American rapper Lil Wayne has been charged with possession of firearms, a charge arising from a late December 2019 plane search in Florida.
According to TMZ, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida has charged Weezy with one count of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon
If convicted, the sentence could be as high as 10 years.
A court appearance is slated for December.
In 2009, Weezy, whose real name is Dwayne Michael Carter Jr, whose served eight months in jail on a similar charge.
Weezy’s attorney Howard Srebnick explained on Tuesday that his client has been charged for “possessing a gold-plated handgun” in his luggage while travelling on the plane.
Srebnick also highlighted the fact that there is “no allegation that he is a dangerous person.”
Irate Okada riders clashed with Task Force officials on Tuesday at Rainbow area on Oshodi-Mile 2 Expressway with three vehicles belonging to the Task Force damaged and one person injured.
It was gathered that the Task Force officials were at the area to enforce compliance to the road traffic law of the state which prohibited okara riders from plying certain routes, among others.
Taofeek Adebayo, Task Force spokesman said the operatives of the agency based on series of complaints from the public about activities of okada riders using their bikes to rob them of their valuables and plying restricted routes, went out to the area for enforcement.
“After impounding about 74 okadas caught plying one-way and those operating on highway, Okada riders mobilised themselves and attacked officers of the agency.
“They damaged beyond repair two of our vehicles with one of our trucks.
“A Paramilitary officer attached to the Agency, Ganiyu Mustapha, was wounded with broken bottles and cutlass because he mistakenly ran into the mob,” he said.
Adebayo stated that since the #EndSARS protest, every motorists, including okada riders operate with impunity, thereby causing serious traffic gridlock across the State.
“We had a stakeholders meeting with their Okada leaders and they made us to understand that all.those flagrantly disobeying the laws are not responsible to any associations in Lagos.
“We must all join hands together to salvage the State from the hands of these notorious criminals who use okada to perpetuate evil to the public,” he said.
A lady identified on Instagram as Maureen has called out the DMW boss, Davido after he sent her a direct message on Instagram.
The lady identified as Maureen shared the screenshot of the message Davido allegedly sent her on Instagram,as she tells Chioma to get her man out of her DM.
In her words;
“@Thechefchi, please come and get your man out of my Dm”
Twitter on Tuesday said it was rolling out tweets which disappear after 24 hours, joining rival social platforms in offering ephemeral messages.
The new “fleets” which had been tested in several countries in recent months are “for sharing momentary thoughts” and aim to bring in users who want to avoid having their comments become permanent fixtures, according to a Twitter blog post.
“Those new to Twitter found fleets to be an easier way to share what’s on their mind,” said product manager Sam Haveson and design director Joshua Harris in the blog post.
“Because they disappear from view after a day, fleets helped people feel more comfortable sharing personal and casual thoughts, opinions, and feelings.”
The move gives Twitter a new tool in competing with the likes of Snapchat, which made disappearing messages popular, and Facebook, which has also adopted the idea.
Twitter has become an important platform for politicians, celebrities and journalists, but it has lagged other social networks in users.
In the past quarter it reported 187 million “monetizable” daily active users, trailing Snapchat and Facebook.
Twitter said the new format would allow users to create the same kinds messages as in ordinary tweets, including images, videos and emojis, with the option to have the message disappear.
“Your followers can see your fleets at the top of their home timeline,” Haveson and Harris said.
“Anyone who can see your full profile can see your fleets there too.”
Twitter has been testing the new format in Brazil, Italy, India and South Korea and learned that “we saw people with fleets talk more on Twitter.”
A Nigerien helicopter has been allegedly gunned down by suspected Boko Haram fighters in Borno state.
A senior security source told The Nation that five passengers of the helicopter died in the incident.
“The helicopter was said to be hovering around the Banki area around the Bama axis and it was shut down by the insurgents. The five occupants all perished,” the source said
Swipe left or right to deleteThe incident was said to have occurred in the morning of Tuesday, November 17, 2020.
The Nigeria Army is yet to make a statement concerning the incident.
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, on Monday broke its silence on recent hike in fuel price by the Federal Government, rejecting the move and called for immediate reversal.
The Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC), a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), recently increased depot prices of petrol, directing marketers to sell the product to end users at between N167 to N170 per litre.
The NLC, in a statement issued by its National President, Ayuba Wabba said there is no doubt that there is great disquiet in the land over the extraordinary level of inflation in the country.
“The recent increase in the pump price of the Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) has only exacerbated the current level of pain and anguish in the country.
“The recent increase in the pump price of PMS is clearly against the spirit and content of what Organized Labour agreed with government at the last negotiations over the last fuel price increase.
“It has also cast in very bad light our utmost good faith with regards to government explanations that it lacks funds to continue bankrolling the so-called subsidy payments as such would sooner than later cripple the entire economy, throw the country into severe economic crisis and cause loss of jobs in millions,” he said.
Wabba said while the NLC awaited the full recovery of the nation’s refineries as contained in its agreement with government, Nigerians could not be made to bleed endlessly for the failures of successive government to properly manage our refineries, ensure value for money for the numerous Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) which were poorly and barely executed and the horrifying lack of interest in prosecuting public officials and private business people who have profited from the rot in the petroleum sector and the collective misery they have imposed on the general population.
“In line with our recent agreement with government, we will be receiving updates in the next few days from our unions in the petroleum sector which have been given the mandate to keep surveillance on government promise to overhaul our public refineries.
“We will also receive updates from our representatives in the electricity review committee. The updates we receive will determine whether the government has kept to its side of the bargain which is to take serious steps to recover and reposition our public refineries.
“The outcome of this engagement will determine our response in the coming days. But while we are at that, we condemn the recent price increase and we call for its reversal with immediate effect,” Wabba stated.
Donald Trump had to be talked out of launching a missile strike at Iran days after he lost the US election due to fears it could start a war.
The President, with just two months left in office, asked for options on attacking Iran's main nuclear site last week but ultimately decided against taking the dramatic step, a US official said.
Trump made the request during an Oval Office meeting on Thursday, four days after the election was called for Joe Biden and amid his increasingly desperate and unfounded claims of election fraud.
The unnamed official confirmed the account of the meeting in The New York Times, which reported advisers persuaded Trump not to go ahead with a strike because of the risk of a broader conflict.
The gathering was attended by his top national security aides, including Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, new acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller and General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
"He asked for options," the source said. "They gave him the scenarios and he ultimately decided not to go forward."
Olympic and World 3,000m Steeplechase Champion Conseslus Kipruto has been charged with defiling a 15-year-old minor in a Kapsabet court.
The world-renowned athlete was charged on Monday, November 16, with defiling a Form Two girl and released on Sh200,000 cash bail after pleading not guilty.
The defilement incident was first reported by K24 Digital on Friday, October 30, when the minor’s parents filed a report at Mosoriot police post accusing the athlete of eloping with their daughter three days earlier.
The minor’s parents alleged that their daughter, who went missing from home, was putting up at the athlete’s home in Chesumei.
Upon returning home after three days, they interrogated her seeking an explanation on where she had been.
The girl allegedly refused to disclose where she had been but the insistent parents examined her phone log where they discovered that she had been in frequent communication with the Olympic champ.
It was then that the teenager allegedly disclosed that she had been putting up at the athlete’s home.
Immediately, the parents filed a report at the Mosoriot police post alleging that their girl had been defiled.
Confirming the filing of the police report at Mosoriot, Chesumei OCPD Bosita Omukolongolo said he couldn’t immediately establish the age of the girl.
“A report was filed at Mosoriot Police Station by the girl’s parents, who are complaining that Kipruto defiled their daughter. We cannot immediately confirm whether the girl is a minor or an adult. However, we are looking for the athlete whose whereabouts remain unknown,” Omukolongolo told K24 Digital.
“Upon arresting the suspect, we shall record his statement and thereafter conclude investigations into the defilement allegations,” said the OCPD, revealing that the alleged defilement victim has been taken to hospital for examination.
Regina Daniels has denied reports that her husband Ned Nwoko has taken another wife.
There were speculations her husband is about to get married to another wife after an Arab woman shared numerous photos of herself posing in Ned Nwoko's house while wearing an engagement ring.
Reacting to the news, Regina wrote;
"The news about Sara being my husband's wife is completely false. She is my friend who came visiting!!!"
The Lagos State Government has warned religious leaders in the state against a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, urging them to intensify safety protocols to avert the spread of the virus.
The state Commissioner for Home Affairs, Anofiu Elegushi, spoke on Monday in Lagos at the 2020 International Day for Tolerance.
While appealing to operators of worship centres to comply with the guidelines of the Nigeria Centre of Disease Control, Elegushi said the state government might be forced to sanction any religious house that failed to comply with regulations.
The commissioner stressed that this was no time to play with the safety of worshipers and residents.
“At this juncture, let me admonish our beloved people not to relent in supporting and understanding the efforts of the Lagos State Government. We should not let down our guards; it is not yet Uhuru. The battle against this dreaded virus is not over. All guidelines and safety protocols of mitigating COVlD-19 should still be stringently adhered to.
“We are all aware that some countries, including the United States of America, the United Kingdom and France, are currently experiencing the second wave of the virus. We cannot afford to allow this to happen. I beseech us to continue to use our face masks, wash our hands frequently and maintain social distance in public places, while also using alcohol-based hand sanitisers from time to time to combat the transmission,” he added.
The Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, has approved the reopening of Nursery and Primary Schools in the state from the 23rd of November.
This was disclosed in a statement signed by Sir Chidi Adiele on behalf of the Commissioner of Education, Prof. Kaniye Ebeku.
The statement noted that the resumption was for commencement of first term, 2020/2021 academic session.
It read: “This is to inform the general public that His Excellency Governor Nyesom Wike, CON, GSSRS, POS (Africa), Governor of Rivers State, has approved the reopening of all Public and Private Nursery and Primary Schools in the State with effect from Monday 23rd November 2020 for First Term 2020/2021 academic session, in line with the School Calendar published by the Ministry of Education in August 2020.
“By this all Head Teachers, Proprietors and other concerned persons should take all necessary steps to ensure safe and hitch-free resumption in line with extant COVID-19 Protocols.”
The statement further advised parents and guardians and the general public to prepare their children for the resumption.
An Owerri Magistrate Court on Monday remanded Herclus Okoro representing Ohaji Egbema State Constituency in the Imo House of Assembly, in the state correctional facility for alleged assault.
Okoro, a member of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), was arraigned in court for an eight-count charge bordering on alleged assault with intention to wound.
The legislator however, pleaded not guilty to all the charges leveled against him.
The Counsel to the defendant, Mr Amandibuogu Osondu argued that the offence was bailable, adding that Okoro’s continued detention was against justice.
Osondu pleaded for bail since the defendant had been detained for three days.
Responding, the prosecuting counsel, Mr T Okee said the case was sudden adding that he needed more time.
In his ruling, Justice Okoroji advised the prosecuting and the defending counsels to exchange briefs on Tuesday and adjourned till Nov. 18.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Okoro was arrested on Friday, November 13 following a violent altercation between him and the Deputy Speaker of the House, Amarachi Iwuanyanwu (APC Nwangele).
Tributes have been paid to a ‘happy-go-lucky’ barmaid who was found dead in bed.
Jane Hamilton passed away at the home in Biddulph, Staffordshire, she shared with her partner on November 9.
Her grief-stricken family who are yet to know what caused the 33-year-old's death and are hoping a post-mortem examination will provide some answers.
Jane was a well-known figure in the town and worked at a local JD Wetherspoon's pub for the past 10 years,
Her devastated parents - Janice and Brian Hamilton, who also live in Biddulph - say their daughter was hugely popular.
Janice, aged 58, told Stoke-on-TrentLive : “Everybody loved her. Everyone used to call her Janey.
“She was very bubbly and happy-go-lucky. She would do anything for anybody – it didn’t matter what it was, she would help.
“She loved working at the pub, she got on well with everyone there and all the customers. If she walked down the street, everyone would always be saying 'hello' to her.
“She had found happiness with her partner, Andrew Slater, and was really content.”
Jane, who had suffered from asthma since she was two, was found at her home after Janice was unable to reach her on the phone.
A 13-year-old child bride has been forced to marry a 48-year-old man in a sickening wedding ceremony in the Philippines.
Chilling photos show the man cradling the teen in the town of Mamasapano in Maguindanao province on October 22.
In another disturbing photo he can be seen kissing the young girl on the cheek.
The child bride, who the Mirror has chosen not to name, became Abdulrzak Ampatuan's fifth wife in a day-long wedding with Islamic religious rites.
Abdulrzak showed no remorse about marrying a child.
He said: "I am happy to have found her and spend my days with her taking care of my children."
The farmer plans to have children with his wife when she turns 20.
The groom added that he will send her to school so she can study while waiting for her to be ready to have children.
In some parts of the Philippines, especially in the Muslim-majority Mindanao region, a minor is allowed to marry as long she reaches puberty marked by menstruation.
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) data shows the country has the 12th highest number of child brides in the world at 726,000 so far.
A 'love rat' stole thousands of pounds from women and a business partner after 'worming his way' into their lives.
A judge said Paul Simon Gillet, 30, had made it his life's work 'to dupe and defraud innocent people' as he jailed him for four-and-a-half years yesterday.
Gillet, who is already serving time, stole £158,000 from unsuspecting victims, including one woman who he moved in with after meeting her on a night out in Camarthen, Wales.
The 'pathological liar' previously conned Rebecca Rouse, who he met on Tinder, out of £3,000 after convincing her he needed a new kidney, Wales Online reports.
Swansea Crown Court heard that one of his victims was a woman he met on a night out in Carmarthen before moving in with her and her children.
Helen Randall, prosecuting, said he took out large amounts of store credit agreements in her name, took out finance on an Audi car, and persuaded her to obtain a loan to pay a deposit on a house for them.
He also attempted to get loans worth more than £41,000 using her personal details.
He then lied to her that he had kidney problems and needed an urgent transplant, and claimed to be due a £1m inheritance.
In a bizarre twist, he claimed the owner of a printing business who he also defrauded was his biological father, and that he had only just been reunited with him after being raised by adoptive parents in Ireland.
A second woman he targeted had recently gone through a break up and was feeling vulnerable. He flattered her and said his bank account had been frozen and needed money to pay people in the Middle East.
In relation to the printing business, Miss Randall, prosecuting, said that in August 2018 Gillett - using the false name of Paul Grey - approached a west Wales company and offered to design its website.
She said Gillett soon "wormed his way" into the business and the owner's life, persuading the boss to launch a new venture together of supplying large illuminated letters for use as decorations at weddings and other events.
The defendant even moved in with the owner and his partner as they worked on their new project, and a unit was rented to store the letters which Gillett said a friend of his could make.
The prosecutor said Gillett persuaded his new business partner to hand over large amounts of cash and to take out loans supposedly to get the project going "but in reality the defendant was taking his money for himself".
Gillett even created fake customers from all over the UK and Europe who he said were interested in using the services of the new firm, sending his business partner to attend "spurious meetings" which were always cancelled at the last minute.
The court heard he also targeted the owner's wife, persuading her to give him more than £4,300 for a company vehicle, money he used to buy himself a BMW, and £2,000 for business suits.
In reality, he bought cheap suits from Matalan and pocketed the difference.
Miss Randall said Gillett also defrauded genuine customers who approached the company wanting to buy illuminated letters off them, telling one of them his daughter was ill and needed chemotherapy in order to garner sympathy.
Atletico Madrid striker Luis Suarez has become the latest high-profile footballer to contract Covid-19 while on international duty. The striker would miss Saturday’s reunion with Barcelona as a result.
Alongside Suarez, Uruguayan international Rodrigo Munoz and coach Matias Faral have also tested positive.
A statement from the Uruguayan FA reads: “The Uruguayan football association reports that swabs have been performed on all members of the senior team, resulting in the players Luis Suarez, Rodrigo Munoz and the official Matias Faral having tested positive for COVID-19, while all the other tests are negative.
“The three members mentioned are in good health and the corresponding measures have already been implemented.”
Suarez, however, is likely to undergo further testing to ensure the results are correct, but it seems likely he will miss Barcelona’s trip to Wanda Metropolitano, as well as the Champions League clash with Lokomotiv Moscow four days later.
The Lagos State Police Command has allegedly threatened to close the African Shrine, Ikeja, if #EndSARS movement holds there.
The movement which is organised by Seun Kuti, son of Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, was originally scheduled to be held on Tuesday at the African Shrine.
The police have now threatened to close down the place if the programme goes on as planned.
Seun revealed that the police called his sister and threatened to shut down the facility if the meeting holds and also sent in a letter.
The police cited the recent violence arising from the #EndSARS protest as its reason for ordering the suspension of the programme.
“It is on this premise that I write that such a gathering or meeting planned to be hosted at your venue is not welcome at this perilous time when the security of the nation is trying to find her feet to stabilize all threat to life and properties.
“You are hereby warned to suspend such gathering as any infraction that may emerge from this gathering will be tagged a deliberate action to sabotage the transition and restoration of the peace in Lagos State by the Lagos state Government and the Nigeria police Force,” the letter to the Kuti family partly reads.
Reacting to the letter by the police, Seun said he will go ahead with his programme but at a different venue.
He said, “I respect my family’s decision not to hold the event but I will still go ahead with all the other organisations to launch the Movement of the People tomorrow and start our political resistance to the tyranny of this oppressive regime.
“This is a meeting, just a meeting of organisations and they are basically banning the right of association. Why are they afraid of the people organising? What is democratic about this act?
“The last time we tried to launch the government quickly called curfew and this time they have used threats but you can’t stop the will of the people.”
A player with Crown Football Club of Oyo State, Usman Yusuf, has slumped and died during a friendly match in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
Yusuf featured in the first half in a friendly for Gateway United FC against Sliema Wanderers on Sunday afternoon.
He was resuscitated by medics after he slumped and later taken to the State Hospital, Ijaye where he passed on.
The Media officer of the Gateway FC, Moses Ojewumi, confirmed the incident on Monday in Abeokuta.
Ojewumi quoted Gateway United coach, Akeem Busari, as saying the late player “didn’t show any signs of illness when he came for trials and didn’t die at the camp as it was erroneously reported in some quarters.”
Many media houses were led wrongly today when a page thought to belong to Dino Melaye's duaghter showed off a Lamborghini car her father reportedly bought for her. Apparently it was a fake oage meant to lead people wrongly.
The former lawmaker has now denied buying his 11-year old daughter such an expensive car, saying no responsible dad would do that for a girl that young. He took to twitter to deny the reports saying;
''I have no daughter called Mary and the Instagram account with the name Mary Melaye is fake. How can any responsible Father buy even a KIA Rio for a child @ 11. Dino matter dey sweet una to lie sha.''
Olu Jacobs and Joke Silva earned the encomiums of notable personalities as they mark their 35th wedding anniversary today.
The highly respected and award-winning actress took to social media to celebrate their 35th wedding anniversary.
Joke Silva noted that she forgot today is their anniversary but thanked God for the years she has spent with her sweetheart.
She wrote, “Totally forgot. 35 years together. Thank you, Lord. Here is to many more. Happy wedding anniversary Omo boy @_olujacobs.”
Olu Jacobs and Joke Silva met in 1981 and it has been a journey full of good and inspiring stories.
Olu Jacobs had said that the moment he set his eyes on Joke Silva, he knew she was his wife.
He said, “We were having a management meeting for a play, Wole Soyinka’s Jero Metamorphosis when a young lady walked in. Immediately she walked in, something inside me told me that she was going to be my wife and I told the people around me that I was going to marry her. That was in 1981. In 1986, we got married.
Olu Jacobs continued, “I was not in a relationship. I had a disappointment that kept me away and I never wanted any serious commitment because the wound was still raw but when I met her, we talked and played a lot and it surprised people a lot. We travelled together a lot as well. When the time came, I did not hesitate and it was as if she was waiting for the question as well. I proposed to her in Tunisia because we were shooting a film, Ashanti. She came to join me there on her way to England and I asked her to marry me.”
