Businessman gets N50m bail for laundering $420,000

A Lagos businessman, Yakub Mohammad was on Thursday arraigned before a Federal High Court in Lagos, for allegedly laundering $420.000 and was granted a bail of N50 million.

In a two-count criminal charge number FHC/304C/19 filed before the court by the Economic and Financial Commission legal officer, ABC Ozioko, it was alleged in count one that Mohammed, Adetubosun Samuel Adeyeri still at large and Babangida Dauda still at large sometimes in Lagos between 2012 and 2015 conspired together to take possession of $400,000 which they reasonably ought to have known that such funds formed part of proceed of unlawful activities, thereby committed an offence contrary to section18 (a) of the money laundering Act.


In the second count, Mohammed was alleged to have solely took possession of $20,000.

The accused businessman pleaded not guilty to the charge.

Consequently, based on the bail application of his counsel, the presiding judge, Justice Saliu Saidu. admitted the accused to bail in the sum of N50 million with two sureties, one of which must be a civil servant on grade level 14.

Thereafter, the case was adjourned till 14th of November, 2019 for trial to commence.

source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2019/10/businessman-gets-n50m-bail-for.html

Deji Adeyanju talks about his soap increasing from N800 to N1700 during APC's regime

Deji Adeyanju has taken a swipe at the Government saying his cleansing bar soap which was sold for N800 during PDP's regime is now N1700 and he believes it's still part of APC's transformation of the Nation.

He shared the photo of the new price with a tweet that read;

''When PDP was busy destroying Nigeria Nigeria in 2015, my soap was N800 but today it’s N1700 under APC that is transforming the country.''

source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2019/10/deji-adeyanju-talks-about-his-soap.html

Timi Dakolo praises wife on her birthday

It's Timi Dakolo's wife' birthday today, and to celebrate her, the singer shared photos of her in a black short and sang her praises. Writing about how in love he is, and how she has been a great woman, Timi write;

''HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY WIFE @busoladakolo. YOU ARE A RARE GEM OF A WOMAN,I SALUTE YOU FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU ARE. MOST IMPORTANTLY YOUR PRAYERS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT,I WANT TO JOIN YOU MOST TIMES BUT THAT’S SLEEPS PEAK PERIOD,I WILL IMPROVE.THIS BEAUTY WE ARE MAKING WILL NEVER GET UGLY(THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME EXPERIENCE YOU).''


''I SHOULD BE SHOUTING I LOVE YOU BUT YOU ALREADY KNOW THAT BY NOW.SOMEDAYS WHEN I SEE HOW BEAUTIFUL AND HOT YOU LOOK,I SECRETLY TELL MYSELF *TIMI YOU ARE BLESSED* I SALUTE YOU BUSOLA. MAY GOD GRANT THE SECRET PETITIONS OF YOUR HEART. 😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘.MY KOGI STEW.''

source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2019/10/timi-dakolo-praises-wife-on-her-birthday.html

Abductions becoming normal in Nigeria - Dino Melaye

The Senate on Wednesday urged security agencies in the country to secure lives and property of commuters plying the Abuja-Lokoja and other roads across the country.

The resolution of Senate followed a motion of urgent public importance brought by Senator Dino Melaye (PDP Kogi) on the repeated killings and kidnapping of commuters on the road.

Melaye, who brought the motion under Order 42 and 52 of the senate rule, said that eight people were kidnapped on September 11, while eleven persons were kidnapped on September 18.

He said that another 18 people were kidnapped on September 24, while eight people, including a senior police officer, were killed.


He said that no proper security had been made to protect commuters, adding that it was part of the responsibility of the senate to protect Nigerians.

He said it was time for the senate to enforce citizen diplomacy, noting that the primary function of government is to ensure the protection of lives and property of its citizens.

He decried that kidnapping and killings of Nigerians along Abuja-Lokoja road and other roads across the country were becoming a normal activity for the kidnappers.

He said that the Senate and the federal government must do something extraordinary to curb the menace of kidnapping on the roads.

source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2019/10/abductions-becoming-normal-in-nigeria.html

U.I links Wednesday night fire incident to power surge

The management of the University of Ibadan has linked Wednesday night fire incident at the Faculty of Education of the campus to a power surge.

The incident occurred around 9:00 p.m. during torrential rainfall.

They said the power surge was further triggered by a cooking gas in the common room.

Equipment for social interaction and networking by teaching and non-teaching staff members were completely razed in the resulting fire outbreak.


The varsity’s Director of Communication, Mr. Olatunji Oladejo while responding to enquiries by The Punch in a telephone conversation said,

“Yes, I can confirm to you that there was a fire incident last night. However, contrary to the insinuations that the whole faculty was engulfed in fire, it is not true as the incident only affected the common room of the faculty.

“The affected room was completely razed as we couldn’t lay hands on anything after the incident.

“We thank God that no life was lost.”

source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2019/10/ui-links-wednesday-night-fire-incident.html

Boris Johnson's 'mistress' pictured 'licking salt off woman's breast' at party (photos)

Fresh photos have emerged of Boris Johnson’s alleged mistress Jennifer Arcuri partying before she met the future Prime Minister.

At a party in Trondheim, Norway, Ms Arcuri is shown knocking back “booby shots”, apparently licking salt off another partygoer’s breast, before downing a shot of alcohol and giving a thumbs up.

Videos of the boozy bash were posted on Ms Arcuri’s YouTube channel in 2010.

It comes as fresh claims emerged of apparent concerns over grants received by Ms Arcuri for her firm Innotech after she met Mr Johnson in 2012.

source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2019/10/boris-johnsons-mistress-pictured.html

Breaking! Gunmen abduct Bayelsa commissioner’s father at home

Gunmen have abducted the father of the Bayelsa State Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr Doodei Week, it has been learnt.

Chief George Agbabou Week was kidnapped in the early hours of this morning from his home at Ayama-Ijaw in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state.

source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2019/10/breaking-gunmen-abduct-bayelsa.html

Kylie Jenner cruises to ex Tyga's recording studio in Rolls Royce at 2am after partying with pals

Kylie Jenner is back on the single circuit following her split from rapper boyfriend and babydaddy Travis Scott.

The 22-year-old was pictured for the first time since news of the break-up emerged in exclusive pictures obtained by DailyMail.com.

She partied with pals Anastasia 'Stassi' Karanikolaou and Kelsey Calemine at West Hollywood hot spot Delilah from around midnight until shortly after 2am.

Kylie looked downcast as she got into her blue Rolls Royce with her pals while leaving the hotspot.


In an eyebrow-raising twist, they headed straight to the Sunset Marquis, where Kylie's ex boyfriend Tyga was working in the hotel's recording studio.

Her entourage - Stassi and Kelsey - were spotted getting out of the blue Rolls Royce and later left the hotel via the same exit as Tyga around 3am. (Stassi and Kelsey headed home in a black SUV.)

Kylie managed to stay out of sight during the stop at Sunset Marque, with one onlooker claiming she left via a different exit.

source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2019/10/kylie-jenner-cruises-to-ex-tygas.html

EFCC re-arrests and re-arraigns internet fraudster who absconded after bail (photo)

A fugitive alleged internet fraudster Abolarin Kayode has been re-arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and docked again before Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of Kwara State High Court, sitting in Ilorin.

Kayode was arraigned on seven-count charges, bordering on internet fraud and other fraud-related offences. He was initially arraigned sometime in February 2019 before Justice Babagana Ashigar of Federal High Court, Ilorin but absconded after he was granted bail.

However, his luck ran out sometime in August as EFCC operatives traced him to Government Reserved Area (G.R.A.) Ilorin where he was re-arrested.

One of the charge reads, “That you, Abolarin Kayode (alias Lauren Saint) on or about the 6th day of February 2019, in Ilorin within the jurisdiction of the High Court of Kwara State, with intent to defraud, had in your possession a document containing false pretence, to wit, an email titled “Paid to drive initiative by your Budweiser,” which you sent to one Chad Bakichan American citizen through your acclaimed email laurensaint345@gmail.com, a representation you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 6 read along with Section 8 of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act 2006 and punishable under Section 1 of the same Act.”

On his re-arraignment today, he pleaded not guilty to the charges, prompting prosecution counsel, Nnaemeka Omewa to ask the court for a trial date and for him to be remanded in prison custody.

In his response, counsel to the defendant, Mr I. Abdulazeez pleaded with the court to remand his client in the custody of the EFCC, which was refused by the judge.

Justice Oyinloye adjourned the matter till October 17, 2019 and ordered that the defendant be remanded in prison.

source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2019/10/efcc-re-arrests-and-re-arraigns.html

FFK condemns Buhari's visit to South Africa

A former Nigerian minister, and a known Buhari critic has condemned the President's visit to South Africa saying it is inappropriate and an insult to the Nigerian people. FFK stated this on his twitter page. He said;

“A President does not reward a foreign power that has just slaughtered his citizens with impunity with a state visit. @MBuhari’s visit to South Africa is inappropriate and an insult to the Nigerian people.This is yet another 1st in the ignoble hall of infamy and shame for Nigeria,”






source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2019/10/ffk-condemns-buharis-visit-to-south.html

BBC newsreader and host, Peter Sissons dies at 77

Former BBC and ITV Newsreader Peter Sissons has died aged 77.  Sissons was the face of shows including the BBC Nine O'Clock News and the Ten O'Clock News for a decade from 1993 until 2003.

He'd previously read the news on both ITV and Channel 4, and he was also well known as a host of Question Time.

A statement from Knight Ayton management said: "We are sad to announce that Peter Sissons, the former presenter on ITN, Channel 4 and the BBC, died peacefully last night in Maidstone Hospital, Kent.

"His wife and three children were with him and wish to pass on their thanks to the hospital staff who were so caring and fought gallantly to save him to the end."

source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2019/10/bbc-newsreader-and-host-peter-sissons.html

Judge denies R. Kelly's request to get out of jail

Prosecutors ain't buying R. Kelly's excuse he needs to get outta jail while his criminal case is pending ... saying the singer's full of BS, and is likely to make a run for it.

According to new legal documents, obtained by TMZ ... the government says Kelly's definitely a flight risk if he gets outta jail, even though the singer's legal team claims his passport doesn't contain a single stamp showing international travel.

In documents, prosecutors say earlier this year after he was released on bail in Illinois, Kelly sought to travel to Dubai with his two GFs, each of whom took steps to get their own passports.


Prosecutors also called BS on Kelly's legal team claiming the singer won't tamper with or intimidate witnesses. The government contends Kelly "has a history of coercing women to write letters containing false and embarrassing allegations" so he can later use them as blackmail.

And, then there's this ... prosecutors say Kelly's claim he's broke is misleading because he continues to get hundreds of thousands of dollars in royalties for his music. What's more ... the government argues it found out he's redirecting these royalties to the bank account of a childhood friend, but could easily redirect the dough to himself.

The government's docs don't include any visible response to Kelly's claim he's in failing health and should be released as a result. However, chunks of the document are redacted.

Recall Kelly's lawyer filed legal docs in which they outline various medical issues, including numbness in one of his hands, anxiety and an untreated hernia.

Kelly's legal team, in their filing, assured the judge the singer would not be a flight risk and he vowed not to tamper with or intimidate witnesses.

But his request to be let out of jail was turned down.

source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2019/10/judge-denies-r-kellys-request-to-get.html

R. Kelly will remain in jail at least until his 2020 trial

R.Kelly will not get bail. In a motion filed in Brooklyn on Monday, his legal team argued that he couldn’t flee due to lack of funds and a passport, per the *Chicago Tribune,* and that he’s been held under unfair conditions—that is, only one of his two formerly live-in girlfriends has been allowed to visit at a time.

“Presently, he is only allowed one unrelated person to visit,” his lawyer Steven Greenberg wrote. “In other words, although he lives and has lived with two lady friends, only one of them is allowed to be on his visiting list, and after 90 days he is required to switch. No other friends or professional colleagues are allowed to visit. That is not right.”

When the motion was argued in court on Wednesday, however, Brooklyn federal judge Ann Donnelly didn’t bite. She said that Kelly’s finances are “murky, to say the least,” and that home detention “certainly would do nothing to deter” him from intimidating witnesses.




source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2019/10/r-kelly-will-remain-in-jail-at-least.html

Genevieve Nnaji's 'Lionheart becomes Nigeria's first-ever Oscar entry

The Nigerian Oscars Selection Committee (NOSC) has picked Genevieve Nnaji’s ‘Lionheart’ as the country’s submission to the International Feature Film category of the 2020 Oscars.

The group announced the selection on Wednesday.

The NOSC said they arrived at the decision after a statutory vetting and subsequent voting of entries received from Nigerian filmmakers at home and in the Diaspora.

Among the films received this year, the NOSC said it picked ‘Lionheart’ for its considerable shots at the rules.

The 12-man team boasts of notable Nigeria’s film industry stakeholders of international standing.

source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2019/10/genevieve-nnajis-lionheart-becomes.html

Photos of President Buhari arriving in South Africa

President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived in South Africa to begin a three-day State Visit. The Air Force 001 plane landed in the South African Air force Base, Waterkloof, at 9.10pm on Wednesday.

He was received by Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Dr Naledi Pandor and Minister of Social Development, Ms Lindiwe Zulu.

The visit is at the invitation of President and it will afford the two leaders to discuss the welfare of Nigerians living in the country and find common grounds for building harmonious relations with their hosts.

source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2019/10/photos-of-president-buhari-arriving-in.html

Police arrest one-eyed man over serial murder of 15 people

Police have arrested one-eyed man and suspected leader of the dreaded Eiye confraternity in Ikenne, Sunday Paul, in connection with the killing of 15 people in Ikenne and its environ, Ogun State.

Sunday who is popularly known as Blade and has been on the wanted list of the Ogun State Police Command was arrested on September 21, following surveillance and technical investigation into his activities.

It was discovered that he had been arrested in the past and charged to court on three different occasions, spent time in prison custody over alleged murder related case before coming out recently.
The Police Public Relations Officer in Ogun State, Abimbola Oyeyemi who made this known in a release on Wednesday, said there was wild jubilation in Ikenne when news of Blade’s arrest filtered into the town.




source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2019/10/police-arrest-one-eyed-man-over-serial.html

Lagos state government to close Costain bridge today

The Lagos State government on Wednesday disclosed plans to shut down the Costain Roundabout inwards Funso Williams Avenue for three months, beginning from Thursday October 3.

The closure, according to a statement, is to facilitate the completion of the ongoing construction of the bridge.

The Federal Government had embarked on building a new flyover bridge to replace the existing one whose headroom had been inadequate for the speed train being proposed to connect Apapa ports for wet and cargo freight services.

Government issued a travel advisory for commuters and motorists on the road, urging motorists coming from Funso Williams Avenue  enroute Apapa Road/Iganmu to Apapa to make use of Alaka to Eric Moore to Abebe Village (Nigerian Breweries) and continue the journey, while those heading to Lagos Island from Funso Williams can connect through Eko Bridge from Ijora Olopa or Apongbon.

source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2019/10/lagos-state-government-to-close-costain.html

7 die, 6 injured in World War11 Boeing plane crash

In an update on the World War II-era bomber that crashed Wednesday morning Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, State public safety Commissioner James Rovella said seven people died in the crash and six survived

The B-17G bomber, owned by the Collings Foundation of Stow, Mass., crashed shortly before 10 a.m., bursting into flames and sending up a large plume of smoke that could be seen for miles.

Airport Administrator Kevin Dillon said the aircraft crashed into an airport building as it was trying to make an emergency landing.

The survivors have injuries ranging from minor to critical, he said.

source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2019/10/7-die-6-injured-in-world-war11-boeing.html

Ex-Dallas cop who killed black neighbour is jailed for 10 years (photos)

Ex-Dallas cop Amber Guyger just got 10 years in prison on the heels of her conviction for murdering her neighbor, Botham Jean, whose brother created a shocking moment in court.

The sentencing went down Wednesday in Dallas and while there were cheers when it was announced, the most stunning event came earlier when Brandt Jean gave his victim's impact statement. He spoke directly to Guyger and told her to go to God and ask for forgiveness. He got choked up as he asked the judge if he could hug Guyger.

The judge said yes, and then they tearfully embraced for nearly a minute. You could hear people crying in court.

Brandt said he never wanted to tell his family he's personally forgiven Guyger.

Botham's family members burst into tears after her 10-year sentence was announced, and it appears even Judge Tammy Kemp -- who is black -- was moved by Brandt's statement. After the hearing, she also embraced Guyger.

Guyger fatally shot Jean just over a year ago inside his apartment after she mistakenly entered thinking it was hers and believing he was a burglar. She later lost her job after an internal affairs investigation determined she engaged in "adverse conduct."

source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2019/10/ex-dallas-cop-who-killed-black.html

Muffs singer Kim Shattuck dies after battle with ALS

Kim Shattuck, the lead singer and bassist for The Muffs is dead after a two-year battle with ALS.

Kim's husband shared the sad news wednesday in a social media tribute to his late wife ... saying, "This morning the love of my life Kim passed peacefully in her sleep after a two year struggle with ALS."

Her husband continued ... "I am the man I am today because of her. She will live with all of us through her music, our shared memories and in her fierce creative spirit. I love you always my Kimmy. Thank you for sharing your life with me." She was 56.

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