Abdul's Blog: 03/07/17

Tuesday, 7 March 2017

Super Eagles player, Kenneth Omeruo donates to save dying coach

A Nigerian veteran coach, Kelechi Emeteole, who is down with throat cancer, and needs at least $10,000 for his treatment, has received a donation from Super Eagles' player, Kenneth Omeruo.

The wife of the former rangers club coach, who is allegedly being owed millions by the management of NPFL side El Kanemi Warriors who he helped get off the relegation zone last two seasons, has reportedly gotten the $6,500 cash donation from the Turkish club Alanyaspor defender.

She said;

“I want to thank Kenneth for his financial contribution towards the health of my husband.
“Iwant to also use this opportunity to beg the clubs who are owing my husband to kindly pay him so that he could foot his medical bills".

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Nike is launching a new high-performance hijab for Muslim athletes

When you’re a Muslim woman, exercising out in the world, instead of at women’s only gyms or in front of a workout DVD at home, can be tricky.

It’s hard to stay covered when you’re working up a sweat – especially when so many hijab fabrics feel thick and stuffy.

Nike is finally working on a solution.

Former Group Managing Director (GMD) of the National Nigerian Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Andrew Yakubu

Mr Andrew Yakubu, former Group Managing Director of NNPC, wants the Federal High Court Abuja to award N1 billion in his favour against EFCC as damages and compensation for violation‎ of his right.

Counsel to Yakubu, Mr Adeola Adedipe told the court that the matter was brought pursuant to Order 8 Rule 4 of the Fundamental Rights Enforcement Procedure Rules.

Yakubu also prayed the court for a declaration that he was entitled to the dignity of his person, personal liberty, freedom of movement, private and family life as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution.

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Kidnapping in Bauchi State is now punishable with death or life imprisonment as Gov. Mohammed Abdullahi signed into law a bill in that direction.

The state Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Ibrahim Umar, made this known on Tuesday while briefing newsmen in Bauchi.

He said that Abdullahi also assented to bills on fisheries and accidents.

Chelsea overtake Arsenal’s Premier League record with West Ham win

Chelsea overtook Arsenal’s Premier League record of London derby wins last night.

Antonio Conte’s side comfortably beat West Ham 2-1 at the London Stadium on Monday to take their tally of victories against their capital rivals to 118.

Justin Mustafa was convinced girlfriend Gabbe Rowland had cheated on him while he was in prison when she told him she was pregnant with their baby. Then one morning in June 2013 he began a week of torture by forcing her to take drugs before beating her with a belt and filming her as he forced her into performing degrading sexual acts. Gabbe, from Cape Cod, in the US state of Massachusetts, eventually managed to escape and reported Mustafa to the police. He was given a six-year prison sentence and Gabbe waived her right to anonymity to share her story. Gabbe told how she reconnected with Mustafa, whom she'd known at school, on Facebook in 2010.

A survivor of domestic abuse has described the extreme torture she suffered at the hands of her partner.

Gabbe Rowland was subjected to a ‘week of hell’ by her jealous partner – during which he injected her with heroin, raped her, and forced her to perform a sex act on his dog.

Justin Mustafa, 27, had apparently convinced himself Gabbe cheated on him while he was in prison, after she told him she was pregnant with their child.

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, has reportedly asked Nigerians who have United States valid travel documents to disregard the warning issued by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, that Nigerians who do not have any important business in the US should not travel there as immigration officers have started turning back some Nigerians.

Iran has attacked the United States with its own measures following the release of revised travel ban imposed on some 6-Muslim countries.

Iran which was named in the list has said it will not issue visas to Americans as long as the US refuses to issue visas to Iranians.

The new measures against the United States was revealed on Tuesday by the Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi.

A middle-aged woman identified as Tricia Oterneghoro has left her daughter, Joyce Emmanuel scarred after she poured hot soup on her for sleeping in a neighbours room.

The 13-year-old victim's breasts and chest region got burnt as a result of the incident. The woman has been arrested by the police. Residents in the area who rushed to administer first aid to the victim poured invectives on the victim’s mother over the incident.

Three Fulani men were among five other suspects paraded by the Oyo State Police command for allegedly kidnapping a 52-year old business woman in Ibadan, Vanguard reports.

While parading the suspects, the new Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr. Abiodun Odude, gave the names of the suspected kidnappers as Taoreed Ibrahim, 35; Wilfred Manger,32; Moshood Adams, 26; Umar Amadu, 31; and gang leader, Adekunle Folorunsho Aderopo, 31.

Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu has defeated the Federal Government at the ECOWAS court today.

The ECOWAS court sitting in Abuja today dismissed the application filed by the federal government asking that the suit filed by the Nnamdi Kanu be quashed.

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Armed robbers numbering about six, on Tuesday, attacked some corps members serving at Community Secondary School, Amanuke in Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra State. The incident happened at about 2:00am on Tuesday night.

Daily Sun gathered that the criminals raped one of the female corps members, took their phones, laptop computers, electronic gadgets, cloths, and important documents. Other valuables lost to the hoodlums included wallets, undisclosed amount of money, credit cards, one international passport, necklaces, and others.

A married woman’s illicit affair with her childhood lover was discovered in her mobile phone forcing her to pack her belongings and leave the house last week, H-metro reports.

The woman identified as Nyengeterai Murombo was married for six years before she was exposed. Her illicit affair with married Justice Makoni of Marondera in Zimbabwe was discovered in their conversation on Whatsapp.

Damian Collins, chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, said he had "grave doubts" about the social media giant's ability to moderate content.

His comments came after the BBC said it used Facebook's "report button" to flag up 100 photos on the website, but 82 were not removed.

Instead, an automated response was provided which said the photos did not breach "community standards".

Dabiri-Erewa on Monday asked Nigerians to postpone their trips to the US be avoided until the Donald Trump administration’s policy on immigration is clear – a travel warning that is causing diplomatic row between the two countries.

She had alleged that the US authorities were cancelling the visas of Nigerians and deporting them on arrival.

Walid Jubril, chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) board of trustees, says the party leaders are ready to visit and sympathise with President Muhammadu Buhari in London.

Buhari has received top dignitaries at the Abuja House, London, where he has been staying since he commenced his vacation on January 19.

German midfielder Mesut Ozil is set to miss Arsenal's Champions League last-16 second leg tie against Bayern Munich on Tuesday because of an illness.

Gunners manager Arsene Wenger said the 28-year-old is expected to be fit for the FA Cup quarter-final tie against Lincoln City on Saturday.

"I don't think he's ready to be in the squad," said Wenger, although Ozil did take part in Monday's training session.

Apostle Suleiman reveals those behind sexual allegation against him

The Senior Pastor of Omega Fire Ministries, Apostle Jonson Suleiman, has reacted to the snap chat photographs released by his alleged girlfriend, Stephanie Otobo.

Suleiman on his verifiable twitter [email protected] accused Nigerian politicians of complicity in the current allegation against him.

Otobo had released photo shots of alleged videocam chats with the clergyman.

Kano mass wedding: Sharia Court jails woman, seven-day-old baby

A Kano Sharia court has remanded a nursing mother, Habiba Inusa and her seven-day-old baby in prison custody for adultery.

Habiba Inusa allegedly put to bed 24 hours after she participated alongside 1,520 couples in a state-sponsored mass wedding last week.

Youths go on rampage as policemen shoot soldier in Ebonyi

Angry youths of Owutu Edda community in Afikpo South local government area of Ebonyi state went around the vandalizing buildings and burning properties belonging to policemen who shot a soldier, Ikechukwu Nnachi, on Monday, March 6, 2017.

Nigerian policemen are constantly accused of excessive use of force.

Former Arsenal midfielder, Gilberto Silva, has said that “the time has come” for Arsene Wenger to step down as manager of the club.

Silva spent six years under Wenger and the Brazilian was part of the ‘Invincibles’ squad, that went through the 2003/2004 season unbeaten.

The Peoples Democratic Party staff have blatantly refused to resume work, as directed by Ali Modu Sheriff, national chairman of the party.

127 staff of the opposition party’s national secretariat in Abuja failed to show up at work on Monday.

Following the appeal court judgment which proclaimed him chairman, Sheriff had called on all members of staff to resume work at Wadata Plaza.

Former military head of state, General Yakubu Gowon has revealed how late sage, Obafemi Awolowo saved Nigeria from breaking up during the civil war that lasted between 1967-1970.

Gowon made this revelation on Monday at this year’s edition of the Obafemi Awolowo Memorial Lecture and posthumous birthday organised by the Obafemi Awolowo Foundation in Lagos.

An estranged wife, Modupe Daisi, on Monday told a Customary Court sitting in Aiyedun-Ekiti, that her 75-year-old husband, Sunday Owolabi, consented to her dating their farm labourer only to turn around to accuse her of adultery afterwards.

The plaintiff was seeking an order of the court to retrieve the N50,000 receipt of the farmland she bought through her husband in 2009.

Police are hunting for a con artist suspected of scamming £200,000 from at least one victim – after meeting him on a dating app.

The woman met the victm on Match.com and they started an online ‘relationship’ for around a year.

According to the Facebook user, who shared the story

A lady who was invited into an hotel for whatever reason. At the end of the function, as she was leaving the hotel, she suddenly became mad and undressed herself. “A serious lesson for nowadays ladies, particularly aristoes (yoyo-ladies). They should be careful of whom and where they visit. “May God continue to protect us all, against these evil minded and desperate people.” The incident forced a crowd to gather while watching the drama play out. She was later helped by a group of young men who covered her Nakkedness and got her help.

97-year-old twin sisters froze to death after having dinner together

This undated photo provided by the Haley family shows Martha Williams, of East Providence, R.I., when she was about 25 years old. Martha and her twin 97-year-old sister Jean Haley froze to death Saturday, March 4, 2017, after they fell outside Jean's home in Barrington, R.I., and were stranded there during one of the coldest nights of the winter. A neighbor found the twin sisters the next morning. (Haley family via AP)

Twin sisters aged 97 were both found dead of hypothermia after they slipped and fell on a driveway and were stranded there overnight.

Jean Young Haley and Martha Young Williams had been out to dinner with another sister and had returned back to Jean’s house on Friday.

Top Guider and first initiator of the popular ponzi scheme, mavrodi mondial moneybox, MMM, Mr. Chuddy Ugorji has reportedly fled the country with his wife, Amaka to the Philippines.

Indications suggest that Mr. Chuddy fled because perhaps he knows MMM might not be able to pay its participants again. This is coming days after over 2 million participants of the scheme are still not able to get the money they invested in the scheme even after it claimed to have resumed full time.

Four policemen have been killed after a lorry collided with their patrol car along Shagamu road, Isiwu, Ikorodu, Lagos on Sunday. The policemen attached to the X squad of the Lagos State Police Command were reportedly chasing another police patrol van believed to have extorted money from motorists when the fatal accident occurred. According to the Nation, three policemen died on the spot, the fourth died at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) while the fifth officer, an assistant superintendent of police, sustained injuries and is being treated at LASUTH.

Nigerian porn actress Judith Mazagwu, popularly known as AfroCandy, has threatened to file a lawsuit against Instagram. Afrocandy wants to sue the social network platform for taken down a photo in which she bared her breast while a similar photo of Nicki Minaj is left untouched.

An alleged N10 Trillion fraud reportedly perpetrated by top officials of the NNPC has been uncovered by the Senate.

The Nigerian Senate has uncovered an alleged fraud of N10 trillion allegedly carried out by staff of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC in connivance with officials of some of the Independent Marketers and other key players in the Petroleum Industry for ten years between 2006 and 2016.

Below is his press statement:

APOSTLE JOHNSON SULEMAN DENOUNCES BLACKMAILERS. The attention of our Client, Apostle Johnson Suleman has been drawn to the online Publication by Sahara reporters. It is with utter consternation and indignation that our client received the news that one Stephanie Otobo is claiming to be his lover, after he proposed marriage to her in 2015 but later reneged. The Story was based on a purported letter written by Festus Keyamo’s Chambers.

Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court sitting in Wuse, Abuja, presided over by Hon. Justice M. M kolo, has sentenced a 48 – year-old man, Shehu Abubakar, to 12 years imprisonment for sexually abusing two boys.
The convict was dragged to Court by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), under the Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) Act 2015.

Troops Destroy 80 Illegal Refineries in Bayelsa, Delta, Rivers

Nigerian soldiers have made tremendous progress in curbing the menace of oil refining in the Niger Delta region.

Troops of the Operation Delta Safe have destroyed 80 illegal refineries in Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers states.

According to a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja on Monday by Maj. Abubakar Abdullahi, the Co-ordinator, Joint Media Campaign Centre, Operation Delta Safe, seven illegal refineries were destroyed in Bayelsa.

President Donald Trump on Monday, March 6, 2017 retreated behind closed doors as he re-issued his travel ban executive order with significant concessions adopted after his first directive was halted by a firestorm of controversy and a fusillade of legal actions.

The new order exempts existing visa holders from travel limits and removes Iraq from the list of seven Muslim-majority countries whose citizens Trump barred from entering the U.S. in a hastily signed and chaotically implemented order issued just a week after he took office.

Read full statement below:

“In 2015, Apostle Johnson Suleman went to Canada to preach the gospel. After the event, a lady called Papa and introduced herself as Stephanie Otobo. Asked what did she want, she said she attended the Apostle’s crusade in Canada, it transformed her and she wanted to give her life to Christ.

“She said that she danced naked at the nightclub. That was the first surprise. The Apostle told her bluntly that what she was doing was pure prostitution but he could help her out if truly she was ready to go back to God. Because it is of God to save and bless souls, the Apostle offered to help her.

Benson Otobo, father of Stephanie Otobo, who had accused the General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministries Worldwide, Apostle Johnson Suleman, of alleged amorous relationship with her, spoke with some Religious Affairs Correspondents in Abuja on Monday.

Q. Is Stephanie Otobo your daughter? If yes, we will like to hear your side of the story regarding the controversies that have been flying round her and Apostle Suleiman.