Don Jazzy's sister, Joysolano has graduated with 1st class in Film and Television Production.Her proud parents were there to celebrate her. Taking to his ig page, his proud dad wrote;
''We thank God as we witness and celebrate my daughter @joysolano1 on her graduation with a first class BA (Hon. ) in Film and Television Production today. To God be the glory. @indianpicolo @donjazzy @gen.jaymavin @dprincemavin @fionasolanox . ''
A killer disease known as gastroenteritis has invaded Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, with 117 residents of the state affected by the disease.
Gastroenteritis, also known as infectious diarrhea, is inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract—the stomach and small intestine. Symptoms may include diarrhea, vomiting and abdominal pain. Fever, lack of energy and dehydration may also occur.
In view of the outbreak, the Lagos State Government reiterated the need for citizens to maintain high standard of personal and environmental hygiene at all times as part of the measures to prevent the outbreak of epidemics, especially the spread of gastroenteritis also known as vomiting and diarrhea which has been reported in the State.
Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi who stated this on Thursday while reviewing the situation report of cases of the gastroenteritis recorded in the State after the weekly biosecurity update meeting disclosed that 117 cases of the disease had been seen at health facilities in five local government area.
Big brother naija star, Asogwa Alexandra stepped out with her beautiful mother. Captioning the fun photos of them, she wrote;
''Dear mother, please kindly stop arguing with me whenever I’m driving, you are not the one driving or else, I’ll only take you out when I’m passing a bridge because that’s the only
time you are calm . Please stop complaining ten times about one thing, it makes me want to vanish. Kindly stop asking me “who is that “ when ever someone calls and stop picking my calls, one day now, Mr right might call and you’ll pick and start asking all these your “may I know who is speaking, it’s her mother “ , “where are you from” e.t.c questions. You’ll just chase him away .
Stop beating me ooooooo. I’m 23 . The other day , you gave me mark because of loud music. Stop forcing me to eat. I’m a grown woman. Stop saying you will come to my house any time you like!!! I use to call you before I come to your own house. Stop calling me 1000 times to ask when I’m going home, I can take care of myself (I think).
Chaiii, the complaints are too much but once she leaves, I’ll start missing her. What is the problem?. @ebere.asogwa you are the best and most supportive mum ever. I love you to the moon and back. I’ll never trade you for anything. One last thing, please, please and please, stop trying to get the celebrity bending waist pose. You spoilt all our pictures. @teez_dora @itz_collikazy I took the bold step. I’ll take the bullet for us ��♀️��♀️��♀️#motheranddaughter #mymothersdaughter''.
The Nigerian Navy operatives attached to the Forward Operating Base (FOB) on Thursday arrested five suspected pipeline vandals with 136 jerry cans laden with Premium Motor Spirit (PMS).
The suspects; Oseni Noah, Toyin Hunsa, Rasheed Amish, Kamoru Ishau and Ibrahim Ojogbele, were arrested and handed over to officials of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).
They were nabbed along Badagry creeks by naval personnel attached to the FOB, Badagry, while they were conveying the suspected stolen products on a wooden boat towards Benin Republic.
The Commander FOB Badagry, Capt. Tamuno Senibo, said that the suspects were intercepted by a navy boat on routine patrol.
He said that the boat has 136 jerry cans of 25 litres capacity of suspected PMS.
“The estimated volume of this product is about 3,400 litres, while the boat and out board engines remained seized.
A man who indeed looks like a woman, and has put it upon himself to always dress like one has been arrested and stripped!
So he started a distance relationship with another man and he was nabbed in the process.
Twitter user, Solomon_uwadi who gave the gist however didn't mention, if the stripping and nabbing took place when the man went visiting his fellow man. But ofcus he shared photos 👆
A member of the House of Representatives, Abdulmumin Jibrin has sued human rights activist and social media influencer Segalinks with real names as Segun Awosanya over defamation of character.
According to the lawmaker, Segalink had tweeted about him having foreign accounts and hiding it.
Jibrin through his lawyers have asked Segalink to publicly apologise for the statement and pay a sum of N3,000,000,000 as damages, else they would be heading to court.
Segalink has also replied asking Mr Jibrin to bring it on, while also saying, he is not the originator of the story, but Nigerian newspapers. His tweets below...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday at the State House Banquet Hall, Abuja, proposed a toast to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
The vice president’s toast was proposed at a dinner organised in honour of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Prof. Vuong Hue.
Osinbajo, had earlier, at the Presidential Villa, received Hue and his team and witnessed the signing and exchange of the Memorandum of Understanding on waiver of visa requirements for holders of valid diplomatic and official passports.
The vice president, during the toast said that Hue was his long-lost brother as both of them were born in the same year and same month– March, 1957.
Osinbajo added that he and Hue were both lecturers and professors.
He said that Nigeria and Vietnam had maintained long standing diplomatic relations since 1976 but no high-level engagements.
“So, this visit is very significant because we will be looking at the possibility of setting up a bilateral commission between Vietnam and Nigeria so that we can concretise the existing areas of cooperation that we discussed earlier today.
“I am confident that we can build on the successes recorded in the past while we work on boosting cooperation in business, trade and investment and social and cultural relationship between both countries.
“We agreed on promoting a friendly football match between Vietnam and Nigeria.
“The Super Eagles and the Vietnamese national team and as well the female national team of Vietnam and our Super Falcons.
“First toast to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam; long live the Socialist Republic of Vietnam; the next will be the Federal Republic of Nigeria, long live the Federal Republic of Nigeria,’’ he said.
In his response, Hue said that Nigeria and Vietnam had a lot of things in common.
He said that aside boosting economic and trade ties, there was need to enhance cultural relationship.
Well they listed the names of all these people believe to be in one prison or the other and asked Nigerians what they share in common. They got responses too...
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, criticised the verdict of the Supreme Court on the 2019 presidential elections on Wednesday.
Atiku, the main challenger to President Muhammadu Buhari at the election, said the top court has been hijacked by Mr Buhari’s dictatorial tendencies, even though he accepted its verdict. Read his full statement below...
Supreme Court Judgement, Part of our Democratic Challenges
It is said that the Supreme Court is not final because it is infallible, but that it is infallible because it is final. While I believe that only God is infallible everywhere, and only Nigerians are infallible in our democracy, I must accept that the judicial route I chose to take, as a democrat, has come to a conclusion.
Whether justice was done, is left to the Nigerian people to decide. As a democrat, I fought a good fight for the Nigerian people. I will keep on fighting for Nigeria and for democracy, and also for justice.
I thank all Nigerians who have stayed the course since the commencement of trial in the petition on the February 23 presidential election.
The judgement is part of democratic challenges we must face as a nation.
The Nigerian judiciary, just like every estate of our realm, has been sabotaged and undermined by an overreaching and dictatorial cabal, who have undone almost all the democratic progress the Peoples Democratic Party and its administrations nurtured for sixteen years, up until 2015.
Can Nigeria continue like this? Recently, former United States Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, averred that Nigeria had rolled back the democratic gains she made in 2015. When democracy is rolled back, the economy, the society and the judiciary will not be far behind. Today, the nail has been put on the coffin and the gains we collectively made since 1999 are evaporating, and a requiem is at hand.
In a democracy, you need a strong judiciary, a free press and an impartial electoral umpire. Nigeria has none of those three elements as at today.
One man, one woman, one youth, one vote, should be the only way to make gains in a democracy. And when that is thwarted, the clock starts to tick.
Two and a half millennia ago, Sophocles said “If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: “Thou shalt not ration justice.” Nigeria will do well to observe this warning.
To those who think they have broken my spirit, I am sorry to disappoint you. I am too focused on Nigeria to think about myself. I gave up that luxury twenty years ago. The question is not if I am broken. The question is if Nigeria is whole?
This is not a time for too many words. It will suffice for me to remind Nigeria of this – we are an independent nation and we are the architects of our fate. If we do not build a free Nigeria, we may end up destroying her, and God forbid that that should be the case.
I was a democrat, I am a democrat, and I will always continue to be a democrat. May God bless Nigeria.
A man bludgeoned his fiancée to death after finding out she was having an affair with a work colleague, a court heard.
Roderick Deakin-White, 38, is claimed to have murdered 35-year-old Amy Parsons, after the Australian secretary started seeing James Saunders, who worked with her at a City insurance firm.
Jurors heard the couple had been together for several years before Ms Parsons became unhappy with the Deakin-White's cross-dressing fetish.
After learning of Ms Parsons' affair with Mr Saunders, Deakin-White, who had admitted manslaughter, sent a flurry of angry messages to friends calling his love rival a 'bastard, creep, and bloody nobhead.'
He slammed the victim as a 'sneaky bitch' and a 'nasty, nasty person' in further texts before telling a friend he was going to do 'something stupid,' jurors heard.
Deakin-White allegedly decided 'if he couldn't have her no one can' after discovering love messages between Ms Parsons and Mr Saunders.
Ms Parsons was about to end their relationship when Deakin-White battered her to death in the shower, the court heard.
Police went to their upmarket apartment in Crowder Street, Whitechapel, and found Ms Parsons lying in a pool of her own blood in the bath inside the fifth-floor flat.
She was pronounced dead at the scene and a post-mortem exam revealed she had been struck several times with severe force.
The killer has admitted manslaughter but denies murder.
Deakin-White sat in the dock supported by his parents in the public gallery at Snaresbrook Crown Court.
Taylor Swift looks set to smash Michael Jackson’s all-time record for the most AMA wins as it's confirmed she'll receive the coveted Artist Of The Decade award at this year’s ceremony.
The 29-year-old has already picked up 23 American Music Awards during her career, with this award equalling the King of Pop’s tally of 24.
The announcement was made on the official AMA Twitter account, with the excited post reading: “She's won more #AMAs than anyone this decade… She's a five-time 2019 #AMAs nominee… AND she's performing at this year's #AMAs LIVE on Nov. 24… @taylorswift13 is our ARTIST OF THE DECADE”.
The ceremony will be broadcast live from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on November 24 on American network ABC, with Taylor taking to the stage to perform a medley of her biggest hits from the last decade.
A great-great grandmother in Russia, said to be the oldest woman in the world, has died aged 123.
Tanzilya Bisembeyeva, born two months before the coronation of tragic last tsar Nicholas II in 1896, had lived during three centuries, it is claimed.
She survived the Russian revolution, the tyranny of Stalin and the Soviet collapse through “optimism and hard work”.
She also drank kefir - fermented milk - and friends said she was over 100 before she went to see a doctor.
Nurgali Baitemirov, the senior official in her district in Astrakhan region, told Russian government newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta: “She died peacefully, she was buried in the family cemetery. The whole village came to see her depart on her last journey.”
She was 53 when she had her first child, a son, by her second husband. She had two more sons, then 10 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
Her claim to be the oldest woman in her country was recognised by the Russian Book of Records and evidently the Russian government.
The Airport Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA, has arrested a 54-year-old widow and mother of six for ingesting 60 wraps of heroin. The woman was arrested at Lagos Airport over the weekend.
The command also arrested a 45 old man for ingestion of 93 wraps of Cocaine during the outward clearing of Passengers’to board a Lufthansa flight to Frankfurt.
Briefing reporters on the arrest, the NDLEA Airport Commander MMIA, Garba Ahmadu said, the 54-year-old woman who ingested 60 wraps had difficulty excreting 28 warps out the 60 she ingested.
He said her life was currently in danger because of the remaining wraps.
Ahmadu noted that the female trafficker Alhaja Sulaimon Kudirat Adunni who hails from Abeokuta Ogun State started having problems a day after her arrest as she developed complications, vomited two wraps of suspected substance resulting from irritation and stomach discomfort.
According to him, she coughed intermittently before she started vomiting and fainted in the process.
“She was promptly rushed to the Lagos State University Teaching hospital LASUTH. The suspect was examined by a team of medical specialists, ultrasound scan performed and CT scan was later recommended, which was immediately carried out on the suspect”.
The NDLEA Airport Commander noted that after she was certified stable, the suspect was taken back to custody for further investigation in order to unravel other possible associates that are linked to the case.
Ahmadu assured that the suspect was kept under strict observation for possible excretion of the remaining 32 wraps.
The second suspect Adindu Obinna Hyacinth 45 from Nnewi Anambra state according to the NDLEA commander did not give much problems as he excreted the 93 wraps ingested.
But, one of the wraps was in the process of almost unwrapping in his stomach.
“In the process of excretion, the suspect made the first excretion of 35 wraps of suspected hard drugs and it was observed that one of the wraps excreted was almost unwrapped”.
He added that ” the management promptly referred the suspect for medical attention at LASUTH. The suspect was observed at the hospital by a team of medical specialist and later administered some medications”.
“Subsequently, he excreted a total of 93 wraps of suspected hard drugs with a total weight of 1.620kg”.
The female suspect Alhaja Sulaimon Kudirat Adunni said she was given the drug to take to London by One Mukaila who was introduced to her by a friend.
She said she was promised one million naira.
“This na my first time”, she confessed.
The other suspect Adindu Obinna Hyacinth said he got into the illicit business because someone stole his six million naira.
He said:” I decided to embark on the journey because someone stole my money.”
He said one Chuks promised him 3,000 Euros if he was successful in taking the drugs to Frankfurt.
The first military governor of Lagos State, Brig-Gen. Mobolaji Olufunso Johnson, is dead. His son, Deji, confirmed that the retired soldier who was aged 83, passed on in the late hours of Wednesday, 30th Oct 2019.
Johnson was first appointed by Aguiyi-Ironsi as the administrator of the former federal territory of Lagos in 1966.
In May 1967, Lagos State was created and Johnson became the first governor of Lagos.
The state was now composed of the old Federal Territory of Victoria Island, Ikoyi and Lagos Island plus the additions of Epe, Badagry, Ikorodu and Ikeja divisions.
What was the feeling when you became the governor of Lagos State at such a young age of 31?
The appointment came suddenly upon me as a young man and I had to take it. I took it as a challenge and faced it squarely. The challenges were not difficult to face and overcome because of the upbringing I had under my father, Pa ‘Motola Johnson, who was a strong character and raised all of us his children to be equally strong in character. While I was governor, my father was always reminding me not to tarnish the name and image of the family. That kept me focused and steady throughout my tenure. No wonder after the investigations of the Murtala Muhammed government that came after the government of General Yakubu Gowon, in which I served as governor, I was one of the governors given a clean bill of health as free from corrupt practices. I must say that a major problem in our political life today is that we have many in positions of authority who never had good home training. I am eternally grateful to God for the good upbringing under my father, which shaped my life for good.
What were the challenges you met on ground as the pioneer governor of the state?
Lagos State came into existence as a child of circumstance. The country was on the verge of civil war and one of the masterstrokes General Gowon applied was the creation of states, which pulled the carpet off the feet of [Chukwuemeka Odumegwu] Ojukwu. I came in first as the administrator of the Federal Capital before states were created. The feeling of Nigerians was that Lagos was a no man’s land. I had to face the challenge of correcting that erroneous impression. There was the need to let people know that the territory called Lagos belonged to a people with their distinct historical background, culture and tradition. Again, quite a good number of people thought the creation of Lagos was a ruse, that it could not be; that it could not work. So, we had to make sure it worked. We had to work round the clock to ensure that Lagos became a reality and I am happy to say that 50 years down the road, Lagos State is a reality, a model state waxing stronger.
Justice Chioma Nwosu-Iheme of the Court of Appeal Benin division has been kidnapped. According to information shared by Barrister NG, Her Lordship was kidnapped by unknown gunmen while driving to Owerri from Benin this morning.
The vicious gunmen who killed her police orderly before the abduction was said to have trailed and intercepted her Jeep along Benin-Agbor road near Christ Chosen Church.
An eye witness told Crime News team that a Toyota Voltron car made up of 4 unknown gunmen suddenly overtook the Judge’s car and immediately opened fire, killing the police orderly on the spot.
They then shot the tyre of the jeep forcing the driver to stop.
The female judge was hurriedly whisked into the hoodlums’ car where she was taken to an unknown destination. The police in Edo state is yet to make any statement just as the kidnappers are yet to make any ransom demand.
