Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has appointed Mrs Olubamiwo Adeosun, as the Secretary to the State Government (SSG).
Adeosun was the Country Implementation Lead of the Shell Business Operations (SBO), Nigeria.
Mr Taiwo Adisa, the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, disclosed this on Friday in a statement in Ibadan.
Makinde said: ”we are proud to attract Mrs. Olubamiwo Adeosun, a talented technocrat at Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) to support me to drive our transformation agenda.
”Her appointment will enhance the realisation of the vision of embedding prosperity in Oyo State.”
The governor described the appointment of the new SSG as being in line with his firm belief in women’s inclusiveness and diversity in government.
The United States and China have agreed to resume trade negotiations, easing a protracted row that has fuelled a global economic slowdown.
US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping reached the agreement on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Japan.
Mr Trump said the talks had been "excellent".
He had threatened to impose an additional $300bn (£236bn) in tariffs on Chinese imports.
However after the meeting in Osaka, he confirmed that Washington would not be adding the additional tariffs, and that he would continue to negotiate with Beijing "for the time being".
The US president also announced that American companies could continue to sell to the Chinese technology firm Huawei, which Washington has banned because of security concerns.
Egyptian footballer Mohamed Salah is being criticised after suggesting a teammate accused of sexual harassment should be given a "second chance".
The Liverpool superstar, who told Time magazine in April that the Middle East needed to change how it treats women, defended Amr Warda on Thursday in a tweet.
After women came forward with allegations of harassment, the Egyptian Football Federation (EFA) excluded Warda from playing in the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon), which Egypt are currently hosting.
The midfielder initially denied the allegations but on Thursday he apologised in a video on Twitter and promised not to repeat the incidents. Salah is now being criticised for supporting such an act.
A bill is currently going through parliament in Kenya that aims to ban use of mobile phones in online gambling, according to Kenya's Business Daily newspaper.
If the law is passed, anyone who uses a phone to place a bet will be fined 2m Kenyan shillings ($20,000).
This will increase to 50m Kenyan shillings for businesses placing bets using mobile phones.
Gamblers who currently make bets on their mobile phones do not necessarily need a bank account.
The bill aims to curb a business which preys on unemployed youth who spend an average of 5,000 Kenyan shillings on betting each month.
Gambling is a multi-million dollar, growing business in Kenya.
Anthony Porole, the Secretary-General of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has been kidnapped, the acting publicity secretary said.
Sunny Zorvah said Porole was kidnapped around 8.30 p.m. on Friday in his compound at Biara-Ogoni hometown in Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State.
He said the kidnappers shot sporadically before escaping with him to an unknown destination.
Zorvah said that members of MOSOP are saddened over the kidnap and called for Porole’s immediate and unconditional release unhurt
A twitter user has shared her very scary experience yesterday, narrating how she ran into a photography shop at Opic plaza to avoid the rain. She said she met this man there and they had a decent conversation, and shortly afterwards, he did this in her full glare! Watch the shocking video below...
So, I’m here in a photocopy shop At opic plaza, trying to avoid the rain. Then I met this man who is sitted right in front of me. Saying he’s trying to avoid d rain. At first we had a decent conversation, so I thought he was mentally stable until now. pic.twitter.com/q33W9t4Cub
Two ''LGBT community'' members are at war. Bob yesterday had supported Biodun Fatoyibo against Busola Dakolo asking Nigerians to chill saying it is only an allegation. Bisi, got wind of what Bob said, despite Bob already took it down and said Bob always stood for the wrong things. An angry Bob has now fired hi m back saying he must be high on his oyibo prick. You already know Bisi is married to a white man. Who will now settle this quarrel?
Abike Dabiri has also says she is standing with Mrs Busola Dakolo, saying she has got her back while demanding justice for her. Tweeting at her husband, she wrote;
''@timidakolo , what can I say about your wife! A woman of strength, courage. We all, as women, must rise up and demand justice. I sponsored the violence against persons bill which prescribes life imprisonment for rape!!Busola, you’ve got my back!''
Bobrisky has lend his voice on the rape allegation leveled against controversial clergyman, Biodun Fatoyinbo by Busola Dakolo calling it ‘’only an allegation’’.
The words of the Nigerian cross-dresser;
‘’If we all are given an opportunity to talk about dis man here @biodunfatoyinbo as far as am concerned I will say he was nice to me. Have once attended his church in abj before and he was pleasant to me. For the allegation on him I can’t say anything to it because I haven’t seen any evidence to believe that story. I smile for Nigeria 🇳🇬 a lot of you were going to his page to curse him and insult him. He hasn’t been proven guilty yet, y going to his page to cal him names. Is only an allegations... it’s not yet proven by any court that he is guilty of the allegations on him. Y insulting him. Some of you will insult me yeah!!!! But you all know I don’t care 🤷♀️. Let stop internet bully. Have a wonderful day ❤️’’
Wale Jana, CEO of Sapphire Group, has defended Pastor Abiodun Fatoyinbo saying the rape allegation against him is not true and Busola only wants to use it to bring the Pastor down and cash in on it! He then encouraged anyone Pastor Biodun has helped to speak up and defend him at this time! Taking to his instagram page, to attack Busola and her husband, Wale wrote;
I just watched @busoladakolo video I know the world gets emotional the moment a woman mentions that she was raped but if you will take a minute to think objectively; the oldest way a woman can try to destroy a man is to accuse him of rape. Any man is guilty of this offence in the eyes of the public until otherwise and if she has a little social status like the wife of a struggling musician like @timidakolo it makes it look credible.
Why is she doing this? Timi and wife are a pawn in a conspiracy and also because it will help him sell some records which he desperately needs to sell, they will also trend for a while, she has already opened unbroken.ng an online platform to cash in on the drama just like @esewalter and then its over!
I am a proud COZA member and @biodunfatoyinbo is my father and he has been a blessing to millions of people all over the world. This time there will be no silence and since you want war, you will have it. If @biodunfatoyinbo has been a blessing to you, its time to speak up, don't keep quiet!
@timidakolo and @busoladakolo are not saints, she was a choir member and Timi was a choir leader in church when she got pregnant with her first baby, Timi denied that they weren't having an affair and then she got pregnant the second time and that was when the church forced them to get married. This chorister was sleeping with her choir master and was a baby mama with two kids before they got married. These are morally bankrupt people and all that talk in the video will not hold water under cross examination.
Another thing that bothers me is why all the people troubling the body of christ @daddyfreeze @timidakolo@busoladakolo @chudeity all attend a particular church
Timi and Busola have a LOT of skeletons and they both live in glass houses and they are busy throwing stones. Its time to shatter this house of cards these people have built, its time to deal with cyber bullying and vague social media allegations and this couple will be the scape goats.
Celebrities however called him out, saying it’s shameful of him to wrote such….
Banky w has sent out a message to Timi Dakolo’s wife, Busola, after her interview with YNaija where she recounted her alleged rape with popular Abuja Pastor, Biodun Fatoyinbo.
‘’This was so hard to watch.. I am so sorry you went through this nightmare. But I am SOOOO PROUD of you for sharing your truth. You didn't speak up for yourself alone, but for all the voiceless victims who have suffered similar horrors at the hands of predators like him. Sending love, light and support your way. We are standing by you and @timidakolo. God bless, protect and strengthen you. Stay strong. You are incredible. #Unbroken #Unchained#iStandWithBusola;;, he wrote.
Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo of Coza is in the news again. Recall few years ago a lady had called him out of how he allegedly raped her in London and not too long ago another lady called him out. Now, it's popular singer, Timi Dakolo's wife, Busola, a mother of three, who is alleging the clergy man did the sma eto her.
Speaking during a Y! interview with Chude Jideonwo, Busola broke down as she recounted her rape ordeal. Watch the video below...
A terminally-ill dad died a day after marrying the love of his life in an emotional garden ceremony in front of family and friends.
Rugby union player Navar Herbert, whose funeral will be held on his son's first birthday, was diagnosed with a brain tumour nine months ago and his condition rapidly deteriorated with no chance of survival.
The 22-year-old and his partner Maia Falwasser were determined to get married as he battled a cancerous sarcoma, and they tied the knot at in intimate ceremony as he had just hours to live.
Guests were brought to tears as Mr Herbert held his wife's hand and told her how much he loves her after she walked down the aisle.
His bride wipes away tears as she walks down the aisle, while holding her mother's hand.
As she joins Mr Herbert under a canopy, he takes her hand and tells her that he loves her, and she leans down to kiss and hug him.
Their young son Kyrie, wore a white shirt and a bow tie.
His father won't be around when he turns one on July 2.
Many web users have now explained how watching the video has brought them tears.
A dying New Jersey woman identified her identical twin sister as her killer after being knifed in the chest during a fight outside their home, a judge revealed in court on Thursday.
A witness heard Anna Ramirez, 27, say, “Amanda, you stabbed me!” as she lay bleeding on the ground, Camden County Superior Court Judge Edward McBride said, citing the witness’ statement to cops.
The unidentified witness also heard Amanda Ramirez threaten Anna shortly before the stunning intra-family slaying at the Centennial Village Apartments in Camden around 5:40 a.m. Saturday, McBride said.
“Watch what I’ll do!” Amanda allegedly said before going into the building to retrieve a large kitchen knife.
The witness, who lives on an upper floor in the same building as the sisters’ family, heard the threat while watching from a window and went downstairs, arriving outside just after Anna was stabbed, McBride said.
The powerful evidence was revealed during a bail hearing for Amanda, who’s charged with aggravated manslaughter in her twin’s slaying.
Prosecutor Peter Gallagher also handed up a photo of the knife Amanda allegedly plunged into the left side of Anna’s chest.
Authorities haven’t alleged a motive for the deadly attack, which came less than two hours after Anna posted a photo on Facebook that shows both sisters smiling with two friends.
Amanda burst into tears when she entered the courtroom and saw nearly 20 friends and family members, including her mom, sitting in the gallery.
Amanda, who didn’t speak in court, spent most of the session sobbing at the defense table with her face buried in her left shoulder.
Amanda allegedly gave cops conflicting accounts of the incident, including that Anna had lunged at her with the knife.
Defense lawyer Igor Levenberg didn’t challenge probable cause for Amanda’s arrest, but asked that she be released without bail to house arrest with permission to leave for work as a home health aide.
But McBride sided with the prosecution – which said Amanda once skipped a court appearance in a previous, sealed prosecution – and ordered her held without bail.
Amanda’s supporters and her lawyer all declined to comment outside court.
A wife locked up for asking her husband to help around the house has bagged herself a toy boy lover.
Valerie Sanders, from Catterick, North Yorkshire, claims all she did was ask Michael, 58, to ditch some of his gym sessions, to vacuum and to clean the patio doors.
She ended up spending 17 hours in a cell facing charges of controlling behaviour after two police vans and four officers turned up at her house.
After "14 months of hell" in which she didn't know if she would end up in the dock, the trial was thrown out.
Following the traumatic experience the 58-year-old has ditched Michael and fallen for Tony Mableson, a cleaner, who at 33 is 25 years her junior.
Together the happy couple run a mobile cleaning company.
While loved up again, Valerie still took the time to slam her ex's gym habit, which she claimed got between them.
What started as a once or twice a week habit when he started work as a gym manager became an "obsession".
Michael would eat five or six meals a day and mush all his food up in a blender, spelling the end of romantic nights out for the couple.
Valerie told The Sun : "He started to do bodybuilding competitions. It wasn't attractive. It was like cuddling an ironing board."
She also claims Michael was signed up to an escort site called Gentlemen4Hire under the user name BigMikey1400.
Their relationship broke down when he started taking Viagra, causing him to snore at night.
One person was killed and many were injured as hoodlums engaged one another in a fight that lasted more than an hour on Wednesday in the Badore area of Ajah in the Eti-Osa Local Government Area of Lagos.
Punch Metro gathered that the victim was killed when he lost grip of a moving car and fell to the ground, while one of the rear tyres of the vehicle crushed him.
An eyewitness, Tunde Ajala, said the fight started around 1.38am following a heated argument between two friends, who had sang at a night club.
He added that security men, who became indignant with the attitude of the two friends, pushed them out of the club.
Ajala stated that one of the evicted friends, identified simply as Nejo, rushed to his car, fetched a machete and struck at his friend’s head.
According to him, as Nejo was trying to drive out of the area, his injured friend grabbed the steering wheel and struggled with the driver.
After some minutes, Nejo’s friend was said to have become weak and fell off the vehicle. One of the rear tyres crushed him and he died on the spot.
The eyewitness stated that his death incensed the hoodlums around, who chased after Nejo and engaged his men in a fight, which resulted in many getting injured.
Ajala said, “There is a guy popularly known as Nejo; he and his friend were in a club singing with a guy called AZ. I can’t really tell what happened between both of them while they were singing, but they later had a heated argument. The security men at the club pushed them out after attempts to mediate in the dispute failed.
“When Nejo came out of the club, he brought out a machete and cut the other one in his head. As he was about to drive off, the victim grabbed the steering wheel to prevent him from escaping; Nejo then applied force and drove him violently on the road.”
Punch Metro learnt that the Divisional Police Officer of the Lamgbasa Police Station, Adaobi Okafor, mobilised her men to the area to quell the trouble.
It was gathered that four hoodlums, who tried to prevent the police from carrying out their duties, were arrested.
Two people have been arrested in India's Bihar state after a group of men shaved the heads of two women as "punishment" for resisting rape.
The group, which included a local official, ambushed the mother and daughter in their home with the intent of raping them, police said.
When the women resisted, they assaulted them, shaved their heads and paraded them through the village.
Police say they are searching for five others involved in the incident.
"We were beaten with sticks very badly. I have injuries all over my body and my daughter also has some injuries," the mother told the ANI news agency.
The women also said that their heads were shaved in front of the entire village.
"Some men entered the victims' home and tried to molest the daughter," a police officer told local media, adding that her mother helped her fight off the men.
The state's women commission has also condemned the incident, saying that "further action" will be taken.
This is not the first time such an incident has occurred in the state.
A Frenchman who killed his parents, wife and children in a case that inspired a book and two films has been freed after 26 years in jail.
Before the murders, Jean-Claude Romand, now 65, spent 18 years pretending to be a medical student and then a researcher at the World Health Organization (WHO).
He was in fact making money by taking cash from family friends and claiming to invest them in Switzerland.
He went on a killing spree in 1993 as his fraud was about to be exposed.
Romand - who was widely regarded as a model student - failed to turn up for his first-year exam at the Lyon medical school in 1974.
He was allowed to repeat the first year for the next 12 years and never took the exam.
However he told his friends that he was following normal medical studies, and eventually that he had become a doctor.
He went on to pretend that he had got a job at the Geneva-based WHO. In fact he was spending his days driving near the border area between France and Switzerland, and occasionally visited the WHO's public information service.
In 1980 he married his girlfriend, and went on to have two children with her in the late-1980s. He would sometimes tell his family that he was on foreign trips, then stay in motorway rest areas for several days, and return home with gifts.
First Romand lived off money from the sale of the student flat his parents had bought for him in Lyon. When this ran out, he took advantage of relatives and friends who asked him to invest their savings in schemes he claimed to have access to as a UN employee.
By late 1992 some of his victims were asking for their money. One family friend became suspicious after finding that Romand's name was not on the WHO's staff list.
In January 1993, he killed his wife with a rolling pin at their home before killing his seven-year-old daughter and five-year-old son with a rifle.
On the same day, he travelled more than 80km (50 miles) to his parents' house and killed both of them, as well as their dog. He returned home, where his wife and children lay dead, set fire to the house and swallowed sleeping pills.
However Romand was rescued by firefighters, taken into custody, and made a confession. He was convicted of murder in 1996.
He became eligible for parole in 2015 and his release was granted in April this year. NONSENSE.
