Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has made good his promise to throw away his U.S residency green card and leave the United States, if Donald Trump won the presidential election. This came as he said that Nigeria was sinking when Buhari took power
Soyinka had vowed that he would give up his permanent US residency should Trump win the election, as a way of protesting Trump becoming the President of the United States. “I have already done it, I have disengaged (from the United States). I have done what I said I would do.
“I had a horror of what is to come with Trump… I threw away the (green) card, and I have relocated, and I’m back to where I have always been,’’ the 82-year-old told AFP on the sidelines of an education conference at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
The prolific playwright, novelist and poet won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986 and has been a regular teacher at US universities including Harvard, Cornell and Yale. At the same time, he said he would not discourage others from applying for a green card. “It’s useful in many ways. I wouldn’t for one single moment discourage any Nigerians or anybody from acquiring a green card… but I have had enough of it,” he said. Soyinka, one of Africa’s most famous writers and rights activists, was jailed in 1967 for 22 months during Nigeria’s civil war.
He was reported to have recently completed a term as scholar-in-residence at New York University’s Institute of African American Affairs. In the aftermath of Trump’s victory, social media had trended with calls by Nigerians on the laureate to destroy his US permanent residency.
He, however, fired back that he reserved the right to determine when to destroy the document. Soyinka also said yesterday that he was not surprised that President Muhammadu Buhari had lost popularity just 18 months into office, given the high expectations that greeted his coming to power He said: “There’s nothing surprising to me about his losing popularity, it should be expected. People wanted change, that word was not just a slogan, it was a promise.’’
Soyinka, who noted that Nigeria was sinking when Buhari took power, said But when he took over power, said: “Fulfilling political promises when you take over the reins of power and you have to clean up a lot of mess, it’s not easy,” said the Nobel prize-winning author.
The ex-military ruler has seen his approval ratings decline in recent months from 80 percent last year to 41 percent this September, according to analysis firm BMI Research.
Soyinka said while Buhari was the better choice of the two candidates in last year’s election where he squared off against ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, it was high time the country weaned itself off leaders with military backgrounds. “I was not particularly enamoured of the idea of a military person continuing — for heaven’s sake, it’s been too long. “I feel very passionate that it’s about time that we eliminated the last vestiges of military control, of military representation. It’s as if there are no brains outside the military,’’ he said.
Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River says the only way to end the HIV scourge in Nigeria is for married couples to remain faithful to their partners while young people abstain from sex.
Ayade said this on Thursday in Calabar at the commemoration of the 2016 World AIDS Day celebration.
He said, “The absolute factor that can put an end to HIV/AIDS spread is total loyalty and abstinence.
“Married couples must be faithful to their partners. Young people must remain virgins until they get married and never allow any barber to use unsterilised clipper to cut your hair.
“Whatever the story, AIDS is real, it is a scourge, you must avoid it.’’
According to Ayade, the time has come to teach young people true African culture where sex before marriage is a taboo.
He described the usage of condom `campaign’ as creating a false feeling of protection, adding that the use of condom had not helped in stopping the scourge.
“Rather, it increases the level of promiscuity among the younger generation and encouraged unfaithfulness,’’ he added.
He said that the state government would do everything within its power to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS in Cross River.
The Director-General of the State Action Committee on AIDS, Dr. Rose Nyambi, disclosed that no fewer than 164, 267 people were currently living with HIV/AIDS in the state.
She said the number was made up of 103,000 females and 61,627 males.
Nyambi said the figure, which represented a 6.6 per cent prevalent rate, put the state on the fifth position in Nigeria.
According to her, Cross River has a mixed epidemic which shows that the prevalence among the general population and key population is high.
Nyambi also said that the state had the highest rate of Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission in Nigeria.
She stated that this was achieved through various government policies and programmes on HIV/AIDS prevention.
The director general, however, lamented the exit of donor partners, describing the development as creating an extra burden on the state government.
United for one last time, these are the coffins containing the remains of Brazilian footballers killed in the devastating Colombia air crash.
The bodies of Chapecoense players killed when the LaMia airline plane smashed into a mountain have been identified and are being embalmed and prepared for transport by military aircraft back to their homeland.
Heartbreaking pictures show the coffins laid out in the Colombian city’s San Vicente Mortuary with chairs dressed in white left out for grieving friends and relatives.
The caskets are due to arrive in the club’s home city of Chapeco as soon as midday on Friday and be taken directly to the club’s stadium for a collective wake that Brazilian President Michel Temer is expected to attend.
“I have been married for five years to a good man but it seems that isn’t enough anymore. We have been happy together and we have a three-year-old son also. My husband tries his best to satisfy me and I was content until a new couple moved into the next flat.
I have been married for five years to a good man but it seems that isn’t enough anymore. We have been happy together and we have a three-year-old son also. My husband tries his best to satisfy me and I was content until a new couple moved into the next flat.
My husband is not usually at home and it does get lonely being alone in the house with our son. There are days I get frustrated with the fact that he is not usually around to keep me company or even there to share my thoughts with and we would sometimes have arguments about this. We were still able to cope with ours situation until six months back when he travelled and stayed away for two months. I got restless staying indoors all by myself after I had put our son to bed and decided to step outside our apartment for a while. That was when Mr Richard and I met.
He and his wife moved into the flat next to ours and considering all that I was dealing with, I wasn’t able to visit and welcome them properly, so we said our hellos and exchanged pleasantries. He said good night and went into his flat but not long after that he came outside again. He asked if all was well and how my husband was. I told him my husband was out of town and that he won’t be back till later but while I was still talking, I unthinkingly burst into tears and startled my neighbour.
He tried calming me down and only asked what the problem was when I stopped crying. It felt so good to finally talk to someone about my husband’s constant travelling that I poured out my heart to a man I hardly knew. After I had finished talking, he then revealed that he was going through the same thing with his wife who was a serial globe-trotter. And that was how our odd friendship started.
To cut the long story short, my neighbour in whom I have found a friend and confidante is now more attractive to me than my own husband and sometimes I get the feeling that he finds me attractive as well. My husband is home now but I don’t even feel like talking to him most times and would rather spend the time chatting with Richard on the phone. I know my actions might cause serious problems later but I can’t help myself anymore. Please what should I do?
The National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) on Thursday announced the dismissal of five lecturers and the termination of appointments of eight others in Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi.
The dismissal and termination of appointments are in connection with sexual-related offences.
The Executive Secretary of the board, Dr Masa’udu Kazaure, who made this known at a news conference in Kaduna, said 16 other lecturers were demoted, while four others were warned.
He also said two others were advised, another two cautioned, while one lecturer would be mentored.
He said the development was the outcome of an investigation following a publication by The Punch newspaper of April 9, 2016 with the title: `School Where Prostitutes Assist Male Students to Get Marks’.
He said: “The summery of the publication indicated that students hire prostitutes or beg their girl friends to sleep with lecturers on their behalf in order to earn higher grades in their courses.
“The lecturer chooses a hotel of his choice and the affected students pay the hotel bills, which include the meals before the action.
“Some of the lecturers give the option of paying by cash, which cost between N10,000 and N20,000, which could give the student not more than a ‘C’ grade.
“We promptly informed the Minister of Education, Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) and Department of Security Services (DSS).’’
Kazaure said the board, therefore, constituted a fact-finding committee with representation from EFCC, ICPC, DSS, NBTE and the Federal Ministry of Education and gave it one week within which to getting to the root of the matter.
The committee was also to proffer lasting solutions to the problem.
He said the committee submitted its report on June 14, 2016, which was deliberated by the board and recommendations submitted to the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu
According to him, the recommendations were approved on Nov. 21.
“Consequently, the minister approved the dismissal from the services of the polytechnic two chief lecturers, two principal lecturers and one Lecturer I.
“Also, four chief lecturers, one Principal Lecturer, one Lecturer I, one Lecturer II and one Higher Technician had their appointments terminated.
“The minister also approved the demotion of one Chief Lecturer, four principal lecturers, three senior lecturers, three Lecturer I, four Lecturer II, and one Senior Instructor.
“One Chief lecturer, one Principal Lecturer, one lecturer I, and one Lecturer II were warned, while a Chief lecturer and one Senior Technologist were advised to be of good conduct.
“In addition, two senior lecturers were cautioned, an Assistant Lecturer is to be mentored and one ND student is to be advised, while another student denied admission into the polytechnic,’’ Kazaure said.
The jungle justice meted out to the man, who variously claims to be a filmmaker and movie marketer, for allegedly stealing a total of nine iPhones from a shop on Medical Road, was the beginning before his arraignment at an Ikeja Magistrate Court on Thursday for stealing.
With the advent of social media, however, fans and followers would always have their say in any matter of interest to them. And this was no exception.
Upon releasing the statement,
@mhz_zeal wrote: “Karma is a bitch” while @walking goldmine wondered: “How could you have gone to the shop to buy 9 iPhones with no money on you, then took those phones to the car bcos you needed to fetch money?
Why not leave the phones, go for the money and make payment before taking them to your vehicle?”
Also having her say, @queenstacyp wrote:
“He was advertising for iPhone.
He is now a proud brand ambassador for them… your cup will soon overflow and jungle justice will be the next. You better join MMM and stop this petty stealing.”
Adding a comic angle to it, @ abunmsy wrote:
“He even stole the English because I know he can’t speak good English.”
She has been busy on social media in the last few days but has concentrated on posting pictures from a movie location she is shooting in Abeokuta and environs.
In fact, one of her followers pointedly urged her to say something about the matter a few days ago but she refused to say anything as at the time of going to press.
Following his arraignment, Egbegbe was remanded in prison custody at Kirikiri on Thursday with a bail bond of N1million with two sureties in like sum after he pleaded not guilty to the charges.
In her recently launched book: “On Becoming”, Toke Makinwa revealed something that shocked even her dearest fans; that she bleached her skin just to please her estranged hubby, Maje Ayida while they were still dating.
But what many of Toke Makinwa’s fans didn’t know is the extent of the bleaching, and today, they will find out after seeing the before and after pictures of Toke after bleaching below:
throwback photo… toke and maje have been together for 12 years… so it’s safe to say they were probably dating when she was like this (left picture)throwback photo… toke and maje have been together for 12 years… so it’s safe to say they were probably dating when she was like this (left picture)
A LASTMA official scheduled to get married on the 10th of December, 2016 drew inspiration from his profession to prosecute an outstanding and emotional pre-wedding photoshoot.
In the photos taken by professional photographer, Bisi Daniels, the LASTMA official could be seen directing his fiancee based on the regulations of road usage.
The pictures seem to have improved the image of the LASTMA in public following activities of thuggery and bullying which the Lagos State agency has been known for.
Despite Security Exchange Commission and Central Bank of Nigeria’s warning that Nigerians should steer clear of the Mavrodi Mundial Movement (MMM) scheme, the number of subscribers has continued to climb and the scheme has become the current number one investment for many Nigerians in recent times.
The scheme pays over 30 percent on investment to subscribers in one month while giving them numerous bonuses for bringing in new investments. This of course looks like the ‘wonder banks’ of the 90s that crashed with billions of Naira belonging to investors disappearing with them.
Yet Nigerians continue to put their fate in MMM. It is now even being preached in some churches as a good source of investment.
A look into the scheme has revealed the reason why the scheme is working and why people are very much attracted to it. It also uncovers flaws and reasons why it may crash.
The Mavrodi Mundial Movement was instituted in Russia in 2011 by a mathematician and statistician named Sergey Mavrodi. He had created an algorithm that allows subscribers to have a huge purse of funds where they can draw from as long as new subscribers are willing to fund whatever was taken out.
It is more like a Ponzi scheme or a pyramid scheme but with a twist. A Ponzi scheme collects funds from investors and use the funds of new subscribers to pay old subscribers and when there are no new subscribers the scheme breaks down. Same goes for Pyramid schemes, but MMM is bit different.
How MMM Works
MMM organises interested participants on a networked platform. It matches people who are willing to assist or fund others with people who need funds. The amount you are able to ask for in funding depends on the amount you are able to assist people with. It allows one to give out fund to people with the assurance that they will get assistance when they request for it.
MMM simply make new ‘helpers’ to transfer money (help as they call it) to other people who had provided help previously to earlier participants and the circle continues. But it is not really a circle and does not go round, instead it is a pyramid that keeps going up and this may have consequences on the long run.
If you accept to provide help of N100,000, the bank account of either one person who requested for help of N200,000 or a number of people whose total request is N100,000 will be sent to you to pay the money into, which you have to pay. Paying this money will allow you to be qualified for ‘help’ as well. But it goes more than that. Paying N100,000 you get N130,000 as help.
Here is how the extra N30,000 is derived. Once you have the N100,000 in the system, you earn 1percent of your investment every day. In 30 days that make the N30,000. But the money is actually not an interest.
All monies on the scheme is called ‘Mavro’. So your N100,000 is converted to 100,000 Mavro. Each Mavro is not really money, but a unit of trust or a unit of ‘helperbility’. So for you to leave your 100,000 in the scheme, you earn 1% on your helperbility. Meaning the more you are willing to help the more help you can get. This helperbility you earn can now be converted to Naira at N1 to 1Mavro.
However, it is not necessary at all to wait for a month. Help can be requested at any time. But only after confirmation of your Mavro. One gets confirmed after actually transferring money to someone who needs assistance.
The scheme goes on and on as long as there are more people to give out their money to people who need it.
Government Intervention
Since it’s became popular earlier this year, government has tried to dissuade Nigerians from participating in the scheme. They have issued numerous warning telling Nigerians that the scheme is a scam that will crash in future.
Director of Corporate Communications, CBN, Mr. Isaac Okoroafor, says MMM is a Ponzi scheme. “At times like this when the economy has suffered some decline, Nigerians should be very careful with those they deal with. Any institution that is not licensed by the CBN to accept deposits should not be given money to keep under any guise. We can vouch for the banking system. The deposit money banks are the only licensed institutions to take deposits. If you need to deposit money in any form, go to any of the deposit money banks and put your money, you can buy fixed income instruments or invest in stocks,” he said.
Okoroafor said the CBN could not guarantee the unregistered institutions, insisting that when depositors lose money to them, the bank would not be able to help them.
According to the Security Exchange Commision (SEC), the venture had no tangible business model, describing MMM as a Ponzi scheme, where returns would be paid from other peoples’ invested funds.
“Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investing scam promising high rates of return with little risk to investors. The scheme generates returns for older investors by acquiring new investors and will later crash,” the Commission’s site reads.
So the question is, why is the government not doing anything about it if it is considered dangerous?
The answer lies in the model of MMM. It has no physical or tangible asset. The whole business model relies on the internet and mutual trust between subscribers. So it is difficult for the government to halt their operations or have any control over them. Blocking MMM is just like blocking Facebook or any other site. Also, users are already informed that they are sending out money on their own accord.
The Growing Users
Despite all the warnings, MMM users continue to grow in number. Even MMM managers clearly states on their website that there is no guarantee of getting back your money after you have provided help yet the system is well designed in such a way that you provide help before you can be helped.
Meaning when your money is in, there is no 100 percent security guarantee that you will get your money back. Though for now it is working, there is no assurance it will in future.
Despite this, many continue to harp on the scheme, even those who are meant to know better. From studies, members with the highest funds in the scheme are in the banking sector. And they even encourage others to go into it.
Shade, who works in a first generation bank and does not want her surname released, says that MMM is her biggest investment till date and she now makes money from her profit from the scheme. “I was one of the early people on MMM. I have a client who keeps bringing in huge sums every month. She later introduced me to MMM. I started with just N5,000 and in less than two weeks I was able to get my money back with interest. Now I have millions in it,” she says.
When asked if she is not afraid that the scheme may crash, she has this to say, “If it crashes tomorrow, I will not lose a kobo. I started with N5,000 like I told you and later put in over N250,000 of my own money. Today I operate in with millions.”
A new subscriber, John Eyighator, says that he is joining the scheme just because everyone is doing it. “My colleague made N300,000 last week and I have heard many other people that are saying good things about it. No bank can give me that kind of money, so I decided to try it. I put in N100,000 this week, immediately they confirm me, I should be able to make over N60,000.
These are just a few of those we spoke to who all have something positive to say about the scheme. However, there should be a source for concern.
Unanswered Questions
There are some things about MMM that does not add up, which subscribers should be aware of. Firstly, Mavrodi Mundial Movement is not registered as a company in Nigeria. If a company is helping others legally then they should not find it difficult to register the company and even have an office.
However, a user countered this point. According to Ity, solutions owner who is also a ‘Guardian’ (people with large number of subscribers under them) with MMM, he says “As for MMM not being registered legally, you should know that MMM is a donation system, there is nothing illegal about donations. All monies are being transferred peer-to-peer.” He asks that his name is not published.
Secondly, it is not explained where that 10 percent that is given to new subscribers comes from. The scheme is pretty simple, but there is the question of where the funding for the 10 percent given to first time users comes from. It only means that the operators of MMM are also involved one way or the other.
Also, when we looked into the history of the founder of the scheme, Sergey Mavrodi, not much can be said about his financial history. The only thing positive to his credit is that fact that he is a very good mathematician.
Apparently, MMM is not the first scheme that Mavrodi has created. He founded the first scheme in 1989 but it later crashed and was sentenced to prison. He was then elected a local council member in Russia while in prison so he was released due to the immunity he got from his election. Mavrodi declared MMM bankrupt on December 22, 1997, then disappeared, and was on the run until his arrest in 2003.
Wikipedia also said he was deported from USA for fraudulent dealings and in 2007, a Moscow court sentenced him to four and a half years in a penal colony. The court also fined him 10,000 rubles ($390).
In January 2011, Mavrodi launched this current pyramid scheme called MMM scheme which has lasted till today. This time, he targeted third world countries including India, Latin America and countries in Africa including Nigeria. Today, Nigeria has the highest number of MMM subscribers in Africa.
Also, subscribers need to be afraid that the scheme may well be on its way to a big crash. This is because it has already crashed in Zimbabwe and many lost all their life savings. This is reminiscent of what happened in Russia.
Finally, one also needs to be weary of organisations that refuse to speak to the press. For this story, Independent tried to reach the people in MMM through their website. We even asked a lady called Tonia who was responding cto us thinking we wanted to subscribe. But she later stopped responding when we introduced ourselves as the media.
If MMM has nothing to hide, they should hold a press conference, or an event letting Nigerians know the faces behind the scheme.
A financial analyst, Ben Agbakoba says that such schemes can only thrive in third world countries like Nigeria because many people are poor and are looking for get rich quick schemes. He says the scheme will work for a while but will eventually crash.
“They are only taking advantage of our poor economy. Such schemes cannot work if Nigerians are well off. It is hard to tell Nigerians to stop patronising the scheme. If we say so, the scheme will crash. And if it continues, it will still eventually crash. But people will prefer not to know exactly when it will crash. I think they should continue, after all, they all know the risks involved,” says Agbakoba.
This young lady pictured above is believed to be mentally unstable and has caused some drama inside a market.
According to LIB, the lady is said to have walked into a phone shop in Surulere, Lagos this afternoon and told the sales rep she wanted to buy a phone that costs N620,000.
When she was asked to pay for the phone, she replied, saying that she needed to withdraw the money using the ATM.
When she returned, she brought out N500 and asked the sales rep to hand her the phone. She said it was Tinubu that asked her to come and buy the phones.
The astonished sales rep called in her superior who sat the girl down and asked her for her name. She replied “Chidinma”.
When pressed further, she said she does not know where she stays and also where she is going to.
She has been handed over to police officers from Bode Thomas, Surulere.
The plane that crashed in Colombia’s Medellin killing 71 people on board including members of the Brazillian football team, Chapecoense, ran out of fuel moments before it crashed on Tuesday November 29th.
This is according to a leaked audio recording of the pilot’s final communications with the control tower.
The pilot was heard repeatedly requesting permission to land, saying that the plane had suffered “total electrical failure, without fuel.”
A co-pilot of an Avianca plane flying nearby at the time also said he overheard the LaMia 933 plane reporting it was out of fuel, calling “mayday” and asking the control tower to direct it to the runway.
Main cause of the crash is yet to be ascertained by Brazilian investigators. Only six of the 77 people on board survived the crash.
The remains of Ifedolapo Oladepo, the corps member who died in NYSC camp, Kano was today interred in Osogbo at her family’s residence.
Many were not able to hide their feelings as the first class graduate of Transport management from the Ladoke Akintola university of Technology, ogbomoso began her final journey.
She died on Tuesday at the NYSC orientation camp in Kano state.
Five members of the Super Falcons participating at the on-going African Women’s Nations Cup in Cameroon were forced to travel by road from Douala to Yaoundé yesterday, as the aircraft in which they were supposed to fly developed electrical fault shortly before take off.
The team, which defeated the Banyana Banyana of South Africa 1-0 to qualify for the final of the championship, had left their Parliamentarian Flat hotel in Buea at 6.00 a.m. and arrived in Douala for their flight to Yaoundé. They were scheduled to depart Douala at 9.00 a.m. for the state capital, a journey of about 45 minutes by air and about four hours by road.
The Nigerians arrived at Douala airport alongside their South African counterparts, who will face Ghana’s Black Queens in tomorrow’s third-place match.
But on getting to Douala airport, CAF officials could not secure enough seats for the entire Nigerian team to continue their journey inside one plane. “The team experienced some delay at the airport, but at the end, all the players and officials could not travel together in one plane because it was a small aircraft which could not accommodate both Nigeria and the South African team at the same time. As a result, five members of the team were left behind.
“Those five people were later checked into another plane, but just as they were preparing to commence the journey to Yaoundé, smoke started coming out from the plane due to electrical problem and everybody was evacuated. The five people had to embark on their journey by road to Yaoundé,” a member of the team said.
She added that even those who made the trip by air had to leave their luggage behind in Douala due to the small nature of the plane.
They were expecting their bags to arrive their Djeuga Palace hotel in Yaoundé at 8.00 p.m. yesterday.
The incidence is coming less than 24 hours after a Brazilian football team was involved in a plane crash on their way to a match in Colombia.
Nigerian Nobel prize-winning author Wole Soyinka said Thursday he has fulfilled his pledge to throw away his US residency green card and leave the country if Donald Trump won the presidential election.
Shortly before the vote, Soyinka had vowed to give up his permanent US residency over a Trump victory to protest against the Republican billionaire’s campaign promises to get tough on immigration.
“I have already done it, I have disengaged (from the United States). I have done what I said I would do,” the 82-year-old told AFP on the sidelines of an education conference at the University of Johannesburg.
“I had a horror of what is to come with Trump… I threw away the (green) card, and I have relocated, and I’m back to where I have always been” — meaning his homeland Nigeria.
The prolific playwright, novelist and poet won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986 and has been a regular teacher at US universities including Harvard, Cornell and Yale.
At the same time he said he would not discourage others from applying for a green card. “It’s useful in many ways. I wouldn’t for one single moment discourage any Nigerians or anybody from acquiring a green card… but I have had enough of it,” he said.
A 29-year old man, Aregbesola Quazeem has landed in trouble after he allegedly attacked a female hotel attendant, Amaka Christopher for disrupting his sex plans with his lover over poor condition of a chalet in a hotel he lodged in Lagos.
Quazeem was angry that he lost money and at the same time could not achieve his sex desire because his partner refused to sleep with him after complaining of poor condition of the chalet with non-functional air conditioner.
The incident happened on Sunday at a popular hotel, CY Hotel located at Ikotun area of Lagos.
An angry Quazeem allegedly took his lover to the hotel and paid N4,000 to lodge till day break.
When they moved into the room, they discovered the place was not conducive as there was no functional air conditioner which caused unbearable heat in the room.
The woman insisted that Quazeem cannot not sleep with her under the heat and she asked that they relocate to another room with an AC or he should forget about their sex romp.
Quazeem went to the attendant to complain and requested for another room. She told him that every other room in the hotel had been fully booked and there was nothing she could do that night.
On the basis of that, Quazeem requested a refund of his money so they can look for another place to lodge and she refused. This led to a disagreement which resulted in Quazeem attacking Amaka and reportedly injured her and tore her clothes.
The matter was reported to the police at Ikotun division who arrested Quazeem. By then his lover had left the place.
He was charged with conduct likely to cause breach of public peace and assault on Amaka.
He pleaded not guilty.
The presiding Magistrate, Mr A.A. Fashola granted him bail in the sum of N50,000 with two surety in like sum.
He was remanded in prison custody pending when he will perfect his bail.
The Catholic Archbishop of Kampala, Cyprian Kizito Lwanga, has warned women against beating their husbands, saying they “should love and respect them“,
He stated this while reacting to a police report about Mpingi district in the Uganda’s central region, which showed that five out 10 reported cases of domestic assault involved women beating their husbands.
Uganda’s privately owned Daily Monitor quotes the Archbishop of Kampala, saying women should accept men as the head of families:
“Do you want to take over power from men in your families? I think you want to challenge God who tells us that men are the heads of the family.
“Stop torturing the innocent servants of God. There is no need for you women to behave like some people we are seeing nowadays in the country who are merciless.”
Music producer Cobhams Asuquo is today, celebrating his son, David, who turned 5-years-old. The music veteran took to his IG page shared a photo of himself with his son and wrote:
My boss is 5!!! Happy 5th birthday Sir. My other employer. I love you soo much David and I have soo much to teach you. I’ll always make you proud by God’s grace.
I live so that you can be a better man. David the world needs better men and we would raise each other to be better men in this world. God bless you my son! We are turning up this weekend, you just name the place. #happybirthdayDavid #happybirthdayson #Godblessyou
Though some of you will barely give a sh*t if a guy likes you or not, yeah, some of you are nuts like that, no offense, but some of you too are really looking for attention from that guy you so desire… or probably you have him already and you want him to want you more.
Let’s help you get that dream, shall we?
1. Get him to talk about the things that he loves.
When a guy is talking about something he is really into, he subconsciously vibes with you in the process of conversing.
2. Talk to him about things you are passionate about.
Talking about what you love naturally makes you glow and this inspires an attraction, which is a good start towards gaining affection.
3. When interacting with him, flirt.
Make and maintain eye contact. Don’t be shy, get physical: casually touch his arms and shoulders. All these help to grow and sustain his attention on you.
Take these points to consideration that moment you feel your guy wants a breakup or is about to.
1. He starts off irrational fights and for no reason.
He snaps at jokes he ordinarily wouldn’t and everything the lady does at this point is annoying to him. He ultimately wants/waiting for a spark to end the relationship.
2. He disappears at will.
All of a sudden the once smitten, always around guy is nowhere to be found. He finds it difficult to pick up the phone to call or even pick up the phone when the lady does.
In a way, there’s this street cred you get when you have been in police custody, it in fact, boosts your “street” reputation, cause the streets knows you’ve done time and you shouldn’t be messed with you see… I speak of foreign music acts though, the artistes of the Hip Hop genre especially.
Unlike their foreign counterparts, Nigerian music acts can’t boast of spending “much time” in prison, but they sure can testify of landing in the hands of law enforcement agencies…
… and we are counting down those who have experienced that ordeal in recent times.
Oritsefemi
The singer spent the night at the police custody after stabbing a club bouncer with a glass cup in a weekend, this past November. The singer has since apologized for his behavior and has been set free.
According to ThisDay, the planned marriage between Zahra Buhari and Ahmed Indimi, may have been deferred following the physical altercation that trailed the delivery of several stacked dowry boxes valued at N44m to the first family.
Trouble reportedly started on November 18, during the traditional introduction ceremony, when the sister of the groom, Yataka Indimi, insisted on taking her mobile phone into the Presidential Villa, Abuja, contrary to security protocol.
THISDAY gathered that Yataka wanted to record all the proceedings, despite the fact it was against standard security protocol in the villa.
However, a struggle ensued between Yataka and the security officials who tried to compel her to comply with protocol, only for her to resist.
The incident attracted the attention of other dignitaries who tried to stop the scuffle.
The argument degenerated to a scuffle, compelling the wife of the Nasarawa State governor, Mrs. Tanko Almakura, to step in to stop the altercation from getting out of hand and may have injured her arm in the process. .
“As of today, we learnt that the Nasarawa first lady is still nursing her wounds and is being treated for a dislocation,” the source said.
THISDAY learnt that the incident was so embarrassing that it incurred the wrath of the president over the behaviour of the Indimis.
Buhari was reported to have threatened to return the boxes and stop the marriage ceremony.
Elders are at the moment trying to prevail on the president not to return the boxes, as he would be bucking tradition.
They are also working on resolving the tension that has arisen since the altercation, so that the wedding could go ahead as planned, if not this weekend, then as soon as possible.
Further findings revealed that while Buhari might not be favourably disposed to the idea of marrying out his daughter to a wealthy suitor, the wife of the president and her daughters, who are more liberal, are rooting for the marriage.
Ex-first lady, Patience Jonathan was photoed wearing bright smiles as she arrived at the Port Harcourt International Airport, yesterday, after a short vacation abroad.
She was received by associates, friends and close family members. See more photos below:
Stunning ex-beauty queen and Mother-of-one, Dabota Lawson, took to her Snapchat earlier today to call out a former beauty queen, who she alleges is sleeping with her ex husband and asking her ‘homie‘ (close male friend) if he’s the father of her daughter.
The ex-beuaty queen and cosmetics businesswoman gave a clue about the lady in question, saying she blew kisses in the comment section of her Instagram page.
Figure out who you think she’s referring to in a screenshot below:
Heavyweight boxing champion, Floyd Mayweather is known to one of the most lavish sportsman across the globe and he continues to slap our faces with the cash he loves to show off.
The retired boxer reportedly gifted his girlfriend with a diamond ring which costs a whooping $1million.
Akande Thomas shared an experience of an MMM participant who claims God rejected his tithe from MMM earnings and clearly told him Christians involved in the scheme have had their names removed from the book of life.
Read what he shared below:
When I was initially introduced to MMM, I went to God in prayer to seek for HIS approval. HE clearly told me that I cannot engage in it because those Christians involved in the scheme have had their names removed from the book of life.
I was seriously troubled and at the same time afraid as I prayed passionately. As soon as I finished praying, I thought within myself ‘could this voice restraining me be of God?’. Just as I was meditating, another voice came saying; ‘It can not be of God but rather from the devil trying to tie you down in perpetual poverty for the rest of your life.’ So I quickly neglected the former voice for the latter.
I decided to try the scheme with 250k. At the month end, I was so happy when I saw the return of the investment.
Could life had been better than this? God punish the devil that would’ve restrained me from this ‘bumper harvest’. Then I decided to pay my tithe. Just as I was planning to make the withdrawal, God ministered to me – ‘I don’t have anything to do with such money.’ I broke down in tears regretting what I have done in disobeying God. I pleaded for forgiveness of which I know HE has mercifully answered. I closed my MMM account but till now I don’t just know what to do with the money God has rejected.
I’m sharing this as a result of the concern for the brethren in this last days. Though some people may decide to be asking rhetoric questions but I believe serious minded Christians will go to God to also hear from HIM
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CBN says its(MMM) a ponzi scheme (an investment swindle in whichsome early investors are paid off with money put up by later ones inorder to encourage more and bigger risks – From Miriam Webster dictionary i.e ‘rubbing Peter to pay Paul’) which is very true. World bank warned the masses to desist from the ponzi scheme.
The law makers are investigating the scheme and threatened to arrest its canvassers. Some ‘Christians’ are agitating and saying some negative things against the gov’t. Some also want Jesus to either come down himself or looking for those who will show them where Jesus condemn ponzi scheme in the holy scriptures.
The truth is by the time the whole system collapses whether now or next 134years(as some people have blindly calculated), all the gains must be catered for by the losses.
Then the question I will have for those Christians and Pastors that will be jubilating because of their gain (while the losers are mourning) will be – “Do you really believe Jesus is happy when others are ‘robbed’ to pay you return?” I believe we need to be watchful in these last days.
A commercial tricyclist in Owerri, the Imo State capital, and an Abuja-based trader have been caught by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) officials at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos with 6.390kg of substances that tested positive for heroin.
One of them, Cajetan Chinedu Egwin, was arrested on arrival from Kigali, Rwanda; the other, King Sunday, was nabbed on arrival from Nairobi, Kenya.
The drug with an estimated street value of N575 million was hidden in their luggage. Egwin, 32, was caught with 3.900kg of heroin and Sunday, 38, was found with 2.490kg of heroin
NDLEA Lagos Airport Commander Ahmadu Garba said:
“Egwin arrived from Kigali on a Rwanda Airline flight while Sunday imported the drug found on him from Nairobi during inward screening of passengers on an Ethiopian Airline flight. The suspects are being investigated.
“Preliminary investigation by the agency, however, indicated that drug trafficking cartels
are gradually changing their mode of operation by turning to African countries in sourcing narcotic drugs like heroin. The suspects were also recruited for a fee to import the drugs into the country.
Egwin who is not married said he needed money to repair his commercial tricycle while Sunday who left his wife after four days of marriage under the guise of a business trip said that he needed money for his honeymoon and business.”
Egwin, a commercial tricycle rider in Owerri told investigators that he needed money to change his tricycle.
“The engine of my tricycle which is my only source of livelihood is bad. While I was looking for money to fix it, I was introduced to the man that promised to pay me N400,000 on the condition that I will bring his drug from Kigali. I accepted the offer because nobody was willing to help me. Apart from the repairs, my rent is due and my landlord has been asking for his money,” he said.
Sunday said he made a mistake in dabbling to drug traffic stating:
“I erroneously took the decision to smuggle drugs barely four days after my marriage. I was in need of money for my honeymoon and also for my business but I should not have involved myself in drug trafficking. My thinking was that I could smuggle the drug from Nairobi in two days without my wife knowing that I travelled out of the country. All my life, I have been upright in my transactions but this is a huge mistake and I regret my action.”
NDLEA’s Chairman/Chief Executive Col Muhammad Abdallah (rtd) said drug traffickers were turning to African countries to smuggle heroin produced in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Thailand and other far away countries.
”The Agency successfully foiled their plan with the arrest and seizure of the drugs. Drug cartels thought it would be easy to smuggle the drugs into the country since heroin is not produced in Africa but I am happy that we are thinking far ahead of them,” he said.
A 46-year-old school supervisor, Adegboyega Adenekan, has been apprehended by the police for allegedly defiling a 34 months old girl.
Adenekan, a supervisor in Chrisland International School in Victoria Garden City (VGC) Lagos, was alleged to have defiled the girl under the guise of teaching her sex education.
Commissioner of Police Fatai Owoseni, who paraded Adenekan yesterday at the command’s Ikeja headquarters, said the suspect was arrested following a complaint by the victim’s mother at the Ikeja Police Division.
He claimed that preliminary investigation showed that the pastor defiled the girl, stressing that the suspect would be charged to court.
Adenekan said he got a call from the pupil’s mother accusing him of defiling her daughter. The suspect denied committing the crime saying:
“I am a teacher from that school; what happened was that on Friday, November 11, I got a call around 8am from one woman and she identified herself as the mother of pupil. She alleged on the phone that I sexually abused her daughter.
I then asked her, when, where did it happened, but after all said and done, she said, I want it between the two of us and I have not even told my husband. So when she dropped, I was disturbed. Few minutes after that, she sent a text message to me telling me that she still wants me to remain friendly with her daughter because she knew her daughter holds me in high esteem. She said I should still be a friend to her and all that. I must tell you that I wasn’t myself throughout that day.
Again, I got a call the following day, from a man who identified himself. It was an international call. The man also said that I assaulted his daughter sexually and I said, I don’t know what you are talking about, that even yesterday, your wife called me and said the same thing. And I said, when could this happen in a nursery school where no one picks the children except the parents. You walk into the class and pick the child. I don’t know.
I have never been alone with this girl, I have never bought any gift for her, and I had never taken her out anywhere. I was so shocked and the man ended the call when I told him all these. And immediately I called my head teacher, Mrs. Azike and I said Ma, this is the allegation I got from this parent which I knew nothing about.
I want the police to do their investigation. I am ready to submit myself for investigation. I was told the girl is two years and ten months old. I know God will vindicate me. I am married for 15 years with children. The teacher of the girl is saying that nothing of such happened and that the girl never left her custody.
This girl comes to school with school bus, from what I have heard, and then goes with her school bus. I am a supervisor in that school. I don’t teach. So the allegation that I teach the children sex education is so disturbing to me. I have never taught that girl, I have never taught in that class. She said she took the girl to one private hospital and it was confirmed that the girl was abused.
I was told that I failed the lie detector test which I willingly made myself available for but I never heard of such a thing before. It was after that that I went online to research about polygraph. Before we got there, she first of all went there and paid for the test. She did all the arrangement before us and I failed the test.”
Four members of a robbery gang who allegedly break shops in the Alaba International Market, Lagos State have been arrested, PUNCH Metro reports.
The modus operandi of the syndicate was to destroy padlocks of their target shops by pouring acid on them. The suspects – Tochukwu Akorisa, Ndubuise Egwuatuonwu, Ifeanyi Eze and Aboi Rufus – had attacked a warehouse in the market, stealing 427 cartons of electric bulbs valued at N19.1m.
The shop owner reported the incident to the police, leading to the arrest of one Tona Nwenyi, who allegedly bought some of the goods from the suspects.
Nwenyi led the detectives attached to the Lagos State Commissioner of Police X-Squad to Akorisa, who reportedly coordinated the robbery operation.
A detective told PUNCH Metro that Nwenyi was caught at the point of selling the stolen goods.
“Akorisa subsequently led us to his accomplices. Two other persons, Tony Eme and Ejike Chinwoba, who bought the bulbs from the gang, had been arrested.
“We have recovered about 100 cartons out of the 427 cartons they made away with, which is worth N19.1m,” the source said.
Twenty-six-year-old Akorisa, confessed to the act, adding that he intended to use the proceeds of the robbery to give his ailing mother a medical attention.
He said:
“I load goods in the market. But the money I earned was not enough for me to take care of my sick mother. I led the operation. We used acid to break the padlock of the warehouse. We went around 9.30pm on that day.”
Egwuatuonwu explained that it was Akorisa, who facilitated the sales of the loot, adding that he was promised N250,000 from the deal.
“But I have not got anything before the police arrested me,” he added.
Rufus said:
“This is my first time. My house rent has expired and I had been living with my friends. I want to rent an apartment. I was thinking of how to get money when Tochukwu (Akorisa) suggested that we rob the warehouse. We stole only 150 cartons of bulbs.”
One of the receivers, Nwenyi, said he wanted to return the bulbs to Akorisa, having discovered they were stolen, when he was arrested.
Chinwomba said:
“I bought 30 cartons from Tochukwu. I have paid for 15 cartons. I didn’t know the goods were stolen.”
Eme said he bought 15 cartons of the bulbs. The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, said the command was on the trail of other fleeing suspects.
She said:
“Four of the suspects, who stole the goods, and three of the receivers were arrested based on intelligence report. Effort is on to apprehend the fleeing ones and to recover the remaining stolen goods.”
