A Federal High Court in Lagos has struck out a N1.86bn suit filed against the founder of the Living Faith Church, a.k.a. Winners’ Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo, by a stock brokerage firm, Valueline Securities and Investment Limited.
Justice Jude Dagat, in a ruling on Friday, described the plaintiffs’ suit as incompetent and dismissed it for want of jurisdiction.
Valueline Securities and Investment Limited and its Managing Director, Samuel Enyinnaya, had in February 2015 sued Oyedepo and his family for an alleged breach of contract in a N9bn stock market deal.
Joined as the 10th defendant in the suit was the Security and Exchange Commission. The plaintiffs, through their lawyer, Mr. Rickey Tarfa (SAN), sued for the enforcement of their fundamental rights and were claiming a total of N1.86bn from the defendants jointly and severally as professional fees and damages.
The plaintiffs, in their statement of claim, averred that Oyedepo, his family and organizations entered into an Investment Portfolio Management Agreement with them and appointed them as the portfolio managers to oversee and to ensure the profitability of the said investment worth about N9bn in the Nigerian Stock Exchange.
According to the plaintiffs, it was agreed that 2.25 per cent of the net asset value of the portfolio and an annual incentive fee of 10 per cent of the returns on the investment would be paid to the plaintiffs.
The plaintiffs said that in order to enhance the profitability of the investment, they obtained some margin loans from some Nigerian banks, which, they claimed, turned out to be a great boost to the investment.
They however said trouble started:
“when Oyedepo wanted to buy his first private jet and the World Mission Agency Inc ordered the sale of majority of the securities in the investment portfolio, and that despite the professional advice to the contrary, the plaintiffs were made to sell the securities to raise the N3bn needed to buy the jet, a development which brought about huge losses to the investment.”
According to the plaintiffs, following the said sale of the shares coupled with the global economic meltdown which caused stock market across the globe to crash at the time, the N9bn investment recorded losses.
The plaintiffs, however, alleged that in a bid to avoid their financial obligations to the plaintiffs, Oyedepo and his organisations accused them of fraud and mismanagement and wrote a petition against them to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
They however claimed that the EFCC found them innocent after six years of investigation after which Oyedepo further dragged them before the Nigerian Stock Exchange.
The plaintiffs alleged that the NSE unlawfully froze their business accounts and did not give them fair hearing. They had urged the court to order the NSE to immediately unfreeze their accounts.
They also sought the payment of N1.86bn as their professional fee and damages. But the Oyedepos, through their lawyer, Mr. Chioma Okwuanyi, filed a preliminary objection and asked the court to dismiss the suit for lack of jurisdiction.
Contrary to the plaintiffs’ claim, Okwuanyi maintained that the losses recorded on the N9bn investment were due to the plaintiffs’ recklessness, adding that the margin loan they took was without the consent of the Oyedepos and that the loan was not channeled into his clients’ investment.
In the three-ground preliminary objection, Okwuanyi contended that by the provisions of Section 34 of the Investment and Securities Act, only the Investment and Securities Tribunal had the vested authority to entertain a dispute between a capital market operator and his client and not a Federal High Court, to which the plaintiff had brought the matter.
The lawyer further argued that the plaintiffs’ suit, as constituted before the Federal High Court, was premature, as the plaintiff had yet to explore all the internal dispute resolution mechanism within the NSE before heading for the court.
In its own objection, the NSE, through its counsel, Mr. M.O. Liadi, also contended that the plaintiffs ought to have approached the NSE council to ventilate their grievances rather than rush to the Federal High Court.
In his ruling on Friday, Justice Dagat upheld the defendants’ preliminary objections and dismissed the plaintiffs’ suit.
Janet Jackson is one glowing mum-to-be. The 50-year-old singer is officially confirming her pregnancy and showing off her growing baby bump in the latest issue of PEOPLE mag.
Over the last few months, Janet has kept a low profile and was last spotted shopping for baby stuff at London’s Back in Action furniture store.
Speaking on her pregnancy, Janet said: “We thank God for our blessing.”
A source close to the Jackson family previously told PEOPLE: “She is super excited about her pregnancy and is doing extremely well. She actually feels very good about everything.”
Bauchi State government, in collaboration with security agents, has rescued 450 teenage girls from traffickers.
A member of Bauchi State High Level Women Advocates, HILWA, a non-governmental organisation, and a staff of the Ministry of Education, Kalimatu Abdulkadir, disclosed this at a briefing to mark the International Day of the Girl-Child, organised by the State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, in collaboration with UNICEF, in Bauchi.
She said the Ministry of Education received information of teenage girls brought into the state from the neighbouring states of Zamfara, Jigawa and Sokoto and moved to Abuja in two batches. According to her, “investigations by security agents in the state revealed that some persons, who engaged in child trafficking, brought some girls from three northern states of Zamfara, Sokoto and Jigawa, into the state.
“The girls were camped at an undisclosed location in the state and were dispatched in batches to Abuja. Some of the girls were taken through Kano, while the remaining went through Bauchi. They took the routes to avoid detection by security agents on the highways.”
Kalimatu said security agents were able to track the whereabouts of the girls in Abuja, rescued them from their captors and reunited them with their families.
This WhatsApp conversation is of a lady who is currently in a dilemma about what to do with her fiance who asked her to return a Range Rover Sport and N20m that was given to her by her ex for her wedding.
A psycho paedophile has been jailed after he confessed to his wife that he had raped his daughter, his stepdaughter, the family dog and chickens. The young man in his 20s, who cannot be identified to protect his victims, has now been jailed for six years and seven months ONLY after admitting what he had done.
A court in Adelaide heard that he had raped his own daughter when she was just three years old. His stepdaughter was aged between nine and 11 when he raped her while she was asleep.
He also admitted penetrating chickens and their dog, according to ABC.
The man also committed penetrative sex acts with chickens and the family dog, the court heard.
His ex wife said in a victim impact statement: “We didn’t do anything wrong; my beautiful innocent children certainly never ever deserved to have such terrible violation occur on their bodies and hearts.”
The court was told that he had previously had sexual contact with dogs when he was a child. He was also abused, but was seeking treatment. Describing his actions as ‘unnatural, gross and disturbing’, Judge Paul Muscat said:
“You appear determined and motivated to engage in treatment and address your abhorrent and abnormal sexual behaviours, which is imperative in order to reduce your risk of further sexual offending.
“If the sentence imposed on you seems to some to be moderate then that is the product of your voluntary confessions and the healthy sentencing discounts which apply. Offenders should be encouraged to come clean and accept full responsibility for their criminal actions and then take steps to address the issues which led to their offending, as you have done.”
Man was abused as a child, court told
The court heard the man had an unconventional childhood and suffered abuse as a child, and also had sexual contact with dogs as a child and began to feel “aroused by the wrongfulness of his sexual behaviour”.
Abuja big boys – Success is silent but once its loud and in your face, check it, someone is lying or exaggerating.
Abuja fake big boys are all over and these signs will tell you when you should start hearing alarm bells and run for your life. Abuja is the capital of Nigeria.
The big boys and men are scattered over the posh areas of Abuja, so sometimes, it is hard to separate coated gold from real gold.
Read signs of a fake Abuja big boy below:
1. The guys accent is not from this earth
These guys have all the accents in the world. From American to British to Italian and even when they try to speak pidgin it’s Jamaican patwah and not Nigerian pidgin.
If you meet a guy and he speaks like three different accents to different people just start running for your life. You might just be dealing with a fake.
Meet Paris Hilton’s new addition to her pooch family – and it’s the cutest, smallest thing that’s ever existed. Paris introduced this tiny little black-and-brown teacup Chihuahua to the world on Instagram yesterday.
Paris reportedly spent $8,000 (approx. N3.2m) on the new puppy.
Danfos are the pariah Volkswagen commercial buses painted yellow, the official colours of Lagos State.
They are always on the road for nearly 24 hours every day. For Lagosians who are yet to own cars, the danfo is an effective way to move around the ever busy and bustling state.
Besides, if you are always on Lagos roads, you would have noticed the shenanigans of these drivers which can be very frustrating and annoying. Thus, their hatred for them. Jumia Travel shares some of the reasons why Lagosians hate danfos.
Danfo drivers are very reckless
Danfos are self-acclaimed kings of Lagos roads. They are uncontrollably reckless when driving. They will never listen to the caution of anyone except that of LASTMA.
If the Lastma officials are not on the highway, it’s a free-for-all. They will even tell you to take over the steering if you attempt to caution them.
Ivory Coast and PSG defender, Serge Aurier helped save the life of a Malian player, Moussa Doumbia life after the striker was knocked unconscious on Saturday and almost swallowed his tongue.
French outlet RMC and BBC Sport reports that Aurier prevented his opponent from swallowing his tongue after he lost consciousness following a challenge from Sunderland defender Lamine Kone, earning the praise of Mali boss Alain Giresse, who hailed his “superb reactions.”
He said:
“All the players realised that Doumbia was choking and was about to swallow his tongue. That’s when Aurier, with one of our players, quickly put him on his side and pulled out his tongue, because he was about to lose his life.”
Mali team co-ordinator Fousseni Diawara also praised Aurier:
“On Sunday, Aurier was at our hotel to ask after our guy.” ‘Doumbia fell and was swallowing his own tongue and Serge was one of the first to arrive and help,’ ‘That’s when Aurier, with one of our players, quickly put him on his side and pulled out his tongue, because he was about to lose his life.”There is one thing nobody is talking about, which is the manner in which he helped a Malian on the pitch.’
Tragedy hit Gaun community, in the Magboro area of Ogun State, after two children, Taiye and Kehinde Oluwasegun, were burnt to death in an inferno that gutted their parents’ bungalow on Tuesday.
According to PUNCH Metro, the incident happened around 8pm while the family was preparing to have dinner. The first born of the family, Iyanu, had tripped over a jerrycan of fuel, which also spilled some of its content in the parlour.
While the mother mopped the spillage, the fuel was said to have flowed to a lantern in the house, which triggered an explosion.
Residents, who were alerted by calls for help, reportedly rescued Iyanu; the second child, Korede; and their parents.
However, the twin children, aged three, were burnt to death.
When the publication visited the area on Wednesday, it was observed that everything in the house was burnt as smoke still billowed from burnt property in the three-bedroomed bungalow.
Korede, six, who sustained burns in the leg, said that his father, Aina, was about taking their generator outside when his sister fell.
He said,
“My daddy has two generators. We use the big one to pump water, while the small one is for the house.
“My daddy had put the small one in the room to pour petrol into it before taking it to the cage that was outside. My mummy was preparing food in the kitchen that time.
“My sister, who didn’t know there was a jerrycan on the floor, tripped over it. My mum then took the mop to clean spilled petrol. She was doing that when the fire started. There were six of us in the house: my dad and mum, my sister, the twins and me.”
Punch observed that there was no motorable road in the community and the area was connected to the rest of Magboro by a stretch of rickety bamboo bridge.
A motorcyclist in the area, who did not identify himself, said the survivors were helped by residents to cross the bridge.
He said,
“It was a difficult task getting the survivors to the hospital. We had to carry them on our backs with their burns. “The woman kept asking for her twins, while the husband kept lamenting that he lost everything to the fire.”
PUNCH Metro visited Perfect Joy Hospital where three members of the family were taken to for treatment.
They observed that Aina, a carpenter, suffered severe burns in his legs, hands, face and chest, while his wife, Abosede, a teacher, suffered burns in both legs.
It was learnt that she had yet to be informed that the twins were dead. A relative of the victims, Pastor Moses Igbinadolor, said Iyanu was in another hospital, adding that she sustained serious burns.
He lamented the lack of basic amenities in the community, saying it made the rescue difficult.
“We took Iyanu to another hospital and the doctor said she sustained 68 degrees burns. What, however, made the case worse was that we couldn’t get across to the fire service because there is no motorable road. The nearest police station is at Ibafo. This just shows that we don’t have a listening government. No road, no power, no water,” he said.
Punch reports they learnt that the case was not reported to the police. The traditional ruler of Gaun community, Sumonu Seidu, said a delegation from the community had visited the victims in the hospital.
“I am aware the couple lost their twins after a fire incident,” he said.
Senator Ahmed Ogembe who represents Kogi Central shared the photo of himself, his beautiful wife and son on social media yesterday – this is certainly something rare for politicians but there’s an exception for him.
President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma paid Kenya a visit this week where he signed the visitor’s register at the State House in Nairobi while he was flanked by the country’s president, Uhuru Kenyatta.
His signature at the state house somehow made its way to the internet and many Kenyans mocked his handwriting, saying that his handwriting need prayers.
Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has ordered the management of all the commercial banks in Nigeria to halt any plans to sack some of its workers.
CBN’s Director, Banking Supervision, Tokunbo Martins broke the news at the Bankers’ Committee meeting held in Lagos on Wednesday.
“One of the things we discussed was about the impending retrenchment in the banking industry. So, we understand that many bank staff are experiencing fears about possible retrenchment in the industry.
We discussed it among the banks and the banks are now committed to not retrenching their staff going forward. So, whatever rumours are flying around about that mass retrenchment happening or not happening, that is not true” The Nation reports
Members of the Shi’ite group were holding the annual procession of Ashura, and passing through some strategic areas in the Kano metropolis, when they got attacked by youths, some of whom brandished knives, swords, machetes and cutlasses.
Kano State Police Command, DSP Magaji Musa Majia, who confirmed that 17 members of the group were injured, said the clash occurred at different locations within the state metropolis including Kofar-Mata, Murtala Muhammad Hospital and Kano Abattoir.
“We have rescued 138 members of the Shi’ite mostly women and children and they are still under our custody. There was no death on both sides and normalcy has since returned to Kano,” he told Daily Trust.
Mallam Sa’idu Isa Yakasai, one of the Shi’te leaders in Kano said they were attacked by hoodlums shortly after the procession.
“Scores of Shi’ite members mostly adults were injured during the attack. I saw about 10 of our members who sustained various degrees of injury in their head. I was able to rescue many children during the attack. It was a coordinated attack. This is quite unfortunate. This is not the first time our people organize such a procession. In fact it is an annual event not only in Nigeria but worldwide and it is always peaceful. Even this year’s procession was peaceful because it was after the procession that the hoodlums attacked our people,” he said.
Emir of Katsina, Abdulmumini Usman has been accused of marrying off a 14 year old Habiba Isiyaku to her kidnapper, Jamilu Lawal.
Habiba’s father, Isiyaku Tanko, accused the Katsina monarch at a press conferences organized by an NGO, Stefanos foundation, to raise awareness on the matter, The Nation reports.
Habiba’s father alleged that his daughter was kidnapped from school, Government Senior Secondary School, Kudun Kankara, Kastina State by Jamilu and has been forcefully converted to Islam and married off by the Emir without her parents consent to Lawal.
According to Tanko, Jamilu had not only admitted to abducting his daughter but also revealed that she is presently being kept at the Palace of the Emir of Katsina.
He alleged that the Emir had informed him that his daughter had been converted to Islam and he had received the sum of N50, 000 as dowry from Jamilu.
“My little girl was abducted on the 16th of August 2016 from her school. After my investigations, I discovered that Jamilu Lawal who lives in the same community was responsible for my daughters’ disappearance.
I requested that a formal complaint about the incident be lodged to the Commissioner of Police in Kastina, Jamilu and his parents were summoned to the police station and he not only admitted to abducting my daughter Habiba but also revealed that she was presently being kept at the Palace of the Emir of Kastina.
On arrival at the Palace, the Emir informed me that my daughter has been converted from Christianity to Islam henceforth, there is no longer any relationship between me and my daughter and we can no longer inherit each other. He further informed me that he has received the sum if N50, 000.00 as dowry from Jamilu Ibrahim for my daughter therefore, he will give her out in marriage in accordance with Islamic rites and injunctions.
He accused me of defaming him at the Police Station and I was threatened, intimidated and coerced to sign an apology drafted on my behalf in his Palace. As at today, I am aware that the Emir of Kastina has gone ahead to marry out my little girl without my consent, having received a dowry he is not entitled to receive, it fills me with so much pain and grief to realize that my daughter, who will turn 15 this Saturday the 15th may be celebrating her birthday in a forced marriage.
I appeal to all well-meaning Nigerians and those in authority to help join hands to see that my daughter is released to me though the violations already done to her person may be irreversible. I further appeal that the Incident be well investigated and diligently prosecuted.”
Programme Coordinator for Stafanos Foundation, Mark Lipdo, a Non-Governmental Organization assisting the parents with the release of Habiba stated.
“We have been trying to intervene in the conflicts going on in Nigeria, we believe in the human rights of all citizens and encourage that fundamental rights be upheld at all times to maintain a sane society. Many times we call on the appropriate authorities to act like in the case of Habiba Isiyaku, such incidents can make conflicts continue in Nigeria.
Habiba is a girl that just completed her Junior Secondary school and had very good grades, she had so much prospects only to be abducted, when her parents were invited to the Emirs palaceN she was brought out in a hijab and he told them that they no longer have any relationship with the girl anymore because she has been converted to Islam and that he the Emir of Katsina has now become the father of the girl and he can do whatever he wants with her.
After a few days that the father was sent back, we followed with the Commissioner of Police to try to get the girl, we took a lawyer with us as Stefanos Foundation to stand with the parents to demand for their rights but the rights where denied, we petitioned the Inspector General (IG) of Police here in Abuja to see if he can secure the girls release but till date, he is yet to respond, we brought the parents to Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) for help, to see if they can help secure her release and they said that they will be following the matter up with the IG, but up till today, nothing, we have been in this town for three days now we have not heard anything from CAN and the IG.
The girl is a minor and things like this has to stop happening in this country because if it continues, people are going to result to self-help because where a person has been told his right but he it has been deliberately refused it, if the person has any strength, he will result to self-help.”
A pure definition of size don’t matter! You are what you are and the sooner you figure that out, the better for you! This plus sized model is no doubt the sassiest you’ve ever met or seen.
The lovely lady’s photos are serving rounds on social media and it would be totally wrong of us not to share it with you guys.
Her photos have garnered thousands of likes all thanks to her confident carriage. Continue below:
This lovely Nigerian lady, named Toluse Akinlabi speaks about her experience living as the only black person in her community in Ireland.
Some people who had the misconception that Africans live on trees were often shocked to find out she could speak English fluently.
She says,
Hi there! My name is Toluse, and I’m 22 years old. I was born in Nigeria and lived there till the age of six. We then moved to Lesotho, then moved on to Cavan, Ireland, where I’ve been since the age of nine—that makes it 13 years that I’ve called the Emerald Isle home.
Despite this fact, though, it can still feel like I’m a stranger here.
When I first moved here in 2003, I couldn’t understand why people kept being surprised that I spoke English fluently, that my parents both worked in the medical sector, and that I loved Kylie Minogue as much as the next person. The fact that we were middle-class Africans, and not refugees or asylum seekers, seemed like a shock to the system for many of the people in the small town we lived in.
To their merit, some people did try to make a conscious effort to be sensitive and normalise the fact that my siblings and I were the first and only black people in our school. I remember doing some colouring with classmates in my first month at school. Amanda said “pass me the skin colour” (what I would call peach), and Gillian replied, “you can’t say skin colour, because that’s not everyone’s skin colour.” Gillian will never understand how touched I was by her defence of my reality.
I can’t say I’ve ever encountered aggressive racism, but I’ve certainly experienced a number of microaggressions because of my skin colour. From guys asking if I taste like chocolate and declaring that they can “handle” me, to people asking where I’m REALLY from after I state that I’m from County Cavan. It’s like they don’t understand how it cuts at a person when you question their identity with no other basis except for the fact that their skin has got more melanin in it.
I am Nigerian and I’m Irish; I can’t twerk, but I love Nicki Minaj; I braid my hair and I play field hockey; I speak Irish, Mandarin, and Yoruba. I am not just “that black girl”; I’m Toluse Akinlabi—phenomenal woman, that’s me.
The 22 year old also kept a blog during her year living and studying in Beijing (that’s her pictured below on the Great Wall).
The carcass of a gigantic whale has been found on a beach in Akwa Ibom State, south south of Nigeria, off the Atlantic Ocean, but it was already being eaten by the villagers before conservationists arrived.
Villagers in Okpo Ita, Ibeno local government area of the state, said they saw the dead whale in the morning of September 15, according to Edem Eniang, a biodiversity conservationist from the University of Uyo.
Some of the villagers had started cutting off the body parts for meat before Mr. Eniang and his team of researchers, and the local authorities got to the scene, several days after it was found.
Mr. Eniang said the carcass is about 16 metres in length.
“I observed that something close to four metres was missing,” Mr. Eniang told PREMIUM TIMES, Wednesday. “That is a part of what was cut off by the villagers.”
A handful of tourists have been attracted to the scene since the news broke out.
Mother of six, Mrs. Titilayo Abdul-Hammed’s 17-year-old marriage has crashed after she made her husband a laughing stock in the neighborhood by giving the neighbours a free show with her ‘nakedness‘
An Igando Customary Court in Lagos on Wednesday granted the request of her estranged husband, Minkail Abdul-Hammed.
Abdul-Hammed, a cleric, 57, had approached the court seeking to end his 17-year-old marriage with Titilayo, because her nakedness was seen by spectators free of charge.
In his testimony, Abdul-Hammed said that his wife was always disgracing him in public as she was fond of tying only wrapper to watch television in the neighborhood.
“I bought my wife clothes, but she will never wear them; she prefers to tie wrapper on her chest.
“There was a day I came home from the mosque and was looking for my wife because she did not come for the Jumat prayer.
“I was told she was in the third house, so I went there and met her in front of the TV with residents of that house despite the fact that I bought T.V in all our rooms.
“I queried her for preferring TV to mosque and ordered her to follow me home.
“She refused and as I was trying to push her from the room, her wrapper dropped, and behold my wife was neither wearing a pant nor a brassier.
“The residents in the room saw my wife’s nakedness live and direct and were making jest of us. I was embarrassed and ashamed.
The petitioner also accused his wife who was absent from court of being fetish.
“Of recent, I noticed that my wife always lock her room and keep the key to herself whenever she wants to take her bath or do anything within the premises.
“One day, she went to buy something and locked her room as usual. I searched for the duplicate key because I was curious and opened the door.
“I sighted a paper in which a long incantation was written on it and my name was mentioned.
“I was to search her closet when I heard her footstep coming, I quickly locked the room, I took the paper to show her family members,” he said.
Abdu-Hammed also described his wife as being wasteful with food as she was in the habit of cooking far in excess of what they could eat.
“I have always told her to measure food before cooking and that she can always give out the remnant to the poor, but she prefers throwing them away.
“She has stopped cooking for me since 2012 and told me to be doing the cooking which I am still doing,” he said.
The Court President, Mr Adegboyega Omilola, in his judgment said that it was obvious from available testimony and the respondent’s refusal to appear in court that the marriage had “hit the rock”.
“Throughout the duration of this case, the respondent refused to honor court processes.Therefore, the court has no other choice than to dissolve the marriage.
“The marriage between, Minkail Abdul-Hammed and Titilayo Abdul-Hammed is hereby dissolved. “Both parties are no longer husband and wife; they are free to marry any partner of their choice without any hindrances and molestation,” he said.
Oh my! The songstress isn’t in South Africa to play y’all!!! She really is channeling that “African King of Queens” in her… Look how she donned the traditional attire almost better than a guy… Clap for yourself Yemi, now you’re going to be a competition to us hmph!
The beauty stepped out in this stunning light blue Agbada outfit at the Coke Studio in South Africa. Simple and classy! Another photo below:
Rising Nollywood Producer and actress, Joy Anyim, has reportedly been arraigned for stealing – according to reports from Akwa Ibom State, the actress was arraigned in Uyo on October 7th, 2016 for theft, in Magistrate court 6.
The mother of one is standing trial on a one count charge of theft of the sum of N460,000 from a friend, Christopher Ibok. She however pleaded not guilty to the charge.
She was thereafter ordered to be remanded in prison till she meets her bail condition of N500,000.
A man has demanded that his wife MUST return his late mother’s gold necklace before she can divorce him – 40-year-old civil servant, Mr Olufemi Ojikutu, has told an Igando Customary Court in Lagos.
He told the court on Wednesday while responding to a suit filed by his wife, Olaide, that if she insisted on divorcing him, she must return his gold because it was his inheritance.
Ojikutu said that his mother gave him and his siblings a gold necklace each to give to their wives when they marry with a condition that the wife must stay with them for life, Vanguard reports.
“When my mother was about to die, she called me and my three brothers, gave us a gold necklace each, telling us to give it to our wives that will be with us for better for worse till death do us apart. She told us the value of each gold– mine was 21 carats valued at N125,000 as at 1995 when she died. “She promised not to forgive anyone who violated her order,’’ he said.
The respondent said that he had kept the gold for about 20 years before his wife came to borrow it in 2014 and refused to give him back.
“My wife borrowed my gold necklace but has not returned it; now that she wants to divorce me, she must return the gold necklace, it is not negotiable,” Ojikutu said.
He expressed the belief that his wife must have sold the jewellery as she used to sell his clothes.
Ojikutu urged the court to grant his wife’s wish for dissolution of the marriage, saying he too was no longer in love and only wanted the return of his gold necklace.
The 28-year-old petitioner, who had approached the court to terminate her five-year-old marriage over infidelity, agreed that she collected the gold necklace from her husband.
“’I collected the gold from my husband when I wanted to go for an event but I can’t just remember where I kept it,’’ Olaide, a clothes trader, told the court.
The mother of two accused her husband of infidelity.
“My husband is having an affair; I once stumbled on some pictures on his whatsapp messages where he and his lover were sending their naked pictures to each other,”
She described her husband as an irresponsible husband and father.
“My husband does not care for me or the children; even during festive periods, he never buys the children clothes or shoes. “ My mother was the one taking care of our children. Whenever I ask him for money, he is always annoyed and often begins keeping malice with me for weeks,” she said.
According to her, she left her matrimonial home on Feb. 7, 2015 after her husband changed the key of the house and locked her out. She begged the court to terminate the five-year-old marriage, saying that she was no longer in love.
The president of the court, Mr Adegboyega Omilola, said that the case would be left on sine die stage until the petitioner returns the respondent’s gold necklace.
“Since the respondent insisted on collecting back his gold necklace, the judgment will not be read just for peace to reign until the gold necklace is produced. “ The case will be on sine-die stage,” Omilola ruled.
American singer and model, Justine Skye, gave us a glimpse of what’s beneath a green bikini she donned recently – the singer puts on a raunchy look as she rocks a choker and poses for the camera.
The two singers are yet to make their relationship official though… See photo below:
Ladies and gentlemen, so that’s how Nigeria’s very own male barbie doll graced the front page of a magazine – Idris Okuneye aka Bobrisky landed his first magazine cover, on Accelerate TV.
He had this say too!
“My name is Bobrisky, Idris Bobrisky. I am talking about art and I love to be myself because there is no point pretending to be who you are not. i enjoy being myself and I woke to be who I am. So that’s who Bobrisky is.
Let’s talk about my look, my complexion, the whole makeup, the whole outfit, the hairdo, that is who Bobrisky is. I want to come out there and show that Bobrisky has is own brand. That’s the way he does his own thing which is different from every other person. I am not looking at anyone before I do my own thing. I am who I am. So, I myself am an art.
Social media is a very good platform whereby it makes you popular. I wasn’t thinking of being the famous Bobrisky and this famous bae. I posted a short video of me dancing on Snapchat and I got to see many people tagging others and saying ‘OMG you need to go and check Bobrisky’s Snapchat. He is fabulous, the way he dances, his makeup, his outfit and before I Knew it, people were sending me messages and request and i felt it was a very good thing since i was getting popular. So, I moved to Instagram and I was seeing so many likes like OMG, this guy is so awesome.
If I wasn’t Bobrisky, OMG I am from Ijebu-Igbo and we are very stingy like aka gum. If I wasn’t the popular Bobrisky I think I would be a banker and I would be able to manage my income. After the snap chatting, the whole posting, if I get home after the whole stress, I love listening to Wizkid. Like that guy is my crush, I love his voice, I listen to his music. When I listen to his music, I just sleep off.
I get a lot of messages from people, they ask me where I turn up because they need me to turn up at a particular place but I usually break their heart because I don’t turn up, I turn up in my house am not the out door person, I love to stay in doors I have been trained since my childhood to stay in doors. One good thing about Bobrisky again is that I don’t drink. At my last birthday that was held at Escape. I didn’t take any drink, in fact, my best drink is Coke.”
The man in the photo above was nabbed on Wednesday morning by vigilantes as he was allegedly attempting to kidnap two school children in Otukpo, Benue State.
According to reports, he escaped from vigilantes’ custody but was recaptured at fairwinds Avenue. More photos below:
World’s most popular transgender Caithlyn Jenner will have no choice but to use the men’s bathroom if she comes to North Carolina according to the state’s governor, Pat McCrory.
McCrory, on Tuesday defended the state’s anti-LGBT law, and blamed “liberals” for “a major change in culture” that has forced Republicans to respond with the legislation forming an anti-LGBT law.
North Carolina’s anti-LGBT law passed in March, removes anti-discrimination protection for LGBTQ people and mandates that people use the public bathrooms that correspond to the sex they were assigned at birth.
“In the private sector in North Carolina, she can go wherever the private sector wants her to,” Governor McCrory said in Tuesday’s debate between McCrory and his Democratic opponent, state Attorney General Roy Cooper.
“If she’s going to a shower facility at [University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill] after running around the track, she’s going to use the men’s shower.”
“If you’re a man, you’re going to go to the man’s locker room, restroom or shower. If you’re a woman, you’re going to go to their appropriate shower,” McCrory said. “No change whatsoever.”
But his opponent Cooper said the law must change.
“It writes discrimination into our law and it has been a disaster for our economy,” Cooper said. “Governor McCrory continues to go across the state telling people that this is not hurting our economy. He attacks businesses who are opposed to it and says that everything is going fine. Governor, what planet are you on?”
