Evicted Big Brother Naija housemate, Kiddwaya, has said Nengi liked him in the house.
Kiddwaya, who disclosed this to Ebuka on Monday, said he liked Nengi too because she was free and playful.
He also revealed that he was a threat to her relationship with Ozo and he (Ozo) had met him several times to ask what was going on between them.
“Nengi is very playful and I like that about her. It got to a point when I thought she was taking it too far. I wondered why she was hitting me with a bottle because on a normal day we won’t be in the same room.
“Nengi liked me for sure, I felt she went too far with her play. I liked her a lot, I think she is free and I told her several times that she will go far and I have no issue with her.
“Ozo was definitely threatened by me. He told me severally that he spoke to her about me but I can’t do anything because that is between him and his God.”
An 11-year-old boy, who is defending champion in a drinking contest in Malawi, died during the final stage, local media reported on Monday.
According to a local media website, Malawi24, the boy identified as Humphreys Chipeta, who was a keen drinker, died after drinking five bottles of kachasu at a beer-drinking contest in Mzimba in the northern part of the country.
Kachashu is an illegal traditional distilled beverage consumed mainly in rural and poor urban residential areas of Malawi, According to South African news website, IOL.
The beer-drinking competition was organised for those aged under 14, those below 21 years, and for seniors. The winner of the beer-drinking competition was set to pocket MK20 000 (about N10,000).
Eyewitnesses told Malawi24 that the boy had reached the finals of the contest when he collapsed. An eyewitness said that they suspected foul play in the boy’s death as he was the defending champion.
“He was not just an amateur boozer,” said the witness, identified as Emmanuel Chirwa.
According to Chirwa, contestants paid a MK1,000 entrance fee and were required to eat before the drinking competition.
“So, he did not die because he did not eat before beginning the contest. They all ate before the contest. Something went wrong,” said Chirwa.
The child protection officer for the area, Shanks Nkhata, said he was following up the matter and would engage traditional leaders on banning the brewing of the illicit beer.
“We hear the child was in Standard 7 at Kafulufulu primary and with schools on a corona (Covid-19) break, he turned into an avid drunkard,“ Malawi24 quoted Nkhata as saying, adding that he was aware of similar other cases.
Beer drinking competitions are common in parts of Malawi.
Barcelona forward, Lionel Messi has been named the second professional footballer to earn $1 billion in his career.
This is after his rival, Cristiano Ronaldo was listed the first footballer to hit that hallmark. Ronaldo marked then as the third athlete to earn $1 billion in his career after professional golfer Tiger Woods and professional boxer Floyd Mayweather.
Forbes named Messi the highest-earning footballer in 2020 as the Argentine raked $126m ($92m in salary and $34m in endorsements) tipping him into the $1 billion mark.
Ronaldo came second in the list of highest-earning footballers for the year 2020 according to Forbes with his total earning $117 million ($70 million in salary and $47 million endorsements).
Other footballers who featured in the 2020 list of highest-earning players are Kylian Mbabpe, Mohammed Salah, David de Gea, among others.
Four men have been arrested by officers of Ogun Police Command for allegedly beating a police constable, Agada Akoh. to death at Dalemo, in Sango Ota area of the State on 13, September 2020.
The suspects, Jelili Ismailas, Amidu Bankole, Elijah Samson and Moses Proboye, were arrested after a report at Sango division at about 9:30pm on that day that a policeman has been beaten to coma by some hoodlums at Dalemo bus stop.
Following the report, the Divisional Police Officer at the station, CSP Godwin Idehai led his men to the scene where he met the policeman in a pool of his own blood.
Though the Constable was quickly taken to the hospital, it was gathered that he gave up the ghost while receiving treatment.
Preliminary investigation of the circumstances that led to the incident revealed that the Constable and one other officer were escorting an unidentified principal from Idah in Kogi state to Lagos State.
The Police, however, said while passing through Sango Ota, a truck driver, Jelili Ismaila drove dangerously and almost push their vehicle off road.
The Police claimed that while trying to avoid hitting the vehicle conveying the officers, the truck entered a pothole as a result of which one of its tyres got punctured.
The two policemen came down from their vehicle to caution the truck driver.
But the driver of the truck accused the driver of the vehicle conveying the policemen of of being responsible for the accident.
He reportedly mobilised hoodlums who attacked the officers and their principal with dangerous weapons and beat the deceased to coma.
Having realized that the policeman may not survive the attack, the driver and his hired hoodlums took to their heels, but the DPO and his men, acting on a tip off, stormed their hideout and got them arrested.
However, four others suspected to be among those who beat up the Constable escaped.
The remains of the deceased officer has been deposited at the general hospital Ota mortuary.
Ogun Commissioner of Police, CP Edward Awolowo Ajogun, who described the incident as barbaric and act of lawlessness has ordered a massive manhunt for the remaining suspects.
He also warned that unwarranted attack on his men is unacceptable and will not be tolerated.
The CP therefore directed that the arrested suspects be transferred to the homicide section of the state criminal investigation and intelligence department for an in-depth investigation and diligent prosecution.
Pandemonium broke in the early hours on Monday in the Lagos State University, Ojo Campus, when members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities, NASU, barred the Vice-Chancellor of the institution, Prof Olanrewaju Fagboun and students from gaining access to premises.
It was gathered that the action was as a result of protest by the union members over non-payment of increment in salaries promised by the Lagos State Government after a year when the promise was made.
This came on the heels of resumption as announced by of Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu for tertiary institutions in the state to reopen on September 14, 2020. Students in 300 and 400 levels were to resume Monday, with other members of staff that had been on lockdown as a result of ravaging COVID-19 pandemic.
Trouble started as early as 7 am as union members took over the entrance of the university from security personnel and turned back both human and vehicular movements from going in and out of the premises.
All entreaties by the vice-chancellor to prevail on the protesters was not heeded.
The effort to get a reaction from the representative of Lagos State Government was ongoing at press time.
Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, has petitioned the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Banjul, The Gambia, over the death sentence passed on the Kano singer, Sharif Yahya Sharif.
Falana is asking the Commission to exercise its mandates and authority under the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and pursuant to the commission’s order 100(1) Rules of Procedure, 2020.
Falana in the petition dated 8th September 2020, states: “I am writing to you on behalf of Sharif Yahya Sharif to ask the Commission to consider this request for provisional measures. The request is submitted in conjunction with our communication on behalf of Sharif Yahya Sharif convicted and sentenced to death for blasphemy in Kano State of Nigeria.
“When the petitioner informed the Court that he could not afford and secure the services of a lawyer to defend him, the Court ordered the Legal Aid Council to assign him a lawyer so that the petitioner could enjoy access to legal representation.
“However, the order was disobeyed by the Legal Aid Council. The Legal Aid Council is the body established by law to provide legal support to indigent citizens especially in cases involving death penalty.
“An appeal at the Kano State High Court against the conviction and death sentence imposed on the petitioner has been filed, but we submit that the petitioner will not enjoy a fair hearing, as he continues to face imminent execution by hanging.
“Nigeria is a state party to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights but there is a growing crackdown on human rights including the rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly, and attack on the rule of law.”
Falana therefore noted that Nigeria has deliberately and willfully disregarded the request by the African Commission to the effect that African countries, including Nigeria that still retain the death penalty, should fully comply with their obligations under the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and guarantee every person accused of capital punishment fair trial.
One of the world's rarest diamonds, about the size of an egg or a large lollipop, is going up for auction next month and is expected to fetch $12 million to $30 million.
Sotheby's said that the 102.39-carat diamond, a flawless white sparkler, was the second-largest oval diamond of its kind to be offered at auction.
The largest, a 118.28-carat diamond, set a record $30.8 million price when it was sold under the hammer in 2013. Two more photos below...
Eight passengers narrowly escaped death in the early hours on Monday when a bus with Lagos registration number GGE 972 GE suddenly veered onto the train tracks while crossing the rail at PWD inward Oshodi, Lagos and collided with a fast-moving commuter train in the process.
Director-General of Lagos State Emergency Management Agency Dr. Femi Oke-Osantintolu, who confirmed the incident said the situation which happened around 8.am, had been brought under control with no loss of life recorded.
According to Oke-Osanyintolu, “The agency received distress calls on the above. Upon arrival at the scene, it was discovered that a passenger bus with registration number GGE 972 GE, had veered onto the train tracks while crossing the rail at PWD inward Oshodi, Lagos.
“The bus was then dragged along for a stretch of the journey before the train managed to come to a complete halt.
“Subsequently, the agency was able to successfully extricate the passengers and note that there was no loss of life.”
He said the casualties have been provided with on the spot medical care and discharged.
Oke-Osanyintolu, therefore, urged members of the public, especially commercial drivers to always exercise caution and obey traffic regulations to prevent unnecessary accidents
The wreckage of the bus had been safely removed to allow for free flow of traffic.
Copyright violators should note that Beyonce is not just US singer Beyonce Knowles’ name, it is a registered trademark.
An Indian music producer has just run into the trademark violation and has had to do the needful, by changing the title of a song.
The makers of Ananya Panday and Ishaan Khatter’s Khaali Peeli have tweaked the title of the song from ‘Beyonce Sharma Jayegi’ to ‘Beyonse Sharma Jayegi’.
The song has been trending for quite some time now for its controversial lyrics hinting at racism.
However, the change from Beyonce to Beyonse has nothing to do with the outrage, reports India Today.
According to the online platform, the title change was to avoid legal repercussions.
They are also likely to rework on the lyrics of the song as well.
Featuring Ishaan Khatter and Ananya Panday, Beyonse Sharma Jayegi was released on YouTube on September 6.
The song has been heavily criticised online over its racist lyrics.
Things were more complicated when the track invoked comparisons with Beyonce.
The song goes like this: Oh tujhe dekh ke goriya… Beyonce sharma jayegi, which translates to After looking at you fair woman, Beyonce will feel shy.
Many internet users took to Twitter to apologise to Beyonce for the song.
The song has received 1 million dislikes on YouTube.
After receiving flak for its racist lyrics, the song is being ridiculed for replacing c with s in Beyonce Sharma Jayegi.
The fan favourite of Big Brother tv reality show, Nengi has revealed that she has done liposuction and she is not ashamed to tell the world.
She said this following the housemate’s argument that some women cannot own up to going under the knife but for her, she can tell it as it is and not afraid if people use it against her.
Neo wanted to know the amount of money she paid to enlarge her bum but she felt reluctant to tell him.
Shock hit Ahero village in Maili Tisa, Bahati sub-county in Nakuru, Kenya after a 66-year-old man was found early Sunday beheaded and his head thrown into a water tank with body dumped in a garbage pit.
Peter Ndung’u Kinyanjui, 66, who was a diabetic patient was living with his 42-year-old son.
According to Grace Wambui, the man’s sister-in-law, they suspect that man’s son may have committed the murder since he suffers from mental health issues.
The son, identified as Samuel Kinyanjui, missed his monthly health check-up after tellings his relatives he couldn’t because his clothes were dirty, Wambui said.
She said that he was a cool person who never provoked anyone.
The man is still at large but police are searching for him.
Bahati MP Kimani Ngunjiri, who visited the family, decried a surge in the abuse of drugs and a high murder rate in the region.
“We have seen planting of bhang in some parts of Wanyororo. It is a worrying situation and we need to take more efforts in eradicating the menace,” Ngunjiri said.
Nakuru Senator Susan Kihika expressed concern over prevalent murder incidents in Bahati, many of them involving domestic disturbances.
“Last week we had an incident involving a sister and a brother and its worrying,” Kihika said.
The son is still at large and a search has been activated to nab him.
A newborn baby – thought to be about two days old – was found stuffed in a black plastic bag by a passer-by who heard the tot’s plaintive cries.
But when Diego Sebastian Penayo opened the bag he found that the infant had been stabbed multiple times, and the rusty blade was still sicking out of the baby’s back.
Diego, a 31-year-old personal trainer, took the baby girl to a nearby police station in Posadas, Argentina, and from there she was rushed to hospital.
Doctors were shocked to find multiple knife wounds on the little girl’s tiny body, and she needed urgent medical treatment.
Fortunately most of the stab wounds were superficial and no major organs were affected.
Two of the baby’s ribs had also been broken.
Despite that, the little girl is said to be making a good recovery. So good, in fact, that nurses at the Hospital Maternal Neonatal have taken to calling her Milagros – ‘Miracle.’
Fortunately most of the stab wounds were superficial and no major organs were affected.
Two of the baby’s ribs had also been broken.
Despite that, the little girl is said to be making a good recovery. So good, in fact, that nurses at the Hospital Maternal Neonatal have taken to calling her Milagros – ‘Miracle.’
The Lagos State Police Command has deployed 1,000 officers to complement other security personnel drafted for the Edo governorship election scheduled for September 19.
This is contained in a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by the Command’s Police Public Relations Officer, SP Olumuyiwa Adejobi.
Adejobi said that the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Hakeem Odumosu admonished officers from the Command to be of good conduct and exhibit professionalism in discharging their duties during the election.
“He further reiterated the commitment of the IGP to sustain the core values of democracy in Nigeria via fair, free and credible elections,” the police spokesman said.
Odumosu said that adequate incentives and welfare packages as approved by the IGP had been provided to encourage and boost the morale of the officers detailed for the special duty.
One of the gang members of late terror kingpin Gana, identified as Aondehemba has claimed that the late warlord got his power from burying his 12 years old daughter, 11 years ago in his village.
This is just as he revealed that Gana accepted Christ just before his death.
Speaking with The Nation, Aondehemba, also known as Major, revealed that the gang members warned their late leader not to trust the peace offering that eventually claimed his life.
Major expressed that Gana, in his lifetime, trained over 200 gun-carrying members in Benue North East and Taraba State.
“It is a battalion,” he said. “We are many and have a very strong network. Gana was a leader that cared so much about us.
“On that very day, he assembled us in the morning in the bush and addressed us. He directed us on what to do if he did not return alive.
“He told us that if his coming out was a setup, the battle should continue, but if it was with genuine intention, he would want us to lay down our arms.”
Major also stated that Gana’s resolve to tow the path of peace and eschew violence was out of respect for Senator Gabriel Suswan and Bishop of Gboko William Aveyam
“I can tell you that Gana accepted Christ before his death. He had planned to be baptised by the Bishop after the amnesty. He had even discussed wedding one of his wives in the church. He was actually tired of what he was doing.
Explaining how powerful Gana was and why he couldn’t possibly disappear before his death like some of them did, Major said: “I was among the five gang members that disappeared in the convoy when the army stopped us in Gboko. Our vehicle was behind the official car of the local government chairman that was conveying Gana to Makurdi.
“Gana could not disappear because he had already handed over his power to the second commander before embarking on that ill-fated journey to Makurdi.
“His intention was to come back from Makurdi and make sure that peace returned permanently in Sankera (Logo, Ukum, Katsina-Ala LGAs), and Suswam had assured him of full support.
“He had told us that one of the things he intended to do in Makurdi was to plead with Governor Ortom to forgive him and reassure him of peace in Benue.”
He claimed that Gana had supernatural powers derived from burying his 12-year-old daughter alive 11 years ago in his Gbitse village.
“That was why he was very powerful. And those powers are still intact because he gave them to someone very close to him.
“The military got Gana easily because he came out of the forest.
“Gana was in his village in Gbitse when he was declared wanted some years back, and each time the military went there to arrest him they were unable to identify him.
“Now Gana is no more but his spirit is still very much alive. He gave us a directive on what to do in case he died.
A French government official's attempt to ban a feminist book called 'I Hate Men' appears to have backfired after it sold out.
Sales of Pauline Harmange's 'Moi les hommes, je les déteste' skyrocketed after Ralph Zurmély, a special adviser to France's ministry for gender equality, called it an 'ode to misandry [a hatred of men].'
In an email, Zurmély told Monstrograph - the book's publisher - that 'incitement to hatred on the grounds of gender is a criminal offence', and asked the publisher to pull the book from publication 'on pain of criminal prosecution'.
The 25-year-old activist's book argues that 'anger towards men is actually a joyful and emancipatory path, if it is allowed to be expressed', and explores whether women 'have good reason to hate men'.
Monstrograph has denied that the book is an incitement of hatred, and called the book a 'feminist and iconoclastic book' that 'defends misandry as a way of making room for sisterhood'.
Colline Pierre, one of the founders of the micro-publisher run by volunteers, said 'The title is provocative but the language is measured. It is an invitation not to oblige oneself to frequent men or compromise with them.
'At no time does the author incite violence,' she added.
The first 450 printed copies of the book flew off the shelves after Zurmély called for it to be banned. Since the first print run, a further 2,500 copies have been sold.
A larger, so far unnamed publisher, is now set to take the title on and UK publishers are set to be considering translating it into English.
Police is working with management of Independent National Electoral Commission in Ondo to investigate the cause of a fire last week at the commission’s office in Akure.
Ondo police commissioner Salami Amidu Bolaji described the fire incidence as unfortunate and said they will soon get to the root of the matter.
The mystery fire which destroyed about 500 card readers occurred on September 9, 2020 at about 7:30pm at the INEC Headquarters, Alagbaka, Akure.
CP Bolaji who visited the scene of the inferno expressed sadness at the destruction of two containerloads of INEC card readers and other stationery.
He however said the Command in conjunction with INEC management will collaborate with Ondo State Fire Service in the investigation of the cause of the fire outbreak.
Salami also said that it was regrettable to see this happened close to the date of the governorship election in the state.
Suspected bandits at the weekend abducted a nursing mother and 16 others at Gonar Lema, along the Kaduna- Birnin-Gwari expressway in Udawa village, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
According to Daily Trust all the victims were members of the same family who were on their way to the farm on Saturday at 7:00 am.
The head of the family, Yakubu Gurmi, who escaped the attack with gunshot wounds, said they were on motorcycles heading for the farm when the gunmen opened fire on them.
Gurmi said he and three others sustained gunshot wounds, adding that “I was shot on my two legs while the two others on my motorcycle were shot too. One of them sustained injuries on his mouth, while the other on his shoulder. There was one person who was shot on the hand and sustained a fracture.”
He said the nursing mother, Abigail, was abducted with her infant and 15 other family members but confirmed that no one was killed in the attack.
He gave the names of the three other injured persons as Baby, Blessing, and Omega, adding that they were receiving treatment at an undisclosed hospital in Kaduna, while he was being attended to at the Birnin Gwari Hospital.
Health workers under the aegis of the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) are to begin a nationwide strike from midnight on Sunday.
The strike is over Federal Government’s inability to meet their demands.
JOHESU President Josiah Biobelemoye, announced the strike in a letter addressed to the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chris Ngige.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the workers had issued a notice to the government, saying that it would embark on a nationwide strike, if their demands were not met.
JOHESU’s demands include addressing of structural and infrastructural decay in the nation’s health sector and review of the implementation of Covid-19 special inducement and hazard allowance.
Ngige had on Friday called for a conciliatory meeting between the Federal Government and JOHESU.
The government directed that in view of the understanding reached at the meeting, JOHESU should consult with its members and report back to the government on Sept. 12.
Biobelemoye said on Sunday that the outcome of the meeting between the joint unions and the government was reported back to the unions’ expanded National Executive Council meeting on Saturday.
He said that it was unanimously agreed that nothing concrete was achieved at the meeting with the government, and the strike notice was, therefore, germane.
“Therefore, the 15-day ultimatum still subsists, and with effect from midnight of Sept. 13, 2020, our members shall withdraw their services due to the government’s inability to meet their demands,” he said. “
