Nigerian singer Duncan Mighty has released an audio of his wife, Vivien confessing to paying a Juju woman for charms to regain his love.
According to the audio, uploaded on YouTube, Vivian Okechukwu, the estranged wife said she was taken to an Igbo juju woman by her sister, when she complained she was not getting Duncan’s love anymore.
She wanted Duncan to love her like before, when they married in 2015.
The juju woman told her Duncan was distracted by a mystery woman.
Vivian paid the woman about N580,000 for a love medicine, which Duncan later said caused him much grief and illness.
Duncan had threatened to share the audio some weeks ago.
But what hastened the decision was the interview Vivian and her mum granted BBC Pidgin.
The singer wrote on Instagram: Even when I’ve forgotten about the things you did to me most especially for the fact that my recovery and healing is assured through the help of JESUS. Just Because you escaped the public disgrace in Rumuokurusi after a police officer saved you. Instead of your mom to play the role of a mother You ànd your mom now went to @bbcnewspidgin and @nigeriainfoph to grant lies and deciete. my dear is too late .
“Click the link on my bio and hear Vivian’s confessions. Part 1. You carry the same money wey i give you go tie me down with deadliest sickness. Them no dey use Lion 🦁 do sacrifice #THANKYOUJESUS”.
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed former Service Chiefs as Ambassadors-Designate after their names were forwarded to the upper chamber by President Muhammadu Buhari recently.
The confirmation of the nominees followed consideration of the report of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
The former Service Chiefs confirmed are: General Abayomi G. Olonisakin (Rtd), Ekiti; Lt. General Tukur Y. Buratai (Rtd), Borno; Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete E. Ibas (Rtd), Cross River; and Air Marshal Sadique Baba Abubakar (Rtd), Bauchi;
Also confirmed was Air Vice Marshal Muhammad S. Usman (Rtd), Kano.
Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Adamu Muhammad Bulkachuwa, in his presentation said their appointments were made in line with section 171(40) of the 1999 Constitution as amended.
According to him, “their experiences as Service Chiefs and in the military where they rose to the highest ranks in their careers have made them eminently qualified; and that the nominees were very knowledgeable and articulate in their response to questions directed at them by the Committee.”
Bulkachuwa, however, disclosed in the report that “the Committee received petitions against their nominations as Non-Career Ambassadors of the Federal Republic of Nigeria but the petitions were dismissed.”
The Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, while coming under a point of order, demanded explanation as to the rationale behind the dismissal of the petition against the nominees by the Committee, particularly against the backdrop of the Senate resolutions in the past calling for their removal as Service Chiefs.
Responding, the Senate President pointed out that the Senate resolution demanding their removal was in no way related to President Muhammadu Buhari’s request for the Senate to confirm them as Ambassadors-Designate, adding that, “these are two separate roles.”
“Without prejudice to what the executive will do, where we need to fight the Boko Haram insurgency and banditry, because of their experience in the field, they should be able to interact very closely and sufficiently to advice and create the atmosphere for working together, for partnership and cooperation between Nigeria and those countries.
“So, I think on that scope, the nomination cannot be nullified because we said they should be changed”, Lawan said
The nominees were, thereafter, confirmed after a motion moved by the Senate Leader, Yahaya Abdullahi, to that effect and seconded by the Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe.
The Senate President in his remarks after the nominees were confirmed advised the Executive arm of government to deploy them to countries where their experiences as former military officers would be required.
Lawan said, “the nominees that we have just confirmed are nominees that have served this great country to the best of their ability as Service Chiefs and today, they have been confirmed as Non-Career Ambassadors.
“Our appeal to the Executive is to make sure that we utilize their experiences as Military men to the best, because we should be able to post them to countries where they can be much more useful in their engagements as Ambassadors.”
Oyindamola Akinrinola, 23, a Nigerian resident of Lawrence, Kansas, has pleaded guilty in federal court for her role in online fraud schemes that targeted victims in the United States.
U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister announced her conviction Monday night, saying she will now face time in federal prison for her crime.
“Akinrinola and her co-conspirator in Nigeria victimised individuals, several elderly, through a variety of online scams,” he said.
“We will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to prioritise the investigation and prosecution of fraud schemes like these, no matter where they originate.
“I also take this conviction as an opportunity to reiterate to all Kansans the vulnerability of our senior citizens to scams and con artists, who prey upon them.
“We must all be vigilant to protect our parents, grandparents, elderly relatives, friends and neighbors from such frauds and fraudsters.”
“Scams such as lottery, online dating, and impersonating Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees continue to be a major threat to taxpayers, especially senior citizens,” said J. Russell George, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
“Scammers will use a variety of techniques to cheat taxpayers. TIGTA will do everything within its power to ensure that those involved in the impersonation of IRS employees are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
“We appreciate the assistance of the U.S. Department of Justice in this effort,” McAllister said.
According to the charges, Akinrinola, who was granted legal permanent residency in the United States in 2018, was part of a scheme to defraud U.S.-based victims out of money and property.
Akinrinola’s co-conspirator in Nigeria orchestrated several scams, such as tricking victims into believing they were eligible for fictitious awards or establishing purported (but false) romantic relationships with victims and exploiting their affections.
The co-conspirator in Nigeria directed victims to send money to Akinrinola. While in Kansas as a college student, she received funds from the scam victims—in amounts ranging from hundreds of dollars to as much $20,000—via wire transfers, money orders, financial applications, Wal-Mart money grams, Western Union, the United States Postal Service, and various other means.
Akinrinola kept a portion for herself as her reward and sent the bulk of the funds to her co-conspirator in Nigeria. To do so, she generally used the Sendwave, WorldRemit, or Boss Revolution mobile applications.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 542 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 152,616.
The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Monday.
Nigeria also recorded 23 COVID-19 deaths, raising the total fatality in the country to 1,862.
“On the 22nd of February 2021, 542 new confirmed cases and 23 deaths were recorded in Nigeria.
“Till date, 152616 cases have been confirmed, 129300 cases have been discharged and 1862 deaths have been recorded in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
“The 542 new cases are reported from 21 states- Lagos (99), Kwara (91), Ebonyi (48), Ogun (44), Kaduna (42), Oyo (33), Ondo (25), FCT (24), Kebbi (23), Osun (20), Ekiti (17), Nasarawa (12), Imo (11), Delta (10), Gombe (9), Kano (8), Katsina (7), Rivers (7), Edo (5), Plateau (4) and Bauchi (3),” the NCDC said.
Rosy Meurer shared photos of herself and husband Olakunle Churchill while they rocked similar outfits. for the first time since they announced they are married.
Tragedy struck at Dilimi area of Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State, on Sunday, when a 26-year-old man Sarki Abdul, committed suicide by gulping a bottle of chemical substance.
A source close to the family of the deceased told Tribune Online that the young man borrowed a sum of N300,000 from his friend to do a business with a promise to pay the money back in three weeks time.
It was learnt that in the process of the business the man ran into a problem and could not pay back the money as promised but refused to tell his childhood friend who borrowed him the money his predicaments.
The source further revealed that Abdul suddenly withdrew to himself and started acting in a strange way adding that on Friday last week he told his sister that he was fed up with this world and preferred to die.
According to the family source, at about 10:45 am on Sunday, Abdul approached his friend again to tell him that he was duped in the process of investing the money into scrap business and pleaded with him to give him more time to sort out himself.
“After this encounter, he went to his shop which is adjacent to his friend shop and drank a complete bottle of sniper and fell to the ground. He was taken to Ola Hospital where he was confirmed dead,” said the source.
When contacted the State Police Public Relations Officer ASP, Gabriel Ubah Ogabah, said the incident has not been reported to the command.
Gunmen on Sunday killed three police officers in Benin City, Edo State, and abducted a man said to be the younger brother of Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire.
The abducted man, Andy Ehanire, is the managing director of the Ogba Zoological Gardens, Benin City.
The police spokesperson in Edo, Moses Nkombe, who confirmed the development to reporters on Monday in Benin City, said the incident happened at the zoological garden.
The slain police officers were posted to the garden to provide security for fun-seekers at the zoo and nature park.
The killing disrupted activities at the zoo as many fun seekers scampered for safety, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported.
“Our men are working on that (the incident), though we have not made any arrest,” the police spokesperson, Mr Nkombe said.
Wanting to be a good guy, Davido has unfollowed BBN's Nengi back after the news of the two unfollowing each other became the talk of he internet days ago.
A quick check shows that, just as he quietly unfollowed her, he has done the same again after the news went viral.
Below is the evidence of the singer following the woman he made the lead actor in his newly released Jowo Video.
A family feud between two siblings, Kadir and Suleiman, in Auchi, Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State, on Friday, resulted in the death of the younger one, Suleiman, who was stabbed to death by his elder brother, Kadir.
Nigerian Tribune gathered that the brawl started when Suleiman scolded Kadir’s wife for being rude to her mother-in-law, the siblings’ mother, and the matter did not go down well with Kadir, who felt slighted that his younger brother had the guts to rebuke his (Kadir’s) wife.
Kadir, who was said to be away when the altercation between his mother and his wife occurred allegedly engaged the victim who was his younger brother in a brawl but, their mother’s intervention calmed frayed their nerves.
Not satisfied, Kadir was said to have revisited the issue later in the day and again, their mother stepped in and calmed the situation. However, while Suleiman put the matter behind him and went about his normal business, his elder later traced the deceased to where he went to late in the evening and allegedly stabbed him, before bolting away.
The deceased who was said to have been rushed to the hospital on Friday night died on Saturday morning from the injury he sustained during the attack.
Ex-Imo Governor, Rochas Okorocha has been released.
The Spokesperson for Imo State Command, Orlando Ikeokwu confirmed the release of the former Governor.
Ikeokwu said Okorocha was released on Sunday night after he was “invited” for “questioning” over the unsealing of the Spring Palm Estate linked to his wife, Nkechi.
“He was released later at night,” the PPRO said.
He added that “If anybody is found culpable, definitely, he will be charged to court. If investigation proves that he (Okorocha) has committed an offence, he will be charged to court.”
The Kebbi government says it will sponsor over 300 students to India, Turkey, and Cyprus to study medicine, health sciences, paramedics, and engineering.
The Commissioner for Higher Education, Mukhtar Bunza, announced this at the swearing-in and inauguration of new executive members of the National Union of Kebbi State Students the College of Nursing Sciences, Birnin Kebbi, on Sunday.
Mr. Bunza, represented by the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Halima Dikko, said, “This administration of Sen. Abubakar Atiku Bagudu is poised to sponsoring more than 300 students to India, Turkey, and Cyprus for studies in medicine, health sciences, para-medicals, and engineering.
“This has been made possible following a bilateral agreement between the Kebbi state government and some foreign institutions. This administration has vowed to sustain the sponsorship of students within and outside the country for educational pursuit in all fields.”
According to him, this is attested to by the governor’s objective towards ensuring that quality education is provided to students to enable them to compete with their counterparts globally.
Governor Abubakar Sani-Bello of Niger has received the 53 abducted passengers of the state-owned Niger State Transport Authority (NSTA) after intense negotiations with their captors, armed bandits.
Mr. Sani-Bello received the abducted passengers at the Government House, Minna, on Sunday at about 11:35 pm.
Armed bandits abducted the NSTA passengers in Rijau on February 14.
The passengers were on their way to Minna but intercepted and kidnapped at Kundu Village on Minna-Tegina Road in the Rafi Local Government Area.
The governor revealed that the bandits released the passengers after intense negotiations with the government.
“We thank God for helping us to secure their release. We went through one week of consultations and sleepless nights to secure their release,” he said.
He said before they would rejoin their families, the state government must ensure that they undergo a medical checkup.
The released passengers were 20 women, nine children, and 24 men.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the victims were “all looking tired and hungry, as some of them could barely walk.”
However, the governor claimed that the abducted 27 students of Government Science College, Kagara, had yet to be freed by their captors.
There was a mild drama on Sunday after the Chief Press Secretary to the Niger State Governor, Mary Noel-Barje, ordered the arrest of the Punch correspondent in the state, Adebayo Ayinde.
Noel-Barje’s latest action is coming after many attempts by the aide to coerce the Punch correspondent into writing stories from her point of view.
There has been no love lost between Punch man and the CPS over the journalist’s independent attitude.
Ayinde said before the Sunday incident, he had been told that the said CPS sent his pictures to some security men in the state.
He said Noel-Barje once told him to leave the Government House but he ignored her.
“There was a time the Chief Press Secretary instructed the security operatives at the Government House to bar me from entering the place,” he said.
Ayinde said the Sunday drama started after one of the security operatives at the Government House wanted to take him out of the place.
The journalist said, “The man beckoned on me and when I approached him, he wanted to take me out of the Government House. He said I must follow him. When other colleagues saw his move, they rallied round and insisted that I would not follow him.
“It was during the argument that we got to know that the CPS told the security aide to arrest me. Many of the security officers confirmed it.
“It took the intervention of other journalists in the state to stop the unethical conduct of the said CPS.
“When they asked her what I did, she decline comments.”
Policemen attached to the Zone 5 Police Command, Benin City, Edo State, have been accused of brutalising a man, Mr Ifeanyi Ikem, and shooting his wife, Ebere, during a raid on their house in Umunede, in the Ika North East Local Government Area of Delta State.
Punch Metro gathered that the incident happened on Friday around 10pm.
Both husband and wife told Punch that over six officers, who came in three vehicles on mufti, allegedly dismantled their window burglar-proof bars to enter their apartment.
Ifeanyi said, “I just put off my generator so I could go to bed that night. I was about to lie on my bed when I heard footsteps and my dog barking. I saw two men — one wearing complete native attire and the other was on jean trousers and a jean jacket.
“They requested to know the occupants of the house, but I kept quiet because I did not know them. So, my wife asked from inside to know who they were. They replied that she should call her husband that somebody was looking for him.
“My wife told them that her husband was asleep. In the process of my wife interrogating them, they frequently called one Sunny.
“They started forcing the glass on the window and pulling down the burglar-proof bars. I told my wife and children to shout. Their shouting made people hear that something was happening in the house.
“Three men entered first, so we started struggling. I saw them with guns and I thought within me that these people wanted to kill me. They said there was something that I did. They said one Prince Paradise sent them that I destroyed his car and building and I told them that I did not know anything about it.
“As they saw that people were coming, they started shooting, while still dragging me. Because my wife didn’t allow them to take me away, they shot her. As my wife was shouting that she had been hit, I held on to them. They started shooting, as they ran into their vehicles and zoomed off.”
The acting Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Edafe Bright, confirmed that the policemen were from Zone 5.
The Zonal Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Tijani Onomo, said he was not aware of the operation.
A mortuary attendant in Oghara, Delta State, has been arrested by the police over the missing corpse of a 58-year-old woman, Mrs Patience Amughoro.
The deceased woman was said to have died late last year after a brief illness and her corpse kept in a private hospital mortuary at Oghara, while the family prepared for burial.
Sources said the family was stunned when, on Saturday morning after all preparations had been put in place, they arrived at the mortuary only to discover that the body was missing.
A family member, who identified himself only as Okiemute, said the mortician had earlier presented a body to the family and on close observation, they found out it was not that of Mrs Amughoro.
“That was when he (morgue attendant) began pacing up and down, looking for the body. That was when he told us that the body was missing.
“We were shocked. We had made arrangements to give our auntie a good send-forth. It hurts that we don’t have her body,” Okiemute said.
He noted that the family later reported the incident to the police.
Another family member, who did not want his name in print, wondered how the body disappeared from the mortuary.
“The disappearance of her body is tormenting my family. I have never heard of a corpse developing legs and leaving a mortuary,” he added.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 521 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 152,074.
The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Sunday.
Nigeria also recorded 8 COVID-19 deaths, raising the total fatality in the country to 1,839.
“On the 21st of February 2021, 521 new confirmed cases and 8 deaths were recorded in Nigeria.
“The 521 new cases are reported from 20 states- Lagos (166), Ogun (52), Rivers (47), Adamawa(37), Ebonyi (37), Akwa Ibom (25), Osun (21), Bayelsa (18), Kaduna (17), Oyo (16), FCT (15), Ekiti (14), Kano (12), Edo (12), Borno (9), Yobe (8), Ondo (6), Nasarawa (4) Bauchi (2) and Kwara (3),” the NCDC said.
A security guard, Uchena Harrison, has been electrocuted while attempting to pluck pawpaw from a tree at his workplace in the Abule Oshun area of Lagos State.
Punch Metro gathered that the 56-year-old and four other security guards were on duty on Friday when he reportedly became hungry and without the knowledge of his colleagues, proceeded to the pawpaw tree.
It was learnt that Harrison placed a ladder on the tree and after climbing it, used an iron rod to pluck the fruit.
Speaking to Punch Metro, a resident, Jubril Adesoji, said Harrison mistakenly used the iron rod to hit a naked wire which passed through the tree.
“The shock he suffered during the electrocution threw him away from the ladder and he landed on the ground. He died on the spot,” he added.
A source said Harrison’s remains were later found around the pawpaw tree.
The source said, “Initially, his colleagues were searching for him until one of them suggested that they should check him around the pawpaw tree. When they got there around 10pm, his corpse was found lying on the floor. About five of the security guards were on duty on that day. From what we gathered, his corpse was deposited in the Badagry General Hospital mortuary.”
The state Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Muyiwa Adejobi, confirmed the incident.
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Sunday regretted that Nigerians had shed enough blood over issues that could have been peacefully resolved.
According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President spoke while reacting to the violence in Gombe State arising from the Billiri chieftaincy tussle.
The statement was titled, ‘Billiri chieftaincy tussle: President Buhari condemns violence, calls for maximum restraint to avoid escalation’.
Shehu quoted the President as expressing “great shock and deep concern” over the incident.
The President said, “I’m seriously disturbed by the outbreak of violence in Gombe State and call on the parties involved to exercise maximum restraint to avoid escalation.
“The easy resort to violence is uncalled for because there are enough avenues to resolve differences amicably without threatening law and order.
“In a circle of violence, there are no winners, except losers. Muslims and Christians should avoid the temptation of resorting to violence in order to express their grievances.
“Nigerians have shed enough blood over issues that could have been peacefully resolved. I appeal to the two parties to sheathe their swords for the sake of peaceful coexistence. Gombe has enjoyed relative religious harmony for decades and you shouldn’t allow hoodlums destroy this positive record.”
