Abdul's Blog: 07/07/17

Friday, 7 July 2017

Two Neighbours Engage In A Crazy Shootout Caught On Camera (Video)

5 Young Men Who Murdered An Ex-Naval Officer In Ogun State

It is the end of the road for five young men who brutally murdered an ex-naval officer in Ogun state during a robbery.

Five young men who planned and murdered an ex-naval staff and Chief Executive Officer of MAF 44 Gardens and Event Centre, Arigbajo, Chief Moses Akanni Famuyiwa, have been arraigned before a Magistrate’s Court, in Ifo, Ogun State.

An Idi-Ogungun Customary Court at Agodi, Ibadan, on Friday dissolved a 16-year-old marriage, following a petition that the woman’s offered pork as meal to her Muslim mother-in-law.

A fashion designer, Mr Kolawole Adegoke, sought the divorce, accusing his wife, Adeyinka, of deliberately flouting his instructions.

A mother has been arrested after her four young children and their father were found slain in a home outside Atlanta early on Thursday. A fifth child survived and is in critical condition in hospital.

The bodies were discovered when police responded to a 911 call that came in at 4:47 a.m from an adult woman present in the home - believed to be their mother.

An Ohio man has been charged with aggravated murder for butchering a woman he wrote to while behind bars, as well as her boyfriend, a month after his release from prison.

Thomas Knuff, 42, stabbed 65-year-old John Mann and 50-year-old Regina Capobianco to death. John and Regina, who were in a romantic relationship, picked up Knuff from the Lorain Correctional Institution on April 11.

In continuation of its clamp down on suspected Badoo members, Lagos State Police Command in collaboration with other security agencies and local security volunteers have arrested 87 suspected Badoo members while declaring 20 other people wanted in connection with activities of the group in Ikorodu.

The 87 suspected Badoo members were arrested in an all-night operation on their hideouts in Owutu and Odongunyan in Ikorodu.

Liverpool coach Klopp says Salah’s speed will be key

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp believes Mohamed Salah’s speed will make the squad more effective.

Liverpool paid Roma £34m for the Egyptian winger who was Klopp’s first major signing of the summer.

Four year old stolen from church reunites with family

A four-year-old boy, Chima Obiduru, who was stolen on January 5, 2017, during a church service in Okpoko in Onitsha, Anambra State was on Thursday reunited with his parents, Mr and Mrs Victor Duru by the police in Imo State.

Handling over the boy to his legitimate parents after seven months he was stolen, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Andrew Enwerem, said that the child was recovered on April 17 by the operatives of Ogbaku police division in the Mbaitoli Local Government Area of the state.

Arsenal’s Per Mertesacker to retire at end of next season

Per Mertesacker will retire from football at the end of next season and become Arsenal’s academy manager.

The 6ft 6in German, who boasts more than 100 international caps, will remain an integral part of Arsene Wenger’s squad during the coming season while continuing to develop his knowledge and understanding of Arsenal’s academy.

The Nigeria Customs Service will commence the next batch of 48 hours of electronic bidding on July 10 as it reloads the portal with more items.

The Public Relations Officer of the NCS, Joseph Attah, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja.

Mr. Attah said the announcement of the 43 winners that emerged after the 48 hours of bidding ended the first batch.

According to the World Health Organisation, oral sex is producing gonorrhoea that is difficult to treat.

WHO says gonorrhoea has become very hard, and sometimes, impossible to treat, owing to its new resistance to treatment.

Teodora Wi, speaking on behalf of WHO, said in Japan, France and Spain, three cases were discovered where the infection could not be treated.

Former Manchester United manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, has said he would have brought John Terry to Old Trafford, if he was Jose Mourinho.

Terry has signed a one-year deal with Championship outfit Aston Villa, after snubbing several offers to remain in the Premier League.

Zamfara state governor, Abdulaziz Yari, has accused Ibrahim Magu, acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), of intimidating governors “for no just cause”.

Yari, while speaking with journalists in Abuja on Thursday, said he intends to report Magu to the federal government.

The chairman of Nigeria governors forum accused the commission of not “tidying its work” before going to court and that “all it wants is for Nigerians to know it has invited a governor or that one former governor is arrested”.

Legendary comedian Bill Cosby will face retrial on three charges of assault as from November 6.

Judge Steven O’Neill of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, gave the ruling on Thursday.

Cosby stood trial in June on three charges of aggravated indecent assault for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in January 2004.

Kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans, has said he did not receive any major reprimand from his mother or move to find out what actually transpired when she saw bullet wounds on him.

Evans said his mother only told him to stop whatever he was doing that led to his being shot.

A 27-year-old lady has discovered that the persons who raised her as their child are not her biological parents.

She discovered the shocking truth when she donated blood for the first time at the age of 22.

Austrian citizen, Doris Grünwald, discovered that her blood was not Type A negative, as she had previously thought; and this triggered the realisation that she could not be related to the couple who had raised her.

Barcelona’s Argentinian striker Lionel Messi, who recently extended his contract with the Catalan club, is “the best-paid player in the world,” club president Josep Maria Bartomeu said Friday.

Barcelona announced Wednesday that Messi had agreed to extend his contract until 2021, in a deal that will keep the five times winner of the Ballon D’Or at the club until he is 34.

Primate of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, The Most Reverend Nicholas Okoh, has explained why churches in the country should not pay tax.

He said their contributions to national development were far better than tax.

Okoh, who doubles as the Anglican Bishop of Abuja, observed‎ that in spite of huge contributions of the church to the nation, in terms of development, it had received nothing from government.

For describing business mogul, Deji Adeleke, as being insane, the family of the late Isiaka Adeleke, yesterday, faulted Governor Rauf Aregbesola, saying the outburst was appalling.

This was contained in a statement issued by the Adeleke family in reaction to the statement made by the governor at a campaign rally in Ede on Wednesday.

Aregbesola, at the campaign of the All Progressives Congress in the Osun-West senatorial district by-election holding on Saturday, said Deji might have gone mad because of the death of his elder brother, Isiaka.

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday ordered the senator representing Ogun-East senatorial district, Buruji Kashamu, to submit himself to the police for investigation into an alleged attempt to murder a member of the House of Representatives representing Ikene/Shagamu/Remo-North Federal Constituency, Oladipupo Adebutu.

Delivering judgment in a suit instituted by Kashamu, Justice Nnamdi Dimgba ordered that the senator must honour all invitations by the Special Investigating Panel set up by the Inspector-General of Police to investigate the allegations contained in Adebutu’s petition.

A commercial bus driver, Christopher Chimezie, has been living in pain since he lost the use of his left eye after a soldier reportedly attacked him at Abule Ado bus stop, at the Mile 2 end of the Lagos-Badagry Expressway, Lagos State.

Punch Metro learnt that the victim had parked to pick passengers at the bus stop when the unidentified soldier repeatedly hit him with a baton in the eye.

He was said to have visited different hospitals in Lagos before he was referred to Ancilla Catholic Hospital, Agege.

A fantasist who made up bogus rape and sex assault claims against 15 men in three years just for 'attention' today finally faces jail for her 'appalling lies'.

Jemma Beale claimed to be a lesbian with 'no desire' to sleep with men and her bogus complaints to police led to Mahad Cassim serving two years in jail.

Pictured for the first time, this is the 'raging' stepfather accused of beating his girlfriend's five-year-old son to death in a park after he allegedly flew into a rage after the boy lost one of his trainers.

Alex Malcolm, a child model, suffered fatal head injuries at the hands of burly Marvyn Iheanacho, 39, a court heard yesterday.

One eye witness claims they heard the child saying 'sorry' to Iheanacho before a flurry of 'booming noises' as he unleashed up to eight punches.

Joan Lee, the wife of Marvel Comics icon Stan Lee has died, according to a spokesperson for the Lee family.

The rep said Joan died Thursday morning surrounded by family. Joan reportedly suffered a stroke earlier this week and was hospitalized before passing away.

52-year-old Micheal Enright who starred in 'Pirates of the Caribbean' alongside Johnny Depp and 'Knight and Day' starring Tom Cruise is presently among those fighting Isis in Syria.

The British actor born in Manchester joined the Kurdish rebel force YPG in 2015 after seeing footage of US journalist James Foley being beheaded by Mohammed Emwazi, known as Jihadi John.

A suspected human trafficker (name withheld) is now in the custody of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) after he was arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos while attempting to facilitate the trafficking of a victim of out of the country.

The PVOT who is in her early twenties and hails from Edo State was however, rescued and being counselled by officials of the Agency.

Upcoming artiste, Humblesmith has revealed that he was a virgin until he moved to Lagos.

Ekenedilichukwu Ijemba, better known by his stage name Humblesmith is the young dude who became a star after he released several hits like Osinachi, Osinachi remix ft davido, Jukwese and the lovely one that is currently in the nation’s top 10, Focus.

A new report claims that each Instagram post of Cristiano Ronaldo, Selena Gomez, Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner, earns them over £300,000.

The research which was carried out by Instagram schedulers, Hopper, puts the Real Madrid's striker third in their top-10 earners' list, behind only singer Selena Gomez and Kim Kardashian.

The Ibadan Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, July 5, 2017, arraigned the duo of Oseyomiwobor Marvelous and Idede Stanley Oghenetejiri before Justice Nathaniel Ayo-Emmanuel of the Federal High Court, Oyo State sitting in Ibadan on a Four-count charge bordering on Conspiracy, forgery and obtaining money under false pretence.

Gavin Russom an American singer and member of the famous group LCD Soundsystem has come out as transgender.

In a recent interview with Grindr, 47-year-old Russom said she has been attempting to come out for years. She said:

"This is my fifth decade being alive, and in each of those decades, there's been a time where I've tried to say, 'Hey, I think I'm transgender, this was even before that word existed."

The Nigeria Football Federation has just issued a statement expressing shock at the news that Super Eagles’ number one goalkeeper, Carl Ikeme, had been diagnosed with acute leukemia.

The NFF General Secretary, Dr. Mohammed Sanusi said, “What? This is very, very sad. Carl Ikeme diagnosed with acute leukemia? This is harsh.”

14 passengers travelling from Warri in Delta State to Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, through one of the popular transport companies (name withheld) have been allegedly kidnapped by gunmen at the Rumoji near Port-Harcourt in Rivers State.

The incident which security sources told our correspondent occurred on Monday has led to serious apprehension among residents living in communities situated along the highway as the hoodlums continue to lay siege to the passengers including the bus driver.

A pimp jailed for hiring out underage girls for sex has been revealed as a girl of just sixteen.

Jelinajane Bedrijo Almario was arrested for trafficking young girls to much older men in California in May 2016.

By the time the case came to court, she could be tried as an adult for human trafficking, sending threatening emails to a family member of at least one of the girls and making terrorist threats.

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Thursday said it had arrested 305 motorists for 345 life-threatening traffic offences since the launch of its Operation Cobra on July 1.

The Corps Marshal of the agency, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, who disclosed this in Abuja, said nine of the arrested offenders passed the psychological test administered on them.

Britain's most married man was spotted out with his latest love – who is 42 years his junior.

Ron Sheppard, 69, who has tied the knot eight times, was enjoying the sunshine with Cristel Marquez Lalec, 27,Mirror UK reports.

Switzerland’s highest court rejected former European football boss Michel Platini’s bid to overturn his four-year ban from the sport over ethics violations, the court said on Thursday.

The Swiss Federal Court confirmed a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruling last year that upheld Platini’s ban.

Federal lawmakers, especially those from the Southwest, got some knocks yesterday over the slashing of the vote for the Lagos-Ibadan expressway in the 2017 budget.

Power, Works and Housing Minister Babatunde Fashola raised the alarm over the vote slash from N31 billion to N10billion. He also complained about the cutting of the votes for other crucial projects and the vote diverted to boreholes and primary healthcare.

Alterplate Boss, Harrysong, has reacted to the court injunction his ex-label mate, Kcee got against him. Harrysong who has been arrested and later released after peace was reportedly brokered between the two artistes, has been dragged to court again, alongside his ex-manager Soso Sobrekon in the Kcee’s lawsuit of ‘enforcing his fundamental human rights’.

More facts have emerged about Dr. Michael Henry Bello, the gunman who shot seven people at the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Centre, New York on Friday, and identified as a Nigerian.

Dr. Bola Omotosho, the Community Board Chair for The Bronx 5, New York, told a Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria that Bello hails from Auchi in Edo State.

Bello, 45, shot dead a woman on the 17th floor and injured six others on the 16th floor, before allegedly killing himself, the New York Police Department Commissioner, James O’Neil, said.

Mr. Ibrahim Magu was appointed as Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in November 2015 by President Muhammadu Buhari.

The appointment was made by the President sequel to section 171 (1) of the Constitution. After Mr. Magu had acted in that capacity for over a year the Senate refused to confirm his appointment as the substantive Chairman of the EFCC. However, as President Buhari was satisfied with the performance of Mr. Magu he decided to retain him as the Acting Chairman of the EFCC.

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has alleged that former President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo was planning to assassinate Mazi Nnamdi Kanu through a military coup.

The group in a statement on Thursday said that the call by Obasanjo to stop Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB members was a systematic way of telling the whole world that he had plans on the way to over throw this present government and assassinate Nnamdi Kanu and others who are calling for the restoration of Biafra.

The Olubadan of Ibadan land in Oyo State, Oba Saliu Akanmu Adetunji, Aje Ogungunniso I, has said the review of the city’s chieftaincy law, which is calculated to create mushroom royalties and cheap crowns in Ibadan land, does not enjoy his backing.

Pastor trying to walk on water at the Crocodile River gets eaten by 3 crocodiles

A pastor from a local church in White River Mpumalanga died this morning trying to demonstrate a biblical miracle to his congregants.

Pastor Jonathan Mthethwa of the ‘Saint of the last days church drowned into the crocodile River also know as the crocodile river and was seen by his church members getting eaten by 3 crocodiles.