There is currently crisis in Australia’s political scene after videos emerged showing staff members performing sex acts in the country’s parliament, leading to one senior aide being fired.
One of the videos showed the senior aide performing a sex act on a female lawmaker’s desk.
The videos were leaked to Australian media by a whistleblower who is a former government staff member.
According to the whistleblower, he had become “immune” to the footages because of the volume of footages he received.
He said the footages were filmed in 2019 and also claimed that officials had used the prayer room to have sex and even brought sex workers into parliament.
The whistleblower described some of his colleagues as a “culture of men thinking that they can do whatever they want, “morally… bankrupt”.
Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison described the videos as “disgraceful” and said his government will carry out investigation.
The parliament sex scancal comes after a former staff member, Brittany Higgins revealed how she feared losing her job following an alleged sexual assault.
Higgins alleges she was raped by senior colleague in an office in March 2019, but says she felt pressured not to report the incident to police.
Also last week, thousands took part in marches to protest against the sexual abuse and harassment of women in Australia.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, March 23, Prime Minister Scott said he was “shocked”, adding:
“We must get this house in order. We must put the politics aside on these things, and we must recognise this problem, acknowledge it, and we must fix it.”
Ms Higgins’ allegations have increased the spotlight on sexual assault and sexism in Australian politics.
Days after she went public with her story, Attorney General Christian Porter revealed he was the subject of a 1988 rape allegation but police closed the investigation because of a lack of evidence as he denies the allegation.
Watch the prime minister react to the videos below.
Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison described report of lewd behavior by male government staff in Parliament House as ‘disgusting’ and said he would speak with all government staff members to remind them of their responsibilities https://t.co/x8BsaE6J3Lpic.twitter.com/PUgOHJL7Pc
Senator Orji Uzor-Kalu has fired back at his colleague, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe over comments he made about him.
Abaribe was the deputy governor when Kalu governed Abia in 1999 but he was impeached before the end of Kalu’s first term.
The Senator representing Abia South had alleged in his book titled “Made in Aba”, that he was impeached because he failed to join the league of “Egusi peelers that thronged Kalu’s mother’s abode for whatever reason”.
He said;
“I lasted exactly three years and nine months in office, before I threw in the towel. The bumpy ride ended on 7th March, 2003, when I finally resigned and switched parties.
“The one tenure was characterised by three attempts at impeachment. The one thread that runs through them all is that government can make no error.”
Also speaking in the buildup to Saturday’s bye-election in Aba North and Aba South Federal Constituency, Abaribe said Kalu who has been campaigning for his younger brother who is the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the election, is yet to recover from Kuje prison experience and may find it difficult to understand the new changes in Abia.
Reacting to this, Kalu stated that he picked Abaribe from the gutter and he is little-minded to think he is ashamed of his prison experience.
He said;
“ I picked Abaribe from the gutter. My conspirators thought I would be President in 2023, so they decided to cut my journey short at all cost. Abaribe continued to supply petitions. But you see, these people are not God.
“They think I am ashamed to have gone to prison. I am not and I don’t blame them because they don’t know my relationship with God… Joseph went to Prison, even Obasanjo went to prison. My going to prison is part of my life script and I am thankful God allowed it.
“They are little minds and wicked people who have refused to do any project for their own people. They have kept a centre table for you and called it bridge.
“You can’t even pay common salaries and you are here swearing to God, ‘na me build this road’. The only road the state is constructing is the 600 meters road in Eziukwu which they have been building in the last six years; that’s one year 100 meters.
“Compare my village and these people’s village and you will see how shameless they are. If you can’t build your own village, is it my own you will build?”
CNN’s Chris Cuomo continues to lose viewership on his show ‘Cuomo Prime Time’ as his embattled brother, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D., faces multiple scandals and bipartisan calls for his resignation.
“Cuomo Prime Time” one of CNN’s hit shows, had its smallest average audience last week since the coronavirus pandemic started to dominate the news cycle across the United States.
According to the NY Post, the show averaged 1.31 million viewers during the week of March 15, the show’s smallest total since it averaged 1.3 million viewers during the week of March 2, 2020 – days before the coronavirus lockdown started in the US.
“Cuomo Prime Time” finished 2020 with a yearly average of 1.8 million viewers, making it CNN’s most-watched program.
However, the CNN show has dropped roughly half a million nightly viewers since then.
“Cuomo Prime Time” also struggled among the key demographic of adults age 25-to-54, averaging only 307,000 viewers for its worst performance since the week of Feb. 24, 2020, which is a very important statistic. As that is the group most coveted by advertisers.
Cuomo has refused to cover his big brother’s scandals on his show and the show’s downfall could be impacting other CNN programs, too, as CNN failed to surpass Fox News among total viewers during any specific hour of the day from 6 a.m. to midnight through out last week Monday to Friday.
Last week Fox News doubled CNN’s primetime viewership and had a double-digit percent advantage over CNN among total day viewers.
This means, CNN had it’s lowest rated weekday audience among both total day and primetime viewers since the week of Feb. 24, 2020.
CNN announced last month that Chris Cuomo would no longer be allowed to cover his troubled senior brother.
The network giants said the rule had been in place since 2013 but an “exception” was made during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic.
Andrew Cuomo despite being accused by several women of sexual assault and misconduct has vowed he doesn’t plan on stepping down.
“I am not going to resign, I was not elected by the politicians, I was elected by the people,” he said on March 12.
Footballer, Mikel John Obi, has spoken out about how manager Antonio Conte ended his career at Chelsea because he chose to represent Nigeria at the 2016 Olympics.
Mikel Obi, who stayed at Chelsea for 11 years after arriving as a teenager in 2005, says he had the opportunity to represent Nigeria at the 2016 Rio Olympics but was warned by Conte who had just arrived at Stamford Bridge in 2016, that he would not be part of his plans if he decides to represent Nigeria at the Olympics.
Mikel, said he snubbed Conte’s threats and went to the Rio Olympics, helping Nigeria win a bronze medal and in the process, permanently damaging his relationship with the Italian coach.
“I had been called up by my national team to play and it was a dream,” Mikel, 33, told The Athletic.
“It’s a dream for anyone to go to the Olympics. Yes, as players we want to win the Champions League and the World Cup, but the Olympics is a massive tournament.”
“This guy [Conte] who has just walked in the door for five minutes is telling me I had to choose.
“He was saying, ‘If you do that, you won’t be a part of this team’. I spoke to the club and told them that I wanted to go. The club respected me because of what I had done for them and how long I’d been there.
“So off I went and I felt punished for that. I came back and I didn’t make the squad. I was never in the squad list on matchdays again.
“The funny thing is, just before the January window was going to start, he came up to me and said ‘I want a meeting with you’. This was after making me train on my own for months, treating a player who had been at Chelsea for a long time like this!
“When he tried to meet with me he was like, ‘Let’s try and make up, I will need you in the team, let’s squash this, blah, blah, blah!’. I was like, ‘Are you joking?! Are you f*cking serious?!’ He knew I wanted out. I stood up and walked out of the room. You can’t disrespect a human being like that.
“I couldn’t wait for the window to open to get out. I was talking to the hierarchy and explaining that I would definitely have to go. They agreed, they understood.”
After the bust up, Mikel within months went to China on a free transfer joining Tianjin Teda.
He spent two seasons with the club before returning to England with Middlesbrough. He then joined Turkish outfit Trabzonspor in 2019 but left months later after being forced to play football despite the Coronavirus pandemic.
Mikel then signed a one year deal with Stoke City in August 2020 and has been a key figure for the club, starting 28 games in the Championship.
The Federal Government has raised an alarm of an alleged racketeering of COVID-19 vaccine in the country.
Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health, Abdullazzi Abdullahi who disclosed this at the joint national briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, alleged that some people are selling their vaccination slots.
Abdullahi noted that everyone will be vaccinated and also averred that testing rates will be sustained to ensure that positive cases are identified, isolated and treated.
He said;
“Everyone will be vaccinated free and everyone will eventually be vaccinated. There is no need to pay to be vaccinated.
“We are sustaining distribution of available commodities, PPEs and consumables to ensure availability at all times for end users at treatment centres.”
Good and bad reasons to disable comments in WordPress
Why Disable Comments in WordPress?
Many small business owners use WordPress to create their website. These business websites often doesn’t have a blog section and mostly has static pages like services, about us, contact, etc. In such cases, it doesn’t make sense to allow comments at all.
In other cases, bloggers may publish certain posts like announcements that they don’t want to allow comments to trolls. In these cases, you can easily disable comments on those specific posts or pages.
The other scenario is some business blogs choose to disable comments entirely to prevent spam. Although you can always use spam protection techniques (which we’ll share later in this article), disabling the comment section will definitely solve the problem.
Whatever your reason may be, you can certainly disable comments and even remove the comment section from your WordPress site.
Here’s a quick overview of what you’ll learn in this article:
Disable Comments on Future Posts
Disable Comments on a Specific Page or Post
Disable Comments on Pages and Posts in Bulk
Delete All WordPress Comments
Disable Comments on Media
Disable WordPress Comments Sitewide using a Plugin
Remove “Comments are closed” in WordPress
Spam Protection Techniques
Disable comments in WordPress using standard dashboard settings
By default, WordPress enables comments on all posts, and disables comments on all pages. You can change this to disable / enable comments completely (site wide), or selectively on some posts and pages. You can also regulate comments in many ways using the options in the Settings page.
The place to start managing comments is Settings > Discussion in your WordPress Dashboard.
1. To stop comments on all future posts (and pages):
Uncheck the option “allow people to post comments on articles”. You can also disable pingbacks and trackbacks here. This will stop comments and pings entirely on all future posts on your site. (Pages are disabled by default).
If you wish to allow comments on individual posts or articles, you can do so by changing the settings under Discussions in the individual post or page. (More on that below).
2. To stop all comments on all published posts (or pages):
Simply disallowing comments as mentioned above will not stop the flow of comments on existing posts and pages. To trash all comments on all existing posts visit your Dashboard > Comments.
Here, you can select the comments you want gone, click Bulk Actions, select “Move to Trash”, and then click the Apply button.
3. To stop comments on selected posts (or pages) in bulk:
This time let’s go to the All Posts section. Select all the posts for which you wish to delete comments. Then click on Bulk Actions > Edit > Apply. A new option Bulk Edit will open up where you can choose the Do Not Allow option for comments.
You’ll be restricted to selecting from 20 posts at a time because that’s the default setting for display of posts in the All Posts screen. To display a greater number on each screen, make changes under Screen Options.
4. To stop comments on existing posts individually:
Select the specific post from All Posts and click Edit Post. Below the writing area, you’ll see a heading Discussion. If you cannot see this option, enable “Discussion” under “Screen Options”. In the Discussion box, uncheck “Allow comments”.
You can also achieve the same result by opting to Quick Edit individual posts.
5. To disable comments on media files:
We’re still not done, as the posts may continue to receive comments on the media files.
When you upload an image to your post, an attachment file is created. This file will continue to receive comments, even if you’ve disabled them on the corresponding post. To disable comments in WordPress for those attachments, visit Media Library, select the media file and click on Edit.
You’ll find a “Discussion” box similar to to the one in the text editor for posts, and you can disable comments there.
It’s not possible to do a bulk edit for media files using settings in WordPress, but you can do this by adding some code to your theme file.
6. Besides disabling comments altogether, you can also get more control over comments by adjusting things in the Settings > Discussion panel. Let’s have a quick look through the options available:
Requiring moderator to approve the comment before it is published: This not only catches bots and spam, but also helps to prevent a comment from appearing right away on the frontend of your site. It will appear on your dashboard in the comments queue where you’ll have to deal with it.
Blacklisting IP addresses, usernames or emails: blacklist known offenders, and even a partial match to the list will be blocked. You can also add a bit of code to .htaccess to block known malicious IPs.
Requiring the user to register: Can bring down both spam and the volume of comments.
Approving comment authors: Save time by approving comment authors. Subsequent comments will pass through easily.
Closing comments on older articles: Specify the number of days after which comments will be stopped. Spammers generally target older posts, so closing comments will cut down on spam.
Limiting links: This can thwart spammers who like to leave as many links as possible with their comment.
Be notified when you receive comments: If you keep yourself abreast with new comments, you can act swiftly on unwanted ones.
Disable Comments on a Specific Page or Post
By default, comments are turned off on all your pages.
However, WordPress gives you the freedom to enable or disable comments on individual pages and posts.
Simply head over to Pages » All Pages from the left sidebar. On the next page, you need to hover your mouse cursor over the title of a page that you want enable or disable comments and click the Edit link.
On the top-right corner of your page, you’ll see the 3 vertical dots icon. You need to click on it to open a dropdown menu and then click on Options.
This will open a popup box, and you need to make sure the Discussion box is enabled here.
Once you close this modal box, you’ll see the Discussion meta box on the right side of your editor. If you don’t see it, then please make sure that you click on the Document tab to view it.
Now, you can uncheck the Allow Comments box to disable comments on this page and click on Update to save the changes.
On the other hand, if you want to selectively enable comments, then you can just check the box to enable it for certain pages.
You can follow the same process for turning off comments on individual posts or other custom post types.
Disable Comments on Pages and Posts in Bulk
Want to disable comments on all your published posts and pages without doing it individually? You can do that without the use of a plugin.
First of all, go to Posts » All Posts to see all your articles.
Next, select all the posts, choose Edit from the Bulk Actions dropdown box, and click on Apply.
You’ll now be able to perform bulk actions including changing the author name and turning off comments for all the selected posts.
Select Do not allow from the comments dropdown box and click on Update. This will disable comments on all your selected posts.
You can follow the same process to turn off comments on your pages.
Plugin solutions for disabling comments
Setting the manual WordPress settings aside, you can also use plugins to make the job easier and give you a more “managed” control over comments, so to speak. Here’s the main player in this realm:
If you don’t want to disable comments manually, then you can use the Disable Comments plugin to do it with just a click.
It allows you to completely disable comments everywhere on your WordPress site. You can also disable them on specific post types like posts, pages, media, and others. It also removes the comment form and stops displaying existing comments.
First thing you need to do is install and activate the Disable Comments plugin.
After activating the plugin, head over to Settings » Disable Comments from the left sidebar of your admin panel.
Selecting the first option allows you to disable comments on your WordPress site. The plugin will also remove the comments menu item from your WordPress admin area.
Using the second option, you can selectively disable comments on your posts, pages, or media.
If you want to remove comments only from the media attachments, then you can select On certain post types radio button and then check the Media checkbox.
You can do the same if you only want to turn off comments on WordPress pages. Using the plugin is the easiest way to disable comments on WordPress pages.
When you’re done, simply click on the Save Changes to complete the process.
Remove “Comments Are Closed” in WordPress
If your WordPress theme is not checking the comment status properly, then it may still display the comment form, existing comments, or even show the “Comments are closed” message.
You can ask your theme developer to fix this because this is not a standard compliant approach.
Alternatively, you can also try fixing it yourself by following the instructions below.
First, connect to your WordPress site using FTP Client or the File Manager in your WordPress hosting control panel. Now navigate to your current theme folder which will be located in /wp-content/themes/ folder.
In your theme folder, you need to locate the file comments.php, right-click on that file, and rename it to comments_old.php.
Next, you need to right-click in the right panel of your FTP client and select Create new file option. And then, name your new file as comments.php and click the OK button.
This trick simply serves an empty comments template to your WordPress theme, so no comments or comment related messages will be shown.
If your WordPress theme does not have the comments.php file, then you need to ask your theme developer which file you need to edit.
The Ondo State Security Network Agency otherwise known as Amotekun Corps, have seized one hundred cows after its owners flouted the open grazing law of the State.
Commander of the Amotekun Corps in Ondo State, Adetunji Adeleye said the cows were seized after Amotekun operatives responded to a distress call of cows blocking the Ilesa-Akure expressway.
Adeleye said the herdsmen took to their heels upon sighting the operatives of the Amotekun Corps, abandoning their cows. He added that it took his men about 30 kilometres walk to control the cows to the corps’ headquarters in Akure, the State capital.
He said;
“Our men controlled the cows to the headquarters of our office which was about 30 kilometers from the point they were intercepted.
“We should take note that our men are in all the 18 local government areas and we are on 24 hours patrol. We arrived at the scene promptly.”
The Amotekun Commander also alleged that some kidnappers use illegal cattle grazing as a ploy to waylay and kidnap innocent residents of the state.
The 90-year-old motorsport mogul took aim at the politicisation of the sport and also said he would have ban Formula One drivers from taking a knee before races and would stop them from wearing anti-racism t-shirts on the podium if he were still in charge.
Recall Hamilton spoke out against racism issues within F1 in the wake of the death of George Floyd in police custody in the United States last year.
The 36-year-old British racer knelt before races to show his solidarity with the Black Lives Matter and wore the anti-racism movement’s T-shirts on the podium as he won his seventh world title triumph.
In a wide-ranging interview with Telegraph ahead of the start of the 2021 F1 season, Ecclestone said: ‘I’ve said to his father, “Lewis needs to be careful”. Because he’s being used by the people who are supporting this Black Lives Matter and they are taking a lot of money from it. And nobody knows where it goes.’
‘If I’d still been around there wouldn’t have been anyone wearing [anti-racism] t-shirts on the podium, that’s for sure.
‘One hundred per cent, there wouldn’t have been this business of kneeling before races.’
Last year, Hamilton branded Ecclestone “ignorant and uneducated” after the business magnate said he was “surprised” to hear that the driver had been affected by racism within the sport.
Ecclestone also hit back at Hamilton’s criticism, claiming the Mercedes star had misunderstood him.
He said: “I agree we need to give more people a chance. Don’t forget I was the first person to put a black guy in a Formula 1 car. And I supported him and have supported an awful lot of black people. But Lewis is entitled to his view.
“But I’ve said to his father, ‘Lewis needs to be careful’. Because he’s being used by the people who are supporting this Black Lives Matter and they are taking a lot of money from it. And nobody knows where it goes.”
Former Formula 1 boss, Bernie Ecclestone has claimed Lewis Hamilton is “being used by the Black Lives Matter movement” over the Formula One star’s anti-racism stance.
The 90-year-old motorsport mogul took aim at the politicisation of the sport and also said he would have ban Formula One drivers from taking a knee before races and would stop them from wearing anti-racism t-shirts on the podium if he were still in charge.
Recall Hamilton spoke out against racism issues within F1 in the wake of the death of George Floyd in police custody in the United States last year.
The 36-year-old British racer knelt before races to show his solidarity with the Black Lives Matter and wore the anti-racism movement’s T-shirts on the podium as he won his seventh world title triumph.
In a wide-ranging interview with Telegraph ahead of the start of the 2021 F1 season, Ecclestone said: ‘I’ve said to his father, “Lewis needs to be careful”. Because he’s being used by the people who are supporting this Black Lives Matter and they are taking a lot of money from it. And nobody knows where it goes.’
‘If I’d still been around there wouldn’t have been anyone wearing [anti-racism] t-shirts on the podium, that’s for sure.
‘One hundred per cent, there wouldn’t have been this business of kneeling before races.’
Last year, Hamilton branded Ecclestone “ignorant and uneducated” after the business magnate said he was “surprised” to hear that the driver had been affected by racism within the sport.
Ecclestone also hit back at Hamilton’s criticism, claiming the Mercedes star had misunderstood him.
He said: “I agree we need to give more people a chance. Don’t forget I was the first person to put a black guy in a Formula 1 car. And I supported him and have supported an awful lot of black people. But Lewis is entitled to his view.
“But I’ve said to his father, ‘Lewis needs to be careful’. Because he’s being used by the people who are supporting this Black Lives Matter and they are taking a lot of money from it. And nobody knows where it goes.”
Chelsea billionaire owner, Roman Abramovich has launched legal action claiming he was defamed in a book titled ‘Putin’s People’ which was released last year.
The book was written by author Caterine Belton and contains a number of claims about Abramovich and others close to Russia president Vladimir Putin.
In the book it was alleged that Abramovic bought Chelsea in 2003 under the special orders of Putin, and wanted to use the club as a conduit to increase Russian influence in the UK
Abramovic has now released a statement using the club’s official website, saying the book published by HarperCollins contains “a number of false and defamatory claims made” that have damaged his reputation and that of the club.
He also pointed out that he bought the club purely for sporting reasons and that the huge difference in success after he bought the club from Ken Bates in 2003 can clearly be seen by all.
Abramovich’s statement, reads: “Today my legal representatives have issued legal proceedings in England in relation to a book that was published in the UK. The book contains a number of false and defamatory statements about me, including about my purchase, and the activities, of Chelsea Football Club.
“Today’s action was not taken lightly. It has never been my ambition to gain a public profile and I have always been reluctant to provide commentary on any matters, including any false or misleading statements about me or Chelsea Football Club.
“However, it has become clear that the false allegations in this book are having a damaging effect, not only on my personal reputation, but also in respect of the activities of Chelsea Football Club.
“My objective has been to avoid a legal case and my legal team has engaged with the publishers to try to find an amicable resolution. We have provided them with detailed information addressing the various false allegations about me in the book, including the repetition of allegations that have already been held to be false in the English High Court during previous legal proceedings.
“Unfortunately, these engagements were not successful, and the publisher has not corrected the false statements in the book.
“On the subject of Chelsea Football Club. In contrast to the portrayal in the book, my ambition with Chelsea has always been to create world class teams on the pitch and to ensure the club plays a positive role in all of its communities.
“I believe our successes and activities over the years speak for themselves, including the trophies won, expansion of the academy, development of the women’s team and the Chelsea Foundation becoming the largest charitable organisation within the Premier League.
“It is my hope that today’s action will not only refute the false allegations in regard to my own name, but also serve as a reminder of Chelsea’s positive footprint in the UK. I have every belief that the courts will give me a fair hearing, as they have in the past.”
Prior to Abramovich buying Chelsea in 2003, Chelsea’s only previous league title came in 1955.
Since 2003, the Blues have won the Premier League on five occasions and also won the Champions League in 2012.
A glamorous model claims she was offered £52,000 to seduce tennis star, Novak Djokovic, and film it.
Serbian influencer Natalija Scekic says the plan was apparently to destroy the star’s marriage and career.
She said she was approached to seduce the tennis ace and film the encounter, with the intention of spreading the images online.
Serbian star Djokovic became the longest-serving world number one earlier this month, dethroning Swiss star Roger Federer.
After staying 311 weeks as the leader of the ATP men’s ranking, 18-time Grand Slam winner Djokovic decided to throw a party to celebrate.
The party is where the seduction was supposed to take place.
Natalija said she was approached by someone she knew in London who she considered a “serious guy”.
Speaking to the magazine Svet and Scandal, she said a man was hired in the UK to take care of the scam.
She said: “It is true that a guy contacted me. I know him from the city (London) and I considered him a serious guy.
“When he asked me to meet him, I thought it was for a business matter. I am familiar with their work and thought they were good.
“However, as the conversation progressed, I realised it had nothing to do with my life.
“I thought there was a hidden camera somewhere when he told me I had to seduce Novak and record it, but not to worry about that because he was already taking care of it.”
She says she was told she could get about EUR 60,000 (£52,000) for “doing that as well as a trip wherever I wanted”.
The model said: “I laughed, expecting him to say it was all a joke, but the man was serious. I felt offended and humiliated.”
She said she turned him down and wanted to throw a drink in his face.
Natalija continued: “At that moment I thought about hitting him, throwing water over him, but I stopped myself because we were in a public place.
“I grabbed my things and left. I hope he didn’t find a woman who wanted to do that because it is not fair to Novak.
“He is our best ambassador, an exemplary man, a family man.
“For someone to seduce him like that for money, or at least try to…”
Djokovic has been married to his high school sweetheart Jelena Ristic since July 2014. They have two children together.
A Master has been accused of beating his apprentice to death over a misunderstanding that ensued between them.
The incident occurred at Auto Parts section of the Trade Fair Market in Lagos. The crowd which gathered at the scene expressed their anger with masters maltreating boys under their care/tutelage. They stated that they will set an example with this.
People were also spotted throwing stones at the suspect’s shop. Watch the video below;
8 more women have accused controversial Malawian Prophet, Shepherd Bushiri of rape.
Court records of the extradition request South Africa sent to Malawi which were exclusively sourced by Mail & Guardian, shared a detailed account of the alleged crimes reportedly committed by the leader of one of the most popular and richest churches on the continent, Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG) and his wife, Mary.
Some of the rape charges which dates back to 2016, have been added to charges of fraud, money-laundering, jumping bail and contravention of the foreign currency act that Bushiri was already facing before his escape from South Africa in November last year.
Prosecutors accused him of raping women and girls as young as 16, including two sisters; drugged some, bribed them into silence, and threatened others with murder in six years of jaw-dropping sexual violence.
All the alleged rape cases allegedly took place in and around Pretoria particularly at the Sheraton Hotel, and involve women who allege the rich prophet enticed them into hotels after befriending them and their families at church with offers of special prayers and gifts of cash.
Some of the women later were involved in what could appear to be consensual sexual relations, after Bushiri allegedly promised to marry at least one of them. But the majority, particularly those who were very young, were threatened with death by Bushiri or his bodyguards, the victims claimed. One of the victims reportedly got pregnant, but was forced to terminate the pregnancy.
It was alleged that the ECG church was used as a recruitment service for Bushiri through his network of “sons” and “prophets”. They would eavesdrop, record and engage in subtle conversations with churchgoers to collect information later used by Bushiri to lure women into sexual relations.
The court records stated that Bushiri promised to marry one of the women he raped between May 2015 and June 2016, and allegedly paid her parents substantial sums of money.
Another woman alleges that between June and July 2015, she was raped by Bushiri in his hotel room after “the prophet” took pictures of her in her underwear and in naked poses. He allegedly handed her cash.
Also sharing her experience, one of the women also alleged that she was invited into Bushiri’s hotel room and given a drink that made her dizzy. She fell to the floor, after which Bushiri allegedly took her clothes off and raped her. Another victim was allegedly impregnated and given cash to register a construction company.
The youngest of the victims who are sisters shared the most harrowing incidents. The girls say they were choristers in Bushiri’s church, and he befriended their parents before starting to text them on WhatsApp.
It was alleged that Bushiri first sent his “sons” who took the sisters and their brother to meet him under the pretence that they were going for choir rehearsals, and gave them money. During a second visit, Bushiri handed them huge amounts of cash and told them not to tell anyone. One of the girls said;
“After two weeks, my family and I met prophet Bushiri in his church after the evening service that ended at 11pm.
“My parents and I were very excited to meet with the prophet and his wife, prophetess Mary Bushiri. Prophet Bushiri told my parents he wanted to sponsor my sister and me to start recording at his studio in Sandton [Johannesburg] and that he was going to be our spiritual father.”
They claim to have met him in July 2016 at the Southern Sun Hotel in Arcadia, Pretoria.
A man named “Aubrey” who appeared numerous times in the court papers as one of the people scouting women for Bushiri, was reportedly sent to pick up the young women from their home where they were with their mother.
On being informed by his daughters that Bushiri had sent for them, their father was unhappy but Aubrey spoke to him on the phone and he consented to the arrangement.
At the hotel, Bushiri allegedly kept the sisters in separate rooms, where he later prayed for them and gave them cash. He allegedly gave one of the sisters and the brother R5, 000 each. The other sister told prosecutors she was paid R10, 000.
A second meeting took place at the Sheraton Hotel, where Bushiri allegedly gave the siblings R20, 000 in January 2017. Bushiri invited one of the sisters to the Sheraton. She was taken to one of the upper floors by Aubrey who left promptly.
She said;
“Usually, Aubrey and one or two bodyguards are always in the suite, but that day they were not there. Prophet Bushiri came from the bathroom. He greeted me and asked me how everything was. I told him everything was fine. He told me he would pray for me to get distinctions and open doors of blessings in my life.
“When praying for me … he started to touch my body and private parts. I started to push his hand away. He continued to touch me. I asked him to stop. I screamed. I was wearing a long dress. He used force to pull me to the bed. He pulled my underwear and threw it away.
“I was screaming all the time. He put his hand over my mouth and nose. I was fighting back. He overpowered me. He put his penis inside my vagina and … raped me. I kept screaming and crying because it was extremely painful because I was a virgin. He continued raping me, and I was screaming, fighting and crying. When he finished, he stopped. I noticed drops of blood coming from my vagina.”
After the rape, the victim who was 18 at that time alleged that Bushiri threatened to kill her if she reported the incident or told anyone, and gave her R10, 000. In June 2018, her sister told her Bushiri had raped her too and that’s when the two sisters agreed to report the incidents to their parents.
Bushiris’ extradition trial is expected to start in earnest in Malawi courts next week after chief resident magistrate Patrick Chirwa refused to recuse himself. Bushiri’s lawyers had objected to his handling of the case, citing possible bias because of the magistrate’s involvement in issuing the warrant of arrest police used to arrest the Bushiris.
Fuel marketers in the country have increased the price of Automotive Gas Oil also known as diesel, to N265 per litre.
The price of diesel first rose to a new high of N250 per litre on February 24, with businesses taking a beating on the back of rising energy costs.
Punch reported that some filling stations in Lagos State were selling the product for between N248 and N265 per litre on Sunday March 21, while some placed the price between N220 and N245 per litre.
It was learnt that Mobil filling station along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and Nipco at Fadeyi axis of Ikorodu Road increased the pump price of diesel to N265 per litre; while Forte Oil at Onipanu sold it for N255 per litre.
The National Bureau of Statistics in its latest AGO price watch report, also said the average price paid by consumers for diesel increased by 1.29 per cent to N227.76 in February from to N224.86 in January.
The report read;
“States with the highest average price of diesel were Zamfara (N268.78), Adamawa (N263.33) and Kebbi (N257.50). States with the lowest average price of diesel were Osun (N206.50), Ekiti (N207.86) and Plateau (N208.57).”
National Operations Controller of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Mr Mike Osatuyi who commented on the development said the prices of diesel and kerosene had been increased because of the rise in crude oil prices.
He said;
“Marketers are importing diesel because it has been deregulated and the pump price is based on the current crude oil prices. We get foreign exchange from the black market to import the product.”
Three policemen have been shot dead after being attacked by unknown gunmen at a Police checkpoint in Agu Eze amaogudu, Abiriba, Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia State.
The dead policemen have been identified as identified Inspector Austin Ugwu, Inspector Longinus Ugochukwu, PC Ama Ifeanyi.
Deputy Governor of Abia State, Rt Hon Ude Oko Chukwu who visited the community, assurred them of protection. He also called for community vigilance and support to security agents while addressing residents of the community at Orie Akwa square.
He said;
“The government is saddened by the unfortunate attack of this morning which led to the loss of lives of police officers at Agu Eze checkpoint and my boss, Governor Ikpeazu, on receiving the news asked me to come here and assure you that we will do everything possible to apprehend the perpetrators of the dastardly act and protect Ndi Abiriba and all law abiding people in the state.
“We call on you to maintain vigilance in order to fish out criminals and hoodlums who may want to come here to attack innocent people as they go about their their legitimate businesses.
“Government will give you all the necessary support and we have spoken to the security authorities to avoid indiscriminate arrests but ensure a painstaking investigation that will ensure that only those responsible for the dastardly act are brought to justice as quickly as possible.”
Ten people, including a police officer, were killed after a gunman opened fire in a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, on Monday, March 22.
The incident began at about 14:30 local time when the suspect entered the supermarket and began firing.
Police officers, who rushed to the scene got involved in a gunfight and were being fired at with multiple rounds through at least 3:21 p.m. local time.
Shoppers and employees had to dive for cover or run to safety during the shooting.
The attack in Boulder ended with police detaining an injured suspect at the King Soopers market, where police said there was no ongoing threat to the public.
Boulder Police Chief Maris Herold did not share any information on his identity, the type of weapon used or any possible motive.
“We will work around the clock to get this accomplished,” she said, adding that such a complex investigation will take at least five days to complete.
Chief Maris also identified the slain officer as 51-year-old Eric Talley, who had been with the department since 2010.
Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty said Talley’s life was “cut much too short,” and said a “painstaking investigation is already underway.”
Eric Talley’s sister Kirstin took to Twitter Monday night to express her grief over her brother’s death.
Kirstin said, “Officer Eric Talley is my big brother. He died today in the Boulder shooting. My heart is broken. I cannot explain how beautiful he was and what a devastating loss this is to so many. Fly high my sweet brother. You always wanted to be a pilot (damn color blindness). Soar.
Officer Eric Talley is my big brother. He died today in the Boulder shooting. My heart is broken. I cannot explain how beautiful he was and what a devastating loss this is to so many. Fly high my sweet brother. You always wanted to be a pilot (damn color blindness). Soar. pic.twitter.com/tgt2DxPsqz
Former Nigerian international and Chelsea icon, John Obi Mikel has said he won’t apologize to ex-Premier League referee Mark Clattenburg over the 2012 racism row.
In October 2012, Mikel’s former team-mate Ramires claimed he heard Clattenburg say ‘shut up you monkey’ to Mikel in Chelsea’s 3-2 defeat by Manchester United at Stamford Bridge in the Premier League.
Because of the allegations, Clattenburg missed four weekends of Premier League matches before he was cleared by the Football Association, while the police also dropped their own inquiry.
Chelsea accepted the findings and said the club regretted the impact the saga had on Clattenburg.
Speaking to The Athletic in a recent interview, Mikel said it’s not in his place to apologise to Clattenburg because it was Ramires who made the claims to him.
‘In the heat of the game, players go through emotions,’ Mikel said. ‘Your colleague said they heard something, but they may not have heard right. Did he say it or not? I didn’t know.
‘But if your colleague comes up to you, of course you’re going to trust what they say, someone you see and speak to every day.
‘So I can’t apologise for something that my colleague said he (Clattenburg) did.’
Ramires was the only player on the pitch who claimed to have heard the abuse and the FA said that the complaint was made in good faith.
Mikel explained that after speaking to Ramires, he was left furious and went after Clattenburg in the tunnel at Stamford Bridge.
‘I lost it. I was so angry,’ Mikel said. ‘We’d lost the game as well. There were a few decisions he’d given that cost us the game. Everything just boiled up. That was it.
‘I wanted to confront him, find out if he did say that word. I wasn’t really allowed to speak to him, he didn’t want to.
‘It was crazy in the tunnel. I don’t think anyone at the club had seen me like that before. I had lots of people trying to hold me back… the players, the club. Everyone came out. It was a case of, “try and stop me”. I wanted to break down that door to the referee’s room and ask him questions. I was livid.’
The FA investigation, upon clearing Clattenburg, charged Mikel with misconduct. He was banned for three matches and fined £60,000.
In a statement given after he was cleared, Clattenburg said: ‘I am looking forward to putting this behind me and concentrating on refereeing in the Premier League and other competitions.
‘The messages of encouragement from those inside and outside of the game have helped me through the most stressful time of my professional life.
‘To know you were innocent of something but that there was the opportunity for it to wreck your career was truly frightening.’
Meanwhile, Mikel Obi currently plays for Championship side Stoke, who are 11th in the league.
Popular Ibadan-based Islamic cleric Alhaji Taofeek Akewugbagold has withdrawn the lawsuit he filed against the suspected abductors of his twin children in April 2020.
LIB had reported the story of how the twin babies were abducted from the cleric’s home. The twins whose mother waited 12 years after marriage before she gave birth to them, were released after the abductors collected N 4 million in ransom. Police investigations led to the release of some suspects. Two of the suspects were former employees of the cleric.
Shortly after their arrest, the cleric instituted a lawsuit at the Oyo state High court against the suspects. However, he has asked the court to withdraw the suit he filed against the suspected abductors of his twins.
At the resumed hearing of the suit yesterday March 23, Akewugbagold told the court that he had forgiven the suspects and wanted the suit struck out.
The Imo State government through the state’s Housing Corporation has revoked 49 plots of land allegedly belonging to Mrs. Geraldine Obinali, the elder sister of immediate past Governor of the state, Senator Rochas Okorocha.
According to the corporation, the parcels of land were allegedly acquired by Mrs. Obinali, using Jessdean Ventures Limited of No. 3 Okeoma close Tran Egbu Layout.
The revocation is contained in a statement by the General Manager/Chief Executive Officer of the Housing Corporation, Mr. Chinedu Mbakwe-Obi and media aide to the General Manager, Enwerem Prince. The statement said the revoked plots in Redemption Estate Phase III were issued to Geraldine Obinali (nee Okorocha) for the sole purpose of providing infrastructural facilities which was never carried out.
The statement in part reads
“Sequel to all legal actions taken to notify Jessdean Ventures Ltd of No 3 Okeoma close Trans Egbu Layout Owerri owned by Geraldine Obinali, we hereby revoke the following plots numbers in Redemption Housing Estate Phase III issued to her for the sole purpose of providing infrastructural facilities in the estate which was never carried out.
“Below are some of the affected plots numbers: RHE III/258,424, 425,422,420,419, 418, 417, 416, 415,414, 403, 421,244,244A and 245 among others.
“The general public is hereby being notified that if anybody had transacted on any of the above-numbered plots, they are to immediately come to the Imo State Housing Corporation with original papers for ratification.”
A man, identified as Gbenro, has been accused of strangling his wife, Wayesola, as she slept.
Their daughter, Fayoke, who witnessed the incident, narrated how her father killed her mother.
The incident was said to have happened in the early hours of the morning at Salvation Army Street, Odoj?mu, Ondo, Akure.
Fayoke said she saw her father strangling her mother when she got up to ease herself but couldn’t do anything because her father threatened to kill her, The Nation reports.
It was Fayoke’s cry of horror that attracted neighbours, who arrived to find Wayesola had died.
Neighbours immediately locked the man indoors to stop him from escaping, then they called the deceased’s brother.
Ondo Police spokesperson, ASP Tee- Leo Ikoro, said the matter has been transferred to the state CID for further investigation.
Female footballers from Germany are incensed after a judge punished a sexist coach by ordering him to coach women footballers after he stated that female referees have no place on a football field.
Heiko Vogel, Borussia Monchengladbach’s Under-23 coach was found guilty of making the inappropriate sexist comments towards female referee officials Vanessa Arlt and Nadine Westerhoff on January 30.
After reviewing the case, Vogel was hit with a fine of €1,500, a two-game ban and told to complete six female training sessions before June 30 by the court of the West German soccer association (WDFV).
Germany women’s team captain, who also plays for Wolfsburg Alexandra Popp (pictured below) as well as Players from the top two divisions have now voiced their concerns via Instagram, stating: “The question arises as to how the training of a women’s or girls’ team can be defined as punishment.
“There is no value in offering to compensate for such unsporting behaviour by offering to train a women’s team for a few hours.”
The statement added that the judgement “discriminates against all women in sport and especially in football.”
Following the statement, the WDFV vice president Gundolf Walaschewski, has stated that the court has been asked to review the decision.
“There is no room for discrimination either in football or in society,” Walaschewski said.
“The WDFV and the football family in North Rhine-Westphalia are expressly committed to this. That means no tolerance for sexist discrimination and no tolerance for discrimination in general.”
The German football federation (DFB) vice president, Hannelore Ratzeburg, has also reacted, blasting the Court’s ruling .
“It’s incomprehensible to me that training a women’s team is seen as a punishment,” he said.
“I can therefore understand the players’ anger and why they have made themselves heard in public. We have been in talks with the WDFV for several days.
“The fact that the executive committee of the WDFV has ordered a review of the judgement is a correct and necessary sign.”
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has approved a new remote work visa to enable employees from all over the world to live and work in UAE remotely even if the companies are based in another country.
Vice President/Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum made the announcement on Twitter on Sunday, March 21.
“During a cabinet meeting I chaired, we approved a new Remote work Visa that enables employees from all over the world to live and work remotely from the UAE even if their companies are based in another country,” he wrote in a tweet.
This decision comes as the work-from-home policy in UAE has been widely accepted due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Back in January, the government also announced citizenship for foreign investors and other gifted professionals to boost its economy amidst the pandemic.
Tottenham and England midfielder, Dele Alli is reportedly looking for love on celebrity dating app, Raya, after being ‘dumped’ by his model girlfriend, Ruby Mae
The 24-year-old born to a Nigerian father, Kehinde Alli, a multi-millionaire businessman and British mother, Denise, is said to be ‘gutted’ after his girlfriend of five-years, 25, decided to end things, prompting his decision to join the exclusive platform used by the likes of Cara Delevingne, Adele, and Ben Affleck, Daily Mail reports.
In his Raya cover photo, Dele is pictured posing in a navy suit and grey tie while sipping on a beverage.
Speaking of his love life, a pal said to The Sun: ‘Dele’s still gutted about the break-up with Ruby but knows he’s got to look to the future.
‘His pride was dented but now he is open about starting a relationship with the right person.’
In February, Dele and his model girlfriend split up after the pair kept getting into blazing rows, insiders claimed.
Ruby was reportedly left ‘incensed’ over his behaviour and is understood to have ‘packed up her things’ and moved out of their £2million mansion. They also no longer follow each other on social media.
A source said to the publication: ‘Their relationship has been turbulent, but it now feels very much like the end.’
Meghan Markle claimed during her interview with Oprah Winfrey that she and Prince Harry had a private secret wedding in their garden, three days before their Royal wedding.
However, the former official who issued the licence has said that the Duchess of Sussex was “clearly misinformed” when she claimed she and Harry had been wed by the Archbishop of Canterbury in their “backyard”.
Stephen Borton, the former chief clerk at the Faculty Office, said the duchess is “obviously confused”.
Mr Borton said the ceremony described by Meghan in the interview was “not valid” because there were no witnesses and the couple’s home – Nottingham Cottage – was not an authorised venue.
It was more likely the private ceremony was informal exchange of vows or may have just been a practice for the office service itself, according to Mr Borton.
He told The Sun: “They did not marry three days earlier in front of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
“The Special Licence I helped draw up enabled them to marry at St George’s Chapel in Windsor and what happened there on 19 May 2018 and was seen by millions around the world was the official wedding as recognised by the Church of England and the law.
“What I suspect they did was exchange some simple vows they had perhaps written themselves, and which is fashionable, and said that in front of the Archbishop or, and more likely, it was a simple rehearsal.”
Borussia Dortmund have won the race to sign Paris Saint-Germain defender, Soumaila Coulibaly.
The France youth international, 17, who is represented by Portugal-based sports agency – Epic Sports, has agreed on a pre-contract deal to join the German club in the summer on a free transfer when his contract at PSG expires.
Manchester United, Barcelona, and Juventus were among the clubs willing to sign Coulibaly, but Dortmund moved smartly in the transfer market to land one of the best young talents in Europe for next season.
“It was nice to have so much interest from so many clubs, but I cannot wait to get started with Dortmund,” Coulibaly explained.
“They are a great club with a proven track record of developing some of the best young talents in the world and I aim to do my best for the club and fans.
“I am thankful to my agents [Epic Sports] for helping me in making this move to Dortmund and also to Paris Saint-Germain where I have learnt so much already in my career.”
Top El Salvador’s surfer, Katherine Diaz, who had been preparing for the sport’s Olympic debut this summer, has been struck and killed by lightning during a training session.
The 22-year-old had entered the water to start a training session near her home in El Tunco when she was struck around 5pm on Friday, March 19.
Emergency services and medics were called to try to save her, but Diaz was pronounced dead at the scene.
She was training for the upcoming ISA World Surf Games in El Salvador, which she hoped would lead to qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics, the first Games to include surfing.
“A great athlete who has represented our country has left us,” the Salvadoran Surf Federation said in a post paying tribute to Katherine Diaz on social media. “See you soon, great warrior. El Salvador is in mourning.”
The International Surfing Association paid tribute to Diaz in a Facebook post.
“It is with a heavy heart that the ISA has learned about the passing of El Salvador’s Katherine Diaz,” read the statement. “Katherine embodied the joy and energy that make surfing so special and dear to us all, as a global ambassador of the sport.”
A man has confessed to killing his parents because they asked him to take the family dog for a walk.
The suspect, Benno Neumair, 30, was taken into custody on January 29. His parents, Peter Neumair and Laura Perselli, who are both teachers, went missing in the city of Bolzano in the northern Italian province of South Tyrol earlier this year.
According to Mail Online, Laura’s dead body was later found in Adige river with signs of strangulation while her husband’s body never surfaced, although traces of his blood were found on a nearby bridge.
The victims’ son, who is a bodybuilder has now confessed to the killing saying that he killed his father after a brief fight and then murdered his mother when she walked in on them arguing.
The argument that led to the murder started when the father asked his son to get out of bed and take the family dog out for a walk.
When he refused, the father and son got involved in an argument. Benno said: “Dad accused me of being a failure. I just wanted silence. So I shut him up.”
He said he had gone to his room to sleep to avoid a further argument with his father. He complained that his dad woke him up and continued to complain that he was not doing his share of the household chores.
He then decided to strangle him to stop nagging.
He said: “I took the first climbing rope I found from the plastic tray of my tools. We were in the hallway and we fell together on the ground. I just remember that I squeezed very tightly.”
Benno said that his mum returned home soon after and he strangled her with the same rope.
He said: “I did it without even saying goodbye.”
The son said that he then threw their bodies off a bridge into the river.
Mr. Benno man is now in prison in Bolzano on charges of murder and body concealment as the investigation continues.
A Nigerian national and a Trinidadian have been arrested for allegedly smuggling 25 Venezuelan women into Trinidad.
A statement issued by Trinidad and Tobago Police on Sunday, March 21, said the 27 persons were arrested by officers of the Inter-Agency Task Force, during an anti-crime exercise conducted at Icacos overnight.
The exercise, which was conducted between 3 pm on Saturday and 5 am, on Sunday also included officers of the South Western Division’s Intelligence Unit.
During the exercise, officers paid special attention to the Icacos area where they arrested the Venezuelan women for illegal entry into the ports of Trinidad, and the Nigerian and the Trinidadian for aiding and abetting in suspected human trafficking.
The detained persons were taken to the Santa Flora and Erin Police Stations and the Immigration Department was contacted while investigations are ongoing.
The Fast & Furious franchise which has always been about “family”, will see Actor Vin Diesel’s 10-year-old son Vincent Sinclair join him in the ninth instalment of the franchise.
Vincent Sinclairwill be making his big-screen debut this summer in ‘F&F9’ as the younger version of Vin’s character, Dominic Toretto.
Documents obtained by TMZ showed that little Vincent played the role of younger Dom and actually filmed his scenes way back in late 2019 when he was a budding 9-year-old Thespian.
There has already been a flashback to Dom’s younger years in the seventh instalment but the younger version of him was played by Alex McGee. It is unknown how much screentime the youngster will get but his contract says he got paid a daily rate of $1,005.
53-year-old Vin Diesel shares son Vincent with his girlfriend Paloma Jimenez, along with children Hania Riley and Pauline.
F9 stars Vin, Michelle Rodriguez, Ludacris and Tyrese Gibson and will see the gang facing Dominic’s younger brother Jakob – a deadly assassin who is working with their old enemy Cipher.
The blockbuster was initially supposed to be released in May 2020 before it was moved to April 2021 and then May 2021. However, Vin confirmed that it will now premiere on June 25 this year in an Instagram post.
Justice E.A Obile of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has convicted and sentenced one Chibueze Okenwa, a fake United States of American military officer, to two years imprisonment for impersonation contrary to Section 22 (2) (b) ( i & ii) of the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention, Etc.) Act, 2015.
He was initially arraigned on March 4, 2021, by the Port Harcourt Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and pleaded “not guilty” to one-count charge bordering on impersonation with intent to gain monetary advantage for himself.
At the resumed hearing of his case on March 18, Okenwa opted to change his plea. He was re-arraigned and pleaded “guilty” to the one-count charge.
The charge reads: “that you Chibueze okenwa (a.k.a Weirt Rodriguz), in 2020, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, fraudulently impersonated yourself as Weirt Rodriguz, a United State Military Officer to one Katia Massoni from Brazil with intent to gain monetary advantage for yourself and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 22 (2) (b) ( i & ii) of the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention, Etc.) Act, 2015”.
In view of his plea of “guilty”, prosecution counsel, M. Ibekwute urged the court to convict him accordingly. However, defense counsel, J.I Owubokiri prayed the court to temper justice with mercy.
Justice Obile convicted and sentenced Okenwa to two (2) years imprisonment with an option of fine of Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira (N350, 000.00).
The judge also ordered that the phone which was used to commit the crime, (a gold and white-coloured Blu dual Sim smartphone) be forfeited to the Federal Government through disposal by public auction and the proceeds paid into the Treasury Single Account, TSA of the Federal Government.
Some filling stations in Imo state have been sealed by the Department of Petroleum Resources.
Zonal Controller of DPR in Imo, Roseline Wilki who spoke to newsmen as she led a team of officials on a routine monitoring exercise in Owerri, the state capital, said the filling stations were sealed for selling Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) also known as petrol above the authorised pump price.
She said;
“We are here to ensure that there is quality, to ensure availability of the product, and to ensure that you don’t have adulterated product and that there is no hoarding.
“We are here to ensure that the operators are selling within the government approved pump price.
“We will definitely sanction those that are not selling within the (government approved) pump price and for the adulteration; we will make sure that they (consumers) get the right product.”
The DPR zonal controller who urged residents in the state to disregard any rumour of an increase in the pump price of petrol, also asked them to report any independent marketer who sells above the normal pump price to the department.
Wilki also warned operators against hoarding and quality delivery. She added;
“Right from the depot, we are going to do carriages inspection and ensure that products that are being loaded are within the correct spec.
“They (residents) should not rely on black market products because wherever they find that there are issues, they should not hesitate to report to the department, and we have offices in almost every state of the Federation.”
The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami has explained why he recommended Abdulrasheed Bawa for the chairmanship of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Malami who debunked claims of singlehandedly picking Bawa to be the chairman of the EFFC in an interview with Daily Trust, said four names were submitted to the president for consideration and Bawa was subsequently picked.
The AGF noted that Bawa “has held various authorities, inclusive of serving in various divisions as the head of operations, including Port Harcourt, Lagos and Ibadan which are adjudged to be the high point”.
He also denied being related to the EFCC Chairman and further debunked allegation of Bawa’s appointment subverting some of the functions of the commission.
Malami said;
“I am happy that most of the comments made are not on his capacity, intelligence, competence and associated ability to deliver. His capacity to deliver was never questioned across the nation.
“The question is whether justice has been served, whether public interest has been served having the chairman appointed with a particular regard to his capacity and ability to deliver.
“My answer is yes. He has the capacity, ability and institutional history of the institution to do justice by way of bringing about added value.”
Nigerians have reacted to viral photos of President Buhari’s look-alike.
In the photos shared online, the President’s look-alike was spotted driving a bus in Lagos. The uncanny resemblance between him and the Nigerian leader has left social media users stunned.
Former South African President, Nelson Mandela’s once-elegant Houghton home in Johannesburg is now an abandoned eyesore.
The house at 12th Avenue in which some of the world’s leading figures were hosted in, was until last year occupied by Mandela’s grandchildren, Ndaba, Mbuso and Andile, who are the sons of the late Makgatho Mandela. Makgatho was Madiba’s son by his first wife, Evelyn.
Sunday Times reported that the electric gate is seemingly broken, portions of the roof fascia are missing or collapsing, the tennis court is crumbling and the tiled roof of one of the outbuildings is sagging.
The once-manicured pavement garden where well-wishers placed stones painted with messages of hope shortly before Madiba’s death in 2013, is now overgrown and littered with rubbish.
It was also learnt that the three brothers lived in the house after Mandela’s death, but Ndaba said they moved out after the Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (NRM) Family Trust stopped paying the utility bills.
The house is owned by Mandela’s company, Iterele Investments. On his death, Iterele and the house vested in his estate under the control of the executors which include former deputy chief justice Dikgang Moseneke.
Mandela bequeathed the shares in Iterele, and therefore the house to the trust. However, the estate is yet to effect this transfer.
When the Sunday Times team visited the house last week, a man who opened the gate said it was being sold. He said;
“I have come to help Mandela’s grandsons … We have put furniture in storerooms. From last week people have been to see the house.”
Ndaba Mandela had accused Moseneke and advocate Wim Trengove, a trustee of the NRM Family Trust of displacing him and his brothers by failing to pay the municipal bills. He alleged they wanted to sell the house. Moseneke and Trengove dismissed the allegations, saying the trust stopped paying the bills after they suddenly more than tripled to about R50,000 a month.
Mandela’s will stipulated that he wanted Makgatho and his children to have use of the house “in perpetuity”.
“The trustees shall … pay all assessment rates and other municipal charges and fees in respect of the Houghton property … and maintain the Houghton property in good order and condition.”
Ndaba however alleged that trustees failed to stick the willl. He said;
“The trustees decided not to pay for lights in order to kick us out”, and it was the trust’s fault that the house was now an eyesore.
“Moseneke brought people to the house without telling the family so they could do an evaluation. The house is worth between R10m and R15m.”
He added that while the majority of the family had voted to sell the house, “he was one of the few who voted not to. It belongs in the family. I will fight for it, with everything that I have.”
Moseneke on his own part said he had performed his duties “lawfully, honestly and to the best of my ability, properly assisted by two reputable law firms who manage the day-to-day affairs of the deceased estate”.
He added “I have [alerted] the law firms to these manifold bizarre imputations. I have served as executor at no remuneration. I deny any act of impropriety. I will not respond to baseless accusations.”
One of the trustees, Mr Trengrove however stated that the trust had no legal responsibility to contribute towards the house’s upkeep and municipal bills but had to do so because the family “implored the trust to help.
Trengrove reiterated that they stopped paying the bills because they “shot up from about R15,000 per month to about R50,000 per month without any explanation”.
He said;
“We resumed payment, and paid all the arrears, when the bills came down again to their former level.
“We stopped paying because we felt that we could not spend R50,000 per month of the trust’s money, for which it had no liability, without any explanation for the inordinately high bills.”
Trengrove also revealed that an “overwhelming” majority of Mandela family members had agreed that the house should be sold “if and when” it is transferred to the trust.
Ndaba however defended the bills increment by stating that it shot up due to a leak. He averred that it was repaired at his cost.
Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Sylva has given an assurance of the Port Harcourt Refinery being functional in 18 months.
Sylva said this in an interview on Channels Television, in reaction to controversy that trailed the approval of $1.5 billion for the rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt Refinery (an amount which many had described as too much for the project).
The Minister who insisted that the rehabilitation exercise is not a waste of funds, added that there are plans to also fix the Warri Refinery and Kaduna Refinery.
He said;
“Port Harcourt Refinery will work, and certainly within the next 18 months.
“There are plans to also fix the Warri Refinery and Kaduna Refinery and then we would get all those staff to work.”
Sylva debunked insinuations that the rehabilitation could have taken less than N500m, while also listing how the project will be fuded.
He added;
“You see, Nigerians like to bandy figures. I can tell you, that that cannot be true. We are talking with the professionals.
“Let me tell you how this rehabilitation is going to be funded; it is not going to be all debts, we are not going to borrow all the monies that are going into the rehabilitation (project),” he added.
“Some of the money will come from NNPC’s internally generated revenue – from NPDC, some of it will come from the Federal appropriation, and just a little fraction will come from the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank).”
Cristiano Ronaldo was presented with a special commemorative shirt for breaking Brazil legend Pele’s official goalscoring record of 767 goals.
The Juventus and Portuguese superstar overtook the Brazilian’s total last weekend by netting a hat-trick in his side’s 3-1 victory Cagliari to take his own tally to 770 goals.
Before the Old Lady’s Serie A fixture with Benevento on Sunday March 21, which they lost 1 – 0 at home, Ronaldo was handed a shirt with ‘G.O.A.T 770’ on the back, claiming that the Portuguese forward is the ‘Greatest Of All Time’.
The presentation was done by Juventus president Andrea Agnelli.
On achieving the milestone in his career, Ronaldo wrote on Instagram: ‘Today, as I reach the 770th official goal in my professional career, my first words go straight to Pele.
‘There’s no player in the world who hasn’t been raised listening to stories about his games, his goals and his achievements, and I’m no exception.
‘And for that reason, I’m filled with joy and pride as I acknowledge the goal that puts me on top of the world’s goalscoring list, overcoming Pele’s record, something that I could never have dreamed of while growing up as a child from Madeira.’
Pele responded to Ronaldo’s comments, posting: ‘Congratulations on breaking my record of goals in official matches.
‘I admire you a lot, I love watching you play and this is no secret to anyone. My only regret is not being able to give you a hug today.’
Ronaldo’s tally of goals includes 668 at club level, including 188 for Manchester United and 450 for Real Madrid, while he has also scored 120 goals at the international level for Portugal.
Leicester City have now qualified for the FA cup semi-final and will play Southampton for a place in the FA Cup final after a Kelechi Iheanacho brace helped the Foxes to a 3-1 win over Manchester United at the King Power Stadium on Sunday night, March 21.
Leicester, clearly the better side mesmerized Manchester United with their intense pressing style from the beginning.
Fred starting alongside a below par Matic, played a ball straight to Iheanacho in the box in the first half to which the Nigerian calmly grabbed and opened the scoring.
Despite United failing to click throughout the opening period, they equalized towards half time through Mason Greenwood’s tidy finish after good work from Paul Pogba and Van Der Beek down the left.
In the second half, United’s midfield just watched Youri Tielemans stroll past them and slot a superb finish beyond goalkeeper Dean Henderson.
United brought in star player Bruno Fernandes, Edison Cavani and Luke Shaw and maintained some pressure, but it was to no avail as Iheanacho’s back-post header sealed the game with barely minutes to go.
The semi-final against Southampton will be held at Wembley on the weekend of April 17-18.
Former US President, Donald Trump is coming back to social media but this time with his own network, a spokesperson of the former world leader had revealed.
The announcement comes after Trump was permanently suspended from Twitter and other social platforms, such as Facebook, following his incitement of the US Capitol riots on January 6 — where hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol building, leaving five people dead.
Jason Miller, Trump’s long-time adviser and spokesperson for Trump’s 2020 campaign told Howard Kurtz on Fox’s “MediaBuzz” Sunday programme that Trump will be “returning to social media in probably about two or three months.”
He added that Trump’s return will be with “his own platform” that will attract “tens of millions” of new users and “completely redefine the game.”
Tweeting late Sunday night, March 22, Media Buzz wrote;
“@JasonMillerinDC said President Trump will be “returning to social media in two or three months” with “his own platform” that will “completely redefine the game” and attract “tens of millions” of new users. #MediaBuzz
“This is something that I think will be the hottest ticket in social media,” Miller told Kurtz.
“It’s going to completely redefine the game, and everybody is going to be waiting and watching to see what President Trump does, but it will be his own platform.”
Miller said during his appearance on Fox News that Trump has been approached by numerous companies and is in talks with teams about the new platform.
“This new platform is going to be big,” Miller said on Sunday.
“Everyone wants him and he’s going to bring millions and millions — tens of millions — to this platform.”
Lionel Messi of Barcelona takes a free kick during the UEFA Champions League Group F match between FC Barcelona and Borussia Dortmund at Camp Nou Stadium in Barcelona, Spain on November 27, 2019 (Photo by Andrew Surma / SIPA USA)
Lionel Messi has moved clear of Xavi Hernandez in the history books after marking his 768th game for the club against Real Sociedad on Sunday night.
The Argentine football legend now has the record for Barcelona with his start against Real Sociedad marking his 768th for the club.
Earlier in the season, he surpassed Xavi on Barca’s list of appearance-makers in La Liga alone, but the Real Sociedad match takes him to the top of matches played in all competitions.
Out of previous 767 games, Messi’s record stands at 536 matches won, 140 matches drawn and he has lost 91.
His appearance against Real Sociedad takes his domestic league total to 511 – with 149 Champions League games, 79 in the Copa Del Rey, 20 in the Spanish Super Cup, five in the Club World Cup and four in the European Super Cup completing the numbers.
Atletico Madrid and Uruguay striker, Luis Suarez, is now among the 500 goal club after scoring in a crucial La Liga victory against Alaves on Sunday night, March 21.
Luis Suarez netted the goal in the 54th minute of Atletico Madrid’s clash with Alaves as he headed home a cross from Kieran Trippier to give the La Liga’s leaders the lead.
The goal was Suarez’s 19th league goal of the season, with only Lionel Messi having more in La Liga this season, with 21.
Suarez is now the first Uruguayan player to ever reach the 500 goal landmark.
At Barcelona he scored 198, at Ajax he netted 111 goals while he scored 82 times during his stay at Liverpool.
For his country, Suarez has scored 63 times, while he scored 15 for his old clubs Groningen and 12 for Nacional.
Suarez is only the fifth active player to reach the 500-goal mark.
Messi has scored 759 times while Cristiano Ronaldo currently leads with 788 goals.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Robert Lewandowski have also reached the 500-goal mark with 570 and 541 goals, respectively.
We lived together with my husband in Migori County in south Nyanza parts of Kenya. I had my life time best friend whom I had found a job that I wanted her to do. So the best way she could have done the job was to come at my place stay for a while before moving to her own house.
Three days later we welcomed Mercy at our house. My husband really warm welcomed her because I had really informed him that she was to stay in our house for a period of a month before things would work out well on her side. We lived happily as even people would say she was my sister since we had really good moments together.
After sometimes my husband had started to love Mercy as he could at some point buy her clothes and other materialistic things that he dared bought for me. I did not hesitate to ask him why he had really changed. To some extent he even seized my conjugal rights.
Each time I asked for the behavior, he would roar and say he was just exhibiting his human kind to her and nothing more was between him and Mercy at any particular time. After sometimes I came to realize they were really charting on phone as one day I bashed my husband sending her love messages and nudes to my friend mercy. I was really hurt by this behavior. One day mercy said she wanted to go back to her home for two days. When he left at least three under pants of my husband were missing. I knew well she had gone to do some witchcraft deeds with them.
Three days after he came back, my husband had really changed. He even went to the point of calling Mercy his wife and forgot everything about myself.
After a while I started finding strange things like white chicken feathers under our mattress. Each time I asked my husband of it he would dismiss such claims as he would even threaten to cane me up. After three weeks my husband chased me out of my marriage ready to move on with his new catch Mercy. I was so hurt and now desperately single again. I tried to talk to his parents and relatives to at least speak to him but everything was in vain as he had already made his mind he had moved on with Mercy. I was really depressed since each moment I thought of moving on to a new relationship keeping in mind how I really loved my husband I almost committed suicide.
Everything was not adding up. There was no way a friend would come and deprive what belonged to me and turn to be hers. I was really going to revenge but what kind of revenge and there was really no one to guide me through. Life was just not fair at all. As I was relaxing by my mum’s house, I came across an advertisement of herbalists by name of Kiwanga doctors who had really solved people’s problems. Several testimonials were enough for me to book an appointment with them. The next day I visited their offices and was attended to within few minutes.
Three days after visiting Kiwanga doctors, I received a phone call. It was Mercy who really said she was sorry and she wanted us to meet and solve our differences. The next day we met her, me together with my husband where we all agreed. Kiwanga doctor’s magic had really worked in this.
From that day our marriage has been a success as power of witchcraft had been abolished by Kiwanga doctors.
Any person who has experienced such a problem should visit Kiwanga doctors for their relieve from chains of witchcraft for everything will be out at a glance. The herbalists also solve stagnated businesses, court cases among others just in three days since they are really reliable herbalists in the entire East African region.
A doctor who was jailed after his lover overdosed on cocaine sprinkled on his genitals has been ordered to pay compensation to her husband and son.
Dr. Andreas David Niederbichler, 45, who was sentenced to nine years in jail in 2019 after he was found guilty of aggravated rape and bodily harm was ordered to pay £25,000.
Niederbichler is alleged to have been having an affair with a woman only identified as Yvonne M (38) who was his former patient.
On the fateful day, the accused is alleged to have put cocaine on his genitals without the knowledge of Yvonne. During their sexual rendevous, Yvonne and the accused had consensual oral s_x before she collapsed at his home in Halberstadt, Germany after she overdosed on the cocaine he had put on his genitals.
She later died in hospital and cocaine overdose was reported as the cause of death.
Following his conviction, Yvonne’s family pursued him in a civil lawsuit for wrongful death, Metro reports.
After years of deliberating over the case, the Magdeburg court in the state of Saxony-Anhalt finally convicted him and ordered him to pay Yvonne’s family financial compensation.
Niederbichler was ordered to pay the funeral costs in the amount of £7,337, as well as survivor benefits to the deceased’s husband and the son in the amount of £8,581 each.’
Apparently, after investigations, it was also discovered that this was not the first time the doctor had used cocaine in this way. He is alleged to have drugged and sexually assaulted three other women between September 2015 and February 2018.
A United-Kingdom based Zimbabwean nurse has been sentenced to two years probation and 100 hours of community service following an audacious attempt at insurance fraud. The nurse tried to claim almost £ 400,000. (US$ 554,000) by faking her husband’s death.
51-year-old Thuile Bhebhe claimed that her husband, Bekezela Bhebhe, had died in Zimbabwe in August 2016 and attempted to get life insurance worth £397,153 from Aviva. She submitted fake documents, including a forged death certificate which showed that her husband had purportedly died in Nkayi, Matabeleland North. During an interview, she also claimed that she had attended the funeral.
Zimbabwean Nurse Fakes Husband’s Death In UK, Tries To Claims £400,000 Insurance
However, in her haste to claim the money, Bhebhe made errors on the paperwork. The discrepancies in the paperwork raised red flags at Aviva leading the insurance company to investigate the claim further.
According to the City of London Police, investigators at Aviva discovered that Bhebhe’s husband was alive and well. The police went on to say that “simple checks” revealed that the husband who is also a nurse, had worked a long day shift at Charing Cross Hospital, on the day that he supposedly died thousands of kilometres away in rural Zimbabwe. After unearthing the fraudulent action, Aviva referred the case to the City of London Police’s Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department (IFED).
Bhebhe who had already previously pleaded guilty at the City of London Magistrates Court in November 2018 appeared at the Inner London Crown Court on 15 March 2021 for sentencing. She was sentenced to two years imprisonment. However, the two years were wholly suspended. She was also sentenced to 100 hours of community service, with a twenty-five-day Rehabilitation Activity Requirement.
Zimbabwean Nurse Fakes Husband’s Death In UK, Tries To Claims £400,000 InsuranceBekezela Bhebhe (Image Credit: The Mirror)
However, her husband Bekezela Bhebhe was cleared following a trial after he denied any involvement in the fraud. He claimed that he was not aware of what he was actually signing. During questioning, Bekezela Bhebhe is reported to have said,
“I don’t think I’m involved in all this. I know very little about this insurance. The day it was taken over I was there in the house but I wasn’t fully involved, I was just there to sign the papers and say yes.
“I just thought it was ongoing insurance. I never really got into the details of the contracts, what the agreements are.”
During his trial, jurors heard that the husband was questioned by police and admitted he had credit card debts of £10,000, owed around £5,000 to HMRC in tax and was paying off a joint loan of around £15,000 with his wife.
Speaking on the case, Detective Constable James Rafiq, from the City of London Police’s Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department, said:
“Mrs Bhebhe tried to exploit Aviva and steal nearly £400,000 by shamelessly claiming her husband had died. Although she has shown remorse, these fraudulent actions have tainted years of commendable work as NHS nurses for both her and her husband.
“Thanks to Aviva’s diligence when initially reviewing the claim, and their swift action in referring it to IFED for further investigation, Mrs Bhebhe’s ridiculous lie was exposed and she has been rightly punished.”
Jacqueline Kerwood, Claims Governance Manager for Individual Protection at Aviva, said:
“This was a particularly audacious act of dishonesty by Mrs Bhebhe – in attempting to claim nearly £400,000 by falsely claiming her own husband’s death. Fortunately, it was quickly detected by our expert investigators, and we’re pleased to see justice has been done. This is also very good news for our genuine customers, who ultimately bear the cost of fraud through their premiums. In this case, however, it’s Mrs Bhebhe who will pay the cost for her crime.”
Gunmen suspected to be bandits have killed Abba Abbey Gidan Haki, the personal aide to former Sokoto State Governor, Senator Aliyu Wamakko.
The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to Senator Wamakko, Bashir Rabe Mani, who confirmed the incident said that Abbey,50, was abducted on Thursday night, March 18.
His corpse was found dumped along a road to Durbawa town in Kware Local Government Area of Sokoto on Friday, March 19.
The deceased was buried on Friday night according to Islamic rites. His funeral prayer was led by the Chief Imam of Sheikh Uthman Bin Fodiyo Juma’at Mosque, Sokoto, Sheikh Abubakar Shehu Na Liman.
The funeral prayer was attended by Senator Wamakko, the Minister of Police Affairs, Alhaji Muhammadu Maigari Dingyadi; the Sokoto APC acting chairman, Alhaji Isa Sadiq Achida; traditional rulers , Islamic clerics, members of the National and State Assemblies, serving and retired civil servants as well as thousands of sympathisers, among others.
Maddox Pitt, the eldest son of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt has testified against his father in their lengthy divorce and custody battle.
Us Weekly reported that the university student, 19, appeared to take Angelina’s side as he spoke during their lengthy custody battle.
Maddox’s testimony was allegedly not “very flattering” toward his father, Brad Pitt.
A source also revealed that Maddox wants to legally remove ‘Pitt’ from his name, something his mother ‘doesn’t support.’
“He doesn’t use Pitt as his last name on documents that aren’t legal and instead uses Jolie. Maddox wants to legally change his last name to Jolie, which Angelina has said she doesn’t support.”
In addition to Maddox, the famous exes share Pax, 17, Zahara, 16, Shiloh, 14, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 12.
On March 12, the 45-year-old actress filed new court documents that alleged “domestic violence”.
The Sun confirmed that Angelina, 45, filed court papers earlier this month to “offer proof and support” of “testimony regarding domestic violence.”
The actress made no indication the “domestic violence” matter mentioned in the documents was related to her estranged husband, 57.
She also offered “proof” in support of their minor children testifying at trial.
The Maleficent actress filed for divorce from Brad in September 2016, citing irreconcilable differences.
The famous pair were married for two years, while they were together for a total of 12 years.
After the actress filed for divorce, it was reported that Brad was allegedly involved in an incident with Maddox while on a private jet.
At the time, witnesses claimed Brad flew into a drunken rage on the plane and “got physical” with eldest son Maddox. The witnesses said Brad was “out of control” and allegedly clashed with the then 15-year-old.
Following a review, the FBI and Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family cleared the actor of any wrongdoing.
Brad and Angelina’s current trial will determine custody of their children and divide their estate.
Brad wants joint custody of the minor children, while Angelina is fighting for sole custody in the ongoing nasty divorce.
A source previously told The Sun Brad wants peace in their nasty custody battle.
The insider said: “He’s still desperate for all the ugliness to end, even though it’s like pulling teeth seeing eye to eye with Angelina about virtually anything these days.
“Brad’s big concern in all this is making some sort of peace, for the kids’ sake as well as his and Angelina’s.
“This ugliness has gone on way too long and it’s his greatest wish for them to resolve as much as possible outside of the courtroom.”
Pitt and Jolie fell in love on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, while Pitt was still married to Jennifer Aniston. The couple married in France in 2014 after 10 years of dating, but split two years later in September 2016.
Migos rapper, Quavo has allegedly taken back the 2021 Bentley convertible he gifted his ex-girlfriend, Saweetie for Christmas after she broke up with him.
Recall in December 2020, Quavo, 29, splashed $350,000 on Bentley convertible for his then rapper girlfriend, 26, for Christmas.
On Friday, March 19, Saweetie announced their break-up on Twitter and suggested that Quavo had been caught cheating.
She wrote in her tweet: I’m single,” she wrote. “I’ve endured too much betrayal and hurt behind the scenes for a false narrative to be circulating that degrades my character. Presents don’t band aid scars and the love isn’t real when the intimacy is given to other women.”
“I emotionally checked out a long time ago and have walked away with a deep sense of peace and freedom,” she added in a second tweet. “Excited for this new chapter of elevation.”
Shortly after, Quavo shared his own tweets, saying that he had love for her but she isn’t the woman he thought she was.
“I know you want to make this into a show so I’ll play my part just this one time. I don’t normally put my business out there, especially my personal life. I feel the need to address this so there are no false narratives,” he wrote.
Media Take Out News has reported that Quavo has repossessed the 2021 Bentley convertible that he “gifted” to Saweetie for Christmas.
A source, who confirmed the new development, explained that “Quavo’s no dummy – the Bentley wasn’t in her name.”
The insiders claims that the Bentley was “leased” in Quavo’s name and that the Migos rapper had a deal with the dealership that he could for a fee end the lease early, and the dealership would repossess the car and let him out of the contract.
That’s exactly what Quavo did, according to his friend.
The insider continued, “He’s not being petty or anything, but she’s on Twitter talking sh*t. So he took back the car.”
The insider claims that Saweetie’s car was taken from outside Saweetie’s home – very early on Saturday, March 20.
Migos rapper, Quavo has spoken out after his estranged girlfriend Saweetie announced their break-up and revealed she’s single again.
“I’m single,” she wrote. “I’ve endured too much betrayal and hurt behind the scenes for a false narrative to be circulating that degrades my character. Presents don’t band aid scars and the love isn’t real when the intimacy is given to other women.”
Her tweet suggested that Quavo had been caught cheating.
“I emotionally checked out a long time ago and have walked away with a deep sense of peace and freedom,” she added in a second tweet. “Excited for this new chapter of elevation.”
Following Saweetie’s announcement, Quavo shared his own tweets, saying that he had love for her but she isn’t the woman he thought she was.
“I know you want to make this into a show so I’ll play my part just this one time. I don’t normally put my business out there, especially my personal life. I feel the need to address this so there are no false narratives,” he wrote.
“I had love for you and disappointed you did all that. You are not the woman I thought you were. I wish you nothing but the best.”
The pair’s romance began on Instagram in 2018 when he DM-ed her a snowflake emoji referencing her 2017 hit, ICY GRL.
I told her, “You an icy girl, you need a glacier boy,”‘ Quavo (born Quavious Marshall) said in the August edition of GQ.
Saweetie (born Diamonté Harper) replied: ‘And I sent him the stir-fry [emoji] back’ referencing Migos’ 2017 hit song.
Former Presidential aide, Doyin Okupe has apologized for the incendiary statement he made about an Igbo Presidency.
He had tweeted: “A national consensus for Igbo Presidency cannot evolve until the core north forgives the Igbos for the killing of Sardauna of Sokoto by nigerian soldiers of igbo extraction in the 1966 Coup.”
He was slammed for his statement, making him trend on Twitter.
Hours after, he returned to Twitter to apologise.
He wrote: “OPEN APPOLOGY TO THE IGBOS. I tender my unreserved appology 2 d Igbos & other nigerians who felt offended by my post on igbo presidency and the north.I never intended to hurt or demean the Igbos.Instead I wanted 2 help actualise d dream. I regret d said post, & I am truly sorry.”
Singer and actor, BankY W who welcomed a baby boy with his wife, Adesua, in January 2021, has taken to his Twitter handle to share some of his experiences as a new dad.
Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has said that politicians have a lot to learn from the church in the interest of the country.
Osinbajo said this when he spoke at the inauguration and commencement of duty service of the 8th President of Christ Apostolic Church Worldwide, Pastor Samuel Oladele, which held at the All Saints Chapel, C.A.C. General Secretariat, Bashorun, Ibadan, Oyo state on Saturday, March 20.
Represented at the occasion by the Aso Rock Chaplain, Rev.Seyi Malomo, Osinbajo said
“I want to commend the Christ Apostolic Church for the smooth process, which has brought the inauguration of the president because this is the way it should be. Certainly, there is a lot for politicians to learn from the church on how to conduct elections without rancor.
My prayer for the new president is that his tenure will record greater success in Jesus’ name. I also want to thank the outgoing president for his infallible service to CAC, for the years of glorious and faithful service. You have managed the affairs of CAC with integrity, maturity, and fatherly understanding.
May Almighty God preserve you for many more years in strength and good health to enjoy your fruit of labour. The anointing of God in this church has made it such that the humblest of men, even the least educated, can bring the good news of delivering the oppressed from unseen spirits and even raising the dead. Apostle Ayo Babalola remains a testament to this fact.”
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) which was set-up in October 2020 to investigate allegations of human rights abuses against the disbanded special anti-robbery squad (SARS) following the #ENDSARS protests, has award N575.8 million to victims of police brutality.
Deputy director of public affairs in NHRC,Fatimah Mohammed who made the announcement on Friday March 19, said the decision was made at the panel’s executive session in which 20 of the petitions which bordered on extrajudicial killing, unlawful arrest, detention, torture, among other issues were considered.
The police were further directed to issue an apology to victims of police brutality by the panel which also agreed that the victims of human rights who got court judgments should be paid.
The statement read;
“The executive session considered 20 out of the 44 petitions on non-adherence by the police of court judgments awarding compensations to victims of human rights violations, and decisions were made on each of the petitions otherwise known as judgment debts,” Mohammed said.
“The petitions on judgment debts of about N575.8million were considered ranging from the award of N200 million to ?120,000 of cases bordering on extra-judicial killing, unlawful arrest and detention.
“Others are cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and torture, alleged enforced disappearance, confiscation of property, etc.
“The police would have to make a commitment to respect court orders while part of the money will be paid from the human rights compensation funds which are expected to be paid for such purposes.
“Apart from assisting the victims of human rights violations to get their compensation paid, Ogbonna said the panel has also taken a decision to order the police authority to issue apologies to some of the petitioners who have issuance of apology as part of their compensation”.
Doctors were left shocked when a housewife on her period started crying tears of blood in an extremely rare medical anomaly.
The 25-year-old woman from Chandigarh, India, was diagnosed with haemolacria after seeking help for the condition at the city’s Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Dailystar reports.
Haemolacria is a physical condition that causes a person to produce tears that are partially composed of blood.
Dr Soumitra Ghosh, who documented the case in a new study, said: “Haemolacria means bloody tears. Patients will have blood coming out from one or both eyes.
Dr Ghosh
“Blood coming out with tears is a very alarming clinical entity both for the patient and physician. If you see blood coming out from the eyes, you can imagine how scary a situation it is.
“Haemolacria is a rare clinical condition. It has multiple causes. One of the causes is vicarious menstruation.
“Vicarious menstruation is defined as cyclical bleeding in other extrauterine organs like the nose, eyes, ears, intestine, lungs, nipples and skin.
“Haemolacria due to vicarious menstruation is very, very rare. Only a few cases have been reported in the medical literature so far.”
The exact cause of the condition is uncertain, but doctors think the fact that the patient was menstruating at the time could be important.
Dr Gosh explained how the condition appears to be the eyes’ blood vessels responding to hormonal changes in the body.
He continued: “Certain ocular and orbital tissues are seen to be hormonally responsive.
“Oestrogen and progesterone can increase the permeability of the capillaries resulting in hyperemia, congestion and secondary bleeding from extrauterine tissue.”
The patient was treated with oral oestrogen-progesterone contraceptive pills (combined pill).
On her three month follow-up, the patient was on these pills and she’d had no repeat of the episode.
Finland has been ranked as the happiest country in the world for the fourth year in a row despite the COVID-19 pandemic, according to this year’s World Happiness Report.
The World Happiness Report, which was launched in 2012, is an annual survey conducted by the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Solutions Network. The survey ranks global happiness in countries around the world.
The happiness index included surveys on how countries have dealt with the coronavirus pandemic that has shaken the world for more than a year.
The report’s authors said this year’s survey examined the effects of the crisis on the structure and quality of people’s lives as well as how governments dealt with it.
“Surprisingly there was not, on average, a decline in well-being when measured by people’s own evaluation of their lives,” said University of British Columbia professor John Helliwell, one of the people behind the report. “One possible explanation is that people see Covid-19 as a common, outside threat affecting everybody and that this has generated a greater sense of solidarity and fellow-feeling.”
On this year’s report, Iceland came in second, followed by Denmark, Switzerland, and the Netherlands.
Singer Taylor Swift took to Instagram to show the gift and letter Beyoncé sent to her on Friday morning, March 19.
Taylor got a bunch of flowers and a handwritten note that reads: “Taylor, congratulations on your Grammy. It was great seeing you on Sunday night. Thank you for being so supportive. So much love to you & your family.”
She signed off with “B”.
Taylor captioned the post: “Woke up to flowers from the queen of grace & greatness @beyonce and suddenly it’s the best Friday EVER.
“Thank you B and congratulations on your epic achievement Sunday night.”
