The Managing Director of Seven Up Bottling Co.. Mr Sunil Sawhney also took to his twitter account this evening to deny reports that the singer has been dropped as a Pepsi Ambassador following issues in her marriage trended on social media over the weekend.
Show me a marriage without challenges and I will show you a virgin in a maternity ward (birthing center): Most marital crises happen prime of the bliss. This is no different from what our parents went through and what we, the people that ventured into marriage would go through or are experiencing, these times of our lives. These wahalas come with “the territory”.
But what makes your palava unique is the arena chosen to out this perhaps usual roforofo fights: the social media. Your celebrity status accelerated the speed of the spread. Everyone on social media has an opinion, even those that don’t know what and how you feel. Don’t blame us, Tunji invited us. And you privileged us gate pass to your faltered family.
Tiwa, after watching your Pulse television interview, I felt your pulse and Teebillz heartbeat from a distance. You both cried out for help. You are hurting. Teebillz is also hurting. He is a coke head. He is human. The environment and nature of your business influences entices and encourages such social behaviors. He stole your money: greed… so what. Sometimes, you take from the one you love. He must have spent it on you and or the family… am not giving excuses, but Nne, words are like weapons, they wound you sometimes.
You publicly stated, while avoiding eye contact with the Television camera that the marriage was over. Tiwa, your pronouncement did not match your body language. You are angry. You still love him. What is missing? you and Tee are too busy engaged in the limelight, washing your designers’ linens in public. The cracks were getting deeper, but you both did not communicate to address your problems. Teebliz loves you. You love him. Life can be short or long. Love can be right or wrong.
Mama T, go after what you love. You are stronger than pride. Go get your man and seek help. Take a trip to a marriage counselor and offer him drug rehab. You too need to go into rehab. Forget everything. You both love each other; hence, you reached out to us. Tiwa, Teebliz is human. You are also human and woman. Those encouraging you to drop him or let him go are not your friends. They do not care about you and your child. Go and get your family back together. You both made mistakes. It is time to seek help as a couple and a young family. There is nothing out here but home wreckers services at work. Talk!. Talk!!. Talk to your husband. I felt your pains: you are still trapped in love. I believe he feels the same ways too.
You stated your mother always urged you to work things out: I think you should listen to your mother. Forget about the whispers, the comments, and the silly Facebook babbles and vitriolic nonsense from mostly losers, on social media and Nkworbi joints. Teebliz’s outbursts were an attempt to open up a dialogue with you: although he chose the wrong platform. He misdirected his plea to you to see his pains and love for the family. Your heart is young. Your love, still fresh, Tiwa, do not be deceived by several advisers and negative vibes to support you. These are from hangers-on that want to be there for you. The truth is, they will never be here. You do not need anyone’s advice to mend your broken hearts and rescue your young marriage from collapse.
You need two hurting hearts to meet, sit down as adults still in love, communicate and resolve your differences. Let your feelings show and go. Those advising both of you now, don’t feel the loneliness and lonely nights under the bedsheets, or mornings alone on the couch remembering how love came by and swept you off your beautiful skinny feet, the memories of gracious and seductive moments, the temptations to text him, or checking the cell phone every ring or minute, wishing secretly that he called or text..Or sleeping alone at nights in the bed you both shared some silly real and genuine moments of love, unlimited: holding his favorite cloth or T-shirt just to smell his body scents; the little things both of you did in the beginnings that made each fond of the other, the crazy memories when you both thanked God for making each the other’s selection, when you gave affection to get each’s attention. You, my dear, can work things out.
Don’t say it’s over. It’s not over. You still love him. He still loves you. To hell with what people will say. They have already stated their worst.
They will continue to say more as long as you’re alive and successful.
Don’t let that stop you from your love. Mama Tee. Waka after your man. Save your marriage and seek help collectively so that you will amaze the world with a second chance at love. I wish you best as you listen to your heart. Regards to your lovely son. Be strong.
Vivian Oputa, 51 who works as an established Skin Doctor engaging in corrective skincare, wellness, rejuvenation and anti aging services in the Ikoyi area of Lagos has been revealed as the third baby mama of Tiwa Savage’s husband, Teebillz.
The couple had a child together and kept their affairs secret. According to Tiwa Savage, she was neck-deep into the marriage before getting a wind of Vivian Oputa’s existence in Teebillz’s life.
Unconfirmed reports have it that Banky W has ejected Teebillz from his house where he was taking refuge in the face of the crisis after confirming the connection between Vivian Oputa and Teebillz.
Mathematically, Teebillz has a total of four kids from three different women.
Even though we don’t want to admit it, we women know that we are much too liberal with our benefit of the doubt. We slather it on like Banana Boat tanning oil on a hot August afternoon, and the next day we’re whining because we got burnt.
Don’t ask me for analogies first thing in the morning. Eer, afternoon. It’s not my thing.
The worst part about it is that I don’t really think it’s because we are that naive. In fact, women are highly intuitive, but for whatever reason, we often choose to ignore those gut feelings. Especially with guys.
When it comes to relationships, I think one of the best rules you can have is: justification is your enemy. These are some things you should never analyze. If they show up, you need to be done.
1. He’s not into you.
And I’m not really referring to the book here, but please do yourself a favor and read it. A guy who really likes you is interested in you. He’s interested in what you do, what you love, where you’re headed and he wants to be a part of it. He should be front row. Don’t tell yourself that he has a lot of good qualities and so you can compromise the fact that he’s not that into you. You won’t be satisfied in the long run. Walk away, brush up on your confidence and realize that you’re gonna be just fine.
Reports are in that popular comedian and media personality, Emma OhMyGod is now an engaged man.
The Ebony Life TV presenter is said to have proposed to his long time girlfriend in front of friends after showing her off as his ‘sister’ on his Instagram page only a day ago. His girlfriend, who is simply identified as Yetunde aka Yettisho, is a British born media guru who moved to the country in 2014. She currently works as a television producer and she also is a fashion enthusiast.
Fans are currently flooding the comedian’s page with congratulatory messages even though he is yet to make an official announcement.
Young rising comedian Emmanuella won a lot of hearts when she featured in a short comic video and acted a scene where she said ‘This is not my real face’.
The young girl is a huge star now – check her out at Honorable Omosede Igbinedion, the daughter of billionaire businessman, Chief Gabriel Igbinedion, house in Abuja.
Omosede’s son Prince Akezua (pictured above with Emma) is a huge Emmanuella fan so his mum invited her to their Abuja home. The ever cheerful young lady couldn’t hide her excitement.
From the desk of 51-year-old social media activist, Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo. Read below..
TO ALL MARRIED WOMEN SUFFERING IN NIGERIA STRUGGLING TO BE CALLED MARRIED. #RedFlags by Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo
“Nigerians online say that people that have never been married have no authority to speak about marriage. Absolutely false! I have never been married and was engaged to my my fiance after we had two children but that engagement was quickly broken off after we had a third child because the relationship soured. Hollywood marriages have several stipulations where contracts called prenuptial agreements are signed and many other celebrities don’t even marry at all but just have children together.
“Women with several children for different men are scrutinized in Nigeria as compared to celebrity men like Tuface with several kids for many women or the P Square brothers who had kids out of wedlock. Society tends to blame the women. What led to my engagement breakdown was basically emotional and physical abuse. The emotional part being the worst and possibly what made Tiwa Savage end her marriage on camera. Nigerians and Africans around the world witnessed that last week with the award winning singer and her husband Tunji “TeeBillz” Balogun. Revelations came out in many forms as the Editor of ThisDay newspapers interviewed her while Pulse TV got the exclusive video which went viral on the internet with so many strange aspects.
“I predicted this breakdown almost three years ago in a Facebook post. “Why is Tiwa Savage marrying a man with kids and divorce is not final yet? This is how Nigerian celebrities screw up their lives.” I was crucified on social media for this statement and bloggers jumped on it all criticizing me as “jealous”. That was November 11th 2013. Previously to that post I had interviewed Savage at a concert asking her about marriage, family and kids and she said she definitely wanted that aspect in her life one day only to discover she chose to date her married manager. This is now. Tiwa revealed in the interview that her husband was indeed suicidal, contrary to his deleted suicidal note posted on instagram, something fans were earlier misled about, he had a drug habit with cocaine, owed N45M as a bad debt partly in her name, jealous of her success, defamed and slandered her claiming she slept with label mates Don Jazzy and Dr Sid along with singer TuFace Idibia, abandoned her in Jamaica while she suffered a miscarriage and he was with another woman saved on his phone as “Edible Caterer” and finally infidelities that included another and a secret 3rd child in Nigeria she had no knowledge of. That was a massive handful as Savage revealed in her interview shedding tears saying their marriage was over.
“Red flags are all over potential marriages and Nigerian women planning to marry men who have previous children and relationships must be cautioned except if they know they are going into a polygamous marriage. Tiwa Savage had a music manager who was married to someone else, next she started dating him while he was still married and had not finalized his divorce and that was where I threw the caution and got ripped by Nigerians.
“People like Toke Makinwa, another young successful Nigerian media personality was the subject of another similar infidelity scandal. My advice to Makinwa was to exit her marriage as it was now “tainted” with an illegitimate baby. In Makinwa’s case her husband Maje Ayida impregnated and ex-girlfriend Anita Solomon who he secretly dated simultaneously with Makinwa. Makinwa just had a high profile wedding to Ayida and Solomon the other woman was busy watching from the outside. Toke still does not have a child with Ayida and in my write up I suggested that she was too young, successful and does not need Ayida to use her money to lavish himself and someone else’s baby. I actually suggested that Makinwa end the marriage. She went on to address her fans on her popular video blog on what she was going to do distancing herself from the marriage but not clear. A few months later, she was seen with her estranged husband in public and all tongues were wagging. I can only give solid advice to young successful Nigerian women ending up in these unsuccessful relationships.
“I have been there but maybe not as bad, emotional abuse is now the order of the day in Nigeria and Tiwa Savage is living what many Nigerian married women are living but not popular or ready to air their dirty laundry to society. Marriage is too overrated in Nigeria. The term “Go and Marry” is stupidly used on social media. Being single is not a sin. Tiwa Savage-Balogun’s endorsements may be at risk with Pepsi and Pampers after this saga and that revealing interview which also mentioned that TeeBillz her husband sometimes didn’t have money to buy diapers and was busy squandering all her cash on drugs. Many people blasted him on his instagram account on a particular photo of Jamil their son sitting next to cases of Pampers. Most women must speak out rather than suffering in a bad marriage. It is time all married women bypass tradition and talk about it. Don’t suffer within yourselves!”
New reports have just confirmed that Tee Billz who took shelter in Banky Wellington’s home in Lagos has just been sent packing by the mother of the EME boss.
According to The Capital NG Banky W brought Tee Billz to stay with him after the botched suicide attempt, but following Tiwa Savage’s tell-all interview, the mother of the EME boss requested that Tee Billz vacate her son’s home.
The Capital NG confirms that he has left the premises to unknown location. Also, Banky W is yet to confirm this news as at the time of this report.
Meanwhile, during her interview with Azuka Ogujiuba, Ms Savage revealed that her estranged husband has a third child whom she didn’t know of until they got married.
Now, Capital NG alleges that the celebrity manager had this third child with Dr Vivian Oputa, a medical practitioner and specialist in aesthetic medicine, surgery and dermatology who is based in the United States.
Dr Oputa reportedly is also the medical director of DermaCare Medical Ltd. and Clinical Director of the Clover Medical Company Beverly Hills, both in the United States.
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Written by Oyindamola Bamgbola and Edited by Somto Monanu.
In the past 72 hours, Nigerian women have learnt that behind every celebrity, there is a large amount of unpalatable
Secrets covered up under layers of make-up, smiles, red carpet poses and seeming charisma.
This lesson has come from Nigeria’s Beyonce, and ever-delectable Tiwa Savage who recently (and sadly) had to reveal the intrinsic details of her marriage to her former manager, Tunji “Tee Billz” Balogun after he leveled terrible and diabolical allegations against her and his own family.
Many People whom include, Davido’s Hypeman Special Spesh & Charles Inojie just to mention a few have accused Tiwa Savage of trying to use the interview to Gather Public Sympathy well here are 5 PR Moves We Think Tiwa Savage Made In Her Explosive Interview To Gain Public Sympathy Article was Written by Oyindamola Bamgbola and Edited by Somto Monanu.
1. She Told It All:
Tiwa Savage Revealed so many Dirty Secretes About her husband That Literally Tore His Personality and Credibility Apart, Making Her Reclaim Her own Lost Glory. She literally Made Teebillz Look like a cocaine sniffing Pot head whose statements are not to be taken seriously.
According to one of the founding fathers of modern PR, Sam Black, there are 3 rules to handling crisis management:
– Tell it all
– Tell it fast
– Tell it truthfully
Tiwa Savage managed to do this quite well with her exclusive interview.
In the video, she was able to draw her audience in (all by herself) by telling her side of the story in such simple language.
It’s also important to note how her body language, the setting and her “costume” played a critical role in the communication of her truth.
After the 10 city tour and writing a world wide hit song for Dj Asap’s (BET 106 & Park/K104FM Dallas)upcoming project featuring another fast rising star Tory Lanez (Say It), the wait is finally over!!!
Known for always getting you off your seat and on the dance floor, Sean Tizzle strikes back with this ever so ready club jam titled “Like To Party”.
The track was produced by Black Jersey and mixed and mastered by Grammy winning Buck 3000 (New York City) who has also worked with legends such as Jay Z, Alicia Keys, Prince, Pink Floyd, etc…just to name a few.
This time I believe Sean Tizzle is back with a different game plan and his sophomore album is just something you just have to look forward to!
Fresh Young talented Artiste called Skarz drops a new jam titled “More Chanel” Featuring Dj vans the dopest DJ and this dope jam is produced by Torff sounds The Dope Man.
After the recent ‘white‘ photos of hers she shared on Instagram, many have pondered why Lil Kim keeps changing her looks via plastic surgery.
She just might have provided the answer in an interview she granted Newsweek. The rapper said:
All my life men have told me I wasn’t pretty enough–even the men I was dating. And I’d be like, ‘Well, why are you with me, then?’It’s always been men putting me down just like my dad. To this day when someone says I’m cute, I can’t see it. I don’t see it no matter what anybody says.”
She continues:
“I have low self-esteem and I always have,”Guys always cheated on me with women who were European-looking. You know, the long-hair type. Really beautiful women that left me thinking, ‘How I can I compete with that?’ Being a regular black girl wasn’t good enough.”
And the implants? “That surgery was the most pain I’ve ever been in in my life,” says Kim. “But people made such a big deal about it. White women get them every day. It was to make me look the way I wanted to look. It’s my body.”
Leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un has banned all weddings and funerals in North Korea as he prepares to be crowned as the country’s supreme leader at a rare ruling party congress.
The 33-year-old is expected to cement his leadership and formally declare the nation a nuclear-armed state at the first congress in a staggering 36 years.
Ahead of the meeting next week, North Korea has tightened security, with its capital, Pyongyang, placed on lockdown to avoid any ‘mishap‘ at the event.
Weddings and funeral services have also been cancelled this week for security reasons, according to the Sunday Times.
North Korea has in the past taken such steps ahead of major events and has at times also shut down its border with China for the same reason.
It was an all tragic moment in Dattawa, in the Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State, as four children suffocated after mistakenly locking themselves in a car.
The children – Umar Mansir (male, 9); Maryam Salisu (female, 12); Sadiyya Bashir (female, 7); and Fatima Ibrahim (female, 3) – lived with their parents in Rigasa Quarters and always played together.
However, their parents were said to have gone out on Thursday and one of them left his Honda Civic car unlocked in the compound.
The children were reported to have entered into the car and later closed the door.It was said that one of them pressed the lock button and as the car got heated, the children became trapped.
A resident said the kids suffocated, adding that their parents did not know they were dead until they came back home in the evening.
He said:
“The incident happened on Thursday, but the police did not get to know until the following day.The children lived in the same compound. Their parents went out on a visit that day and they started playing on the premises of their building.
“Later, they got into the car and locked the doors. When the heat became too much, they made efforts to get out to no avail. We saw scratches on the vehicles upholstery and the marks of their hands on the windows.
“However, they could neither get out nor find help and they died in the car. When their parents returned, they started searching for them. When the search was futile, somebody decided to check the car, and the children were there, dead.”
Punch METRO gathered that the incident threw the whole neighbourhood into mourning. The publication was told that the corpses were kept till the following morning, after which they were buried.
A police source said the police in the Rigasa area got wind of the incident on Friday and stormed the area.
He said:
“The families did not report to the police for reasons best known to them. By the time the police got to the place on Friday, the residents had already prepared the corpses for burial. The whole community was in tears. The children were buried that day in accordance with Islamic rites.”
The Police Public Relations Officer, Kaduna State, Zubairu Abubakar, confirmed the incident, adding that the police had started investigations.
He said:
“The incident happened on Thursday, but we learnt about it on Friday, April 29, 2016. The lifeless bodies of the four children were traced to a Honda Civic car parked in the compound. Investigation is in progress.”
One of my favourite fashionista, she’s hardly disappointed in making a fashion statement.
The beauty was out and about yesterday in this casual yet funky outfit. Her blinged out shoes to make the outfit look popping is quite an interesting something.. .
Nigerian Actress, Funke Akindele, known also as ‘Jenifa’ was remarkably angry at an Instagram follower for alleging that Dr. SID broke up the Tiwa-TeeBillz marriage.
The Actress took to her Instagram page to wish Dr. SID a happy birthday but the joyful mood was rather cut short as a follower of hers (@victoriaoduah) replied in the comment section “Happy birthday to the man wey scatter@teebillz323 marriage by fucking @tiwassavage”
Clearly infuriated by the remark, the actress shot back as she wrote: “You are mad for that comment. You silly attention seeker. May God punish u. @victoriaoduah”
Lovely actress, Caroline Danjuma with other celebrities Juliet Ibrahim inclusive, flew to Ghana for Juliet Ibrahim’s foundation celebrity football match.
I chuckled when I saw this and wondered if a Nigerian policeman can take a fist from a suspect, if he’d not end the suspect’s life right there on the spot!
Amazing footage captures the moment a former Olympic wrestling champion took on a perfect SEVEN, police officers trying to arrest him after being bloodied and pepper-sprayed.
Vyacheslav Oliynyk, who took home the gold for Ukraine in Atlanta’s 1996 Summer Olympics, was reportedly pulled over on suspicion of drink-driving in Kiev but argued with the officers.
A video released by officials appears to show him lunging towards one and then pushing him, only to be given a face full of pepper spray by a second.
Oliynyk later told local media:
“I’m partly guilty because I did not stop and I was ignoring the police.
“But I am not a criminal. As far as I can see there will be a court hearing and they will punish me somehow because they always do.”
‘However the fact that police let me go home on the same day shows I didn’t do anything that bad.”
Father to Khloé Kardashian‘s Ex, Lamar Odom was evicted from his LA home and forced to move back to Brooklyn after the reality TV star refused to keep paying his rent, he tells The NY Post.
“Khloé didn’t even have the guts to tell me herself that my rent wasn’t going to be paid anymore,” Joe Odom, 62, said. “She got the guys who handle Lamar’s money to call me and they said the rent wouldn’t be paid, I gotta move and my phone was going to get cut off.”
The former NBA star had paid his disabled father’s $4,000 rent for 10 years when Kardashian kicked the Army vet and his wife, Cecelia, 59, to the curb last November.
She disrespected me. She decided to kick me out of my home when Lamar was in hospital in Nevada,
“I just wish I could be at his side in LA to support him, but Khloé doesn’t want me there,” the broken-up father said.
The glum dad believes Kardashian is “smothering” Lamar and attempting to cut off their communication.
“Whenever I call him, she answers. She must be checking his texts, too. I can’t always get through to him anymore,” he said.
“She may be Lamar’s wife, but I’m his father. She shouldn’t have cut me out of his life like she has.”
Last week, Joe was finally able to get through to Lamar, who said he would “sort it out,” but nothing has changed, he says.
Three weeks to the first anniversary of the present government, Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has revealed how he became the running mate to President Muhammadu Buhari, revealing his disposition to fight corruption in Nigeria was the motivating factor.
Vanguard reports that the VP spoke at a non-denominational conference organized by the Covenant Christian Centre in Abuja on Saturday.
He said:
‘’In December 2014, the unexpected happened; I was nominated as Vice Presidential candidate to then General Muhammadu Buhari.
He then recalled that he was still young, 27years old when Buhari became head of State “after a corrupt and somewhat disappointing civilian regime.”
“As a young university lecturer, then I was impressed by his, President Buhari’s single-minded fight against corruption and indiscipline. There was a serious war against indiscipline.
For the first time, government held corrupt officers accountable. “30 years later, providence brought us together. A retired general now and a Professor of Law.”
Osinbajo said the President and himself knew and agreed on what had to happen to bring change to the nation. “
We both believed that our country needed to change. We argued about how and what needed to be done. We reached consensus on many of the major issues.
‘’Certainly our country need a different set of values; a new way of doing business; an economy that is able to give opportunity to young people to work in their chosen professions and to build strong and profitable businesses. We knew that we had to provide social protection for the poorest and the most vulnerable.
“We recognised that innovation and change will be key, and that we must implement and not just talk about diversification of our economy. So we led our party’s campaign on that single, simple, but profound word, CHANGE! “Nearly a year on- there are many problems and many have asked where is the change? Is this the change we voted for? Even some fifth columnists in our midst have suggested bring back corruption! “
But let me just say here for the records that the government of Muhammadu Buhari is completely and irrevocably committed to change. “We believe that though it may not be easy, though the early signs may be confusing and sometimes discouraging, there has never been a better opportunity than now to turn the country in the direction of success. “ Today we have the best opportunity in decades for profound change.
It is an opportunity in a generation. A revolution whose time has come! Everything around us tells us that the moment is now! Can this change happen, yes indeed, it can! ‘’What do you have in your hands to make it happen? We have a country that is tired of corruption, tired of leadership without values, tired of an economy that is neither designed to accommodate enterprise, nor to create opportunity and wealth for the majority. “But we have a leadership and we have a leader that is prepared to challenge the rotten status quo, one who has said that he is prepared to kill corruption rather than let it kill us,” he said.
According to reports coming from Zambia, Nigerian artiste WizKid Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun better known as WizKid has failed to put up a decent show at Lusaka’s Heroes Stadium.
Fans are reacting angrily..
REACTIONS
– A no show Nigerian superstar WizKid has sent Zambian revellers back home with frustration and flaring tempers.
– By 21hrs only 24 people had gathered at Heroes Stadium the venue of the much publicized gig. Zambian musician Slap Dee has also left the stage and he is currently in Kabwata.
– For a jaw dropping K1000, fans were promised to catch a glimpse of the ‘Show You The Money’ hit maker.
– In Zimbabwe, organisers of a similar Wiz Kid concert were lynched and hurled with insults after the Nigerian failed to pitch up a fortnight ago.
– What more FAZ find it difficult to make the Stadium full to capacity. Wizkid next time when organizing a function, Please involve people that understand the Local Music Industries market. You Might be an International Artist but to me you are not as big as PSquare. When PSquare came to Zambia they did not go for an expensive and bigger venue,yet they used Woodlands Stadium. The price tag also was not that expensive.
– The Organizers(Wizkid Live in Zambia) also could have done good job in terms of studying the market and events. We recently had #Zambia Music Awards. Tonight its happening in Livingstone Casper Nyøvest is in town. Above all your show is at Night, were you not told that there are Ritual Killers in Zambia and Zambians love their lives. They have stopped moving at night.
– This would be a mother of all flops. Anyways its none of my business.
#StoryIzibika
Beyonce’s Lemonade album plunges in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, giving the superstar her sixth chart-topper. The set earned 653,000 equivalent album units in the week ending April 28, according to Nielsen Music. Pure album sales comprised 485,000 of that sum.
According to Billboard, Lemonade scores the biggest week of any album in 2016, both in terms of overall units and in sales.
All six of Beyonce’s studio albums have debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. Lemonade follows her self-titled album in 2013, 4 (2011), I Am… Sasha Fierce (2008), B’Day (2006) and Dangerously In Love (2003).
Beyonce is the only act to reach No. 1 with their first six studio efforts (and the only act to debut atop the list with their first six).
A man arrested by the operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command for being a major buyer of stolen mobile phones in Lagos, has confessed to have bought over 4,256 mobile phones from robbers, pickpockets and one – chance gangs operating in the state .
The suspect, Kazeem Bamidele, 42, who is the Second Vice Chairman of the National Union of Road and Transport Workers’ (NURTW), Ajegunle Unit, equally confessed to the RRS Intelligence Team that he has over 52 boys in Lagos State, who steal and sell “clean phones” to him constantly.
Kazeem, popularly known as Elewure in the social circle, was arrested when the RRS Intelligence Team quizzed two stolen phones users in Kogi State in connection with abduction and robbery cases in Lagos State.
The operatives had upon returning from a week-long investigation to Port Harcourt, Enugu and Kogi State, swung into actions by arresting Elewure from his shop in Boundary Market, Ajegunle, after he was fingered to have been the seller of two Blackberry Z10 phones and a CAT phone collected from victims of robbery and abduction incidences in the metropolis.
Kazeem said,
“I have over 52 boys who sell clean stolen mobile phones to me. On the average, I receive 38 ‘clean’ phones in a week. I have been in the business for more than two years. Boundary Market in Ajegunle, where I have office and shop, is where they sell the phones. I know they are stolen phones. Nearly every guy in Ajegunle is involved in this kind of runs. It is what they do to survive.
“I was pushed into the business by family pressure. I have so many dependants, including two wives and seven children. My mother gave birth to 13 children for my father. Though both of them are no more, only three of us are left and I am the breadwinner of the family.
“I started out in life as ‘elubo’, pepper and maize grinder. I know that most of these phones were gotten from pick pocketing, one chance and robbery. My second wife has mounted so much pressure on me to quit the business long ago but the financial pressure was much.”
He revealed that
“I buy Infinix Hot 2 at N10,000 and sell N12,000; Blackberry Z30 at N20,000 and sell at N22,000; buy Infinix Hot Note at N15,000 and sell at N17,000 and Samsung Galaxy X3 at N11,000 and sell at N14,000. I don’t buy iPhone because of its locking system.”
Lagos Metro gathered that as of the time of his arrest, five stolen mobile phones were found on him. He is presently helping the police to pick up his boys from their hideouts, bus stops and routes of operations. Two commercial buses “danfo” used for robbery and one chance operations are presently at RRS Headquarters in Alausa.
“Some of the phones traced to Elewure were that of high profile members of the society as well as celebrities,”
a police source said.
The image maker in charge of the state police command, Dolapo Badmos confirmed the arrest of the suspect and added that he had been transferred to the Federal Special Anti Robbery Squad, Ikeja for further investigations.
Tunji Balogun, a.k.a Teebillz, the estranged husband of Mavins Record singer, Tiwa Savage, may face a prison term for attempted suicide under the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Teebillz was reported to have attempted committing suicide on Thursday, April 28, 2016, at the Ikoyi-Lekki bridge in Lagos.
According to TheNet.ng, under the laws of the country, anyone caught attempting suicide is liable to face a year in prison.
Section 327 of the Nigerian Criminal Code states that “Any person who attempts to kill himself is guilty of a misdemeanour and liable to imprisonment for 1 year”.
TheNet.ng, who noted through a lawyer explained that no one has been convicted for attempted suicide. However, Teebillz might be on his way to become the first.
TheNet.ng. further noted that “such cases are usually handled by medical personnel who assess the mental state of the individual and try to offer treatment for depression and other mental disorders.”
Teebillz was reported to be likely to get a pardon for his alleged use of cocaine.
“Most legal systems focus on possession or possession with the intention to distribute. So it would be more defamatory than actionable for someone to make such accusations in the media since he who alleges must prove”.
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