Nollywood actress, Georgina Ibeh has lost her father Ogaraku Charles Amaobi Ibeh. The actress announced his demise in an emotional tribute she penned down to him on her instagram page. This is coming after actor Yemi Blaq announced the demise of his father too.
She wrote;
''Who will Call me NWAPAPA ? Who Will I Call Father? My Heart is so Heavy 💔💔...How does this pain go away? I wish my tears could bring you back, but it can’t ofcos. I have to be Strong for my Mother and siblings right..... This is so hard to Process..... You struggled even till your death but I guess God needed you in his arms. I will never forget the legacy you lived by, OGARAKU CHARLES AMAOBI IBEH ...... RIP 😭😭😭😭😭😭. Rest Well Daddy, You fought so hard , You deserve a good rest 🙏.... Love You Forever My First Love ❤️. From Your Dearest Daughter
CHINENYENWA.
#Nwapapa.''
A facebook user, Sylvester Nwodo has revealed a Nigerian man as Ogubie John Izuchukwu was reportedly found dead at City Pak Apartment in Cengkareng, Jakarta, Indonesia.
He wrote;
"This Person died this morning In City Pak Apartment Cengkareng Indonesia .Any body that knows him should indicate,so that the family can be contacted.Plz Keep sharing so it can get to the right destination.. thanks."
Five staff of Okomu Oil plc in Edo State have been burnt to death in a road accident that occurred along Iguobazuwa road in Ovia South-West local government area.
Two others are said to critically injured and currently receiving treatment.
It was gathered that the bus conveying the Okomu Oil staff was said to be going to the head office at Okomu from Extension 2 of the firm when it rammed into a lorry on Friday evening.
An eyewitness said help could not reach the Okomu Oil staff as the bus burst into flames.
According to an eyewitness, Max Iyase, they could not render assistance to the victims, as the flame was ferocious. He identified one of the victims as Elvis Odia, a married father of two.
An official statement has not been issued by the firm but a top official confirmed the death of their staff. The official described it as sad day for workers in the firm.
He said “We are yet to confirm the number of our personnel involved but we have confirmed five. Two are in the hospital. “They were coming to the head office from Extension 2. It is a sad day for us.”
The second Earl of Snowdon is set to split from his wife, the second royal divorce announcement in less than a week.
David Armstrong-Jones, son of the late Princess Margaret, is to separate from Serena Armstrong-Jones.
A spokesman for the couple said: "The Earl and Countess of Snowdon have amicably agreed that their marriage has come to an end and that they shall be divorced.
"They ask that the press respect their privacy and that of their family." The Earl is the son of Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones, the first Earl of Snowdon.
The announcement comes a week after Peter Phillips and his wife Autumn confirmed that they were going to separate.
Corpses of eight farmers from Uwheru in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State reportedly killed by hoodlums suspected to be herdsmen last Friday, have been exhumed, on Monday, by a search team made up of the police and representatives of the community for investigation.
This is just as community’s leaders revealed that two of the victims killed were burnt to ashes by their assailants, who the locals claim are armed herdsmen.
It was gathered that two of the corpses were exhumed on Sunday, while six were exhumed on Monday.
One of the victims reportedly killed and burnt was identified as Itoje Dennis from Otor-Iyede in Isoko North Local Government Area of the state.
President-General of the community, Cassidy Akpedafe, and the Delta State Commissioner of Police, Hafiz Inuwa, had Sunday disagreed on the reported killings with the police boss claiming that some individuals were using the reports to cause apprehension in the state.
The CP, while questioning the authenticity of the claims that eight persons were killed by the herdsmen with the aide of persons dressed in military uniforms, said: “If there are any (deaths), why are they hiding such corpses from the police?”
Reacting to the claims of the CP, President-General of the community, Akpedafe, accused the CP of being economical with the truth and in a swift move to prove him wrong, the community Sunday afternoon, succeeded in exhuming two corpses of those killed and took them to the Central Hospital, Ughelli, for autopsy.
When Vanguard visited the hospital morgue, on Monday, the decomposing corpses of two of the victims were seen, one of which was burnt before it was buried.
An eight-month-old baby died after her neighbours sprayed their flat with a deadly pesticide trying to get rid of bedbugs and cockroaches.
Guzal has died and two other children, aged three and five, are in critical condition following the extermination in the Kazakh city of Shymkent, in the south of the country.
The neighbours left their apartment to avoid being poisoned after it was sprayed with poisonous Imidacloprid on February 11, local media reported.
The following day the family who live upstairs from them began to feel ill.
The children's health took a turn for the worse and they were taken to intensive care at Orynbaev Hyperbaric Oxygenation Centre in life-threatening conditions.
The older children were suffering from severe vomiting and the baby girl was in a state of clinical death.
Dilshat Abdurasulov, father of the youngest child, said: ''We did not know what was going on.
''My daughter Guzal was constantly crying and we thought she was teething.
''Then she weakened. Her body got colder, her face and lips turned blue.
''We rushed to hospital but 30 minutes later she died.''
The two other children, who are Dilshat's nephews, are still in critical conditions.
The baby's distraught mum Alinur Lobusko said: ''When the neighbours called an exterminator for the first time, he came to us and warned us to open windows and ventilate our apartment.
''This time nobody came and said nothing.''
Experts examined the air in both apartments and identified the pesticide.
Local authorities spokesman Almat Kosaliev told: ''The apartment was sprayed with Imidacloprid by an exterminator from a private company.
"The gas found its way to the upstairs flat through the air duct.''
Police have launched an investigation into the incident but nobody has been arrested so far.
Coleen Rooney made a rare outing with husband Wayne on Monday as they headed out to pick up some breakfast.
While the couple have taken to Instagram in recent months to mark birthdays and anniversaries, they haven't been seen out together since last August.
Coleen, 33, was clad in her workout gear for the outing, wearing a blue hooded sweater and black leggings, while Wayne wore a padded black jacket and tracksuit bottoms.
The Osun State Police Command on Monday said a woman, Amudatu Sani, had been arrested with human parts in Ikire.
The Commissioner of Police, Johnson Kokumo, confirmed the arrest.
Speaking through the command’s spokesperson, Folasade Odoro, the commissioner said the suspect was arrested with dry human parts which she concealed in a sack.
He warned that the command would ensure a thorough investigation and ensure whoever found culpable face the full wrath of the law.
Kokumo said, “Following tip-off, one Amudatu Sani, was arrested by policemen in Ikire in possession of dry human left hand concealed in a sack.
“The command warns dealers in human parts to desist or face the full wrath of the law.”
Nigerian singer, Simisola “Simi” Ogunleye, has shared videos of the amazing experience she had throughout her say in Sierra Leone after has taken her fans in the country by surprise with a wonderful performance.
Sharing a video of how her fans in the country gathered just to get a glimpse of her face on her arrival, the singer says the experience was surreal.
The pregnant young lady was spotted performing to a cheering crowd, wore beautiful Cinderella-inspired blue dress for her performance
In a post shared on her Instagram page, the singer noted that she has always wanted to be Cinderella without the suffering and the glass slippers.
Simi also revealed that she is unable to process the kind of attention and wasn’t expecting the kind of love they showed her.
A Lebanese and two Nigerians were on Monday arraigned before a Federal High Court, Ilorin by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, for alleged trafficking of Nigerian women to Lebanon, for exploitation.
The arraignment of the suspects was a fallout of the investigation into the much-publicized case of Omolola Ajayi, who was trafficked to Lebanon. Ajayi’s video went viral on social media few weeks ago, and she was subsequently rescued and brought back to Nigeria.
The suspects, Mohammed Wafic Hamze, 62, Adetunji Taofeek Sanusi,34 and Tunde Awwal, 27, who were arrainged before has arraigned Justice B. G Ashigar, were slammed with a three- count charge which bothered on Human Trafficking/ Foreign Travel which Promotes Prostitution or other forms of Exploitation in accordance with Section 18 and 27 (a) & (b) of the Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition) Enforcement and Administration Act, 2015.
The case was initially transferred to the Agency by the Kwara State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) after which the three suspect were arrested.
According to the Oshogbo Zonal Commander of NAPTIP, Mr. Saadu Mustpha, further investigation revealed that contrary to the initial report, about 16 victims were believed to have been trafficked to the Middle East Countries by the suspects out of which only three have been rescued through the collaboration of Civil Society organization, Nigeria Embassy and other partners.
The three defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges and were subsequently remanded at the custody of the Nigeria Correctional Centre, Ilorin while the case was adjourned to 26th February, 2020 for the commencement of the trial.
General Overseer, Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye has warned men not to marry women who cannot cook.
Adeboye, in series of tweets on Monday said a woman needed to know how to do chores and cook because the husband could not be eating out all the time.
“My sons, don’t marry a lady who cannot cook. She needs to know how to do chores and cook because you cannot afford to be eating out all the time,” he admonished.
The United States Government has warned that it will recover the over $308million looted and stashed abroad by former Head of State, the late Gen Sani Abacha, if it is re-stolen in Nigeria.
The threat followed a February 4 repatriation pact the Federal Government signed with the Americans and the government of Jersey to return the money.
The pact was sealed 22 years after Abacha’s death and after almost two decades of litigation involving the three parties.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which partook in what is being regarded as the world’s largest asset recovery across borders, said the foreigners warned against the money being re-looted.
The Commission’s Secretary, Mr. Olanipekun Olukoyede, stated this in Lagos last Friday during an anti-corruption walk organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Youths and Sports Development and the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).
Olukoyede said: “Two weeks ago, I was privileged to be on the team that went to recover $308million for Nigeria. They are from Washington.
“You know what the Oyinbos told us when we wanted to sign the treaty? They had the audacity to look into our eyes and said: ‘If you people steal this money again, we will collect it back from you.’
“I stood up against them, I said: ‘We are not a corrupt nation. A few people might have stolen money, but Nigeria is not a corrupt nation. We have a lot of youths who are not corrupt.
“And you know it is not their fault, (they said that) because they have seen recovered loot being looted again.”
Public money looted by Abacha during his five years in power is estimated to be about $5 billion.
Since 1998, Nigeria has been finding the loot mostly in the United Kingdom, France, the United States, and New Jersey.
Prince Andrew might want to think more about where he stays on vacation.
The prince was not only buddies with Jeffrey Epstein -- both a convicted pedophile and an accused s.e.x trafficker -- but now he’s linked with billionaire fashion executive Peter Nygard, who is accused of r.a.p.e and sodomy in a scathing federal class-action lawsuit.
Nygard lured “a slew of young disadvantaged teens to his Bahamian mansion under the promise of fame and fortune,” then r.a.p.e.d, sodomized and coerced them to engage in depraved fetishes, alleges the lawsuit, which was filed Thursday in Manhattan federal court.
And now it has come to light that in 2000, Andrew and ex-wife Sarah Ferguson stayed at Nygard Cay, near Nassau, Bahamas, with their daughters, Beatrice and Eugenie.
Pictures of the visit, obtained by the Daily Mail, show the prince and Nygard strolling together at the luxury estate.
There is no evidence that the Duke of York knew anything about Nygard’s alleged activities.
Andrew has also faced scrutiny over his friendship with Epstein, whose body was found last summer in his Manhattan jail cell. Late last year, the Duke - who also stayed with the convicted child s.e.x offender told the Guardian newspaper that he regretted the visits but thought he was doing the “honorable” thing at the time.
The lawsuit also alleges Nygard used yachts to transport drugs and liquor for the parties and kept a database with the names of 7,500 “potential victims” for decades.
Andrew and Sarah stayed with Nygard in the Bahamas during the time that the lawsuit makes the accusations against Nygard.
A wife who installed a hidden camera in her husband's office in a bid to catch him cheating on her was horrified when the footage revealed he was grooming a teenage girl.
Anthony Merrikin was jailed for six years after he was caught in the act by his suspicious spouse who initially feared he was having an extra-marital affair.
The 42-year-old builder of Blundell Avenue, Cleethorpes, admitted three offences of sexual activity with a child and another of causing a child to engage in sexual activity.
A court heard that his indiscretions happened during a "moment of madness" that was completely wrong, according to the Grimsby Telegraph.
Jeremy Evans, prosecuting, told Grimsby Crown Court that Merrikin, who had set up a charity with his wife and was a member of a marching band, groomed the teenage girl and there was sexual behaviour between them in his office.
Merrikin's wife suspected that he was cheating on her with another woman and set up a hidden camera in his office.
But to her "shock and dismay" it revealed that he was sexually involved with the girl. She confronted him with a text message image from the filming and he immediately confessed.
"At the heart of this, he deceived his family," said Mr Evans.
The girl later said: "Throughout this time, I just felt that I was worthless. I felt that I was dirty.
"I felt horrible for deceiving my mother.
"I am living in constant fear that something is going to happen.
"At the time this was happening with Tony, I felt trapped and scared. I know what was happening with Tony was wrong."
She felt it hard to concentrate at school but it was also an escape.
"I struggle to think about what has happened," said the girl.
"I cry a lot. It hurts a lot. I try not to think about Tony because it brings back bad memories.
Besides Egypt, which already has a confirmed case of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), researchers and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have identified Algeria and South Africa as African countries most at risk while Nigeria, Ethiopia, Sudan, Angola, Tanzania, Ghana and Kenya as having moderate chance of importing the virus.
The researchers, in a study published in Nature, said they were most concerned about Nigeria, Ethiopia, Sudan, Angola, Tanzania, Ghana and Kenya because of their weak healthcare systems, low economic status and unstable political situation which make them highly vulnerable.
WHO Director General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, had said the agency’s decision to declare the outbreak a global health emergency, was mainly based on concerns that the epidemic could spread in nations with fragile healthcare platforms.
For that reason, researchers are also worried about the disease spreading among people in Africa.
An epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, United States and a co-author of the Harvard team’s model, Marc Lipsitch, said though Africa was not as exposed to the ailment as those nations in South East Asia due to direct international flights from Wuhan.
But, he nonetheless feared that a large number of Chinese labourers on the continent and their travels between China and Africa were a possible route for transmission.
The analysis, posted on medRxiv, examined flights to Africa from Chinese cities that had reported infections, but it excluded towns in Hubei province, where Wuhan is located, because of the lockdown that has restricted travels from many locations there since late January.
