Abdul's Blog: 11/13/17

Monday, 13 November 2017

Nnamdi Kanu sacked as Radio Biafra chief, IPOB leader

The international media arm of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Radio Biafra, has resumed operations.

But instead of the fiery rhetoric with which it was associated with, the radio announced the sack of Nnamdi Kanu, as director and leader of IPOB.

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Real Madrid has offered Gareth Bale and Toni Kroos to Paris Saint-Germain in their bid to land Neymar.

According to Don Balon, Real Madrid president, Florentino Perez, is determined to sign Neymar from PSG and will offer Kroos and Bale as part of a swap deal.

Tiemoue Bakayoko has revealed that Didier Drogba helped convince him to move from Monaco to Chelsea.

Drogba, a legend for both Chelsea and Ivory Coast, played a major role in Bakayoko choosing the Blues over other suitors.

Emile Heskey has urged Leicester City winger Riyad Mahrez to ‘get the best out of himself’.

In the summer, the Algeria international clearly stated his desire to leave the King Power Stadium when he handed in a transfer request but could not secure a new club before the transfer market deadline in August.

Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is to invest $50 million in the Dementia Discovery Fund, a venture capital fund that brings together industry and government to seek treatments for the brain-wasting disease.

The investment is not part of Gates’ philanthropic Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and will be followed with another $50 million in a number of start-up ventures working in Alzheimer’s research, Gates said.

Chairman of Aquilla Group, Chief Shina Peller, has said he is currently under intense pressure by his constituency to run for a political office in the 2019 general elections.

Peller who was a guest at Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) Oyo state chapter, Ibadan, disclosed that he has been wooed severally to take advantage of his popularity and influence in the state for politics but he is yet to make up his mind.

A Tanzanian movie actress was on Monday sentenced to two years in prison for involuntary manslaughter, over the 2012 death of her lover, who was one of the country’s most adored stars.

Elizabeth Michael, 22, who goes by the stage name “Lulu”, admitted to pushing her partner Steven Kanumba during an argument in their home, which resulted in his death.

Nollywood Actress, Toyin Abraham, has talked about her past, and has opened up on how she abused hard drugs like marijuana and codeine.

The actress made the disclosure at the 2017 edition of Success Story Africa, held at the TLC Auditorium, Lagos, on Sunday.

Swansea captain Leon Britton has joined the Premier League club’s coaching staff.

Britton fills the vacancy left by Claude Makelele, who departed Swansea last week to become manager of Belgian club KAS Eupen.

The 35-year-old midfielder will continue playing but has given up the captaincy at the Liberty Stadium.

Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema has told Canal+ he began to lose respect for Jose Mourinho after a 2011 news conference in which his then coach compared him to a cat.

Speaking on documentary “LeKBenzema,” he revealed his irritation over the remark.

Mourinho told reporters: “If I can’t hunt with a dog, I will hunt with a cat. With a dog you hunt more and you hunt better.

More facts have emerged on the ongoing court-martial of a brigadier-general in what insiders now call an “interesting drama”.

Lym Hassan, who is the coordinator of peace keeping at the ministry of defence, was secretly recorded allegedly threatening to “eliminate” President Muhammadu Buhari over a defence contract.

A 35-year- old housewife, Rasheedat Zubairu, on Monday prayed an Ilorin Area Court, to dissolve her 17 years marriage to Kehinde Zubairu, over barrenness.

Zubairu said that the 17 years marriage did not produce any issue, adding that all efforts to conceive proved abortive.

Mariah Carey‘s boyfriend Bryan Tanaka, 34, who now plays three roles in her life including being her manager, her backup dancer and her partner is reportedly being paid $12k weekly by the singer to run her career.

This comes days after Mariah Carey, 47, and her former Russian manager Stella Bulochnikov parted ways after working together for almost three years.

A young Native doctor just took to social media to show off one of his pretty girlfriend, as he hangouts with her on a date.

According to the proud owner of “Chi Marine Temple” based in the eastern part of Nigeria, he does not believe in having only one girlfriend.

Woman Catches Her Mother In Bed With Her Baby Daddy (Video)

According to reports, the woman told her baby daddy to bring their son to her mother’s house and he should sleep over till she returns. Then the following morning, she arrived unannounced to find her mother and baby daddy together in bed.

Upon sighting them, she screamed in anger and her mother jumped up from the bed and tried to explain but her daughter wasn’t having it.

A suspected ritualist, Yewunu Tanlaju, has confessed that he sold the severed parts of a 17 -year-old girl ,Taye Gusinu, to a herbalist for N8, 500.

The 35-year-old suspect allegedly killed the victim last Thursday in Idosemo, Ipokia, Ipokia Local Government Area of Ogun State and then removing seemingly vital body parts.

Police in Kano have arrested seven students of Government Technical College Ungoggo, Kano State in connection with the alleged killing of their colleague on Saturday night.

The Police Public Relations Officer of the command in the state, DSP Magaji Majiya, confirmed the arrest of the suspects in Kano on Monday.

Zimbabwe’s army chief has warned President Robert Mugabe to end the purge in the country’s ruling Zanu-PF party, threatening to step in.

The warning came a week after Mr. Mugabe fired his deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, a move widely seen as meant to clear the path for Mr. Mugabe’s wife, Grace, to become president.

The Nigerian military is set to end the admission of female cadets into the combatant course of the Nigerian Defence Academy.

A set of 20 females, nicknamed Jonathan Queens, were first admitted into the course in Nigeria’s premier military officer training institution during the former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration in 2011.

Serena Williams loves her fiancé Alexis Ohanian, but there is one thing she’d wish he’d stop doing — buying their 10-week-old daughter Alexis Olympia so many things.

“I do love Alexis Sr. @alexisohanian but if he buys one more outfit or toy for Olympia @OlympiaOhanian I’m going to explode,” the 23-time Grand Slam champion wrote. Jealous much?

One man killed, five others injured in shooting after a funeral in New Orleans

One man has been killed while five others were injured in a shooting at a funeral party, in the area of Forstall Street and Burgandy street, a New Orleans neighborhood. The police said a crowd of 300 people were in the 5200 block of Burgundy when several gunshots were fired.

Former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida, has commended the Abia State Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, for his efforts in repositioning Abia State for greatness. According to a release by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Enyinnaya Appolos, the former Head of State, who created Abia in 1991, spoke when Governor Ikpeazu visited him at his Hiltop Home in Minna Niger State.

A 31-year-old man, Dare Yusuf, who was known for tricking unsuspecting members of the public with claims that he can double money, has met his Waterloo as operatives of Rapid Response Squad, RRS, of the Lagos State Police Command arrested him in Mushin area of the state, while two members of his gang are on the run.

The Kano State Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, says his administration has spent N208m on the empowerment of 5,200 Masu Shayi (tea sellers) in the state.

Ganduje stated this on Saturday while distributing empowerment items to the 5,200 tea sellers from the 44 local government areas of Kano State.

Charly Boy lays curse on those who have contributed to ruining Nigeria

Accident Victim Conveyed To The Hospital, Involved In Another Accident (photos)

An Instagram user, Jane Chile, took to the platform to share a testimony on behalf of a stranger who was involved in accident with her child who suffered a broken bone from a previous accident. According to her, the accident which occurred while the child was taken to the hospital for treatment. Read what she wrote after the cut;

The senator representing Anambra North, Stella Oduah, has urged residents of Anambra State to come out in large numbers to exercise their constitutional mandate in the November 18 governorship election in the state.

Ms. Oduah made this call while speaking with journalists in Abuja on Sunday, according to a statement from her office.

Actor and social media critic,Uche Maduagwu has taken a swipe at Daddy Freeze over his opinion on tithes.

According to him,Nigerians will take him more seriously if he fixes his marriage with his first wife and mother of his two kids, Opeyemi.

Boys as young as five should be able to wear tiaras at school without criticism, teachers in Church of England schools are to be told.

Male pupils should also be free to dress up in a tutu or high heels without attracting any comment or observation, according to anti-bullying rules sent out by the Church yesterday.

The instructions for the CofE’s 4,700 schools said they should not require children to wear uniforms that ‘create difficulty for trans pupils’.

World record player, Neymar has reportedly confided in some former teammates that he regrets his move to PSG.

The Brazilian superstar moved from Barcelona to the French giants for a mindboggling £198m this past summer and has been a hit on the pitch with 11 goals in 12 games.

A husband has spoken of his heartache of finding out his partner of 23 years has run away with an African toyboy she met on Facebook.

Heidi Hepworth, 44, ditched husband Andy, also 44, for 30-year-old Mamadou Jallow from Gambia after she started talking to strangers online.

Andy, from East Boldon in South Tyneside, is convinced his wife's lover brainwashed her, saying it was like an alien had possessed her body.

One of the beneficiaries of the Niger Delta Presidential Amnesty Programme has said that he is the happiest man in the world after receiving his first set of goods recent. Taiwo who is a former Niger Delta militant; trained at the songhai Farm in Rivers State, and set up in Okrika, Rivers State – has started reaping the fruits of his Labour as he has just got his first set of eggs..

The Nigerian Army says it has constituted a Board of Inquiry (BOI) to unravel the circumstances surrounding the shooting incident that resulted in the death of an Officer and a Senior Non-Commission Officer (SNCO), at Chibok, Borno State, on Sunday.

Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Sani Usman, who made this known, said the board was expected to turn in its report and findings in one week.

In the latest update on the devastating 7.3 magnitude earthquake that rocked Iranian and Iraqi border on Sunday night, more than 200 people were killed and hundreds more injured.

The quake triggered landslides that hindered rescue efforts, officials said Monday.

The quake hit 30 kilometres (19 miles) southwest of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan at around 9.20 pm (1820 GMT) on Sunday, when many people would have been at home, the US Geological Survey said.

The Kano State Government said it has spent N208 million on the empowerment of 5,200 tea sellers in the state.

Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje made the announcement on Saturday during an empowerment programme at the Government House, kano.

BlackBerry users in Nigeria and across the world, have been given a life line of six (6) months, before they will not be able to use WhatsApp on their devices.

Against the earlier date of December 31, 2016, the date for expiration of WhatsApp on the device has been extended to June 30, 2018.

Danish aid worker Anja shared the story of three children who were tortured and abandoned in Akwa Ibom.

The children, Evelyn, Queen and 4-year-old Abraham were rescued two weeks ago and are doing well.

As seen on twitter..

Following a report that ranked the Nigerian police the worst in the world, the law enforcement body was quick to refute that assertion but according to this poll, Nigerians agree they are policed by the world’s worst.

Lorenzo Guidotti, a parish priest in Bologna, Italy has prompted outrage for blaming an underage girl, who was raped by an African man, saying that it was her fault for getting drunk and hanging around with immigrants.

“I’m sorry but if you swim in the piranha tank you cannot complain if you lose a limb,” Guidotti, wrote on Facebook.

Two suspected ritualists have been arrested by men of Ogun State Command of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria, VGN, in connection with the murder of a 17-year-old girl, Taye Gusau, in Idosemo, Ipokia Local Government Area of the state.

After killing her, they decapitated the body, cut off the hands and intestines. It was gathered that the suspects, Yewanu Tailoju and Asamo Soji, lured the girl, who was hawking puff-puff (doughnut) after school, into the bush and murdered her.

Police say a 3-year-old shot and killed a 1-year-old sister in Tennessee after a man placed the younger sibling in a bed with his gun.

Memphis Police said Saturday they have charged Shawn Moore with criminally negligent homicide, being a convicted felon with a handgun and tampering with evidence in Robbin Keefer's death.

“Paying Tithe Is Wrong, Pastors Are Just Using It To Blackmail Their Church Members” – 82 year old Ghanaian Evangelist

An 82-year-old man who has been born again for 32 years but does not pay tithe believing that it is against the practice, has slammed pastors who he said is using tithe to defraud their church members.

82-year-old Ghanaian Council of State member, Sam Okudzeto has said that Pastors are using the Old Testament idea of tithing to “blackmail” their church members into dispensing with their hard-earned money, most of which goes into individuals’ pockets, and that is “wrong”.

Female footballer and Nigerian international Asisat Lamina Oshoala MON has queried the exclusion of female nominee as voting for the BBC’s African Player of the Year prize opens.

The BBC African Footballer of the Year (previously known as the BBC African Sports Star of the Year and the BBC African Sports Personality of the Year) is an annual award given to the best African footballer of the year as voted by the BBC radio listeners.

A 22-year-old man named Sunday Peter has been arrested by detectives at the State Criminal Investigation Department of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command State, Abuja.

Peter allegedly stabbed his aunt, 35-year-old Salome Idoko, to death with the help of an accomplice, Istafanus Yerima, 22, in the sitting room of her residence close to Berger Bridge Quarry Gate, Mpape, Abuja.

We understand that Africans in General are creative, we all are creative.. and this is something that can’t be disputed.

A Nigerian man, was recently buried in a casket that was built like a plane in Calabar. ToriMill whistleblowers who shared the pictures with us didn’t provide much details, but provide more pictures.

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP) Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will investigate allegations of abuse of office involving Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State.

The organization said that such investigation would help to improve public confidence in public authorities, and minimize the risks of bad government by public officials.