Usain Bolt forced to give back Olympic gold medal

Usain Bolt and the 2008 Jamaica 4x100m relay team have been stripped of their Olympic gold medals.
It comes after teammate re-analysis of a drug sample offered by teammate Nesta Carter was found to have tested positive.
Carter, now 31, tested positive for the prohibited substance methylhexaneamine.


A statement released by the IOC disciplinary commission declared:

"The Athlete, Nesta Carter is found to have committed an anti-doping rule violation pursuant to the IOC Anti-Doping Rules applicable to the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing in 2008. 

Carter is disqualified from the men’s 4x100m relay event in which he participated upon the occasion of the Olympic Games Beijing 2008. 

The Jamaican team is disqualified from the men’s 4x100m relay event. The corresponding medals, medallist pins and diplomas are withdrawn and shall be returned."

Carter was on a on the list of 31 athletes who failed retests, which took place using the latest scientific techniques, in a bid to catch out drug cheats ahead of last year’s Olympics in Rio.

Peter Okoye's kids pose with his Chrysler Prowler (Photos)

Cameron and Aliona posed for a photo with their dad's Chrysler Prowler which he cruised round Banana Island with weeks ago. See Peter Okoye posing with his "beast'  after the cut...

Kiran and Jyoti Matharoo failed to show up in court.

According to Politics Nigeria, Kiran and Jyoti Matharoo failed to show up in court today to continue a hearing on their case, and have been issued bench warrant.

Recall that there were reports that the sisters quietly left the country last week ahead of their scheduled appearance at the Yaba Magistrate Court. Read the report after the cut...

"The two sisters alongside their Nigerian accomplice, Babatunde Oyebode a.k.a Baudex are currently facing charges of extortion, cyber-bullying and blackmail. 

The trio met their waterloo after trying to blackmail billionaire businessman, Femi Otedola 

The case, with file no. A/203/2016, which is between the Lagos state commissioner of police and the 3 defendants following a petition filed to the police by Otedola, was called up at about 10:03 am on Wednesday. 

Only Oyebode and his legal counsel showed up, spotting a brown blazer and black trousers, Oyebode briskly walked to the stand. 

When queried by the presiding judge, Justice E.A Ojo on the whereabouts of the girls, Oyebode quickly stated that he had no knowledge of their whereabouts. 

After having a brief chat with court officials, Justice Ojo issued a bench warrant for the girls and placed an order for their sureties to show cause. Justice Ojo then filed for the case to be transferred to the Federal high court in Lagos. 

The matter has been adjourned to the 1st of March 2017. 

The absence of the ladies in court today has fueled rumors that the two sisters allegedly fled Nigeria silently last week. It is believed the sisters are still in possession of some digital copies of compromising pictures and videos of randy businessmen and politicians discovered on laptops and iPads seized from them by the Nigerian police."

King Sunny Ade Gets A Mercedes and N10m From A Fan

Goodies are still coming in for Nigerian music legend, King Sunny Ade. He received a Mercedes GLK 450 and N10m cash from US based businessman, Adekunle Adeya Falade. Nice one!

Donald Trump sign order restricting refugees and Muslims from entering US

Donald Trump is to sign several executive orders restricting immigration to the United States from Muslim countries, it has been reported.
The new President will restrict access to the US for refugees and some visa holders from countries including Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, it has been claimed.

The report came via Reuters who spoke to several congressional aides and immigration experts briefed on the matter.
The announcement will be made on Wednesday at the US Department of Homeland Security.

Muslim campaign groups said they were preparing for the details of the order, but indicated Trump may face a legal fight.

During his campaign, Trump promised to temporarily ban all Muslims from entering the United States as an apparent measure to combat terrorism.

Rihanna Spotted Spotted Alongside Sandra Bullock For All-Female Movie Ocean's 8

Rihanna , 28, is the latest celebrity to be spotted filming heist scenes for the all-female sequel to George Clooney's 2001 crime romp, Ocean's Eleven .

Wearing an all-in-one unflattering navy boiler suit, huge hoop earrings and chunky dreadlocks, the singer joined fellow cast members Sandra Bullock and Sarah Paulson on a rainy shoot day in New York.

The pictures see the trio filming some sort of heist scene that involved Rihanna fleeing from a white transit van in exciting scenes.


The lure of the all-female cast is clearly something Rihanna is extremely passionate about.

 As a proud feminist, leading figure in the 'Free The Nipple movement' and advocate for women's rights - we last saw Rih Rih when she took to the streets outside Trump Power in New York, protesting alongside millions in last weekend's astonishing Women's Marches.

The all-female Ocean's 8 just seems to be getting bigger and better every single day. We can't wait to see it.

The movie is heavily rumoured to be released on June 8, 2018.

Pics from Mr Ibu's wife's birthday celebration

Comic actor John Okafor aka Mr Ibu's wife Stella turned a year older few days ago and had an in house birthday party with few family and friends.
More photos after the cut...

Two Teenagers arraigned Over Alleged Gang-Raping In Lagos

                                
Two teenagers were on Wednesday arraigned in an Ikeja Chief Magistrate’s’ Court for allegedly gang-raping a 19-year-old girl. The defendants- Daniel Harrison,18, an apprentice, and Uche Osakwe, 19 , a fashion designer, are being tried for conspiracy and rape.

The prosecutor, Insp. Simeon Inuoha, told the court that the offences were committed on Jan. 17 at No. 4, Wahab Larinde St. , Oshodi, Lagos.

Inuoha said that Harrison invited the victim to his house for a chat.

“On getting there, Harrison shut the door at her while Osakwe who was already in the room, pushed her to the bed. They gang-raped her and pushed her outside, ” he said.


According to the prosecutor, the offences contravened Sections 259(1) and 409 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

The duo entered a “not guilty” plea.

The Chief Magistrate, Mrs B. O. Osunsanmi granted the accused persons bail in the sum of N300,000 each with two sureties each in like sum.

She adjourned the case till April 13 for continuation of hearing .

American actor, Jay Bowdy reportedly commits suicide on Facebook live

34-year-old American Up-and-Coming Actor, Jay Bowdy has reportedly taken his life recently during a Facebook Live video.
After his death, people kept sharing his Facebook live until they were asked to stop sharing it.
Others reported the video to Facebook and the one on his page has since been taken down. The video was up on his page for over 8 hours before it was taken down by Facebook. See more photos of him after the cut...

Founder of World Star Hip Hop dies at 43

The rich founder of music and urban culture platform, World Star Hip Hop, Lee O’Denat, has unexpectedly died. He was 43yrs old.

Known simply as “Q” by his friends and admirers, the father of three was 43 years old.

LA Times reports the San Diego County medical examiner’s office said he was at a San Diego shopping center identified by police as a massage parlor when he became unresponsive.

Paramedics arrived and attempted to revive him with CPR, but Lee O'Denat was pronounced dead about 5:30p.m. The cause of death is heart attack, according to multiple sources.

May his soul find eternal rest.

Barack & Michelle Obama's first ever photos since leaving White House

Barack and Michelle Obama officially stopped being the POTUS and FLOTUS of the USA on January 20, 2017.
Here are their first ever public photos since exiting the White House.
The two are currently on vacation on Branson's private vacation home on Necker Island, one of the British Virgin Islands. More photos below..

14-year-old housemaid flees home with bosses’ daughter

Panic has gripped parents of a 22-month old girl, Mayowa Aweda, of Unity Estate, Idimu, Lagos, after their housemaid allegedly fled home with their child on Monday.
The housemaid, who is known only as Christiana, was said to have left with the girl around 7pm when the parents were not at home.

PUNCH Metro reports that Mayowa’s mother, Iyabo Aweda, had, while she and her husband were going to work that morning, instructed Christiana to wash plates and clothes before she returned from office.

It was gathered that when the husband, Leo Aweda, came back from work in the evening, Christiana 
had yet to carry out the tasks.

A few minutes after, Leo was said to have gone to a salon to have a haircut and took Segun, their first child, along, leaving Christiana and Mayowa at home.

“I came back from the salon around 7am to discover that Mayowa and the housemaid were not at home.

“A resident said he saw her going out with my daughter around 7pm. She left with a rechargeable lamp. That was the only thing she took away; all her belongings are still at home.

“We got her in July 2016 through my wife’s friend, called Iya Samuel. We enrolled her in a private school and my wife sends N5,000 to her mother every month. She is in Basic 5. She is from Iseyin, Oyo State. I didn’t want my wife to employ her in the first place. We don’t have her picture,” Aweda told Punch on Tuesday.

The mother said Christiana had once fled home after she damaged the rope used for starting a generator, but was intercepted by a security guard at the estate gate.

She stated that she had wanted Christiana to leave a few months ago, but the housemaid’s mother begged her to rescind her decision.
She said,

“When I was going to work on Monday, I was supposed to take Segun somewhere, but my husband said Segun would not go with me. He asked me to let him stay with Christiana. She was happy when I told her she would look after Segun that day.

“I told her to clean the kitchen, wash plates and her clothes, as well as the children’s clothes. I told her to pick up Mayowa at creche by 5pm. I do have a lot of meetings on Mondays, which made me to get home late.

“When I got home, I discovered that she had yet to do any of the tasks and had probably been watching television all day.

“I think she felt I would beat her for not doing the work. The fear probably made her to flee home with my daughter. But I have never beaten her before for any reason and we take good care of her. I only threatened to beat her so she could do what she was supposed to do.”

Punch adds that that the guarantor, Iya Samuel, was arrested by policemen from the Idimu division, where the case was reported, while Christiana’s mother had been informed about the incident.

“We called the woman this morning (Tuesday) to ask if she saw Christiana. She said she had not seen her,” Iyabo added.

Hours later, an enthusiastic Leo called and told PUNCH Metro on the telephone that the maid and his daughter had been found at Oshodi under bridge by the police.

“Praise the Lord, I just received a call that they have been found in Oshodi under bridge. I learnt that some policemen saw them under Oshodi bridge. She had yet to tell us why she fled home with the child,” he said.

Soldiers beat Redeemed pastor into coma for refusing to ‘frog-jump’

A Redeemed Christian Church of God, Abuja pastor, Alex Ochienu, has accused two soldiers of assaulting and beating him into a coma for refusing to obey their order to do frog jumps.
Speaking to PUNCH, the cleric alleged that he was flogged by Cpl. M. Dankwa and his colleague whose name he did not know, until he collapsed and was rushed to the Gwarimpa General Hospital where he was admitted at the Emergency ward

The civil engineer said he was supervising construction works at Paradise Estate, Life Camp, Abuja when the soldiers invaded the site with officials of the Development Control Department and 
assaulted him and other workers.

Ochienu told Northern City News on Tuesday that the soldiers beat him with rifle butts and kicked him in the stomach simply because he told them he could not obey their order to do frog jumps as he was fasting.

The engineer said he lost his phone during the incident which occurred on January 17, 2017 at 3pm.

Ochienu said despite his pleas to the rampaging soldiers that he was fasting, they refused to listen, but rather flogged him until he collapsed.

He said,

“The soldiers rushed into the site and ordered everyone to frog-jump; they flogged the workers and threatened to shoot us. I tried to explain to them that I was weak because I was fasting, but Dankwa was infuriated by my explanation.

“He kicked me in the stomach; another soldier also joined in beating me till I collapsed. When they saw that I was almost lifeless, they left and I was rushed to the hospital by the workers.”

The cleric said he learnt the soldiers apologised to the owners of the estate “for their mistake.”

But Ochienu said he planned to take legal action against the Development Control Department and the military for the assault.

The Paradise Estate Project Manager, Tobias Tokbe, said he was not at the scene, but added that beside Ochienu, another worker, Bem Ali, was also brutalised by the soldiers without any reason.

He said,

“I was discussing with the development control officials at the project office when I saw some workers carrying somebody and they told me Ochienu was beaten by the soldiers that accompanied the development control officials to the site; I was livid.

“I immediately called the development control director who said he didn’t authorise the soldiers to attack anyone. We asked the soldier why he beat up the engineer and he said Ochienu grabbed his jacket, which we know was a lie.”

Tokbe said the riot policemen guarding the estate almost fought with the soldiers after the incident.

When contacted, the Development Control Director, Muktar Galadima, said he was informed about the incident and “I said sorry, but I didn’t see the victim of the attack.”

2.3m Persons Living With HIV In Nigeria Are Not On Treatment

                     
2.3 million Nigerians living with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus are not on any form of treatment even as health experts have raised alarm over the growing incidence of resistance to Anti-retroviral drugs in the country. 

Disclosing this yesterday in Lagos, a professor of Haematology and Transfusion Medicine at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Professor Suleiman Akanmu, said only 900,000 persons living with HIV in the country are currently on a treatment programme as against the estimated total number of 3.2 million persons nationwide. 

Akanmu, who is also the Chairman, National Task Team on Antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Nigeria, spoke during a joint stakeholders’ Summit with the theme: “Drug Resistance Monitoring, Early Infant Diagnosis and Viral Load” organised by World Health Organisation, WHO, blamed the development on inability to carry out routine viral load test, as well as unavailability of second and third line drugs to treat HIV.


“Many of our patients that are on first line drugs are failing and they are supposed to be put on second line drugs which is not available now. Also we are not detecting failure on time, if you have about 900,000 Nigerians on first line drugs, we do not know how many of them have failed the first line regimen because we do not routinely carry out viral load test to show that while on drugs, the virus is still detectable in them.

“If we have facilities in Nigeria where people can easily do viral load test, then we would be able to detect first line failure and be talking about putting them on second line regimen,” he argued.

Äkanmu, however, called for more research and support for laboratories in the country to effectively carry out viral load test and when detected there should be enough drugs to put them on second line regimen.

Man rocking full NYSC Spotted in USA

A Nigerian man rocking his full National Youth Service Corps attire was recently spotted walking the streets of United States. 

More photos below

Police Rescue Students, Staff Of Nigeria-Turkish International School From Kidnappers

The kidnapped students and staff of the Nigerian-Turkish school in Ogun State have been rescued, police said Tuesday. The five students and three staff of the Nigeria-Turkish International School located in Isheri Area of Ogun State were kidnapped on January 13.

The Ogun State Police Command Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who broke the news on a social media platform known as PenPushing platform said details of the rescue would be made available later.

‘The pupils and staffs of Nigeria Turkish international school kidnapped on Friday 13th January have
all been rescued unhurt this evening. Details later,” the police spokesperson wrote.

Timaya becomes Hennessy Ambassador

The singer shared the good news on his Instagram page. Congrats to him!