Sacked Man United boss Jose Mourinho has been spotted on a rare outing with his wife Matilde.
Jose, 56, and his 54-year-old partner met pals at posh Harry's Dolce Vita in Knightsbridge, West London, yesterday lunchtime.
He was seen hugging ten friends outside the upmarket diner before going in for brunch.
The Portuguese coach was hardly seen with his partner when he was in charge of the Reds.
Matilde refused to leave their Belgravia mansion for the North West while the Special One took up permanent residence at The Lowry Hotel in Manchester.
It is the first time the couple have been seen together after The Sun on Sunday revealed Jose's friendship with blonde Prue Carter-Robinson in December.
Mourinho has been married to childhood sweetheart Matilde Faria, also known as Tami, for 29 years and they have kids Matilde, 23, and Jose Jr, 19, together.
Forty-eight hours after the convoy of the gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, was attacked in the Ojoo area of Ibadan, in which one person was injured and a vehicle was damaged, the ruling All Progressives Congress lost one of its supporters in Igboora, Ibarapaland, on Saturday.
It was gathered that armed thugs laid ambush for Makinde and his team, who were returning from Oyo after their campaign in the town.
Similarly, gunmen struck at the APC rally around 5.30pm on Saturday when the campaign was reportedly at its peak, leaving a motorcycle mechanic in the area and a supporter of the party lying in a pool of his blood.
Singer Duncan Mighty has cautioned a fan who called him 'god' after posting a video of himself singing to his song with Wizkid, 'Fake Love'. Duncan cautioned the fan saying he should please not call him god, because God never shares His glory . See the convo below;
Emeka Ike has revealed herself to his followers after the actor cum politician shared a photo of them at a dinner with his kids. It was her birthday and Emeka captioned the photo;
Happy Birthday my Love🎂🍷🍾LLNP ... trust nija kitchens 🍅🍉🥧 l bet u having fun🍇 its ur day....my one and only. My peace my joy ...@yolandacurvysupermodel17 ❤❤❤❤❤
She then thanked him for the gesture and then replied a fan who questioned the actor's captions.
A UNICAL graduate, Mary Owan, who was supposed to be married on Saturday,2nd February, 2019 was sadly buried on that day. The 2018 graduate of History and International Studies was on her way with her fiancé, Emmanuel Bisong, a lecturer at the Chemistry Department, UNICAL for their traditional wedding when their car was involved in an accident and Mary instantly lost her life.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has said he cannot rule out the possibility of civil war as pressure mounts on him to stand down.
In a TV interview, he warned that US President Donald Trump would leave the White House "stained with blood" if he intervened in the crisis.
He also defiantly rejected the EU's Sunday deadline to call snap elections.
Opposition leader Juan Guaidó declared himself interim president last month and won US backing.
He said on Sunday he would build an international coalition to deliver humanitarian aid to Venezuelans but Mr Maduro has accused him of organising a coup.
In the interview with Spanish television programme Salvados, broadcast on Sunday, Mr Maduro was asked if the crisis in Venezuela could result in civil war.
"Today no-one could answer that question with certainty," he said.
"Everything depends on the level of madness and aggressiveness of the northern empire [the US] and its Western allies.
President Trump has told US broadcaster CBS the use of military force remains "an option".
But Mr Maduro warned the US leader he risked a repeat of the Vietnam War if he intervened.
"Stop. Stop. Donald Trump! You are making mistakes that are going to stain your hands with blood and you are going to leave the presidency stained with blood," he said.
"Let's respect each other, or is it that you are going to repeat a Vietnam in Latin America?"
Sunday saw the expiry of a deadline set by several European countries - including France, the UK, Germany and Spain - for Mr Maduro to call early presidential elections. They said that they would recognise Mr Guaidó as interim president if no such pledge was forthcoming.
But Mr Maduro responded: "We don't accept ultimatums from anyone. It's like if I told the European
Union: 'I give you seven days to recognise the Republic of Catalonia, and if you don't, we are going to take measures'.
"No, international politics can't be based on ultimatums. That was the era of empires and colonies."
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar has relished the endorsement by five socio cultural associations, saying the move has placed a greater challenge on his assignment.
The Afenifere, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Northern Elders Forum, Pan-Niger Delta Forum and the Middle Belt Forum after a meeting in Abuja on Sunday, thrown their full weight behind Atiku’s presidential aspiration.
In a statement Sunday, which he personally signed, Atiku expressed hope for the country as Nigerians go to the polls to elect a new President in a few days.
The statement reads: “I am moved to tears that in the midst of deep divisions and deliberate use of instrumentalities of state to set our people against themselves in the last three and a half years, responsible and respected leaders across Nigeria have agreed to come together for the purpose of endorsing my candidature for the February 16th, 2019 presidential elections.
“The endorsement by the leading lights of our nationalities – Afenifere, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Northern Elders Forum, Pan-Niger Delta Forum and Middle Belt Forum is a loud statement that there is hope for our country as we go to the polls in a few days.
“Today we put aside all our prejudices to elect a President with religion and ethnicity playing no role in our elections. I profusely thank our Leaders across the country who have created this wonderful moment for us to come to the table of brotherhood.
“Once again, and in the words of our old National Anthem, we can proudly sing: ‘Though tribes and tongues may differ, in brotherhood we stand’.
The opposition presidential candidate said the endorsement has buoyed him to lead a Pan-Nigerian team that will give practical interpretation to what has been done by the time he takes the baton of leadership of the country, “by the grace of Allah, on May 29, 2019”.
Continuing, Atiku said: “Many countries of the world have been led into disintegration by strongmen (one in each country) and we have seen how individuals who understand the management of diversities have rallied their people for unity.
“I have been chosen to unite our people and exactly that I will. I will run a properly federated Nigeria through constitutional reforms to bring out the best from all sections of Nigeria to make Nigeria work again like in the past when the Saudi Royal family came to Nigeria to access Medicare.
“We will promote an inclusive Nigeria based on productivity that every section of Nigeria will bring out the best under their soil, and in their brains to make Nigeria assume its position in Africa and the global community.
“It would be 100% for every section of Nigeria as I would not understand any arithmetic outside that. I enjoin our people across Nigeria to come out en-mass to vote on February 16 to pull our country from the brink and propel it to greater heights so we can live a better life. Take my words as a covenant with Nigeria”.
The Presidency on Sunday again declared that no amount of gang up against President Muhammadu Buhari towards the the Presidential elections will stand.
They said “The Peoples Democratic Party is hiding in the bunker of ethnicity to avoid their inevitable defeat but that won’t change anything.
“The current scenario resembles efforts to stop Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 by the same characters. It is an effort to repeat the old experiment that failed is 2015.
“They failed to stop him from coming to power in 2015 and they will fail yet again on February 16th.
“If all these groups are ganging up against one person, that is President Buhari, it tells you who is the formidable candidate in the election.
“This gang up they forged, one more time will change nothing. It is for the people to decide."
News went round few days ago when gunmen stormed the house of one of the resident pastors of the Assemblies of God Church in Amiyi Obilohia in Isuikwuato, Abia State. The men stabbed the pastor and his wife and kidnapped his two daughters.
Sadly, the girls have been found, but were found dead with mutilated bodies. They were dumped along the Amaba and Ezere community border with their heads and breasts missing.
Wreckage from a plane carrying Cardiff City footballer Emiliano Sala has been discovered in the English Channel.
The Piper Malibu N264DB was lost on 21 January on its way from Nantes, France, to Cardiff, with the Argentine striker and pilot David Ibbotson on board.
Accident investigators are expected to send a submersible to inspect the wreckage later on Monday.
David Mearns, who led a privately-funded search for the aircraft, said it was located off Guernsey on Sunday.
He said: "All I will say is that there is a substantial amount of wreckage on the seabed."
Speaking on Radio 4's Today programme on Monday morning, Mr Mearns said: "We located the wreckage of the plane on the seabed at a depth of about 63m within the first couple of hours [of searching]."
He said the plane was identified by sonar, before a submersible with cameras was sent underwater and was able to confirm it was the plane.
"They saw the registration number and the biggest surprise is that most of the plane is there," he added.
Mr Mearns's private search has now been stood down and the Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) is at the site working to recover the plane. SO SAD!
UBA is starting up in Mali and music act, Wizkid will be one of the artistes to entertain guests. He was pictured looking right into the Bank’ CEO’s phone as the billionaire showed him a thing an dthey both laughed on. Another pic below…
Anti-corruption group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, has urged the court to compel the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, to publish the names of contractors who allegedly collected money and disappeared without executing awarded electricity projects.
The suit was filed before the Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday.
SERAP’s Senior Legal Adviser, Bamisope Adeyanju, said in a statement on Sunday that the suit followed Fashola’s failure to honour the group’s request for the list of the allegedly defauting contractors.
SERAP had made the demand in January following a claim by former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar that some contractors, who were awarded electricity contracts, disappeared after being fully paid for the contracts.
“The money went down the drain. Up till now, we are not holding the contractors responsible. People have collected money upfront 100 per cent and have disappeared; and they have not done any work,” Atiku was quoted to have said during a programme on Channels TV.
SERAP, in the suit marked FHC/L/CS/105/19, sought “an order for leave to apply for judicial review and an order of mandamus directing and/or compelling Mr Fashola to provide specific details about the names and whereabouts of the contractors who collected public funds meant for electricity projects but disappeared with the money without executing any projects.”
Rapper 21 Savage is in custody and at risk of being deported after authorities claimed he is a UK national who has been living in the US illegally.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Bryan Cox says the Grammy-nominated artist – real name Sha Yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph – was arrested in a targeted operation early Sunday in the Atlanta area.
Cox says Abraham-Joseph is a British citizen who entered the US legally in July 2005 but overstayed his visa, which expired in July 2006.
According to Cox, Abraham-Joseph was convicted on felony drug charges in Georgia in October 2014.
Abraham-Joseph has been placed in deportation proceedings in federal immigration court, Cox says.
His attorney Dina LaPolt told The Independent in a statement: “We are working diligently to get Mr. Abraham-Joseph out of detention while we work with authorities to clear up any misunderstanding.
A national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, on Sunday said that Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos would no longer be removed from office.
Tinubu, who spoke after a peace meeting was brokered by the APC leadership in the state, said the State House of Assembly had agreed to sheathe its sword.
The former governor said the executive and the legislative arms of government in the state had resolved to work together in the interest of the state.
“In the last one week, there was noise about the conflict between the executive and the House of Assembly. It is of great concern to all of us and particularly, what Lagos represents across the country.
“We have been able to look into the source of the various conflicts, which is not uncommon in politics. What is the genesis of those problems? We are one big family and as a big family, you will have some disagreement.
“As leaders of the party, we have looked into that. We have looked into areas where we have to compromise, discuss, build the institutions and encourage them to really do what is right.
“We have resolved that there would be no question of impeachment in Lagos State. Let the two arms of government communicate and continue to respect one another and build consensus and understanding. That is all about politics,” Tinubu said.
The APC leader said that allowing the conflict to fester would have dire consequences not just for the state, but also the entire country.
The Assembly had last Monday threatened to remove Ambode from office for alleged gross misconduct, as regards the 2019 budget.
Police Command in Enugu State says it has arrested five suspected notorious kidnappers while rescuing their victim unhurt in a remote hideout.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, SP Ebere Amaraizu, said in a statement on Sunday in Enugu that the suspected kidnappers were nabbed on February 2.
Amaraizu said that the feat was achieved by police operatives of Nkanu West Division through well coordinated intelligence information on the kidnappers hideout located at Amakatanga axis of Agbani in Nkanu West Local Government area of the state.
The police spokesperson said that the suspects gave their names as Kingsley Nwafor, 23, residing in Aba, Abia State; Chukwu Ebuka, 28, also a resident in Aba; Nelson Morris, 24, from Owerri and Ikechukwu Onwuabueke, 26, residing in Onitsha in Anambra.
The PPRO said that the only female member of the gang was identified as Miriam Oguejiofor, residing in Aba in Abia State.
He said that Oguejiofor had allegedly abducted their victim identified as Anthony Okeke, 46, from St. Michaels Road, Aba.
According to him, Oguejiofor had allegedly lured the victim to Agbani in Enugu State with proposal of a robust deal to be executed in the town.
“It was further gathered that when the victim got to Agbani, the kidnappers surfaced and pretending to be business associates working with Oguejiofor, took him to their hideout located inside a lodge at Amakatanga axis of Agbani.
“It was learnt that the kidnappers initially demanded N10 million ransom from the victim’s relations but later reduced it to N5 million before police operatives, acting on intelligence information, swooped on them in the early hours of Feb. 2.
“The police operatives rescued the victim unhurt without payment of any ransom as well as arrested the suspects,’’ he said.
Amaraizu said that the suspects had been helping the police operatives in their investigation in relation to their alleged nefarious activities.
The PPRO advised members of the public to be security conscious when they transact businesses so as not to fall for antics of mischief makers.
A Lagos lawyer and human rights activist, Femi Falana (SAN), has urged the Federal Government to withdraw the criminal charges filed against the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen.
Falana said he made the request having confirmed that
a petition had been submitted to the National Judicial Council alleging grave misconduct against Onnoghen.
In the February 3 letter addressed to the Attorney-General of Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, Falana urged the minister to advise President Muhammadu Buhari to reverse the suspension because a public officer could not be removed from office on the basis of an ex parte order granted by any court or tribunal in Nigeria.
The letter reads in part, “Since the charge of false declaration of assets was filed against the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, at the Code of Conduct Tribunal by the Code of Conduct Bureau, I have repeatedly requested you to use your good offices to discontinue the case. My request was anchored on the case of Elelu-Habeeb vs the Attorney-General of the Federation & Ors (2012) 40 WRN 1 where the Supreme Court held that by virtue of Section 292 of the Constitution of Nigeria, the head of any of the judicial arm of state and Federal Governments cannot be removed from office without a prior investigation conducted by the National Judicial Council.
“Having confirmed that you have since submitted a petition to the National Judicial Council alleging grave misconduct against the chief justice, I am compelled to request you, once again, to file a nolle prosequi to discontinue the charge pending against his Lordship at the Code of Conduct Tribunal without any further delay.
“The charge should not be allowed to hang like a Sword of Damocles on the head of the Chief Justice while he is being investigated by the National Judicial Council. In view of your implicit confidence in the ability of members of the National Judicial Council to resolve the matter, you ought to accede to the request to terminate the proceedings at the Code of Conduct Tribunal forthwith.”
Falana posited that the withdrawal of the case from the Code of Conduct Tribunal would lead to the immediate vacation of the ex parte order relied upon by the President to justify the illegal suspension of Onnoghen and the appointment of Justice Tanko Mohammad as Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria.
He said, “Even though by virtue of Paragraph 10 (2) (a) of Part 1 of the Fifth Schedule to the 1999 Constitution (as amended), the Code of Conduct Tribunal is empowered to order any public officer to vacate office, the power cannot be exercised until such a public officer has been tried and convicted for breaching the provisions of the code of conduct for pubic officers.
“But as a public officer cannot be removed from office on the basis of an ex parte order granted by any court or tribunal in Nigeria, we urge you to advise President Buhari to reverse the suspension of the Chief Justice.
“Once the suspension is reversed, Justice Walter Onnoghen will then be prevailed upon to resign as the Chief Justice having lost the moral authority to preside over the affairs of the juridical organ of the government of the Federation.”
He added, “However, if his Lordship does not call it quits or if the National Judicial Council does not recommend his removal from office, you may wish to exercise your powers under Section 174 of the Constitution to prosecute him for failure to declare his assets which is a punishable offence under the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act."
