Abdul's Blog: 01/09/18

Tuesday, 9 January 2018

Mansion Belonging To Cult Leader, Don Waney Demolished In Rivers State

The Rivers state Government, today, embarked on the demolition and levelling of the mansion of cult leader, Don Waney in Omoku, Rivers State.

The kidnap kingpin and mass murderer was shot dead by security operatives recently in Enugu state.

A young college graduate from Inglewood, California named Nyjah Cousar who goes by the handle @dearfashionn on Twitter, took a nude photo of herself in the shower and mistakenly sent it to her father instead of her boyfriend Dasquan.

According to Punch Metro, an Abuja High Court has nullified the suspension of Senator Buruji Kashamu from the Peoples Democratic Party.

The court also restrained the party from taking any further disciplinary actions against the senator.

Arsene Wenger says midfielder Alex Iwobi will be given a fine if rumours that he was partying the night before Arsenal's FA Cup loss to Nottingham Forest.

British newspaper The Sun reported that Iwobi was pictured and filmed dancing at a houseparty after 2.30am on Saturday before the Gunners were upset by the Championship side.

Grace Mugabe’s suspicious doctorate degree, which she earned in a record few months, is now the subject of a probe by Zimbabwe’s anti-corruption agency.

The agency said on Tuesday it is investigating whether the former first lady was wrongly awarded a university doctorate more than three years ago.

An Idi-Ogungun Customary Court in Ibadan on Tuesday dissolved a 16-year-old marriage between Kazeem Adesina, a fashion designer, and his wife, Adijat over irreconcilable differences.

Delivering judgment, President of the court, Chief Mukaila Balogun said that evidence adduced before the court by both parties had proven that there was no love between them.

A leader of an alleged kidnap gang in Ogun State, Oyewunmi Musa, says its gang got N8.5m as ransom from four of their victims’ relatives, Punch has reported.

While being paraded at the command’s headquarters at Eleweran, Abeokuta on Tuesday, the state Police Commissioner, Ahmed Iliyasu, said about 55 suspected were arrested for various offences ranging from kidnapping, armed robbery murder, cultism to illegal possession of firearms.

Real Madrid midfielder Luka Modric, accused of tax fraud, has paid Spanish fiscal authorities close to one million euros, a judicial source said Tuesday.

Prosecutors believe the Croatian evaded 870,728 euros ($1.04 million) on revenue from his image rights in 2013 and 2014 via a shell company set up in Luxembourg.

The Botswanan government has closed down a church owned by flamboyant pastor, Prophet Shepherd Bushiri, Zambian Observer reports.

Botswana’s Minister Batshu says the ECG church has been closed for its continued violating of the law in terms of fake money. It is alleged that Bushiri’s church is involved in miracle money that the Botswana government considers illegal.

Cristiano Ronaldo’s market value has plunged and the Real Madrid star is now just the 49th most valuable player in the world, according to research from the CIES Football Observatory.

Only last month Ronaldo won a fifth career Ballon d’Or award, while he also took the FIFA Best Player prize and UEFA player of the year award during a year in which he was easily the most decisive player as Madrid won five trophies including the Champions League and La Liga.

An alleged man of God, Prophet Israel Effiong Okon has been arrested by men of the Federal Road Safety Corps ( FRSC ) in Akwa Ibom after he was found in possession of a decomposing human head in Mbak Itam, Itu Local Government Area of the state.

This was disclosed by the Sector Commander of the Corps, Mr Sunday Oghenekaro to newsmen in Uyo on Tuesday. Oghenekaro said that a Toyota fore-runner jeep ( black ) with Registration number DX 147 LSD was initially apprehended for failure of its driver to use seat belt.

Donald Trump’s spiritual adviser has suggested that people send her money in order to transform their lives, or face divine consequences.

Paula White, who heads up the president’s evangelical advisory committee, suggested making a donation to her ministries to honor the religious principle of “first fruit,” which she said is the idea that all firsts belong to God, including the first harvest and, apparently, the first month of your salary.

Open grazing of cattle was banned yesterday by the Federal Government – to stem the growing anger sparked by the killings in Benue and other states.

All herdsmen must henceforth ranch their cattle. The decision was taken at the end of a six-hour meeting of a Federal Government delegation, security agencies and five governors.

Coach of the Super Eagles of Nigeria, Gernot Rohr has told Kelechi Iheanacho and Ahmed Musa to move away from Leicester City.

The Nigerian forwards have struggled for regular playing time since joining the Foxes from Manchester City and CSKA Moscow respectively.

Barcelona superstar, Lionel Messi, has reportedly told his club to sell three players following their club-record £142 million signing of Philippe Coutinho from Liverpool, Diario Gol reports.

Coutinho was paraded as a Barca player on Monday lunchtime, bringing an end their long-running pursuit of the Brazilian International.

The Zambian Government on Tuesday placed a temporary suspension on issuance of passports and national identity cards in Lusaka, the country’s capital, following an outbreak of cholera.

Minister of Home Affairs, Stephen Kampyongo, said the suspension was necessitated by the escalating cases of cholera in the city.

Five months after his move to Paris Saint-Germain, Neymar is still a significant presence at Barcelona. He is no longer scoring goals for the Catalan club, of course, but his world-record €222 million move has allowed the Blaugrana to spend in excess of €300m over successive transfer windows for the first time in their history.

Quite simply, without the sale of Neymar, the subsequent signings of former Borussia Dortmund starlet Ousmane Dembele and ex-Liverpool ace Philippe Coutinho would have been impossible.

An Upper Area Court sitting in Masaka, Nasarawa State, on Tuesday sentenced a 21-year-old student, Sunday Anthony, to nine months imprisonment for stealing a bottle of palm oil.

The judge, Yakubu Ishaku, sentenced the convict, who resides at Jankawa Masaka, Nasarawa State, after he pleaded guilty to the two-count charge of criminal trespass and theft.

A former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has filed a N10bn lawsuit against Sahara Reporters. The lawsuit came days after Sahara Reporters alleged in a report that Fani-Kayode, had thrown his wife out of their matrimonial home after discovering she was pregnant for another man. They also claimed he battered her in the process.

See how a South African gay man snatched a lady

This South African gay man, pictured above, has revealed how he snatched a lady's boyfriend after she sent him to investigate her boyfriend 's sexuality because she was getting weird vibes from him.

According to the gay man known as @odie_sa on Twitter, he said the lady who is a female friend of his sent him to go test her boyfriend if he's straight but he ended up snatching away the man from her and since then they have been together for four months.

Nigerian man on the run after he allegedly strangled his wife to death and buried her beside a well (photos)

28 year old Ajoke kalejaiye Edgar, who had been a victim of domestic violence was gruesomely strangled and buried beside a well by her suspected 34 year old husband, Mr Akinyemi Koja Edgar , who is still at large. The incident took place few streets away from their residence at mowo area of badagry on the 14th of December 2017.

President Buhari cancels his trip to Abia, holds closed door meeting with Governor Samuel Ortom over Benue killings

President Buhari has cancelled his trip to Abia state and is currently in a meeting with Benue state governor, Samuel Ortom, over the repeated attacks on farmers in the state by herdsmen.

On New Year day and last Saturday January 6th, herdsmen attacked farmers in two communities in the state killing 59 of them including a pregnant woman. The victims will be given a mass burial on Thursday, January 11th.

Troops from Nigeria and neighbouring countries have launched major offensives against the two Boko Haram factions and their leaders, the military said on Tuesday.

Soldiers from Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria are targeting Abubakar Shekau in the Sambisa Forest, and Mamman Nur, on and around Lake Chad, both in Borno state, northeast Nigeria.

Chief Bola Tinubu couldn’t hide his happiness after he visited his daughter who recently gave birth to a bouncing baby boy.

The national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu has been spotted carrying his newly born grandson, Abiodun.

Oyo State government on Tuesday officially reacted to the death of an Ibadan based journalist, Olufemi Oluwajobi who died on Sunday 31st December 2017.

Oluwajobi who was until his death a newscaster and On Air Personality (OAP) with Ibadan based radio station owned by a gospel singer, Mr. Yinka Ayefele, Fresh FM, died after he was knocked down by a driver on his way to meet some friends at Ring Road area in Ibadan, the state capital.

Terry G has taken up the baton to sponsor the education of Oluwatobiloba Falana, the viral photobomber.

The three-year-old made headlines in 2017 for his timely photobomb during a photoshoot with nothing but an infectious smile and comical pose.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday said he visited 97 foreign trips during his tenure as president between 1999 and 2007.

He said the trips were largely aimed at repairing the country’s poor image following years of brutal military regimes.

Gov. Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State on Tuesday said that he washed dead bodies as a youth to pay his tuition fees while schooling abroad.

Ajimobi said this at a South-West Youths Regional Summit in Osogbo.

The governor, while urging the youth to have a positive mindset toward hard work, said he spent eight years abroad washing dead bodies to survive.

A housewife, Bayonle Bamidele, on Tuesday told an Idi-Ogungun Customary Court in Agodi, Ibadan, that she denied and beat up her husband, Adeyemi Bamidele, anytime he demanded sex for fear of contracting HIV.

Bayonle said this in court while defending herself in a divorce suit filed by her husband over her refusal to have sex with him.

Apple told to take urgent action over dangerous smartphone addiction

Apple has been told to take urgent action to curb children's smartphone addiction, amid fears that technology could be damaging the young generation.

The warning from two shareholders comes amid increasing concerns about how gadgets and social media could affect the young children who use them, many of whom are attached to their phones for many hours a day.

Famous technologists including Steve Jobs have been reported to have been concerned about the effects of technology on their own children, limiting the amount their kids could use the internet and phones and tablets.

Now the activist investors have warned that the late founder's company needs to lead the way in giving parents and their kids more powerful ways of keeping phone use in check.
New York-based Jana Partners and the California State Teachers' Retirement System, or CalSTRS, said Monday in open letter to Apple that the company must offer more choices and tools to help children fight addiction to its devices.

"There is a developing consensus around the world including Silicon Valley that the potential long-term consequences of new technologies need to be factored in at the outset, and no company can outsource that responsibility," the letter said. "Apple can play a defining role in signaling to the industry that paying special attention to the health and development of the next generation is both good business and the right thing to do."

The two investors collectively control $2 billion worth of Apple shares.
Among their proposals to Apple: establish an expert committee including child development specialists; offer Apple's vast information to researchers; and enhance mobile device software so that parents have more options to protect their children's health.
The letter cited various studies and surveys on how the heavy usage of smartphones and social media negatively affects children's mental and physical health. Examples include distractions by digital technologies in the classroom, a decreased ability of students to focus on educational tasks, and higher risks of suicide and depression.

The investors' call reflects growing concerns around the world about what the long-term impact will be of using mobile devices and social media, especially for those who start to use smartphones at an early age.
While tech companies have not acknowledged openly that their gadgets may be addictive, some Silicon Valley insiders have begun to speak to media about how gadgets, mobile applications and social media sites are designed to be addictive and to keep users' attention as long as possible.
(Source Independent.co.uk)

Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah named PFA Fans’ Player of the Month

Mohamed Salah has won the PFA Fans’ Player of the Month for December.

The 25-year-old saw off competition from former teammate Philipe Coutinho, Tottenham Hotspur’s Harry Kane, Everton’s Jordan Pickford, Manchester City duo of Kevin De Bruyne and Nicolas Otamendi to clinch the monthly award for the second consecutive time after he earned 50 percent of the public vote in the poll.

Photo: Former Local Government Chairman Jailed Six Years For Stealing N22m

An Osun State High Court on Monday in Ede sentenced a former local government chairman, Rufus Wole-Ojo, to six years imprisonment for stealing and using his position for personal gratification.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, had on May 28, 2013 arraigned Mr. Ojo before the court on a three-count charge bordering on stealing, using his position for personal gratification and money laundering.

With a pump price of N145 ($0.40) per litre, Nigeria has been ranked as the eighth cheapest place in the world to buy petrol.

Other countries among the cheapest places to buy petrol are Venezuela ($0.01), Turkmenistan ($0.29), Kuwait ($0.35), Iran ($0.36), Egypt ($0.37), Algeria ($0.37), Ecuador ($0.39), Bahrain ($0.42) and Syria ($0.44).

An American billionaire said Monday he was redoubling his campaign to remove President Donald Trump from office and will plough $30 million into Democrats’ efforts to regain control of Congress.

Tom Steyer, who has spent tens of millions of dollars on political campaigns and grassroots voter outreach since 2016, said he would not run for political office this year, as some observers had expected.

The federal government has reportedly banned the open grazing of cattle in the country.
The ban is coming days after suspected herdsmen attacked two communities in Benue state.
According to The Nation, the decision to ban the group was reached after a meeting of a federal government delegation, security agencies and five governors.

A 50-year-old Muslim man, Mohammed Ssemanda, from Uganda, made news headlines all over Africa last month, when he married three women in a single ceremony, because he couldn’t afford to marry them separately.

According to Uganda Vision, Ssemanda, a food vendor from the town of Katabi, in Uganda’s Wakiso district, caused quite a shock when he showed up at the local parish with three women, all wearing white wedding gowns.

A woman identified as Sahura reportedly gave birth to quadruplets, all boys, in her home at Zakara area of Makera village, Dutsinma Local Government Area of Katsina State without any assistance.

It was gathered that after giving birth, Saturday evening, Sahura later proceeded to the General Hospital, Dutsinma.

Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger, is set to sanction the sales of Alexis Sanchez, Francis Coquelin and Mathieu Debuchy in the January transfer window.

Sanchez is expected to seal a move to Premier League leaders, Manchester City.

No wonder little or nothing was heard about Ibiwunmi Salawa Abeni for some years until lately. Salawa in an exclusive chat with LoveHaven Magazine, disclosed she was on sick bed for 6 years! Paralysed actually! And it was shortly after she lost one of her sons, Olanrewaju.

She also spoke about how friends deserted her and glad God finally restored her. It's such a touching story, but thank God it has a happy ending!

91-year-old elder statesman, Tanko Yakasai, who hails from Yakasai town in Kano State, in an exclusive interview with PUNCH Newspaper, declared that men with two wives or more live longer than those with only one woman in their lives.

Here are excerpts from the chat;

Four men have been arrested and arraigned before a Lagos Magistrate Court for allegedly entering the Late Moshood Kashimao Olawale (MKO) Abiola’s Bulk purchase bookshop in Oshodi, Lagos to steal properties valued at N1 billion.

The suspects are Dare Saka, 40; Adebola Adesida, 33; Lateef Onifade 34 and Gbenga Adedigba, 34. The properties allegedly stolen by the accused persons, according to the Police included a generator, welding machine, books, tank and printing machine. Police said that the accused persons allegedly threatened the life of Mr Ajayi Oluwatosin, a security officer attached with Pexion Security services and other staff guarding the bookshop to gain entry into the shop to steal and damaged properties valued at N500 million and escaped.

Super Falcons striker, Asisat Oshoala has said that the African Footballer of the Year award she won last week in Accra, Ghana is a gift to all Nigerians, particularly the younger generation, girl child and women who have been a source of inspiration for her.

Oshoala, who previously won the award in 2014 and 2016, was named Women’s Footballer of the Year last Thursday by CAF, beating Cameroun’s Gabrielle Aboudi Onguene and Chrestina Kgatlana of South Africa to the top prize.

Philippe Coutinho had his medical at Barcelona yesterday as his £145m transfer from Liverpool came to a completion.The Brazilian midfielder described his move – the second most expensive in football history – as a ‘dream come true’.

After the medical was completed, the 25-year-old signed his contract and was then officially presented to the public on the Nou Camp pitch at 12.45pm UK time.Coutinho made a brief appearance before the cameras wearing a Barcelona tracksuit on Sunday night after their routine 3-0 win over Levante in La Liga.

The Peoples Democratic Party is the only party that can transform Nigeria and return the country to its prosperous era.

Ex-Vice President, Atiku Abubakar expressed this in Kaduna at the weekend, when one of his supporters, Miss Zainab Musa Pindar, organised a reception for him at the Arewa House, welcoming him back to the PDP.

A man allegedly cut off his drinking partner’s head with a kitchen knife and threw it out of the window.

Horrified neighbours raised the alarm after discovering the decapitated head on ground outside their block of flats, police said.

Willie Obiano, governor of Anambra state, has warned killer herdsmen against perpetrating any atrocity in the state. He gave the warning at a reception organised in his honour in the Aguleri area of the state, on Monday.

Obiano directed that herdsmen, wielding AK-47 rifles and other dangerous weapons should not be allowed in the state.

A former Nigerian president and chairman of the panel of advisors of the Africa Initiative for Governance (AIG), Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has said that it is not yet ripe to determine if he will support President Muhammadu Buhari’s bid for a second term in office or not.

Having ditched the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which brought him to power for eight years, Obasanjo in 2014 threw his weight behind Buhari and invariably the All Progressives Congress (APC) as against the PDP administration led by former President Goodluck Jonathan.

· Intrigues as banker confiscates over 100 assets of billionaire debtors

If the Nigerian bank is truly a graveyard for ghastly debts, then First Bank Plc, could be the greatest undertaker among contemporary banks.

The foremost financial institution wallows in a sea of debts as you read; this is because its major debtors within the oil and gas business sector serially defaulted in payment of outstanding loans to the bank.

Police officers shot and killed nearly 1,000 people in the United States in 2017, slightly more than the previous year, according to a tally published on Monday by The Washington Post.

A total of 987 people were fatally shot by US police last year, up from 963 in 2016 and down from 995 in 2015, the Post said.

The Nigerian Army on Tuesday formally handed over the rescued Chibok school girl, Salomi Pogu, to the Borno Government.

Maj.-Gen. Rogers Nicholas, the Theatre Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, presented two rescued girls, including Pogu, to the Deputy Governor, Alhaji Usman Durkwa, in Maiduguri.