A Supreme Court judge in Canada has ordered a Canadian woman to pay her ex-boyfriend more than $200,000 after finding she had damaged his reputation using Instagram and other websites.
Justice Elliot Myers made the ruling on Sept. 25, but the ruling was not published until now.
Brandon Rook, a Vancouver resource industry executive and business consultant, brought the case against Noelle Halcrow, a former Parfums Christian Dior employee and self-described social media influencer, after she began attacking her ex online following a pair of breakups about a year apart.
Halcrow’s posts alleged Rook was an out-of-control drunk, a cheater and carried STDs.
In his ruling, Myers concluded that Halcrow “mounted a campaign against Mr. Rook that was as relentless as it was extensive,” and that “she was motivated by malice.”
Rook and Halcrow dated briefly in August 2015, but Rook broke off the relationship, the ruling states.
They began dating again in February of the following year, until Rook again broke off the relationship in August 2016, according to the ruling.
The Accident Investigation Bureau has commenced into an incident involving an A330-300 aircraft, with registration number TC-LOL, operated by Turkish Airlines which occured at the Port Harcourt airport.
The General Manager, Public Affairs, AIB, Mr Tunji Oketunbi, disclosed this in a statement issued on Sunday.
The statement noted that the bureau was notified that at 3:30 a.m. local time, on December 31 2019, the aircraft was en route Port Harcourt from Istanbul with 295 passengers and 11 crew members on board.
According to the statement, the aircraft suffered a burst tyre on landing on runway 21 of the Port Harcourt International airport; veered off the runway and managed to taxi to the new international terminal.
It confirmed that all the occupants disembarked with no injury.
The statement noted that the bureau was open to receiving any video clip, relevant evidence or information that might assist in its investigation.
“The Bureau will like to call on the press and the public to respect the privacy of the people involved and not to preempt the cause of the incident,” it said.
A woman who posed as the president of the Spanish branch of UN Women, requesting funds and giving interviews to the media has been arrested in Spain.
The woman of Nigerian origin with Spanish nationality was detained in Denia on Spain's eastern Mediterranean coast on charges of impersonation and fraud.
The woman allegedly provided online legal courses and solicited "funds to carry out different projects related to the institution she claimed to represent," police said in a statement.
She "participated in conferences and gave interviews in different media," police said.
The investigation began in mid-2018 when the police received a complaint from the New York-based UN Women about a woman posing as the president of UN Women in Spain and the Spanish National Committee of UN Women.
UN Women, a body "dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women," does not have a country office in Spain, according to its website.
After the complaint, there were several communications between the organization and the woman in order to make her understand the illicit actions. She was asked to stop, but refused.
Spanish media identified the woman as Helen Mukoro Idisi.
On her personal website, she describes herself an "archduchess" and "Nigerian aristocrat," as well as a "Spanish politician, detective, author, legal expert, business and finance consultant."
The books she allegedly wrote, including such titles as "Make Wealth Anywhere," were sold on Amazon.
Her other claimed titles are president of the African Europe Chamber of Commerce, a non-existent organization, and "advisor on diaspora and auxiliary affairs" of the Delta State of Nigeria, where she was born.
She also established a political party, "Union de Todos" (Union for All), and participated in at least three elections. According to El Confidencial newspaper, she received the fewest votes to be Spain's head of government in the last election, with just 31 votes.
An angry mob have set a fire station ablaze after fire gutted the popular Akesan market in Oyo State early hours of this morning.
Wares worth several millions of naira were said to have been destroyed in the fire.
Akesan market is famous for sale of wide range of food items, local artifacts, clothing materials, household utensils and more.
Although the immediate cause of the fire had yet to be confirmed, some people, however, attributed the incident to electric spark.
The people of the town reportedly went wild with rage when the official on duty told them that they could not do anything to quell the fire because there was no water in their fire truck.
The enraged mob reportedly set up the truck and other property at the Fire station on fire in protest.
Eyewitness said the inferno started around 12:30am.
There is an indication that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) may soon administer the lie detector test on detained Shehu Sani and the Chairman/ CEO of ASD Motors, Alhaji Sani Dauda over the alleged $20,000 bribe allegation against Sani by Dauda.
The lie detector test may be carried out after planned interrogation of the businessman’s wife tomorrow, The Nation reported.
Mrs Dauda is said to be central to what her husband went through and why the family opted to report the Senator to the anti-graft agency.
Also, the businessman is yet to accept alleged overtures to withdraw his petition against the Senator.
Sani’s alleged offence attracts a two-three-year jail term.
According to the medium, investigation revealed that the EFCC is considering polygraph option because both the Senator and the businessman maintained parallel positions during their interrogations by detectives.
It was gathered that while the businessman insisted that Sani extorted $24,000 from him, the embattled Senator said he only had car purchase transactions with ASD Motors.
The self-acclaimed Osun-based pastor, Segun Philips, who reportedly slaughtered a final-year student of Lagos State University, Favour Daley-Oladele, after her head was smashed by her boyfriend, tells Daud Olatunji about his role in the crime
Do you really have a church?
I’m 42 years old and I’m from Osun State. I live in Ikoyi-Ile. I am a prophet. I have a church – Cherubim and Seraphim Church, Solution chapel in Ikoyi-Ile, Osun State.
How did you become a pastor?
I was trained at Elmessiah Cherubim and Seraphim at Sango. I was called by God, but I think I have deviated from my calling and that was why I involved myself in all these atrocities.
How many children do you have?
I have two children, one male and one female.
What was your role in the killing of Favour?
We wanted to perform money ritual for Owolabi’s mother without her knowledge. The agreement was between me and her son; we agreed to do it for her and we promised never to let her know the source of the money.
But the money ritual we wanted to perform required human body parts for it to work. He (Owolabi) asked me where we could get body parts of a human being and I told him I didn’t know because that was the first time I would be performing such. I told him that he was the one that would get the human being to be used for the ritual. Owolabi agreed to bring his girlfriend and when he brought the girlfriend, we killed her and removed all we needed from her. What I removed were the head, heart, breasts and hands. We used all these parts to prepare a concoction for Owolabi’s mother but she did not know that they were human body parts.
We deceived her; we told her we would need to make a sacrifice and that she would need to feed people. I told her that the heart and vital organs of a goat would be used to make a concoction for her to eat. She never knew what we gave her to eat were human body parts and nobody told her until we were caught.
So you slaughtered the lady…
Yes, it is true. I was the one who slaughtered the lady and removed all the necessary things we needed from her body.
How many people have you done money ritual for?
This was my first time. I told Owolabi when he came to me that I had not done something like that before.
How will you feel if they do the same for your daughter?
I will feel bad and take a very drastic action to ensure the culprits are brought to justice. And because of the proverb that says, ‘Your children would suffer for the wrongs you have done’, I already know my daughter may also face the same fate in the coming years.
Has any family member visited you since you have been arrested?
Nobody wants to associate with me because they heard about the heinous act I committed. I want the government to have mercy on me. I know I have left God’s way and chosen the path of the devil. I know I have dined with the devil and must face the wrath of justice for my action. I’m a disgrace to priesthood and many have sinned because of me.
I want them to forgive me so that I can start afresh and become a good evangelist who would preach the gospel of Gospel. I know the sentence that will be passed on me for murdering someone is death. Since that is the law of the country, I am ready to face the death penalty for what I did.
A Kano State magistrates’ court, sitting at Nomansland, on Friday remanded a corps member serving in Bebeji Local Government Area, Jepthan Makwin, in custody.
Makwin is standing trial over the death of an eight-year-old boy.
Makwin was accused of beating the boy, Hassan Suleiman, a class three pupil of Old Mosque Islamiyah School, Bebeji, to death in October 2019.
The state’s NYSC Coordinator, Alhaji Ladan Baba, however, claimed the act was an accident.
During the arraignment on Friday, the defence counsel filed an application for the bail of the accused person, before the presiding magistrate, Fatima Adamu.
The application was however objected by the prosecuting counsel, Nasiru Fagge.
The magistrate, after listening to the argument of both parties, adjourned the matter till February 4, 2020, for hearing of the bail application.
Nollywood actress, Adaora Ukoh's mother is dead. The actress shared the sad news on her ig page writing;
''What A DARK DAY!!!!
BUT I GIVE GOD GLORY
MY MUM PASSED ON TODAY. Keep resting on AGBALAKAIBIE
YOU GAVE A GOOD FIGHT
BUT GOD KNOWS BEST. ________________________
FAREWELL MOTHER
FAREWELL.
WE LOVE YOU FOR ALL YOU DID FOR US
ADIEU MUMMY
KEEP RESTING.''
Davido, has said he won’t go to America till the tension between the country and Iran is over.
Tension began between the United States of America and Iran after US drone strike ordered by President Trump assassinated a top Iranian commander, Qasem Soleimani.
Trump, in a statement from his Mar-a-Lago resort on Friday, said he ordered the assassination of the commander to “stop a war” and not “to start a war,” a statement which seems to have fallen on the deaf side of Iran.
Reacting to the on-going tension, Davido wrote: “Not going to America till the draft is over !! Crazy ass Trump trynna have me shouting Shekpe from Iran.”
Super Eagles footballer, Jude Ighalo and his wife Sonia are reportedly having crisis in their their 10-year-old marriage.
Taking a look at their instagram pages ,They unfollowed themselves, deleted each others pictures and every post they made of themselves from their pages.
It was learnt that their marriage has been in crisis since he built his massive house in Lagos and has been more in Nigeria while Sonia and their three children are based in London. They also failed to celebrate each other during their 10th wedding anniversary last year.
In a series of tweets Saturday, US President Donald Trump responded to Iranian threats of avenging Major General Qassem Soleimani’s assassination in a US airstrike, by warning that the US will hit 52 Iranian sites, dear to Iran.
His tweets represent a further escalation of the tension, amidst protests by anti-war groups in the US and the UK and the claim by his administration that it was committed to de-escalation.
Trump, who is never known to walk away from a fight lashed out at Tehran in the tweets, and threatened that his country has primed its arsenals on 52 Iranian targets, as a revenge for the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago. This was in 1979.
“Iran is talking very boldly about targeting certain USA assets as revenge for our ridding the world of their terrorist leader who had just killed an American, & badly wounded many others, not to mention all of the people he had killed over his lifetime, including recently hundreds of Iranian protesters.
“He was already attacking our Embassy, and preparing for additional hits in other locations. Iran has been nothing but problems for many years. Let this serve as a WARNING that if Iran strikes any Americans, or American assets, we have targeted 52 Iranian sites (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago), some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD. The USA wants no more threats!”, Trump wrote.
Lagos State Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Folasade Adefisayo has welcomed students of both Public and Private Schools as they return to school for the 2nd Term 2019/2020 Academic Session on Monday, January 6.
A statement issued on behalf of the Commissioner by the Director-General, Office of Education Quality Assurance, Mrs. Abiola Seriki-Ayeni clarified that students of Private Schools and Public Senior Secondary Schools will resume on Monday 6th January, 2020 while all Public Primary School pupils are expected to return for classes on Monday 20th January, 2020.
The release urged all students in boarding school to return to their hostels by Saturday, 4th January, 2020.
The Commissioner advised proprietors and school administrators to ensure strict compliance with the Lagos State Government academic calendar/resumption dates, wished them a successful academic session and solicited their support in maintaining the high educational standards in Lagos State.
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on Saturday announced the immediate review of electricity tariffs in the country from January 1.
The order was issued to the 11 electricity distribution companies (DISCos) on December 31, 2019, but published on the Commission’s website on Saturday.
Signed jointly by the Chairman of the Commission, Joseph Momoh, and the Commissioner for Legal, License & Compliance, Dafe Akpeneye, the order was titled “December 2019 MYTO Minor Review Order” for the 11 DISCOs.
The various tariff reviews for all categories of consumers — except those consumers classified as residential (R1) — ranged from 59.7 per cent for consumers in Ikeja to 77.6 per cent in Enugu.
Under the new order, electricity consumers in Ikeja who used to pay about N13.34 per kWh since under the 2015 MYTO when the last review was carried out will from January 1 this year pay N21.80 per kWh, same as their R2 counterparts.
Their counterparts in Enugu who used to pay about N17.42 per kWh will, under the new order, pay about N30.93 kWh from January 1.
Their R2 and R3 counterparts who paid about N19.31 and N27.11 per kWh since 2015, will now be paying N34.28 and N48.12 per kWh.
Residential (R2) and R3 consumers in Ikeja, who have been paying N13.34 and N26.5 per kWh since 2015, will now be paying N21.30 and N21.80 per kWh.
Residential consumers are those categorised as those using singe phase and three-phase meters and electricity consumption of about 50 kWh in premises with flats exclusively for residential purposes.
The affected DISCos include Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, Benin Electricity Distribution Company, Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, Eko Electricity Distribution Company, Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company, Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company, Jos Electricity Distribution Company, Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company, Kano Electricity Distribution Company, Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company and Yola Electricity Distribution Company.
The order, the Commission said, supersedes “other orders issued on the subject matter, and shall take effect from January 1, 2020.”
A fire outbreak on the runway of the Port Harcourt International Airport, this evening, disrupted flight activities.
It was gathered that the fire prevented a Max Air flight from taking off while an Arik flight had to return to base.
A Dana flight from Abuja to Port Harcourt also reportedly had to return to the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, as it could not land due to the fire.
Although the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria could not be reached, a source said it was a bush fire. The source said the airport had been closed for the smoke to dissipate and would be opened within a short period.
There was confusion in the Sabon Tasha area of Kaduna State on Saturday following a gas explosion.
The gas explosion occurred on business premises located along Kachia Road, Sabon Tasha, in Chikun Local Government Area between 2.30pm and 3.00pm according to eyewitnesses.
A resident, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said more than five persons were killed in the incident.
“Red Cross officials used shovels to evacuate body parts of victims,” he said.
It was also gathered that Professor Simon Mallam, Chairman of Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission, was feared killed in the explosion which shattered the windows of residential homes in the area.
It was learnt that the Professor had taken his grandson to a barber’s shop close to where a retail gas outlet is located when the incident happened and was feared killed.
However, the fate of the Professor’s grandson was uncertain as of the time of filing this report.
Meanwhile, the Kaduna State Government has expressed concern over the unfortunate incident, vowing to investigate the cause of the explosion.
The State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr. Samuel Aruwan, who spoke to reporters at the scene of the incident, said the explosion would be investigated.
The Kaduna State Fire Service, the Red Cross Society group, officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps as well as men of the state security outfit code-named ‘Operation Yaki’ partook in the rescue of victims.
A man has quit his job after discovering his boss disapproves of his age-gap relationship.
Actor and model, Michael Hoch, met his girlfriend, Sarah Schopp, at a theatre in 2016.
Sarah was 17 at the time where she was a volunteer student and 29 years younger than Michael.
The young lady from Wuppertal, Germany, was serving drinks at the theatre – Michael, now 49, was there preparing for a play.
That day he says he was drawn to her shy personality and smile after reportedly bumping into each other all day.
Afterwards, Michael decided to find Sarah on Facebook and sent her a message.
However, Sarah, who is now 20, says she was reluctant to take him up on the offer of a date due to their large age-gap and said she would prefer to remain as friends.
But a month into chatting online, the couple found they were just too drawn to each other and decided to enter a relationship while working in the same building.
Many people disapproved of the relationship, and Michael says that he was once attacked in the street for holding her hand.
Sarah’s family admitted that at first they were shocked about the relationship, but after meeting Michael, who was 46 at the time, and getting to know him they soon warmed up to him.
Michael and Sarah’s father are now good friends, even though they are the same age.
He said: “She was only 17 when we got together. But we couldn’t deny our love for each other and at some point I finally convinced her.
“The most difficult thing, in the beginning, was that Sarah looks much younger than she is and was also very reserved at the beginning.”
Now, Sarah remains working at the theatre but Michael decided to quit his employment there because of his boss’s disapproval over their relationship.
Daniel Mbatelen abducted by yet to be identified persons in Taraba State has escaped from the custody of his captors.
According to a family source, Mbatelen ran into the family compound at Dan-Anacha on Saturday afternoon while they were holding a meeting on how to raise the ransom demanded for his release.
The source added that Mbatelen was unhurt, and how he escaped remained a mystery his relatives do not understand.
The chief’s escape from captivity came hours after his abductors contacted his family members through telephone and demanded a ransom of N100 million.
Mbatelen, the chief of the Tiv cultural group in Dan-Anacha, at a suburb of Gassol Local Government Area of Taraba State was abducted on January 1, 2020.
Four Nigerian stowaways arrested in the UK in 2018 December have been jailed for a total of seven years. While on the ship, they hurled faeces at elite SBS sailors and vowed to infect them with HIV during a tense stand-off in the Thames Estuary.
The stowaways also threatened to kill crew members with metal poles when they broke free from quarantine on the 78,000-tonne Italian merchant ship on 21 December 2018. They said they would steer it to the UK.
Helicopters with specialist sailors were sent to rescue the Grande Tema’s crew and arrest the men while the ship floated off the Essex coast.
Samuel Jolumi, 27, Ishola Sunday, 28, Toheeb Popoola, 27, and Joberto McGee, 21, were all found guilty of affray after an eight-week trial in the Old Bailey. Popoola and McGee were also found guilty of making threats to kill.
All were cleared of attempting to hijack the ship.
Popoola was jailed for 31 months, while McGee was sentenced to 32 months behind bars. Sunday and Popoola were each jailed for 16 months.
They will serve half of their sentences behind bars, and may be detained for deportation proceedings.
A dad reportedly gunned down his daughter and her new husband on New Year's Eve before turning the gun on himself.
The gunman, thought to be the estranged father of Lindita Musai, is under police guard in hospital after the festive horror which saw the 25-year-old woman and her new husband shot dead at an address in Melbourne, Australia.
The suspected killer, who police said was a 55-year-old man, was said to have blasted 29-year-old Veton Musai and his wife at around 10.30am on Tuesday.
A witness then reportedly saw him jump out of a bush and put a gun to his chin before pulling the trigger.
Veton's cousin Jetmir Lumani today posted on Facebook : "Today we lost my beautiful baby cousin Veton Musai and his angel wife Lindita Musai..... I can't even begin to explain how I feel.
"The only thing keeping us strong is belief in God.
"How a father can take his own daughters (sic) life is beyond comprehension.. but the devil truly is among us."
Nine News reports the couple had just celebrated their first wedding anniversary.
The killing reportedly took place on Salisbury Street in Yarraville, Melbourne, Daily Star reports.
Lindita died at the scene and Veton has since passed away in hospital.Veton's cousin Jetmir Lumani today posted on Facebook : "Today we lost my beautiful baby cousin Veton Musai and his angel wife Lindita Musai..... I can't even begin to explain how I feel.
"The only thing keeping us strong is belief in God.
"How a father can take his own daughters (sic) life is beyond comprehension.. but the devil truly is among us."
Nine News reports the couple had just celebrated their first wedding anniversary.
The killing reportedly took place on Salisbury Street in Yarraville, Melbourne, Daily Star reports.
Lindita died at the scene and Veton has since passed away in hospital.
The gunman is thought to be Lindita's estranged dad, Australian media reports.
A 55-year-old man from Altona North, who was known to the couple, has been taken to hospital under police guard.
The Musais had just arrived at the Salisbury Street property when they were ambushed by the shooter, according to reports.
