Umar Pariya, a close aide of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, is dead. He was one of those who served him as Vice-President and forever remained in his close circle.
He reportedly died in Dubai, where Atiku himself has been staying since April.
The cause of death is unknown.
News of Pariya’s death was announced by Yakubu Dogara, the former House of Representatives Speaker in several tweets on Tueday:
“I received with shock the sad news of the sudden death of Alhaji Umar Pariya. Alh Pariya was an exceptionally gifted and energetic man who pursued with courage; causes that were larger than himself. Humility was his trademark and loyalty his seal.
“I extend my heartfelt condolences to his immediate family & pray God to grant them the fortitude to bear this irreparable loss. May his soul rest in perfect peace. I also specially condole with our leader, His Excellency former Vice President, Alhaji
@atiku Wazirin Adamawa
“Undoubtedly, you have lost a loyal, hardworking and committed associate who stood by and with you in all circumstances.May God comfort you and fill the huge vacuum created by Alhaji Pariya’s demise”.
The Duchess of Sussex has climbed the ranks of the Lyst Index to be named as this year's most influential dresser, replacing make-up mogul Kylie Jenner.
The annual fashion report which analyses data collected throughout the year to reveal the biggest trends, revealed that Meghan, 38, has sparked a 216 per cent increase in searches for similar items to those that she has worn.
The mother-of-one who was ranked third last year, has climbed ahead of the Kardashian-Jenner clan to take the top spot. Kylie ranked as seventh this year meanwhile Kim Kardashian joined Meghan's sister-in-law Kate, in failing to make the top ten.
Global fashion search platform Lyst collated data including sales, page views, global media coverage and social media mentions to generate findings on this year's biggest trends - from Meghan's outfits worn across Africa to Lizzo's MTV VMA style.
Stars of the music industry dominate the list, as the Duchess of Sussex is the only royal to feature in the top ten.
The celebs dictating how YOU shop: Lyst's top 10 most powerful influencers in full
Ellen Degeneres melted everyone’s hearts by surprising a gay couple whose parents wont attend their wedding.
No, you’re crying. Kate Austin went viral after tweeting gorgeous snaps of herself proposing to her fiancee Sarah at the Eiffel Tower in Paris, writing: ‘hi @chrissyteigen & @TheEllenShow!!
‘My parents aren’t going to attend my wedding because they don’t like that i’m gay! i need someone to walk me down the aisle and someone else for a “father/daughter” dance. plz come, my fiancée and i would cry #shootingmyshot.’
Ellen simply responded: ‘See you tomorrow,’ before hosting the sweet couple on her show. Explaining that her mum has never been supportive, Kate said: ‘All of my siblings, they’re all absolutely phenomenal with me, my mum was really terrible.
I’ve been out for five years and she’s said everything you could think of under the sun. ‘But coming out and owning it and growing over the past five years has been the greatest gift.’
While she can’t be at the wedding, Ellen surprised the girls with their family and friends on the show, before Sarah took centre stage by proposing to Kate. Well, now we’re emotional.
And now Kylie Jenner, 22, is getting ready for her next Kylie Cosmetics launch by promoting the new holiday-themed line in a skintight red dress.
The reality star posed in the dress with a large bow on the front wearing one of her new lipstick shades just hour after it was announced that she told 51 percent stake in her cosmetics business.
'Feeling naughty this year .. my Holiday '19 collection launches tomorrow at 3pm pst! To celebrate we are offering free shipping all day! Don't be late KylieCosmetics.com,' she said in the caption of her post.
An elephant named after Osama bin Laden has died in captivity after going on a wild stampede that killed five people.
The animal died yesterday at the Orang National Park in Assam, India, where officials were planning to teach it to patrol wildlife parks and sanctuaries.
The elephant killed five people through the Goalpara district in October.
It had been tracked for days by forestry officers and was tranquilised last week.
"The animal was behaving as normal. It was, however, kept with its legs tied so that it couldn't escape," a park ranger, who asked to remain anonymous, told AFP.
The keeper reported the animal dead at roughly 5am on Sunday, he said.
A senior official said the state government had sent a team of veterinarians to carry out an autopsy.
At the moment, the cause of death remains unclear.
Russia could be set for a new ban from major international sporting events like next summer's Olympic and Paralympic Games over claimed inconsistencies in anti-doping data.
The World Anti-Doping Agency's executive committee will gather on December 9 to consider a formal recommendation from its independent compliance review committee (CRC), which is expected to call for the country's national anti-doping agency RUSADA to be declared non-compliant over the anomalies in laboratory results.
The data in question relates to a period from January 2012 to August 2015 and was obtained by WADA in January of this year under the terms of RUSADA's reinstatement to compliance in September 2018.
Nigerian fashion designer, Yomi Casual and his wife, Grace have welcomed another child, a baby boy.
Yomi took to his social media space to share the good news and spoke about how long he had waited for him. He wrote;
'Witnessing your birth brought tears to my eyes my blessed son... I waited patiently for this joyful day to come and here you are OLORUNYOMI KENDRICK MAKUN JNR .. we love you son����'
Kylie Jenner has become a bona fide billionaire at the tender age of 22 after selling the majority stake in her cosmetics brand for $600 million.
Beauty product giant Coty Inc. announced on Monday it was buying a 51 percent stake in Jenner's make-up and skincare empire.
The 22-year-old reality-star-turned-beauty-mogul will still solely own the other 49 percent stake. The sale gives Jenner's company a new valuation of $1.2 billion.
Jenner was named the world's youngest self-made billionaire of all time by Forbes earlier this year with an estimated net worth of $1 billion.
Jenner, who is the youngest and richest of the entire Kardashian-Jenner family, started her make up line in 2015 by selling $29 lipstick kits.
The kits sold out within minutes of launching - an early sign of the power of her now 270 million-plus social media following.
Empress Njamah turned 40 years old yesterday and her long time friend, Annie Idibia wished her a happy birthday with sweet words. Revealing how sweet Empress is, she disclosed she has always been there for the less privileged ones even before the gram. Her words;
She turned 35 this month but after her divorce that became news for soft-sells and blogs, Toke has kept her love life very private. Aside from rumours that she dated an elderly wealthy man, and another Yoruba boy who got married shortly after they allegedly began dating, little or nothing has been heard about her love life.
She has now revealed there's someone actually snacking on it.
Revealing this on social media, the OAP cum actress simply wrote; ''His favorite snack''.
Federal University Dutsinma in Katsina State, has appealed to members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities nationwide and other Nigerians to pray for the release of Abubakar Idris, a Senior Lecturer in the university, abducted three months ago.
Idris, a lecturer in the university’s department of languages and linguistics was abducted on August 2, at his residence in Kaduna State.
A statement by FUDUMA’s Acting Director Public Relations and Protocol, Habibu Matazu, issued on Monday in Katsina, also appealed to the abductors to release the lecturer.
The university noted that since the abduction, there had been no trace of the victim, as there was no demand for ransom nor any other lead on his whereabouts.
According to the statement, the university management had reported the matter to all the relevant security agencies and Governor Aminu Masari for their intervention.
The Social Democratic Party, SDP, governorship candidate in Kogi State, Natasha Akpoti, has alleged that Yahaya Bello has ordered her assassination.
She made this statement on Monday via her official twitter page. Akpoti wrote: “Gov Yahaya Bello has ordered for my assassination.”
Recall that Akpoti on Sunday called for the cancellation of the ongoing gubernatorial election in Kogi Central and part of Lokoja, the state capital.
Akpoti said that “what happened in Kogi Central and other parts of the state was a far cry from a credible election,” hence the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, should cancel the elections and conduct a rerun.
She made the call in a statement she personally signed and issued on Sunday.
According to Akpoti: “Ballot boxes were destroyed and burnt in Okene, Adavi, Ajaokuta and Ogori Magongo and Okehi Local government areas and other parts of the state.”
She added that her party’s official agents were tied and intimidated.
Three buildings were razed down in the Ajebandele village, Osun State, on Sunday, as a tanker laden with petrol exploded there.
Investigation by Punch Metro revealed that the tank compartment suddenly detached from the vehicle and exploded on the Ife/Ondo Road.
The driver of the truck, it was gathered, ran away with the truck’s head to escape being attacked by the villagers.
A villager, Olatunji Adio, told Punch correspondent that the incident happened around 4.30am, adding that the resultant fire raged for about five hours before firefighters extinguished it.
He said three buildings were lost to the fire.
According to him, beside several sacks of dried cocoa belonging to the villagers, which were destroyed, cash and other valuables were also lost to the inferno.
He explained that many travellers plying the road early in the morning were stranded as half of the road was made impassable for hours because of the raging fire.
When contacted, the Administrative Officer of the Osun State Fire Service, Fatai Aremu, said no live was lost to the incident.
A quinquagenarian, Gbenga Oposanwo, has died after 54-year-old Segun Mopoderun allegedly poured hot water on him during an argument in the Ogba-Aguda area of Agege, Lagos State.
Punch Metro gathered that after the attack, the 58-year-old Oposanwo was rushed to hospital for treatment where he later died and his corpse was deposited in the mortuary.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Bala Elkana, said in a statement on Sunday that homicide detectives from the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department had arrested Mopoderun, adding that he would be charged.
Elkana stated, “On Saturday, November 16, 2019, around 6.30 p.m., one Segun Mopoderun, 54, of No. 3 Iyanu Oluwopo Street, off County Road, Ogba-Aguda, Agege, Lagos State, allegedly poured hot water on one Gbenga Oposanwo, 58, of the same address, during an altercation between them.
“The victim was rushed to hospital for treatment, where he later died. The corpse has been deposited in the Ikorodu General Hospital mortuary for autopsy. The suspect has been arrested by homicide detectives from the SCIID, Panti, Yaba. An investigation is ongoing; the suspect will be charged.”
Meanwhile, two suspected traffic robbers, Sylvester Uzo and Azeez Ibrahim, have been arrested for allegedly stealing a phone belonging to one Femi Omojolowo on the Community Road in the Bariga area of the state.
Elkana said operatives from the Bariga Police Division, who acted on a tip-off, arrested the suspects, who had confessed to the crime.
A man who allegedly shot dead his wife and three of their children had been stalking his estranged partner after she filed for divorce, it has been claimed.
Authorities believe José Valdivia, 31, is believed to have murdered Sabrina Rosario, 29, and three of their four children - sons Enzie, 3; Zuriel, 5 and Zeth, 11 - before turning the gun on himself on Saturday in San Diego.
A fourth child, 9-year-old Ezekiel, was seriously injured and was in a critical condition as of Saturday evening after undergoing emergency surgery, family members said.
Now Jocelyn Rosario has claimed her sister Sabrina had filed for divorce from José, but it had not been finalized.
She told NBC7 he had been stalking his wife and telling her he had suicidal thoughts.
Jocelyn also alleged that José had sent her photographs of a gun and alcohol.
Police said the shooting occurred less than 24 hours after Sabrina got a restraining order against him, according to the New York Times. The pair had been childhood sweethearts.
The San Diego Police Department said the shooting occurred in Flintridge Drive in the Paradise Hills neighborhood of San Diego, California, Saturday morning, according to Fox 5.
Police said they received a call at 6.49am Saturday, but nobody spoke to the dispatcher. Arguing could be heard in the background.
Police said that a second 911 call was made by a neighboring relative, who was calling to report the arguing and what apparently sounded like a nail gun being fired within the home.
When officers arrived, nobody answered the door.
Officers then looked through the window and saw a child covered in blood, prompting them to break into the property. Inside, they found the five people who had been shot.
Three-year-old Enzie, as well as his mother Sabrina and father José had died at the scene of the horrific shooting, while Zuriel, five, and Zeth, 11, died in hospital, NBC7 reported.
SDPD Lt. Matt Dobbs told reporters that the incident 'appears to be a tragic case of domestic violence, murder-suicide.'
Dobbs said that investigators believed that 'the male came over this morning, there was some kind of argument or disagreement and he used a hand gun and shoot his family before turning the gun upon himself.'
Police said José is the only suspect in the case and they are not looking for anyone else in connection with the shooting.
Nollywood actress and commediene, Etinosa took to her instagram page to share photos of a Mercedes Benz car gift she got after she replied a DM. Taking to her intagram page, excited Etinosa wrote;
"My Joy knows no bounds. Indeed my Dubai trip comes to an end with the biggest surprise gift I have ever gotten in my life.. It's not even my birthday and I am not going to say "it's God o" or "is hardwork" or "perspire to inspire" it's not anything but a God sent Angel who once reached out to me via my DM!!
Me Like I am still crying I am humbled like I no know wetin to talk. See Dubai no cold but cold dey catch me. Automatic cold just hook me. I dey cry like Omomo dey use my inhaler dey wedge my ches(t. Ahhh God know say for this my life Na biggie belle I get I no get pride is like a dream I don't want to believe yet That meI am leaving Dubai as a Mercedes Benz owner.
And to think that all these started from just a DM! GIRLS REPLY YOUR DM O. I AM SO SO GRATEFUL. MY HEART IS FULL OF GRATITUDE."
Fortune, aged 20, has narrated to policemen how her father started having s.e.x with her when she was 13 years old, and that he would demand s.e.x before paying her school fees.
Her father, the Presiding Pastor of Mount Zion Light House Full Gospel Church, Obio Imo Lane, Uyo, Apostle Williams Okon Bassey, has been arrested by operatives of the Akwa Ibom State Police Command.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Odiko MacDon, who revealed that six others, including another pastor, were arrested for alleged incest and defilement, told newsmen that Fortune said she got pregnant thrice.
He added: “The victim stated that her father started having sexual intercourse with her at the age of 13. The continuous sexual assault led her to become pregnant on three different occasions and the pregnancies were aborted by her mother.
“She further revealed that the first time her father defiled her was in the church vestry. He threatened to place a curse on her if she dares tell anyone about his escapades.
He also demands sex before paying her school fees or catering for her needs.
” The Police Command’s Spokesperson added that “on October 31, one Anwanga Essien Udo of 7, Itiam Street, Uyo, aged 33, a Pastor with Restoration Bible Church, was arrested for having unlawful carnal knowledge of his 10-year-old step-daughter(name withheld).
“When she was left alone with him, rather than be a father to her, he opted to turn her to a sex-machine.”
The police spokesman warned perpetrators of such act to desist forthwith or be willing to contend with the full wrath of the law.
The Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency on Saturday closed eight places of worship in different parts of the state over persistent environmental pollution and disruption of peaceful co-existence of the residents.
The mosques and churches are located at No. 68 Old Otta Road, Orile-Agege; No. 4 Ademola Oshinowo Street, off Love All Street, Ketu; Dele Amuda Street, Lekki; No. 17 Ajileye Street, Ilaje, Bariga; No. 39, Kusenla Road, Elegunshi; and Ajayi Bembe Street, Abule Oja, Yaba.
The General Manager, LASEPA, Dolapo Fasawe, who noted that the clampdown was to mark the World Tolerance Day, said the mutual respect of views, cultures and religions, which the celebration symbolised across the world, must be adhered to by all residents of the state, especially religious organisations.
Fasawe added that there would not be any hiding place for any religious organisation that would not operate within the ambit of the law, regardless of the inclination, noting that religious organisations were supposed to be the bastion of good conduct, tolerance, brotherliness and godly neighbourliness.
“The state government recognises the fact that the state thrives on peaceful co-existence among practitioners of the major religions across the state, but of great concern to the state government is the need for religious activities to be conducted in a manner that worshippers and citizens will not infringe on each others’ rights,” she said.
Operatives of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit have surrounded a house being guarded by a lion on Muri Okunola Street, Victoria Island.
Punch Metro gathered that the officials had been deployed in the house since Friday after residents petitioned the state government on the presence of the wild animal in the house.
The animal reportedly belongs to an Indian national who rented an apartment in the house.
The Head of the task force team, Mr. Yinka Egbeyemi, told PUNCH Metro that he had the instruction of the Commissioner for the Environment and the Ministry of Agriculture to tranquilise the animal today (Monday).
He said the lion would be subsequently transferred to a zoo.
Egbeyemi noted that the Indian might also be prosecuted, as he would have to explain how he brought the carnivore into the state.
