Franco-German Technical adviser of the Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr has shared his excitement during his visit to the popular Balogun market in Lagos.
Rohr resides officially in Abuja and mostly travels to Uyo for Nigeria’s games hence he’s hardly in Lagos that’s why he was very happy when he finally spent time in one of Nigeria’s commercial hub.
Rohr, 63, who has had a successful run so far as coach of the team, says he also took a photo of the market and will send it to Nigerian defender Leon Balogun because he believes that’s where his father hails from.
“We went to Balogun market, it was wonderful and a big crowd and some people spoke about football. You must beat Cameroon’ they kept telling me,” Rohr told Super Eagles YouTube page.
“I took a photo because I will send it to Leon Balogun. His father comes from there, I think. I had a beautiful day in Lagos. In this big city, very nice people, everybody is big on hospitality.
“I spend some time in Lagos, I have seen not only the final of the Federation Cup. I saw the Super Cup final in Abuja before coming back to Lagos.”
An elderly woman was murdered by some robbers who stormed her home at G.G Dake in Kaduna state two days ago. According to Rariya, one of the robbers slaughtered her like a ram after she recognized him.
The police is currently on the trail of the robbers. The deceased has since been buried according to Islamic rites.
A new study has claimed that if you have body odour, you can treat it by rubbing the sweat of a more fragrant family member under your armpit and this will help treat your body odour.
The research which was led by Dr Chris Callewart from the University of California, San Diego, found that applying the sweat of another person without body odor, treats body odour by replacing strong-smelling armpit bacteria with some that do not smell as bad, causing your armpits to be tricked into breeding nicer smelling bacteria.
The method of treatment which is called bacteria transplant was tested on two identical twins – one of whom suffered from bad body odour, while the other had little to no smell.
The twin without body odour was told not to bath for four days so as to produce more of his non-smelling sweat while the twin with body odour was told to bath every day using antibacterial soap.
Dr Callewart proceeded to rub the sweat of the twin without body odour on the other twin who has body odour and they found that the twin with body odour became treated of his bad smell and has been odour free for over a year now.
The experiment has been done several times again and the result has been steady so far.
An Instagram user, has shared how she mistakenly sent her rent money, N1m to a cosmetologist and how the said individual has refused to return the money for weeks now.
According to the victim, @chaff2chic_ltd:
“Sometime late last year, I came across a couple mr Ahmad Lawal @egnr_m.I.u and mrs Fatima Tijjani ahmad @mssfancy, in my business place in Calabar, I noticed her nice skin and complemented her and she told me she sells natural cream and soap. I patronized her and asked for her account number. my bill was 16,000 naira.
2 days later, On d 29th of December, I asked my shop agent to send me the account number so i can pay my shop rent and for some reason, a message drops with account number and phone number. Very unlike me, I was careless and mistakenly transfered part of my shop rent (1,000,000) to Mrs Fatima Tijjani Ahmad @mssfancy.
Upon realising what happened, I called to inform them and thankfully, they swiftly acknowledged receiving an alert from me and agreed to transfer it back the following day.
2 days passed n I didn’t call to trouble them because I made the mistake in the first place n at this time the agent n lawyers we’re already on my neck.
Then a week passed and they kept giving stories of a loved one dying and his wife having a miscarriage and kidney infection.. I still waited for them to mourn their loved one While I prayed for her quick recovery.
2 weeks passed and three weeks passed and still nothing. When i tried to reach out to people following her on ig, she suddenly blocked me and every other person that confronted her about it and sends me an epistle of how wealthy they are.
One Emmanuel Agan, who is a neighbour to the accused, noticed the grave injuries on Nse, and immediately reported to Basic Rights Counsel Initiative, a front line child rights organization in Calabar.
The organization immediately documented the case and effected Uduak’s arrest. Nse revealed that he is from Uruan in Akwa Ibom State and his dad is late, but his mother who is a trader (crayfish seller) gave him out to live as house boy to one Madam Ime.
The said Madam Ime is a food vendor and on the fateful day of the incident, he could not wake up on time to wash dishes, when Ime’s eldest daughter, Uduak, woke him up by pouring boiling water on his face. He has since gotten justice and reunited with his mom, thanks to Basic Rights Counsel Initiative.
Two 2016 Batch B Stream 2 members of the National Youth Service Corps have lost their lives along the Taraba Benue road as they were returning home from the 21 days orientation camp.
The bus which was reported to be conveying mostly youth corps members from Taraba to Benue state got two corps members killed and the rest injured. The corps members are yet to be identified as at the time of publishing this post.
A painter, Mr. Ese Akpan, had told his family on Tuesday that he was going out to get the money owed him by a construction company.
He, however, did not get to his destination, as he was killed by a stray bullet from a police team escorting a bullion van to a bank.
According to a Closed-Circuit Television camera, which captured the scene, Ese was shot at exactly 1.45pm on Old Aba Road, Rumuomasi, Port-Harcourt, Rivers State.
PUNCH Metro, which obtained footage of the incident, observed that Camera 4 captured Ese as he
walked along the road while the police van came behind.
The second side, captured by Camera 1, showed a woman with a baby standing at the bus stop as Ese approached.
There was a sudden gunshot which hit the 60-year-old, while the frightened woman fled the sight.
About two minutes afterwards, some sympathisers, including workers of First Rivers Hospital Limited, a private facility in front of which the incident occurred, rushed to help the victim.
An official at the hospital, who did not want to be identified, said a few minutes after the victim was taken to the hospital, a man came in to check on him.
He said:
“The man said the escort team was coming from an eatery at Rumukoro where the operatives had gone to pick some money. He said they were heading towards a bank in the area and he was driving behind the van when they fired the shot. He said they usually did that when they approached where they were taking money to. Unfortunately, the man was hit by the bullet. He told us to save his life.”
A senior official at the hospital, who spoke for the management, said efforts by the hospital to save Ese were abortive.
“Our doctors, nurses and matrons were all involved in the battle to save his life. He lost a lot of blood. The bullet destroyed his internal organs. We took him to the theatre, and our workers even donated three pints of blood to save him, but he died. He was able to give us his name and address before passing on,” she added.
She noted that the hospital reported the matter to a police station in the area.
The widow of the victim, Mrs. Christiana Akpan, said when she attempted to report the case at the Area Command, Moscow Road, she was chased out of the command.
She added that when she went to the governor’s office, she was not given any audience.
Christiana told PUNCH Metro that her husband had left the house with a plan to demand payment of a debt owed him by a construction company.
She said,
“He worked as a painter and had executed a project for a construction company last year. He used the money that we saved for our house rent to complete the project. The firm paid him part, but still owed him about N266,900.
“Since that time, he had been going to ask for the balance without any result. Our landlady recently served us a notice to quit and he became desperate to recover the money.
“On Tuesday, January 31, around 1pm, we both left the house and when we got to Mile 1, we parted ways. I went to see a friend, while he went to the company. It was not up to one hour that I was called that my husband had been shot.
“I went to report at the area command, but immediately I said policemen shot my husband, I was chased out. I went to the governor’s office and I was sent away like a thief.”
PUNCH Metro learnt that the deceased, who was survived by four children, had been taken by the family to a mortuary in his hometown in the Essien Udium Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State.
The family’s first child, Kingsley, demanded that the government bring the culprits to book and pay the damages.
“Before my dad died, he told me that he was shot by the police. The police are silent about the case and have refused to do anything. We want the government to bury him and pay damages,” he added.
Another member of the family, Blessing, asked the authorities not to sweep the case under the carpet.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Omoni Nnamdi, said he was not aware of the incident, promising to get back to PUNCH Metro.
The actor gives ladies an advice on not wasting their times on fruitless relationships. He wrote:
“#bitter-truth
SIMPLE BREAK DOWN
His above 30
He has a healthy line of income
you have dated for more than a year
You are still answering GIRLFRIEND.
Take away the bedroom benefits
And stop acting the wife role when u have no insurance/ assurance. Time waits for no one
Don’t walk past the right guy while holding hands with the wrong guy????
At this junction it’s very ok to ask that bro whats his plan for the relationship . Oya go and marry”
Actor, Johnpaul Nwadike and his wife welcomed a bouncing set of twin boys in the US on Monday.
The actor actively participated in the delivery of his kids as he personally cut their umbilical cords. He has been married for 4 years.
He wrote:
“??????
The Great Deliverer, the King of Kings,Ancient of days, the Unchanging able God,the Ubiquitous God,The Conqueror, The Protector, The Merciful God,The Miracle Worker, The Great Provider, The Rock of Ages, The Great Healer, The all Sufficient God, The Beginning and the End,The Great I AM that I AM, the Trinity God, the Giver of Life, the Creator. I thank you soo muchhhhhhhhhh for blessing me and my household with Twins Boys. I will forever praise you, cause you’ve promised me that you will bless me abundantly only if I believe and have faith in you.#everything na double double oooo#?????????”
If you’re looking for crime news updates with a blend of sarcasm and pettiness, then you should go follow the official handle of the EFCC on Twitter, whoever is behind that account is a pure savage. #JustSaying.
See how they shaded English club, Chelsea FC below:
A robbery suspect shocked newsmen and the police when he said he believes it’s God’s will that he become an armed robber after he was arrested for robbery barely two months after he left prison for the same crime.
According to Hussein Mohammed, there is nothing that happens without God’s knowledge as he is the one that created good and evil.
The trio of Salawu Nurudeen, Hussein Mohammed and Ogunbiyi Kola a.k.a. Timmy are ex-jailbirds.
The Nation reports that while Nurudeen left prison in July 2016, the other two came out in August same year. But with their recent arrest along with two others by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Oyo State Police Command, it is most likely that they have paved way for their return to the prison.
According to the Commissioner of Police in Oyo State, Mr Sam Adegbuyi, Nurudeen (25), Mohammed (35), Timmy (23), Oriowo Ayo (28) and Ahmadu Garuba (30) were arrested in November 2016 for armed robbery.
They had gone to Arafat Area of Saki town and robbed a family of their valuables, including cash, a Toyota Corolla car, phones and laptops at gunpoint.
The victim, Alhaji Badmus (surname withheld), who spoke with Metro said:
“The armed robbers entered my compound in Saki on November 21, 2016 at about 7.45p.m., and held my family members hostage. As I was returning home at about 9.50p.m., I called my wife and daughter, unknown to me that they had been held hostage, though they allowed them to use their phones so that I would not suspect anything.
“As I drove in, two of the armed robbers (pointed at them among the suspects) jumped out, put a gun at my chest and asked me to cooperate with them. As I looked at them, wondering what was happening, one of them said ‘continue looking at our faces; we have been told that you are very stubborn,’ warning me of the consequences of the action I might be thinking of taking as my wife and other children were taken hostage inside the house.
“I surrendered to them and as we entered into my residence, one of them gave me a slap on the neck. They demanded for gold, money, receipt to my plasma TV and wristwatches I bought from Makkah, Saudi Arabia, when I went on holy pilgrimage.
“They asked me to lie down and started ransacking my house. When they were through, they locked me up in a room with my family members and left. They went with six phones, my daughter’s laptop, clothings, my wife’s gold jewellery and my car.
After the escape of the armed robbers, a distress call was made to the police, which was followed up by a unit of SARS at Ogbomoso/Oyo axis, leading to the arrest of the suspects.
Recovered from them were an English-made pistol, six live ammunition, a Toyota Corolla car belonging to the victim, a Microsoft cell phone and two wristwatches.
One of the suspects, Nurudeen, confessed to being an armed robber.
“It is true we went to rob. I did not enter the victim’s house with other gang members; I stayed outside. His car was handed over to me after the operation. I met Timmy and Mohammed a.k.a Goodluck in Ilesa prison.
When we got talking, I told them I needed a vehicle and they promised to work with me after leaving the prison to achieve my desire. I was a driver before I went to prison for fighting. I was arrested with the car we collected from our victim on the same day at Sabe on Saki-Iseyin Road.”
Another suspect, Mohammed from Gombe State, also confessed to being an armed robber.
Metro learnt that he was arrested in 2005 for robbery and remanded in Agodi prison in Ibadan till his release in 2006. In 2012, he reportedly robbed in Ilesa and was in prison till July 2016 when he got his freedom.
But Mohammed said:
“I went to prison because the police were looking for my friends whom they suspected of committing armed robbery.”
When asked why he chose robbery after his experience as prison inmate, the suspect replied:
“I believe it is God’s will that I graduated to being an armed robber in the prison. There is nothing that happens without God’s knowledge. He is the one that created good and evil.”
Speaking further, he said:
“I knew Timmy in a hemp joint at Ojoo area of Ibadan. A man, an Alhaji who said he was a Tokunbo dealer at Ago Are told us he needed vehicles and gave us a gun to snatch vehicles for him. A guy we met in the prison linked us with Alhaji. I spent three years in prison and came out in July 2016. This is the first time I would be working for Alhaji.
Timmy, on his own part, said:
“I will blame the police for charging me court over a fight in which I stabbed someone with a bottle. I knew it was not a good deed, but it was anger that pushed me into the act. It was when I went to prison that I became connected with armed robbers.
“In the prison, I connected with Nurudeen and one Ojo who linked us with Alhaji in Ago Are town. I came out of prison in August 2016. I was the one keeping the gun that was given to us by Alhaji.”
Metro learnt that Nurudeen, Mohammed and Timmy were charged to Saki Magistrates’ court on February 8 and were remanded in Oyo Prisons. The case was adjourned till April 22, pending an advice from the Director of Public Prosecution. (DPP).
Prominent Nigerian activist, Dr Joel Odumakin was manhandled by security operatives during the May 19, 2004 protest – she has announced that former President Obasanjo apologized to her when they met at an event in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
Joe Odumakin wrote on her Instagram:
“I apologise on behalf of the security operatives that manhandled you during the May 19, 2004 protest. Former President ;Chief Olusegun Obasanjo told me today during d JAMB retreat interactive session, Abeokuta, Ogun State.
Controversial Ghanaian counselor, George Lutterodt has asked pastors to distribute condoms to the youth in their churches on Valentine’s Day instead of organizing evening programs in an attempt to prevent the congregation from celebrating the day in the manner they want.
It appears the aim of celebrating Valentine’s Day has been shifted from showing love to acts of promiscuity.
The development has led to churches holding programs in the evening to engage congregants series of activities including exchange of gifts, choreography and poetry recital.
But Counselor Lutterodt believes church activities can never prevent the current generation from having sex on Valentine’s Day.
Speaking to GhanaWeb, Counselor Lutterodt said the church should advise members on why to abstain from sex and distribute condoms to those who cannot abstain so they can have safe sex.
“Valentine is meant for some category of people and not everybody. Some churches have got it wrong. They think organising a program on Val’s Day can keep these popcorn boys from doing whatever they want to so. It’s a shame. Because the boys will do whatever they are supposed to do after 10 o’clock. The best is to share condoms for them,” he noted.
Asked if that is not a way of fueling fornication, the Reverend replied in the negative.
As it has become customary for the TV Personality to visit his late best friend’s graveside every year since she passed away, Denrele paid a visit to Goldie’s graveside today.
Sharing photos via his Instagram page, he wrote:
“You can shed tears that she’s gone,Or you can smile because she has lived.
You can close your eyes and pray that she comes back, Or you can open your eyes and see all she has left.
Your heart can be empty because you can’t see her, Or you can be full of the love that you shared.
You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday, Or you can be happy for tomorrow cos of yesterday.
You can remember her and only that she’s gone, Or you can cherish her memory and let it live on.
You can cry and close your mind, Be empty and turn your back.Or you can do what SUSAN ADEBIMPE “GOLDIE” HARVEY would have wanted;
Smile, Open your eyes, Love and Go on!
4 Years and it still feels like yesterday. Keep resting in the bosom of the Lord.
LOVE YOU GOLDIE.”
Media personality and newest author on the block, Toke Makinwa, took to her Snapchat earlier today to reveal the surprise flowers and gift she received for Valentine’s Day from her “baby”.
Kenyan couple, Wilson Wanjohi and Anne Muhonja, spent just KS100, about $1 (£0.80) on their wedding, precisely on this day last month, See here.
Thanks to the of goodies from well wishers including honeymoon packages, a parcel of land and others, the couple have held a grand Valentine’s Day ceremony held at the Eden Bliss Gardens in Kiambu County.
News of their simple wedding last month went viral on social media and many Kenyans offered to help.
In a lovely Valentine message to Stella Damasus, Daniel Ademinokan revealed that they are already married – the couple have been together for some years now and fans have been anticipating a wedding date but it looks like that’s not gonna be happening as they already secretly got married.
Read what he wrote:
“While people across the Atlantic are waiting for the announcement of a wedding date, I celebrate you today my beautiful WIFE @stelladamasus. You came into my life and gave me the right perspective. Thank you for being such a supportive wife, a remarkable mother to our kids and the glue that holds this home together.
EVERYBODY deserves another shot at getting it right with love. I’m glad I got my second shot. Thank you for loving me the way you do. Even when I do things that deserve time out in the microwave , you love me still. Every single day, I just can’t wait to come home to you because you are my SAFE PLACE. With you, everyday is Valentine’s Day. I love you. #HappyValentinesDay#HappyWife HappyLife #MyRib #MyWife #YouCompleteMe #DaBishopChronicles”
Afolabi Sanusi, a 22-year-old Lagos banker has gotten more than he bargained for after he was arrested and arraigned before an Ikeja magistrate’s court for diverting a customer’s money to his girlfriend’s account.
According to his prosecutor, Inspector Rita Momoh, the suspect who is facing a 3-count charge of of breach of the peace, diversion of fund and stealing, diverted N967,000, belonging to a customer on January 18, at Ojuwoye, Mushin, Lagos, and also issued him forged stamped tellers.
“The accused presented false stamped deposit slips to customers after receiving money from them and pretended that the slips were genuinely issued.
“During investigation, it was discovered that the accused had been transferring and crediting the account of a customer, who was later discovered to be his girlfriend.
“The lady was called and she confirmed that the accused used to credit her account” she said.
The accused who pleaded not guilty was granted N100,000 bail with two sureties in like sum, as the magistrate, Mr. M. K. O. Fadeyin, adjourned the case till March 8.
Edith Steiner will be celebrating her 71st valentine with the Scottish soldier who helped save her in World War II.
Mail UK reports that John Mackay, 96, was in the ranks of a commando team that liberated a number of Jewish prisoners from their Nazi guards in Poland.
Their love story began when 23-year-old John got love struck when he saw 20-year-old Edith Steiner at a village hall dance to celebrate their liberation, but he was too shy to approach her.
He sent a friend to ask her if she will dance with him, but she refused, saying she will only do so if he came himself. That was the first page of their love story as they got married in July 17, 1946, and have two children, seven grand-children and five great-grand children.
They worked as hoteliers before moving to a care home in Dundee after they retired.
The beautiful actress, looking sultry in her wet dark hair, is not letting her marital issues steal the aura of the love day from her, she shared a lovely valentine message to her fans.
She wrote:
“Today is valentine,Happy me to you.Make the best of today,Take a lil time to pray for your loved ones as I pray for al mine this very moment..God bless you and HAPPY VALENTINE LOVERS”
Minister for Power, Babatunde Fashola, who was the guest speaker at the 12th Monthly Power Sector and Stakeholders’ Meeting in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital revealed that like normal Nigerian citizen, he will resist paying his electricty bills over poor services.
According to him,
“The 3,500MW to 3,800MW that we have been able to keep on the grid over the last few months will be assisted greatly if we can have the gas pipelines back and add 3,000MW to it. That means we will be able to deliver well over 6,000MW if the gas pipelines are safe.
“Consumers are more resistant to payment when they don’t have electricity, and I will be, too, and you will be too.
“We see that they [consumers] pay more when the power is more stable. Of course, there are issues also at the retail end – metering, estimated bills” he said.
The Minister also stressed that consumers can also help improve power services in the country by saying NO to criminal actvities.
“You will see that government has begun to act. The Vice President, representing the President, is going round those Niger Delta communities, engaging them more openly, more robustly.
“The idea is to bring them to the table to stop the vandalism while the issues that agitate them can be treated and resolved. I believe that if we are successful as we expect to be, we should be able to, sometimes, this year recover all the 3,000MW that has been lost to gas pipeline outages.”
A secondary school student reportedly took his life by consuming pesticides after he was told to repeat a class.
Clifford Odhiambi, a form 3 student of Luora Secondary School in Homa Bay, Kenya who wanted to join the armed forces next year after his KCSE examinations, committed suicide after he was stopped from entering his new class by the school’s head of exams department, Ishmael Ngicho and head of languages, Nicholas Aswani.
His heartbroken father, Jabos Ocholla, revealed that Clifford left a suicide note where he said he will rather die than repeat the class.
On the other hand, The Director of Homa Bay County Teacher Service Commission (TCS. Diosiana Ahindukha, in a statement, noted that repeating of classes had been banned by the government and said that the two teachers and the principal will be invited for questioning.
‘We will not allow any teacher to violate regulations they were given by the Ministry of Education. Anyone found in violation will face stern punitive measures. There is a team from TSC that will question that two teachers and the principal to decide whether to sack them or reinstate them,’ he said.
A 70-year-old woman, identified simply as Mrs. Egunjobi, a London returnee, has allegedly been raped to death by a 33-year-old Dare Garuba, New Telegraph reports.
The incident occurred in Egunjobi’s shop at Mowe in Ofada-Mokolokin Local Council Development Area of Ogun State. Witnesses yesterday said that the woman had taken two bottles of Alomo gin and became intoxicated.
When she started misbehaving, the suspect reportedly offered to lead her home so that she would not be injured.
However, when Garuba led Egunjobi into her shop, he decided to take advantage of her. The incident, which occurred about 11p.m. on Sunday, forced some of the traders in the area to shut down their shops yesterday when the news of her death filtered into town.
It was learnt that the suspect was the only one who approached Egunjobi and called the attention of some of the residents to the woman.
The Coordinator of Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) in the area, Mr. Bamidele Ayeyemi, said they were outside about 11p.m. when a Hausa man, who went to defecate in a nearby bush close to the woman’s shop, discovered that her shop opened. According to Ayeyemi, the man raised the alarm, thinking that armed robbers had broken into the shop.
He said:
“Some of my boys and I, immediately we heard the man shouting thief, thief, we called for reinforcement and went round the market.
Unfortunately, when we moved closed to the woman’s shop, the suspect opened the door and bolted. “When the suspect was trying to escape from the scene, one of us was able to identify him as Dare. That was how we started searching for him in the community.”
The body inside the shop Gov. Umahi Another resident, who identified himself simply as Balogun, said after the remains of the woman had been taken care of; they went to report the incident to the head of the community and policemen at Mowe Division.
He said: “What surprised us was that it was the same suspect who promised to take care of the woman so as not to sustain injuries that later took advantage of her.
We searched the community for about four hours before we finally apprehended him in the ceiling of an uncompleted building where he was hiding.
We then handed him over to the police for appropriate action.”
It was learnt that Garuba was still making love to the woman without knowing that she had died.
The Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Mowe Police Division, was said to be at the scene of the incident with the woman’s husband. But the widower refused to comment on his wife’s death.
Garuba’s mother, Mrs. Jumoke Musa, said she was fed up with the attitude of her son. She said: “I have done everything to prevent him from becoming a hoodlum. I left him with his father’s family after his father’s death because I have remarried and I did not want to endure his way of life.
“Even while staying with me in my present place, I have bailed him countless times for different offences he has committed in the community.”
The victim’s body was in her shop, covered with a piece of cloth yesterday.