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Actor and comedian, Bishop Umoh, popularly called Okon Lagos, on Tuesday, marked his birthday.
Sharing a picture on his Instagram page, the actor said,
“I am ALL and NOTHING but a product of the grace of the Almighty God!
It’s my birthday today. Happy birthday to me ❤️.”
Yolanda Okereke, celebrity stylist and widow of actor, Kabiri Fubara, has penned a note to him on his posthumous birthday.
Fubara died last December after a battle with cancer.
Sharing a video to mark his posthumous birthday, Okereke said,
“It’s your birthday today. I know birthdays aren’t really your thing but this one is special.
Its not the same with you not around, but I know you are still with me and still with us. I am not sad, I am happy because the world got to experience you and kept a piece of you in their hearts. I do not go by what I feel, I go by what I believe, knowing you were here.
Happy Birthday my baby boy. Chief lives on.”
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has sent a congratulatory message to gymnastics champion, Stephanie Onusiriuka.
Onusiriuka, 11, bagged a gold medal at the African Junior Gymnastics Championship in Pretoria, South Africa. In a statement on his Twitter handle on Tuesday, Obi said,
“Our Dear Stephanie Onusiriuka has just written her name in gold. Having won a Gold Medal at the African Junior Gymnastics Championship in Pretoria, South Africa at age 11. Hearty congratulations on achieving such a great feat.”
American influencer and Only Fans model, Courtney Clenney, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of her late Nigerian boyfriend, Christian Tobechukwu Obumseli.
Clenney, who is professionally known as Courtney Tailor, was arrested on August 10 as a suspect in Obumseli’s murder which occurred earlier in the year.
It was reported last week that policemen responded to calls at the couple’s Miami apartment on April 3, where Tobechukwu was found bleeding. Clenney was also found covered in blood at the scene.
Miami Fire Rescue personnel took him to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, where a doctor pronounced him dead.
According to court documents obtained by E! News, the model pleaded not guilty to one count of second-degree murder with a deadly weapon via a written plea dated August 18.
She is also to be arraigned on the 31st of August.Clenney’s attorney, Frank Prieto, stated after her arrest that the move by the police was shocking because of “clear evidence of self-defense in this matter.”
Two students of the Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, identified as Tobiloba Daniel and Arewa Abayomi, have been found dead in a hostel room.
The 200-level students were found dead in Daniel’s hostel room outside the campus. A student of KWASU told Daily Trust;
“We suspect they were lovers and became concerned when they were not seen during an examination and for three days.
“It was when some of their friends got to their hostel room outside the school that they found them dead and n*ked. We suspect it’s a case of poisoning.”
While spokesperson of KWASU, Hajia Saeedat Aliyu, said there was no official communication on the matter, police spokesman in the state, SP Ajayi Okasanmi, confirmed the incident.
Okasanmi added;
“The information is that the two of them were found dead inside their room and the police were alerted.
“Our officers pulled down the door and they were taken to the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH) for autopsy. Investigation into the matter is ongoing.”
A Nigerian lady has shared a story of how she met her husband while on a date with her former boyfriend. Sharing her interesting story on a Facebook page, Millicent Nwanyimarania wrote;
”How I met my husband challenge
It was in year 2016, when i accompanied my then boyfriend to a hotel to get some documents from someone. He asked me to sit in their pool bar and wait for him.
As was waiting for him with my cold malt, na so this handsome fresh man came out from the reception, immediately i saw him, i fell in love with him. It was love at first sight oo
Omo baba relaxed and started a conversation, he told me where he came from and i was so happy when i heard Nnewi because i have always wanted to meet someone from that town.
In my mind i was like, collect my number na before this guy will come out abeg, after what seems like ages, he finally asked for my number and i gave him.
Immediately after we exchanged number, my then boyfriend came out and we left.This man didn’t call oo, my friends were just laughing at me, that my premium Nnewi man didn’t save my number, that’s why he hasn’t called.
After about a month this man called and he apologized for not calling since then because he travelled.
My sisters, relationship started from there o and the rest became a history. We got married in November 2020 and God has blessed us with a beautiful baby girl.
You guys should not jugde me oo, am not always like this, don’t know what came over me that, maybe God want to use my boyfriend to show me my husband. Am happy lied oo because he is my perfect man.
#proudly_nwanyi_Nnewi#Queenofanaedokingdom”
he Federal High Court Abuja has again denied the bail application filed by suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, and three Others.
Kyari and three defendants had in their bail application argued that new facts relating to the Kuje Prison break and alleged threat to their lives warranted their fresh application.
In response, the NDLEA raised an objection arguing that they have not demonstrated how the new issues will not make them jump bail.
Delivering judgement on the bail application this morning, Justice Emeka Nwite agreed with the NDLEA legal team that the defendants have not demonstrated how they will not jump bail and interfere with the administration of criminal justice.
The court held that a threat to life in a detention facility is not a factor for granting bail.
The prosecution in its counter affidavit had submitted that Mr. Kyari and his co-defendants are flight risks as they would tamper with the money laundering investigations and the witnesses lined up for the trial.
The court had earlier made a pronouncement on the bail of the defendants and that there is nothing placed before the court to warrant a reconsideration of the earlier pronouncement of the court.
The wife, sister and mother of a groom who died alongside five others in Enugu State, are among eight victims in the hospital.
The groom, Obinna Dieke and five relatives died on Saturday, August 27, at Eka Utara, Adani community in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of the state after his traditional wedding.
The Makurdi, Benue State based businessman, and his relatives returned from the ceremony held in the bride’s home in Obollor-Eke, Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu State on Friday, August 26, and continued with the celebration when they returned to Adani.
The following morning, they were all found unconscious in a room with foamy discharge from their mouths.
Sources in the community suspect that the victims died of carbon dioxide inhaled from a power generator, which was brought onto the veranda of a house where the victims stayed while it was raining after they returned from the wedding ceremony.
Speaking to BBC Pidgin, Chinedu Dieke, the younger brother of the groom, said that their in-law, Joseph Ogbonna, and his two sons, Chijindu, and Obinna also died in the tragic incident.
Chinedu said his late brother’s bride, Nebechi, his sister, Goodness and mother of Chijindu and Obinna, are among those receiving treatment at an undisclosed hospital in the community.
He also said their mother (groom’s mother) is hospitalised but responding to treatment.
Two friends have dragged themselves to court after one borrowed the other her business money to plan for her upcoming wedding that was later cancelled.
A Twitter user who shared the story online wrote;
”Your friend borrowed you her business money for your wedding preparations (a?? ebi). Sadly, fiancee cheated and wedding was called off. Time to refund money, you are saying the friend should let it go.
Court and the owner said no that you should say a date you want to pay back and you are saying 3 years! Where do you see these kínd of friends tho?”
Singer Demi Lovato has said that she doesn’t plan on making any more documentaries about her life.
Recall that over the past decade, Lovato has released three different documentaries outlining her struggles with addiction and its impact on her career.
Speaking in an interview with Alternative Press, said she regrets making those documentaries and wish she waited. Lovato said;
“Honestly, I’m really sick of watching myself, and I think other people probably are too.“And if they aren’t, then they can watch my music videos.
“I wish I would have waited until I had my s–t figured out more because now it’s cemented. Sobriety is what works for me and nothing else.”
Her most recent documentary, “Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil,” detailed the singer’s near-fatal drug overdose in 2018. Following the incident, Lovato revealed she was “California Sober,” meaning she still smoked weed and drank alcohol in moderation.
However, a year later, the rockstar gave up substances completely and went into treatment.
A lady who took a high fashion route, has shared the aftermath of her getting a back dimple piercing.
@Defnyy1 in a tweet she shared, revealed that she landed in the hospital after getting a back dimple piercing.
She tweeted;
Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle has disclosed that she hated having to share family photos with the British media outlets whose readers called her children ”the N-word.”
Speaking in a wide-ranging The Cut cover story published on Monday August 29, Meghan disclosed she was expected to give pictures of her now-3-year-old son, Archie, to the Royal Rota, the press pool that covers Queen Elizabeth II and her line of succession, however she did not. She said;
“There’s literally a structure. “Why would I give the very people that are calling my children the N-word a photo of my child before I can share it with the people that love my child?“You tell me how that makes sense and then I’ll play that game.”
Markle noted that she and Prince Harry did not have control of the @KensingtonRoyal Instagram account they initially shared with Prince William and Kate Middleton.
When the couple broke off to make their own social media handle, @sussexroyal, they chose not to play the “exchange game.”
Instead, Markle and the prince, 37, posted photos without first giving them to the Royal Rota.
The pair shut down their account when they stepped back from their royal roles, which they officially quit in February 2021, but Markle teased her upcoming Instagram return in the interview with the New York magazine offshoot.
The “Deal or No Deal” alum, who is also the mother of 1-year-old daughter Lilibet, has previously addressed the racist media coverage that drove her and her husband from the royal family and off of social media.
The bullying was “almost unsurvivable,” Markle told Oprah Winfrey in her bombshell CBS interview last year, revealing that she experienced suicidal thoughts.
An ongoing road project in Plateau State has been washed away by rain.
According to the accountability platform, TrackaNG, the Yola Wakat- Bashar road project in Wase Federal constituency Plateau State, was washed away after a downpour.
There was a gas explosion near the Redemption Camp along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Ogun State, on Monday.
Firefighters from Lagos and Ogun States were present at the scene, which a privately-owned company.
No fewer than 15 shops have been destroyed by fire in the Mushin area of Lagos state.
The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, in a statement posted on its Facebook page, stated that the incident occurred in the early hours of Sunday at Olanrewaju off Bangboye Street, Mushin.
Loss of lives and other properties were, however, averted by LASEMA officers deployed to the scene following an emergency call.
The statement read,
“ LASEMA, in fulfilling its mandate of managing emergency/disaster in the state, LASEMA has effectively and efficiently responded to various emergencies and salvaged situations that could result in a colossal loss of lives and properties on Sunday, 28th August 2022.
“At the wee hours of today (Sunday), the Agency deployed its Eagle Squad at Cappa Base, Oshodi, to Olanrewaju off Bangboye Street, Mushin, where a case of fire outbreak was reported via the State emergency toll-free line.
“As the Agency’s Response Team arrived at the scene of the incident, it was discovered that 15 (fifteen) kiosks were gutted by fire, but the timely response of the LASEMA Fire Team prevented the fire from spreading to adjoining buildings which could result in a huge loss. The inferno was combated and dampening down completed.”
Meanwhile, two were injured in an accident involving a commercial bus and mini truck with registration number KRD 174 XQ along the third mainland bridge.
LASEMA noted, “Further information gathered revealed that the bus, while on high speed, ran into the broken down truck which was in the middle of the road.
“Fortunately, there was no record of loss of lives. However, two adult males, the driver of the bus, and his conductor, sustained injuries as a result of the impact of the accident.
“The injured victims were administered first aid by the Agency’s Paramedics. Thereafter, the driver was taken to the Trauma Centre as a result of the head injury he sustained for further medical attention.
“The affected truck and the bus were recovered off the road with the aid of the Agency’s light-tow truck and a private tow truck while the road was restored for vehicular activities.”
Two widows identified as Mrs. Martina Osom and Mrs. Rose Akom, have reportedly been beaten to death after they were accused of being witches by the youths of Ebbaken community in Boje, Boki local government area of Cross River State.
Vanguard reports that the incident occurred on the morning of Saturday, August 2.
An eyewitness and a son-in-law to one of the windows, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said both women, devoted Catholics, were returning from early morning prayers when the youths accused them of initiating a member of the community into witchcraft.
“They met my mother-in-law within the Church environment. As it was her tradition to weed and clean up the Church vicinity every Saturday immediately after the Morning Mass.
The youths accused her of initiating a member of the community into witchcraft and she denied the allegation.
But they went ahead and beat her severely, ordering her to confess that she is a witch. But her passionate appeal to them that she was innocent fell on deaf ears.”he said
He said the other woman, Mrs Rose Akom, was also dragged to join his mother-in-law and inflicted with same torture, ordering her to confess to allegations that she is a witch.
“They were both tied with strong ropes and beaten in the rain all through the day until they died” he added He said no arrest had been made and the culprits are walking free in the community.
“That was what happened in this civilised era in this community,” he lamented The state police command is yet to react to this development.
SP Benjamin Hundeyin who is the spokesperson of the Lagos state police command has said that Nigerians have a right to record a police officer who stops them for a search, but wonders why they do their recordings to “taunt, provoke or sometimes obstruct the officers carrying out their duties.”
He shared a copy of the criminal act which states that assaulting a police officer or obstructing him while carrying out his duties is guilty of felony and liable to three years imprisonment. See his tweet below…
A Nigerian lady has narrated the discrimination Nigerian students who fled Ukraine following the ongoing war with Russia, are being subjected to by universities in the European country.
@Chylady revealed that Nigerian students who fled Ukraine are being pressurized to pay their fees for September and return to the country without their safety being guaranteed.
She also said the Ukrainian universities are threatening to expel the students if they don’t pay their fees and are also frustrating their requests for transcripts to transfer to other universities.
It was also alleged that while these universities are facilitating the transfer of Ukrainian students into European universities, they threaten African students who request for their transcripts and also insist they must pay they must their school fees or risk getting expelled.
Ozzy Osbourne has announced he plans to move back to the UK with his wife Sharon Osbourne, because he’s fed up with people getting killed every day in the US and don’t want to become a target.
The singer, 73, who has spent over 25 years in Beverly Hills revealed this while commenting on the country’s history of school shootings. Osbourne said he will relocate with his music manager wife Sharon, 69, to their 120-year-old Grade II listed Buckinghamshire pile Welders House.
He told The Observer: ‘I’m fed up with people getting killed every day. God knows how many people have been shot in school shootings. And there was that mass shooting in Vegas at that concert… It’s f*****g crazy.’
He continued:
‘I’m English. I want to be back. But, saying that, if my wife said we’ve got to go and live in Timbuktu, I’ll go. But, no, it’s just time for me to come home.’ Quashing any speculation that the move could have been promoted by Ozzy’s battle with Parkinson’s Disease, Sharon added:
‘It isn’t the United States of America at all. Nothing’s united about it. It’s a very weird place to live right now.’
The Black Sabbath hitmaker returned to the stage earlier this month in his hometown of Birmingham for the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony just two months after ‘life-altering surgery’.
Earlier in August, Ozzy revealed in an interview with The Sun that he was told he could have been paralysed for life, after undergoing his first spinal surgery back in 2019.
The hitmaker was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2019, and that same year suffered a horror fall that aggravated a neck injury from his 2003 quad bike accident.
Three informants linked to a kidnap for ransom syndicate that abducted the wife and two children of a serving Katsina lawmaker, Hon. Dr Ibrahim Aminu, have been arrested by the police.
Force spokesperson, Olumuyiwa Adejobi who confirmed the arrests, said the three key suspects confessed to the crime during the investigation. Adejobi said; “Acting on credible information, operatives of the IRT have arrested a deadly kidnap for ransom syndicate who kidnapped the wife and two children of a serving lawmaker Honourable Ibrahim Aminu in Katsina State.
“Sequel to the intelligence reports on the activities of the deadly criminal gangs by IRT operatives attached to the Operation Restore Hope of the Force in Yankwani village and Kurani town, the team swung into action and arrested the suspects in their various hideouts.
“IRT personnel arrested the key suspects Muttaka Ibrahim, Suleiman Rabiu, and Surajo all male natives of Bakori LGA for allegedly supplying the information that led to the assault on the lawmaker where his family members were taken into captivity.
“During investigation, Muttaka Ibrahim confessed to the crime saying that he and other gang members were informants to Sanni Tukur aka Abacha terrorising the people of the villages and towns in Katsina and Zamfara States.
“Other victims of the criminal syndicate include one Buhari Usman, also known as Fedeco, Nazaradeen Ibrahim, Amandallah Ahmad, Ibrahim Suleiman, Sumayya Nura, and Yahaya Bura who are currently in the captivity of the gang.
“The kidnappers, after kidnapping the wife of the lawmaker Rabi Yusuf and two of his male children all of Bakori LGA had demanded and received eleven million naira and ten million naira for his children at different times.”
Adejobi further revealed that one of the bandits’ informants, Muttaka Ibrahim, admitted that he got a payment of N130,000 from the gang leader, and also named one Yusuf Bala of Zaria as his accomplice.
The police spokesperson said;
“He also admitted that the bandits’ leader collected a total of six million five hundred thousand naira from the victims they kidnaped at Yankwani totarrating his ordeal, the lawmaker told Police investigators that he paid a total sum of thirty-seven million and five hundred thousand naira to the gang leader to secure his family member’s release from captivity.”
Adejobi added that the suspects are still undergoing investigation and would be charged to court if found culpable in the crime as alleged by the leader of the team.