Abdul's Blog: 10/23/17

Monday, 23 October 2017

‘I almost lost my life 3 days ago but my boobs saved me’ – Nigerian lady recounts

A Facebook user, Michelle Nwanks, took to the platform to recount how her boobs saved her life.

She wrote;

37-year-old Abubakar Suleiman was arrested by the Niger State Police Command, after he took 88 bundles of $100 dollars fake currency to one Engineer Abdullahi Sambo of Shango area in Minna. Suleiman who claimed he doesn’t know the real owner of the money, however claimed that he was directed to give it to Engineer Sambo.

The Hollywood sexual abuse scandal widened Monday after 38 women were reported to have accused US film director James Toback of unwanted sexual encounters over a period of decades.

Toback reeled them in with boasts about his movie career and connections and with claims he could make them a star, according to their accounts to the Los Angeles Times.

An English mother identified as Callie recently appeared on Loose Women to reveal how she believed cannabis saved her dying son Deryn’s life.

Deryn was 14 when he was sent to a hospice to live out his final days.

Barely three weeks after 138 Nigerians returned voluntarily from Libya, another 580 are being expected from the North African country, this week.

DSP Joseph Alabi, the spokesperson for the Lagos Airport Police Command, confirmed the development to journalists on Monday in Lagos.

Saudi billionaire investor and chairman Kingdom Holding, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, has commended President Donald Trump for his good policies which has yielded some positive results in the US economy.

He equally said Trump is correct in saying $5.3 trillion in U.S. stock market value has been created under his watch, CNBC confirms.

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Liverpool playmaker Philippe Coutinho has told ESPN Brasil that the four goals his side conceded to Tottenham at Wembley on Sunday “could have been prevented.”

Harry Kane scored twice as Jurgen Klopp’s visitors suffered an afternoon to forget in defence, with Son Heung-Min and Dele Alli also on target amid further uncertainty at the back.

The Controller of Prisons in Lagos State, Tunde Ladipo, has revealed how notorious kidnap kingpin Chukwudidumeme Onuamadike, Aka Evans is being treated at the Kirikiri Prisons in Lagos.

In a recent interview with the Vanguard, the state controller said there is no preferential treatment for Evans, rather he’s being treated like every other inmate in the prison.

Lisa Bloom, the go-to attorney hired by controversial women involved in career destroying scandals, has been called out by a former client, comedian Kathfy Griffin – who is also demanding for a refund of the thousands of dollars she ‘wasted’ on her legal services.

The police said that an Indian man who tried to protect his daughter from sexual harassment and complained to authorities has been burnt alive.

Police officer RA Pandey said that Narmada Sahu, 45, died at a hospital in Madhya Pradesh state late on Sunday.

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Little more than one week after a massacre in Somalia killed more than 350 people in the capital, an attack near Mogadishu on Sunday has claimed the lives of at least 11 people, witnesses told Al Jazeera.

Several women were among those killed in Sunday’s roadside explosion that hit a minibus carrying passengers some 36km southeast of the coastal city.

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Zimbabwe’s government says it respects the decision by the World Health Organisation chief to withdraw the appointment of President Robert Mugabe as a “goodwill ambassador”.

Foreign Affairs Minister Walter Mzembi tells state broadcaster ZBC that the UN health agency “benefited tremendously” from the original decision to name Mugabe to the post because of the global attention that resulted.

A diamond-mining town in Namibia that previously restricted visitors has opened to the public in hopes of boosting tourism and diversifying its economy.

The remote town of Oranjemund, which lies in a diamond-mining area called the Sperrgebiet, or “prohibited area” in German, held celebrations this month to declare an end to its isolation from the rest of the country.

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Kenya’s chief prosecutor has ordered that opposition leader Raila Odinga’s sister should immediately be charged with inciting violence against the election commission.

Ruth Odinga entered an election centre without permission, and caused damage to property, a statement said.

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Sierra Leone hopes to raise millions of dollars for development projects by auctioning a huge uncut diamond, believed to be one of the world’s largest, in New York in December.

It will be the government’s second attempt to sell the 709-carat gem, known as the “Peace Diamond”, after it rejected the highest bid of $7.8 million at an initial auction in New York in May.

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Togo’s leader Faure Gnassingbe should resign immediately and the African Union and West African regional bloc ECOWAS should persuade him to step down if he does not, Gambia’s Foreign Minister Ousainou Darboe said.

Darboe’s comments are an early sign that opinion is shifting against Gnassingbe who took power in 2005 on the death of his father who had ruled since 1967.

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Algerian star Riyad Mahrez has dedicated Leicester City’s weekend win over Swansea City to sacked manager Craig Shakespeare.

The Foxes’ boss was shown the door last week, seeing Michael Appleton take over on a caretaker basis.

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Kylian Mbappe has won the Golden Boy award ahead of Gabriel Jesus and Ousmane Dembele, who were shortlisted.

The award is given to the best player under the age of 21 in Europe and is voted for by a panel of journalists from across the continent.

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Celtic have been fined £8,900 over a pitch invasion during their Champions League tie against Paris Saint-Germain last month.

UEFA’s Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body confirmed the sanction on Monday morning, with the French side fined £4,450 after seats in their section at Celtic Park were broken during the same match on September 12.

Bodybuilder dies from sepsis after tearing his triceps in freak accident

A bodybuilder has died in agony after developing sepsis in a freak training accident. World title hopeful Rodolfo Torres Rojas from Colombia had moved to Perm, in Russia, after marrying a woman he had met online.

But the 31-year-old died from multiple organ failure after developing sepsis following a tear to the triceps in his right arm. Rodolfo’s family claim he was sent home with prescription drugs after treatment at a local clinic, and told he would be fine.

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Tottenham striker Harry Kane has reiterated a desire to become the best player on the planet and says meeting Diego Maradona, one of the all-time greats, was further inspiration.

Maradona, a former teammate of Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino at Newell’s Old Boys, was Spurs’ guest at Wembley for the 4-1 win against Liverpool on Sunday.

The Argentina legend, who won the 1986 World Cup, met Kane before the match and watched from the executive box as Spurs’ No. 10 scored twice and set up a third in another standout performance.

'Hot Felon' Jeremy Meeks' estranged wife Melissa, 38, has now spoken about the devastating incident for the first time since the 33-year-old former jailbird turned model struck up a relationship with British billionaire Sir Philip Green's daughter.

Mother-of-three Melissa broke down in tears during an emotional chat with This Morning hosts Ben Shepherd and Amanda Holden on Monday, confessing that she still misses her husband of eight years despite his infidelity.

A 21-year-old woman was admitted to hospital with an extremely rare condition that causes her to sweat blood from her face and the palms of her hands.

Italian doctors were left puzzled after the unnamed patient appeared with the bizarre symptoms despite not showing any sign of skin lesions.

A family of five, including an unborn baby, have reportedly died after consuming a meal made with the Ewedu vegetable, also known as Jute in the northern parts of Nigeria.

According to report, the Ex-police inspector Peter Dauda, 43, his pregnant wife Dorothy, 35, their son Godwin, 9, and daughter Patience, 6, all ate their meal prepared with jute one night and went to bed.

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Ronald Koeman became the third Premier League managerial casualty of the season on Monday when he was sacked by Everton.

‘I didn’t lose my cool’ against Marseille – Neymar

Neymar says he did not lose his cool after being shown the first red card of his Paris Saint-Germain career during the feisty 2-2 Ligue 1 draw with Marseille on Sunday.

The Brazil international was given his marching orders three minutes from time after being shown two yellow cards in the space of as many minutes.

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Michael Keane says Everton’s players have let manager Ronald Koeman down and should take the blame for the club’s slump.

The 5-2 mauling by Arsenal on Sunday has piled pressure on the Toffees boss, whose future is in doubt after overseeing just two wins in 13 matches in all competitions this season.

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President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the immediate disengagement from service of Mr Abdullahi Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms.

The sack of Maina was announced in a statement signed by Femi Adesina, the special adviser to the President on Monday.

Men too are becoming endangered species with the kind of things some ladies engage in these days. So a lady took to social media to confess that she got her lover to propose to her after she added her Period Blood to the food she prepared for him. Her words and the pics below…

The Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday reportedly entered judgment against the Nigeria Police Force for arresting the brother-in-law of billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans.

A boy was allegedly burnt and wounded with a pressing iron by his guardian (who adopted him) after hurting playfully injuring her child. . According to ‎Munachimso Ukachi Okorie‎, the adopted boy who the woman takes as her brother and house help – mistakenly injured the woman’s son with hot iron while pressing his school uniform on Sunday (yesterday).

Instead of giving him an appropriate punishment for his offence, the woman was said to have reacted by burning the young boy back with the hot iron, thereby injuring him in the process.

A divorcee, Hajara Usman, on Monday sued her former husband before an Upper Area Court in Karu, Abuja for stopping her from re-marrying.

Usman, residing in Asokoro, Abuja told the court that she got married to one Adamu Abdullahi in 2011 but that they got divorced through Islamic way in 2016.

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Price of garri, a staple in the country, has dropped by more than 60 percent in Enugu within four months.

A correspondent, who conducted a market survey on the staple on Monday, observed that the price has gone down from as high as N1, 250 to between N450 and N500 per paint bucket.

From her desk:

As a real Queen the earlier you understand philosophy of life the better.. When a real Queen end up with a dog or slave, please don't judge her as a friends or family, stop saying silly things about her and you as a Queen don't blame God for your current situation because God might just be preparing you for a greater throne..

A former Governor of the old Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, has said the Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, is qualified to contest the 2019 presidential election.

Also, the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, has praised Fayose’s courage in putting the Federal Government on its toes.

Startling revelations have emerged over the allegations of corruption and gross abuse of office levelled against the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris by Senator Hamman Misau.

Misau representing Bauchi Central Senatorial District, was last Thursday arraigned by before Justice Ishaq Bello, Chief Judge of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory on five-count charge for making injurious falsehood against the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, the Police Service Commission, Chief Mike Okiro and the Nigerian Police, between August and October 2017.

Spain took drastic measures Saturday to stop Catalonia from breaking away, announcing plans to dismiss its separatist government and call fresh elections in a move the region’s leader compared to the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.

Catalan president Carles Puigdemont and his ministers — who sparked Spain’s worst political crisis in decades by holding a banned independence referendum — will be stripped of their jobs and their ministries taken over under measures laid out by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.

Singer, Mr. 2kay was yesterday, 22nd of October, robbed at gunpoint in his hotel room, at Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos.

According to a statement made available by his record label, Graftin, the incident happened at about 11 PM on Sunday, October 22, 2017, during the Buckwyld and Breathless concert where he also performed.

Chelsea boss, Antonio Conte, has insisted he does not fear losing his job, after watching his team beat Watford 4-2 at Stamford Bridge.

Michy Batshuayi came off the substitutes’ bench to score twice against Marco Silva’s men, who led 2-1 early in the second half and missed two huge chances through Richarlison, before Chelsea’s late fightback.

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A popular Kano based Roman Catholic priest who was kidnapped last year, Father Gospel .J. Inalegwu, has “resigned” from priesthood, sending a wave of shock across the church.

Sunday Sun gathered that Father Gospel .J. Inalegwu had since tendered his resignation letter to the Bishop of Kano Diocese, Most Rev. John Namawzah Niyiring and had traveled out of the state with all his belongings.

A committee set up by the Sokoto state government have confirmed that thirty-one percent of teachers in the state are not qualified.

But most of the teachers are educated enough to be trained to enhance their qualifications to be in the classroom, the committee stated, according to a statement by Imam Imam, spokesperson to the state governor.

In addition to training those not qualified, the committee recommended the employment of 548 more teachers in order to achieve a teacher/student ratio of 1:40, the standard set for public schools in the state.

Nollywood star actor, Jim Iyke has spoken about his much publicised relationship with actress, Nadia Buari.

Few years back, the two stars were said to be in a serious relationship, but Jim told Punch that nothing went down between down.

A Nigerian guy on Twitter, Uchenna Onwuemeli has taken to the platform, to air his thoughts on how relationships should be – he says a lady is real if she’ll cook for a guy, his friends and even his dogs.

@UchennaNG shared on Twitter that if one’s wife doesn’t get pregnant the first three months after the wedding, then the man can dump her cause she’s infertile.

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Nigeria's Super Eagles and Leicester City striker, Kelechi Iheanacho took to his Instagram page to share a delightful moment with both his followers and fans after his club's first away win at Swansea today.

Leicester City beat Swansea 2-1 at Liberty Stadium, the home stadium of Swansea to claim maximum three points.

The Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has embarked on a two-day working visit to the Republic of Indonesia, during which he will address the opening plenary of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Beneficial Ownership Conference taking place in Jakarta, Indonesia, from Monday 23rd October to Tuesday 24th October, 2017.

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Iceland tests ‘floating’ zebra crossing to slow down speeding drivers
A 3D zebra crossing has quite literally popped up in north-west Iceland’s Ísafjorður, catching the eye of web users from around the world.

But of course it’s just an optical illusion creating the effect that the zebra crossing is floating in mid-air instead of simply being painted on the road.

After dumping her lucrative job in the banking sector, Oyetayo became a photographer, working with Sola Fajobi’s reality show, Next Movie Star. It was here the scales eventually fell off her eyes and she found Nollywood.

In this chat, the divorced mother of one, who is also the Public Relations Officer, Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) Lagos State and CEO, Mohips Concepts and Mohips Youth Initiative, talks about growing up, acting and challenges among other issues.
Tell us about your growing up?

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The Federal Government has replied to Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe’s application seeking to withdraw as one of the sureties for the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, describing the application as belated.

The government, in its counter-affidavit and written address filed before the Federal High Court in Abuja to oppose Abaribe’s request, told Abaribe that Kanu was in his custody and he had to produce him for the continuation of his trial.

Nigerian singer, Davido, has opened up on his life, career and what determines him jumping on a track in a recent chat with Ukrainian TV personality, Magdaline Nonkwia, during his Europe tour in Ukraine.

The interview titled “Moments with Madyln” was an interesting one in which Davido revealed certain things about his career and his recent hit singles, ‘Fall’ and ‘IF’..