Nigerian MMA fighter, Israel Adesanya defeated Brazil’s Paulo Costa with a second-round TKO win to retain his UFC middleweight title in Abu Dhabi on Saturday night, September 26.
The middleweight undefeated champion, 31, battered Costa’s front leg with multiple kicks to quiet the Brazilian fighter’s trash-talking in the first round of the main event on Fight Island.
In the second round, Adesanya opened up Costa’s face with a high kick and then finished the challenger with punches. Costa, 29, stumbled backward and could not recover as he was left bloodied and bruised on the canvas.
The win is Adesanya’s 20th professional MMA victory. He remains the world’s best middleweight at a perfect 20-0.
“I’ve been telling you guys, but everyone thinks … like Roy Jones said, ‘Y’all must have forgot’ because of what happened last time,” Adesanya said after his win. “I had to remind the world who’s the best.”
‘The Last Stylebender’ calling out Jared Cannonier for his next fight dueing the post-match interview.
“I already messaged Jared Cannonier, he is a hell of a dude, I love his energy, I said, you destroy Robert Whittaker, you are next. He’s the one I want to fight next.”
Dr Dre and Nicole Young’s daughter, Truly Young, 19, has slammed 50 Cent for the comment he made about her mother amid her parents’ divorce battle.
50 Cent had reacted to the news that Dr. Dre’s estranged wife Nicole Young wants $2M in monthly support by writing: “These bitches be crazy how do you even ask for 2 million a month.”
Truly Young didn’t appreciate 50 Cent calling her mother a “bitch” so she left a comment under his post, calling him out.
She wrote: “Haha… Coming from an ugly, washed up, early 2000s rapper who filed for bankruptcy and is only envious of my family’s wealth and lifestyle.”
She added: “Have fun spending the rest of your savings on steroids. Fuck you.”
She also took a screenshot of the comment and shared it on her Instagram Story then added a caption calling 50 Cent out for referring to her mother Nicole as “a bitch.”
She wrote: “The blatant misogyny and disrespect by ignorant men that is being shown is absolutely fucking disgusting and vile.
“Calling my mother, my dad’s wife, a bitch is unforgivable. You have no respect for me or my siblings and this is extremely evident.
“50, your marketing schemes are as low life and disgusting as you are. Using a photo of my parents and I solely to gain attention for yourself exemplifies a lot of the things wrong with the world right now. You disgust me, and I can speak for women of my generation as well. You are furthering the problems. Everyone already knows that you’re a dick, but you just proved it yourself.”
Truly also called out rapper Xzibit who had commented “WTF” under 50 Cent’s post.
Replying to Xzibit’s comment, she wrote: “wow Alvin … After everything, my parents have done for you. and your family, this is how you respond to a picture of my parents and I, and a quote calling my mom a bitch…. Fuck you.”
Shortly after, 50 Cent shared a photo of himself looking at his phone with a caption providing a response to Young. “Dr. Dre’s daughter just told me to shut the fuck up,” he wrote. “LOL.”
Chelsea football club were almost humiliated by West Brom on Saturday night in the English Premier league until British/Nigerian striker Tammy Abraham scored in stoppage time to secure a 3-3 draw despite being 3-0 down at half time.
West Brom, well organised and clinical, showed Chelsea how defensively poor Frank Lampard’s boys were in the first half as Callum Robinson struck twice before Kyle Bartley scored a well worked third goal for West Brom.
In contrast, Chelsea wh took their spending on new players for the season beyond £200m, secured the draw through efforts from homegrown youngsters Mason Mount, Callum Hudson-Odoi and Abraham.
Chelsea started the match with new signing Thiago Silva but that didnt stop West Brom from taking the lead after just four minutes.
Marcos Alonso headed the ball straight to Matheus Pereira, who slipped a clever pass through to Robinson, who fired a shot from the left-hand corner of the area through Reece James’ legs and beyond Cabellero to score the first goal
Alonso’s poor start continued two minutes later when he pulled back Semi Ajayi and got a booking .
Chelsea tried to equalize but their finishing was poor, with Abraham and Timo Werner missing lots of chances.
For the second goal new signing Thiago Silva inexplicably lost control of the ball in his own half, allowing Robinson to pounce on it and run through on goal before finishing emphatically.
Bilic’s side made it 3-0 before the half-hour thanks to a cleverly-worked corner kick that culminated with unmarked Bartley guiding the ball into the net from six yards.
In the second half, César Azpilicueta was introduced alongside Callum Hudson-Odoi and coach Lampard adjusted the team’s shape from a 4-2-3-1 to a 4-3-3.
At the 55th minute, Mount scored through a swerving shot from 25 yards that went past Johnstone .
Chelsea’s Havertz, then played a one-two with Hudson-Odoi, who finished smartly for the second goal.
Lampard then brought in Olivier Giroud and switched to a back three.
West Brom almost escaped with three points but were denied in stoppage time when Johnstone could only push out Mount’s shot to his right, leaving Abraham with a simple finish to end the match at 3-3.
A young graduate from Katsina state identified as Usman Abubakar has reportedly burnt all his certificates including National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) University degree, WAEC.
According to reports on various Hausa Facebook pages, the frustrated young man tore all the certiicates and set them ablaze because he was unable to secure a job since graduation.
TIME has named Tony O. Elumelu, one of Africa’s leading investors and philanthropists, in the 2020 TIME100, the annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
The list, now in its seventeenth year, recognises the activism, innovation, and achievement of the world’s most influential individuals.
Mr Elumelu, who is one of only four Africans on the 2020 list, is recognised for his track record of business turnaround and value creation, and economic empowerment of young Africans.
Tony Elumelu is the Founder and Chairman of Heirs Holdings, his family owned investment company, committed to improving lives and transforming Africa, through long-term investments in strategic sectors of the African economy, including financial services, hospitality, power, energy and healthcare.
He is the Chairman of top pan-African financial services group, the United Bank for Africa (UBA), which operates in 20 countries in Africa, the United Kingdom, France, and is the only African bank with a commercial deposit taking licence in the United States.
The bank provides corporate, commercial, SME and consumer banking services to more than 21 million customers globally.
Elumelu also chairs Nigeria’s largest quoted conglomerate, Transcorp, whose subsidiaries include Transcorp Power, one of the leading generators of electricity in Nigeria and Transcorp Hotels Plc, Nigeria’s foremost hospitality brand.
Mr Elumelu is the most prominent champion of entrepreneurship in Africa. In 2010, he created The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), the philanthropy empowering a new generation of African entrepreneurs, catalysing economic growth, driving poverty eradication and ensuring job creation across all 54 African countries.
Since inception, the Foundation has funded just under 10,000 entrepreneurs and created a digital ecosystem of over one million as part of its ten year, US$100m commitment through the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme.
Self-funded, the Foundation is increasingly sharing its unique ability to identify, train, mentor and fund young entrepreneurs across Africa, with institutions such as the UNDP, the ICRC and leading European development agencies.
Heirs Holdings, which serves as a corporate role model for African businesses, and the Tony Elumelu Foundation will both celebrate 10 years of impact in November.
Their mission continues to be inspired by Mr Elumelu’s economic philosophy of Africapitalism, which positions the private sector, and most importantly entrepreneurs, as the catalyst for the social and economic development of the continent.
The full list of the 2020 TIME100 and tributes appear on TIME 100.
Filipino boxing legend, Manny Pacquiao has confirmed he will be fighting UFC superstar Conor McGregor in the Middle East next year.
The ring legend’s office made the announcement in a statement and confirmed that Pacquiao’s earnings from the fight will go towards victims of the coronavirus pandemic.
A statement from Pacquiao’s office read: ‘For the sake of all the Filipino Covid-19 victims, Senator Manny Pacquiao will be fighting UFC superstar Conor McGregor next year.’
‘The huge portion of his earnings will proceed to those who are affected nationwide by the pandemic.’
The statement added that Pacquiao and McGregor were “getting ready for this one epic last boxing fight” in the Middle East next year.
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It marks the return of McGregor, who retired from UFC earlier this summer, the third time in four years he has made such an announcement.
In 2017, the former two-weight UFC champion lost to American boxing legend Floyd Mayweather , and has previously hinted that he wanted to take on Mayweather’s former rival Pacquiao.
Bah Ndaw, a retired colonel who has been designated Mali’s interim president following last month’s coup, made his first public appearance on Thursday, September 24, meeting a regional mediator, According to AFP.
Ndaw, 70, met former Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan, in Bamako on a mission for the 15-nation bloc ECOWAS, on the eve of his swearing-in.
Ndaw’s appointment was announced on Monday, September 21, by Colonel Assimi Goita, who heads a junta of young military officers who seized power on August 18, ousting elected President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita.
Interim President, Bah Ndaw
Goita himself will serve as vice president, under the announcement.
Vice President, Goita
The interim president will rule for a maximum of 18 months before staging nationwide elections.
ECOWAS — the Economic Community of West African States — slapped sanctions on Mali on August 20 to push for the swift restoration of the civilian government, including the appointment of civilians as interim president and prime minister.
The bloc may announce on Friday whether the plan meets criteria for easing sanctions, Jonathan said on Thursday.
Jonathan and his delegation met on Thursday with Goita and other officers in military uniform, as well as with Ndaw, AFP reporters saw.
Mali’s neighbours have taken a hard line with the junta, fearful that the fragile nation of some 19 million people could spiral into chaos.
Swathes of the vast country already lie outside of government control, due to a lethal jihadist insurgency that first emerged in 2012 and has also inflamed ethnic tensions.
Current restrictions include border closures and a ban on commercial trade and financial flows but not on basic necessities, drugs, equipment to fight coronavirus, fuel or electricity.
No fewer than 30 persons were injured in the gas explosion that occurred at Iju Ishaga, Lagos State on Thursday, September 24.
According to the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency LASEMA, 15 vehicles and 23 buildings were destroyed in the explosion. Among the buildings affected are X and Y Event Center, a church, and a plank market.
Speaking to newsmen, spokesperson for LASEMA, Nosa Okunbor, said
“On arrival at the scene, it was observed that there was a gas explosion. Further investigation revealed that a truck had a lone accident and exploded. The impact of the explosion affected adjoining buildings and several vehicles were burnt.
It was confirmed that a 30 ton LPG Tanker being operated by Mana Gas Ltd was involved in the explosion which injured 30 persons – 20 adult males and 10 adult females.
A total of 23 buildings and 15 vehicles were destroyed. The disaster losses are two residential buildings, church – one, event centre – one, commercial buildings – four, market- one (consisting of 15 shanty shops), cars – 11, mini trucks – two, bus – one, heavy-duty truck – one.
Sixteen people were found to have serious injuries and were taken to various hospitals, including Iju water works clinic. Two people out of the above 16 were referred to General Hospital. They are in critical condition.”
A family’s pet dog mauled a newborn baby to death while his mother was in the toilet and his father was in the garden with another child, a coroner heard.
Elon Jase Ellis-Joynes was 12 days old when his family’s Chow Chow-cross is believed to have bitten him on September 13, 2020.
The child, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, was still alive when mum Abigail Ellis frantically called for an ambulance, but died at the hospital.
Doncaster Coroner’s Court heard Elon was “bleeding from his leg or his stomach”.
Police are currently investigating his death and senior coroner Nicola Mundy adjourned the inquest until a later date.
Coroner’s officer David Copley said: “At 3.04pm on Sunday, September 13, a call was made to South Yorkshire Ambulance by Abigail Ellis.
“She stated that her son, Elon, was breathing, but was really poorly.
“He was bleeding from his leg or his tummy, she thought that one of the dogs had bitten Elon.
“She had been on the toilet and her partner Stephen was outside with another child and came running in.
“Officers attended and Stephen Joynes identified Elon to police officers.”
A police spokesperson said the baby had suffered serious injuries after being attacked by a dog.
They said the pet, called Teddy, was removed from the address and will remain in secure kennels until the force’s inquiries have been completed.
A new study found that having broad hips or large hips could help a person to live longer while having a big waist does the opposite.
The researchers looked into data for more than 2.5 million people between three and 24 years.
The new ground-breaking study was recently published in the British Medical Journal.
Dr Tauseef Ahmad Khan is the study author from the department of nutritional sciences at the University of Toronto in Canada.
The study also found that every extra 4 inches (10cm) of waist size was associated with an 11% higher chance of dying prematurely.
Dr Khan said: “People should be more concerned about their waist rather than focusing only on weight or BMI.
“Waist is a better indicator of belly fat and while one cannot target where one loses fat from, losing weight through diet and exercise will also reduce waist and therefore belly fat.
“Belly fat is the fat that is stored around the organs in the abdomen and its excess is linked to high cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, and stroke.
“Therefore, having more belly fat can increase the risk of dying from these diseases.”
However, Dr Khan says hip fat is considered beneficial and thigh size is an indicator of the amount of muscle.
Their findings suggest that thigh and hip circumference were “inversely associated with all-cause morality risk”.
Each 10cm increase in hip circumference was associated with a 10% lower risk of death from all causes.
Bayern Munich are winners of the UEFA Super Cup after beating Sevilla 2-1 in Budapest late Thursday night, September 24.
The relentless Bayern added another trophy to the Champions League it won last month and extended its run of straight wins to 23 games, but the Germs club was tested to the limit by the Europe League holders, Sevilla.
Lucas Ocampos had given Sevilla the lead from a penalty in the 13th minute, but the bayern equalized, courtesy of a Leon Goretzka strike in the 34th minute.
After much tactical battles between both sides in the second half and a string of substitutions that failed to have the desired effect, it had to take goal from Javi Henandez at the104th minute, to gift the 2020 UEFA Champions League winners the victory.
Mary Trump, US President Donald Trump’s niece who recently wrote a book revealing unsavoury details about her uncle, has filed a lawsuit accusing the President and his siblings of committing fraud in order to deprive her of her interests in the family real-estate empire built by Fred Trump Sr, Trump’s father .
In the Thursday September 24 lawsuit, filed in New York state court against the President, his sister Maryanne Trump Barry and the estate of their late brother Robert Trump, Mary states that to the Trumps, “fraud was not just the family business—it was a way of life.”
She accuses her two uncles and her aunt, a retired federal judge, of conspiring amongst themselves and with several other parties, including a trustee appointed to act on Mary’s behalf, to give her “a stack of fraudulent valuations” and force her to sign a settlement agreement that “fleeced her of tens of millions of dollars or more.”
“Rather than protect Mary’s interests, they designed and carried out a complex scheme to siphon funds away from her interests, conceal their grift, and deceive her about the true value of what she had inherited,” the lawsuit says.
In her new book,”Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.”, she alleged she was cut out of her grandfather’s will as a result of her father’s death, with the now late Robert Trump allegedly explaining to her that she was excluded because her father died of alcoholism, and wasn’t around to inherit a share of the fortune.
In the lawsuit Mary also accused Donald Trump of trying to “steal vast sums of money from his siblings” by secretly trying to change his ailing father’s will to write his siblings out of control of the family’s fortune.
Mary Trump was 16 years old when her father died in 1981 from alcoholism, and she and her brother, Fred Trump III, inherited minority interests in his really estate.
Due to the fact she was a teenager, the lawsuit says, a lawyer named Irwin Durben, who had been Trump Sr.’s attorney and an executive at Trump-related entities, was appointed to act as a trustee on her behalf.
But according to the lawsuit, Durben, who died in 2016, was “irredeemably conflicted,” siding with Mary’s family members over her own interests, “and ultimately acquiesced in Defendants’ campaign to squeeze her out of the family business entirely.”
By the 1990s, with Trump Sr. suffering from Alzheimer’s, Mary Trump’s lawsuit alleges, his sons Donald and Robert and his daughter Maryanne at first competed with each other, “with palace intrigue reminiscent of the HBO series Succession,” but then worked together to advance their interests to the detriment of others.
In 1991, Donald secretly approached Durben, according to the lawsuit, to get him to draft a codicil to give Donald complete control of his father’s estate, the lawsuit says. After his father rejected the codicil, Maryanne “finished the job,” securing a revised will that named her, Donald and Robert the executors of their father’s estate.
Mary Trump has previously sued the Trump family, but they reached a settlement including a non-disclosure agreement that Robert Trump, who died in August, tried and failed to enforce before her book was published.
In addition to alleging the elder Trumps committed fraud, Mary Trump’s lawsuit accuses them of breaching their fiduciary duty and committing negligent misrepresentation.
“Through each of these schemes,” the lawsuit says, “Defendants not only deliberately defrauded Mary out of what was rightfully hers, they also kept her in the dark about it—until now.”
Embattled rapper, Tory Lanez has finally broken his silence on Megan Thee Stallion shooting two months after the incident.
This comes a month after rapper Megan Thee Stallion accused him of shooting her in the feet following a party in the Hollywood Hills in July.
The Canadian rapper shared his side of the story on a new album “Daystar” in which he denied shooting Megan.
Making his return back to Twitter since the July 12 shooting, Lanez, whose real name is Daystar Peterson, told his fans on Thursday: “To my fans… I’m sorry for my silence… but respectfully… I got time today… 9 PM PST.”
As promised, the rapper took to Instagram to promote his new 17-song album.
“There is a time to stay silent. And a time to speak,” he captioned a photo of the album’s cover art to his 10 million followers. “I said all I could say on this.”
Lanez opened his album with the diss song “Money Over Fallouts,” where he addressed the shooting allegations and claimed that “Megan people trying to frame me for a shooting.”
“Girl, you had the nerve to write that statement on an affidavit knowing I ain’t do it but I’m coming at my truest trying to keep this shit 200 with you, shorty, I can prove it.”
“Shorty I can’t prove it but the people in your ear, they are the true ones that I feel that really got you thinking Tory Lanez would do you in for real.
“Don’t forget you was my bitch, I held it down and kept it real, I would never paint no fake picture of you just for some mills and I thought that you were solid too, but look at how you doing me/Look at you doing me, people tryin’ to ruin me.”
Tory also quizzed Megan’s injuries in the song, rapping, “Gotta see a couple questions: how the fu*k you get shot in your foot, don’t hit no bones or tendons?
Princess Eugenie and her husband Jack Brooksbank are expecting their first child, the palace has revealed.
The couple who got married in October 2018 will welcome their child in early 2021.
An official statement released by Buckingham Palace reads: “Her Royal Highness Princess Eugenie and Mr Jack Brooksbank are very pleased to announce that they are expecting a baby in early 2021. .
“The Duke of York and Sarah, Duchess of York, Mr and Mrs George Brooksbank, The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh are delighted with the news.”
At least eleven persons travelling for a funeral ceremony have died in a ghastly motor accident in Cross River State, while two people are said to be critically injured
The accident, which involved a white-coloured Hiace bus number plates EDA28XA, occurred around 10 a.m on Thurday, September 24, along the Calabar-Ikom Highway in Mbarakom Community, Akamkpa Local Government Area of the State.
According to an eyewitness, the crash was caused by brake failure while the vehicle was on high speed. Another witness, Albert Asuquo, who helped in the rescue operation, said that the injured passengers were taken to the General Hospital in Akamkpa alongside the corpses.
A neighbour of the some of the deceased persons who gave his name as Mr. Effiong, said they were in a chartered bus going to a burial of another neighbour who passed away.
“I know some of them very well, they are my neighbours and we stay in the same yard. Someone in the area died and they were going for the burial. It was a chartered vehicle for the burial. May their souls rest in peace.” He said.
Onyeka Onwenu has opened up about her relationship for the first time.
The ace singer and actress revealed that she got married to a Yoruba Muslim in 1984 and the union produced two sons named Tijani Ogunlende and Ibrahim Ogunlende. Ibrahim later changed his name to Abraham.
Ms Onwenu, who has always kept her life private, made this revelation in her new memoir titled ‘My Father’s Daughter’.
In the autobiography, the 68-year-old movie star revealed how she fell in love decades ago and how the union produced her two sons — Tijani and Ibrahim.
“In this book, I am, perhaps for the very first time, setting the records straight with respect to my connubial relationship. Yes, I was married. I married a man I fell in love with in 1984,” she said. “We have two children: Tijani and Ibrahim. (Ibrahim later changed the first letter of his name from I to A, and thus became Abraham.) My husband is Yoruba, and was a Muslim when we met.”
The autobiography also documents her life as a musician, activist, wife, mother, and politician as well as her formative contact with feminism.
The author shared how the war — between 1967 to 1970 — affected her life and her family.
She also documents her years in America, the conflicts that were the products of being a migrant, her experience with workplace sexual harassment, and her decision to quit her job at the UN.
“On the marriage front, she explores challenges women face and how she refused to shrink herself to accommodate her husband’s insecurities about her fame,” Expand Press Limited, her publishers, said while describing the book.
“It’s a memoir young persons must read. Women especially will glean numerous lessons from her life experience since successful women in Nigeria rarely share their story in a candid manner.”
The United States Government, through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has approved an additional $2.1million for the Federal government to conduct a household survey to determine the extent of COVID-19 transmission in Gombe, Enugu, and Nasarawa States.
According to a statement released, the survey is expected to increase the understanding of COVID-19 transmission and burden in these three states and inform the COVID-19 response of the Federal government and its partners.
“The survey will estimate the proportion of the population in these states who have ever been infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19 disease. This will be accomplished by measuring the presence of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in the blood of volunteers.
“These antibodies, specialized proteins produced by the immune system to fight infection, are generated as part of the body’s response to COVID-19 and are an indication of previous infection.
“The survey will also estimate the proportion of people who have the disease but are not showing any symptoms, determine risk factors for infection, and measure the intra-household transmission of COVID-19. The survey will also estimate the prevalence of malaria and its potential relationship to SARS-CoV-2 infection.” the statement from the CDC reads
The statement noted that all members of selected households will be offered the opportunity to participate in the survey.
If they agree, participants will answer a brief questionnaire, have their blood drawn and tested for the presence of COVID-19 antibodies, and receive a nasal swab and oropharyngeal swab to test for acute COVID-19.
They will also have a rapid malaria test and receive malaria treatment if the test is positive.
Testing for COVID-19 infection and antibodies will be done at the National Reference Laboratory in Gaduwa, Abuja.
The hero father who was shot while protecting his 3 kids during a shooting at a car dealership has been fired from his two jobs.
Anthony Jefferson was shot in the right thigh when he used himself as a human shield to protect his children during the shooting earlier this week.
His wife, Danica Jefferson told TMZ that her husband is currently unable to walk after suffering a gunshot wound when a gunman started shooting inside a Bronx car dealership.
Danica adds that due to her husband’s inability to walk right now, he has been fired from his 2 jobs as head painter at a maintenance company and as a construction worker in New York City.
Anthony has been discharged from the hospital, but still has the bullet lodged in his leg, and Danica says he’ll need another surgery in the near future.
She added that their children – aged 6, 5, and 2 – are also suffering the trauma of the shooting they witnessed.
The mom says the kids are reluctant to go outside and they cry in their sleep while the youngest asks, “Why did the man shoot my daddy?”
They’re hoping to get the kids in to see a therapist as soon as possible.
Paul Rusesabagina, portrayed in a 2004 Hollywood movie as a hero who helped save Tutsis during the Rwandan genocide, on Friday September 25 admitted to forming an armed group but denied any role in their crimes.
The 66-year-old former hotel manager who was arrested after being lured into a private jet under false pretences, had co-founded the Rwandan Movement for Democratic Change (MRCD), an opposition party based abroad.
While in exile, he had also expressed support for the National Liberation Front (FLN) which has claimed responsibility for a series of attacks in Nyungwe, near the border with Burundi, but his exact role has been unclear.
Dressed in a pink prison uniform for his bail hearing on Friday, Rusesabagina told a Kigali court that he helped to form the National Liberation Front to assist Rwandan refugees but never supported violence.
He said;
“We formed the FLN (National Liberation Front) as an armed wing, not as a terrorist group as the prosecution keeps saying. I do not deny that the FLN committed crimes but my role was diplomacy.
“The agreement we signed to form MRCD as a political platform included the formation of an armed wing called FLN. But my work was under the political platform and I was in charge of diplomacy.”
The judge postponed ruling on his application for bail until October 2.
Atletico Madrid have completed the signing of striker Luis Suarez from La Liga rivals Barcelona for only £5.5m
The Uruguay international, 33, had one more year to run on the contract he signed with Barcelona in 2016, but was told by new head coach Ronald Koeman that he was no longer required at the Camp Nou.
On Friday, Suarez had a medical at Atletico before signing a two-year deal with the club.
A statement from Atletico read: ‘We welcome to our team one of the world’s most prolific strikers, who gives his all on the pitch and has proved his quality on the most demanding of stages.’
He arrives at Atletico following the departure of Alvaro Morata, who rejoined Juventus earlier this week.
Suarez arrived at Barcelona from Liverpool in a £65million fee and has won four LaLiga titles, four Spanish Cups, the 2015 Champions League, and Club World Cup titles with Barcelona. He scored 195 goals and provided 113 assists in 283 outings for the club before his exit.
The announcement comes after Lionel Messi launched a fresh attack on the club’s hierarchy for the way the club treated his friend Luis Suárez and pushed him out of the club.
Famous Indian singer and Guinness World record holder, SP Balasubrahmanyam has died of COVID-19 at the age of 74.
The Legendary singer who is a Guinness World Record holder for his more than 40,000 songs over 50 years, died today after spending days in intensive care following his COVID-19 diagnosis.
He was admitted to MGM Healthcare in Chennai in the first week of August after testing positive for coronavirus.
SPB’s son SP Charan confirmed his death to reporters at MGM Healthcare this afternoon, “SPB belongs to everyone. He will live on in his songs. My dad passed away at 1.04 pm,” he said.
A statement from the hospital read, “Thiru S P Balasubrahmanyam had been admitted at MGM Healthcare on August 5th and commenced on life support measures since August 14th for severe COVID-19 pneumonia.”
“He continued to be closely monitored by our multidisciplinary team in the critical care unit. He tested negative for COVID-19 on September 4th.”
In a further setback this morning, despite maximal life support measures and the best efforts of the clinical team, his condition deteriorated further and he suffered a cardio-respiratory arrest. ”
With profound grief, we regret to inform that he has passed away on September 25th at 13:04 Hours. We express our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends, well-wishers and admirers at their loss during this time of anguish and sorrow.”
His death has left his fans saddened with several celebrities paying their tribute to him on social media.
Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh YS Jagan Mohan Reddy expressed his condolences to SPB’s family. In a statement, the CM said, “Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam, popularly known as SPB, has been the refreshing notation of film music spanning over five decades, enthralling the connoisseurs and common people alike through his multifaceted talent.”
In a career spanning five decades, Balasubrahmanyam recorded more than 40,000 songs in 16 Indian languages including Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and Hindi languages. He registered himself in the Guinness Book of World Records for recording the highest number of songs by a singer.
Manchester United will reportedly make one final offer to Borussia Dortmund for Jadon Sancho, a player they have pursued all summer but made no progress in talks.
So far, their only signing of the transfer window has been the £40m addition of Donny van de Beek, who scored on his Premier League debut last weekend.
Jadon Sancho has been Man United’s top target all summer but with less than two weeks before the transfer window shuts he’s still with the German club.
Dortmund imposed an August 10 deadline for Manchester United to strike a deal with them but none of that materialized and the Bundesliga club have made several statements insisting he would not be sold this summer.
Earlier this week, sporting director Sebastian Kehl asserted that the England international would not be going anywhere but a new report saysMan United will test Dortmund’s resolve, though, with a final ‘take-it-or-leave-it’ bid.
According to the Mirror UK, Man United will reportedly offer £75million up front with a further £15million in add-ons while United’s executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward will also tell Dortmund there will be no negotiating over the fee or structure of the deal.
Dortmund’s asking price is said to be around the £108m mark but the Red Devils continue to be optimistic of getting a deal done before the October 18 deadline.
The federal government has ordered the deportation of 10 Egyptians and 7 Sri Lankans for violating the conditions for their entry.
Sunday James, spokesperson of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) who made the announcement in a statement released on Friday September 25, said the Minister of Interior Rauf Aregbesola signed the deportation order in pursuant to section 45, subsection 2, section 46, subsection 1 and section 47, subsection 1 of the Nigeria Immigration Act 2015.
He said;
“Seven Sri-Lankans that were jailed for petroleum product related offences after serving their jail terms were ordered by the court to be deported to their country as well.
“The minister also signed the deportation order of one Ali Mahamat Taher to France and one Kasinathan Ramasamy to India who were found to be involved in activities violating the conditions of their entry into Nigeria.
“Taher was found to be engaged in activities capable of undermining the security of a friendly neighbouring country to Nigeria in Maiduguri, Borno state.
“While Ramasamy was found working as a shop attendant in Kano.”
A politician in Argentina has gone viral online after he was caught sucking a woman’s breasts during a virtual congressional session with his fellow lawmakers on Thursday September 24.
Juan Emilio Ameri, who represents the northern province of Salta, was seen by his colleagues and members of the public committing the lewd act as they carried out a special meeting about the country’s budget via Zoom.
In the footage, the father of three can be seen sitting down in front of a webcam with a woman on his lap. As another politician addresses his colleagues, Mr Ameri then puts his face to the woman’s chest, before pulling down her top to kiss her breast. Watch the video here.
Ameri was suspended immediately for committing the lewd act which was seen by his fellow MPs and the viewers at home.
Following his suspension, Mr. Ameri said the woman was his partner and that he thought at the time he was not connected to the meeting.
“I’m very ashamed, [I feel] very bad,” Mr Ameri said, according to the Buenos Aires Times. “Here, throughout the interior of the country, the [internet] connection is very bad.”
Mr. Ameri also explained that he gave his partner “a kiss” because 10 days ago she underwent breast implant surgery.
The National Agency for Prohibition of Traffic in Persons (NAPTIP) has raised an alarm of Nigerians dying in Sahara desert and Mediterranean due to trafficking.
Director General of the agency, Julie Okah-Donli who revealed this during the inauguration of the state task force on human trafficking in Abakaliki, Ebonyi state said over 20,000 Nigerians were victims of trafficking in Mali alone in 2018.
She noted that the issue of human trafficking and irregular migration have become a great concern especially with the great number of Nigerians trapped in sexual and labour exploitation in various African and European countries.
Okah-Donli said;
“Last year reports emerged about the existence of human farms in some parts of Libya where black African migrants are allegedly kept in cages like animals and their organs like eyes, kidneys and lungs are harvested to service medical sectors of Europe.
“In December 2018, NAPTIP undertook a fact finding mission to Mali. The report of the mission painted a very poor picture of more than 20,000 young Nigerian girls who are victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation in bush camps around Mali’s mine fields.”
“In the first week of March 2019, I personally followed up with a visit to Mali and saw girls as young as 14 years held in sexual slavery in very horrendous conditions.”
The NAPTIP DG who further revealed that 292 indigenes of Ebonyi state who were subjected to child abuse child labour, sexual exploitation and sale of babies have been rescued from Izzi, Ezza, Ikwo, Afikpo North and South, Onicha, Ohaozara, Ishielu, Abakaliki, Ivo, and Ishielu LGAs between 2004 to July 2020, added that the International Organization of Migration (IOM) has returned 11 indigenes of the state (9 females and 2 males) from various parts of the world.
Okah-Donli also stated that employing a child under 12 years have been outlawed by the constitution.
Nigerians have reacted to federal government’s approval of $1,959,744,723.71 contract for a rail line that would link Nigeria to Niger Republic.
Speaking after a federal executive council meeting which was presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi told State House correspondents that the money approved for the development of the proposed rail line linking Kano-Dutse-Katsina-Jibia and to Maradi in Niger Republic was inclusive of Value Added Tax.
The rail contract which was initially budgeted in the 2018 Appropriation will connect at least seven cities in Nigeria and one city in Niger Republic and is expected to start from Kano and pass through Dambatta, Kazaure, Daura, Mashi, Katsina, Jibia and terminate in Maradi, Niger Republic.
It will connect about three states of Jigawa, Kano and Katsina and when completed, would assist in the supply of crude oil from Niger Republic to the refinery being built in the border town between both countries.
Amaechi said;
“Two memos for the Ministry of Transportation were approved by the council. The first one is the award of contract for the design, manufacture, supply, testing and commissioning of one railway crane of 150 ton capacity for emergency and recovery of rolling stocks.
“This is to sort out say situations of accident on the track. It is for a total cost of N3,049,544,000. That’s the first memo that was approved for the Ministry of Transportation.
“The second one is the award of contract for the development of the proposed Kano-Katsina-Jibia to Maradi rail line in Niger Republic and to Dutse, the capital of Jigawa, for a total cost of $1,959,744,723.71, inclusive of 7.5% VAT.”
However reacting to the approval, some Nigerians insisted that it was a misplacement of priority in a country facing intractable problems of insecurity and harsh economic conditions arising from hikes in fuel price and electricity tariff.
Authorities in Vietnam have seized 324,000 used condoms which were being recycled to be sold again to be the public.
Police confiscated the unlabeled rubber contraceptives during a raid at a warehouse located at DX12, Hoa Nhut Quarter, Tan Vinh Hiep Ward, Binh Duong Province, located in southern Vietnam over the weekend.
Officials said workers at the warehouse were tasked with washing, drying, and reshaping the condoms with wooden dildos before being put up for sale.
Local reports said they were being supplied to hotels and market stalls near the warehouse.
It was also discovered that thousands of repackaged condoms had already been sent out to the unsuspecting public.
Pham Thi Thanh Ngoc, 33, the owner of the warehouse, was arrested during the raid and has admitted that she receives used condoms once a month from an unknown person. She allegedly cleaned, dried, and sorted the condoms before selling them again to the public as if they were new, according to local news site VN Explorer.
A government official said: ‘Condoms are classified as medical items, so we will take a look at the several laws that the owner has broken.’
Leicester City coach, Brendan Rodgers has revealed that Wilfred Ndidi could be out for up to 12 weeks with an abductor injury.
The Nigerian international sustained an abductor injury to his muscles during his club’s Premier League win over Burnley last Sunday and was absent from the matchday squad for Carabao Cup defeat to Arsenal on Wednesday September 23.
Speaking after the game, Rodgers confirmed the midfielder, who has been filling as a central defender in the absence of Jonny Evans.
‘It is an abductor injury, it may have come off the bone which could be a nasty injury,’ said Rodgers, who’s side have claimed back-to-back wins over West Brom and Burnley.
‘We will wait to see if he needs an operation, if so it will be 12 weeks.’
The surgery could see Ndidi miss almost the first half of his side’s campaign in the Premier League.
US President, Donald Trump, has launched an attack on Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, insisting he is “not a fan” .
Meghan and husband Prince Harry stepped down as senior royals at the start of this year in a dramatic decision that rocked Buckingham palace.
They have since relocated to Los Angeles where they hope to earn a living from Hollywood.
Meghan and Prince Harry have recently been encouraging Americans to vote, seemingly in support of Trump’s rival Joe Biden.
Harry and Meghan recently shared a video on social media urging people to vote.
Prince Harry said: “As we approach this November, it’s vital that we reject hate speech, misinformation and online negativity.”
Many believe his comments were targeted towards Trump, who has often come under fire for his comments about minority ethnic groups.
Meghan, who sat next to him, said: “We’re six weeks out from the election, and today is Voter Registration Day.
Every four years, we’re told the same thing, ‘This is the most important election of our lifetime.’ But this one is. When we vote, our values are put into action, and our voices are heard.'”
But when asked by the DailyMail about the pair’s comments, Trump said: “I’m not a fan of hers.
“I would say this – and she has probably has heard that – I wish a lot of luck to Harry because he’s going to need it.”
A body modification fan who wants to look like a “sinister” creature has unveiled his latest transformation.
Michel Faro do Prado, 44, a tattoo artist from Brazil has been undergoing a series of procedures to achieve his “sinister creature” look. He has now taken his transformation to another level by shaping his teeth into arches, removing his nose, and implanting two horns onto his head.
Michel’s wife, who specialises in body modifications reportedly helped him to achieve his new look.
She claims he’s “only the third person in the world” to have completely removed their nose.
He previously said: “I have been a tattoo artist for 25 years, most of my tattoos I get from artists and professionals who I have paid.
“I focus on blackwork and brutal tattoos, which are types of tattoos where you ink a large part of your body.
“But my wife specialises in the area of modifications and the idea is for me to become her masterpiece when it comes to tattooing.”
According to Michel, he has a high pain tolerance and will keep enduring more discomfort to achieve his desired look.
He added: “Actually I have a good resistance to pain, I don’t think anything is so painful.
“I suffer a lot more in the post-procedures than at the time.The truth is there are changes that without anaesthesia would be almost impossible to be done, I would love not to feel any pain.
“But if I have to feel pain, to achieve what I want, for sure I will face it.”
Minister of Culture and Tourism, Lai Mohammed has stated that the federal government will continue pushing for the passage of the water resources bill into law.
Firing back at critics who accused the federal government of seeking the control of water, usage and its resources, Lai Mohammed alleged the water resources bill critics are “anti-people” and also being mischevious.
The Minister insisted that the bill is a consolidation of four existing laws aimed at the efficient management of water resources in the country.
He said;
“Gentlemen, there is nothing new about the National Water Resources Bill. This is because it is an amalgamation of Water Resources Laws that have been in existence for a long time.
“These are; Water Resources Act, Cap W2 LFN 2004, River Basin Development Authority Act, Cap R9 LFN 2004, the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency(Establishment) Act, Cap N1100A, LFN 2004; National Water Resources Institute Act, Cap N83 LFN 2004
“So, why are the laws being repackaged as the National Water Resources Bill 2020? The answer is that they are being re-enacted with necessary modifications to bring them in line with current global trends as well as best practices in Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM).
“The overall objective of this amalgamation is the efficient management of the water resources sector for the economic development of Nigeria and the wellbeing of its citizens.
“Contrary to what is being perpetuated, water resources in a state that do not go beyond the particular state are not regulated by this bill.
“You can now see that many of those condemning the National Water Resources Bill 2020 either have not read it or do not understand its provisions. Also, we cannot rule out deliberate mischief by some of those who have been portraying the Bill as a new source of conflict.
“We are therefore using this opportunity to appeal to Nigerians to avail themselves of the provisions of the bill to avoid being misled by those who have chosen to politicise it.
“We also want to state that the bill is for the good of the nation, and has no hidden agenda whatsoever.”
The United States government has commended the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security agencies over the conduct of the Edo State Governorship election.
In its tweets on Wednesday September 23, the US government also commended the people of Edo State for exercising their franchise.
It read;
Congratulations@inecnigeria and Nigerian security services on the Edo governorship election. We commend the people of Edo State for exercising their franchise and recognize @GovernorObaseki & @PastorIzeIyamu for encouraging peace.
Thanks to civil society partners @YIAGA and @SituationRoomNg @cleenfoundation @KDI_ng for their invaluable work. #EdoDecides2020
A man has been convicted after he put semen in a colleague’s water bottle and honey jar.
Stevens Millancastro, 30, carried out the vile acts after his co-worker rejected his advances after he asked her out on a date, a court heard.
The California man also put semen on the woman’s workspace, as well as in a bottle of honey she used for her tea.
Millancastro was convicted on assault and battery charges on Monday, September 21.
The colleague had filed a complaint against him to the HR department. She also asked her boss to tell Millancastro to stop staring at her, according to prosecutors.
However, when he did not stop, she filed the complaint.
Upon arriving to work, the woman found a “cloudy substance” in her water bottles on several occasions.
Her boss then agreed to place a surveillance camera facing her desk, and when she arrived one morning to find a “milky white substance” on her keyboard the footage was checked.
According to Mercury News the footage showed Millancastro had waited until the woman left before smearing his semen from a tissue on to her keyboard.
His semen was also found in the water bottles and jar of honey, say investigators.
The woman’s testimony stated that Millancastro made her feel “very, very uncomfortable.”
She said she was “disgusted” to find the bodily fluid on her personal property.
The crimes occurred in La Palma, California, between November 2016 and January 2017.
A sentencing is due to take place on October 6. Millancastro could face up to two years and six months in prison, and he will be required to register as a sex offender as he committed the crimes for sexual purposes according to the judge.
At least 25 persons were burnt to death after a petroleum tanker exploded in the Felele area in Kogi state this morning September 23.
Those said to have perished in the unfortunate incident include Kogi State Polytechnic students and some Primary School pupils who were on their way to school.
See graphic photos from the scene of the incident below
Wolves have completed the signing of Barcelona right-back Nelson Semedo for a club-record fee that could rise to £37million.
The Premier League club announced the deal on Twitter on Wednesday September 23, that the 26-year-old Portuguese defender has signed a deal that will keep him at Molineux until June 2023, with an option to extend it to June 2025.
Speaking to the club’s official website after the move was completed, Semedo said: ‘I chose Wolves because it’s a very good team that plays very good football. Last year they did a very good season and it’s a very important team in England, in also Europe. I hope this year we can do very good things.
‘Coach Nuno is a very good coach. He did very good things here in Wolves, and in other teams too. For sure I’m going to learn a lot from him.
‘The team did very good things the last three years. I’m ambitious and I hope this year we can do very good things, reach the top six and, if it’s possible, do something special.
‘I’m very happy to be here. I’m excited to get started and thank you very much for your support and we’re going to enjoy it together.’
Wolves executive chairman Jeff Shi said:”‘Progressive at heart’ is one of our core values at Wolves. For a member of staff, for a player, for the whole club, we are all making great efforts to progress continuously.
“It’s isn’t often that we have the opportunity to sign a world-class player from a world-class club. Nelson’s signing shows we will never stop progressing and we are still hungry and humble in our heart.”
Semedo’s arrival takes Wolves’ summer spending to the £84m mark, after the arrivals of Fabio Silva, Fernando Marcal, Vitor Ferreira and Ki-Jana Hoever.
At Barcelona, he won two La Liga titles and the Cope del Rey following his move to Barcelona from Benfica in 2017, played 42 times for Barcelona last season.
China and India have agreed to stop sending military troops to their disputed border in the Himalayas, following an escalation in tensions between the two nuclear powers.
Senior military commanders from India and China met on Monday to discuss stabilizing tensions along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the demarcation line that separates the two military giants.
The Line of Actual Control, which marks the de facto border and passes through the lake, was established in the wake of the 1962 Sino-Indian war. India and China do not agree on its precise location and regularly accuse each other of overstepping it.
Tensions have been rising in the Himalayas since a bloody clash between Indian and Chinese troops in June and efforts to deescalate in the wake of the violence appeared to be faltering.
At least 20 Indian soldiers were killed in that incident.
In a joint statement, both countries greed to strengthen communication on the ground to avoid misunderstandings or action “that may complicate the situation.” They also agreed to not take any unilateral action that would change the situation on the ground, according to the statement.
Another round of high-level military meetings will be held “as soon as possible,” the statement said.
After the military confrontation between both countries inm Jund, meetings were immediately set up between enjoys of both countries.
Then early this month, New Delhi and Beijing accused each other of illegally crossing into their territories.
A week later, China and India accused each other’s troops of firing warning shots across the Sino-Indian border, Both sides blamed the other for violating bilateral agreements and taking “provocative” actions.
This is the first time in more than four decades that India and China have confronted each other. In 1996, the two countries signed an agreement which states that neither side shall open fire within 2 kilometers (1.24 miles) from the LAC to “prevent dangerous military activities.”
A Pakistani man has bought a one-acre plot of land on the moon as a wedding gift to his wife.
Sohaib Ahmed, a resident of Rawalpindi, bought the lunar land in the region called ‘Sea of Vapour’. The land was bought for $45 from the International Lunar Lands Registry.
The couple were sent the documents of the land on the moon at their home via US Postal Service.
According to the Lunar Settlement Initiative’s website, “under the terms of the LSI, property claims on Luna may be offered to private entities to finance the exploration, settlement, and development of the Moon and its resources.”
It further states that “upon the recognition and certification of land claims, property owners shall be entitled to inhabit and develop their property in any manner, subject to any laws or statutes that may be established by the sovereign and independent government of Luna, which shall be freely elected by its citizens.”
Ahmed said that he was inspired by late Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput to buy his own piece of land on the moon. In 2018. Sushant bought a piece of land in the region of Mare Muscoviense, or the ‘Sea of Muscovy’ through the International Lunar Lands Registry.
His wife, Madiha said that her friends did not believe her when she told them about the shocking wedding gift she got from her husband.
“At first everyone thought it was a joke, but then I showed them the documents and then they believed it,” she told Samaa TV. She added that one of her friends also wants her fiancé to gift her a plot of land on the moon for their wedding.
New Tottenham signing, Gareth Bale’s agent, Jonathan Barnett, has hit out at Real Madrid over the way his client was treated during the 7 years he spent in the Spanish capital.
Bale on Saturday completed his loan move back to north London, signing for the club he left seven years ago when he joined Madrid.
It was at Spurs where Bale made his name, earning a then world record transfer to the Bernabeu where he won four Champions league titles.
According to his agent, Bale never earned the true respect of the Real Madrid faithful – and his Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane, never liked him as he cast him out of the first-team set-up last season.
Barnett believes the new Spurs signing has done no wrong during his time in the Spanish capital claiming in a Tuesday interview with talkSPORT that Real Madrid ‘should be kissing the floor Bale walks on’.
“I’ve been his agent since he was a very young boy, and I am so proud of him.
“Not just for his achievements and everything else, but because he has become a great man. He’s never said anything wrong, he’s never done anything… his life has been exemplary really.
“When he came here one of the newspapers started writing articles about his family and his wife’s family in the papers – that is scandalous.
“This country should be very proud of him, Great Britain should be very proud of him. Stop knocking him and write what he’s done and what he’s achieved.
“It’s very annoying, and it’s the same with Real Madrid and what he’s achieved for them.
“They should be kissing the floor he walks on.”
Barnett also revealed that Bale could sign a permanent deal with Tottenham once his loan deal ends.
Barnet added: “It was a build up of clash of personalities, a build up of not being supported, it was many different things.
“For somebody who has done as well as he has for Real Madrid, he didn’t get the respect he deserved and that was a big problem.
“For seven years everybody’s been saying Gareth Bale doesn’t speak Spanish – Gareth Bale speaks Spanish! Everybody’s been saying Gareth Bale doesn’t care about football – Gareth Bale loves football, he’s never fallen out with football.
“He may have fallen out with other things, but not playing football, and I hope back at Tottenham people will realise and stop talking complete and utter rubbish.
Bale recently angered Spurs fans when he celebrated on international duty with a flag reading ‘Wales. Golf. Madrid. In that order’, but his agent has dismissed the antics.
“As for golf, that’s complete rubbish. A lot has been written in the British press and the Spanish press about Gareth Bale that is so inaccurate it’s criminal.
“He’s still a Real Madrid player, so I wont say any more. Read the book in a few years’ time…
“But what I will say is he’s got nothing to prove [at Tottenham], just look at how successful he’s been. He’s won everything he possibly could have won, except for the World Cup, and that’s a bit difficult with Wales!
“Also, he’s one of the world’s greatest players, so he’s got nothing to prove, he’s proven everything that he wants to.”
A mother was allegedly gang-raped by armed robbers in front of her husband and children at the family’s home in India.
The attack was reportedly carried out by four men in a village in the state of Punjab during a robbery attack.
A police complaint said the men scaled the walls of the home before taking the family onto the rooftop of the building, where the group allegedly raped the mother in front of her helpless husband and children before they robbed the home.
They then left with gold ornaments belonging to the family and 20,000 rupees (around £212) in cash, Dawn.com reported.
The woman’s husband claimed when he first reported the attack to the local police, they initially registered the case against two suspects and insisted on leaving the allegation of gang-rape out of the report.
According to him, they later agreed to investigate the rape following public outcry.
A spokesperson for the police has denied that officers failed to record the allegations and said they were included in the initial written complaint. He also said that an investigation had been launched and a senior local officer in charge of the case.
The attack is the latest in a string of incidents that have sparked protests in India in recent years.
Last week, a tour guide was allegedly raped by five men and a woman at a five-star hotel in Delhi.
In August, the body of a 13-year-old girl was found dumped near a sugarcane field in the state of Uttar Pradesh. The girl had reportedly been raped and strangled.
Senior Opposition Congress Party member Jitin Prasada called the attack “inhumane” and said it put “humanity to shame”.
“In this episode, the police must initiate such a strong action that it becomes a deterrent for criminals,” he said.
Read the press statement from former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode’s wife
”Chief Femi Fani-Kayode is my husband. We got married under traditional law and custom in Accra, Ghana in 1997 and we got married under the Marriage Act at the Apapa Registry office in Lagos, Nigeria in 2002.
We have a beautiful daughter called Oluwaremilekun and both she and I are very proud of him. He has been a wonderful father and caring husband and he has never subjected me to any form of domestic abuse or treated me badly.
Anyone that knows Femi well knows that his greatest weakness are those he loves and he will do anything for them.
He is a warm, kind, generous, gentle, intelligent and loving man who is not afraid of anything or anyone and who takes care of his own. From the very beginning of his relationship with Precious he told me about it and I accepted it in good faith.
Reports in the media that we are divorced are fake and suggestions that I was treated in a bad way by him or subjected to any form of abuse at any time in the 23 years that we have been married are malicious and false.”
GOP Senator, Mitt Romney of Utah, the only Republican senator who voted in favor of Trump’s impeachment last year, has revealed he will join his party colleagues in the senate to vote in a Supreme Court nominee during the current election year, an announcement that all but ensures a nominee put forward by President Donald Trump will be confirmed.
Trump announced on Monday that he will replace late Justice Ruth Ginsburg with a nominee of his choice prompting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to suggest she could begin impeachment proceedings against Trump for the second time in order to delay a Supreme court Justice confirmation till after the November Presidential elections.
If Trump succeeds in appointing a replacement to the seat vacated by Ginsburg he will be the first president to appoint three Supreme court justices during his time and the Court will have a conservative majority for decades to come.
The high-stakes election year battle over the addition of a new justice to the Supreme Court will also aid the Republican party’s ongoing fight for control of Congress and the White House.
Reports on Tuesday September 22, indicate that Senate Republicans are now laying the groundwork for a quick confirmation process and vote, including planning confirmation hearings for October.
“The historical precedent of election year nominations is that the Senate generally does not confirm an opposing party’s nominee but does confirm a nominee of its own. The Constitution gives the President the power to nominate and the Senate the authority to provide advice and consent on Supreme Court nominees,” Mitt Romney said in a statement on Tuesday, a big blow for Democrats who expected him to oppose Trump.
“Accordingly, I intend to follow the Constitution and precedent in considering the President’s nominee. If the nominee reaches the Senate floor, I intend to vote based upon their qualifications.”
The Supreme Court confirmation, which will happen weeks before the election would amount to one of the quickest proceedings in modern times. And it comes amid criticism of the Senate Republicans’ refusal to move on then US President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to a seat in 2016 when they said his choice eight months before November -was too close to the elections.
Senate Majority Whip John Thune told CNN on Tuesday, “I think it would be a good idea to move forward.” He said the timing is not nailed down yet and Republican senators will discuss it at lunch Tuesday.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell defended his party’s actions on Tuesday.
“Moving ahead with a vote on the forthcoming Supreme Court nomination will be consistent with both history and precedent,”
Senate Judiciary Chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham said Tuesday that the committee plans to hold three days of hearings for the SCOTUS nominee in October.
“Yeah, trying to keep the process like we had before,” said Graham, a South Carolina Republican, when asked if the committee will hold three days of hearings.
Super Eagles head coach, Gernot Rohr has announced his 25-man squad for Nigeria’s October friendly games against Cote d’Ivoire and Tunisia in Austria.
The German football manager, 67, included six new players: Frank Onyeka, Chidera Ejuke, Dele Alampasu, Mikel Agu, Samson Tijani, and Zaidu Sanusi in his 25-man squad. He also listed five other players on standby.
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Goalkeepers: Dele Alampasu (FK Ventspils, Latvia); Matthew Yakubu (SKF Sered, Slovakia); Maduka Okoye (Sparta Rotterdam, The Netherlands).
A former traffic cop who now leads a sect in Siberia, claiming he is Jesus Christ, has been detained.
Russian special forces in the early hours of today, September 22, staged a special operation to detain him, Daily Mail reports.
Sergei Torop – known as Vissarion – and his closest aide Vadim Redkin, a former rock musician, were reportedly detained and flown away under armed guard.
Torop, 59, is a former Red Army conscript and traffic policeman who claimed he was reborn in 1990 as the literal reincarnation of the son of God.
Russian agents carried out a large military-style operation with four helicopters and dozens of heavily armed troops storming the remote compound called Sun City.
The operation appeared to involve the Russian National Guard, a force under the command of Vladimir Putin, but also involved the FSB security service.
The Russian Investigative Committee said the sect was being probed for using “psychological violence” causing some followers “serious harm to their health.”
Sergey Torop and two other sect leaders Vadim Redkin and Vladimir Vedernikov were detained in the raid, said a statement.
They are also being investigated on suspicion of “causing grievous bodily harm to two or more persons.”
Footage showed masked special forces with combat machine guns at the group’s territory in remote Kuraginsky district of Krasnoyarsk region in Siberia.
The group – who are banned from smoking and alcohol – has been in Siberia for years and it is unclear why the Russian authorities acted now in an early morning raid.
Torop claims to have 5,000 followers of whom several hundred live in wooden huts in the remote “Sun City” camp at Petropavlovka, some 2,600 miles east of Moscow.
One estimate said there were 90 families at the site raided today by the authorities. Other followers of the “messiah” live in villages nearby.
He heads what is known as the Church of the Last Testament, and he has written a ten volume “sequel to the Bible”.
Three years ago the cult leader told the BBC: “We have a school of noble maidens here.
“We’re preparing girls to become future wives, future brides for worthy men.
“She has to understand not to rise above the man, not to be proud of her independence but to be shy, inconspicuous and weak.”
Torop is reported to have two wives with six children, having at one stage married a 19-year-old who had lived with him since the age of seven.
He lives in a comfortable chalet while his followers reside in wooden huts in one of Russia’s coldest regions with temperatures sinking to minus 50C in winter.
Torop had an awakening after he was fired as a night shift traffic cop in the Siberian town of Minusinsk, he has claimed.
God had sent him to Earth to teach mankind about the evils of war and the havoc we were wreaking on the environment, he claimed.
The cult leader abolished Christmas, replacing it with the anniversary of the date of his own first sermon, August 18.
He claims that Mary, mother of Jesus, is his own mother. Official records show his biological mother was called Nadyezhda.
He has followers in Germany and several other European countries.
A Chinese property mogul and critic of President Xi Jinping, has been jailed for corruption after calling the president a clown.
Ren Zhiqiang, the former chairman of Huayuan, a state-owned real estate group, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for corruption, bribery, and embezzlement of public funds. He was also fined 4.2million yuan (£484,485) fine, Beijing No. 2 Intermediate Court said on its website on Tuesday.
The court verdict said the 69-year-old “voluntarily and truthfully confessed all his crimes”, and would not appeal the court’s decision.
Rights campaigners have accused President Xi Jinping and the Communist Party of using corruption charges to silence dissent.
Ren, an influential critic of the Chinese Communist party described president Xi Jinping as a “clown” over his handling of the coronavirus outbreak, was put under investigation in April for “serious violations of discipline and the law”.
Back in March, the retired property executive went missing after writing a critical essay about the outbreak. At the time, Ren’s friends told Reuters they had not been able to contact him, and they were “extremely anxious”.
The Communist Party’s disciplinary watchdog launched an investigation into Ren in April before the trial opened at a Beijing court on September 11.
His essay took aim at a speech Xi made on 23 February, and said it revealed a “crisis of governance” in the party without mentioning Xi by name.
Ren reportedly wrote that he saw “not an emperor standing there exhibiting his ‘new clothes’, but a clown stripped naked who insisted on continuing being emperor”.
A translated version of the essay said, ‘This epidemic has revealed the fact that the Party and government officials only care about protecting their own interests, and the monarch only cares about protecting their interests and core position,’ Ren wrote, without naming Xi.
He added: ‘Standing there was not an emperor showing off his new clothes, but a clown stripped of clothes who insisted on being an emperor.’
“The reality shown by this epidemic is that the party defends its own interests, the government officials defend their own interests, and the monarch only defends the status and interests of the core.”
In 2016, Ren was put on probation for a year as punishment for his public criticism of government policy. His social media accounts, which had tens of millions of followers, were shut down.
Reality star, Kim Kardashian took to Instagram to command attention as she shared these sultry photos of herself lounging in a pool.
The Keeping Up With The Kardashians frontwoman, 39, was pictured posing in a snakeskin string bikini which she paired with a long braided ponytail.
This comes amid reports the mother of four is ‘deeply disappointed and sad’ about her husband Kanye West’s ongoing mental health struggles and wants to divorce him.
Actor, Sylvester Stallone’s mother and Celebrity Big Brother star, Jackie Stallone, has passed away at the age of 98.
Frank Stallone, the younger brother to Sylvester, made the announcement on Monday night, saying his mother had died that morning.
In a post shared to Instagram, Frank stated that Jackie ‘died in her sleep as she had wished.’
He wrote: “This morning my brothers and I lost our mother Jackie Stallone. She was the mother to four children, Tommy, Sylvester, Frankie, and my late sister Toni Ann.
“She was a remarkable woman working out every day full of spunk and fearless. She died in her sleep as she had wished. It was hard not to like her, she was very eccentric and flamboyant person. She was born on November 29th 1921 in Washington DC, she lived through prohibition, the depression, and World War II.”
“I would talk to her for hours about the ’20s ’30s and ’40s. It was a history lesson. Her mind was as sharp as a razor till the day she died. She never wore a mask a true revolutionary gal. I guess I’m drowning my emotions in tears and too much vino. But when you’ve known someone for 70 yrs it tough and sad. She had seven grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren.”
“My brother Sylvester took care of her like a Queen for all of her life. I will never be able to call my mom again or have her yell at me why I never got married. But we all loved her and her spirit to survive and prevail. I’ll miss you always mommy.”
Jackie Stallone became well-known in the 1990s for publishing a series of astrology books. She also appeared in the 1980s wrestling program “G.L.O.W.: Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling,” and had a brief stint in the Celebrity Big Brother house in the UK in 2005,
She was married three times and had three sons and a daughter.
She shares Sylvester and Frank with late ex-husband Frank Stallone Sr. She is also mother to late actress Toni D’Alto, who passed away in 2012 at the age of 48 after a lengthy cancer battle. She shared Toni with ex-husband Anthony Filiti.
Jackie also leaves behind her husband of over two-decades, Stephen Marcus Levine.
A 7 year old girl reportedly told doctors that she wanted “to die” after being hospitalized for abuse and sexual assault.
According to a Crime Online report published on Sunday September 20, the girl, identified as “Yaz”, was taken to Hospital de Las Margaritas in Pueblo, Mexico in late August, after suffering from internal bleeding, a collapsed lung, burn marks on her back and cigarette burns on her arms and hands.
The girl also showed signs of sexual assault when she was examined by doctors.
“I want to die…I don’t want to go back to my parents so that they keep hitting me,” the girl said, according to a statement from doctors.
According to the Attorney General of the state, her parents, Rafael N. and Alejandra N. were detained on September 3, and have been charged with family violence and child abandonment.
In a police statement it was revealed that the young girl’s uncle is on the run after being accused of sexually assaulting the child.
A neighbor who reportedly witnessed how Yaz was harmed by her parents on at least three occasions took her to the hospital.
In April, this year the young girl had surgery for intestinal damage and was admitted to the hospital in February with cuts on her legs allegedly caused by her parents.
According to reports, in August, doctors did a graft on the burns to the 7-year-olds buttocks that “destroyed part of the muscle.”
News of Yaz’s maltreatment at the hands of her parents comes after her 3-year-old sister died in June due to accidental asphyxiation. Prosecution police says it is seriously considering prosecution options against the parents.
Frida Guerrera, a woman’s rights activist, believes the mother was also a victim of domestic violence and feared for her life.
“If the Puebla authorities had done their job since January, which was the first moment that there were indications that the girl had suffered sexual violence, the girl would not be in the hospital right now, and Mitzi (her little sister) would not be dead,” Guerrera said. “Of course there is institutional responsibility in this.”
A mum of twins shot dead her husband’s new girlfriend in front of her three-year-old twins.
Chelsea Cook and ex-husband Travis Cook divorced in January 2018. He began dating Lisa Vilate Williams, 26, but Chelsea Cook was jealous of the relationship, so she killed Lisa in the presence of her own children.
On November 15, 2018, Travis had the twins over at his apartment in Midvale, Utah, the US, and they were making Christmas decorations with Lisa, according to Mirror Online.
Chelsea Cook texted Travis about some cough medicine for one of the children and instructed him to meet her downstairs in the car park.
Travis went down and waited at around 7pm but Chelsea Cook had managed to sneak past him and enter the apartment.
After Travis realised he’d been lured out, he ran upstairs to find Cook confronting Lisa.
Travis asked her several times to leave and when she refused he called 911. Cook than locked herself in the bathroom for about 15 seconds, before coming out.
Cook reached for her coat as though she was going to leave, but instead, she pulled out a handgun and fired two bullets into Lisa in front of the terrified children.
They hit her in the chest and back and she fell back seriously injured onto the sofa. She later died from her wounds.
Cook’s colleagues at Skybridge High School later discovered she had previous charges for assault and domestic violence that she hadn’t disclosed, but the details of these have not been released.
Lisa’s heartbroken mum spoke of her daughter’s “magic” and how she wanted her “amazing and sincere” girl to be remembered for how she lived, not how she was killed.
She described how Lisa would bring ailing plants back to life and how she found joy in every little thing.
Friends described the bank teller as “gentle, loving and generous”. She had moved to Lehi, Utah, in the US, initially to look after a sick relative.
Lisa’s brother Hyrum Williams told Cook: “Because of you, I no longer get to hear her contagious laughter bouncing around the house.
“When you took Lisa’s life, you took a light from this world.”
In February this year, Cook made a deal to avoid facing the death penalty. She pleaded guilty to aggravated murder, aggravated burglary, firearm felonies and committing violent offences in front of children.
She only began to cry when she admitted charges involving violence in front of her children.
Cook made a statement and cried as she apologised to Lisa’s family and admitted the trauma she caused her own young children.
She said: “I was only thinking of myself and the extreme emotional pain I was experiencing.
“I’m so sorry they had to see me shoot and kill Lisa. All she ever did was love them.”
Cook’s mum begged for leniency, insisting her daughter was a loving mum and was experiencing “severe psychiatric distress” at the time.
But the prosecution said that Cook hadn’t simply “snapped” and reminded the court that she had suffered with depression for many years.
The judge sentenced her to 34 years to life in prison, noting how shocked he was at the amount of time Cook had spent talking about herself in papers submitted ahead of the sentencing.
Former Super Eagles and Inter Milan striker, Obafemi Martins, has joined Chinese Super League side, Wuhan FC on a one-year deal.
The 35-year-old joined Wuhan on a free transfer after his mouth watering contract with Shanghai Shenhua, that started in February, was terminated last week.
Reports in China claim Shanghai was not happy with Obafemi’s performances and had to let him go.
Wuhan are currently fourth in the CSL Group B table with 16 points from 11 games.
Wuhan face Chongqing Dangdai Lifan in their next game and Martins should have no problem being in the starting line up. His addition to the Chinese Super League side is expected to add quality and depth to the club’s attacking option.
A woman suspected to have sent an envelope containing the poison ricin, which was addressed to the White House, has been arrested.
Law enforcement officials told The Associated Press on Sunday, September 20, that she was arrested at the New York-Canada border.
The letter had been intercepted last week before it reached the White House. The woman was taken into custody by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Peace Bridge border crossing near Buffalo and is expected to face federal charges, the officials said. Her name was not immediately released.
The letter addressed to the White House appeared to have originated in Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have said. It was intercepted at a government facility that screens mail addressed to the White House and President Donald Trump and a preliminary investigation indicated it tested positive for ricin, according to the officials who spoke on condition of anonymity since they were not authorised to discuss the ongoing investigation publicly.
There have been several prior instances in which U.S. officials have been targeted with ricin sent through the mail.
A Navy veteran was arrested in 2018 and confessed to sending envelopes to Trump and members of his administration that contained the substance from which ricin is derived. The letters were intercepted, and no one was hurt.
In 2014, a Mississippi man was sentenced to 25 years in prison after sending letters dusted with ricin to President Barack Obama and other officials.
Ozo has become the latest housemate to be evicted from the Big Brother house after being put up for possible eviction.
The housemate who was nominated for eviction alongside Laycon, Ozo and Dorathy in the ninth week of the reality show, was evicted after Trickytee was shown the exit door.
Following his eviction, Neo, Nengi, Dorathy, Laycon and Vee are now the housemates who made it to the finale of the reality show.
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Trickytee has been evicted from the Big Brother house after being put for possible eviction earlier last week.
The housemate was nominated for eviction alongside Laycon, Ozo and Dorathy in the ninth week of the reality show. He however got the lowest vote this week.
The police in Rivers State have arrested two pastors identified as Austin Emmanuel and Peter Davies, for allegedly raping a member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).
The suspects who are currently being detained at the State Criminal and Intelligence Department SCID, allegedly raped the 27-year-old corps member in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state where she is observing her mandatory one year service.
Narrating her ordeal, the corps member who is from Plateau state, said Austin had invited her to his house on August 29 which coincided with his birthday, adding that the pastor was later joined by Davies. According to her, there was no reason to be suspicious since she has been worshipping in his church for over five months.
She said the pastors asked her to sow her mobile phone as a seed before they started conducting deliverance on her.
The victim said the last thing she could remember on that fateful day was that the suspects robbed her a certain oil while praying for her and she slept off. She said as soon as she woke up the next day, she noticed bruises on the surface and inside her private part.
“Actually, it was after I regained consciousness that I was feeling pain in my vagina. I told my mum and she reported to the police and they said that they should take me to doctors without borders for checkup. I saw bruises seen all over my body.” she told newsmen
Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Bonko, have called on the state police command to ensure justice prevails. Her father said he had approached the International Federation of Women Lawyers in the state to ensure the prosecution of the case.
“When I saw her, she was not in her senses. I started asking questions. Then they told me that they have arrested the suspects. I saw the suspects and they told me what happened.
“We took her to a psychiatric hospital. They tested her and did everything. Wherever we went, the NYSC followed us on the matter. An NYSC official reported the issue to the headquarters. If we allow this matter to die, they will do the same thing to other female corps members. That is why I decided to come to FIDA,” he said
Confirming te incident to newsmen, the state Commissioner of Police, Joseph Mukan, said the matter was being investigation.
“Yes, we refer to this issue, but the matter has not reached my desk. I believe it is still under investigation” Mukan said
US Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the firebrand court justice who was known for her legal, cultural and feminist actions while serving in the highest court of the land, died Friday September 18, aged 87 after battling cancer, the Supreme Court has announced.
Justice Ginsburg, nominated into the supreme court by former president Bill Clinton, died from complications from metastatic cancer of the pancreas, the Supreme court said in a statement.
She died at her home in Washington surrounded by family.
“Our nation has lost a justice of historic stature,” Chief Justice John Roberts said in the statement.
“We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague. Today we mourn but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her, a tired and resolute champion of justice.”
Known for her legal fight for women’s rights in the 1970s, Ginsburg served 27 years as a Supreme Court Justice. Her death will set in motion a nasty and tumultuous political battle over who will succeed her, as the presidential election nears.
Ginsburg’s death gives Republicans the chance to tighten their grip on the court with another Trump appointment that would give conservatives a 6-to-3 majority meaning that even a defection on the right would leave conservatives with enough votes to prevail in the Obamacare case, Dreamers and many other cases that will be brought to the supreme court this period.
