We live in strange times, be careful to avoid becoming another victim. Many people were left in a state of shock on Monday after a beautiful young lady (pictured above) was dropped off by an unknown driver in a GLK Benz in Warri area of Delta state.
It was gathered that the lady couldn’t talk or identify herself after being dropped off in Ajamimogha road in Warri, thereby sparking rumours that she might have been 'used'.
The residents were notified by a road side sweeper who saw her while being dropped off. The lady just sat by the roadside as shocked residents gathered in their numbers and surrounded her while urging her to talk.
It is alleged that the lady lost her memory as she sat mute in public without uttering a word. Efforts are now being made to locate her family or friends in the state.
The United States government says it is compiling reports on the 2019 general elections incidents with a view to giving a proper response on what has happened so far.
The US said it was actively involved with political happenings in the country.
The US Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of African Affairs, Tibor Nagy, said this in a telephone press conference on Tuesday. He said during the build-up to the elections, the US Ambassador, Stuart Symington, and his team took many steps to ensure that things went smoothly.
The US official said in the pre-election period, in the election period and currently in the post-election period, they are providing phenomenal guidance to Washington on how the US Government should and should not respond to the election-related matters.
He said, “So, just rest assured that the United States of America Embassy and the Consulate in Lagos, are actively involved and are doing an absolutely superb job to monitor events and to provide guides on how Washington should react to whatever the events there are.
“As you know, our secretary did make a telephone call.”
Prior to the Presidential and National Assembly election, the US Secretary of State, Michael Pompeo, was reported to have placed a call across to the Presidential Candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar, for a free, fair and credible election in the country while President Donald Trump called Buhari.
The US had threatened to place a visa ban on persons involved in electoral violence.
The American Government had said, “We, and other democratic nations, will be paying close attention to actions of individuals who interfere in the democratic process or instigate violence against the civilian population before, during, or after the elections.
“We will not hesitate to consider consequences –including visa restrictions – for those found to be responsible for election-related violence.”
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has won 111 seats in the House of Representatives, compared to a majority of 211 seats clinched by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
According to the list of the ninth House of Representatives members-elect on the website of the Independent National Electoral Commission,
the All Progressives Grand Alliance will have six members; the Action Democratic Congress, three; the Action Alliance, two and the Peoples Redemption Party, two members.
The African Democratic Party, the Allied Peoples Movement and the Social Democratic Party won a seat each.
The Lagos State Task Force on Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences, on Tuesday, impounded 115 motorcycles, including 22 branded commercial motorcycles called ‘Gokada’ and ‘Maxokada’, for violating the state road traffic laws.
The Chairman of the task force, Olayinka Egbeyemi, stated that the motorcyclists were operating on restricted routes and driving against traffic around Ikeja, Ojota and Maryland.
Egbeyemi, who said the activities of the branded commercial motorcycle operators were illegal and without valid documentation by the state government, ordered the owners and operators of ‘Gokada’ and ‘Maxokada’ to comply with the Lagos State Road Traffic Law, 2012.
He added that in accordance with the law, no commercial motorcycle operator was allowed to operate on 475 restricted routes, including highways and bridges across the state.
He said, “The government enjoined members of the public to henceforth desist from patronising commercial motorcyclists on all restricted routes as the passengers are also liable to prosecution.
“It was an eyesore seeing the operators of these newly-branded commercial motorcycles, ‘Gokada’ and ‘Maxokada’, in competition for the right of way with motorists on highways and bridges across the state”
The task force chairman added that the state Commissioner of Police, Zubairu Mu’azu, had ordered the prosecution of the 10 riders arrested.
One of the arrested ‘Gokada’ riders, Francis Ayeni, who claimed to be paying N3,000 per day to the management of the ride-hailing company, said he was not aware of any documentation that needed to be made with the government.
Another arrested ‘Maxokada’ rider, Adebayo Adeniran, noted that he collected the commercial motorcycle on hire purchase from the management of the firm after he had presented a guarantor.
A prominent Iranian lawyer who defended women arrested for protesting the country’s mandatory head scarf law has been sentenced to a total of 38 years in prison and 148 lashes, according to her husband.
Nasrin Sotoudeh, who has been imprisoned since being taken from her home in June, is already serving a five-year sentence.
The 55-year-old human rights lawyer was sentenced to an additional 33 years — and the 148 lashes — after being convicted of several more national security crimes this month, her husband, Reza Khandan, wrote on Facebook.
But the semiofficial Islamic Republic News Agency reported that a judge at Tehran’s Revolutionary Court said Monday that in addition to the five years of Sotoudeh’s earlier sentence for “colluding against the system,” she was sentenced to two years for “insulting” supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The report did not clarify which cases the judge spoke of, but a rights group said one appeared to be the 2015 conviction.
Sotoudeh told her husband in a brief phone call from prison that she was informed she faces 38 years and the lashes, according to the Center for Human Rights in Iran.
Khandan told the New York-based advocacy group that it is unclear what additional charges Sotoudeh had been convicted of and that his wife had not received the verdict in writing.
“I don’t know how many years she got for each of the charges because my conversation with Nasrin only lasted a few minutes and we didn’t get to the details,” Khandan said, according to a statement on the group’s website.
“I only know that the biggest sentence was 12 years for [encouraging] ‘corruption and prostitution,’” he said, according to the Center for Human Rights in Iran.
Hadi Ghaemi, the center’s executive director, said lashing is an unusual sentence for someone charged in a security case. He said it showed Iran is escalating its crackdown on human rights defenders.
The Oluwo of Iwo land, Oba AbdulRasheed Adewale Akanbi who is currently in London is excited about getting Royalty treatment even in London. The Oba posted the photo saying the white man in the pic is his umbrella man -- which means as an Oba is Royalty isn't limited to Nigeria alone. Sharing the photo on Instagram, he wrote;
''In London...the white man is my umbrella man !! Aiye Oba Aiye to po repete #unlimitedRoyaltyEnjoyment with my drummers and trumpeters.... shekere ni Oba njo !!''
Lol. A Nigerian girl, who says she went on a 6-hour journey to meet a man she met online who hyped his d--k saying, it was everything, as come on twitter to reveal her disappointment. According to the lady, he lasted only 7 mins and that is quite disappointing.
But other men responded to her saying, they mostly last 3 mins, while another even said, a professional boxing round is just 4 mins and another ordered her to give the man in question her next salary because indeed he was a prof! He broke a record by being on for 7 mins!
Adekunle Gold while trying to keep up with his fans asked them what crazy things they will do when they become rich,and one of them actually wants his woman! Lol, the fan replied telling him, he will take his wife -- Simi from him. Adekunle however responded to that one, lol.
She's expecting her first baby in a matter of weeks. But when it comes to navigating the heights of fashion, the Duchess of Sussex is proving herself a towering success.
Now into her third trimester, Meghan, 37, is at a stage of pregnancy at which most women just want to slide their weary feet into comfortable slippers.
At eight months’ pregnant, some mothers-to-be can’t even see their feet, let alone contemplate squeezing them into a pair of vertiginous heels, an expert says.
Yet, day after day, the Duchess is sashaying around — gazelle-like — in a succession of skyscraper stilettos that would give many a non-pregnant woman vertigo.
So how does Her Royal High-Heeledness do it and should other heavily pregnant women follow suit?
On Monday, Meghan wore a pair of her favourite Aquazzura Deneuve suede pumps in black (she has them in several colours) with a green Erdem coat and dress for Commonwealth Day.
Asked how she was managing to cope in heels at one recent engagement, Meghan reportedly quipped: ‘One day at a time.’
Midwife Claire Chaubert says: ‘All of your ligaments are softer in pregnancy and your body is not in its usual state of alignment.
‘But Meghan is clearly comfortable in her heels, and it’s something she is used to. My advice to any woman who does wear high heels in pregnancy would be not to wear them past the level of comfort.’
With a mother who is a yoga instructor and as a keen yogi herself, Meghan is well-versed in the benefits for body and mind.
‘People who do quite a lot of yoga tend to have a much stronger sense of balance, as well as better muscle control and strength,’ says Claire.
The College of Podiatry recommends that pregnant women wear ‘comfortable, supportive footwear’, preferably with an adjustable fitting such as Velcro or laces and avoid wearing high heels as they can place ‘unnecessary pressure on your joints at a time when they are already under strain’.
College spokeswoman Emma McConnachie explains that during pregnancy feet and ankles can change shape, even during a day.
Some women even need to increase their shoe size as fluid from the veins leaks into the surrounding tissue of the legs and feet and doesn’t drain.
Emma says the perfect heel height during pregnancy is just over an inch, which shifts the weight slightly forward for comfort, but she adds: ‘Women who regularly wear high heels can find the muscles at the back of their legs shorten, meaning it is actually uncomfortable to wear flats.’
As for Meghan, Emma speculates: ‘I bet she has a pair of slippers in the car!’
Oyo State Governor-elect, Seyi Makinde, has raised the alarm that the outgoing state government has been moving Millions of Naira from the state coffers in the last 72 hours, after he defeated the APC candidate in last Saturday's governorship election.
The allegation was contained in a statement on Tuesday by Makinde’s spokesman, Dotun Oyelade.
He claimed that credible sources within government said contracts were being used to take millions from government coffers with the connivance of a few civil servants.
Makinde said while he did not want a time-wasting probe as he had promised during his campaign, he would set a dateline upon all contracts awarded and payments made under suspicious circumstances by the current administration.
The statement read, “The governor-elect may be forced to open the books if the aim is to rush money out through foul means before May 29 and leave the state in further financial crisis.
“According to Makinde, cases of unscheduled recruitments and appointments, including back-dated ones, have also been brought before him.
“Government will not hesitate to reverse any such move with consequences on those found to have committed infractions of the civil service guidelines.”
Kano Governor and All Progressives Congress candidate Umar Ganduje has said his PDP challenger and his supporters would receive the shocker of their lives in the scheduled election in few areas.
The Commissioner for Information, Youth & Culture, Malam Muhammad Garba, said the incumbent remained unruffled by the development.
”Ganduje is unperturbed by the wishful thinking and slapdash deportment of the PDP candidate considering what happened in the inconclusive election widely characterized by alleged vote buying and voter intimidation by the party,” Garba, who doubles as the Chairman, Publicity of the 2019 Election Committee for the APC, said in a statement.
He said the ruling party and its candidate remain upbeat and sure of victory as Kano remained an APC state.
Garba said: “Ganduje remain committed to the conduct of free and fair election, all loopholes that gave them chance of rigging, vote buying and intimidation of voters have been blocked.
“APC as a party has also re-strategised and very confident of victory because the local government areas where the rerun will take place remain the APC stronghold and the electorate in these areas have made up their mind to vote massively for the Governor they trust.”
The statement said the APC has nothing to do with a campaign of calumny but on issues that pertain to the development of the state which it noted, endeared Ganduje to the minds of the people.
“The modest achievements recorded so far by the Ganduje administration have touched the lives of the people in all sectors of development and also remain determined to continue if returned,” the statement said.
Opposition political parties under the aegis of Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) on Tuesday released a list of five Justices of the Court of Appeal who it said had been approved to hear the petition of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, against the results of the February 23 presidential election.
It claimed the list was approved by the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, “with the endorsement of the Buhari APC.”
The coalition’s national spokesman, Imo Ugochinyere, disclosed this in a statement made available to journalists in Abuja.
Ugochinyere listed members of the panel to include Bulkachuwa (presiding judge), Justice Abdu Aboki, Justice Peter Ige, Justice J. S. Ikyegh, and Justice S. C. Oseji.
He alleged that the list was drawn from a list of eight justices submitted to the Presidency for approval.
CUPPs said Bulkachuwa, Aboki and Ige should immediately recuse themselves from the panel because they were likely to be bias in favour of President Muhammadu Buhari whose victory Atiku was challenging.
He said while Bulkachuwa is a wife of a Senator-elect on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Aboki and Ige had already started by rejecting Atiku’s application for forensic analysis of the materials used for the presidential election.
He said, “It is based on the foregoing and the evidence in the custody of CUPPs that we immediately, categorically and unambiguously demand that Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, Justice Abdu Aboki and Justice Peter Ige recuse themselves from the probe.
“The intelligence at our disposal which formed the basis for all the views canvassed in this statement is that these three Justices have already given their commitment to the Presidency that they will rule in favour of the President at the tribunal, hence they cannot dispense justice.
“Justices Aboki and Peter Ige, in furtherance of this commitment, had already and very strangely so denied Alhaji Atiku Abubakar his application for forensic analysis of the materials used for the presidential election.”
He added, “We also demand that Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa recuses herself from the administrative duty of reconstituting the panel, but that should be done by an impartial senior justice of the court.
“This idea of the Villa approving list of Justices that will sit over any matter, particularly the one where the President is a party, is novel and tyranny taken too far. The President has annexed the judiciary and the hope of the common man is blighted. Nigerians must rise in defence of the judiciary and insist that justice must be done in this circumstance.
“Let the world and Nigerians tell Justice Bulkachuwa not to take Nigerians for fools and bring the judiciary to further ridicule with her plan to constitute a panel that has been briefed with one agenda, which is to stamp the electoral robbery perpetrated by her husband’s party, the APC.”
Jennifer Lopez has shared photos of the moment fiance Alex Rodriguez got down on one knee on the beach in the Bahamas on Saturday to propose to her.
The 43-year-old former baseball player is seen placing the large emerald-cut diamond, estimated to be worth around $5 million on Jennifer's left hand after she said yes.
The Amor, Amor, Amor singer covers her mouth in shock as she looks down at her husband-to-be as well as the impressive rock.
The waiting for Tonight hitmaker captioned the images simply: '3.9.19'.
Days after an unidentified supporter made a payment of $161,000 in back child support on behalf of R. Kelly, new allegations surrounding the embattled singer continue to emerge.
During an interview with Vlad TV, the R&B singer's former girlfriend, Lisa Van Allen, spoke about how Kelly allegedly confided in her about his past s-xual experiences, as well as discussed his highly publicized connection to Aaliyah.
However, according to Van Allen, Kelly also allegedly engaged in s-xual intercourse with Aaliyah's mother while the aspiring singer was asleep in the other room. Her comments signify yet another disturbing allegation to surface following the continued investigation into the singer's criminal behavior.
"He actually stayed at their home in Detroit," Van Allen told DJ Vlad, referencing Aaliyah's parents' home. "And [Aaliyah's] mother was sexually attracted to him as well and [R. Kelly] said when Aaliyah would go to sleep, that he would go in the living room and him and her would do s-xual acts on the couch while Aaliyah was sleeping in the bedroom."
Elsewhere throughout the sit-down, Van Allen discusses the decades-old rumor that the late singer and Kelly had gotten married due to Aaliyah becoming pregnant when she was only 15 years old, resulting in the decision to forge a marriage license that changed her age to 18. Their secret and illegal marriage was reportedly ended in 1995.
Per Van Allen, the rumor Kelly got Aaliyah pregnant is indeed fact, adding a speculative explanation as to why Aaliyah's family has vocally supported the since-disgraced singer over the years.
"The reason [Kelly and Aaliyah] got married was because they felt like if he was married to her and if he said he thought she was 18, that he wouldn't be charged if someone found out she was pregnant until they were able to get the abortion and get [the marriage] annulled," Van Allen shared with DJ Vlad.
Van Allen and Kelly were romantically linked while the former was only 17 years old. She claims their own past s-xual abuse as children helped bring them close together.
Missy Elliott continues to impart wisdom, inspire the masses and uphold her own legacy with grace.
After making history as the first female hip hop artist to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame; the veteran producer, songwriter, rapper and singer has been awarded yet another exciting accolade to celebrate.
As announced by the Berklee College of Music, the Virginia native will be recognized for her multifaceted talents this spring and will be awarded an honorary doctorate from the esteemed institution alongside Justin Timberlake and Alex Lacamoire.
According to a statement on Berklee's website, Elliott and her fellow honorees "are being recognized for their achievements and influences in music, and for their enduring global impact."
The ceremony will take place at Boston University's Agganis Arena on May 11. To add to the festivities, each honored artist will have their music performed by students during the ceremony. Unfortunately, the event will not be made available to the public.
A beggar, Binta Umar, yesterday, dragged a fellow beggar, Hajara Kano, to a Sharia Court ll sitting at Magajin Gari, Kaduna over alleged assault and stealing. Umar said she was in court because Kano stole her charity money given to her by a passer-by.
She alleged that when she confronted Kano about the matter, she hit her and threw her into the gutter. The complainant prayed the court to grant her justice and punish Kano for what she did.
The defendant however was not in court to answer to the charges. The Judge, Musa Sa’ad- Goma, said the defendant had disobeyed the court by not appearing which contravened Section 300 of Penal Code. The judge ordered the immediate arrest of the defendant and adjourned the case until March 19 for further hearing.
The Independent National Electoral Commission on Tuesday fixed March 23 for supplementary polls in six states where governorship elections were declared inconclusive after the March 9 elections.
This was contained in a statement issued by the National Officer and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr Festus Okoye, after a meeting of the senior management team of the electoral body to review the conduct of the 29 governorship and 991 state Houses of Assembly elections on March 9.
Okoye stated, “The Returning Officers in Adamawa, Bauchi, Benue, Kano, Plateau and Sokoto states declared the governorship elections inconclusive. Consequently, the commission will conduct supplementary elections on Saturday, March 23, 2019 to conclude the process.”
A 23-year-old polytechnic graduate, Lucky Abel, has been arrested by the personnel of the Edo State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency for alleged drug peddling.
The suspect, who hails from Benue State, was arrested at Okada in the Ovia North-East Local Government Area of the state.
Drugs allegedly found in his possession included crack cocaine, skunk cannabis and rohypnol.
Skunk is a hybrid sativa strain of marijuana that creates a skunk-like smell.
The Commander of the NDLEA in Edo State, Buba Wakawa, confirmed the suspect’s arrest.
He stated, “The arrest was based on information received on the illegal activities of the suspect in the state.
“Drug exhibits recovered from the suspect include eight wraps of crack cocaine weighing 24 grams, 53 wraps of skunk cannabis weighing 250 grams and 45 tablets of rohypnol.”
Wakawa urged the youth and members of the public to shun drug trafficking and fulfil their dreams and aspirations in life.
“Drug trafficking and abuse will cut short your enviable future. This suspect ought to be preparing to further his studies or engage in a meaningful work but that can only take place after he has been cleared of this criminal charge,” he added.
The suspect said in his statement that he had been smuggling drugs for the past one year.
Abel stated, “I have been selling drugs for the past one year. I attended Okada Grammar School, Okada, and graduated in 2010. Thereafter, I studied Business Administration at the Edo State Polytechnic, Usen, in 2013.
“After my diploma course, l wanted a job to sustain myself but there was none. That was how a friend introduced me to drug trafficking. In order to get more profit, l sell different types of drugs like cocaine, cannabis and rohypnol. I get my supply from New Road in the Ovia South-West Local Government Area of Edo State.”
The NDLEA commander, who said the suspect would be charged to court after investigation, warned drug dealers to quit the illegal business or be prepared for arrest and prosecution.
