Abdul's Blog: 10/08/17

Sunday, 8 October 2017

China punishes 1.3m officials for corruption

China President Xi Jinping’s anti-graft drive, which has targeted officials at all levels, has punished more than 1.3 million people in five years, the anti-corruption watchdog said Sunday.

The anti-corruption campaign, which Jinping launched shortly after becoming the Communist Party’s leader in 2012, was meant to fall both high-level “tigers” within the party and “flies” in lower bureaucratic ranks.

Viral Photos show?Nigerian soldier dragging a?Hilux van, bag of rice using his teeth

In what looks like a game, maybe a show of strength, photos a Nigerian soldier carrying a bag of rice with is teeth and pulling a car with his body or perhaps his teeth.... And the final one...What do we even call it?

At least seven people have died, with 132 still reported injured after the two explosions at a petrol station in Ghana’s capital, Accra, the Presidency confirmed on Sunday.

A statement signed by the Information Minister, Mustapha Hamid, added that out of those injured, 64 persons had been discharged from the hospitals with 68 others receiving treatment.

Checkout this viral video that shows Nigerian strippers twerking for guests at the after party of a wedding in Lagos.

According to online reports, the strippers were hired by the couple to perform at the Vegas themed after party and money bundles were given out as souvenir; some pictures and the Racy video below;

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Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger does not believe Barcelona could play in the Premier League if Catalonia ever gains independence from Spain.

Tensions over the Spanish government’s response to the Catalan independence referendum have led some – including Catalonia sports minister Gerard Figueras – to suggest Barca could one day play in the English top flight.

Multi-millionaire business mogul, Chief Kensington Adebutu, on Saturday rewarded the Super Eagles with the sum of N50m after the three-time African champions became the first African country to qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

It is believed that in this digital age where notoriety is as lucrative as popularity, Jyoti and Kiran Matharoo, the controversial Indian-Canadian sisters epitomise peculiar fame and privilege.

For almost 10 years, the sisters were avatars of some powerful, fun-loving and wealthy Nigerians.They were spectacles at many top-end events in Lagos and Abuja. Many people see them adorn celebrity magazines and online lifestyle platforms.

Andrea Pirlo has announced he will retire from professional football when his contract at New York City FC expires in December.

The former AC Milan, Juventus and Italy star has won six Serie A titles and two Champions Leagues at club level and played a crucial role as the national team lifted the 2006 World Cup in a successful career.

The Archbishop Emeritus of the Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos, Cardinal Anthony Olubunmi Okogie, has said that there is no Godliness in the decision by some churches in the country to have as many branches as possible.

Churches in going after as many branches as possible, do so in an effort to bring the gospel of the Lord closer to the people. But condemning such multiplicity of branches, the patriarch of the Lagos Catholics described such branches as “mere business centres,” insisting that there is indeed no godliness in planting churches in close proximity.

Robert James Kuefler, from White Bear Lake, Minnnesota, lived with the body of his mother, 94-year-old Evelyn Kuefler, and his brother, Richard Kuefler, for around a year before their bodies was discovered.

The 94-year-old had died in August 2015 and his brother before that, but he couldn’t bring himself to bury them, Kuefler told authorities.

Controversial OAP Daddy Freeze in a new IG rant, has called out called popular man of God, Bishop TD Jakes for the latter's decision to start selling branded suits.

According to Daddy Freeze:

Paris Saint-Germain forward, Neymar, has urged UEFA to kick Barcelona out of the Champions League over withheld bonus. Neymar left Barca to join the Ligue 1 champions last summer for a world-record £200m fee. According to Spanish outlet, AS, the Brazilian believes his father should have received a loyalty payment, after he put off his transfer until after July 31 – the move was eventually completed on August 3.

A terrified woman was dragged out of her car in a shocking hijacking which saw shots fired at security guards. The victim was pulled from a white VW Jetta after three armed men surrounded her car as she tried to enter a gated complex in South Africa.

Chilling security video taken in Bedfordview, Johannesburg, shows one man holding a large rifle force the woman to get out.

Nigerian international Isaac Success was arrested by the UK police for allegedly assaulting four sex workers in a Hertfordshire hotel.

According to reports, Success whose only on-pitch action this season was as a half-time substitute in the Watford’s Carabao Cup defeat to Bristol City, paid the sex workers $2000 for a night at a hotel.

Veteran actor Segun Arinze, is of the notion that social media is the major reason so many celebrity marriages have collapsed.

Speaking with LIB, he said:

Social Media is helping to destroy so many marriages and a lot of our so-called celebrities are not helping themselves by putting their marriages and relationships on social media.

Abducted Woman Rescued As Police Operatives Kill Kidnapper In Gun Battle

The Nigerian Police in Cross River State on Saturday rescued a kidnapped victim and her car in Odukpani Local Government Area after 5 days in captivity. According to reports, one of the suspect was killed by police personnel in the exchange of fire while some live cartridges were also recovered.

Yesterday, a photo of celebrated broadcaster Gifty Anti purportedly showing her kneeling before her husband went viral online. In the said photo, the popular broadcaster was kneeling at the feet of her husband, Nana Ansah Kwao sparking a strong debate on feminism which she strongly advocates for.

A thug has been recorded on camera punching a woman unconscious to the ground in a nightclub smoking area. He had gone into the smoking area of the club in the Russian city of Ulyanovsk and appeared to be talking with the woman.

A 23-year-old woman has allegedly killed her autistic 4-year-old son after she reportedly got tired of him.

The woman, Amelia Di Stasio, has been arrested after fire fighters found her autistic 4-year-old son, Antonio’s remains in the bathtub of their apartment in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The boy's arms and legs was reportedly tied to his hands with seven belts, and there was a plastic bag over his head, as it was gathered that she reportedly burnt him alive in the bathtub of their home.

Woman shares her beautiful love story which started at age 17

A social media user, Jessica Pettway, has taken to the platform to summarily share her love story and it is amazing and interesting. See below....

According to her, she was 17 when she met her husband, they stateted dating when she was 18. They got married when she was 26 years of age and she became a mother at 26.

Dove, the personal care brand owned by Unilever, has apologized for a deeply racist ad campaign it ran on Facebook recently.

The ad, showing a black woman becoming white after using the brand’s lotion, was heavily criticized after it was posted on Facebook.

Dove, on their official Twitter page, apologized for the ad, writing:

Swedish journalist Kim Wall, who vanished in August has been found to have been butchered by the Danish inventor she went to interview.

Danish police said Saturday divers had found the decapitated head and two legs and suspected she was killed, while aboard the inventor’s homemade submarine.

Copenhagen police inspector Jens Moller Jensen told reporters divers had found bags containing her missing clothes, her head and two legs in Koge Bay, south of the Danish capital.

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Popular Nollywood actor, Odunlade Adekola has explained why he went back to school. He disclosed this to Premium Times at Festac.

Is it true that you are presently an undergraduate at the University of Lagos?

Residents of Agbura community in Ogbia Local Government Area where the suspected Monkey Pox epidemic started were not bothered about the disease, investigations showed yesterday.

It was also gathered contrary to insinuations the index case of the epidemic came down with the disease after consuming monkey, the teenager only had constant contact with a monkey, which he played with it as a pet.

After Donald Trump took to Twitter to bash late night hosts for what he called their one-sided coverage, and always slamming him on their shows, Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Myers clapped back.

This popular instagram Photographer CHIKA MICHAEL EKEZIE has just attempted to committed suicide after finding out he is HIV Positive, he took to his instagram account @dreamcatcherphotography.ng to write his suicide note and multiple sources are saying his unresponsive body has been found after he took a drug overdose.

DJ Olu, popular DJ and son of popular oil tycoon, Dapo Abiodun, is reportedly dead.
The former HKN DJ was found dead in his car today – An incident that has sent shock yesterday over the entertainment Industry.

Popular Yoruba actor, Eleso has said indecent girls, bad movies churned out are the two major factors that chased him away from Nollywood, He however also mentioned the piracy sector, but it was the least, lol.

“A lot of people have been asking me this question lately. If you notice, many of the people in my category that we started acting at the same time are no longer that vibrant in the industry.

Traditional chiefs of Afaraukwu community in Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State have asked the state government to assist them in finding out the whereabouts of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu and his parents.

They lamented that Kanu, his mother and father, who is the traditional ruler of the town, got missing following the September 10 invasion of Kanu’s community.

American rapper Nelly has said he is “completely innocent” after being arrested for rape.
The 42-year-old singer was taken in on suspicion of second degree rape of a woman on his tour bus on Saturday but was released hours after his arrest.

He had an interview with Kemi Lanre-Aremu where he made the declaration.

Tell us about your wife, Precious?

I love Precious very much. She is everything to me. She is focused, clear-thinking, dependable and totally fearless. She is far more than just a pretty face. She is a woman of class, distinction, courage and integrity who constantly manifests the traditional qualities that are expected of the biblical virtuous woman: loyalty, compassion, love, dedication and patience. She is a great mother and a wonderful wife. She has also done Nigeria proud by winning the Miss United Nations (World) pageant in Kingston, Jamaica, in 2014 where she defeated contestants from 115 other countries and was crowned queen.

As President Muhammad Buhari delves into the substantive issues concerning the administration of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation which have been brought to the fore by Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, several sources have disclosed push back to the claims from the GMD’s team are in full effect.

The incident happened while football fans were trying to enter the stadium during the World Cup qualifier against Zambia.

The fans were allegedly beaten by soldiers at the gates of the stadium with heavy sticks.

Photos of this latest coupe in town are trending online due to obvious reason. According to a social media user who shared the photos and congratulated the couple on their union, the 19-year-old boy tied the knot with his 15-year-old bride. This happened in the Northern part of Nigeria.

Peter Campbell, a former US ambassador to Nigeria, says Patience Jonathan was widely disliked during the period her husband, Goodluck Jonathan, served as the country’s president. In a recent article published on the Council of Foreign Relations website, Campbell described Jonathan as an “arrogant and flamboyant” first lady.

Campbell wrote this in reaction to the probe of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) into Jonathan.

A girl was humiliated after she was caught while trying to play a fast one on a lady in Delta state. According to reports, a lady who wanted to withdraw money from the ATM at GT Bank was discouraged due to the long queue as she reportedly gave her ATM card to a girl who is said to be in SS2 – to help her withdraw N10,000.

White supremacists just marched in Charlottesville again

White supremacists have rallied in Charlottesville again, less than two months since a counter-protester was killed in the same spot. A few dozen neo-Nazi marchers, led by alt-right figure Richard Spencer and carrying flaming torches, gathered at Emancipation Park near a covered statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee.

Spencer is most well known for being punched in the face following US President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January. The Confederates lost the US Civil War in the mid-19th century, which broke out over the proposed abolition of slavery. The Confederate states, in the south, supported the enslavement of black people.

The removal of Robert E. Lee’s statue has been blocked by a court pending the outcome of a legal challenge.

On Saturday, Spencer posted a video of the march on Twitter, showing people chanting ‘you will not replace us’ and ‘we will be back’. Charlottesville’s Mayor Mike Signer fired off an angry response on Twitter – telling Spencer and the other protesters to ‘go home’. ‘Another despicable visit by neo-Nazi cowards,’ he wrote. ‘You’re not welcome here! Go home! Meantime we’re looking at all our legal options. Stay tuned.’

An August rally organized by white nationalists to protest the planned removal of the Lee statue turned deadly when counter-protester Heather Heyer, 32, was killed by someone driving a car into the crowd. Ralph Northam, the governor of Virginia, issued a statement on Saturday saying: ‘There is no home, no place and no safe harbour in this country I pledged to defend for the ugly hatred we saw in Charlottesville tonight.

‘I don’t see two sides or very fine people gathered here, and anyone unwilling to call out this evil fails our commonwealth. ‘Donald Trump’s equivocation enabled this to happen again, and Ed Gillespie failed to call on the leader of his party to denounce neo-Nazis and white supremacists. ‘There can be no ambiguity from any elected official: white supremacists are not welcome, and they will not win.’

Prison Lords: Even As Kirikiri Inmates, They Coordinate Robberies In Lagos (Photo)

Operatives of the Lagos special security outfit, Rapid Response Squad (RRS), have cracked an armed robbery syndicate, which allegedly operates from Kirikiri prison. The leaders of the syndicate, Odudu Uttah, Sunday and Tosin who are awaiting trial were found with list of targets in Lagos who their members had attacked and still planning to attack.

Former Big Brother Naija housemate, Tokunbo Idowu Aka Tboss flew out in a private jet with TripleMG Boss, Ubi Franklin and his crew to Uyo to watch the Russia World Cup 2018 qualifiers match between Nigeria and Zambia.

Professor of Eschatology and President, Muslim Rights Concern, Ishaq Akintola, tells BAYO AKINLOYE that the Christian Association of Nigeria is behaving like a spoilt child and acting like a dog in the manger concerning the issue of Sukuk bonds by the Federal Government