Nollywood screen diva, Mimi Orjiekwe just signed as the brand ambassador of a cosmetics company. Hearty congratulations to the actress on her progression.
Investigations which were carried out during the week disclosed that many patients, including pregnant women, have either been shunning or absconding from public hospitals because of the high cost of accessing effective medical care.
Some of the patients have therefore resorted to seeking help in traditional healing homes and places of worship.
The Chief Medical Director, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Prof. Abdulwaheed Olatinwo, confirmed that many patients had been unable to pay their bills after treatments.
He said the problem might be connected with the current economic crisis in the country. Olatinwo said,
“The problem is that more people cannot pay. We now need to be looking for more funds to take care of the poor as we cannot turn down people, most especially, emergency cases. For those who cannot pay, it is either we write their bills off or we rely on some philanthropists assistance.”
The Director-General, Kwara State Hospital Management Bureau, Dr. Olubunmi Jetawo-Winter, also said new mothers and other patients had been absconding from the hospital without paying their medical bills.
Jetawo-Winter, who stated that the development was connected with the current economic challenges in the country, said, “We have a lot of patients who are unable to pay their bills. I believe it is because of the situation of the country.
The woman in the photo above, is Dr. Megan Meier, a sports medicine and dance medicine physician, who has become a social media celebrity overnight after posting this image of herself at work during a high school football game in her native town, Oklahoma.
35 weeks pregnant Meier had reported to work with her three-year-old daughter strapped to her back and wrote on the caption of the picture:
‘Sports Medicine Doctor Mom – this is what happens when you are 35 weeks pregnant, husband leaves town for the weekend, childcare for 3yo falls through, and you have a game to cover!’
Meier had initially intended to share the photo with other mothers who were also physicians. Little did she know, however, that it would strike a chord with working moms in a variety of fields who must cope with the challenges of juggling career and family responsibilities.
The image quickly went viral, generating some 2,800 likes, 130 comments, and nearly 660 shares.
Handsome Nollywood Actor, Nosa Rex and his wife, Deborah who tied the knots in August last year marked their fist wedding anniversary on 22nd of August, 2016 with theses lovely family photos.
Their union has since been blessed with a very lovely daughter. The actor wrote:
When I proposed to you, I gave you a ring. when you said yes, you gave my life wings… (You know am flying as the first son into big things) …One year has passed so quickly and I don’t even know how… Maybe because I have never had so much fun in my life until now. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO US..Continue..
Deborah wote.. Today made it 1 year since i got married to the of my life.. It’s been amazing watching you grow step by step without jumping? @babarex0 @babarex0 for coming in to my life and making it this beautiful,,, and I Thank God for his blessings and kindness towards us.. Happy Anniversary babey!
Notwithstanding the current economic recession in the country, document obtained exclusively from the Presidency by Saturday Punch has revealed that the Federal Government has spent the sum of N5bn on the 10-aicraft Presidential Air Fleet in the last 15 months.
According to the document, the Presidency put the amount of money so far released for the Presidential Air Fleet since the inception of the current administration in May 2015 till date in the region of N5bn.
The breakdown of the sum showed that N2.3bn was released for PAF by the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation between May and November 2015. That figure included releases for personnel costs, overheads and capital expenditures; out of the N5.19bn appropriated for PAF in the 2015 budget. Of the sum, the Presidency said N99.715m was spent on aircraft maintenance, spares and subscription services.
The sum of N98.5m was also spent on operations; N165.373m on training and N85.5m on personnel medicals and overheads. During the period, the document claimed that PAF spent N1.350bn to settle outstanding liabilities carried over from 2014 while N500m was refunded to the NSA for financial support rendered for the maintenance of the Fleet prior to release of funds.
According to findings from aviation experts, however, the Federal Government may have spent about N19.9bn on the 10-aircraft PAF in the last 15 months of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
One Nigerian and Six other U.S. citizens were on Tuesday sentenced to federal prison for their roles in online fraud schemes that distributed more than $40 million in counterfeit checks using “mystery shopper” websites and work-from-home scams.
The criminal enterprise was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)..
Pictured above is Funso Hassan, 27, of Ibadan, Nigeria and Anthony Shane Jeffers, 44, of Maryville, Tennessee, were each sentenced to 10 years in prison. Ann Louise Franzen, 70, of Kiln, Mississippi; Gary Melvin Barnard, 64, of Palestine, Texas; Michele Gayle Fee, 55, of Stockton, California; Tanya Lynn Thomas, 52, of Turlock, California; and Shawn Ann White, 44, of Manteca, California, were each sentenced to five years in prison.
In addition to the prison sentences, U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr., of the Southern District of Mississippi sentenced each defendant to three years supervised release following completeion of their sentences. Restitution to the victims for all defendants will be determined at a later date.
The sentences are the maximum statutory penalty for the charges to which the defendants pleaded.
At the time of writing this story, 23-year-old Judith (not real name) was recuperating with heavy dosage of antibiotics. She was not ill, and neither was she down with any flu. She had simply survived one of the worst sexual attacks in Lagos in recent times.
The incident that would send Judith to the emergency ward, took place around 10pm on Sunday, August 28 at 106, Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, around Pako Bus Stop.
Judith’s aunty, a trader in the area, said the young woman had come to her stall around 9pm that day to collect some money.
“I told her to wait so we could pack up together later in the evening. She did. But around 9.30pm when I was still not ready, she said she would go home. She had been sick, so, I thought it was better. Some minutes after 10pm, I packed up and left,” the woman said.
But to her surprise when she got home, she was told Judith had not been seen since she left for the shop. The family quickly mounted a search for her in the neighbourhood. Her two brothers went in search of her on streets in the area and they did find her.
One of her brothers who spoke with Punch correspondent, explained that when he found Judith, he could not believe his eyes.
“Her slippers were all torn, the dress she was wearing was heavy with blood. She was unsteady on her feet. She could hardly stand up,” he said.
A picture of Judith taken soon after she was found showed the ivory-coloured skirt she was wearing blotted with large patches of blood behind and in front.
His brother told Punch correspondent that when he became frantic and started asking what happened to her, she could hardly talk.
“She said some men raped her. Two men now came out of the front of the house where I found her. One asked me what I was shouting about. He said, ‘Because she was raped, is that why you will not let people ‘hear word’? Is she the first person that will be raped here?’ After all, I gave her Igbo (hemp) and she took it.’
“I was shocked. I could not believe that he had the confidence to tell me he was even the one who gave her Indian hemp. My sister said they forced her to take the Indian hemp and two of them raped her on a chair in front of a shop.”
Judith told her family that the men grabbed her as she crossed the expressway on her way home.
She said when they covered her mouth and dragged her to house number 106, which faces the expressway, they took her inside and forced her to take Indian hemp three times before they raped her.
The two men who allegedly raped her were later identified as Wasiu and Monaco, the names they are popularly known by on the street, while the man who boasted of being the one who gave her the Indian hemp was identified as Olanrewaju Osinubi.
Wasiu and Monaco are currently on the run.
Judith’s brother explained that while he argued with the two men, who initially came out, other men came out of the house and joined them, threatening that if he did not leave with his sister, he would be beaten up.
He said, “While we were arguing there, I luckily saw a patrol van of policemen from the Dopemu Police Division passing by and I quickly approached them and explained how my sister was raped.
“The policemen came down from their vehicle and because the crowd of boys in front of the house were threatening, one of the policemen cocked his gun and they all fled.
“But, I immediately grabbed the one who said he gave her Indian hemp to smoke (Osinubi) before he could escape. The police took him and we all went to the station.”
While at the station, it was learnt that Judith continued to bleed heavily as everywhere she sat was soaked with blood.
The police asked the family to take her to the Mirabel Sexual Assault Referral Centre for treatment that night. But by the time they got there around 12.30am, the centre was close.
But officials at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, where the centre is located, referred them to the Ifako General Hospital, where sexual assault cases are also treated.
After the initial treatment there, Judith was again referred to the Mirabel Centre the following day where she was eventually given comprehensive treatment.
It is unclear whether the centre has sent the report of tests conducted on Judith back to the police as is usually the practice.
However, Judith’s family alleged that they became like bystanders as soon as her case got to the police station.
Her brother told Punch correspondent, “Before we knew what was happening, a man had come and said he was the lawyer of the one that was arrested (Osinubi). I was shocked when the suspect and his lawyer demanded that the case be transferred to the Isokoko Police Division, Agege, instead. We who were the complainant had no say in the matter. Saturday Punch learnt that the case was eventually transferred to Isokoko where two policewomen were detached to follow Judith’s family home.
Again, the family said they were shocked when they got home and the policewomen told Judith to take them to where the incident occurred.
“She was sleeping when they came. She was still in a terrible state. The police brought the suspect to our home and told us to wake her up so that she could take them to where it happened. It was so ridiculous that they could make her go through that at that point. I was angry but we eventually agreed,” the victim’s brother said.
Judith’s aunty, who followed them to the scene of the attack, said they asked Judith to point to where it happened and she did.
“She showed them the place and even the chair on which she was raped. It was very wet as they had just washed off all the blood,” the woman said.
However, the family said they were surprised when the police charged Osinubi to court on Friday, September 2, 2016 for simply obstructing police work.
According to them, the police have not shown any sympathy for Judith in handling the case and they fear she might never get any justice.
It is not clear what the police are doing currently to track down the two suspects on the run as the Lagos State Police Command spokesperson, Dolapo Badmos, did not pick calls to her line.
However, an activist, Mrs. Esther Ogwu of the Esther Child Rights Foundation, whom the family has approached for help on the matter, said has notified the Sexual Assault department of the Lagos State Ministry of Justice about the case.
“We expect that an urgent step would now be taken on this matter. This is not a case that the police should even think of sweeping under the carpet.
“This case is not just about her, it is about other young women and girls who are in danger as long as those men are still on the loose. But I do not think the police have realised how terrible it must be for the victim that she may not get justice,” she said.
A fresh Cadet of the Nigeria Defence Academy, NDA, in Kaduna, James Didam Bulus, has died of alleged brutalization from senior cadets, 24 hours after he finished registration and reported to hostel.
Sources told Saturday Vanguard in Kaduna that people wept uncontrollably at the funeral of the 18 year-old James, with registration number NDA/ 11537, at the Military Cemetery, on Whaff Road, Kaduna, on Thursday while a contingent of Nigeria Army buried the late cadet with full military honour, even though he had served his country for only 24 hours.
Brigadier General, MG Kangye, Cadets Commandant of the school, handed over the Nigeria National Flag, a pair of army boot and army ceremonial cap to the mourning father of the deceased, Mr Didam Joshua, as women cried uncontrollably in the fenced cemetery.
Relations of the deceased cadet were too distraught to speak to Vanguard but a close family friend of Joshua said he was beaten to death on his “introductory” night. He said:
“He arrived NDA on Saturday, 3rd September, 2016 and on Monday, 5th September; I was told that he was dead. It was my friend that drove his son to the gate of old NDA and they parted ways happily. But, I was told that he died on Sunday after he did not survive what I was told was ‘introduction’ beatings from his seniors.
At the mortuary, you could see stitches on his head and he had bruises on other parts of the body. The NDA said that he died of stomach pain and that before he could be taken to the hospital, he died on the way.
I asked ‘how can such a brilliant, young boy who was very eager, proud and happy to serve his country get killed just a day when he reported to start what we all thought will be a brilliant military career?
How can a healthy, smart boy who was never a trouble maker have such wounds on his body, and someone is saying he had stomach problem? God knows the best. But it will be difficult for my friend (Joshua) to pull through this agony, especially his wife, “, he said.
When contacted, the Public Relations Officer, PRO, of NDA, Captain Musa Yahaya, said that James, who hails from Kaduna municipality, had an accident on the day he was to report and came to NDA with injuries. He said:
“It was when the new cadets were queuing to receive their kits that Cadet Didam slumped. He was immediately rushed to the clinic and was given the best of medical attention. When the doctors examined him, they found out that he had internal bleeding. He had earlier confided to one of his colleagues that he had an accident on his way to NDA. But that he was afraid to tell the authority so that they would not reject him. He was never brutalized. It was an accident that he had. That was what the autopsy confirmed. He died on Monday.”
Nollywood actress, Funke Akindele, has made a passionate appeal to her fans over her childlessness, urging them to pray for her.
The actress cum producer recently got married to Nigerian rapper, Abdul Rasheed Bello also known as JJC Skillz in London, after her failed marriage to her first husband, Kehinde Almaro of Oloyede.
While JJC Skillz has four children from different women, Funke is yet to have her own child.
In a statement on her Facebook page, the actress urged fans to pray she conceived and delivered safely in her new home. She wrote:
“PLS DONT IGNORE
“You all know I, Funke Akindele Jenifa has been married for a while now without any issue.
“Some have even laughed at me, insulted me, judged me without knowing the pains I go through. I put up every effort in entertaining my fans and Nigerians at large, I made you laugh and some would even say I’ve inspired them in one way or the other.
“Now I’m in another man’s house.
“Pls always put me in your prayers. I pray this year 2016 will not pass me by. I will not only give birth, but I will give birth safe and sound. As you write AMEN to this prayer, may God answer all your hidden prayers.
“Pls why not write Amen?
“Why not share this posts for others to say amen?
“Your AMEN is so powerful. Type Amen on my behalf.
“Even when I’m not happy, I still put up a smile face. Just for you my lovers, my fans. I love you all.”
The statement sounds like something that the actress wouldn’t write. Perhaps her social media manager wrote it on her behalf? Because it was posted on her official Facebook page.
Or maybe her Facebook Page got hacked? or it’s a Fake Page?
A new-born has been gifted with a lifetime free flights tickets on Buraq Air after his mother gave birth while aboard the airline. The airline announced the gift on its Facebook page in celebration of the inflight birth.
The boy’s mother was flying from Tripoli in Libya to Niamey, the capital of Niger, when she went into labor, Buraq Air employee Amir Abu Sin told CNN.
Buraq Air, based in Tripoli, offers flights within Libya and to destinations in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
The bouncing baby boy happily, but rather surprisingly, arrived in the world with the help of the flight’s cabin crew. In recognition of their efforts, the mother named him Abdul Baset, after the plane’s captain.
The President, on Friday, arrived at his hometown in light of the Barka De Sallah celebration – He is currently in Daura, Kastina, with a host of other dignitaries for the celebration.
A mum with HIV and her daughter who had been told to leave Britain may have starved to death in desperate poverty.
Lillian Oluk, 36, and her two-year-old daughter Lynne Mutumba were found dead in their one-bedroom flat.
A harrowing inquest was told there was no medical reason for their deaths but various examinations suggested Lillian was suffering from malnutrition and starvation and little Lynne had been dehydrated.
According to UK Mirror,they had no food in the house and no possessions other than the clothes on their back, the court heard.Lillian was also not taking her medication for HIV and sickle cell anaemia when they were found at their flat in Gillingham, Kent, on March 14.
The stunning couple went out for a movie premier last night and she decided to show us that thang her mama gave to her! We mostly see her in jeans so we couldn’t have known she’s blessed with such endowment!
She shared the photo and video last night and I must say, she has a killer bod! See below:
This photo of the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed is serving rounds on Social media as there are mixed reactions to the dignitary’s stance.
Former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, is claiming ownership of the $31.4 million involved in an alleged fraud case before a Federal High Court in Lagos.
Counsel to the first defendant in charge, with case number FHC/337C/16, Mr. Gboyega Oduwole, informed the court that Mrs. Jonathan filed a fundamental application against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), claiming ownership of the money.
The EFCC had taken former presidential aide, Amajuoyi Azubike Briggs, former Skye Bank official, Damola Bolodeoku, Pluto Property and Investment Company Limited and Avalon Global Property Development Company Limited to court in an alleged $31.4 million fraud involving the companies without addresses.
Others also charged include Seagate Property Development and Investment Company Limited; Trans Ocean Property and Investment Company Limited, Avalon Global Property Development Company Limited and Globus Integrated Services Limited.
According to an application filed on September 6, this year, with file number FHC/L/C5/1233/16, Mrs. Jonathan is asking the court to make an order for the enforcement of her fundamental rights, in terms of reliefs she sought, and naming as defendants, the EFCC and Skye Bank Plc.
The former first lady asked the court to make a declaration that the fund standing to the credit of four of the companies and an account in her own name in Skye Bank belonged to her.
She also asked the court to declare that the action of the respondents in placing a No Debit/Freezing Order on the said accounts without any order of a competent court of law or prior notice to her, to be in breach of her fundamental rights as contained in the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Olajumoke Orisaguna has vanished from social media, and this has gotten a lot of people talking.
Yesterday, top filmmaker, Charles Novia, took to his Facebook page to point out the oddity in the model’s disappearances from media, a fear he had earlier expressed after corporations fought over each other to hype the former bread seller.
“We don’t hear anymore about the Bread Seller turned model, Olajumoke Orisaguna,” Novia said on his Facebook yesterday. “I wrote at the beginning of the media frenzy over her that she was just the flavour of the moment for a public looking for sweet distraction from realities in the polity and that she would be discarded by that same public and media once the curiosities wane. It’s happening now, innit?”
Olajumoke’s story kept social media busy for many months, until she slicked away from public eye. However, in May, the mother of two resurfaced on social media to confirm that she dumped Few Models, the agency that first signed her on after her breaking story stunned the world, for Beth Model Africa.
Also, Olajumoke confirmed she was set to launch her foundation, the “Olajumoke Orisaguna foundation”. This came after she reportedly gave out N200,000 to some 40 breadsellers.
Now, there are worries that the media profited from her story and now has dumped her since the frenzy is over.
Her Instagram page was last updated six weeks ago.
“I thought about her two days ago and even did a social media random check. They no longer update her social media sef!,”
Facebook user Ngozi Okafor said yesterday, and another, Dino Cee, said:
“The whole thing looks like a staged managed conspiracy drama but if it really was a true story then I think the girl should be blamed for not advancing herself using the opportunity she got from that overnight fame, I mean that she should have used that opportunity to push herself into the Nollywood or try by any means to release a music album so as to remain relevant in the public circle, modeling is a career that you are only relevant when you are sought-after and it is very difficult for deals to come by all the time but in the Nollywood at least she can always get something with that quick fame even if it is a sub or extras if her charges are moderate, in the music she can always make herself an album anytime she wants more especially this days that lyrics has no meaning but rhythms to Nigerians.”
Forbes earlier in the day, announced that Zara founder, Amancio Ortega is now richer than Microsoft billionaire co-founder, Bill Gates – at least he was, for a cool two days.
The Spanish retail genius who started Zara, passed Bill Gates to become the richest man in the world on Wednesday and Thursday, before Gates reclaimed the title Friday morning.
Shares of Ortega’s business Inditex, parent company to Zara, Massimo Dutti and Pull&Bear, ticked up 2.5% Wednesday, boosting his personal fortune by $1.7 billion, then fell 2.8% by Friday. As of 10 a.m. Friday morning, Ortega was worth $77.8 billion, while Gates was worth an estimated $78.1 billion.
So few days, after the Facebook CEO visited the country, the actress took to her social media page, to hysterically complain that the billionaire did not pay her a visit given that she has one of the highest page likes on the Social network in Nigeria.
Some of her fans came for her stating that she’s feeling too important and all… Well, she reads some of those comments and has something to say about it.
She shared the photo above on IG moments ago with the caption:
“Yah we back! Hello Lagos Nigeria!
So I see some took my Zuck post very seriously ? Happy heart attacking… To the ones with high IQ who got it ? #firstsnapchatpic #thanksprincess”
Is it just me or why does the nose make her look like Mercy Johnson?
Irineu Cruz and wife Jucicleide Silva have been trying for a little girl for almost 20 years and they’ve only managed to add more boys to the family.
The couple have a brood ranging from one month to 18-years-old – but the couple say they won’t stop trying until a girl arrives.
During Jucicleide Silva’s first pregnancy, the couple agreed that the dad would name the boys and Mum, the girls. But the couple has since christened all 13 boys after famous footballers, all beginning with the letter R.
The family, who live in Concei ao de Coit , Brazil, hoped their thirteenth child would be a game-changer but instead the midwife announced it was yet another boy.
Irineu who is a 40 year old farmer said:
“I’ve always admired players like Rivaldo, Roberto Carlos, Ronaldinho and Robinho, all the best footballers seemed to have a name beginning with R, so as more and more boys came along, I decided to celebrate South American football by naming my sons after the players I liked.”
The family’s newest addition has been christened Ronaldo after the former Brazil star.
Little Ronaldo joins brothers Robson (18), Reinan (17), Rauan (15), Rubens (14), Rivaldo (13), Ruan (12), Ramon (10), Rincon (9), Riquelme (7), Ramires (5), Railson (3) and Rafael (2).
A Nigerian living in Zimbabwe has been mercilessly beaten by two prostitutes who also stole his money. The man identified as Benjamin Chinedu Nworisa suffered a swollen eye during the encounter.
According to H-metro, two prostitutes identified as Florence Gwatidzo and Barbra Mandema whom he had met at Liz Night Club robbed him of US$3000 in the Avenues Area whilst the accused were on their way to another joint Tipperary’s Night Club located in the same locality.
The case was heard at the Harare magistrates’ court where Florence and Barbra appeared facing robbery charges. The two denied the charges when they appeared before magistrate Vongai Guwuriro.
Implicating them in the matter, the State led by Netsai Chandakaona alleges that last week Benjamin Nworisa went to have some drinks at Liz Night Club. While he was being driven in a cab, the taxi driver asked Benjamin Nworisa if he could allow him to pick Florence and Barbra who wanted to be dropped at Tipperary’s Night Club.
Upon reaching the Tipperary’s the taxi driver reportedly gave one of the two ladies US$10 for her to look for separate monies.
It was at that moment that the prostitutes attacked Nworisa with a brick injuring him in the eye and knocking him out. They searched him and took US$2 800, cell phone and other valuables.
The Nigerian national was picked by a Good Samaritan, Steven Tirivapasi who took him to Harare Central Police Station.
But, luck ran out on one of the prostitutes as he spotted Florence Gwatidzo at the police station where she was also lodging a complaint against him saying he had assaulted her.
Lovely Nollywood actress, Daniella Okeke posted a photo of herself and her mum on IG and a quite unfortunate and despicable troll came on the comment section to allege that she saw Daniella’s mother treking in Warri where she resides.
The actress wasted no time in opening fire back at the troll by disclosing that she bought her mother a Toyota SUV. She even threatened to murder the troll if she makes any other comment about her mum.
A pre-operative transgender woman has cut off her ears, shaved her nose and had scales tattooed all over her body in a bid to look like a rattlesnake.
Dragon Lady Eva Tiamat Baphoment Medusa – who likes to referred to as it, like a snake would be – has spent the last 20 years attempting to look more like a reptile.
It believes that it was brought up by Western Diamondback rattlesnakes after it was abandoned by its parents as a young boy.
Tiamat has had several dramatic body modifications over the years, including having its ears cut off, a shaved nose, horn implants, eyebrow dome implants, a forked tongue, fangs and dyed the whites of its eyes green.
It also wants to be covered from head to toe in tattooed scales and body piercings – including in the armpit.
Tiamat did not use a doctor for the cosmetic surgery and instead turned to a body modification artist. She has spent around $60,000 so far (£45k).
The Dragon Lady told Fox 10 : “I was born to my human mother in the Phoenix area, but I was born to my reptilian parents when my mother and stepfather abandoned me to the woods.
“My whole transformation today is basically an honor to my reptilian parents which are the rattlesnakes.. the Western Diamondback in particular.”
“I don’t care what people say about me or my views, and if I have to I will defy and stand alone against the world, but never will I make any compromise to my integrity.”
Tiamat says the reaction to its unique look is often positive.
“People love me.. I go out and I am greeted with smiles.
This book was written way back in the year Nigerian gained her independence by a Nigerian writer named Nathan Njoku – the author gives his reason why women are not trustworthy.
He claimed he isn’t a hater of women but a realist. Lol…Ladies, it’s been a long time coming, y’all’s wahala did not just start yesterday… Hehe
The foreword of the book reads:
Those who have been liquidated, poisoned and disgraced by women would agree with me that this booklet is a first class booklet for men.
The author, Mr. Nathan Njoku, a young but experienced writer, is neither a hater nor antagonist of women, but lover of his fellow men, a bold and an impartial observer.
I must congratulate Mr. Njoku for producing this fine work, and I recommend it, for reading to you, your family, your relatives and friends.
The Editor
On Thursday night, the rapper famous for his hit song Panda, was arrested in New York City following a road rage incident where he allegedly pointed a gun at another driver. TMZ Reports.
Desiigner was arrested Thursday night in NYC in a road rage incident that led to felony drug and weapons charges … TMZ has learned.
Law enforcement sources tell TMZ … the people in the SUV and the driver of another vehicle began screaming at each other. The driver of the other car called 911 and claimed Desiigner pointed a gun at him. The SUV left but the driver of the car took down the license plate number.
Cops found the SUV a short time later, searched it, and found a large quantity of loose pills in the center console.
Our law enforcement sources say they found Oxycontin and other drugs.
Desiigner and 4 others in the SUV were arrested. All 5 were arrested and charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance and criminal possession of drugs with intent to sell, which are felonies.
Desiigner was also charged with felony criminal possession of a loaded weapon and menacing (that’s for allegedly pointing a gun at the other driver).