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Chita Agwu Johnson has become the latest Nigerian celebrity to be robbed in London. The actress who is in the UK for the holidays has been sharing beautiful photos from the country with her location on display.
Sadly, she was targeted by robbers at Finchley Road Station in London.
She added that they took all the valuables she had and she couldn’t sleep last night as a result.
Toke Makinwa and Adegbite Damilola are some Nigerian celebrities recently robbed in the UK.
Ace comedian, Bright Okpocha, popularly known as Basketmouth, has announced that he and his wife Elsie Okpocha have separated after 12 years of marriage.
He asked members of the public for privacy as they navigate their new life.
Basketmouth and Elsie got married in 2010 and they have three children together, Janelle, Jason, and Maya Okpocha. Their youngest was born in 2021. However, the comedian had a child before his marriage, named Amy.
Nollywood couple, Mo Bimpe and her husband, Adedimeji Lateef, are celebrating their first wedding anniversary today Thursday, December 22.
Ibadan-based comedian, Oluwatobi Owomoyela popularly known as Peteru, is dead.It was reported that he died on Wednesday after battling cancer.
Mourning the deceased, actor Muyiwa Ademola, shared a video on his Instagram page early Thursday saying;
“This is a very hard pill to swallow! How could this jolly good fellow just depart this world in this manner? Hmmm… it is well.
“Please be kind to one another as we don’t even know what we are individually passing through! I learnt Peteru died of cancer. You were battling such burden yet I never saw you without a smile! It is well. It is well. It is well. Journey well great guy. I am out of words tonight.”
Actress Funmi Awelewa also took to her page to mourn Peteru.With many heart broken smileys, Awelewa wrote;
“Peteru. Unquestionable God.”Peteru was well known for his unique delivery in mimicking people. He was also an MC and an on-air personality in Ibadan.
The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has launched investigation into the gruesome murder of Hezekiah Adaiden, the Youth President of Inen community in OrukAnam Local Government Area of the state.
Suspected cultists beheaded Adaiden last Sunday, December 18, 2022, when he was hosting a group of young men in his compound.
An eyewitness said the cultists dragged Adaiden to a corner, beat him to a coma and cut off his head.
The source said the hoodlums looted the house, beat up the wife and carted away valuables items.
“The cultists arrived in the compound at an odd hour in the night and since they were known by the youth president, he offered them drinks. While they were drinking around 1am, another group well armed arrived and was violent, as they dragged the victim to a corner and killed him,” the source said.
“The most annoying is that they beheaded him and escaped with his head after they tortured his wife and poured the soup which the woman cooked on her head, as they beat her mercilessly.”
Spokesperson of the command, Odiko Mcdon, in a statement on Wednesday, December 21, described the killing of the youth president as barbaric, adding that the perpetrators would be brought to book.
“There is an ongoing manhunt to arrest perpetrators of such crime,” he said.
The Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Admiral Awwal Gambo has raised an alarm of some navy personnel colluding with criminals to steal crude oil.
Speaking at the decoration of the newly promoted Rear Admirals in Abuja, Gambo warned that those trying to sabotage efforts of the Nigeria Navy at curbing illegal bunkering and crude oil theft in the country will be made to face stiff penalties.
He also warned that any personnel caught sabotaging the measures that have been put in place by the navy will meet a stiff penalty and the wrath of the law.
President Muhammadu Buhari has written the Senate, seeking the approval of a total sum of N819.5 billion supplementary budget for the 2022 fiscal year to address various infrastructure that was destroyed by flood across the various states of the country.
The letter of President Buhari’s supplementary budget proposal was read yesterday by the President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, just as it was explained that the money is meant for the capital expenditure component of the 2022 budget with an attendant increase of deficit to N8.17trillion.
With the urgency of the matter, the President of the Senate hurriedly forwarded it to the Senate Committees on Appropriations, Finance, Works, Water Resources and Agriculture for expeditious consideration.
The proposal is designed for a year that has ten days to go, even as Lawan said that the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele, Ministers of Finance, Budget and National Planning; Water Resources and agriculture must today appear before the Senate Committees to enable them to get details about the Supplementary Budget.
President Buhari added that the proposed N819.5 billion supplementary budget will be financed by additional domestic borrowings.
The letter read:
The year 2022 has witnessed the worse flood incident in recent history which has caused massive destruction of farmlands at a point already closed to harvest season.
This may compound the situation of food security and nutrition in the country. The flood has also devastated road infrastructure in across the 36 states and the FCT as well as bridges nationwide that are critical for the movement of goods and services.
“The water sector was equally affected by the flood and there is a need to complete some ongoing critical projects that have already achieved about 85 per cent completion.
“The nine critical projects proposed in the sector cut across water supply, dam projects and irrigation projects nationwide.”
I have approved a supplementary budget of 2022 appropriation of N819.536 Billion, all of which are capital expenditures.
“The supplementary will be financed through additional domestic borrowings which will raise the budget deficit for 2022 to N8.17 .trillion and deficit to GDP ratio to 4.43%.”
Singer, Harrysong, has announced the birth of his second daughter, Purity.
The singer announced the birth on his Instagram page on Wednesday.
A Nigerian g@y journalist, Chisom Peter has gone public with his partner.
Chisom shared loved-up photos of him and his partner on Twitter, with the caption “happy. in love”.
Yul Edochie has publicly apologised to his first wife, May Edochie, for impregnating his colleague and marrying her as a second wife.
Since Yul’s marriage to his colleague, Judy Austin Muoghalu, was announced, May has made it clear several times that she will not be forced into a polygamous union. Yul has now taken to Instagram to beg for her forgiveness.
He admitted that he hurt her, but begged her to remember the 99 things he did right and forgive the one thing he did wrong.
A lady has been left heartbroken after stumbling upon wedding photos online of he man she thought was her boyfriend, same month she had an abortion for him.
Twitter user, @A_Blackwoman who shared the story, said the lady aborted for the man three times in one year.
She also disclosed that the lady the man dumped allowed him to stay in her house and provided for him when he was out of a job till he got another.
The Twitter user wrote;
Aborted for a man three times in one year, the last one in November. He asked you to abort again promising that he has plans to marry you by November same month he got hitched with another babe traditionally you allowed him stay in your house and provided for him the whole time when he didn’t have a job until he did.
Now traditional and white wedding pictures of him and another girl is flying everywhere even though you are still very much in a relationship with him..
How do these things even happen?Just take 23 hours a day to fear men, the remaining 1 hour use it to fear their fathers
The youngest son of the Chief of Fadan Ayu in Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna State, is reportedly among those kidnapped in the attack carried out by gunmen on Saturday, December 17.
Ayu Traditional Council Secretary, Jibril Adamu Muhammed, who spoke to Daily Trust, said the gunmen were after the traditional ruler because they went straight to his room and started shooting.
Muhammad said the kidnappers later called to negotiate for his release but it was the victim’s mother who answered and they said they could not negotiate with her but with the father.
He said;
“They fired many gunshots on his door but God protected him. Having found it difficult to reach the chief they took away his youngest son, Sahabi.
“Since then they have not called. We are still waiting for their call.”
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that it will commence registration for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) from Saturday, January 14 to Tuesday, February 14, 2023.In a statement issued on Tuesday, December 20, by the board’s Head of Media and Information, Mister Fabian Benjamin, the examination body stated some major dates for its activities in 2023 at the end of its management meeting held in Abuja.
JAMB’s spokesman said Direct Entry registration would commence from Monday, 20th February to Thursday, 20th April 2023.
JAMB’s head of public affairs and protocol, Fabian Benjamin, said in a statement that the management of the board made the approvals at a meeting on Tuesday.
Mr Benjamin said the 2023 UTME registration begins Saturday, 14 January 2023, and ends Tuesday, 14th February 2023.
He said the computer-based UTME test will be conducted between Saturday, 29th April 2023, and Monday, 12th May 2023.
The agency also fixed Thursday, 16th March 2023, for the conduct of its optional mock UTME.
Meanwhile, Mr Benjamin said registration for the Direct Entry (DE) candidates is scheduled for Monday, 20th February to Thursday, 20th April 2023.
The board, however, made changes to the modus operandi of the mock UTME usually conducted before the main tests.
He said candidates are now required to pay N1,000 during registration, to prevent losses for the operators of CBT centres should the candidates fail to turn up for the mock exams.
While Mock UTME is voluntary, JAMB said many candidates had in the past failed to show up on the date of the mock exams after CBT centres must have prepared for the tests.
He said: “Candidates are to note that they would be required to pay the sum of N1000 service charge for CBT centres for the conduct of mock examination at the point of registration to prevent a situation where candidates would indicate their interest to sit the mock-UTME leading the various centres to commit human and material resources only for them to stay away on the day of the examination.
“With the new arrangement, candidates indicate their interest by paying for the mock at the point of UTME registration, therefore, precluding the centres from incurring any loss whether candidates turn up or not.
The Board advises all candidates, who desire to register for the 2023 UTME to immediately embark on the creation of their respective profiles (creation of profile code) ahead of the formal commencement of the registration exercise to avoid being caught up in any ensuing bottleneck.”
The police in Yobe state have arrested a 16-year-old boy for allegedly insulting Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni, on social media. Garba Isa, the father of the minor, disclosed this when he came out to publicly demand the release of his son on Monday, December 19.
According to Isa, his son was apprehended on December 11 in Nguru and later transferred to the State Investigation Division of the Nigeria Police Force in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital.
“I regret what my son did. I am nobody, an ordinary laundry man, what my son (Umar) did was totally wrong, I appeal to Governor Mai Mala Buni and the police on passionate grounds to forgive my son and release him”
Isa who is a laundry worker told Channels TV Confirming the arrest, the state Commissioner of Police, Garba Haruna, said the minor is now in custody and will be charged to court when investigation is concluded.
“When we conclude our investigation, he will definitely be charged to court. People are using social media to insult and tarnish people’s character, the society needs to be sanitised.You cannot use social media and begin to post all sorts of things.
There is law and order in Nigeria, whoever infringes on someone’s right will be punished.” Garba was quoted as saying
The Bank of England has unveiled its first banknotes featuring King Charles III, following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
The notes are expected to enter circulation in mid-2024, gradually replacing those featuring Charles’s late mother, who began appearing on paper money in 1960.
The Royal Mint, which produces the UK’s coins, has already revealed its currency with the King’s likeness, created by the sculptor Martin Jennings.
There are currently 27 billion coins in circulation carrying the Queen’s face, which will be replaced over time as they become worn. The new King Charles 50p coins have already entered circulation.
President Buhari turned 80 on Saturday, December 17.
He was in the US for the US-Africa summit when he celebrated his birthday.
However, members of his staff in the state house gathered to celebrate him, earlier today, December 19.
Present at the celebration were the SGF Mr. Boss Mustapha, Chief of Staff Prof Ibrahim Gambari, Permanent Secretary State House, Alh Tijjani Umar, Commander President Guard Brigade, Brig General Muhammed Takuti Usman and Members of Presidential Guards.
Samuel Ajibola and his wife, Sandra, are celebrating their second wedding anniversary today.
The couple took to their respective Instagram accounts to reassure each other of their eternal love as they marked their anniversary.
Boxer and YouTuber, Ryan Taylor has shared photos of his Nigerian-born fiancee, DJ Cuppy, meeting his father.
Ryan who noted that it has always been “family over everything” for him, said he and Cuppy decided to track down his father since he won’t stop working.
Media personality, Toolz has explained why she would never allow any of her sons go for sleepovers.
Toolz in the Instagram post she shared, said many crazy things are happening and having male children does not mean they are safe.
A businessman based in Ugbe Akoko, Ondo State, Augustine Okoye, who was kidnapped with his wife has been reportedly killed by abductors after payment of ransom.
The couple were kidnapped along the Isua Akoko highway while their abductors demanded an undisclosed amount of money as ransom to secure their release.
It was gathered that Okoye was killed by the kidnappers before the family of the victims paid the ransom and freed only his wife.
A source within the community disclosed that the man had been beaten to death before the ransom was paid, but warned his wife not to disclose to those negotiating their release.
According to the source, “the wife disclosed that their abductors warned her not to tell the negotiators about the husband’s death or she will be killed.”
A police source in Ikare Akoko who confirmed the incident disclosed that the car of the victims had been recovered from the scene of the incident.
The police source said men of the Ondo Amotekun corps and local vigilante groups were now combing the forest to recover the dead body and arrest the suspects.
All attempts to confirm the incident from the State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) Funmi Odunlami proved unsuccessful.