Timi Dakolo is 40 today and he is reminiscing on his past dreams, lol.
The singer says he wanted to work in shell and then take his granny overseas too.
Today, the dream is different. He just wants to live a quality life and laugh as hard as he can.
''Happy Birthday To me. I am so overjoyed. I can’t believe I am 40. It was just yesterday I was writing Waec and doing revision on my PN Okeke. It was just yesterday I was dreaming working in Shell and stay in shell camp. Take my granny abroad and buy her everything. Anyways. I just want to live a quality life and laugh as hard as I can.The 4th floor of life looks great'', he wrote.
It has been six days since Bobi Wine, the man who came out second in the just concluded Ugandan Presidential election, has been placed under house arrest.
Bobi Wine, his family, and staff have all been restricted from leaving their house.
He shared a family photo yesterday on twitter disclosing it's been SIX DAYS.
''Day Six under house arrest and we're still stuck with an 18 months old baby who had paid a visit to her auntie (my wife ) be4 we were raided & besieged. The Dad has been denied access to her. We have run out of food and milk. No one is allowed to leave or come into our compound.''
On a lighter note, below is one of the songs Bobi sang during the presidential campaign.
Bobi is 38 years old and if he had won, it would have been a great advantage to African youths.
He has since been named the Face of Democracy in Uganda by many.
Donald Trump granted pardons to rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black on Tuesday night as part of a last-minute spree that saw Trump issue clemency to many political allies on his final full day in office.
Wayne, whose real name is Dwayne Carter, pleaded guilty on a federal weapons charge last year and received a full pardon. Kodak Black, whose real name is Bill Kapri, received a commutation after being charged in 2019 with falsifying information on federal forms to buy firearms.
Bradford Cohen, the attorney for both rappers, confirmed that both rappers were granted clemency.
“President Trump and his administration have been tireless advocates on behalf of the African-American community,” Cohen says. “These pardons are a perfect example of this administration following up on its reforms and commitments.”
Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has finally given up the fight against non-trump fans and Biden, waving his great motivator bye from office. Trump leaves office today.
Recall FFK had always said Trump would be sworn in for a second term and even when Trump insisted he won and that Americans would see this ''fact'', FFK danced behind him -- fully supporting him on twitter -Trump's favourite microphone before he got banned.
Anyway Mr Fani has given up and has now waved his ''friend'' bye.
Waving him bye, FFK shared his photo and wrote; ''You stood against evil, fought a good fight and shone your light upon the world. No-one can take that from you. Proud of you: now and always. Farewell and Godspeed President Donald J. Trump.''
Former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has attacked President Muhammadu Buhari again, saying he would be remembered like outgoing American president, Donald Trump.
The former governor said Nigerians could not wait to see the end of the regime of President Buhari, just as Americans look forward to the exit of Donald Trump.
“Buhari will be remembered like Trump because it is obvious that he is the low budget Trump when damages done to their countries are compared, Fayose tweeted.
Fayose alleged further that everything has been destroyed under the watch of President Buhari.
“Everything that matters has been destroyed under the watch of Buhari. All the values that we share as a country – economy, security, human rights, rule of law, credible elections, and unity of the country have been destroyed.
As Americans look forward to the exit of Trump, Nigerians too cannot wait to see the exit of Buhari. The two can't be forgotten in a jiffy.Buhari will be remembered like Trump because it is obvious that he is the low budget Trump when damages done to their countries are compared.
Omowunmi Ajiboye, a Nollywood actress and wife of popular actor Segun Ogungbe, has narrated how her son Obadara Ogungbe escaped from the Abeokuta tanker explosion that happened yesterday.
The tanker incident occurred around 8:15 am on Tuesday on the Presidential Boulevard Road around Guaranty Trust Bank opposite Lawson Group School, Kuto, Abeokuta.
The tanker was reportedly carrying 33,000 litres of petrol.
Eyewitnesses say it lost control while descending from an overhead bridge. It hit a motorcycle in motion and rammed into some commercial vehicles waiting for passengers at the end of the bridge.
The fuel tanker fire consumed the vehicles closed to the tanker, with three people burnt to death and several others injured.
Reacting to the incident, Omowunmi shared a video of the tanker incident and a picture of actor Ayobami Daniel who works with her husband on Instagram on Tuesday.
She wrote;
“Thank God for your life my boy @ayobami__daniel Olorun a pese Owo to ma fi ra motor min fun e ni Oruko jesu Kadupe fun emi.
“This incident happened at the front of my Son school @obadaraogungbe not up to 5min we dropped him Thank you lord for not giving me any reason to mourn over my SON and FAMILY”.
A Nigerian Onyebuchi Johnbosco Ezedinugwu who has been living in Thailand with a 60-day tourist visa for over 7 years has been arrested by the Immigration Police.
Ezedinugwu reportedly gained entry into Thailand in April 2014 on a 60-day tourist visa with permission to stay until June 25th of the same year but overstayed his visa by 2,683 days.
The 40-year-old Nigerian was arrested by immigration officers led by region one commander, Pol Maj-Gen Piti Nitinonthaset, at Soi Phetchaburi 35 in the Makkasan area of Bangkok on Tuesday, January 19, 2021.
According to local media, illegal immigration is considered as a major factor of the second wave of Covid-19 after an outbreak at Samut Sakhon seafood market affecting a large migrant population.
A news portal, Siam Rath quoted region 1 deputy Lt-Col Suriya Phuangsombat as saying that immigration were targeting Africans to check on their visa status as part of measures associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 1,301 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 113,305.
The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Tuesday.
What should have been a normal leisure time on a Saturday afternoon at a Dar es Salaam hotel, Tanzania ended badly for a city resident, 80 year-old David Mluli, who died in circumstances that are subject to police investigation.
Mr Mluli reportedly collapsed and died suddenly on Saturday while he was in room number 22 at Mbezi Garden Hotel in Dar es Salaam where he had gone to relax in the company of his 33 year-girl friend Ms Neema Kibaya .
Sources say the two had arrived shortly at the hotel with Mluli arriving first before his companion.
The Kinondoni Regional Police Commander, Mr Ramadhan Kingai, confirmed the incident yesterday.
He told journalists that the police force received a phone call from Mbezi Garden Hotel manager Newton Mkonda on January 16 at around 3pm. The caller informed the law enforcers of the sudden death of a client at the hotel who had occupied room number 22.
“The police arrived at the area and found Mr Mluli’s body along with a woman who identified herself as Neema Kibaya. Ms Kibaya told the police of the love relationship she had with the deceased,” Mr Kingai said.
Police then took the body to Mwananyamala Hospital for postmortem while Ms Kibaya, a resident of Goba and a businesswoman, has been detained. Preliminary investigations, he said, showed that Mr Mluli could have died from a normal death because his body shows no signs that there was any form of confrontation between him and any other person prior to the death.
“There were no direct physical signs that could have been noted as doubtful with exception of his under wears getting wet before he passed away,” said Mr Kingai.
While searching in the room, police found out that Mr Mluli was in possession of Sh37,000, his national identification card and Tecno mobile handset. Medical experts at the Mwananyamala Hospital will conduct a postmortem as soon as his relatives have shown up.
“Postmortem protocols demand the presence of a relative of the deceased who has to identify the body before burial preparations,” hinted Mr Kingai.
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has assured that with the successful activation of the Economic Sustainability Plan’s (ESP) Cash Transfer scheme, the present administration’s vision of reducing extreme poverty by lifting at least 20 million Nigerians out of poverty in the next two years is now within reach.
He stated this, on Tuesday, in Abuja, while flagging-off, virtually, the cash transfer scheme to be facilitated through a wholly technology-based approach called the Rapid Response Register (RRR).
According to a statement issued by spokesman, Laolu Akande, the scheme is aimed at delivering financial support to at least 1 million urban-based households using technology.
The statement explained that RRR is the means by which urban poor and vulnerable population can be speedily identified using geographic satellite technology and other related means for the purposes of delivering cash to households affected by the fallouts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.
It quoted the vice president as saying: “The groundbreaking success of the RRR, now emboldens us to achieve our aspiration of a social security programme for a minimum of twenty million Nigerians in the next two years. This will be the largest of its kind on the continent. This (aspiration) is, at least from the perspective of this tested approach, now well within our reach.
“The only constraint, of course, is the funding which we must look for because this country deserves a social security scheme that will not merely alleviate poverty but also create wealth for the millions of those who are waiting for this opportunity.
“Our government launched the National Social Protection Policy (NSPP) in 2017 to provide the framework for institutionalizing the work we started since 2016 on reducing extreme poverty in Nigeria, based on our administration’s vision to create a comprehensive social security programme for the poor and vulnerable and thereafter the pledge to lift 100 million Nigerian’s out of poverty in ten years.”
Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State on Tuesday banned fuel tankers and other articulated vehicles from plying flyovers in the state.
Mr Abiodun announced this decision during his assessment visit to the scene of tanker explosion, which occurred on Monday in Abeokuta, claiming three lives with many others injured.
The governor also vowed that stiffer punishment would be meted out to any tanker driver found culpable.
According to him, the ban is meant to safeguard the lives and property of the citizens.
The governor, however, confirmed the death of three persons as against the one earlier reported in the Tuesday’s tanker explosion, while six others sustained injuries.
The Independent National Electoral Commission is considering making the National Identity Number a precondition for registering voters when the continuous voter registration exercise commences in a few weeks, The Punch has learnt.
A national commissioner at INEC disclosed this during an interview with The Punch on Tuesday.
He said the NIN would help tackle challenges of underage voting, alien voting and other challenges associated with registration.
The national commissioner, who wished to remain anonymous because he was not authorised to speak, said a final decision would soon be reached.
The INEC official explained that the permanent voter card was only supposed to be in use for a maximum of 10 years, adding that most countries rely on a national database and not the Permanent Voter Card for voting.
He said, “The NIN is the ideal. When we want to begin the continuous voter registration, we may consider it because ordinarily, a national identity card is what should be used for voting. When the PVC was introduced, it was meant to be in use for 10 years and the assumption was that within those 10 years, the national identity card would be in use by a majority of Nigerians.
“I can tell you that the NIN will be one of the preconditions for registration when the CVR starts. We are trying to harmonise all databases.”
When contacted on the telephone, the Director, Voter Education and Publicity, INEC, Nick Dazang, said he could not say for sure if the NIN would be a precondition for registration, adding that meetings were still ongoing.
He said once a final decision had been made, INEC would officially inform Nigerians.
The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has fixed the Governorship Election in Anambra state for November 6, 2021.
The commission disclosed this in a statement issued Tuesday and signed by a National Commissioner and Chairman of its Information and Voter Education Committee, Barr. Festus Okoye.
INEC said it had met earlier on Tuesday and deliberated on a wide range of issues including the issuance of the Timetable and Schedule of Activities for the conduct of the Anambra Governorship election.
Donald Trump's youngest daughter Tiffany Trump has announced her engagement.
The 27-year-old said "Yes" when her 23-year-old billionaire boyfriend Michael Boulos popped the all-important question.
Tiffany rushed to Instagram - just one of the many social media platforms her dad Donald is blocked from using - to announce the exciting news.
Gushing over her new fiancé, Tiffany admitted it was an "honour" to "celebrate many milestones" at the White House during her dad's presidency, the most significant of which being her engagement.
"It has been an honour to celebrate many milestones, historic occasions and create memories with my family here at the White House, none more special than my engagement to my amazing fiancé Michael," she penned.
"Feeling blessed and excited for the next chapter," she added.
Alongside the sweet note, Tiffany shared a snap of the loved up pair posing outside the White House.
"Love you honey," her soon-to-be husband wrote in the comments section.
Tiffany was spied flashing her huge diamond engagement ring in the snap, while she put her other arm around her man.
Mr. Okehielem Onyema, a petitioner at the Edo State judicial panel narrated on Tuesday how he was brutalized by police officers.
The petitioner said he was brutalized for refusing to accept a sum of ₦200,000 from a man who allegedly ra'p'ed his six-year-old daughter.
Mr. Onyema said he was assaulted by officers at the Testament Police Station and State CID in Benin City, the Edo State capital.
According to him, the alleged ra'p'ist was caught alongside a native doctor who had fetish objects and drugs he claimed was used on his daughter.
Onyema said he went to the Testament Police Station to make a report and was attended to by one Inspector Juliana Anyanwu. The inspector he said told him to accept the sum from the suspect, after which he was assaulted for refusing the offer.
He told the panel that afterward, he took the case to the state police command where another Inspector Justina Idiata attended to him.
The inspector also urged him to accept the money which he turned down again. Onyema said he was beaten for refusing the sum again.
The petitioner prayed the panel for compensation of N25 million and said the case is before a competent court.
He petitioned the panel as a result of the assault and brutality the police made him go through in the presence of the suspect.
The case was adjourned for further hearing on Wednesday.
