The Legover singer took to his Twitter account to inform his 2.3 million followers that he had been robbed of his laptop and phone.
Mr Eazi wrote, “Abeg If Anybody see my laptop for Accra make e halla me! I go give am some cool £. Lmao but on a real anybody wey find am I promise I go do u well. If u open my laptop you go see this artwork for the place wey u for enter password. #FindMrEaziLaptop. Be like I go go tiptoe lane go beg the boys for there!! I sure sey dem be go listen me! Me sef I be hustler one time lol.”
He further reached out to his colleagues in Ghana, Sarkodie, Shatta Wale and Stonebwoy, begging them to use their influence in order to get his gadgets back.
Tweeting at Shatta Wale, Mr Eazi wrote, “Emperor dem steal my laptop & phones o u for show your power to ur boy Eazi.”
While pleading with popular Ghanian singer, Sarkodie, he tweeted, “Uncle @sarkodie dem steal my Laptop o! Abeg give executive order.”
Also, as he begged popular Ghanian singer, Stonebwoy, Mr Eazi tweeted, “Governor @stonebwoyb Abeg dem steal my laptop plus phones for Accra!! U go fit give executive order make street find am den return am! I am loyal to your government.”
A female staff of Delydad Quarry, Damilola Agboola, has been abducted on Tuesday in broad day along the old Oyo – Ibadan expressway in Akinyele local government area of Oyo state.
The Oyo State Police Command also confirmed the abduction which was allegedly carried out by road by a suspected five-man criminal gang.
The Police Public Relations Officers of the Command, Fadeyi Olugbenga confirmed the abduction in a press release made available to newsmen in Ibadan, adding that a coordinated search has commenced.
He said, “Information from Divisional Police Offical (DPO), Moniya revealed that at about 1:00 pm, one Agboola Damilola ‘f’ a staff of Delydad Quarry was abducted along Old-Oyo Ibadan road by a suspected five-man criminal gang.”
Fadeyi added that the effort intensified to arrest the criminal elements and rescue the victim and re-united her with his family members is ongoing.
He however called on the members of the public who got wind of the movement and activities of the captors to immediately inform the Police for prompt action.
More than 300 Nigerian schoolboys were reunited with their families last weekend, days after they had been abducted by kidnappers from their dormitory in the country’s north-west. The kidnapping revived memories of the 276 Chibok schoolgirls abducted in Borno state in 2014. Just as then, Boko Haram, the militant Islamist group, claimed responsibility.
The government insists no ransom was paid. Scepticism is warranted. In a country going backwards economically, carjacking, kidnapping and banditry are among Nigeria’s rare growth industries. Just as the boys were going home, Nigerian pirates abducted six Ukrainian sailors off the coast.
The definition of a failed state is one where the government is no longer in control. By this yardstick, Africa’s most populous country is teetering on the brink.
President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 pronounced Boko Haram “technically defeated”. That has proved fanciful. Boko Haram has remained an ever-present threat. If the latest kidnapping turns out to be its work, it would mark the spread of the terrorist group from its north-eastern base. Even if the mass abduction was carried out by “ordinary” bandits — as now looks possible — it underlines the fact of chronic criminality and violence. Deadly clashes between herders and settled farmers have spread to most parts of Nigeria. In the oil-rich, but impoverished, Delta region, extortion through the sabotage of pipelines is legendary.
Extortion is a potent symbol for a state whose modus operandi is the extraction of oil revenue from central coffers to pay for a bloated, ruinously inefficient, political elite. Security is not the only area where the state is failing. Nigeria has more poor people, defined as those living on less than $1.90 a day, than any other country, including India. In non-Covid-19 years, one of every five children in the world out of school lives in Nigeria, many of them girls.
The population, already above 200m, is growing at a breakneck 3.2 per cent a year. The economy has stalled since 2015 and real living standards are declining. This year, the economy will shrink 4 per cent after Covid-19 dealt a further blow to oil prices. In any case, as the world turns greener, the elite’s scramble for oil revenue will become a game of diminishing returns. The country desperately needs to put its finances, propped up by foreign borrowing, on a sounder footing.
In its three remaining years, the government of Mr Buhari must seek to draw a line in the sand. It must redouble efforts to get a grip on security. It also needs to restore trust in key institutions, among them the judiciary, the security services and the electoral commission, which will preside over the 2023 elections.
More than that, Nigeria needs a generational shift. The broad coalition that found political expression this year in the EndSARS movement against police brutality provides a shard of optimism. At least Nigeria has a relatively stable democracy. Now Nigeria’s youth — creative, entrepreneurial and less tainted by the politics of extraction — should use that system to reset the country’s narrative.
A new, slimmed-down state — ideally one with fewer, bankrupt regional assemblies — must concentrate on the basics: security, health, education, power and roads. With those public goods in place, Nigeria’s young people are more than capable of turning the country round. At the present trajectory, the population will double to 400m by 2050. If nothing is done, long before then, Nigeria will become a problem far too big for the world to ignore.
The Kano State Hisbah Board has arrested 43 people for prostitution and illegal sales of alcohol substance at Kwanar Gafan vegetables market, in Garun Malam Local Government Area of the state.
Harun Ibn-Syna, the Commander General of Hisbah ,who paraded the suspects on Monday, in Sharada quarters, confirmed the arrest.
“Out of the 43, 34 are females while the remaining nine are males, aged between 15 and 18.
“The investigation conducted on the suspects also revealed that, out of the male number, eight were found selling hard drugs and one person found in possession of 80 cartons of different bottles of beer,’’ Mr ’Ibn-Syna said.
He said 14 were HIV positive, 10 knew their status while four do not know, and that three rolls of male and female condoms were also recovered at the market.
He said the arrest was jointly organised between Hisbah board and the Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency.
Earlier, the Director General of the board, Aliyu Kibiya, disclosed that most of the suspects are from Kano, while some of them are from neighbouring states which include Adamawa, Anambra, Cross river, Bauchi, Benue, Kaduna, Niger, Gombe and Taraba.
A 300-level student of the Department of Agriculture, University of Ilorin, Gbenga Favour Olaoye-Akanbi, has committed suicide after he was allegedly duped by a forex trader, Eseka Chuckwutem Gospel (ESG).
Family sources told SaharaReporters that Olaoye-Akanbi was discovered dead on Sunday after drinking poison.
The 19-year-old student was said to have invested over N300 million belonging to his colleagues and friends in a business run by ESG.
Speaking to SaharaReporters, a friend of the deceased and an investor with the firm explained how they were duped.
He said, "The investment is forex. The guy's name is Eseka Chuckwutem Gospel. We started the investment together this year. It seems he stopped trading, so he turned indirectly to a Ponzi scheme without the knowledge of those investing.
"He has a particular group. Most people in that group collected money from other people to invest in his business. The late Gbenga collected money from different people to invest with ESG at a certain percentage.
"Later on, the investment crashed, and the guy was arrested. With the help of some senior police officials, he was released. So over time, people that were with ESG as investors( they had borrowed money to invest) were now being pressurized to repay the loan they took. I am one of the investors, too; we were under a lot of pressure to pay up. So I think because of this guy's age, he is just 19-year-old, he couldn't withstand the pressure and committed suicide."
A course mate of the deceased said he assured them that forex is not a Ponzi scheme and that he had back up funds, much enough to pay every one of his investors their capital and profits even if things went wrong.
"It's so sad; I have over N5m investment deal with him. He claimed to be the one doing the trading initially, but when the problem started around June, he started mentioning one Eseka Chuckwutem Gospel as his boss. He told us they were arrested together, but that our money was safe with him.
He later promised to pay everyone's capital before December. I was surprised when I saw people posting his pictures with RIP today," he told SaharaReporters.
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has called on the Nigerian government to immediately halt flights to and from the UK now in view of outbreak of new strain of COVID-19 in their land.
A fast-spreading variant of COVID-19 in the UK has raised fear as some countries have already banned flights to and from the UK.
However, Atiku in series of tweets said the reason Nigeria took a harder than necessary hit during the first wave of the COVID-19 virus was that the Federal Government failed to heed the warnings of well-meaning Nigerians, like himself and others, to shut down the nation’s borders once the virus became a pandemic.
“Nevertheless, we must learn from history, or we stand the risk of repeating it.
”The new strain of COVID19 that has erupted in the United Kingdom, and specifically, London, can add to Nigeria’s health emergency if we do not act with an abundance of caution and temporarily halt all flights to and from the UK until this new strain is brought under control,” he said.
According to him, some nations had already taken prompt action by halting flights to and from UK.
He said Nigeria must take necessary precautions due to the volume of air traffic between her and the UK.
Large crowds gathered at the offices of the National Identity Management Commission in Lagos on Monday in a bid to register and obtain the National Identity Number.
The development comes just days after the Nigerian Communication Commission ordered telecommunications companies to within two weeks suspend phone subscribers who have no NIN.
Currently, only about 41.5 million Nigerians out of an estimated 198 million active phone subscribers have NIN.
Most of the people, who gathered at the NIMC office in Alausa, were either not wearing face masks or not observing physical distancing, thereby flouting the protocol put in place by the government in a bid to tackle the spread of COVID-19 which has been on the increase in the last one week.
The Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who has also been infected with COVID-19, ordered the closure of places of worship, schools, clubs and other places which could attract large crowds.
Several concerned Nigerians had expressed concern over the sudden directive of the Federal Government and had asked that the deadline given for the registration be extended but the government has remained adamant.
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project had described the order as an abuse of human rights and threatened to sue the Federal Government within seven days if it is not rescinded.
The Federal Government recently approved the licensing of 173 centres and 30 state government institutions to conduct enrolment of persons into the National Identity Database. However, it was learnt that most of these entities could not start the process immediately because they lacked the infrastructure and equipment to do so.
Telecoms giant, MTN, which is one of the firms given the licence to enrol persons into the NIMC database, announced on Saturday that it was importing 14, 000 devices for the NIN registration and they are expected to arrive in two weeks.
Meanwhile, several Nigerians have been criticising the Federal Government on social media over the gathering of large crowds in NIMC’s offices.
Some of them accused NIMC officials of demanding bribe from them.
@ayegbajeje_ tweeted, “Those in Oshodi local government would frustrate you. People go as early as 4am for numbers. If you can’t get the number and want to register, you’ll pay a N5000 bribe. If you can wait, you’ll fill a form for N100, pay 300 for printing and lamination. The situation as of 8.45am today.
“The form is just an A4 paper with ‘free’ clearly written on it. If you make photocopies elsewhere it won’t be collected from you. Presently there are over 400+ people there defying COVID-19 guideline at the peak of the second wave.”
Another youth said on social media that it was ironic that the state government shut down night clubs over the weekend but was permitting large gatherings at NIMC.
“Lagos State Government sent police to Cubana to arrest people having a good time amid all their wickedness on citizens, because of so-called COVID-19 yet they are inviting and dining with COVID-19 with this NIN,” @iamgerrardoxa tweeted.
The NIMC Spokesman, Kayode Adegoke, did not respond to calls on Monday.
@prinzgbemi, who shared photos of from the Alausa office of NIMC, said the irony was that the office was barely five minutes away from the governor’s office.
Today marks the 26th wedding anniversary for former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank Kingsley Moghalu and his beautiful wife Maryanne.
The two love birds kept it short and sweet as they showered praises on each other via their Twitter accounts.
Maryanne took it a bit step further. She shared 4 adorable pictures which she titled: The meet, the traditional, the registry, and dinner after.
“It’s my 26th wedding anniversary today. Going down memory lane. The meet, the traditional, the registry.
and the dinner after. Thank you Moghalu Kingsley, knowing all that I know now, I would do it all over again!,” Maryanne captioned the photos.
However, the Presidential candidate of the YPP in the 2019 Presidential elections, reciprocated the love.
“It’s been a great journey in life with you by my side, and it’s not over yet! Profound greatness and destiny lie in the chapters ahead,” Moghalu stated in reactions to Maryanne’s message.
During their 25 th anniversary, Maryanne described Kingsley as a God-fearing man.
Maryanne also noted that: “We spend a lot of time talking. Well, he talks mostly and I listen. We watch movies. He likes action movies and I like mystery/crime. Sometimes we spend more time choosing the movie to watch than watching the actual movie. We also tend to go out a lot. He likes eating out. We also go on walks together.”
BBNaija ex-housemate Tolanibaj has reacted to the comment of the MC at Prince‘s homecoming in Imo State for some statements he made during the occasion.
During the homecoming party, the master of ceremony cracked a joke about the “ship” that almost sailed between Prince and Tolanibaj.
According to the MC, when Prince was about falling for Tolanibaj in the BBNaija house, they prayed fervently so he doesn’t end up “going to Yorubaland” and that he’s grateful “the wishes our fathers” followed him and he came back to Igboland safely.
Tolanibaj who was surprised to hear that reacted sadly asking whether it’s because of tribalism or illiteracy that made the MC make such a comment at the homecoming of Prince.
It the audacity; like wtf👿😠... If this is not madness, I don't know what is. If I start with these villagers that live at the back of the canal, they'll start crying like a stupid goat. This is soooo shameful and he's sitting there like a clown🤡. Bunch of toys garbage🤮. pic.twitter.com/CdK9ToO6Tc
There was chaos at Abuja airport has Dana Air refused to carry a passenger with disabilities.
His co-passengers fought the alleged discrimination, saying at first the flight was rescheduled without a good reason and now this.
According to news shared online, some equipment and other things that looked like computers were destroyed in protest.
The man also took to twitter to speak against the discrimination, saying people with disabilities all over the country will storm every airport and shut Dana Air down.
There was however an outrage on social media shortly after the news broke with many angry about the alleged discrimination.
The Senior Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, Mr Femi Adesina, has urged Nigerians to continue to exercise patience with the Federal Government especially with regards to issues of insecurity in the country.
The President’s media aide made the appeal during an appearance on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics when asked how much longer Nigerians should wait till the issue of insecurity is resolved.
According to him, security is not something that a timeline can be put on, rather it is an ongoing issue that needs to constantly be reviewed.
“Patience must be elastic, it’s not something that you get to a point and say patience has run out. Patience must be a continuous thing,” he said.
Adesina continued: “There are certain things in which you don’t have control of all the variables. If you don’t have all the variables, you don’t then begin to give timelines. And security is not one of those things that you will give a timeline to say by this time to this time, we will achieve this.
“All over the world, security is a continuous thing and even the most advanced countries, are still working at it”.
President Muhammadu Buhari had hinged his 2015 election on three major promises – fighting security, anti-corruption, and economic development.
The same promise was reiterated in 2019, with security still said to be a priority of his administration.
But despite this promise, the security situation in the country, especially in the north, appears to continue to deteriorate.
Last week, hundreds of schoolboys were abducted from the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, Katsina State.
Although the boys have now been recovered, there have been questions around the circumstances of their release in relation to a similar situation in Chibok and Dapchi where schoolgirls – many of whom are still missing, were also kidnapped in 2014 and 2018 respectively.
Since the kidnap and rescue of the Kankara schoolboys, other incidents of kidapping and banditry have continued to occur.
But Mr Adesina insists that “security remains a work in progress”.
According to him, there was once a time in the country when cases of bombings, kidnappings and other forms of insecurity occurred nearly on a daily basis and he believes that although work still needs to be done, there has been a huge improvement.
“Let’s be thankful for small mercies,” he urged Nigerians, adding that “there are challenges, but that is not the constant”.
Known as the Dead Man for nearly 30 years, the Undertaker is now more alive than he’s ever been. The wrestling legend (Mark Callaway) found Jesus thanks in part to his wife of 10-years.
“I believed in God but I wasn’t living my life for God,” he said before getting choked up, talking about his future wife who was known as the wrestler Michelle McCool.
He said she didn’t want anything to do with him when she arrived at WWE. While from afar he was admiring her work ethic despite always telling people not to date within the company.
Callaway seemed enamored with her and then he worked up the courage to begin a relationship.
“Would you please just come to church with me,” she asked, to which he responded, “I’m going to walk in there and the rafters are gonna start shaking…I believe in God, I’m good.”
He said McCool knew the man he was supposed to be had nothing to do with the Undertaker.
Then he described how he eventually grew to know the Lord through this church experience.
“There was a whole other part of life that I was missing out on,” he said. “I’m not perfect, I’m still in my process, I’m getting there. I spend a lot more time these days reading my Bible.”
Callaway will have even more time to read that Bible as he has finally retired from the WWE after a long and storied career.
Ini Edo has taken to her social media page to celebrate his elder sister on her birthday.
While celebrating her sister’s birthday, she shared photos of her mother and her sibling thanking God for a beautiful family.
“Let me take a minute to glorify God for my siblings…After God, my family is everything. Happy birthday senior, and may the joy of the birth of Christ fill your soul and perfect all that concerns you. Happy birthday miss ebony @kemzyliving.I love you”, she wrote.
Nigerian Doctor who could also pass as Twitter Doctor -- he stays on there dishing out information even on politics, Dr Olufunmilayo, has sent out an SOS about a new mutated Coronavirus that has just been reported in London.
He says many countries have now banned flights from UK into their country.
Nollywood actress, Uche Jombo is upset with fraudsters and wants them to know, they won't know peace.
The mother of one who has kept her marriage off social media prayed anyone that wakes up in the morning and think of how to scam others -- the money he makes will choke him/her and him/her will never know peace.
Nigerian actress, Lola Margret- Bisola Alanu has shared her experience on being betrayed by a friend she trusted in a recent interview.
It would be recalled that some years ago Lola Margret was involved in a money laundering and drug scandal where he was imprisoned in the US and deported to Nigeria.
Speaking to The Sun, Lola Margret disclosed that her greatest regret in life ever was trusting a friend, as she was a victim of circumstances however, she is healed now.
Her words;
”My greatest regret ever was trusting a friend. But then, all that is in the past now, I am healed already. Honestly, I was just a victim of circumstances, and it took the grace of God for me to get out of it.
I took time off social media for my sanity. People out there think they can judge based on hearsay, even when they know nothing about me. But it is what it is…. glory be to God. Handling scandals is not an easy thing.
But when you did not do what you are accused of, you know how it feels… But it takes the grace of God to get out of it.”
