An angry man has called Nigerian women 'second class women' after he was denied the Nigerian citizenship because his partner is a woman. He has been married to a Nigerian for 5 years and has lived in the country, but was denied citizenship when his wife helped him put it through to become a Nigerian. They told him, he can't be a citizen because his wife is a woman.
While the contestant from South Africa took home the crown at Miss Universe on Sunday, Miss Myanmar made some news of her own: She was the first-ever openly gay woman to compete in the pageant.
Swe Zin Htet, 21, came out publicly just days before taking the stage at Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, Georgia on December 8.
And now, she's using her visibility to help the LGBTQ community — especially in her home country of Myanmar, where being gay is illegal.
Htet, who won her Miss Myanmar title back on May 31, came out as a lesbian in an interview with the beauty blog Missosology a week before the Miss Universe finals.
'I came to a full realization about my sexual orientation over a long period of time. I knew I was "one of them" way back in 2015,' she said.
Coming out publicly isn't easy, she said, but she wants to use her platform to help LGBTQ people in Myanmar, a country also referred to as Burma.
'It is personally quite challenging but I feel that I have a greater voice and the best position to promote this cause. Some pageant fans know about it and they still support me but this is the first time I am able to talk about it in public,
'I believe that not all countries allow same-sex marriage. I want the world to accept the LGBTQ+ community and their right to choose their own path and pursuit of happiness,' she said.
This is cool, she said no and never got battered or insulted, unlike few videos we watched here, with one lady battered, and another one where people around where encouraging her to say yes, and were chanting 'say yes, say yes'... lmao as if it's their proposal.
A teenager, Pelumi Alabi, on Monday appeared before an Osun State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Osogbo for breaking into the house of a man, while he was away in church.
The 18-year old Pelumi, who appeared before Magistrate Risikat Olayemi on two counts of house breaking and stealing, in his confessional statement tendered as exhibit in court, said he started stealing at the age of nine.
The police prosecutor, Abiodun Fagboyinbo, said the defendant broke into the house of one Demilade Obiyemi at No. 25 Dada Estate, Osogbo, on Sunday, December 8, 2019, around 12.22pm.
The defendant, after gaining entry into the house, allegedly stole items like yoghurt, fruit juice and powdered milk.
Other items are tins of sardine, cocoa beverage, a bottle of groundnut, two sachets of sugar, a bottle of perfume, 15 pieces of noodles and earpiece. The total sum of the stolen items was put at N10,000.
The prosecutor explained that the defendant had carefully studied the schedule of the complainant and broke into his residence while he was attending Sunday service, adding that Pelumi and Obiyemi attend the same church.
Asked to read the statement he wrote at the police station, Pelumi said, “Around 12.22pm when I was coming from the church, I branched at Mr Demilade Obiyemi’s house, because I knew he would be in church at that time.
“So, I broke into the house through the ceiling with a mopping stick and I stole the stated items and N5,700. I have been stealing from my mummy’s purse since I was nine years old.”
The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge.
The counsel for the defendant, Olusegun Fagbewesa, applied for his bail and prayed the court to consider Pelumi’s age. He also pleaded for probation in place of sentence.
In her ruling, the magistrate committed the defendant to bail with some conditions.
Olayemi said by admitting that he committed the offence and considering the prayer of the counsel, the defendant should provide two sureties in the sum of N5,000 and must appear in court with his sureties once in three months for one calendar year.
She said if the defendant could meet all the conditions, he would be finally discharged by December 2020.
The Office of the Vice President has made public the letter which Vice President Yemi Osinbajo wrote to Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Reporting, which planned to give him an Anti-corruption Defender Award of 2019.
The letter made available to newsmen indicated that the vice president gave two reasons he would not be able to attend the event held on Monday in Lagos.
Osinbajo said his first reason was that he would be in Abu Dhabi for an international meeting under the auspices of the government of the United Arab Emirates where he was the keynote speaker.
The vice president’s second reason was that he thought it insensitive to attend the ceremony in view of the recent developments on Friday in the Sowore case.
“I am extremely grateful for the recognition and award of the ‘Integrity Specialty of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism’s Anti-corruption Defender Award of 2019’ to me.
“The award, I note, is for our Justice reform efforts in Lagos State. I had accepted the award with pride on behalf of the excellent Justice Sector team we had.
“However, two reasons explain my absence. First is that I am currently in Abu Dhabi for an international meeting under the auspices of the government of the UAE where I am the keynote speaker.
“Second, in view of the developments on Friday in the Sowore case, I think it would be insensitive and inappropriate to attend the ceremony.
“Please accept my heartfelt apologies and extend the same to the other members of the organising team. God bless you,” the letter reads in part.
A Nigerian player has been fired by a club in Slovenia for impregnating the daughter of the president of the second division outfit after just six months with the side.
The player, whose name has been withheld, said he was fired for ‘gross misconduct and indiscipline’ over the pregnancy which he has claimed full responsibility.
Four Nigerians are registered with second tier clubs in Slovenia with Bede Osuji, Temitope Nelson, Gerald Chiyoke and Sulaiman Adedoja playing in that league but it is uncertain which of them is involved in the pregnancy issue.
The player, who fears public backlash over the situation, has returned to Nigeria after his ordeal and he is worried over the girlfriend and her pregnancy.
The player is considering FIFA action against the club following the decision to sack him over reasons he feels are unjustified after joining the club just in May.
” I signed a three year deal with the option of another year but last month I ran into trouble when my girlfriend who happens to be the daughter of the president said she was pregnant for me”, he said.
The club got to know about it and summoned me for a meeting. I got there and admitted that I am responsible for the pregnancy and I was told to stay at home and not to be seen around the club premises until I am instructed to return.
A week later I was called to the office and told that my agent has been informed about their plans to terminate my contract for gross misconduct and indiscipline. The news came to me as a surprise because I have not been found wanting in any area since I arrived the club six months ago”.
The Nigerian player says he is considering legal action at FIFA over the claims of the club that he went beyond the boundary set for players of the club.
“My agent called me up and said we should file a case with FIFA that he has a recording of the president saying my contract was terminated for having an affair with his daughter. She’s an adult for God sake, we both love each other and decided to have a child.
Now I don’t know what will happen to her and the child since I’m back in Nigeria. They have forced her to block me on all social media platforms so we have not been communicating. The few friends I made at the club are also scared of speaking to me about her apparently they don’t want to run into trouble with the team. I’m confused right now”, he concluded.
A serial rapist who carried out a string of sex attacks on 11 women and children across England has been given 33 life sentences.
Joseph McCann's victims were aged between 11 and 71 and included three women who were abducted off the street at knifepoint and repeatedly raped.
He was found guilty of 37 offences at the Old Bailey on Friday.
Mr Justice Edis said McCann, who must serve a minimum of 30 years, was "a threat to children" and "a paedophile".
The judge described him as a "classic psychopath" and called for an "independent and systematic" investigation into why "the system failed to protect" McCann's victims.
The convicted burglar had been released from prison following a probation error in February before he embarked on a cocaine and vodka-fuelled rampage.
The 34-year-old's "spree of sex attacks" started in Watford in April before he moved to London, Greater Manchester and Cheshire over a two-week period.
State High Court sitting in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State capital has sentenced a woman, Mrs Agnes Nwefuru, to death by hanging for killing her co-wife and seven children.
The Plaintiff, Ebonyi State Government had in a suit no.HAW/13C/2017, brought against the defendant, Agnes Nwefuru, accused her of setting ablaze the House of her co-wife, Felicia Nwefuru, which took her life and the lives of her seven children.
The plaintiff contended that the accused also burnt her own house during the evil act as a camouflage.
The plaintiff further contended that the accused removed all her belongings and that of her children and took them to a safe place outside the house before committing the act.
Recall that in 2017, eight members of a family were burnt to death following a mysterious fire that engulfed their residential house around 3am in the wee hours of the night at Ogboji community in Ishielu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.
Two persons survived the inferno: the husband, Mr. Sylvanus Nwefuru and Miss Ukamaka Nwefuru, one of the Felicia’s daughters.
The fire razed the two hatched houses in the compound.
Delivering the judgement, the presiding judge, Justice Uwabunkonye Onwosi, declared that the plaintiff proved that the defendant was guilty of the murder charge preferred against her.
“Nwefuru Agnes is found guilty of murder and is hereby convicted. The term of her sentence is that she be hanged by the neck until she is dead,” the judge.
Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko will spend two more nights in police custody pending a ruling on his bail application.
Anti-Corruption Court Chief Magistrate directed that Sonko be remanded until Wednesday, December 11 when the court will rule on whether to grant him and his co-accused bail.
The Governor and his co-accused will be remanded at the Industrial Area Remand Prison.
This is after the prosecution submitted that the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) cells have no capacity to accommodate all the accused persons.
The prosecution led by James Kihara opposed the release of Sonko on bail on grounds that he is a flight risk, is likely to abscond court, intimidate witnesses and interfere with investigations.
The prosecution further sought orders barring Sonko and other public officers from accessing their offices pending hearing and determination of the case.
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan on Monday called on the Executive to, as a matter of urgency, declare a state of emergency in the power sector to overcome the legion of problems stalling steady power supply in Nigeria.
Lawan stated this while declaring open a one-day round-table discussion with the theme: “Addressing Nigeria’s Power Problems” organized by the Senate Committee on Power.
The Senate President said the privatization of the power sector in 2005 and 2013 was a grand scheme conceived with the intention to defraud Nigeria.
He said, “For me, if there’s any sector of our economy that is so important and yet so challenged, it is the power sector. I believe that this is a sector that needs a declaration of emergency.
“This is an opportunity for us in this round-table to exhaustively discuss not only the problems of the power sector in Nigeria, but the solutions and way forward.
“The truth is that we all know what is wrong. What we really need to do is to have the political will to take on the challenges generally.
“From the electricity power reform of 2005 to the privatization of Gencos and Discos and to what is happening today, we know that everything is fraud. If we play the ostrich, in the next ten years we will be talking about the same things.
“I think the time has come for us to have courage. I want to remind us, that we have signed the African Continental Free Trade Agreement. What will give us an edge is to have a competitive environment.
“Our industries and businesses must be able to produce things that can compete favourably with products produced in other countries in Africa. We are not in that position today, and we all know the consequences of that.
“Even our citizens, who have capital, will rather relocate to Ghana, produce whatever they want and bring to Nigeria to sell. Where does that leave our country? No employment opportunities; Nigeria becomes a dumping ground.”
The Senate President, therefore, called for a review of the privatization exercise undertaken by the Goodluck Jonathan administration which led to a takeover of the power sector by private Generating Companies (Gencos) and Distribution Companies (Discos).
Ismaila Mustapha a.k.a Mompha, the Instagram celebrity docked by the EFCC for 14 counts of fraud and money laundering has deleted all his posts on the social media platform.
The man who calls himself, ‘sky man’ and ‘citizen of the sky’, and who had used Instagram to display an ostentatious lifestyle has gone blank on the platform.
The CEO of the unregistered Mompha Bureau de Change did not state the reason. His 683,000 followers were shocked to find all his posts gone on Tuesday.
On Monday, he regained his freedom from the prison after perfecting the bail conditions handed to him by a Lagos High Court.
Mompha was arraigned on 29 November by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on 14 counts bordering on fraud, money laundering and running a foreign exchange business without the authorisation of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
Pop princess Beyonce has revealed how suffering miscarriages and becoming a mum has helped her to become stronger and change her perspective on life.
The award-winning music star and actress, 38, admitted success "looks different to me now" and no longer focuses on chart positions or awards.
She has daughter Blue Ivy, seven, and two-year-old twins Rumi and Sir with husband rapper Jay-Z and has previously talked about having a miscarriage two years before her eldest child was born.
Houston-born Beyonce told Elle magazine : "I began to search for deeper meaning when life began to teach me lessons I didn't know I needed. I learned that all pain and loss is in fact a gift.
"Having miscarriages taught me that I had to mother myself before I could be a mother to someone else.
"Then I had Blue, and the quest for my purpose became so much deeper."
The Crazy In Love singer said: "Being 'number one' was no longer my priority. My true win is creating art and a legacy that will live far beyond me. That's fulfilling."
The songstress - who has iconic curves - said having children and growing older has also changed her opinion on herself.
The Hollywood star strongly believes she is more than her appearance.
"If someone told me 15 years ago that my body would go through so many changes and fluctuations and that I would feel more womanly and secure with my curves, I would not have believed them," she said.
The songstress - who has iconic curves - said having children and growing older has also changed her opinion on herself.
The Hollywood star strongly believes she is more than her appearance.
"If someone told me 15 years ago that my body would go through so many changes and fluctuations and that I would feel more womanly and secure with my curves, I would not have believed them," she said.
A Frenchman on trial for the rape and abduction resulting in the death of Elodie Kulik apparently tried to poison himself, when a judge read out a guilty verdict.
It is believed Willy Bardon, who was sentenced to 30 years, swallowed a pill containing pesticide, immediately after the verdict.
The 45-year-old was rushed from the defendant's box in the Court of Assizes of the Somme, to hospital.
He was admitted to intensive care shortly after, France Inter reported.
He had allegedly told his family he planned to kill himself, if found guilty of the crime related to the 2002 attack.
The defendant remained adamant of his innocence throughout the trial, even protesting to the Kulik family that he had not been at the scene.
Elodie's father, Jacky, broke down in tears following the verdict, hugging his son Fabien, then his lawyers.
"Justice is made for Elodie," he said.
The courtroom witnessed Willy's dramatic gesture on the final day of a high-profile trial into the 2002 killing of Elodie Kulik; one of France' biggest cold cases.
Elodie, 24, was abducted, raped and killed after her car was ambushed, during her drive home from a restaurant.
The bank manager attempted to call emergency services as she was dragged from her vehicle.
French reporters who were inside the courtroom described watching Willy bring something out of his right pocket following the verdict.
With the other hand, he drank from a large bottle of water, before swallowing what was believed to be the pill containing pesticide.
Femi Falana, counsel to Omoyele Sowore, convener of RevolutionNow Movement, on Monday, alleged that the Nigerian government offered the activist a “death warrant” deal while in custody of the Department of State Services, DSS.
Falana disclosed that the Nigerian government reached out for the deal during Sowore’s first 45 days in detention.
Featuring on TVC’s The View, Falana said: “They went to a court behind us and got an order to detain Sowore for 45 days to investigate his alleged terrorism.
“At the end of the investigation, nothing was found but they went to him in detention to reach a deal.”
The activist stated that the DSS also reached out to him to convince Sowore when they could not persuade the Sahara Reporters’s publisher to take the deal he was offered.
“When they could not succeed, they met me and they wanted me to persuade him to agree to sign his death warrant and I told them off,” he said.
Falana said the intelligence agency “filed charges” against Sowore when they could not convince him to take the deal.
Twelve persons have died in an accident on Sunday as a truck container carrying over 103 people somersaulted at Sawmill village along Mokwa-Makera road in Mokwa Local Government Area of Niger state.
The FRSC Sector Commander in the state, Mr Joel Dagwa, told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Minna that the accident involved a container truck with registration No. KJ 555 XX heading to Lagos .
Dagwa said that the truck took off from Maiduguri, picked passengers from Zaria in Kaduna State before heading to Lagos.
” The accident involved 103 people, 55 females ,40 males, 8 children’s , 5 adults. Twelve of them were killed while 91 sustained injuries and taken to Mokwa general hospital for treatment.
“All the 12 corpses have been deposited at the hospital’s morgue,” he said.
He blamed the accident on over-speeding on a sharp bend of the road.
