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Panic in Anambra as gunmen kill naval operatives, policemen

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At least three naval officials and three policemen have been reportedly killed in what seemed like an ambush of security operatives, in different areas of Anambra State, causing panic.

Ripples Nigeria learned that the incident, which happened on Thursday, left three policemen dead at Neni in Anaocha Local Government Area of the state, while their vehicle was set ablaze.

Also, three Naval officials were reportedly killed in another attack that happened at Awkuzu, in the Oyi Local Government Area of the state.

According to reports, the naval officers were on duty when the incident happened around 2pm, while their firearms were carted away by the hoodlums after they were killed.

Meanwhile, the Anambra State Police Command confirmed the attacks but said the police only lost one officer.

Specifically, the Police Public Relations Officer in Anambra State, DSP Tochukwu Ikenganyia, said, “The hoodlums, numbering over 20 in three Sienna vehicles and motorcycles, engaged the policemen in a gun duel, which lasted for over 30 minutes before reinforcements from the state headquarters forced the hoodlums to escape.

“As a result, two police operatives sustained gunshot injuries and were rushed to a hospital for medical attention, where one was confirmed dead.”

However, Naval authorities could not be reached for comment as of the time this report was filed.

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UFC legend Khabib Nurmagomedov officially retires from UFC as an unbeaten champion

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UFC chief, Dana White has announced that fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov will be retiring from the sport.

Khabib, one of the greatest fighters of all time, beat Justin Gaethje in October to make it 13 wins from 13 in UFC and an unbeaten 29-0 record overall.

The news online amid rumours of a return to the octagon for the legendary Russian but those rumors have now been squashed by Khabib and Dana Whyte .

After both men had a dinner on Thursday night, Thursday March 18, they both confirmed the news on social media.

White uploaded a picture of the pair and captioned it: “29-0 it is.

“He is officially retired. It was incredible to watch you work @TeamKhabib thank you for EVERYTHING and enjoy whatever is next my friend.”

Shortly after, Khabib shared the same photo with an emotional caption of his own.

He wrote: “It was a good dinner with some great people.

“Dana White, thank you so much brother and the entire UFC team for the opportunity to prove myself, you guys have changed many lives forever because of this sport.

“Dana – I’ll never forget your attitude towards me, my father did not forget and my sons will remember you.

“Today there was a real conversation between real men. Also thank you to all my team, sparing partners and all fans.

“I hope you will accept my decision and understand me.”

 Khabib said in January his mum wanted him to quit the sport following the death of his father after he contracted covid-19.

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Ghanaian Police says embattled singer, Barry Jhay, not involved in Kashy Godson’s death

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The Ghanaian Police has published a statement pertaining to the sudden demise of Kashy Godson, a Nigerian record executive and founder of the music label, Cash Nation.

They have revealed that embattled singer, Barry Jhay is not involved in the controversial death of his label boss.

It would be recalled that Kashy Godson the founder and CEO of Cash Nation Entertainment allegedly took his own life after battling depression.

Following the news of Kashy Godson’s death on March 7, 2021; it had been shrouded with mystery as different stories of his death filled the Nigerian digital space.

However, the Office of the District Commander, Ghana Police Service, Adabraka-Accra, has revealed what led to the death of the record label owner.

According to a statement released by the Ghana Police on Monday, Godson committed suicide.

The statement read in part:

It was established during investigation that on 7th March 2021, the deceased ― Babatunde Michael Abiodu ― a Nigerian, together with two Nigerians, Oluwakayode, a male, and a female friend, came to Beauford Ridge Apartment at Adabraka and checked in for three-bedroom apartment to lodge.

“That in the mid-night of the same day, the deceased’s male friend, Oluwakayode Balogun, and one Ghanaian music producer were in one of the rented rooms doing recording and editing when the deceased girlfriend, who was in one of the bedrooms with the deceased, suddenly rushed into the recording room and reported that the deceased was behaving abnormally.

“On receipt of the report, the deceased’s friend, Oluwakayode Balogun, came out to see what was happening.

He met the deceased and then approached him to ascertain what really the matter was.

To his surprise, the deceased became more violent and attacked him instead, which resulted in a scuffle between the deceased and his friend, the suspect, Oluwakayode Balogun; and in the process, the deceased hurt him with a water closet cover and pressing iron and also pulled a knife and threatened to stab him to death.

“The suspect, for fear of his life, ran away to the reception. Further investigation also revealed that after the suspect had succeeded in escaping, he spent 15 minutes outside of the apartment before the deceased threw himself over the corridor from the fourth floor to the down floor and died instantly.

The Ghana Police said a Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) footage installed at the reception covered the movement of the suspect and the deceased during and after the event and was played before counsels from both the deceased and suspect’s lawyers.

The statement said all parties were satisfied with the footage of the incident, which occurred on that fateful day at Beauford Ridge Apartment, Adabraka, as there were no questions raised concerning the CCTV coverage leading to the death of the deceased.

It added that on March 10, 2021, a post-mortem examination was performed on the body of the deceased by a pathologist of the Police hospital ― C/Supt. Dr O. Owusu Afriyie ― who gave the provisional cause of death as “severe head injury; fall from a height

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Nigerian cinematographer, Uyaiedu Ikpe-Etim comes out as gay

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A Nigerian cinematographer, Uyaiedu Ikpe-Etim who directed the 2020 controversial lesbian drama, Ife, has come.out as gay.

In a thread on the social media platform, Twitter, the Nollywood cinematographer narrated how she came out as gay to her mother.

According to the movie director, she had to come out to her Catholic mother so she could be true to herself and her sexuality.

The Nollywood cinematographer has stated in her revelation that she is unapologetic about coming out as a lesbian.

Read what she published;

I (officially) came out to my (Catholic) mother. I watched her as her heart broke again, probably thinking, so the rumors are true.

This thing that you are will send me to an early grave, she said. Come, see where you should bury me when I die, she pointed.”

She continued;

“My heart broke too. But I recognised this for what it was. The universal language of African parents – Emotional blackmail. I’m not an unholy thing, I said.

I am not a sin.

In spite of how hurt I am that you said that, I won’t accept it. No be me go kill you.”

On revealing her sexuality to her mother; the cinematographer stated that she felt relieved that she could come out of the closet and define her sexuality.

Further, she stated that her mother still refused to judge her despite her shock revelation.

Read what she said;

“Immediately alarmed, she said – I would never call you a sin, you are my child. I love you.

You will always be my baby but – No buts. You say you love me, then love me.

She talk her own, I talk my own sef. Finally – so one day, you will bring home a wife? Yeah, most likely.

In conclusion, she wrote;

“Hmmmm.

She heaved.

Hmmmm.

I heaved too.

Mine was of relief.

I am officially out to my mother.”

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Ogun police arrests notorious serial killer, cultist

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The Ogun State Police Command has arrested an alleged notorious serial killer and suspected member of the Eiye confraternity, Sulaiman Ganiyu, who was said to have been on the “wanted list” of the command.

This was disclosed in a statement on Wednesday by the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi.

According to Oyeyemi, the suspect was arrested on Sunday following a distress call from the Itamerin Comprehensive High School, Ago-Iwoye that the suspect came to the school premises and started shooting continuously.

He said the suspect was reported to be shooting to protest against the beating of a student said to be his younger brother

He words: “Upon the distress call, the DPO Ago-Iwoye, CSP Paul Omiwole led his patrol team to the school, but before their arrival, the suspect had run away.

He was subsequently traced to his hideout on Imosan Street, Oru-Ijebu, where he was eventually apprehended. On interrogation, he confessed to being a leading member of the Eiye confraternity.

“He confessed further that he was the one who killed one Awokale Olusegun, aka Lala, on February 27, 2020, over a supremacy battle following which he was declared wanted by the police.

“He also confessed to being responsible for the death of one Babasco and one Dapo at Ijebu-Igbo in 2015 during a clash between his group and the Aiye cult.”

Meanwhile, Oyeyemi said further investigation revealed that the suspect was the brain behind a series of violent cult clashes in Ago-Iwoye, Awa-Ijebu, Oru-Ijebu, Ilaponu and Ijebu-Igbo, in the recent past.

He noted that the Commissioner of Police, Edward Ajogun, had ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for discreet investigation and prosecution.

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Court sentences man to life imprisonment for raping eight-year-old boy in Akwa Ibom

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The Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo has sentenced a 40-year-old man, Aniekan Udom, to life imprisonment for raping an eight-year-old boy in Uyo, the state capital.

The court, presided over by Justice Bennett Ilaumo, on Wednesday, held that the accused, a native of Ikot Nkim, in the Ibesikpo Asutan Local Government Area, was guilty of rape.

The state counsel, Maria Akpan, while reading the facts of the case, told the court that the accused was caught in the act.

According to him, the accused was caught by the victim’s lesson teacher, Iniobong Nta, at the backyard of their residence at Anyan-ikot Street, off Abak Road, Uyo, as he was inserting his penis into the victim’s anus.

Akpan told the court that upon sighting Nta, the accused ran away, but was later apprehended by the police.

The accused, who was a neighbour of the victim’s parents, pleaded guilty to the offence, which was committed on Friday, August 28, 2020.

The police medical report confirmed that the victim was raped and that clinical evaluation indicated that he was in pain and had bruises around his anal region.

Justice Ilaumo, in his judgment, sentenced the accused to life imprisonment.

His verdict: “Upon the charge being read to the accused person and upon his guilty plea after hearing the facts as stated by the state counsel, I enquired of the accused if the facts were true and correct and he admitted that they were. I have aligned the same with Section 1 (1) (a) of the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Law, 2020, and found that the facts align with the provision of the law therein.

Upon the accused person’s plea, therefore, I find him guilty as charged. The sentence upon conviction for this offence is imprisonment for life.”

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80-year-old man seeks divorce, says wife starves him of s3x

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An 80-year-old retired lecturer, Prof. Muritala Haroon on Thursday told a customary court sitting in Mapo, Oyo State that his wife, Afsat, still denies him sex.

On Thursday, at the resumed hearing in the suit, Mr Haroon said,” My wife did not abide by the advice given to her by this court to allow peace to reign by agreeing to perform her wifely duties.”

The President of the court, Ademola Odunade, told Mr Haroon to exercise more patience as the wife was absent and had no representative in court.

Mr Odunade who adjourned the matter until May 17 said “The court will work with the extended members of the family to resolve the matter amicably.”

Mr Haroon had in February 2021, filed for the termination of his 52-year-old marriage on the grounds of sexual starvation and murder threats.

He said “I can no longer cope with the attitude again. Worst still, she and her relatives want me dead.

“Afsat attempted to stab me. She is misleading our six children. She has turned them against me,” he said.

Mrs Haroon at the hearing had rejected the prayer for separation.

“Prof is promiscuous. I cannot have anything to do with him because he slept with his close friend’s three wives.

“My lord, Haroon slept with the three wives of the man who acted as an intermediary whenever we had problems,” she said.

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Two Nigerians jailed in the UK for Covid-19 loan fraud

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Two people of Nigerian descent, Timilehin Olasemo and David Akinneye are currently in jail in the UK for fraudulently claiming about £500k in loan meant for businesses affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The two Nigerians who exploited the UK Government’s Coronavirus Bounce Back Loan Scheme (BBLS) by using the identities of eight innocent people to fraudulently obtain £489,000 have pleaded guilty to the crimes.

Due to the absence of the economic activity occasioned by the Covid-19 pandemic, the UK Government initiated a scheme to support struggling businesses.

In a statement published on Wednesday by the Metropolitan police, Olasemo and Akinneye were said to have connived to benefit from illegal loan applications worth £489,000, and had received over £250,000 at the time of their arrest.

Olasemo, 39-year-old, who is said to be a human resource executive, was charged to court over “conspiracy to commit fraud”, and impersonation and sentenced on Wednesday to three years and two months in prison

David Akinneye, aged 33, is described as her accomplice, and was sentenced to five years and six months in prison.

“Akinneye was the first out of the two to be identified during ongoing enquiries into organised criminality by officers of the Met’s North West London Economic Crime Unit. Olasemo was identified from evidence seized during Akinneye’s arrest,” the statement reads.

“On Friday, 16 October, officers from Met’s North West Economic Crime Unit, part of the Metropolitan Police Service’s Central Specialist Crime Command, arrested Olasemo at her home address. She was charged and remanded in custody the same day.

The investigating officers identified that £489,000 worth of fraudulent loan applications were made using ten identities. Of this, £297,000 worth of loans were successfully obtained by the pair and dissipated. The remaining amount was successfully stopped by the banks.

“It was discovered that Olasemo had obtained and used the personal details of eight individuals in order to fraudulently apply for the loans. She had stolen these identities after accessing employee records containing personal information during her employment.

“The fraudulently obtained monies was paid into the business bank account before being dispersed into mule accounts and later withdrawn from cash machines. Throughout this process, Olasemo sought advice from an accomplice named Olufumi David Akinneye.

Akinneye provided Olasemo with guidance in relation to laundering the proceeds of the frauds and safe addresses to use as correspondence for accounts. He also acted as a middle-man between people who were willing to sell on their bank accounts for use in fraud and other fraudsters who needed mule accounts to receive money obtained from diversion frauds.”

Speaking on the conviction, Chris Collins of the Metropolitan’s north west economic crime unit, said: “Today’s result serves as evidence of the zero-tolerance approach the MPS takes to individuals found guilty of fraud.”

“We will continue to crack down on individuals who are found to be exploiting government schemes for their own monetary gain,” he added.

Meanwhile, Akinneye, who was arrested in August 2020, was also found guilty of being involved in a romance scam.

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Lady deported from Oman stranded at Lagos Airport, claims memory loss

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A Nigerian lady and native of Ondo state identified as Funmilayo Victoria Fehintola is stranded at the Murtala Muhammad Airport in Lagos after allegedly losing her memory.

It was gathered that the 31-year-old lady with A10173960 passport number was deported from Oman last Friday, March 12th aboard an Emirates airline flight.

According to her passport, she left Nigeria on the 29th of February, 2019 to the Middle East country. However, a cargo agent at the airport, Mr. Thompson Oladapo, who has been catering for Funmilayo for a week, said the lady alleged that she was injected with substance unknown to her in Oman, Daily Trust reported.

Also her document showed that she received her certificate for negative PCR status for travel purpose on the 10th of March, 2021 from Salalah Al Gharbia Health Center in Oman while the certificate was signed by Dr. Salih Al Azawi and the Consultant was Ahmed Abdul Wahab Ahmed Mohd.

Also, another document issued by the Dubai Health Authority via the AMC Family Medicine DXB Concourse B certified by the facility Managing Director, Bisher Josef Alazzam, noted that “the patient is vitally stable, there is no obvious medical contraindication for travel at the time of discharge”.

The result was dated 11th of March 2021. Funmilayo travelled on Emirates airlines to Nigeria via Dubai. The result also indicated that the issue addressed was ‘abnormal behaviour’.

Her caregiver also disclosed that he tried to locate the address – No 2 Agisope, Muslim in the Oyo state in Funmilayovs data on Tuesday but could not find the place.

Meanwhile, Mr. Thompson appealed to members of the public to help locate the family members of the troubled lady and take her home as she currently sleeps on the walkway and inside buildings under construction at the terminal.

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Osun teen stabs brother, 21, to death, flees

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An 18-year-old teenager, Lakan Odetayo who stabbed his elder brother, 21-year-old to death over a disagreement on Wednesday in Modakeke area of Osun state is on the run.

The deceased was stabbed in the neck region of his body.

The police spokesperson, Yemisi Opalola who confirmed the incident said it has launched a manhunt for the suspect.

Ms Opalola said “One Kazeem Odetayo of Ifedapo area, Modakeke, reported to the police that his two male children, Lekan Odetayo, 18, and Toheeb Odetayo, 21, fought each other in the house over an issue pertaining to errands.

“He said Lekan allegedly stabbed his brother, Toheeb, in the neck region leading to his instant death. Efforts are on to arrest the fleeing suspect.”

O.palola noted that one bloodstained kitchen knife was recovered at the scene of the crime

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Preacher, Laurie Idahosa apologizes for saying Pete Edochie’s Mum was raped for marrying at the age of 15

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Preacher, Laurie Idahosa, has issued a public apology to Pete Edochie after she stated that the veteran actor’s mother was a victim of rape as well as a child bride; following his statement about his mum marrying his 40-year-old dad at the age of 15.

Mrs Idahosa had likewise reacted to the recent interview granted by Pete Edochie; where he disclosed that his dad who was 40 years old, married his mum when she was 15 years; adding that she was also shy all through their marriage.

The veteran actor, Pete Edochie in the interview said;

My mother was not educated.

She was not in love with my father.

My father was almost 40 when his uncle told him it was time he got married.

He told them to get a wife for him.

My uncle went out to a neighboring village and told them the teacher wanted to get married. The women came out.

He looked around and picked one and that was it.

He brought this 15-year-old who didn’t have the courage to look at my father. She gave him ten children and was still shy. Seven boys and three girls” he said.

Pastor Idahosa was appalled by his comment and thus left her remarks on Instagram. She wrote;

How can he laugh about her being “shy?”

Oga, she was not shy.

She was a victim of rape and was a child bride. She wasn’t respectful of his age, she was afraid for her life.

Know the difference and adjust this story… start telling the truth!”

The preacher had received some harsh criticisms for her comments.

However, Laurie Idahosa has now apologised for her comment, stating that it was misinterpreted.

Watch a video of her apology below.

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UCH doctors commence five-day warning strike over IPPIS implementation

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The Association of Resident Doctors, University College Hospital (UCH) Chapter, Ibadan, has embarked on a five-day warning strike over unpaid two-month salaries of its 370 members.

Dr Temitope Hussein told newsmen on Wednesday, March 17, in Ibadan that the strike would end on Saturday.

He said that the strike was to press home their protests over non-payment of the January and February salaries of the affected members.

According to him, 233 of the association’s members have also not been enrolled into the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) and consequently affecting the payment of their emoluments.

Hussein said that the hospital’s management has not been responsive to the dialogue initiated by the association.

He, however, expressed hopes that at the expiration of the warning strike, an agreement would be reached.

Reacting, the spokesperson of the hospital, Mr Akintoye Akinrinlola, described as unfortunate the decision of the association to embark on a warning strike.

Akinrinlola said that the issues raised “are national issues rather than issues peculiar to the hospital’’.

According to him, the payment of salaries in UCH, which is a government-owned hospital, is done by the Federal Government.

The spokesperson said that although the national body of the association, the National Association of Resident Doctors was poised to embark on a national strike, it had held off on the action following interventions of the National Assembly and the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria.

“NARD’s decision to embark on a nationwide strike is currently on hold pending outcomes of meetings with stakeholders including the Minister of Health.

“Resident doctors in UCH are not the only ones affected by the non-payment of salaries and IPPIS data capturing.

Other doctors in other hospitals owned by the Federal Government are also affected and the Federal Government has started a dialogue with NARD to resolve the issue,’’ he said.

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Police restores calm at Ketu, reveals cause of cult crisis

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The Lagos State Police Command has restored normalcy to the Ikosi/Ketu area of Lagos State after a clash that occurred on Wednesday, March 17, amongst some suspected cult groups; Eye, Aiye, and Buccaneer confraternities.

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, made this known in a statement made available in Lagos on Wednesday.

Adejobi said that 15 suspects were arrested with two locally-made pistols, some live cartridges, assorted charms, and other items were recovered from the suspects.

“Preliminary investigation revealed that the crisis was connected to the revenue generation at the Ketu fruits market.

Efforts are in top gear to apprehend other fleeing members of the gangs that orchestrated crisis in the area,” the police spokesperson said.

Adejobi said that the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Mr Hakeem Odumosu, had ordered that the suspects be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Panti, Yaba, for discreet Investigation.

He said that the commissioner reiterated the command’s commitment to fighting crimes and criminality, especially cultism in the state.

He said the commissioner noted that “the command would harness all legitimate means to suppress cultists’ activities in the state,” Odumosu said.

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Bandits terrorizing Nigerians have foreign sponsors – NSCDC

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The Commandant General of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSDC), Ahmed Audi, said on Wednesday the bandits terrorizing Nigerians are backed by foreign elements.

Audi disclosed this at a training workshop for state commandants of the NSCDC held in Abuja.

The training is aimed at strengthening the corps capacity on effective leadership, civil-military relations, and conflict management.

The commandant general said the country is witnessing an asymmetric war that requires inter-agency collaboration among security agencies.

He said: “Following how events are unfolding in the country, we are experiencing a serious conflict that I think in the history of Nigeria, this is about the first conflict that will give us a serious problem and the conflict is called asymmetric war.

“We have had in the past had some semblance of this type of war but the proper manifestation of it is the one we are seeing now. Asymmetric war is a war that requires all hands to be on deck if we really want to deal with it and nip it in the bud.

“These guys are serious; these guys have international sponsors, so we need to come together.”

Audi implored security agencies to avoid rivalry and “service supremacy.”

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“I had to endure seeing the person that raped me when I was a teenager all the time.” — Demi Lovato

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Demi Lovato has said she was raped as a teenager while working for the Disney Channel.

The 28-year-old revealed in her documentary Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil that the person faced no consequences after she came forward.

The singer does not say who the offender was, only that she “had to see this person all the time” afterwards.

“My MeToo story is me telling somebody that someone did this to me and they never got in trouble for it,” says Demi Lovato in it, according to Variety’s review.

“I’ve just kept it quiet because I’ve always had something to say, and I’m tired of opening my mouth.”

The YouTube docuseries tackles issues in Demi Lovato’s life such as trauma, addiction and her relapse into a drug overdose in 2018.

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She speaks about her alleged rape saying: “We were hooking up but I said – hey, this is not going any farther.

“And that didn’t matter to them, they did it anyways. And I internalised it and I told myself it was my fault because I still went in the room with him.”

She says she coped through self-harm, and going through the eating disorder bulimia.

In the series, she also talks about a “promise ring” which was worn by some young stars including herself and the Jonas Brothers, as a commitment to only have sex after marriage.

“So what, I’m supposed to come out to the public after saying I have a promise ring? Six months later, I’m supposed to say, well I had sex, even though it was rape? Some people aren’t going to see it that way.

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The series also shows the damage Demi’s drug overdose had in 2018. She was taken to hospital after being found unconscious at her Los Angeles home.

“My doctors said that I had five to 10 more minutes.”

After suffering three strokes and a heart-attack, she’s previously said she had been “left with brain damage and I still feel the effects of that”.

Those effects include blurry vision that means she can’t drive and made reading difficult.

Weeks before the incident, she released a song titled Sober, in which she revealed that after six years of sobriety: “I’m not sober any more.”

Demi has previously been open about her struggles with addiction and bulimia, including in her 2017 YouTube Originals documentary Simply Complicated.

She re-launched her singing career at last year’s Grammy Awards and sang the national anthem at the 2020 Super Bowl.

In January, she sang on a TV special which marked US President Joe Biden’s inauguration.

Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil will appear on YouTube from 23 March.

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Lagos club owners appeal to govt to lift ban

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Lagos club owners on Wednesday appealed to the state government to lift the ban placed on their business, a statement revealed.

Lagos Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, in a bid to check the Covid-19 pandemic had shut night clubs and bars.

A representative of club owners, Toyin Sonoiki, made the call at a meeting with officials of the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and culture in Lagos, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) is reporting.

Mr Sonoiki promised that once the ban is lifted, his colleagues would comply with all Covid-19 guidelines adding that most of the club owners still pay their staff despite being shut down.

“We promise to work with the government to identify clubs not complying with COVID-19 protocols”, he said.

Responding to the plea, Commissioner for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Uzamat Akinbile-Yussuf, who empathised with the night club operators, said the state government understood the pains and financial losses.

“Because of the fear of another surge in the reported cases of COVID-19 the government is now more circumspect than before.

“The state government will not want its efforts and successes recorded in the stemming of the spread of COVID-19 to be thwarted,” Mrs Akinbile-Yussuf said.

Also speaking, the Special Adviser to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Tourism, Arts and Culture, Solomon Bonu, said some clubhouses are still open despite the directive not to.

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Final year student marks one year in prison, as court says file missing, father alleges

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A final year student at the University of Nigeria, Chisom Pascal Ugwunyi has spent one year and still counting in the Nsukka prison in Enugu state without conviction.

According to his father, Mr Ugwunyi, the case was prolonged after his (Chisom) case filed was declared missing in the Nsukka High court about four times.

Chisom’s ordeal

The Political Science student was accused by the Enugu state police command of robbery and arrested on October 3, 2019, after writing his final year examination.

Recounting his ordeal, Mr Ugwunyi (Jnr) said he was arrested because his phone was found at a crime scene he did not partake in.

He said on the last day of his exam before his final year project defence, his debtor had come to collect his phone due to his inability to pay the loan he took to “sort out my school affairs.”

“I am a student at the University of Nigeria, they said my phone was found at a robbery scene. I have been here since October 2019, sometimes, I appeared in court. October this year (2021) it will be two years,” he said.

“I didn’t pay the money (loan) on the agreed day I was supposed to pay the money, So, the boy saw me along the Faculty of Education, on October 3rd, 2019, and (he) said since I am writing my final exam today, I might no longer pay him the money, so he collected my cell phone, which was a small phone. That was the same day the phone was picked up at a scene.

According to the detainee’s father, Mr Ugwunyi, his son (Chisom) has appeared four times in court, but the case file was missing until around February 2021 when he applied for bail, then the presiding judge, Justice Eluka “struck out” the matter, but “they don’t want to release my son to me. They said the case has been transferred to the DPP (Director of Public Prosecution, Enugu state).”

“I have been going to the lawyer. I have not rested. He (Chisom) is supposed to have graduated by 2020,” the distraught father said.

He noted that the “state council” are yet to visit the file.

The lawyer representing the defendant, Barrister Ugwuoke said he cannot comment on a case that has not been decided in court. Meanwhile, the state’s lawyer, Onidoma Mattias said he “appeared in the motion for bail,” but was not granted.

Also, the state Superintendent of Police, Daniel Ndikwe said if the defendant is presented at the correctional centre, then “he is not in the police custody.”

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Actor Elliot Page surgically removes his breasts after coming out as transgender

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Hollywood actor, Elliot Page formerly known as Ellen Page has revealed he’s undergone surgery to remove his breasts and says it’s changed his life for the better as he now feels like his true self since coming out as a transgender.

The Juno star, born Ellen Page, announced he was non-binary and transgender in December, as he shared his preferred pronouns of “he” and “they”

Page has now disclosed that he has undergone surgery to remove breast tissue and reconstruct the remaining chest tissue and skin.

In a candid interview with Time Magazine, the actor, who showed off his new look on the cover shoot, said he actually feels like himself now when he looks in the mirror, and more energized than ever, adding … “It has completely transformed my life”, it was “not only life-changing but lifesaving”.

Page recalled struggling to feel comfortable in the female form after shooting to fame with the 2007 teen pregnancy drama Juno.

“I just never recognised myself,” he confessed, adding: “For a long time I could not even look at a photo of myself.”

Even just being offered women’s clothing to wear caused Page to feel sick:

“(I didn’t know) how to explain to people that even though (I was) an actor, just putting on a T-shirt cut for a woman would make me so unwell.”

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Ketu in chaos as rival cult group clash in territorial dispute, police helpless

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Rival cult groups have clashed in a territorial dispute at the Ikosi-Ketu area of Lagos.

Eyewitnesses accounts reported that the chaos began on Tuesday night, March 16, between two rival cult groups who caused havoc all through the night.

It was learned that the havoc continued at 6:25 am on Wednesday, with hoodlums attacking and robbing passengers waiting for BRT buses, students, and unsuspecting passers-by.

The cause of the clash is yet to be ascertained at the time of this report.

The PPPRo is yet to issue an official statement over the matter, as the divisional police station in Ketu was seemingly helpless as the mayhem raged.

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Drake reportedly making romantic advances towards Kim Kardashian following her split with Kanye West

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Canadian Rapper, Drake has reportedly been showing interest in Kim Kardashian following her split from husband Kanye West.

Kim, 40, confirmed in February 2021 that she had filed for divorce from the rapper, bringing their almost seven-year marriage to an end.

Now, it is claimed Canadian rapper Drake has reached out to Kim in the wake of the split.

A source reportedly told Heat Magazine:

“Drake could never understand what Kim saw in Kanye, he was saying for years how he wasn’t the right guy for Kim and it would all end in tears.

“He was surprised it took her so long to realise, and started messaging her the moment it became clear that the divorce was inevitable.

He’s ready to see her whenever she says the word, basically, and he’s confident that will happen fairly soon.”

The publication added that Kim has no intention of embarking on a new romance, with the source claiming:

“Kim’s wary about getting involved with someone else too fast before the divorce is settled.”

Kim’s representative, Christy Welder, confirmed the reality star had filed the divorce paperwork in a statement shared with The New York Times.

Drake and Kanye have had public spats in the past, with Kanye once tweeting: “Drake called trying to threaten me.”

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