Thursday 24 January 2019

The Truth About George Clooney & Amal £400m Divorce

Their four-year marriage is considered to be one of the most stable in showbiz. But yesterday, sensational reports claimed that George and Amal Clooney are on the rocks.

According to US gossip side Radar Online, Amal has fled with their twins to the couples' new home in Sardinia after an alleged row - leaving George to 'bombard' her with texts and calls to 'see the twins'.

“He wanted them to enjoy the new property together, but after an explosive argument she ran off there with Alexander and Ella,” the report claimed.

“She’s told him if he comes, he’ll have to stay in the guest house!” However, George has shot down the report, telling Hollywood Life, “The story is made up."


The pair certainly seemed happy enough when George and his parents Nick and Nina supported Amal at the 23rd Annual United Nations Correspondents Associations Awards in New York on December 6

Ahmed Musa’s mother is dead

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Ahmed Musa’s mother, Sarah Moses is dead, the Super Eagles star made this known in a post on his Twitter page moments back.
According to Ahmed Musa, his mother died today, Thursday 24th, January 2019.
Sharing the sad news with his followers on Twitter, Musa wrote that he was feeling very sad. He wrote;
What a sad day of my life,just lose my mum 😭😭😭😭😭

UAC Building In Lagos Island Is On Fire

The United African Company, UAC building on Lagos Island is on fire. Fire service officials are on ground to battle the fire on the high-rising building. Glasses have been shattered in the fire and properties destroyed. Staff have been evacuated.


Mikel Obi joins Middlesbrough

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Mikel Obi has joined Middlesbrough on a short term deal until the end of the 2018/19 season, and will wear the No.2 shirt.
Boro completed the signing of the 31-year-old Nigerian international midfielder and Captain.
The former Chelsea midfielder who became a free agent in November after a two-year spell with Tianjin Teda in China passed his medical with Tony Pulis’ side without a hitch after agreeing on personal terms.
The Nigerian international midfielder was back at Rockliffe this morning to finalise a short term switch.
Mikel who won both the Champions League and Europa League with Chelsea told the club’s website:
‘For me, it’s looking at the project.
‘I spoke to a few clubs and I also spoke to Tony [Pulis], had a good chat with him. ‘He’s told me where he wants to go with it and it definitely fits with what I want to do.
‘The club wants to get promoted so hopefully, I’m here to help in any way I can. ‘It’s a family club and this is what I want. I like stability and this is why I was at Chelsea for a very long time.’

Dismissed Soldier To Die By Hanging For Killing Girlfriend Over Text Message

A Plateau State High Court sitting in Barkin Ladi on Wednesday sentenced a 34-year-old dismissed solider, Sunday Umaru, to death by hanging, for hacking his lover to death over a text message, he found on her phone.

Justice S.P. Gang handed down the sentence after finding Umaru guilty of killing his girlfriend, Charity Thomas, on January 23, 2016.

Delivering the judgment, Gang declared that Umaru “mercilessly took the life of Charity Thomas in cold blood” and had to face the full wrath of the law.


“This sentence is mandatory; the law states that any person convicted of murder shall be punished with death by hanging.

“The sentence of this court upon you is that you, Sunday Umaru, will be hanged by the neck until you are dead. May God have mercy on your soul,’’ Gang declared

Bukky Wright converts to Christianity


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Nollywood actress, Bukky Wright has converted back to her old religion, Christianity after she previously converted to Islam
Bukky Wright, who is divorced from her first marriage, married another journalist, divorced him and allegedly divorced again from her current husband, is now based in Huston Texas, with her two sons.
Formerly known as Bukola Sekinat, the Yoruba actress professed Islam around 2015.
“I have been seeing her in Winners Chapel, Houston, where she attends services and would come elegantly dressed, a reliable source exclusively told KemiAshefon.
Meanwhile, the actress, who is back to being single again, has been putting up some posts on Instagram indicating she’s reading Christian literatures

Fela Durotoye issues statement on consensus candidate for 2019 Election

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Fela Durotoye has said he is ready for a coalition in a bid to defeat the APC and PDP in the upcoming presidential election
This is coming moments after Oby Ezekwesili announced her withdrawal from 2019 presidential race saying she has opted to help build a coalition to defeat APC and PDP in the February election.
Durotoye who is the presidential candidate of the Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN), said he is ready to submit himself to any transparent process that will select a consensus candidate.


See his full statement below;
I have always believed that leadership is about service and sacrifice and today, I would like to commend Dr. (Mrs) Oby Ezekwesili for leading the charge to forming a viable coalition to presenting a Consensus Candidate for the 2019 Presidential elections.
To ensure that an alliance is formed and we present a united front, I AM READY to come into any coalition talks with my brothers Omoyele Sowore and Prof. Kingsley Moghalu and to submit myself to any transparent process that will help us arrive at a selection of a Consensus Candidate from amongst us.

To be clear, if the process produces any other candidate apart from myself, I AM READY to support whoever the Consensus Candidate is and to do all I can to support the coalition to win the 2019 Presidential elections for our generation.
Once again, I implore the frontline candidates in our generation.
Let us come together and seize this historic window of opportunity for our generation to select one of us to go ahead of us … so that ALL OF US can come together and speak with one voice at the 2019 General Elections.
Together, we can do the perceived impossible.
Our generation is depending on us.
We must not let them down.
Signed
Fela Durotoye
Presidential Candidate
Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN)

Thierry Henry facing Monaco sack after just 3 months in charge

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Arsenal legend, Thierry Henry is not having the best of days as a football manager, as he likely to get sacked by Monaco just 15 weeks after starting the job
Thierry Henry landed his first manager’s job with the French club on October 13 when he signed a three-year contract until the summer of 2021. But he has only won just four of his first 20 matches in charge.
Jardim is in line for a shock return to the sideline for Monaco, who are 19th in Ligue 1, three points from safety
The 44-year-old took charge of 232 matches and Monaco were victorious in 125 of them, giving him an overall win percentage of 53.88. In comparison, Henry was won just 20 percent of his games so far and the club is not impressed with him.
It is claimed that Henry will be told in the next 48 hours that he is no longer the man to lead the Ligue 1 strugglers.

Mario Balotelli Joins New Club Olympique de Marseille

Italy striker Mario Balotelli has joined Olympique de Marseille from fellow Ligue 1 side Nice on a six-month contract, the French club said on Wednesday.

Marseille are seventh in the standings, level on 31 points with eighth-placed Nice who have played a game more

Linda Osifo Acquires Lagos Mansion [Photo]

7-Year old Nollywood actress, Linda Osifo is the latest landlady in town. The actress just shared a photo of her newly acrired house with her grass to grace story

Man About To Commit Suicide In Lagos Rescued

A man who was about to commit sucide yesterday, wednesday, January 23rd in Lagos is lucky to be alive as officials of Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA) noticed his strange movement and quickly came to his rescue. He was about to jump off the Carter Bridge into the lagoon when he was rescued. He gave his name has Mohammed Jafar and says he is 25.

He was later handed over to the police.

Pastor's Wife Calls Him Out On Facebook



A pastor's wife who wants to save herself from untimely death, after enduring her alleged abusive husband for almost 9 years in marriage has called him out. According to her, he recently beat her up, stripped her naked in the presence of their children and NEIGHBOUR! Just oh wow!

Below is what Mrs Erdoo Apollos Davis who wants to stay alive and be the mother of her children wrote;



Lawyer Confessed To Killing Husband, Police Tell Court

An Assistant Superintendent of Police, Olusegun Bamidele, on Wednesday, told a Lagos State High Court in Igbosere that a lawyer, Udeme Otike-Odibi, who was accused of killing her husband, had confessed to the crime.

Forty-eight-year-old Udeme is standing trial for allegedly stabbing her husband, Symphorosa Otike-Odibi, to death at their residence on Diamond Estate, Sangotedo, Lagos State.

Punch Metro had reported that Udeme was also alleged to have mutilated the corpse of her husband after killing him.

The offences were said to contravene sections 165 (b) and 223 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

At Wednesday’s proceedings, Bamidele, the final prosecution witness, while being led in evidence by the Lagos State Director of Public Prosecutions, Titilayo Shitta-Bay, said he was the head of the team that investigated the killing and that he personally recorded the defendant’s statement.

He noted that the second time he met Udeme, she was in protective custody at a police hospital in Ikeja after she had been moved from the Safeway Hospital in Lekki, adding that it was during an interactive session at the hospital that Udeme wrote a detailed confessional statement.

He said the defendant was recuperating from what one of the doctors attending to her described as “superficial and self-inflicted wounds,” adding that she spoke freely after identifying herself as a lawyer.

Bamidele stated, “While she was writing her statement, it was an interactive session. I put questions to her; she would explain the answers to me and put them down in writing. She stated in her statement that she was married to the late Symphorosa and that they had marital issues.

“She stated that the deceased was having extramarital affairs and that whenever she raised the issue with him, his responses were not satisfactory and he appeared nonchalant. She also said in the statement that on May 2, 2018, when she was preparing to travel to the United Kingdom, she checked the bedside locker for her marriage certificate but she could not find it and when she went to the deceased on the bed and asked him about it, there was no response.

“She had a discussion with him and there was a hot exchange of words, which made her to go to the kitchen and get a frying pan and knife. When she returned to where the deceased was, she hit him on the head with the frying pan and said: ‘Tell me, what is in your mind that you are withholding.’

“She stated that the deceased called his mother to report her conduct. She continued to hit the deceased on the head again and again. Finally, she confirmed that she used the knife to stab the deceased in his abdomen.

“She also said that while the deceased was lying on his back, she was still angry. She sat beside him, looking at his intestines coming out and said: ‘If this your penis is the one that is giving you the licence not to have the feeling for another person, it’s better we cut it off,’ and she proceeded to do so with the same knife she used in stabbing him, and hung a piece of the penis in his right hand.”

Bamidele further told the court that after the incident, Udeme sent her close friend, Maureen Offor, a WhatsApp message which read: “I have done something terrible.”

He added that further investigation showed that she sent two other WhatsApp messages to the husband of the deceased’s younger sister, Charles Akpoguma, which read: “Just pray for us. May God forgive,” and to her mother in Calabar the same night, stating, “Sorry mum, we engaged in a fight.”

Shitta-Bay also tendered through Bamidele several exhibits recovered from the defendant.

The exhibits included a big shiny frying pan allegedly used by the defendant on the deceased; a blood-covered kitchen knife allegedly used in killing Symphorosa; a bloodstained pen; four phones, two of which were bloodstained; and Udeme’s Nigerian and British passports.

When Shitta-Bay sought to tender the two statements allegedly made to the police by Udeme, her counsel, Olusegun Banjoko, opposed her.

, after showing the statements to his client, prayed the court not to admit them, on the grounds that they were made without her lawyer being present as required by law.

Justice Akintoye adjourned the matter till February 25 to consider the admissibility of the statements in a trial within trial.

Zimbabwe pastor accused of sleeping with church members



A young pastor accused of sleeping with church members, has reportedly dumped them and opted for a different woman to spend the rest of his life with.
The Marondera based Prophet in Zimbabwe, Wonderful Moyo, popularly known as Mystic One of Christ Zone Believers Chapel Church – is also accused of using church members to finance his bride price, H-Metro reports.
The members he has lost cited various reasons against the clergyman’s conduct.
The pastor is reported to have bedded two of his congregants and their affairs became the talk among the congregation forcing Prophet Moyo to dump them and proceeded to marry an outsider.
Prophet Moyo denied the allegations saying the church members left because of their own reasons.
“Our prophet fooled himself by thinking that his calling was going to be effective by marrying,” said the source. “He forced another woman who was leading her own ministry to join him and promised to marry her so as to be effective but this failed to bear fruits.
“Prophet Moyo widened his sexual eyes and proposed to another woman and it became the talk of church and smeared his preaching and this forced him to dump the two. “Church is not an organisation but an organism so Prophet Moyo took church for granted and started forcing leaders to collect money to help him pay bride price and this is what forced many to leave the church,” revealed the source.



One of the female victims he bedded confirmed dating the man of cloth saying Prophet Moyo dampened her spirit by his actions.
“I have since left the church and Prophet Moyo is now married to someone vanhu ngavachisiyana neni,” she said. “It is true that I fell in love with Prophet Moyo and he forced me to leave my ministry and join his while promising marriage as well. “He was seduced by one of the congregants and fell in love with her and it became known to church members.
“I want God to accept me because Prophet Moyo along with his spiritual father based in Mozambique forced me to accept false prophecies they made in order to add membership. “Such false prophecies were done to many members and we were forced to accept.
Prophet Moyo denied the allegations saying some of his leaders abandoned him and started campaigning against him.
“They are not six leaders but they are many of them who have left citing different reasons. “I know there is a girl who had a problem in church and she has been telling people that I was dating her. “This girl loved me and I didn’t love her because I was dating someone at that time so she forced it to an extent that some leaders thought I was dating her.
“Some of the leaders thought I was dating this lady and we had some meetings where I told them the truth. “We asked her about the issue. I asked her to tell the truth if we dated and she said no and I think that’s where the divisions emanated from, because there are people who believed.
“I would want to know the person, as far as I know I got married on December 22, last year and I know these are the things meant to disturb my ministry and my current affair. “We are wedding in April, so when I announced it in church a lot of people were not happy and I know there are a lot of things which happened.”

Jay-Z & Meek Mill Launch Criminal Justice Reform Organization

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They both grew up in impoverished communities riddled with drugs and crime. And on Wednesday, rappers Jay-Z and Meek Mill announced they are forming a criminal justice reform organization that will lobby to change 'the laws, policies, and practices that perpetuate injustice.'

At a press conference in New York, Jay-Z, 49, explained: 'We want to be very clear. If someone commits a crime they should go to jail. But these things are just disproportionate and the whole world knows it.'

'These things' referred to current probation and parole practices that the group, named Reform Alliance, says imprisons offenders in a revolving door of incarceration and probation.


The hip hop stars were joined by New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, Michael Rubin, co-owner of the Philadelphia 76ers, and Brooklyn Nets co-owner Clara Wu Tsai as well as Van Jones, a CNN host and activist who will lead the Reform Alliance.

Oby Ezekwesili withdraws from presidential race

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Oby Ezekwesili withdraws from presidential race on Thursday morning and has rather opted to help build a coalition to defeat the All Progressives Congress and the People’s Democratic Party in the February 16, 2019 election
In a statement issued by the spokesperson for the Obiageli Ezekwesili Presidential Campaign Organisation, Ozioma Ubabukoh, Ezekwesili was quoted as saying that her decision to withdraw from the race followed extensive discussions with Nigerians at home and the Diaspora.
According to her, the action is also prompted by an examination of the country’s electoral environment sequel to the 2019 presidential debate of Saturday, January 19, 2019.
“This decision followed extensive consultations with leaders from various walks of life across the country over the past few days. I deem it necessary for me to focus on helping to build a veritable coalition to ensure a viable alternative to the #APCPDP in the forthcoming elections,” the statement read.
She said,
“It is my ardent belief that this broad coalition for a viable alternative has now become more than ever before, an urgent mission for and on behalf of Nigerian citizens. I have therefore chosen to lead the way in demonstrating the much needed patriotic sacrifice for our national revival and redirection.
“I wish to state that over the past three months, I have been in private, but extended talks with other candidates to birth a coalition that would allow Nigerians to exercise their choice without feeling helplessly encumbered by the evil twins of #APCPDP.
“While the deliberations continued, I never hesitated for a moment in my willingness and determination to sacrifice my candidacy in order to facilitate the emergence of the envisaged strong and viable alternative that Nigerians could identify with in our collective search for a new beginning.
“My commitment to this promising political recalibration has been consistent and in consonance with my agreement, at the request of candidates under the Presidential Aspirants Coming Together (PACT) arrangement in 2018, when I consented to supervise the internal selection process as an outside observer passionate about building an alternative force.”
Ezekwesili also said,
“However, despite resistance from the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria on these and other issues, I have decided that it is now necessary to show by action and example my determination on this issue by stepping down my candidacy so as to focus squarely on building the coalition to a logical conclusion.
“We have no right to allow citizens give in to despair. We will #Fight4Naija together and prove to all that the mess, which the political class has now become, should not be allowed to destroy our spirits and nation. We are also determined to ensure that the message keeps resonating that our beloved country deserves better, and that we will get the best that we deserve.”
She added,
“From last year, when I joined the presidential race, I made it clear to Nigerians that the country has always had a 20-year cycle of change – 1958, 1979, and 1999. As such, 2019 begins another 20-year cycle, and together with all Nigerians of good will, I stand ready to play my part to ensure that we do not miss this golden opportunity to sing a new song.
“There is no more time to waste. Let’s get to work!”
Meanwhile, Ubabukoh thanked Nigerians, including campaign donors and volunteers, who supported Ezekwesili, saying that “every money donated to the campaign and funds spent will be accounted for in the coming days.”