Videos of Big Brother Naija housemates, Boma and Tega making out have been shared online.
In one of the videos, Boma was seen kissing the married female housemate passionately during lights out.
There was also visible hand movement as Tega slid into the duvet. Boma was also seen stretching his hand to pick a tissue.
The videos surfaced after Tega’s husband disclosed that he cheated on her in their matrimonial home.
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Justice Lateefat Okunnu of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, has ordered the freezing of the assets and funds to the tune of N19, 178, 253,050 belonging to a convicted former Managing Director of the defunct Bank PHB Plc, Francis Atuche.
A statement released by Wilson Uwujaren, spokesperson of the antigraft agency, said the Judge gave the order on Tuesday, August 31, 2021, following an ex parte application filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on August 17, 2021.
The funds, investigation showed, were domiciled in 24 different banks in Nigeria, including Citi Bank Limited; Ecobank Nigeria Limited; First Bank of Nigeria Plc; First City Monument Bank (FCMB); Globus Bank Limited; Fidelity Bank Plc; Keystone Bank Limited; Lotus Bank Limited and Mainstreet Bank Plc.
Others are: Polaris Bank Plc; Platinum Mortgage Bank Limited; Providus Bank Limited; Stanbic IBTC Nigeria Limited; Standard Chartered Bank; Sterling Bank Plc; Wema Bank Plc; Zenith Bank Plc; Unity Bank Plc; Titan Trust Bank Limited, Union Bank of Nigeria Plc and others.
Moving the application, counsel to the EFCC, Kemi Pinheiro, SAN, told the court that 15 persons, as well as 22 firms, were used by Atuche and his co-respondent, Ugo Anyanwu, a former Chief Financial Officer of the bank, to launder the funds.
Pinheiro listed the individuals to include Anthony Atuche, Emeka Patrick Atuche, Paul Okobi, Felix Oyiana, Moruf Kazeem Adisa, Olatunji Abiodun, Daniel Enebeli, Aina Olugbenga, Augustine Nwabueze, Omonua Benedict, Oliver King Nduaaron, Dr. Chris Ike Ogbechie, Mr. Murat Bektaslar, Attah Omataikpo Olukemi and Thomas Etuh.
The EFCC counsel further stated that the firms, in which Atuche has either direct or indirect interest are: Aqua Harvest Limited, Hubmart Stores Limited, Hubmart Limited, Sapphire Capital Management Limited, Homeland Real Estate Company Limited, Malechi Foods Limited, Homeland Meridian Partners Limited, Promise Investment Limited and Temple Cottage Hotel Limited.
Others are: Wegas Properties Project Limited, Buckhead Construction Limited, Claremount Management Services Limited, Afco Associates Limited, Platinum Capital Limited, Ghazali Yakubu Investment Limited, The Financial (Services) Company Limited, Venture Resources Limited, Elizabeth-A Company Limited, Signature Partners Limited, Purplepay Technologies Limited, Oakwood Asset Management Limited and Conesto Nigeria Limited.
Justice Okunnu granted the 12 prayers of the applicant and held that “An order is made restraining the 1st defendant (Atuche) whether by himself, or acting through the persons or entities listed or such other persons including but not limited to his family members or agents, from removing, alienating, disposing of, dealing with or diminishing the value of assets, proceeds of economic and financial crimes or otherwise in the name of the 1st defendant.”
The Judge also held that “the assets or funds included those held indirectly by or for Atuche’s benefit, whether solely or jointly held, that are located in Nigeria or worldwide.”
Justice Okunnu further ordered the freezing of any bank account being run and operated by Atuche “personally or jointly, whether in his personal name or otherwise or with the Bank Verification Number (BVN) 22295357230 in any of the respondent banks to the tune of N19, 178, 253, 050 billion, pursuant to the Restitution Order made by this Honourable Court on June 16, 2021.”
Atuche and his privies, including his lawyers, were also barred from presenting to the above listed banks “any mandate or instruction for the withdrawal of any money and/or funds standing to the credit of any of their accounts to the tune of N19, 178, 253. 050 billion.”
Justice Okunnu, who also restrained the banks from honouring any such instruction from Atuche and his privies, further held that “ A mandatory order of injunction is made directing the named respondent banks to file within 48 hours of service of this Order of this Honourable Court on them returns of the Statements of Account of the 1st Defendant (personally or jointly) whether in his personal name or otherwise or with the Bank Verification Number: 22295357230 and the accounts of persons and entities listed in the afore mentioned Schedules A and B maintained with them.
“A further order is made directing service of the Order made herein on persons affected thereby including, in particular, the persons and entities listed in Schedules A and B. by way of advertisement in either The Punch or Thisday or The Guardian newspaper.”
Justice Okunnu had, in June this year, sentenced Atuche to six years imprisonment and Anyanwu four years for stealing and conspiracy to steal to the tune of N25.7bn.
The judge, while sentencing the duo, had ordered them to make a restitution of the sum of N25.7bn to the Federal Government to replace the funds stolen from the public to bail out the bank.
Dr. Dre is taking his ex-wife Nicole Young to court for a fresh case after filing a lawsuit accusing her of ’embezzling’ funds from his recording studio business.
The 56-year-old rapper and producer is suing Young, 51, for allegedly taking money out of accounts for his Recording One music studio in Los Angeles’ Sherman Oaks neighborhood, according to legal filings obtained by The Blast.
Dre’s lawsuit was filed after the judge overseeing his divorce ordered him in July to pay nearly $300,000 per month to his ex in spousal support for the foreseeable future.
The legal filings indicate that Recording One was formed in 2015 to operate as a recording studio.
Both Dre (who was born Andre Young) and his then-wife were in charge of ‘maintenance and control’ of the studio assets, and Recording One claims that Young was in charge of writing charges and transferring money for the business.
The studio contends that she ‘decimated’ its bank accounts by withdrawing $353,571.85 in the early stages of her divorce from from Dre, which she filed for in June of 2020.
Amid the divorce proceedings, she was removed from the studio’s trust. In its filing, the studio argues that Young ‘egregiously’ failed to uphold her fiduciary interest by ’embezzling and stealing money from (the company’s) bank account, and using the money for her own, personal obligations.’
Young could find herself in serious legal trouble if the studio’s allegations are found to be true.
The business accuses her of violating Penal Code 496, which states: ‘Every person who buys or receives any property that has been stolen or that has been obtained in any manner constituting theft or extortion, knowing the property to be stolen or obtained, or who conceals, sells, withholds, or aids in concealing, selling, or withholding any property from the owner… shall be punished by imprisonment in county jail for not more than one year.’
Back in October, TMZ reported that the Los Angeles Police Department was investigating Young for the withdrawals, though she claims that she had a right to withdraw the funds because her name was on the account.
Young filed to divorce Dre in June 2020, citing irreconcilable differences after 24 years of marriage. The estranged couple, who both got married on May 25, 1996, have two adult children together: son Truice and daughter Truly.
The Nigerian Communications Commission has said the Twitter ban in Nigeria is still in effect as the commission is yet to recieve the green light from the Ministry of Information to lift the ban.
This was disclosed by the Director, Public Affairs, Nigerian Communications Commission, Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde.
The NCC had sent a memo to Mobile Network Operators and Internet Service Providers to block access to Twitter for the ban imposed by the Federal Government to take effect.
This comes after some Nigerians had on Wednesday September 1, reported gaining access to the app without Virtual Private Networks on their laptops.
It was gathered that the reported access to Twitter had only been on Internet Service Providers networks, and not through the mobile networks.
A source in an ISP company told Punch, “The way blocking works when it comes to the network is, a specific site or server or URL will be put under a blacklist. Or an instruction will be given to block traffic going to or coming from a certain server. So, a router that sits in between serves as a blockade rather than work as a go through; it will block it.
“Depending on the technology deployed, there might be loopholes. A problem could be as regards implementation. It can create a loophole, a human error.”
The Federal Government indefinitely banned Twitter on June 4, days after the microblogging site deleted a tweet by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), which violated its rules.
The Federal Government had since told a Federal High Court in Lagos that it had not stopped Nigerians from using Twitter.
Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who is the head of a committee set up to negotiate with Twitter recently announced that the committee negotiating with Twitter would soon arrive at an agreement.
He had said, “Everything will be ironed out with Twitter within a few days or weeks.”
One of the conditions set by the government for lifting the ban is that Twitter should register with the Companies and Allied Matters Act, and establish a physical presence in Nigeria.
According to Statista, Nigeria has about 33 million active social media users, with about 26 percent on Twitter. Since the ban began, Nigeria has lost N220.36bn. This figure was calculated based on the NetBlocks Cost of Shutdown Tool.
The report said it costs Nigeria’s economy N103.17m ($250,600) every hour to ban Twitter. It has been 2,136 hours since the FG banned Twitter.
Former WCW champion, Daffney Unger has been found dead following a desperate search by her friends after she posted a disturbing Instagram live video, where she was seen holding a pistol.
The wrestler, known as the Scream Queen, was found dead at her residence in Norcross, a small city northeast of Atlanta, on Thursday morning, September 2, from an apparent suicide, according to close friend and fellow pro wrestler Lexie Fyfe.
‘She was found very early this morning,’ a tearful Fyfe told the New York Daily News.
Unger had posted a livestream video to Instagram on Wednesday night where she appeared distressed. ‘Do you guys not understand that I’m all alone? Do you not understand that?’ she said.
She later could be heard in the footage saying, ‘Remember, my brain goes to Boston.’
The disturbing footage sparked a desperate search for her whereabouts by friends and law enforcement.
Retired pro wrestler Mick Foley posted a tweet, asking people to help out if they knew where Unger was.
‘If anyone has a way of reaching Daffney Unger, or knows her address, please help out. She’s in a bad personal place and is threatening to harm herself. My phone call went straight to voicemail,’ Foley tweeted.
Sean Ross Sapp, the managing editor of popular wrestling website Fightful.com, later tweeted: ‘Her family have been reached, and have her current address. She’d moved in the past couple of weeks. Police have been dispatched.’
The Gwinnett County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed Unger’s death to TMZ on Thursday.
Aubrey Causey, an investigator for the Gwinnett County medical examiner, didn’t reveal the details of Unger’s death but said it likely happened on Wednesday night.
Foley wrote in a new tweet on Thursday: ‘I’m so very sorry to learn of Daffney’s passing. A terrible loss for her family, friends and wrestling. She was far ahead [of] her time in our business. #RIPDaffney’.
Fyfe posted: ‘This last act, I don’t want it to define her. She would always want people to reach out for help and to check in on those they’re worried about. We’re going to miss her.’
Unger, whose real name is Shannon Claire Spruill, debuted in World Championship Wrestling in 1999, as she was known as David Flair’s girlfriend at the time, who is the son of the famous, former wrestling world champion Ric Flair.
She rose to fame after winning the WCW Cruiserweight title in May 2000 and later performed for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, at one point playing the role of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.
Real Madrid football club of Spain have confirmed the capture of Rennes midfielder, Eduardo Camavinga on a six-year deal worth €40 million (£34m/$47m) .
The France international makes the swap from Rennes to the Santiago Bernabeu in a deal that will last till 2027.
Camavinga move comes as reports emerge of a late Real Madrid €220m move for Kylian Mbappe, after PSG snubbed previous offers. Camavinga is 18 years old and was born in Angola.
Last year, he became the youngest person to be called up to the France national team at senior level since 1932 and won three caps for Didier Deschamps’ side.
An entrepreneur once dubbed the ‘world’s youngest female self-made billionaire’ faces two decades in prison as she awaits a fraud trial.
Elizabeth Holmes, 37, is accused of lying to patients and investors of her medical tech start-up, Theranos, which at one point was valued at £6.6billion.
Theranos promised to run hundreds of medical tests using a single drop of blood using its technology, but it never lived up to expectations, and may never have worked at all.
Holmes is alleged to have overhyped claims about the company’s financial performance, before it went bust in 2018.
Her major investors included Rupert Murdoch, who put in $121million and the Walmart’s Walton family, who invested $150million (£109million).
More than $700million (£500million) was put in altogether by venture capitalists, but this proved to be totally worthless when the company collapsed.
Holmes started promoting her product from 2013, when she was just 29 years old, and she ended up on the covers of business magazines such as Forbes, Fortune and Inc.
The college dropout’s black turtleneck led to her being compared to the late Apple boss Steve Jobs.
She gained such a reputation she was even appointed as a presidential ambassador for global entrepreneurship by Barack Obama.
Holmes’ medical tech start-up, Theranos, quickly lost steam after revelations that its “breakthrough: blood-testing machine, “Edison,” didn’t work as Holmes had described. It was shown to produce dangerously inaccurate results in tests run for actual patients.
However, Holmes is expected to testify that some of her statements and actions were the result of abuse inflicted by the company’s chief operating officer and her secret lover, Ramesh ‘Sunny’ Balwani, 56.
She will claim her former partner controlled what she wore, what she ate and when she slept.
Her lawyers argue she believed everything about her technology to be true but that Balwani’s “manipulation” impaired her judgement.
Balwani is facing multiple fraud charges in a separate trial and his lawyers have denied Holmes’s allegations, branding them “outrageous, salacious and inflammatory”.
Twitter’s long-promised “Super Follows” feature that lets creators sell subscriptions for access to special content, was launched on Wednesday September 1.
The feature, first revealed in February, will allow users to subscribe to accounts they like for a monthly subscription fee in exchange for exclusive content. For creators, Super Follows are another useful tool in the emerging patchwork of monetization options across social platforms.
The aim of the new feature is to make the social media platform become the preferred online venue for clickable stars and to boost Twitter’s income in ways that don’t clutter the platform up with ads or promotions.
Eligible accounts can set the price for Super Follow subscriptions, with the option of charging $2.99, $4.99 or $9.99 per month, prices fairly comparable to a paid newsletter. They can then choose to mark some tweets for subscribers only, while continuing to reach their unpaid follower base in regular tweet.
Paid subscribers will be marked with a special Super Follower badge, differentiating them from unpaid followers in the sea of tweets. The badge shows up in replies, elevating a follower’s ability to interact directly with accounts they opt to support. For accounts that have Super Follows turned on, the option will show up with a distinct button on the profile page.
U.S. and Canada-based iOS Twitter users will be able to Super Follow some accounts, with more users globally seeing the rollout in the coming weeks. On the creator side, Super Follows are only enabled in iOS for now, though support for Android and desktop are “coming soon.”
People who don’t have the Super Follows feature can apply for a waitlist under the monetization tab in the Twitter app.
To be eligible, people need to have at least 10,000 followers, be at least 18 years old, have tweeted 25 times in the last 30 days, be in the US, and comply with Twitter’s Super Follows policy.
Twitter says that Super Follow income will be subject to the standard, though controversial, 30% in-app purchase fees collected by Apple or Google. Twitter will only take a 3% cut of earnings for up to the first $50,000 generated through Super Follows — a boon for smaller accounts getting off the ground or anyone who uses the paid Twitter feature as a way to supplement other creator income elsewhere. After an account hits the $50,000 earnings mark, Twitter will begin taking a 20% cut.
This isn’t the social media platform’s first monetization experiment. In May, Twitter introduced Tip Jar, a way for accounts to receive one-time payments through integration with the Cash App and other payment platforms. The test is limited to a subset of eligible accounts including “creators, journalists, experts, and nonprofits” for the time being.
Last week Twitter rolled out Ticketed Spaces for users who applied for the paid audio room feature back in June. Twitter’s cut from Ticketed Spaces mirrors the same fee structure it uses for Super Follows and users will be able to charge anywhere from one dollar to $999 for advanced ticketing.
Kanye West has sparked speculation he cheated on his estranged wife Kim Kardashian after the birth of their first two children.
Kanye’s album, Donda, was released on Sunday, August 29, and the track, Hurricane, has got people talking because of its lyrics which allude to him confessing his infidelity.
Kanye rapped: “Here I go actin’ too rich / Here I go with a new chick / And I know what the truth is / Still playin’ after two kids / It’s a lot to digest when your life always movin”.
One source told PageSix: “The song is in a way his testimony of everything he did wrong and taking accountability for their marriage breakdown.”
PageSix quoted another source as saying: “If you look closer to the lyrics he is referring to his infidelity during his marriage with Kim, even after two kids.”
Hurricane also appears to detail a California home Kim and Kanye purchased in 2014, that was featured in Architectural Digest, with West rapping: “Architectural Digest, but I needed home improvement / Sixty-million-dollar home, never went home to it.”
Kim Kardashian took to her Instagram Stories to reveal she was listening to Hurricane by sharing a screenshot.
Kanye also appeared to hint that Kim cheated on him in another track titled “Lord I Need You”.
He rapped: “Three hours to get back from Palm Springs, huh? / Who you know spend an hour in Walgreens, huh?”
Kim’s mother Kris Jenner owns a home in Palm Springs where the whole family have been seen on numerous occasions.
Recall that Kanye once famously accused Kim of meeting with rapper Meek Mill behind his back in a series of bizarre tweets published to Twitter in 2020. He added that he’s been trying to divorce her since then.
Kanye later apologized, saying the allegation “out of line.”
The United Nations has revealed that North Korea has rejected almost three million Covid-19 jabs offered to it.
A spokesperson of the UN said the country had asked that the vaccines be relocated to harder hit nations in view of global vaccine shortages.
Under the Covax programme which aims to help poorer nations obtain vaccines, Chinese-made Sinovac vaccines were offered to North Korea.
But North Korea claims not to have recorded any cases of the disease recently. The country was one of the first countries to close its borders last year.
As of 19 August, North Korea had recorded no cases of Covid-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
Some 37,291 people – including health care workers and those with flu-like illnesses – had been tested and all were found to be negative, the WHO said in its weekly situation report.
This isn’t the first time the country has rejected vaccines. In July, it rejected shipments of around two million doses of the AstraZeneca jab, citing concerns over potential side effects, a South-Korean think-tank associated with the country’s intelligence service said.
A South African lady has filed for divorce from her husband of 18 years after he refused to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
Recounting how her husband, Graham Spies’ health deteriorated after he contracted COVID-19 in 2020, Charnelle told News24 that she wasted no time in getting vaccinated as soon as she was eligible.
She stated that if he won’t get the jab, she doesn’t see why she she should continue to live with him since he won’t protect himself and the people around him.
Charnelle said;
“Graham contracted Covid-19 last year and watching him deteriorate in front of me is something I don’t wish on any human.
“The virus attacked his lungs. He is also asthmatic, which made his breathing even more difficult. Seeing him leave the hospital last year, after he had recovered, was like witnessing a real-life miracle.
“I won’t compromise on my health – it is non-negotiable. I told Graham since last year that if he refuses to get the jab, I don’t see how I can continue to live with someone that won’t protect himself and the people around him.”
Graham on his own part, said not getting the vaccine was his personal decision. He said;
“I believe in science, to a certain extent. I don’t want to be used as a guinea pig for vaccinations. There is no 100% guarantee it works.”
He also said that he was “quite disappointed” that after all the disagreements they have had over the past two decades, the vaccine would be the reason for their divorce.
Graham added;
“This is not how I envisioned my marriage would end. Yes, we had our differences. We are not perfect. But, at the end of the day, we have to do what’s right for our mental health.”
The Cape Town couple who tied the knot in 2003 and currently have no children, have since sold their property and are in the process of relocating to different cities for work.
Charnelle said;
Under no circumstances will I be putting my unborn kids’ lives in danger. We spoke about this numerous times. I said I will not bear his kids if he does not get vaccinated. It blows my mind that the man I’ve known my entire life is willing to throw all our future plans away just because he chooses to not get the vaccine. It’s madness.
The couple will be signing their annulment papers on 22 September.
A Nigerian woman, Chioma Ndukwe Bon-kafor, who welcomed twins after 15 years of waiting has given birth to a set of triplets.
According to the official photographer at their event, Mrs Chioma gave birth to the triplets two years after she and her husband welcomed a set of twins.
“How amazing our God is… “but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. Behold, the just shall live by his faith & after 15 years of waiting… Twins came & after two years Triplets came. 5 children representing Grace. Congratulations Madam Chioma Ndukwe Bon-Kafor. You all will keep dancing oh!” the photographer wrote on Wednesday, September 1.
Margaret Loughrey, the EuroMillions winner who said her £27million win 8 years ago ‘destroyed her life’, has been found dead.
Belfast Live reported that emergency services were called to Loughrey’s home in Ballycolman area of Strabane, Northern Ireland around 10.30am this morning.
Police said they are not treating the death of Margaret Loughrey who lived alone as “suspicious”, but a post mortem will be carried out to determine the cause.
A Police Service of Northern Ireland spokesperson said;
“Police received a report of the sudden death of a woman at the Ballycolman Lane area of Strabane on Thursday 2nd September.
“A post mortem is due to take place but at this stage, the death is not being treated as suspicious.”
Ms Loughrey, who was unemployed, bought her winning ticket on the way home from the Job Centre in 2013. She matched five numbers and two lucky stars to win £26,863,588 in 2013 – the largest ever jackpot won in Northern Ireland at the time.
Despite her huge win, Loughrey continued to live in her home town and vowed to “spread” the cash around.
She said earlier;
“No point having £27million and being lonely. That can’t make me happy, that can only make me happy that everybody else’s happy and so far everybody is absolutely delighted.”
After her big win, Loughrey splashed out on a string of properties – including a pub, houses and a mill.
The jackpot however caused her life to spiral and in 2015, she was ordered to carry out 150 hours of community service after being convicted of assaulting a taxi driver. Three years later, she had to pay £30,000 to a former employee for bullying and firing him on a “vindictive whim”.
Margaret later said the win had “sent her to hell and back” even though she was living on benefits and unemployed at the time. She also claimed she was left with just £5million in 2019 and said she had been targeted by thieves.
She said;
“Money has brought me nothing but grief. It has destroyed my life.
“I have had six years of this. I don’t believe in religion, but if there is a hell, I have been in it. It has been that bad. I went down to five-and-a-half stone.”
Lil Nas X has released “maternity” photos while announcing he is “pregnant” with his album, Montero.
The gay singer, who got people talking when he released the unusual video for his song Montero, took to Instagram to share photos of him posing with a swollen belly.
He’s also seen wearing a robe, a flower crown, and a bouquet of flowers in his hand.
He then shared what looks like a sonogram and added in the caption that he’s pregnant with his album.
His post has garnered thousands of comments.
Cristiano Ronaldo has broken Ali Daei’s 15-year international goalscoring record after netting his 110th and 111th goals for Portugal in an epic comeback win.
Ronaldo’s 89-minute strike in Portugal 2 – 1 win in their World Cup qualifying match on Wednesday night means he now has 110 goals in 180 appearances for his country, breaking Ali Daei’s record of 109 goals for Iran.
The 36-year-old had the chance to break the record earlier in the game after Portugal were awarded a penalty but Ireland’s 19-year-old goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu, saved Ronaldo’s spot kick.
The Portuguese icon took his shirt off in wild celebration on one of the most memorable nights of a career littered with them.
Ronaldo, who took home the golden boot from the Euros with six goals is now 34 strikes ahead of the next-highest active men’s player (behind Daei) Ali Mabkhout, who has 76 goals in 92 for the UAE.
Daei scored 109 times for Iran between 1993 and 2006.
On Tuesday, August 31, Manchester United confirmed the return of the forward after 12 years away. He will make his debut under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer on his return from international duty.
Two brothers have been found dead inside a car near a daycare centre in South Carolin, USA.
Police rushed to the scene after reports of two infants unresponsive inside the vehicle.
When officers arrived shortly after 5.30pm local time to Sunshine House on Wilson Boulevard, South Carolina, USA, they found two infants inside the vehicle, and they were sadly pronounced dead at the scene by emergency paramedics.
The coroner’s office confirmed the infants were two twin boys.
Fox News reports that it’s not clear if the daycare were involved or connected to the tragic incident.
Richland County Sheriff’s Department (RCSF) is investigating.
Sunshine House is an early learning academy and daycare centre based in South Carolina.
Images from the scene show a swarm of emergency vehicles outside the daycare centre, with several cars parked there.
Journalist Shay Simon reported on Twitter: “Scene filled with screaming and crying at Sunshine House of Blythewood.
“RCSD tell us sadly two infants were found dead in a vehicle. At this time it’s not clear if employees at the daycare were involved.”
A 26 years old nurse of Mushili in Ndola has sued a man (a teacher by profession) she was engaged to for reconciliation after complaining that he had taken eight years without marrying her.
Gertrude Ngoma brought the matter before Kabushi Local Court accusing Herbert Salaliki, 28, of taking long to marry her despite promising to do so.
“He has wasted my time. I have turned down many marriage proposals from more than 10 men in respect of him but he is now refusing to marry me,” she told the court.
Ms Ngoma complained that she had a child with Salaliki but she was still living with her parents instead of joining her husband.
She told the court that the two had never stayed together despite dowry being paid.
“Your honour, he has never been serious that is why I brought him to court because I deserve to know the way forward and my future with him. Every time we meet he demands for seex of which I give him but has no interest of marrying me,” Ms Ngoma told the court while shedding tears.
Despite promising that the Taliban group will be more liberal than they were 20 years ago, the terrorist group that has taken over Afghanistan is proving that not much has changed with their policies.
A Taliban leader has announced that music will be banned in Afghanistan and women will be required to travel with a male chaperone on trips that last several days.
In an interview with the New York Times, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said while women will eventually be allowed to return to work and go on trips to school, and hospitals, they would need a male chaperone for trips that last several days.
He added that music will be banned in the country.
Mujahid said: “Music is forbidden in Islam, but we’re hoping that we can persuade people not to do such things, instead of pressure them.”
Still, he said, things will be different under this Taliban rule than the previous regime.
Rejecting reports that the Taliban is already extracting vengeance on those who opposed them, Mujahid said: “We want to build the future and forget what happened in the past.”
He suggested to the New York Times that the Taliban will let women return to their jobs in the future as long as they wear a head covering. He added that concerns that the Taliban would once again force women to stay inside or cover their faces are baseless.
He also said that those with proper travel documents will be able to leave the country, and that his regime will not hunt down former interpreters and others who have worked with the American military over the years, but expressed frustration at American evacuation efforts.
He said: “They shouldn’t interfere in our country and take out our human resources: doctors, professors and other people we need here. In America, they might become dishwashers or cooks. It’s inhuman.”
But, he said, he is still hopeful that the Taliban could build good relationships with the international community, saying they have already cooperated with international leaders on issues like counterterrorism, opium eradication and the reduction of refugees to the West.
Mujahid’s remarks come one day after he announced at a press conference that women should remain inside “until we have a new procedure” in place, while the Taliban trains its forces not to harass women.
He said: “We are worried our forces, who are new and have not been yet trained very well, may mistreat women. We don’t want our forces, God forbid, to harm or harass women.”
In the meantime, he said, women’s salaries will be paid in their homes, echoing what Ahmadullah Waseq, the deputy of the Taliban’s cultural affairs committee, told the Times: that the Taliban has “no problems with working women” as long as they wear hijabs.
29 people have died after a “speeding” bus crashed into a rock before plunging down a 656ft ravine, authorities in Peru said.
The bus carrying 63 passengers fell near the town of Matucana in the Peruvian Andes.
So far 29 people have been confirmed dead with a further 24 injured in the crash at around 4am on Tuesday, August 31, reports El Comercio.
The bus was travelling to the Peruvian capital Lima when it is understood the vehicle smashed into a rock before the driver lost control.
Clinton Presentation Bacilio, a 24-year-old young man who survived the accident, told El Comercio that after an initial collision, the bus continued its journey several meters before falling.
He said: “I remember that the bus crashed and kept moving. Me and my partner decided to hold on to the seat in case something suddenly turns around because something happens, at that moment the bus leans down.
“We got away from the seat, we walked around and the bus came sliding.”
Clinton’s partner, Luz Merlina Tineo, was one of the passengers taken to hospital after the horrific incident.
There are unconfirmed reports that those on board were asking the driver to slow down before the crash.
El Comercio reported that according to the Superintendency of Land Transportation of People, Cargo and Merchandise the last transmission of the GPS system of the bus indicated that it was moving at excessive speed.
It also suggested that this was not the first time that the vehicle was caught for speeding after an offence in May.
The accident is the second involving a bus plunging from a road in Peru in a matter of days, after a bus carrying mining workers in a different part of the Andes also fell off a cliff and killed 16 on Friday, August 27.
A looting incident broke out in New Orleans, a Louisiana city, after Hurricane Ida flooded wide areas, plunged 1million into darkness and reversed the flow of the Mississippi.
The hurricane which first claimed the life of a 60-year-old man after pushing down a tree on his house near Baton Rouge, has been declared as a major disaster by President Joe Biden.
Hurricane Ida blew in from the Gulf of Mexico with 150mph winds, exactly 16 years after Hurricane Katrina battered the coast, claiming 1,800 lives.
While nearly all offshore Gulf oil production have been suspended ahead of the storm and residents of the most vulnerable coastal areas evacuated, power to more than 1million homes and businesses in New Orleans was knocked out on Sunday August 29 after transmission lines to the city failed.
A transmission tower which collapsed into the Mississippi, saw the river’s flow briefly reversed.
Barely 24 hours after the power incident, residents of Louisiana have now reported cases of looting. It was reported that some men tried to rob a cash machine in a market in New Orleans neighbourhood St Claude, while a group were captured by a drone looting a store in New Orleans East.
Mayor LaToya Cantrell who reacted to the reports, said that the looting isn’t as widespread as it appears. Cantrell also said the local police are cracking down on looting and anyone caught doing so will be charged with a state felony.
She said;
‘My directive has been very clear: lock ’em up. We will not tolerate and we have not tolerated it.
‘There is no widespread looting going on in the city of New Orleans.
‘What we do have that’s widespread are residents who are being neighbors, who are understand and exhibiting the spirit of humility, of empathy, who are cleaning up their lawns and who are servicing their community.
‘That’s widespread in the city of New Orleans, that’s who we are.’
Though Hurricane Ida weakened into a tropical storm over south-west Mississippi, the US National Hurricane Center said further heavy downpours and ‘life- threatening’ flooding is expected and levees around New Orleans upgraded since Hurricane Katrina remain at risk.
Here is an aerial footage of Hurricane Ida’s damage across Louisiana;
Four men, including a Hindu priest, have been charged with raping and murdering a nine-year-old girl in India.
The girl, who has not been named, was sent by her mother to fetch water from the nearby crematorium in New Delhi on August 1, when she was attacked.
The men, who were arrested on August 2, have been formally charged with rape, murder, and destruction of evidence, among other crimes.
According to CNN, the Ministry of Home Affairs said they could face the death penalty if found guilty.
The girl was found dead with wet clothes, a bloodied nose, bruised hands and arms, and blue lips, on the crematorium floor. Her body was discovered by her mother who went searching for her only child after she failed to return more than an hour after she was sent to fetch water.
The mother told the BBC she found her daughter’s body on the crematorium floor but was not allowed to take it away.
Three suspects, including a Hindu priest, closed the gates and refused to let her leave, she said.
The trio told her not to phone the police, claiming officers would ‘steal her organs and sell them’ and also demand an autopsy. Instead, they forcibly cremated the corpse.
According to reports, the girl’s father and around 150 villagers who rushed to the scene, only managed to save the girl’s legs meaning police may never be able to prove if she was raped.
The alleged rape has sparked widespread anger in India.
Protesters this week burned effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing him of failing to condemn the alleged rape. The demonstrators also burned the likeness of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal outside the Nangal crematorium.
The protesters are demanding the suspects face the death penalty and have called for several police officers to be suspended for allegedly harassing the family.
Manchester United footballer Aaron Wan-Bissaka has pleaded guilty to driving while disqualified, without a licence and without insurance.
The 23-year-old right-back on Wednesday stood in the dock at Manchester magistrates court and spoke only to confirm his name and address and enter his guilty pleas during the brief hearing. District Judge Bernard Begley agreed that sentencing should be adjourned until a later date.
Wan-Bissaka’s earlier conviction for speeding, leading to his ban and disqualification, is subject to a further hearing where the conviction may be set aside. He was stopped while behind the wheel of his £160,000 Lamborghini Urus on 23 June this year, where roadside police checks revealed he was banned from driving.
Sentencing for the latest offences will depend on the outcome of the speeding hearing, the court was told, and a further hearing was adjourned until 16 September in Manchester when both cases may be joined.
A further hearing on the speeding matter will be held at Skipton magistrates court on 1 October. Wan-Bissaka was given unconditional bail until later in the month.
Carl Gaffney, prosecuting, said that at just before 11pm on 23 June a police patrol was on duty on Kingsway, Stockport, and stopped Wan-Bissaka behind the wheel of his Lamborghini.
He said: “When Mr Wan-Bissaka was spoken to he was cooperative at the roadside, asked if he had insurance he answered: ‘As far as I am aware,’ and he held a full UK driving licence.
“The officer carries out roadside checks and it becomes self-evident that Mr Wan-Bissaka had been disqualified from driving on 18 June 2021, at West Yorkshire magistrates court, to 17 December.
”Throughout he was cooperative and cordial. He’s a man of no previous convictions whatsoever.”
Outside court Shaun Draycott, defending, said Wan-Bissaka had been in Spain at the time of the 18 June hearing, and was therefore absent when he was disqualified.
A pastor was forced to marry the corpse of his late fiancée who he is alleged to have killed by carrying out an abortion on her while she was unconscious.
Rev Dr. Sucess Emeka Sunday, who owns the church, Life Transformation Praying Ministry, in Akwakuma, Owerri, started dating Chioma Okoye 5 years ago and they got engaged in 2020 and started planning their wedding.
Chioma, 32, soon became pregnant while wedding plans were underway but the pastor didn’t want the baby as his church frowns upon pregnancy before marriage and it would damage his reputation.
The family of the deceased claim that Pastor Sunday invited Chioma over on Feb 24, 2021, and gave her a drink laced with a drug and she became unconscious after consuming it.
He reportedly took her to a hospital and asked for a doctor to terminate the pregnancy. The doctor is said to have refused but the pastor allegedly insisted.
During the procedure, Chioma reportedly started vomiting blood and the doctor advised that the deceased be taken to FMC.
At FMC, Rev. Sunday allegedly registered his fiancée with a different name and then called her family to let them know she was ill.
Chioma reportedly died before her family could intervene.
Wilfred Okoye, who released a statement on behalf of the family, said an autopsy showed there was a drug in her system and also showed that the pastor had allegedly tried to perform an abortion on her by himself while she was unconscious before eventually taking her to the hospital.
After being presented with the autopsy result, the pastor is said to have confessed to drugging her in order to terminate her pregnancy.
The family of the deceased made the pastor marry Chioma before her funeral.
She was buried on Tuesday, August 31 in Umuahia, Abia.
Her name on her obituary poster was changed to include the pastor’s name as a sign that he had married her.
Family members say churches still call Rev Sunday to preach and he’s still a theology teacher at Bethel Seminary.
A statement released on behalf of the deceased’s family reads:
Mrs.Sunday Chioma Success Was Born in The Year 1988 To The Family Of Late Mr.Joseph And Mrs.B.N Okoye Of Amanato Ihitte-Owerre in Orlu L.G.A.She Went To Ikenegbu Layout Primary School, Girls Secondary School Akwakuma And University Of Nigeria Nsukka.
Till Her Death She Has Been The Manager Of Avant Global Bizness Center World Bank Ow.
She Met The Husband Rev.Success Emeka Sunday in a Program And They Agreed To Be Husband And Wife Declaring That God Had Shown Her (Rev.Success.E.Sunday)Whom To Spend The Rest Of Her Life With, After Declaring His Interest To The Deseased Family, They Started Planning And Preparing For Their Wedding Starting From Going To Market Survey And Putting Every All Other Things in Place But When He Learnt That She Was With a Child,He Cunningly Rejected The Pregnancy Saying That The Church Will Frown At It And Also His Image Needed To Be Protected Being a Man Of God And a Founder Of His Church Life Transformation Prayer Ministry.Being in Unconscious State She Was Dragged To The Hospital By The Said Husband But The Information Gathered By The Doctor is That The Husband Had Tried To Remove The Pregnancy On His Own But Couldn’t Before Bringing Her To The Hospital But Rejected The Advice Of The Doctor That it Could Be Risky,He Asked The Doctor To Go Ahead Because Of His Image Dear People Of God To Cut The Whole Story Short Things Were Damaged After Done And It Had Being a Case All These While, She Passed On The 24th February 2021 But Being a Christian Home/Family The Rev Pastor Success Emeka Sunday Pleased For Peace Which Was Granted, What More Can i Say. Let God Be The Judge in All These, It’s Well.
Adieu Nwa Nke Nta, Adieu Taata, Adieu Chi
Signed,
Wilfred Okoye (For The Family)
Below is a video of the pastor being disgraced on the day Chioma was buried.
Kano child bride, Rahma Hussein has been pardoned 7 years after she was convicted for killing her husband.
Hussein who was arrested at the age of 16 in 2014 and charged to a high court in Kano for stabbing her husband to death a day after their wedding, was convicted in 2018 by Justice R.A. Sadik.
Sadik ordered that she be “detained at the pleasure of the governor of the state”, because she was forcefully married and committed the offence at the age of 16.
Musbahu Kofar-Nassarawa, spokesperson for the Nigerian Correctional Centre (NCoS) in Kano state who addressed newsmen on Saturday August 28, 7 years after the incident, said Hussein’s release was “based on the recommendation from the officials of the correctional centre who attested to her good behaviour”.
Kofar-Nassarawa further said that the officials also advised the state governor, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje to consider the circumstances that culminated into committing the offence and grant her pardon. He said the governor obliged to the advice and granted her pardon.
Hussein expressed excitement after she was pardoned, thanking the committee, the governor and officials of the correctional centre for facilitating her freedom.
She said;
“I’m grateful to the committee. The officials of the correctional centre, who recommended me to be a beneficiary of this gesture, may God reward you abundantly. I am also grateful to Governor Ganduje for his mercy on me. I am happy today.’’
Kano state’s Committee on Prison Reforms and Decongestion which played a role in the pardon, also paid fines of inmates with options of fines, paid compensations, and released those in critical health conditions, including the elderly.
US state, Texas has passed a new law banning abortion after six weeks into pregnancy.
The law passed by the Republican controlled state, bans abortions after the detection of what anti-abortion campaigners call a foetal heartbeat.
The law took effect after the Supreme Court did not respond to an emergency appeal by abortion providers against the law.
The law gives any individual the right to sue doctors who perform an abortion past the six-week point.
The “Heartbeat Act” was signed into law by Texas Governor Greg Abbott in May but was taken to court by civil rights groups, including Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), who requested that the Supreme Court block the legislation.
In the early hours of Wednesday, September 1, the ACLU confirmed that the court had “not responded to our request”, adding: “Access to almost all abortion has just been cut off for millions of people.”
The group described the development as “blatantly unconstitutional”.
The US women’s health group Planned Parenthood also condemned the ban, tweeting: “No matter what, we aren’t backing down and we are still fighting. Everyone deserves access to abortion.”
Since the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v Wade, US women have had the right to an abortion until a foetus is viable – that is, able to survive outside the womb. This is usually between 22 and 24 weeks into a pregnancy.
The Texas Heartbeat Act prohibits abortions after six weeks of a pregnancy – at a point when many women do not know they are pregnant. ..Any woman in Texas ego wishes to have an abortion after six weeks would have to travel to another state. The legislation makes an exception in the case of medical emergency, which requires written proof from a doctor, but not for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest.
Twenty US states have filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration after the US Department of Education ordered schools to allow biological males to compete in girls’ sports teams.
Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery and his counterparts in 19 other states in the lawsuit filed in the US district court in Knoxville on Monday August 30, asked the judge to allow them to separate restrooms, showers and locker rooms according to ‘biological sex’.
The suit also seeks for schools to be able to separate sports teams based on ‘biological sex’ and enforce dress codes as such, and not have to use a transgender person’s preferred pronouns.
Slatery said the legal interpretations by the U.S. Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission are based on a faulty view of U.S. Supreme Court June 2020 landmark civil rights law, which in Title VII, protects gay, lesbian and transgender people from discrimination in employment.
In June 2021, the Department of Education said discrimination based on a student’s sexual orientation or gender identity will be treated as a violation of Title IX, the 1972 federal law that protects against sex discrimination in education. A legal analysis by the department concluded there is “no persuasive or well-founded basis” to treat education differently than employment.
The education directive reversed President Donald Trump-era policies that removed civil rights protections for transgender students. In 2017, the Trump administration lifted President Barack Obama-era guidance allowing transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identities.
Also in June 2021, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released guidance about what could constitute discrimination against LGBTQ people and advised the public about how to file a complaint.
With its guidance, the Biden administration in part took a stand against laws and proposals in a growing number of states that aim to forbid transgender girls from participating on female sports teams. The state attorneys general contend that the authority over such policies “properly belongs to Congress, the States, and the people.”
However the plaintiffs said;
“The guidance purports to resolve highly controversial and localized issues such as whether employers and schools may maintain sex-separated showers and locker rooms, whether schools must allow biological males to compete on female athletic teams, and whether individuals may be compelled to use another person’s preferred pronouns.
“But the agencies have no authority to resolve those sensitive questions, let alone to do so by executive fiat without providing any opportunity for public participation.”
Joining Tennessee in the lawsuit are Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota and West Virginia. They are all Republican-led states, except for three.
Nazi’s ‘death quarry’ which is filled with more than 3,500 bodies has been discovered in Russia.
The mass graveyard which gives new evidence of crimes committed by Adolf Hitler during the Nazi occupation of the region in World War II, is located in the city of Salsk in the Rostov region.
Diggers were especially appalled at the discovery of remains of dozens of slaughtered women and children, including babies, following the declassification of documents from KGB secret service archives.
Volunteer search squad, Mius-Front reported key findings from their gruesome search so far.
The group said;
“Our expedition continues to work in the death quarry of the city of Salsk.
“Here, the Nazis killed 3,500 civilians in 1942-43.
“There were many children among them.
“Today, 15 children from one to ten years old were found and taken out.
“It is scary.
“There is nothing more terrifying in war than seeing children die. Any war veteran will tell you that.
“We have already found 20 children in just one execution pit.”
Unusually, not all the victims were shot. One of the diggers said;
“For the majority, death came from blows to the head with a boot or fist.
“Perhaps the children’s heads were smashed against the dried clay of the quarry.
“We have not encountered this before.”
A few Red Army prisoners of war were among the dead but most were the old, the young, and a hugely disproportionate number of women. Among 60 sets of human remains where DNA analysis has been conducted, 16 are women, and 19 children between the ages of two and late teens.
The group’s head Andrey Kudryakov is heard on video saying;
“This is a child’s boot, here is a very small collarbone.
“Here a tiny skull – broken. Nearby is probably his mum.
“A little four or five year old human. Together with mum in this dreadful execution pit.
“This is not ordinary archeology or search work.
“This is the establishment of historical justice.”
“This area – not well investigated previously – “is now revealing its terrible secrets”.
“We see how many kids died here.”
Kudryakov also shared the story of a young pregnant woman with a Cossack cross around her neck.
He added;
“She clasped her head in her hands in horror so as not to see how she was being killed,” he said.
“Next to her lie the torn children, they tried to hide from death, but Hitler’s executioners finished them off with bayonets.
“They didn’t waste bullets, or maybe they ran out of cartridges.
“The punishers had much work in the clay quarry of Salsk,
“it took a lot of ammunition to shoot hundreds of people, so they saved their bullets, and beat them with rifle butts, kicked with boots, and stabbed with bayonets.”
The dead are mostly believed to include Russians, Jews and gypsies relating to Operation Barbosa launched by the Nazis in 1941. The hope is to match some victims by DNA to their modern-day relatives.
Abia state governor, Okezie Ikpeazu’s son, Jachimike, got married to his fiancee, Nkechi, traditionally at Umuikaa, Isiala Ngwa South LGA, last weekend.
The wedding was attended by top government functionaries, associates, family members and friends. See more photos below
Senior Pastor of the Living Faith Church, Bishop David Oyedepo, has said the error Nigeria made in 2015 will never be repeated.
Speaking in his church recently, the clergyman who did not mention any name, said the choice of the wicked to be on the throne of Nigeria will never be repeated.
The clergyman who was clad in his synonymous all-white ensemble, said
”The error this nation mad in 2015 will never be repeated for ever. The choice of the wicked to seat on throne of Nigeria will not be repeated. This Nation will experience a new order of settlement. The God of vengeance is rising in defence of this nation today” he declared as his members chorused a thunderous Amen
Speaking further, the clergyman who has never hidden his displeasure for the government of the day, said ”Fulani vagabonds” now make life impossible for local people.
”You can’t tell how many destinies have been unsettled by the unsettlement of the nation. Fulani vagabons making life impossible for local people . And do they claim not to know? we had it exposed..but I knew it before. Fire from now!”
He said judgement against the wicked will start now.
”And the church became mute. And they cut the neck of a church leader. In this time and age? If nothng happens, then God has not sent me.
Judgement will be ravaging the land from now. Many will sleep and never wake up. Many will be struck with blindness in 24 hours. Many will be crippled in 3 days. My God is turning the table against the wicked.”he said
Watch a video of him speaking below:
The Central Bank of Nigeria has instructed banks to publish the names and Bank Verification Numbers BVN of its customers who default on its Forex policy.
In a circulate to banks dated Monday, August 30th, the apex bank lamented that it has “received and noted with concern reports of sharp practices by some unscrupulous customers to circumvent the new CBN policy on the sale of forex for overseas personal and business travel”.
The bank said some of the unwholesome practices of some customers include “include the use of fake visas and cancellation of air tickets after purchase of PTA/BTA”.
Haruna B. Mustafa Director Banking Supervision Department of the CBN, who signed the circular, noted: “this trend, if not curbed, portends risk to the integrity and stability of the forex market”. He said to curb this trend, all banks must
”publish on their websites the names and BVN of defaulting customers who present fake travel documents or cancel their tickets and fail to return the purchased PTA/BTA within two (weeks) as stipulated in the customer declaration form signed by them”.
Prior to this order, most banks had written to their customers of their commitment to provide customers with foreign exchange for their Personal and Business Travel as well as payment for overseas Education, Medical and other eligible invisible transactions.
The rules that customers have to follow before they can access forex the bank said are: FX shall be sold for Legitimate Travel Purpose Only. Bank customers are required to provide a valid Nigerian passport and a valid visa to an international destination.
Only valid travel documents like tickets to an international destination outside of West Africa and Cameroon will be accepted. The international return ticket must have a travel date not more than 14 days from the date of PTA/BTA purchase.
Bank customers can only apply for PTA/BTA once in a quarter: PTA and BTA requests are limited to a maximum of $4,000 and $5,000 per quarter per applicant respectively.
Customers are required to return purchased PTA/BTA to their bank within two (2) weeks from the date of purchase if not utilized for the intended purpose or if for any reason the scheduled trip is cancelled.
Those wishing to buy Forex are also not allowed to apply for Forex on behalf of a third party. FX will only be sold directly to applicants who shall be Nigerians who are 18 years and above and have a valid Bank Verification Number (BVN).
False application and use of fake documents to purchase PTA/BTA is prohibited and is now considered a financial crime punishable under the applicable laws in Nigeria.
About 90 retired generals and admirals are demanding that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley resign over the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
‘The retired Flag Officers signing this letter are calling for the resignation and retirement of the Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) based on negligence in performing their duties primarily involving events surrounding the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan,’ 90 retired top-ranking military officials wrote in an open letter released Monday.
They believe Milley and Austin should have advised Biden against the withdrawal.
‘As principal military advisors to the CINC (Commander in Chief)/President, the SECDEF and CJCS should have recommended against this dangerous withdrawal in the strongest possible terms,’ they wrote.
‘If they did not do everything within their authority to stop the hasty withdrawal, they should resign,’ the letter demands.
They also said that if Milley and Austin did advise against this, they should have resigned if Biden didn’t take their direction to show their disapproval and to not have to carry out the mission that ended up with lives lost of 13 U.S. service members.
‘[I]f they did do everything within their ability to persuade the CINC/President to not hastily exit the country without ensuring the safety of our citizens and Afghans loyal to America, then they should have resigned in protest as a matter of conscience and public statement.’
In an ISIS-K suicide bombing near the Kabul airport on Thursday, 13 U.S. troops were killed.
Biden took responsibility for their deaths, claiming everything that has happened in the withdrawal has been his doing.
‘The hasty retreat has left initial estimates at ~15,000 Americans stranded in dangerous areas controlled by a brutal enemy along with ~25,000 Afghan citizens who supported American forces,’ the 90 retired generals and admirals wrote.
The letter comes as Joe Biden faces his own calls to resign or be impeached as those from all political backgrounds have criticized the president for his handling of the withdrawal.
Biden is expected to make remarks Tuesday afternoon lauding the end of the 20-year war in Afghanistan.
Taliban fighters fired their guns into the air in celebration in Kabul as the last US troops left Afghanistan nearly twenty years after it arrived the country following the September 11, 2001 attacks on America.
Marine General Frank McKenzie, the head of the US Central Command, made the withdrawal announcement at a Pentagon news briefing on Monday, August 30, after the last troops sent to evacuate Americans and Afghans at risk following the Taliban’s return to power flew out of the capital Kabul.
“I’m here to announce the completion of our withdrawal from Afghanistan and the end of the military mission to evacuate American citizens,” McKenzie said.
McKenzie said the last flight, a large C-17 military transport, took off from Hamid Karzai International Airport one minute before midnight Kabul time.
Recall that US President Joe Biden set a deadline of August 31 for the withdrawal earlier this year.
The final withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan meant the US military could not evacuate all the people that it had hoped to, said Central Command head General Kenneth McKenzie.
Even after an airlift that flew more than 120,000 people from the country since July, “we did not get everybody out that we wanted to get out,” McKenzie said.
After the US troops left on August 30, the Taliban proclaimed “full independence” for Afghanistan.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said that “American soldiers left the Kabul airport, and our nation got its full independence”.
A senior Taliban official said the Taliban had “made history” after the last US troops pulled out.
Anas Haqqani, a senior official of the Taliban tweeted: “We made history again. The 20-year occupation of Afghanistan by the United States and NATO ended tonight.
“I am very happy that after 20 years of jihad, sacrifices & hardships I have this pride to see these historic moments.”
Al Jazeera’s Rob McBride said celebrations erupted in Kabul as the last US troops left Afghanistan on a flight from the capital.
“The celebrations here in Kabul have been underway for the past hour or so – the whole skyline around the city here has been completely lit up with bursts of gunfire, although it has died off in the last few minutes or so,” McBride said, reporting from the Afghan capital.
“This is celebratory gunfire … it’s all aimed up into the sky but it has to come down somewhere.”
A woman fleeing Afghanistan has given birth to a baby girl while on a flight to the United Kingdom.
A Turkish Airlines flight said the 26-year-old woman identified as Soman Noori gave birth on Saturday August 28, after having contractions as the plane was midway between Dubai and Birmingham.
With no doctor aboard, Turkish Airlines staff assisted the mother through labor, which took place in Kuwaiti airspace, Reuters reported. Video shows the crew posing with the tiny baby, who was wearing a pink hat and was wrapped in a blanket.
Evening Standard reported that this is the third child for Noori and husband Taj Moh Hammat, who named their baby Havva, which translates to Eve.
Reuters reported that the plane was carrying Afghans who work with the UK.
As for planes flying to Europe, there is generally no automatic citizenship. However, there’s something called the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and countries that have signed on, offer citizenship in the country where the aircraft is registered. This presents a problem for refugees as the plane might be registered to a country that has no connection to the final destination of the aircraft.
A Nigerian couple have welcomed a set of twins after 14 years of marriage.
The couple dedicated their children at the Dunamis International Gospel Centre in Idu-Karmo, Abuja on Sunday, August 29.
The resident pastor of DIGC, Idu-Karmo, Benshep Obed shared photos from the dedication and thanksgiving service.
A teenage girl has died after being electrocuted when her home was struck by lightning while she was using her mobile phone as it charged.
Radja Ferreira de Oliveira’s phone was plugged into the main socket at her house in Santarem, Brazil, when it was hit by lightning in the early hours of Sunday, August 29.
The 18-year-old, who was using her mobile phone at the time lightning struck, received a severe electric shock and passed out.
Emergency services were called, but by the time the paramedics arrived at the scene, her family had already given her first aid and rushed her to the hospital.
Sadly, Radja was pronounced dead on arrival.
She was the third person to be electrocuted in the Brazilian state of Para last week.
Semeao Tavares was on a phone call in Curua when he was struck by lightning during a different storm on August 25. Medics reached him while he was still alive, but he died from his injuries.
Councillor Raimundo Brito, of the Progressistas political party, was also electrocuted during the same storm while he was plucking a duck in his home in Macura. Brito managed to call for help and was taken to the local health centre, where he was treated for his injuries.
Following Radja’s death, experts have again warned of risks of using a mobile phone while it is still charging.
A 25-year-old mum who now uses “she” and “her” pronouns for her prospective trans-daughter who is awaiting a doctor’s appointment to change his gender, has narrated how he tried to cut off his penis at the age of 3.
Jess Bratton said the shocking incident happened five years ago and made her realise how her doll-loving son Logan wasn’t going through an experimental phase, but instead identified as a female and was trying to be his true self.
Revealing that her son, Logan had always had an interest in girls’ clothes and make up, and had always been keen to see how her and his younger sister dressed, the mother of two further disclosed that after seeing him trying to cut off his penis with some scissors, she decided to look into the possibility that her child was trans.
Jess said;
“I was in the kitchen making dinner, with my back to Logan’s bedroom door. She was chattering away to her dolls but suddenly went silent.
“I shouted her name and got no response, so seconds later I went into her room and caught her sitting on the bed with her trousers down, holding a pair of scissors to her bits.
“I gasped loudly, which made her jump, and quickly took the scissors off her.
“Then I just held her in my arms and we both cried.
“Afterwards I explained that cutting herself would really hurt and that because she wanted to do something so drastic, we would have to talk to a doctor.
“That day made me realise the severity of the situation. It wasn’t just a phase; my little boy really did want to be a girl.”
The mum also revealed that she couldn’t bear to see Logan unhappy and knew things would have to change.
She approached her family GP in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, to explain the scissors episode and that Logan no longer wanted to wear boys’ clothes. The doctor suggested that Logan’s yearning to be a girl could still be a phase, but said he was too young for counselling.
Jess added;
“My GP said there wasn’t really anything we could do but requested I keep a close eye on Logan in the meantime.
“Before this, I had tried to encourage Logan to dress in boys’ clothing and play with boys’ toys, but after the scare I decided to welcome her wish to change.”
Not long before the incident, Jess had given birth to her youngest child Lylah, now six, with Logan doting on his little sister from the start.
Logan soon began wearing more cropped tops and dresses, rather than the boys’ clothes she had been dressed in before.
Jess who is a healthcare assistant for residents with mental health and dementia, said;
“When Logan was just one, she was wearing tea towels on her head, wishing for long hair.
“As soon as she was old enough, she started asking to do my hair and make-up. She was just so interested in me – as well as her sister when she was born.
“As Lylah got older, the pair of them became more like sisters than brother and sister, and Logan’s desire to be a girl never went away. In fact, it only got stronger.
“When Logan was six, she started talking about having a sex change.
“She told me she didn’t want her bits and kept saying she wanted a ‘Mary’ like me and her sister! I told her that when she was a little older, the doctors would be able to help her.”
Jess who is separated from Logan’s father, is relieved that the reaction from family and friends has been positive.
She said;
“Logan has a strong support network and luckily, has only had good things said to her.
“At the beginning there was the odd person telling me to ‘nip it in the bud’ and to stop her wearing girls’ clothes, but I wasn’t too worried.
“I knew it was normal for kids to try new things or experiment.
“There were times when I really tried to get her to be a boy, encouraging her to play football with other boys at the park, but she refused.
“She wouldn’t even entertain it and still won’t – and I don’t want to force her.”
Mirror reported that on the 8th March during UK’s third lockdown, Jess made the brave decision to allow Logan to return to school wearing a girls’ uniform.
She said;
“While she couldn’t stop smiling, I was a nervous wreck! I was so worried about her getting bullied.
“I spoke to a few parents from the school and Logan’s teacher about it beforehand, and they were all so positive.
“Thankfully, the school has been so supportive. Logan’s teacher has also shown her class a YouTube video about being transgender and her friends think she’s cooler because of it.”
After repeated requests to have her sex changed, Logan and her mum are now waiting for an appointment at the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) in London.
Jess also admitted that that being the parent of a transgender child can be lonely and now wants to share her experience to help other parents who may be at a loss.
It was learnt that the kidnappers, who invaded the church premises when some of its members were rehearsing during the weekend, abducted at least three members.
The gunmen were said to have stormed the area, shooting sporadically to scare away interveners before whisking the victims to an unknown destination.
The Chairman of Adavi Local Government Council, Joseph Omuya Salami, confirmed the development to newsmen on Monday evening through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Habeeb Jamiu.
According to him, the chairman had visited the scene in company of the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Osara Division since the incident occured.
Habeeb Jamiu added that the council was working with security agents in the area to ensure that the victims are rescued unhurt.
The Kogi State Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Williams Ovye Aya, was yet to react.
Senior Pastor of the Living Faith Church, Bishop David Oyedepo, has appealed to young people not to get married because of money.
Taking a cue from his own life, the clergyman gave the advice while preaching in his church on Sunday, August 29, stating that he did not have money when he got married to his wife, Faith, 39 years ago.
”You don’t jump into marriage because somebody has money. I didn’t have no money. I didn’t look like someone who will have money. Just one boy who doesn’t know what he is saying, always saying, “Jesus loves you.”
Did we say, “He hates us before”?
You think this man has any future?
There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
You couldn’t imagine that you could see the meaning of wealth and now they say, “He is the richest Pastor in the world.” From the forest.They have a right to say that because he doesn’t borrow, he doesn’t beg and yet he doesn’t lack. Then what is wealth?
For someone to say, “you can’t marry that person. You know your status, my status in town, you want to marry somebody who is …! Don’t let me talk nonsense to you.”There are some parents like that: they are the ones to marry their daughter to somebody.
“How many degrees does he have?” Only one. No, not in this family, we don’t have one degree here! Then marry her. You are the father, be the father and husband. ” he said
Watch a video of him speaking below:
A new report has indicated that the percentage of women living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria increased between 2016 and 2019 while that of men decreased within the same period.
The result from the Nigeria HIV/AIDS Indicator and Impact Survey (NAIIS), which was conducted in 2018, shows that about 1.9 million people under the age of 64 are living with HIV in the country.
But according to the latest report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), approximately half of the projected population of HIV persons in the country are women.
The report noted that the percentage of women with the infection increased from 53.1 per cent in 2016 to 55.5 in 2017, 55.83 in 2018 and 56.03 per cent in 2019.
However, the percentage of men with the infection decreased from 46.9 per cent in 2016 to 44.5, 44.17 and 43.97 per cent in 2017, 2018 and 2019 respectively.
The report which is tagged; “2020 statistical report on women and men in Nigeria” was published by the NBS on August 25, 2021.
NBS is the apex statistical agency responsible for the development and management of official statistics in Nigeria.
The agency said the data included in the publication were “carefully and systematically collected, compiled, processed and analysed from a wide variety of primary and administrative data sources across the National Statistical System”.
It also said the data should serve as a useful resource for policy makers at all levels and the public.
Although the infection rates amongst women increased between 2016-2019, the use of antiretroviral treatment by them declined.
Data extracted from the NBS report shows that the percentage of female patients who had access to antiretroviral in 2016 was 69.05 per cent.
It, however, declined slightly in 2017 to 68.71 per cent and rose to 68.93 per cent in 2018.
Meanwhile, male counterparts witnessed an increase in use of antiretroviral from 30.95 per cent in 2016 to 31.29 per cent in 2017.
The percentage, however, dropped to 31.07 per cent in 2018.
Since early 1980s, HIV/AIDS has been a critical health issue for women and men in Nigeria.
The survey also shows that women aged 15-49 years are more than twice as likely to be living with HIV than men, placing this at 1.9 per cent and 0.9 per cent respectively.
It also indicates that the prevalence between women and men is greatest among younger adults, with young women aged 20–24 years more than three times as likely to be living with HIV as young men in the same age group.
Among children aged 0–14 years, HIV prevalence according to the survey is 0.2 per cent.
A coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa ‘could be more infectious’ than other mutations and has the potential to ‘evade vaccines’, scientists have said.
The C.1.2 strain, which is linked to ‘increased transmissibility’, is more mutations away from the original virus seen in Wuhan, experts at South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases and the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform said.
The virus was first identified by scientists in South Africa in May and has since been found in England, China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mauritius, New Zealand, Portugal and Switzerland.
In their study scientists found the strain, which descends from the C.1 strain that was first spotted amid the first wave of the pandemic, has a mutation rate of about 41.8 mutations per year.
This rate is nearly double the current global mutation rate seen in any other Variant of Concern (VOC) so far.
During their study, researchers found a monthly increase in the number of C.1.2 genomes in South Africa, rising from 0.2 per cent in May to 1.6 per cent in June and 2.0 per cent in July.
This short period of consistent increase has also been spotted in the Alpha, Beta and Gamma variants.
Scientists also found 14 mutations in nearly 50 per cent of the variants which had a C.1.2 sequence.
While more research is required ‘to determine the functional impact of these mutations’, scientists warned the latest variant, which has ‘mutated substantially’, could help the virus evade antibodies and immune responses.
In their report, which was published in the journal Nature, the scientists said: ‘We describe and characterise a newly identified SARS-CoV-2 lineage with several spike mutations that is likely to have emerged in a major metropolitan area in South Africa after the first wave of the epidemic, and then to have spread to multiple locations within two neighbouring provinces.
‘We show that this lineage has rapidly expanded and become dominant in three provinces, at the same time as there has been a rapid resurgence in infections.
‘Although the full import of the mutations is not yet clear, the genomic and epidemiological data suggest that this variant has a selective advantage—from increased transmissibility, immune escape or both.
‘These data highlight the urgent need to refocus the public health response in South Africa on driving transmission down to low levels, not only to reduce hospitalisations and deaths but also to limit the spread of this lineage and the further evolution of the virus.’
Marine Officer Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller has resigned from his commission after being dismissed from command over his remarks about the U.S. troops withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller, posted a video online questioning military leaders’ handling of the situation in Afghanistan which has led to the death of 13 service members who were involved in an evacuation mission.
Scheller, a Marine officer — who served in both Afghanistan and Iraq, had posted a video to his Facebook page on Thursday, August 26, stating: “People are upset because their senior leaders let them down and none of them are raising their hands and accepting accountability or saying, ‘we messed this up.'”
He said in the video he was “willing to throw it all away” to publicly “demand accountability” from military leadership.
Scheller’s video was posted the same day that 13 US service members and more than 170 others were killed in an attack outside Kabul’s airport. His video went viral and sparked controversy, with some commentators praising Scheller’s notes about the operation and others criticizing him for calling out his senior leaders while in uniform and urging him to resign.
After the video was posted, Marine Corps spokesperson Maj. Jim Stenger said in a statement that Scheller had been relieved of command “due to a loss of trust and confidence in his ability to command.”
“This is obviously an emotional time for a lot of Marines, and we encourage anyone struggling right now to seek counseling or talk to a fellow Marine. There is a forum in which Marine leaders can address their disagreements with the chain of command, but it’s not social media,” Stenger said.
After being relieved, Scheller wrote in a Facebook post that “my chain of command is doing exactly what I would do… if I were in their shoes.”
“I will not be making any statements other than what’s on my social platforms until I exit the Marine Corps. America has many issues… but it’s my home,” he wrote.
However on Sunday August 29, Scheller announced his resignation in a video posted on Facebook. He said;
“I’m currently not pending legal action and I could stay in the Marine Corps for another three years, but I don’t think that’s the path I am on. I’m resigning my commission as the United States Marine effective now,”
“I have forfeited my retirement, all entitlements, I don’t want a single dollar.”
Scheller also recalled that his boss asked him about what he was trying to trying to accomplish by posting a video criticizing the Afghanistan withdrawal.
“Now it was a very tough question for me and my response was I want senior leaders to accept accountability,” Scheller said. All I asked for was accountability of my senior leaders when there are clear, obvious mistakes that were made. And had they done that I would have gone back into rank and accomplished what I wanted.”
Towards the end of the 10-minute video, Scheller warned of the consequence of going after stability and money, which, he said, can make a person “a slave to the system.”
“I don’t need a single dollar. I just need every single person that’s willing to go back outside the wire every single day to wear a blue collar, and just go into work every single day and feed their families,” he said. “Those are the people that I need. Follow me and we will bring the whole f****** system down.”
The Kano Hisbah Board has explained why it treats the rich and the poor differently while enforcing some of its rules.
A director of the Islamic police, Aliyu Kibiya gave the explanation while featuring on a Freedom Radio programme.
Kibiya said it is against the tenets of Islam to publicly criticize a leader. He said;
“Although we call on everybody in the society to do the right thing, but we make the call on case by case basis.
“It is against the tenets of Islam to mount the podium and call out leaders. There are ways to caution a leader without criticizing him in public.”
The Sharia police recently came under fire for allegedly turning a blind eye to some acts committed by the rich and clamping down on young men from poor homes with stylish haircuts, in addition to banning mannequins at fashion shops.
Though the commander-general of the board, Haroun Ibn-Sina told the radio station that they also arrest the children of the rich, he did not cite examples of the children of the rich they’ve arrested.
Following the evacuation of many nationals from Afghanistan due to the recent takeover of the government by the Taliban, the Federal government says there are no Nigerians in the country for evacuation.
Since the takeover by the Taliban, different world leaders have begun the evacuation of their citizens from the country. While the US has since evacuated 4500 of its citizens, the UK government has evacuated 15, 000 persons under the Operation Pitting Evacuation mission.
Reacting to calls for the evacuation of Nigerians in the country, the spokesperson of NiDCOM, Abdul-rahman Balogun, said there are no Nigerians in Afghanistan.
“We don’t have any Nigerian in Afghanistan. That’s why we are not carrying out evacuation from the country.”
A US drone strike carried out overnight, Saturday August 28, has killed an Islamic State “planner”, two days after the group claimed a deadly bombing outside Kabul airport.
Among the 92 killed in Thursday’s suicide blast, claimed by Afghanistan’s Islamic State affiliate, were 13 U.S. service members, the most lethal incident for U.S. troops in Afghanistan in a decade.
According to the Pentagon, there were no civilian casualties from the strike and US forces were prepared for more attacks from ISIS even as they continue to airlift people out of the war torn Taliban controlled Afghanistan.
“Initial indications are that we killed the target. We know of no civilian casualties,” the U.S. military said in a statement, referring to the overnight drone strike.
U.S. Central Command said the strike took place in Nangarhar province, east of Kabul and bordering Pakistan. It did not say whether the target was connected with the airport attack.
According to Reuters, residents of Jalalabad city, capital of Nangarhar, said they heard several explosions from an air strike around midnight on Friday though it was not clear if the blasts were caused by a U.S. drone.
The White House said the next few days were likely to be the most dangerous of the U.S. evacuation operation that the Pentagon said has taken about 111,000 people out of Afghanistan in the past two weeks
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the United States believed there were still “specific, credible” threats against the airport after the bombing at one of its gates.
“We certainly are prepared and would expect future attempts,” Kirby told reporters in Washington. “We’re monitoring these threats, very, very specifically, virtually in real time.”
A Nigerian man whose name was withheld has taken to social media to share his heart breaking story.
According to him, he discovered that all his three kids belong to their parish pastors who he claimed the wife is having affair with.
Read his story below:
“I don’t want this issue to be a talk of the town because it is a very shameful thing, however, I want people to be very careful of fake pastors out there because they will eat your wife behind you and suck all the Juice meant for you.
I got married to my wife in a Pentecostal Church in Nigeria. I won’t call the name because not all their pastors are like this, I am very sure. This pastor fortunately happens to be a young Pastor of about 45 and I am 35 but I wedded when I was 29.
It happens that my wife was so close to this our pastor and I wasn’t suspecting anything because she was the choir leader so it was expected. But sometimes I would notice that the closeness is too much.
I remember severally she will go for vigil with the pastor and come back home speaking in tongues and all that. Her spiritual life was an encouragement to me but little did I know that something was wrong.
My wife gave birth to our first child, and then the second and then third. To be frank this children don’t resemble me but I felt it was normal for children to have scattered resemblance sometimes.
Our children are still very young but my wife will Insist that she can’t stop going for her vigils with the Pastor that it is for the family too and helping her spiritual life (To be frank I saw traces of her growth spiritually). I do allow her just as usual but on one certain day I decided she wasn’t going to go.
She changed it for me and started shouting and all that then I knew there was more than just Vigil.
That night I allowed her go but I called a guy man around to help me trace my wife. He traced her and discovered that her bike man dropped her in an Isolated street at that late night and then she entered into another Jeep that looks like the Pastor’s car. He said they were in that Jeep for over 30 minutes and then they drove off.
The next time they had this vigil, I had to trail her myself and asked someone to stay with the kids. That was the day I caught her having s3x at the back seat with the Pastor. They will have s3x and then drive off to an unknown place.
The Pastor is on the run now even his family don’t know where he is at the moment. On hearing that they have been sleeping together even before I married her, I had to go do DNA test on the 3 kids and to my shock, all 3 of them were not my kids.
I have told her to get out of my house and go marry the pastor but she is begging that she will change. How on earth do I forgive such an act of wickedness.”
U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin was granted parole Friday, August 27, after two of RFK’s sons spoke in his favor.
Sirhan Sirhan, 77, who was convicted of fist-degree murder, has served 53 years for murdering Kennedy, then a contender for the Democratic presidential nomination.
On Friday, August 27, a California parole board panel voted in favor of Sirhan B. Sirhan’s request for release from prison on parole.
It was Sirhan’s 16th parole hearing. Since California abolished capital punishment in 1972, and Sirhan’s sentence was changed to life, he has been eligible for release since 1975.
The decision by the parole board was a major victory for the 77-year-old prisoner, though it does not assure his release.
The ruling by the two-person panel at Sirhan’s 16th parole hearing will be reviewed over the next 90 days by the California Parole Board’s staff. Then it will be sent to the governor, who will have 30 days to decide whether to grant it, reverse it or modify it.
One of Kennedy’s sons, Douglas H. Kennedy, spoke in favor of Sirhan’s parole.
Douglas, who was a toddler when his father was gunned down in 1968, said, according to the Associated Press: “I really do believe any prisoner who is found to be not a threat to themselves or the world should be released. I believe that applies to everyone, every human being, including Mr. Sirhan. … I was very deeply moved by Mr. Sirhan’s expression of remorse and at times it brought tears to my eyes and affected me very deeply.”
Another son, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., sent a letter to the parole board Friday in support of Sirhan after learning that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department had sent a letter opposing parole “on behalf of the Kennedy family.”
Robert Kennedy Jr.
Robert Kennedy Jr. wrote: “Please know that that letter was not at the direction of the ‘family,’ and certainly not me. As you may know, I have been a strong advocate for the release of Mr. Sirhan B. Sirhan since I learned of evidence that was not presented to the court during his trial.”
After the ruling in favour of granting Sirhan parole, Robert Kennedy Jr. said: “My father, I think, would be really happy today. My father believed in compassion. The ideals of our justice system are the possibility of redemption and the importance of forgiveness. He didn’t believe the justice system was just about revenge.”
However, on Friday night, six of the nine surviving Kennedy children issued a statement strongly condemning the decision, and promising to challenge it “every step of the way.”
The signers were former congressman Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Mass.), as well as Courtney, Kerry, Chris, Maxwell and Rory Kennedy.
The six siblings wrote: “We are devastated that the man who murdered our father has been recommended for parole.
“We adamantly oppose the parole and release of Sirhan Sirhan and are shocked by a ruling that we believe ignores the standards of parole of a confessed, first-degree murderer in the state of California.”
The Kennedys urged the Parole Board or Newsom to reverse the panel’s recommendation, saying, “We are in disbelief that this man would be recommended for release.”
Paul Schrade was one of five people who were wounded in the shooting as they walked behind Kennedy, and Schrade has long believed that Sirhan shot him but did not shoot Kennedy.
After the ruling in favour of granting Sirhan parole, Schrade said: “I’m pleased that we’ve done this for Sirhan because he didn’t deserve all of the very bad behavior from the prison system and prosecutors and police. He was innocent and didn’t deserve this for 53 years.”
A jealous wife allegedly screwed an engineering nut onto her husband’s penis when she found out he’d been cheating on her.
The woman, who lives in Zaporozhye, Ukraine, with her husband, reportedly carried out the act while her husband slept as a way to “avenge the betrayal.”
As a result, the man’s manhood swelled up to the point where he was no longer able to remove the nut.
He had to be rushed to the hospital for treatment.
Doctors at the 5th City Hospital tried to remove the nut from the man’s penis, but failed.
They were then left with no option other than to perform surgery to remove the nut.
While the patient was being prepared for surgery, doctors decided to call in Cobra rescuers.
Deputy Chief of Cobra, Eduard Nekhoroshev, told newsmen that medics called in the use of special tools, like an angle grinder, to perform the gruesome removal.
Eventually, rescuers were able to cut off the nut by carefully slicing the large nut on opposite sides so it fell off.
The man remained in hospital under medical supervision following the operation.
A man who used super strong glue to ‘seal’ his penis has died.
Salman Mirza, 25, applied glue to his genitals to stop his fiancée from getting pregnant after they checked into a hotel in Juhapura neighbourhood of Ahmedabad, India, on June 22.
Mr Mirza was, however, found unconscious outside the hotel the following day.
Police say the couple decided to use the glue to prevent pregnancy after taking drugs, by mixing whitener with the epoxy to inhale it and get high.
‘Several witnesses said that Mirza, along with his former fiancée, both of whom were addicted to drugs, had gone to a hotel in Juhapura,’ the officer told the Times of India.
‘Since they did not have any protection, they decided to apply the adhesive on his private parts to ensure that she does not get pregnant.
‘They were carrying the adhesive as they occasionally used it with whitener to inhale the mixture for a kick.’
An acquaintance of the couple, Firoz Shaik found Mirza unconscious in bushes near an apartment complex the next day, and took him home.
When his condition deteriorated he was rushed to Sola Civil Hospital, where he died from multiple organ failure.
The officer added: ‘Unfortunately, the adhesive damaged Salman’s organs, and he died due to multiple organ failure.’
Deputy police commissioner Premsukh Delu told local reporters: ‘The viscera samples of the deceased have been sent for forensic examination.
‘We are waiting for the report to arrive.’
Shehu Sani, Kaduna Central Senator, has alleged that two Channels TV reporters have been arrested over interviews conducted on the television station.
Anaedoonline.ng recalls that the NBC queried the TV station over an interview with Benue state Governor, Samuel Ortom and Retired Naval Commodore, Kunle Olawunmi.
However, on Thursday afternoon, Sani took to Twitter to condemn the rumored arrests.
“A Journalist can only ask questions, he or she can’t be held responsible for the answers or the truths or facts contained in the answers.”
“The arrest of the @channelstv presenters Chambalain Usor & Kayode Okikiolu is unconscionable. We can’t solve our problems by muzzling the press.”, He tweeted.
An Anonymous Nigerian woman based in Lagos has shared this painful and shameful story.
See her story:
This is so shameful. I have 1 Boy and 3 girls that are all grown, my first son is 24 and the last born is 16. My husband is a business man so he is hardly at home, he is always travelling here and there and I too I can’t just sit at home and fold my hands, I have to help the family and provide incase things go wrong.
This was what made me open my own business. Three of my children are in the University here in Lagos and so they go to school from home while the last born is in SSS3, about to finish.
Because the elder brother was most of the time home, I was always rest assured that they will be fine and their elder brother will look after them not knowing the reverse will be the case.
According to them when things eventually unfolded, they were all in the room watching a movie when in the movie they started having group sex, they said they didn’t know when they too started touching themselves and they all ended up having a group sex in my own house, oh my God.
They said the elder brother Inserted into all of them including the last born who was only 16 and according to them, that was the first time for them but I don’t believe it.
My most senior daughter had tried to hide it on noticing and was even making plans to abort when the last born in her Innocence came to tell me she was feeling funny. It was the Test we conducted on the last born at the hospital that opened up the whole matter. My 3 daughters were all pregnant for their brother after a group sex in my own house. Oh Jesus.
I actually collapsed that day, they rushed me to the hospital and I think I spent about 2 days there or so. Their Dad had to rush in from Abuja to Lagos to hear for himself. He wanted beating the boy black and blue but at 24, what beating do you want to give him.
We had to rent an apartment for him first first and sent him out to go live there while we figure out how to abort for all of them because over my dead body will my daughters have a baby for their blood brother. I would just die of heart attack. I did my best to bring them up well but I feel I have failed, I have failed my generation, I have failed my family.
As I speak, no one in the whole world has heard except our Immediate family and I choose to be anonymous here and share this so I can share to every mother out there and they can learn from what happened to me.
Actress Mercy Johnson-Okojie and her husband, Prince Okojie, are celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary today, August 27.
The couple got married in 2011 and have four children. They had a family photoshoot and the pictures have been released online. See more below…
Former US president, Barack Obama has released a statement addressing the terrorist attack outside the Kabul airport on Thursday, that killed and injured over 100 persons.
The statement released Friday morning, August 27 grieves with the over 90 Afghans who were killed, while he also sent his condolences to the now 13 confirmed US service members who were killed.
Read the full statement:
“Like so many of you, Michelle and I were heartbroken to hear about the terrorist attack outside the Kabul airport that killed and wounded so many U.S. service members, as well as Afghan men, women, and children.
“As president, nothing was more painful than grieving with the loved ones of Americans who gave their lives serving our country. As President Biden said, these service members are heroes who have been engaged in a dangerous, selfless mission to save the lives of others. Our hearts go out to the families who lost a loved one, and to everyone continuing the mission in Kabul. We’re also thinking of the families of the Afghans who died, many of whom stood by America and were willing to risk everything for a chance at a better life.
“May God bless the memory of those we lost, and protect those who remain in harm’s way.”
The trending ‘Milk Crate Challenge’- has just been banned by social media platform, Tik Tok.
The very dangerous challenge saw users stack milk or drink crates into the highest pyramid they could, before trying to climb up one side of them and down the other, without any of the crates giving way beneath them.
However, the viral challenge has now been banned by the platform as TikTok explained the challenge publicised a dangerous activity.
All search results for the Challenge has been deleted by TikTok.
A spokesperson for TikTok said:
‘TikTok prohibits content that promotes or glorifies dangerous acts, and we remove videos and redirect searches to our Community Guidelines to discourage such content.
‘We encourage everyone to exercise caution in their behavior whether online or off.
‘While the challenge may have started as a joke, it has resulted in some less funny injuries, with it being reported by local news outlets that people are getting hurt due to attempting the challenge.”
A doctor, Ben Saldana, warned this week against the challenge, noting how ‘if someone fell from seven crates, lots of things could happen’. He referenced possible broken bones, brain bleeds, concussions and spine injuries, according to the Houston Chronicle.
Cristiano Ronaldo has posted an emotional farewell to Juventus supporters after leaving the club.
Manchester United have agreed to re-sign Ronaldo in a £19.4million deal, with his three-year spell at Juventus coming to an end.
On Instagram Ronaldo posted a video of some of his most memorable moments in a Juventus shirt which was accompanied by a message.
Ronaldo wrote: ‘Today I depart from an amazing club, the biggest in Italy and surely one of the biggest in all of Europe.
‘I gave my heart and soul for Juventus and I’ll always love the city of Turin until my final days. The ‘tifosi bianconeri’ always respected me and I tried to thank that respect by fighting for them in every game, every season, every competition.
‘In the end, we can all look back and realize that we achieved great things, not all that we wanted, but still, we wrote a pretty beautiful story together.’
Ronaldo signed a four-year deal with Juventus in 2018 and proceeded to score 101 goals for the club in 134 appearances.
During his time in Italy, Ronaldo won the Serie A title twice as well as the Coppa Italia.
Umar Garba Danbatta, the Executive vice-chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has expressed that the federal government is ready to deploy fifth-generation (5G) network across the country.
Danbatta spoke while responding to questions from Bitrus Bako Nabasu, the new permanent secretary of the ministry of communications and digital economy, during a presentation in Abuja on Wednesday.
Danbatta stated that the NCC is ready for the implementation of the government’s decision.
The NCC boss also lauded the thriving healthy competition in the telecommunications industry, which he said has driven down the prices of data in the country.
He expressed that the NCC is requesting for an additional spectrum to be allocated by the National Frequency Management Council (NFMC) to facilitate adequate deployment.
“On the 5G, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami has spoken about the Federal Government’s position to deploy as soon as possible. Our state of readiness is very high,” he said.
“There’s an auction committee for 5G with a deployment plan ready. As you know, without a plan you cannot have a successful deployment.
“All we are asking is an additional spectrum to be allocated by the National Frequency Management Council (NFMC). Of course, some of these spectrums are ready but we have to get the Federal Government’s approval to go ahead with the auctions.”
An NHS doctor has warned that pulling out your nose hairs can cause a life-threatening medical condition.
In a video he uploaded on his Instagram account, Dr Karan Rajan warned you should “never pull out your nose hairs”.
Explaining the hidden danger of pulling out nose hairs, he said: “You have two types of nose hairs.
“You have microscopic cilia, these filter mucus and send it to the back of the throat where it ends up in the stomach, and vibrissae, the big ones you want to yank out.”
The doctor told people not to pull out their thick vibrissae nose hairs, even if they find them unsightly, and instead opt for a trim.
He said: “These [nose hairs] keep out large particles from making it into the back of the nose.
“If you pluck these big boys, germs around the follicle can get inside, causing infection.”
“That’s because the same veins that carry blood out of the nose meet up the veins that carry blood out of the brain.
“So if the germs end up back there in the brain, it can cause inflammation in the brain, sometimes resulting in brain abscess.
“This is incredibly rare but can cause serious problems for people with weak immune systems.
“So next time, just trim it.”
Plucking nose hairs has become a common grooming habit, with many spas and beauty salon offering the service for a fee. Some spas put wax into the nose to pull the hairs off, something doctors have warned is dangerous.
Watch the doctor speak in the video below.
