend after they broke up.
Identified as Nur Nucho, the said Police Officer stationed at Korogocho, is said to have fallen out with his girlfriend Carol a few days ago, a move that left him a bitter man, Tuko.Co.ke reports.
However, instead of moving on like a real man, Nucho ambushed Carol and gave her a thorough beating, disfiguring her face while at it.
The officer did not wrap it up at that, he went ahead to leak the lass’s indecent photos on social media platforms like Whatsapp and Facebook.
The incident was first revealed by a Facebook user who goes by the name Loyd Selemani. In a post shared on the popular Facebook women group Kilimani Mums, Lloyd exposed Nucho’s evils and even shared his photos.
“This is Nur Nucho (fb names),a Police Officer from Korogocho who has fallen out with his girlfriend Carol..beaten her up and disfigured her face then amempokonya Simu yake,logged into her FB page,and uploaded innapropriate photos ,same applies to her WhatsApp. Guys really, mwanaume amekaa Administration POLICE Training College in Embakasi for 6 months anaweza behave hivi?Let’s give him a shame guys!!”Llyod wrote.
Seven fake credit cards were found in the pockets of Dammy Krane on 1 June when he was arrested at Opa-locka Executive Airport in Miami Dade, Florida.
According to the New Miami Time, police have now slammed a nine count felony charge at Miami Dade’s criminal court for credit card forgery and grand theft against the 23 year-old pop artist, whose real name is Oyindamola Emmanuel Johnson-Hunga.
Dammy Krane’s trouble began after he used a bogus card to book a private jet flight to Washington, D.C., police said. When the police searched him, they found seven false credit cards in his wallet, according to the police report, details of which Miami New Times published today.
Agents from the mobile-phone booking app TapJets had called police, when they found that the first card Dammy Krane tendered was bogus. The jet company told Miami-Dade Police that Krane and a partner, Chukwuebuka Ilochonwu, had booked a $10,943 trip on a jet from Opa-locka to Washington, D.C.
Krane lists a permanent U.S. address in Baltimore on the police report, according to the report by Miami New Times.
Two MDPD officers staked out the jet runway until Krane and Ilochonwu showed up. Police searched the pair and found seven cards in Krane’s pants pocket.
When authorities checked the cards later, all seven had numbers on the face that didn’t match the numbers on the security strip on the back.
MDPD says Krane used one of those cards to book his flight and then gave TapJet two other fake cards when he was asked for backup cards for the travel.
His co-defendant, Ilochonwu, police soon learned, was out on bond on four other credit card fraud charges.
He’d been arrested in April on felony charges stemming from a case in Miami Beach.
Dammy Krane who is now out on bail has tried to exculpate himself from the arrest mess, blaming “agents” and assuring fans he’s innocent.
“I do not partake in fraud,”I do not partake in such activities. Agents booked my flights with fraudulent cards.”
“My life is all about my music, and that’s what I’m all about,” he says. “I’m sorry I got caught up in this mess.”
Pastor Chibuzor Chinyere, The Senior Pastor of Rivers State-based Church, Omega Power Ministries, recently gifted a poor widow, pictured below, the latest version of a Lincoln Navigator, brand new.
Fatile Emmanuel, A 300-level student of the department of Pharmacy, OAU lost his life yesterday, after he drowned in a swimming pool at Hilton Hotel.
According to reports, Emmanuel died after he went to the hotel to swim with two of his friends, and the cause was because of inaccessibility of life jackets.
Baba Faros, the Public Relations Officer Pharmaceutical Association of Nigeria Students was cited saying:
“I was called around 4:30pm yesterday by one Dr. Akinwale that my attention was urgently needed at the OAUTHC, on arriving there, I was advised to affirm Emmanuel’s death before taking his body to the morgue. We left the hospital around 10:30pm the previous evening”, he said.
In the mean time, the columnist was told the policemen from Moore have captured the worker who is in charge of life jacket of the inn and the other two OAU students who went with the deceased to swim at the hotel.
“Currently, we are at Moore police headquarters to bail the other two students, there are bits of gossip that police announced the case as a murder case. The team will be grilled today,” the source unveiled.
Facebook user, Ebere Amalaha who is a single mother, dressed up like a man to celebrate Fathers Day which was yesterday June 18th. Posting these photo of herself dressed in a male attire, she wrote
“Happy Father’s Day to all the single mum out there God bless us”.
Operatives of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris Intelligence Response Team (IRT) at the weekend, has arrested Eight notorious kidnappers terrorizing Abuja-Kaduna expressway.
Those arrested include the gang leader, Adamu Mamman aka Master, who hails from Amana village in Kaduna State, his second in command, Ali Rabo aka Blacky from Liman Ibada village, Kaduna State, Umar Antijo, from Rijana village, Shehu Idris Shagari, Awwalu Ahmadu aka Mota, who is a receiver of stolen goods.
A police source said that Shehu is the third in command and the gang’s armorer while Babangida Abdullahi , Usman Abdulmumin and Ahmad Abdullahi were described as the gang’s foot soldiers.
Aside being the gang’s leader, Ali is said to be the main informant of the gang, as he provides the gang with most of the informations on the attack and kidnapping of victims including a retired Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP).
The gang leader, his 2nd in command, and the third in command along with the five other gang members were arrested between 15 and 16 of June, 2017.
Recovered from the suspects are various automatic assault rifles, magazines, cutlasses and charms.
Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Moshood Jimoh, said that the arrest of the eight suspects is sequel to series of complaints to the IGP on the notorious activities of the gang along the Abuja-Kaduna highway.
He said that sequel to the complaints, directed Abba Kyari, an Assistant Commissioner of Police to deployed his men along with those from the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) to the area.
He said that after weeks of investigation on the intelligence report recovered, the team arrested the eight suspects from their hideouts.
He said:
“The suspects admitted that they actually kidnapped some people on the Abuja-Kaduna expressway. They said that that they decided to go to see their respective families in their villages after releasing their victims before they were arrested.
“Some of them were arrested at Maraban Jos, Anguwa Pama, Sabon Gayan and Rijana village all in Kaduna State. All the suspects arrested have confessed to several kidnapping of motorist along the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway.
“They admitted kidnapping DSP Munir attached to Airwing Force Headquarters Abuja, a retired Police Sergeant, a driver to the Chairman Senate Committee on Police Affairs, as well as five students of the Amadu Bello University (ABU) and Nuhu Bamalli University.
“The kidnapped students were identified as Idris Goga, Simon Terna, Kazzah Bulus, Ibrahim Kalin, and Augustine Climax. Augustine was was later killed by the gang and his corpse dumped in a river by the kidnappers.
“Many of their victims including the Police DSP have Positively identified the gang leader his, 2ic, 3ic and informant among others as the ones responsible for their abduction. Suspects further confessed that’s hey decided to go to their respective villages because of the massive deployment of security forces to their area of Operations by the IGP.
“They said that most of their gang members are relocating from Rijana village to their respective home towns. They further confessed that there are two major groups of Kidnappers Operating within Rijana Axis of the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway. Suspects are assisting IRT operatives in tracing the Second Group. Victim Phones, N 17,000 made up of N500 fresh mints belonging to victims, SIM Cards, Charms, Cutlasses and two pairs of Army Uniforms were recovered from the Kidnappers”.
Suspected Billionaire Kidnapper, Chukwudumeje George Onwuamadike aka Evans, who claimed he gave his father N3million cash, a Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) and a Hilux Van before he stopped visiting his hometown, Umudim, Nnewi in Anambra State, has revealed that he only believes in God and not Juju.
According to Vanguard, He said his wife only wants Nigerians to have sympathy for him as She did not know that he was into kidnapping.
He said he only told her that he is into drug, which she advised him to stop because it is dangerous.
He said:
“My wife was only lying that she did not spend part of my money. She only wants Nigerians to have sympathy for me. She did not know I was into kidnapping. I only told her that I am into drug, which she advised me to stop because it is dangerous.”
“I believe in God, that was why I mandated my wife to always wake my children up for prayers. My favourite bible passage is Psalm 23. My wife does not know why I loved the Psalm so much. I loved it because of the sins I have committed. I always asked my children to ask for forgiveness for me and also pray that I should not die young.
“I believe in God, because he’s the only one that can save me from the problem I find myself in. I believe it was greed that pushed me into kidnapping. I don’t believe in Juju.”
When he was asked how he was faring in cell, He said he was being treated well by other suspects, adding that policemen were also friendly with him.
He said:
“They take good care of me. I cannot blame them if they did not take care of me because I am the cause of my problem. I am reaping what I sowed.
“I do not have any car called Fathom. The only vehicles I have are Toyota Hilux, Nissan pickup – N7million, Luxus GS460 – N22million, Range Rover, 2016 model – N55million and Luxus GL47 – N9million.
“I did not enjoy all the money I made from kidnapping because I was always on the run. I am regretting my actions in life. I did not go to clubs, hotels because I was afraid that policemen would come after me. If I am given a second chance, I would be the most grateful person on earth and I promise to be an advocate of anti-kidnapping in the country.”
Just this morning, 19th of June, Paint manufacturing company, Berger Paints, sacked all members of its staff after a 2-week strike action over the new living wage policy of the company where none of them would be entitled to gratuity upon retirement and what was supposed to be gathered as their gratuity overtime, would now be added to their monthly salary.
The new policy was said to have been implemented in 2015 but most of the workers only got to know this year as they were meant to believe it was a salary increment.
As a result, they embark on a strike but After unfruitful consultations with the leaders of the workers union, the management wielded the big stick today by firing all of them and asked those still interested in keeping their jobs to reapply.
Lawyer and Human Rights Activist, Emeka Ugwuonye, who received a distress call from a woman, revealed that an abusive man, who was earlier arrested and detained at Okokomaiko Police Station, Lagos, for domestic abuse, has struck again.
According to her, the victim and her two daughters, Kafka and Chidimma are currently nursing wounds sustained from the beating he gave them on Saturday night, 17th of June.
At least 17 persons are reportedly dead in a multiple suicide attacks in Konduga Local Government Area of Borno State on Sunday night, 18th of June.
In a statement issued by the spokesperson for the Borno State Police Command, Victor Isuku, five female suicide bombers detonated Improvised Exprosive Devices (IEDs) strapped to their bodies at about 8.30pm.
He said:
“At about 2030hrs, five female suicide bombers detonated IED strapped to their bodies in Kofa community, which is about 8km from maiduguri town and situated along Maiduguri- Konduga road.
“The first suicide bomber, detonated near a mosque, killing seven persons. The second bomb attack occurred in a house in same village killing five persons while the third blast was perpetrated by two other suicide bombers within the same vicinity. Only the two bombers were killed.
“A total of seventeen persons including the five suicide bombers died, while eleven persons sustained injuries and were rushed to UMTH”
Veteran Comedian, Alibaba has taken to his Instagram page to fire back at those who frown at people especially artistes who post lounging pictures during week days.
He said that not all hustlers do a 9-5 job and added that the issue of occupational selfishness has become a major issue in relationships too.
He wrote:
Last time I posted my feet on my table, one guy commented that it was a bad habit and “very unexemplifying”. I still didnt get it. He said Monday when people are just resuming work, I’m posting picture of my feet on my table and lounging. As I post this again, I need to mention, we are not all 9 to 5 hustlers. Some of us actually are nocturnal by occupation. Some people only need 2 days in a week to make what you work for in a month. But that is not what this post is about. What I am trying to tell you is that, it also burns my soul to see that you guys can take a Saturday and a Sunday to go to the beach or resorts… Or any place of recreation. And while you are there, I am either behind a microphone, acting, writing and being creative anywhere my services are needed. Then you post your pictures of #aboutlastnight #weekendonflick… I no call police. But as soon as anyone shows that they were having fun while you were working, it irks you. Isn’t that selfish? There are different occupational timings for all walks of life. Night soil men can lounge in the day. Maigaurds can afford to sleep in the afternoon because when darkness falls, DUTY calls. An artiste comes alive at weekends. That’s why it is usually insensitive when old school associations and kparakpor groups fix meetings at weekends and expect everyone to attend because they believe work ends at COB on Friday and resumes on Monday. Thus making them believe anyone who did not attend the meetings is refusing to be seen with them. How would they feel if I fix an association meeting at 10am on a Monday or Wednesday Morning? This issue of occupational selfishness has become a major issue in relationships too. Ladies be dating a 9 To 5 guy and break it up. Then starts dating an artiste. She will say “we don’t spend time together”. You must be joking. You should actually pray you don’t see him at weekends!! How would you feel if he says he doesn’t see much of you Mondays to Fridays? To go to movies and clubs. To each it’s kind. The bible says don’t be unevenly yolked. Understanding lo matter. Know what the person you want does before saying yes. Don’t come and be doing autocorrect in people’s career.
One of the policemen who was part of the team that stormed the Magodo residence of notorious kidnap kingpin, Evans, on 10th of June, Livinus Michael praises God for sparing his life.
He got injured in an intense gun battle between the lasted several hours during the time the suspect was arrested.
He wrote:
“I give Almighty God the glory, and my boss Abba Kyari my 1 and only commander, and Abdulraham Ejily team 1. Abba K lead us to arrest the notorious and richest kidnapper Evans in which I sustained injury in the cause of his arrest but thank God I’m ok now. Thanks to God and all IRT for the dedication and manhunt of Evans. We had sleepless night and at end of the day he was arrested.”
Again, it seems controversial journalist, Kemi Olunloyo has turned a new leaf, after she had her fair share of the prison experience.
She previously thanked blogger, Linda Ikeji for donating N100,000 to her, for her legal expenses. Now, she’s making peace with those she previously had feud with.. One of which is actress, Georgina Onuoha.
Recall they both had a brutal war on Social Media.. You can check the details Here,here, here and here
She shared a screenshot of a chat in which she apologized to Georgina Onuoha and also had the below to say on Instagram.
I have made peace with my junior sister @GeorginaOnuoha. Many of you may remember that she wrote the Nigerian Feds advocating my relesse. While I was locked up, @Ibinabofiberisima visited me in prison and told me that she watched our online beef for two months. Fiberisima also mentioned that Georgina was a nice girl if I get to know her. .
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I don’t hate Nollywood actresses. I was in the middle of many investigations and Georgina was in one of them. She proved herself right and some antagonism got involved during the process. As a Journalist I investigate things thoroughly with newsmakers involved also avoiding them creating an “element of suspicion”. Many do not answer and ignore me, others do. .
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The internet is inundated with #fakenews. Many about me and my family even Georgina found and posted. The message here is simple. We shouldn’t believe anything we read online and that’s why I go to newsmakers to confirm or deny stories. Georgina’s DM to me is attached. She has gone thru a lot in life and so have I.
Remember the devil is working overtime…But he’s a LIAR. Ibinabo and @Toyin_Abraham thank you for your wisdom and lovely DM’s.
#MadamKOO
#KemiOlunloyo
@HNNAfrica online
According to him, Evans wife, Uche, drives the latest Lexus jeep and can’t speak proper English. Adding that His kids and Evans kids attend the same school. He wrote;
Going live in 15 minutes! Breaking!!
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I just found out today, from a friend of mine who lives 2 houses away from Evans, that Evans kids allegedly go to the same school as my kids? ?
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Can you imagine????????
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According to my friend, the latest 2016/2017 Lexus, like the one pictured above, is what he had allegedly seen the wife drive several times.
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He said that his own wife used to wonder how a woman who couldn’t speak english could drive such an expensive car. He assumed that he was a successful igbo trader.
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Join me for a live Instagram video in15 minutes as we discuss this.
