Attempt by Shehu Mohammed, a Public Administration student of Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja, to smuggle a locally made gun and five rounds of ammunition into campus was foiled by security personnel of the institution on Friday.
Vigilant security personnel of the Polytechnic were surprised during a routine check that instead of writing materials, the student came to the school with a gun.
On discovery of his strange ‘wares’ Mohammed had attempted to run away but the security personnel were able to stop him.
He was purportedly on the campus purportedly to write his ND II final examination before he was stopped by the ‘stop and search’ officer and was asked to hand over his belongings.
He has since been handed over to the appropriate law enforcement agency for further interrogation and investigation.
It was believed that the student was a cultist and may be planning to use the gun during the usually deadly end-of-examination celebrations by his colleagues.
Kogi Poly Rector, Dr. S.O Usman had announced a ban of such celebrations few days ago.
Usman said the ban was based on intelligence report that some suspected cultists would be coming to the campus with ammunition to avenge their colleague who was killed after the end of examination celebration of 2019.
Actress and movie producer, Foluke Daramola-Salako, has said that many veteran actors suffer depression because of neglect.
Daramola-Salako, who recently celebrated the birthdays of some actors including 97-year-old Charles Olumo, aka Baba Agbako, and Tajudeen Oyewole, aka Abija, maintained that she was not being bankrolled by anyone.
She told Saturday Beats, “My main purpose is to attract publicity for elderly actors. I decided to celebrate their birthdays pending when I have my major event.
I have always said that a lot of these aged actors are facing depression. Some don’t die just because they are old but being once active and suddenly not being active anymore could be a painful experience for them.
Sometimes, it is not about the money that I or any other person gives them. It is a matter of showcasing them, so that their talent is still appreciated. I can tell you as a movie director that there is a place for these aged veterans in the movies we make.
“Some people think that someone is sponsoring me but I am stressing that no philanthropist is sponsoring me. Everything I am spending is from my pocket. If anyone decides to sponsor me, I would announce it and appreciate the person.
I have been true to this course because it is a project I love. In fact, the reason I opened a restaurant and bar is that I might run out of funds to host these veterans at event centres and I would gladly use my space. Any politician or anyone that has bankrolled me over these projects is free to speak out.”
When asked why she did not enlist the support of other colleagues, the actress said, “I left the ‘Nolly veteran SOS Project 2019’, an offshoot of Passion Against Rape and Abuse in Africa Foundation open to a lot of people so that we could all help.
But, the truth is that our goals are not the same. My husband believes in me so he has continued to help me in that path. I believe that a nation without heroes is a nation without history.
We don’t have many icons that we look up to now. The ones alive are meant to be celebrated and we should all look out for them. These veterans are giving up and dying in penury.
Growing up, I held these people in high esteem because their works and skills were worthy of emulation. I should also state that some actors personally reach out to some veterans. They support them from time to time without going public about it.”
Ondo state boxer, Adedeji Adegbola, on Friday, knocked out his opponent, Oluwafemi Adetoye of Yobe state, in a record 15 seconds of their first round heavyweight boxing bout at the ongoing National Sports Festival in Benin.
The bout, held at the Oba Akenzuwa Cultural Center, Benin, was at the semi-finals stage.
With the win, Adegbola has qualified for the semi finals of the heavyweight category and placed him with the medals range, alongside five team mates vying in other weight categories.
Adegbola said that he trained very hard for the festival, while expressing his optimism of clinching the gold medal in the heavyweight category.
“I am happy and I thank God, I trained very well ahead of the festival and I thank my coaches for the advise and the training process,” he said.
Nollywood actress, Peju Johnson is never afraid of showing off her cleavages on social media. Now, she is opening up on her choice between s.e.x, love and money.
In a recent encounter with Inside Nollywood, the busty role interpreter confessed that nothing but money rules her world.
“For me, money comes first. It’s because money will not wake up one day and break my heart. Moreover, I don’t even like s.e.x. So, it is money all the way for me.”
On her marital status, Ms Johnson claims her love life is complicated, as she’s presently without a man of her own. “For now, there is no man in my life. In fact, it’s complicated. So, I’m still single,” she hinted.
Actress and business woman, Lizzy Anjorin has lashed out at people who have the delight of investigating her source of wealth.
According to her, anyone who is interested in investigating her source of wealth should first of all ask about her history in husting to make a living for herself.
She shared a video of herself where she gave a quick intro about who she is and the things that move her.
She captioned her post as:
POWERFUL CEO TO A MULTIMILLION BIGGEST STORE WITH LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL ITEMS ON MAINLAND B4 SHOPRITE ENTER LATI AYE EYE PENCIL ELEJO😂🤣😅
.B4 YOU JOIN THEM THEY TALK SAY – THAT HER MONEY JUST COME LOJIJI 🤣😂😅
.SE NA FILM MONEY SHE DEY TAKE ACQUIRE THOSE BIG HOUSES AND CARS
.WHEN I TELL YOU SAY MY JOURNEY FOR BUSINESS NO BE TODAY ..B4 YOU CARRY TOUCH LIGHT TO LOOK FOR WHERE PEOPLE GET MONEY BIKO ASK PEOPLE THEIR HISTORY IN HUSTLING.
SOME POVERTY AND BRANDED BAD LUCK ARE NOT FROM WITCH ATIMES SOME ARE FROM HATE AND JEALOUSY WITH BITTER LIES YOU TELL AGAINST SOME INNOCENT PEOPLE THAT WORK LEGITIMATELY
FUNNY ENOUGH I NEVER START TRAVELLING DURING THOSE PERIOD WEY I DON THEY COUNT 6/7 DIGITS ….
Suspected gunmen in Isan-Ekiti, Oye Local Government Area of Ekiti State, have kidnapped a petrol dealer, Mr. Itakorode Adebayo.
Itakorode is the general manager of Prosperous Filling Station, located at Isan-Ekiti, hometown of the sate governor, Kayode Fayemi.
This incident happened few months after a chieftain of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Alhaji Suleiman Akinbami was kidnapped by unknown gunmen at his filling station along Ado-Ijan Road.
It was gathered that gunmen numbering eight had invaded the petrol station around 7pm on Thursday and abducted the victim.
The Police Public Relations Officer, Ekiti Command, ASP Sunday Abutu, who confirmed the incident, said a team of police operatives and detectives, including the Amotekun Corps and local hunters have been deployed to rescue the victim.
Abutu said they had been mandated to rigorously comb the bushes and the forests across the state to ensure they rescue the man.
The command’s spokesman explained that the gunmen stormed the filling station through the bush on about six motorcycles and started shooting sporadically before whisking the victim away.
Abutu said: “The Ekiti State Police Command, in addition to the rescue teams deployed, has contacted all the border states for possible assistance towards the rescue of the victim and the arrest of the perpetrators.”
At least, three persons lost their lives on Friday after rainstorm wreaked havoc on Obinze, Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State.
This was even as no fewer than 35 electric poles, two church buildings and a brewery depot were destroyed by the dangerous wind.
A village source told our correspondent that the incident which happened along the Obinze-Umuokanne road left no fewer than 12 persons wounded.
The source said, “The raging wind dismantled no less than 35 electric poles along the Umuokanne-Obinze road. It also claimed three lives and destroyed two church buildings and a brewery depot.
“Another building that collapsed is a beer depot belonging to a businessman in the area. We have not seen this kind of havoc before. This is very unfortunate and the losses are huge.”
One of the churches destroyed by the rainstorm was identified as Beyond Principalities and Powers Ministry.
When contacted, the police spokesperson, Orlando Ikeokwu, confirmed that only one death was reported to the police.
Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai has said he will never pay ransom to bandits even if they kidnap his son.
The governor said this in a radio chat on Friday in Kaduna to underscore his government’s policy of not negotiating with bandits.
Mr El-Rufai has consistently said government should only apply force in dealing with bandits and other violent criminals, reiterating the stand on Thursday by stressing that bandits do not deserve to live.
In his current remarks on Friday, Mr El-Rufai said he had warned his family members to be careful to avoid being abducted. He said he also told them he would never pay a ransom for their freedom, should any of them get into the hands of bandits.
“I mean it and I will say it again here. Even if my son is kidnapped, I will rather pray for him to make heaven instead, because I won’t pay any ransom.”
Asked what his government was doing to secure the release of the students kidnapped at the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Kaduna, in March, the governor said the government would keep exploring other ways to get them back to their families but stressed that the government is “absolutely not paying ransom.”
He said the state government will keep exploring those other means until the students are released.
Mr El-Rufai has been under pressure from the parents of the students, other concerned persons and groups to negotiate with the bandits for the release of the students.
The state governments of Katsina, Niger and Zamfara were believed to have negotiated with the abductors for the release of hundreds of students kidnapped from schools in the states.
The Nigerian Army have allegedly killed over 70 residents of Mbator in Shangev-Tiev of Konshisha Local Government Area of Benue State.
The soldiers allegedly invaded the community following the killing of about 10 personnel who were on stabilisation operation in the state over the communal clash between Konshisha and Oju Local Government Area.
Daily Post had reported that the military, through its Director, Public Relations, Brig.-Gen Mohammed Yerima, in a statement on Thursday, confirmed the killing of the officers, stating that they were initially declared missing.
Following the attack on the troops, the army allegedly invaded the community on Thursday, gunned down scores and set houses and other facilities ablaze.
A group known as Shangev-Tiev Assembly (STA), while addressing newsmen in Makurdi, the state capital on Friday, said about 15 other neighbouring communities have also been razed.
According to their spokesman, Elder Tyoh Jude, “The army has so far razed and demolished farms, schools, hospitals and residences of Bonta, Tse-Jembe, Tse-Anyom, Gbinde, Mbaakpur, Aku, Agidi, Gungul, Adoka, Guleya, Awajir, Shiliki, Achoho and Ullam in Gwer Local Government Area, and are still planning to do same to other neighbouring towns within Konshisha LGA.
“Our unarmed people are being killed intentionally in large numbers by armed personnel of the Nigerian Army. Presently, over 70 persons are reported dead and more than 100 people are missing, mostly women, children and the elderly and hundreds of thousands displaced with its attendant humanitarian consequences.”
The ex-wife of Nigerian music mogul Don Jazzy, Michelle Jackson has finally reacted to those talking about her height in the viral wedding photos her ex-husband shared couple of days ago.
Don Jazzy took to social media to shock many fans and followers after she revealed he was once married about 18 years ago but the marriage wasn’t successful because of his ambitions and his desire to make it in the music industry at that time.
As many were questioning the looks of the music mogul comparing it to his present looks, others drew their attention to the height between Don Jazzy and Michelle Jackson as it shows Michelle was far taller than Jazzy in the wedding photos.
Michelle has taken to her Instagram page to address the issue which popped up concerning her heights in the wedding photos.
She slammed critics of jumping into conclusion without knowing all the facts to the story or better still, the photo. She added the reasons why she looks taller than Don Jazzy in the wedding photos was because she was standing on a stair above where Jazzy was standing.
The Lagos State Government has again condemned the action of some Naval Ratings noted for escorting commercial vehicles, who attacked LASTMA personnel for apprehending a VOLKSWAGEN BUS with registration number LSD 73 XT.
According to eyewitnesses, the said bus obstructed the flow of traffic at Onipanu inward Fadeyi on Ikorodu Road and evaded arrest. It took the determined efforts of the LASTMA Team to track down the vehicle at Fadeyi inward Jibowu.
The source also gathered that the driver had the audacity to stop in the middle of the main carriageway to discharge passengers at Fadeyi under the cover of Naval Ratings on escort.
When the commercial vehicle was eventually apprehended by LASTMA Team for clearly contravening the Lagos State Traffic Law, the Naval Ratings alighted from the commercial bus and attacked LASTMA Personnel.
The Naval Ratings further beckoned on their colleagues who were passing by in another vehicle to join them in the physical assault of the LASTMA Personnel on statutory duties.
All efforts by the policemen attached to the LASTMA Personnel to stop the fracas proved abortive.
In the process of the attack, three (3) (Android) phones belonging to LASTMA Personel were snatched away by the Naval Ratings.
The apprehended commercial vehicle is in LASTMA custody
South Korea on Friday unveiled a prototype of its first fighter jet, a highly symbolic moment in its decades-long quest for a combat plane of its own.
The gray jet, named KF-21 Boramae, was showcased at a rollout ceremony held at the Korea Aerospace Industries headquarters in the southern city of Sacheon.
The ceremony held more than five years after South Korea, along with Indonesia, began the US$7.9 billion program to replace the Air Force’s ageing fleet of F-4 and F-5 jets in late 2015.
President Moon Jae-in said the new aircraft will become the backbone of the South Korean Air Force.
He called the rollout an “opening of a new era” in independent national defense and a “landmark” moment in the history of the aerospace industry.
“The prototype rollout is a major step in the development process as it means we are entering the phase of testing the fighter’s capabilities after actually building what we only had in drawing,” the arms procurement agency said in a release.
With a maximum payload of 7,700 kilograms, the new warplane will have 10 pods for air-to-air missiles and other weapons, capable of flying at 2,200 kph with a flying range of 2,900 km.
The first flight test is scheduled for 2022, with the entire development set to be completed by 2026.
When the development is complete, South Korea will become the 13th country to have developed its own combat plane.
The military plans to put 40 units into operation by 2028 and another 80 units by 2032.
Dubbed a 4.5-generation fighter, the KF-21 plane is not a stealth aircraft, but officials said they will continue research for a possible conversion with additional features in the future.
Friday’s event was attended by Moon and other government and military officials, as well as representatives from Indonesia, a partner for the development project, led by its Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto.
Doubts have grown over Jakarta’s commitment to the joint program after the Southeast Asian country stopped making payments for the 20 percent of the total development cost it had promised to shoulder.
But during his meetings with Moon and South Korean Defense Minister Suh Wook, the Indonesian minister agreed the fighter jet project symbolizes trust between the two countries, according to officials.
In a congratulatory video message to the event, Indonesian President Joko Widodo said he hopes the launch of the prototype “will continue to bring benefits to the two countries’ cooperative relations in the defense sector.”
Moon said, “We will be together until the development is complete and the two countries jointly tap markets of a third country with a mass production system.”
India reported another record number of new COVID-19 infections on Friday with daily deaths also hitting their highest in more than five months.
The world’s second most-populous country reported 131,968 new infections and 780 deaths on Friday, the biggest daily increase since mid-October.
That took India’s overall caseload to 13.06 million the world’s third-highest after the United States and Brazil and total deaths from COVID-19 to 167,642.
India’s total number of infections inched closer to Brazil’s 13.28 million.
With several states having expanded curbs to control the rapid spread of the virus, migrant workers have started packing into trains towards their villages from major cities such as Mumbai, potentially risking a wider outbreak in smaller towns.
The government blames the resurgence mainly on crowding and a reluctance to wear masks as businesses gradually reopened since the middle of last year.
“We all know that it’s because of the casual approach that has been adopted unfortunately by the society and some sort of laxity everywhere in following the discipline of the COVID- appropriate behaviour,” Health Minister Harsh Vardhan told a news conference.
He said there was no shortage of shots for the groups eligible for vaccination, with more than 43 million doses in stock or in the pipeline.
India has been inoculating about 4 million people a day.
The surge in cases has been far sharper than last year, triggering widespread calls for the vaccination of younger people.
But Prime Minister Narendra Modi has rejected the idea, citing the need to prioritise the more vulnerable, elderly population.
Nike and the company behind rapper Lil Nas X’s “Satan Shoes” reached a settlement onThursday for a voluntary recall, ending the high-profile legal battle over the controversial sneakers.
As part of the settlement, Brooklyn-based art collective MSCHF will “initiate a voluntary recall to buy back any Satan Shoes and Jesus Shoes for their original retail prices, in order to remove them from circulation,” Nike said.
Nike sued MSCHF last month for trademark infringement after MCSHF released a limited run of modified Nike Air Max 97s, which sold out in less than a minute and featured a pentagram pendant, a drop of human blood in the sole of the shoe, and “Luke 10:18” written on the midsole, a reference to the Bible verse where Satan falls from Heaven.
Satan Shoes are customized versions of the Nike Air Max 97 sneakers, with midsoles purporting to contain a drop of human blood, and printed with “Luke 10:18,” a reference to a Biblical verse that alludes to Satan’s fall from heaven.
Only 666 pairs were made, with the last held back so Lil Nas X, known for the song “Old Town Road,” could choose the recipient.
David Bernstein, who chairs the intellectual property litigation group at Debevoise & Plimpton and represents MSCHF, said the artistic messages MSCHF hoped the shoes would convey were “dramatically amplified” by Nike’s lawsuit.
“MSCHF intended to comment on the absurdity of the collaboration culture practiced by some brands, and about the perniciousness of intolerance,” he said. “Having achieved its artistic purpose, MSCHF is pleased to have resolved the lawsuit.”
Lil Nas X was not a defendant and never got to choose who received the last pair after a Brooklyn judge temporarily halted further sales on April 1.
Nike had claimed that even “sneakerheads” were confused about who produced Satan Shoes, while MSCHF said the shoes were “individually-numbered works of art” and did not sow confusion.
