Manchester United star Matteo Darmian gets married in wedding ceremony in Italy (Photos)

Manchester United star Matteo Darmian has married fiancee Francesca Cormanni in a grand ceremony in Italy.
Darmian has enjoyed a memorable few weeks after helping his side win the Europa League and was part of the Italy team that beat Uruguay in a friendly and then recorded an emphatic 5-0 victory over Liechtenstein in a World Cup qualifier, Mirror reports.

The 27-year has now topped off his summer by tying the knot with his long-term partner who have been together since they were teenagers.
The Italy international got married at a church just minutes away from his home town of Legnano, near to Milan, and was thrilled to have a number of family and friends at the ceremony including ex-United team-mate Morgan Schneiderlin.
Alessio Cerci, who played alongside Darmian at Torino, was also in attendance as Darmian enjoyed an unforgettable day.
Reports have suggested that Darmian could be heading out of the exit door at Old Trafford and with the arrival of new signing Victor Lindelof, those rumours will only intensify over the summer.
The United defender only made 15 stars last season and has been linked with a return to AC Milan.

Sahara Reporters Omoyele Sowore demanded bribe from Saraki-Sen Dino Melaye

Controversial Senator representing Kogi West in the national assembly, Dino Melaye has reportedly accused Sahara Reporters lead publisher, Omoyele Sowore of allegedly demanding bribe from the Senate President, Bukola Saraki.
As seen on his Facebook wall he wrote ‘*@YeleSowore of @saharareporters Demanded Money From Saraki*’ There is a pending case against Sowore and very soon, we are going to release details and proof of his attempt to extort.’ He posted alongside a non-trusted link…

A visit to the link he posted alongside the claims, though not trusted and so as not to aid in blackmailing anyone, here’s what we saw (Censored);

Elected Lesotho Prime Minister Wife Shot Dead

The wife of incoming Lesotho Prime Minister Tom Thabane was shot dead late yesterday, two days before her husband's inauguration, raising fears of another wave of political violence in the southern African mountain kingdom.

Police spokesperson Clifford Molefe said Lipolelo Thabane, 58, was traveling home with a friend when both women where shot by an unknown assailant in the town of Masana, just outside the capital, Maseru.

Molefe said Lipolelo died on the scene while her friend was taken to a nearby hospital. Molefe said the motive of the shooting was unknown and that investigations were ongoing.

Lesotho, which has been on a political knife-edge since an attempted coup in 2014, held elections last week, the third in five years, after then-prime minister Pakalitha Mosisili lost a no-confidence vote in March.

Thabane and Lipolelo had been living separately since 2012 after Thabane filed for a divorce which had yet to be granted by the courts.

CNN features Nathaniel Bassey's praise and worship movement

CNN has featured Nigeria's Nathaniel Bassey's Halleluyah Challenge! It is perhaps an unlikely setting for a praise and worship session. But every day at midnight, thousands of worshippers around the world have logged on to Instagram to lift their voices in praise and prayer, united by one hashtag: #HalleluyahChallenge.

More than 60,000 people have joined in the Instagram praise and worship in an hour long midnight gathering, which is the brainchild of Nigerian gospel singer Nathaniel Bassey.

It all started with a simple post on his Instagram page on the 31st of May, where Bassey signaled his intention to start a 30-day midnight praise challenge throughout the month of June.

Even Nigeria's expensive internet data costs have seemingly not deterred eager worshipers who have flocked to the livestream on his Instagram and Facebook pages.

At it's peak, around 68,000 people have joined the Instagram livestream, while over 50,000 joined the Facebook livestream.

Statistics from Evolve Press reveal 10,000 posts with the hashtag "#HallelujahChallenge" and over 18,000 with the hashtag "#olowogbogboro" making it the number one trend in Nigeria.

Bassey said he did not imagine the movement would become so popular on Facebook and Instagram.

"I had a sense which is the leading of the spirit to praise God the whole of this month," Bassey told CNN

"Against the backdrop of the challenges in the world today especially in our nation, with the scourge of terrorism and the recession ... it has brought a sense of hope and respite. It is a reflection of the desire and hunger for answers and for hope," he said.

Bassey frequently shares testimonies of participants who say taking part in the challenge has yielded results and a change in their circumstances.

"I didn’t know what he was into if not I would have been the one to stop him" Father Of Billionaire kidnapper Evans React To His Arrest

Notorious billionaire kidnap kingpin, Chukwumeme Onwuamadike aka Evans, said in a recent interview that he would never have been caught, except that his charms failed at the last minute. He made this known yesterday during an interview with newsmen.
He disclosed that he has a native doctor resident in Nnewi, Anambra State who prepares charms for him and gives him so much courage in its efficacy.

According to reports by New Telegraph, Evans revealed that the native doctor is a traditional ruler and is the power behind his criminal activities. He said he had promised him that no policeman born of a woman could ever arrest him. Evans got anxious when policemen stormed the Igando residence where he keeps his victims so he ran to the native doctor for help and the man assured him that he had nothing to fear.

He said:

 “The native doctor resides in Nnewi, Anambra State. He is a traditional ruler. After police busted our Igando hideout, he told me to have no fear. He said nothing would happen. He told me that nobody would be able to catch or arrest me. I believed him. I don’t know what went wrong.”

This new revelation comes on the heels of the news that Evans' mother, Mrs Chinwe aka Lady Nwosu, has gone into hiding. New Telegraph spoke with Evans' uncle,  Daniel Nwosu, who stands in as the head of the Nwosu family in Akamili village, Umudim, Nnewi. The uncle, who has been bed-ridden for a while, was asked about the whereabouts of his sister, the suspect's mother, but he said he has not heard from her for a very long time. He said that it was only Chinwe’s husband, Stephen Onwuamadike, who would be able to give account of her whereabouts.

Nwosu told New Telegraph:

 “I don’t have anything to say because I don’t know anything about the boy (Evans). If I see him now, I may not even recognise him. It’s been a very long time I saw him last. He doesn’t come home or visit his maternal home. So, what can I say about him? You know children have a way with their mothers. It’s possible she knows what Chidumeme (Evans) is into or not. It is the father or mother that can talk about their child. I don’t have anything to say, but I appeal to the authorities to have mercy on him and forgive him. Children of this generation do not listen to advice; if not, why would he delve into such bad business, knowing the implications. It is because of money? See where it has got him.”

Nwosu further disclosed that when he heard the news of Evans’ arrest, he called the suspect’s mother but she neither picked nor called back. Nwosu said that he had not been communicating with Chinwe for a long time because the woman did not reach out to them.

He said:

“I have not spoken with Chidumeme’s mother for a very long time and I don’t know where she is and what is happening around her. She should be up there in her husband’s house, but now I’m hearing she is not there. I don’t understand what is happening. It’s unfortunate and sad. She is just who she is. I have been sick and bed-ridden for a long time. I don’t go out at all hence; I don’t know what is happening around here.”

Evans' father denied the rumours that he divorced Evans' mother and said he could never do that because they took an oath that only death can do them part. He had earlier said that his estranged wife left her matrimonial home without telling anybody where she was going to.

He said:

“I cannot divorce her because we took an oath on our wedding. The oath is that we will be together for better or worse, till death do us part. Death is the only thing that can separate us. I did not also disown Evans as is being circulated. He remains my son. If he is given a second chance and he returns home, I will welcome and accept him. It was sad I didn’t know what he was into; if not, I would have been the one to stop him, by bringing my friends in the force to arrest and torture him to stop.”

A house allegedly built by Evans’ mother for one of her brothers who lives in Port Harcourt was discovered in Nnewi. The maternal home of the kidnap kingpin was discovered to be a quiet middle-class home with a Toyota Rav 4 vehicle parked in a garage

26-Years Marriage Dissolved Over Wife’s Stealing Habit

                          

An Ibadan Customary Court today dissolved the 26- year-old marriage between Wasiu Adebisi and Idowu Adebisi, based on the husband’s complaint that he could no longer cope with his wife’s stealing habit.
The couple has four children. The President of the court, Chief Mukaila Balogun, granted Adebisi’s prayer considering that Idowu had failed to honour series of summonses to defend herself.
Balogun ordered that the two older children be in the custody of the plaintiff, while the younger children remain with the defendant.
He also ordered the plaintiff to pay N6,000 monthly allowance for the maintenance of the two children in the care of the defendant.

Adebisi, a transporter, had told the court that he could no longer continue with the marriage because of the embarrassment his wife’s shameful act had caused him.
“”She is in the habit of stealing my money but has extended the stealing to the neighborhood and is causing embarrassment for me.
“”Though I reported to her parents who tried all possible means to curb the shameful act but my wife refused to turn a new leaf and has rendered me broke.
“I dare not keep money or other valuable items in the house because she would locate wherever I kept it and steal it.
“”Therefore, I want this court to end the marriage so that I will be able to have savings and recover from this poor living standard,”“ Adebisi pleaded.
However, Idowu was not in court.

Moji Olaiya Family Reveals The Real Cause Of Her Death

     


The family of the late Nollywood actress, Moji Olaiya, on Monday, released a statement indicating that the autopsy conducted on her remains showed that she died of a ‘natural medical cause’.
In a statement by Moji’s brother , Femi Olaiya, the family dismissed rumours that the late actress was poisoned in Canada where she was delivered of a baby girl in Feburary.
However, doctors, who spoke with PUNCH’s correspondent on Monday, said that the autopsy report suggested that the late mother of two must have died of a traceable and demonstrable medical cause.
A medical consultant with the Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Dr. Adeoye Oyewole said, “Someone is said to have died of a ‘ medical cause’ when there is a traceable and demonstrable medical pathology that is related to the death. The term ‘natural medical cause’ is not medical.
“For instance, if the person had suffered a heart or cardiovascular event just before he/she died, that is a traceable medical cause. If the person also had an underlying medical condition like an enlarged heart but an event triggered a shock to the system to have caused the death, it is also a medical cause.”
A cardiologist with the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, Dr. Afolabi Akinkunmi, corroborated Oyewole’s views, saying there was always a medical cause to every death; and an autopsy was usually carried out to establish the exact or underlying cause of the individual’s death.
Akinkunmi said, “There is always a medical cause for every natural death. If you have any doubt, then the autopsy report is conducted and the coroner will state it on the death certificate.”
Another expert. Dr. Babajide Saheed, noted that a person who suffered a sudden cardiac arrest or a condition that shuts down the brain or nervous system in a short time is said to have died of a natural cause.
Saheed said, “There is always a medical pathology to every natural death. So a natural death means that there is nothing you could have done to help the individual, such as if the person experienced a sudden cardiac arrest and died even before getting to the hospital.
“If a person that has a terminal disease such as leukemia dies, it is a natural death because there is nothing you could have done for the patient. These are natural deaths with a traceable medical pathology.”
The actress died on May 18 in Canada and her remains were interred at the Ebony Vaults, Ikoyi Cemetery, on Wednesday.

Harrysong Loses Twitter Account To Hackers Again

Alterplate Music Company Boss and lead artiste, Harrison Tare Okiri,  Harrysong has lost his Twitter account, yet again.

The singer’s twitter account was earlier in the year hacked and recovered a month after.  Shortly after the account was restored, it was hacked again, hence the decision to abandon it completely for a new one becomes the sensible move.

Harrysong has launched a new twitter handle, @iamharrysong and wishes to inform his fans to connect with him via the new medium.

£1m Raised In 24 Hours, Rita Ora Distributes Relief Items To The Victim Of Grenfell Tower Fire

Strangers and celebrities including singer Rita Ora helped through the night to help get urgent supplies to the desperate Grenfell Tower fire victims as three appeals raised more than £1million in just 24 hours.

Companies, individuals and charities sprang into action to help those in need of food, water, clothes and shelter after yesterday's fire in North Kensington, West London, which killed 17 people and left scores more injured.

Ora, 26, said on Instagram: 'This is my neighbourhood, I can't believe this is happening. My prayers are with everybody involved, my heart is beating so fast. I used to play in that block, I want to do all I can do to help.'

The former X Factor judge posted a video of herself among black sacks of donations, including clothes, water and food, at one of the help points. She also posted an image of the tower, and wrote 'RIP' on Snapchat.

See Why Denrele Wedding Plan Failed

      

Nigerian popular media personality, Denrele Edun, opened up on events that led to the abandonment of his marriage plans with his ex, Yvonne.
He explained that he jettisoned his plans to get married when demands were made of him to change from his weird ways. He argued that his weird ways was what was getting him his daily bread. “They said there would be a lot of terms and conditions, that I would have to behave a certain kind of way. I thought about it but when I was “normal”, I didn’t have money, if I am broke how will I pay bride price…the girl and I are still friends,” he told Guardian Life.
Denrele also revealed that his unusual style caused him a lot of embarrassment before he got the fame. He said that he was even banished from coming to Church when he refused to change his ways.
“When I didn’t have a car, conductors would push me out of the buses and they would shout about a mad man on the loose when I was in Unilag people used to stone me with pure water…. I remember going home to cry, it wasn’t just the choir, they told me to stop coming to church, it was difficult,” he said.

Checkout How Much Pastor Ashimolowo Told His Congregation To Donate As Sow & Seed

The founder of Kingsway International Christian Centre, KICC, Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo in a video was heard telling his congregation to sow a special seed. He said, some will need to sow a $1000 for the seed, while some will sow N1000 for every year they have lived, while some can decide to sow he two

                                  

At Least 19 Killed In Somali Hotel Attack

At least 19 people were killed when Islamist militants launched a car bomb and gun attack on a busy hotel and adjacent restaurant in the Somali capital, a police officer said on Thursday.

A car driven by a suicide bomber rammed into the Posh Hotel in south Mogadishu on Wednesday evening before gunmen rushed into Pizza House, an adjacent restaurant, and took 20 people hostage. Posh Hotel is the only venue with a discotheque in the capital.

District police chief Abdi Bashir told Reuters Somali security forces took back control of the restaurant at midnight after the gunmen had held hostages inside for several hours. Five of the gunmen were killed, Bashir said.

"We are in control of the hotel but it was mostly destroyed by the suicide bomber," he told Reuters by phone.


Witnesses said there were bodies lying at the scene on Thursday morning as ambulances came to take them away.

Another 27 civilians were taken to hospital with various injuries, ambulance services said. Witnesses said the attack was launched after the Iftar dinner for customers who are fasting for Ramadan. Most of them were still inside relaxing.

The wreckage of three-wheeled scooters caught up in the blast at the hotel, which also housed a massage parlor, lay overturned around the scene.

Al Shabaab, the Islamist militant group, claimed responsibility for the attack. The group claimed on Thursday morning it killed more than 20 people including soldiers and government workers.

Al Shabaab usually provides a higher death toll from its attacks than the government's figures. Just sad!

Court Remands 3 Suspected Cultists Over Alleged Murder

An Ota Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ogun yesterday remanded three suspected cultists, Azeez Rasaq, 24; Soretire Olumide, 26, and Adebayo Sadiq, 28, in prison custody over alleged murder.

The accused persons, whose addresses were unknown, are facing a two-count charge of conspiracy and murder.

Earlier, the Prosecutor, Cpl. Mustapha Abdulkareem, told the court that the accused and others still at large, committed the offences on April 26, at about 5.00p.m at Ogba-Ayo under bridge, Ijoko, Ota.

Abdulkareem said that the accused persons and their accomplices being members of a secret society called “Aiye Confraternity” did conspire among themselves to kill one Lanre Adebowale.

He said they killed him by violently launching an attack with a gun and a cutlass that led to the death of the victim.

Abdulkareem said that the offences contravened Sections 319 (1) and 324 of the Criminal Code, Vol. 1, Laws of Ogun, 2006.

The Chief Magistrate, Mrs A. I. Adelaja, ordered that the accused persons should be remanded in prison custody, pending legal advice from the State’s Director of Public Prosecutions on the matter.

Adelaja adjourned the case until July 21, for hearing.

Kidnapper Evans cries uncontrollably as he is placed in cell with 'common poor criminals''

Suspected kidnap kingpin Chukwudemeje George Onwuamadike alias Evans is not finding it funny in police custody. He is weeping that he is being held among “common poor criminals”, The Nation is reporting. .

The kingpin, who was arrested on Saturday at his 3, Fred Shoboyede Street, Magodo, Lagos home, is being kept in a maximum security cell. It was gathered that Evans broke down yesterday, lamenting the state of the police cell. .
A source said he lamented that after making billions, owning gold, diamond and living like a king, he finally ended up in a cell with poor suspects. It was gathered that he told his interrogators he has two other detention camps in Lagos.
He was also said to have confessed that he started off as an armed robber in Sokoto State. The source said: “He has been weeping uncontrollably because he is in a cell with common poor criminals despite all the wealth and mansions he owned.
He has started talking. He has given us locations of other detention camps he had in Lagos. Aside Igando, he had two others and detectives would visit the place. He also said that his very first robbery was in Sokoto State and that they killed the victim.
He is still being interrogated and more details would come out after the camps have been visited.” .
Meanwhile, The Nation learnt yesterday that Evans has been excommunicated from Nnewi for over five years because of the terror he unleashed on wealthy indigenes of the town. .
It was also learnt that his second in command, Felix Chinemerem, a native of Amanagu in Abia State, was also declared wanted in 2014, after his criminal activities led to the killing of many innocent people. .
It was learnt that Chinemerem took part in the kidnap of a prominent Nigerian, which prompted policemen to storm the community and allegedly shot randomly, killing villagers. After the incident, the villagers were said to have moved to kill him but he fled and had not been seen since then.

12 girls arrested in Katsina on their way to Europe

Seven girls using hijab to disguise themselves and evade arrest were among the 12 persons intercepted by the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) in Katsina on their way to Europe.
This brings the total number of persons apprehended by the NIS to 40 in the last four months as they tried to cross various legal and illegal routes to Agadez in Niger Republic en route Libya then Europe.

While parading the rescued victims, the Comptroller of Immigration in the state, Mohammed Yaro Rabiu, said the hijab was a decoy intended to camouflage and get easy passage at the border. “All the rescued victims are Nigerians from Edo State and will be handed over to NAPTIP for further action,” he said.

“The victims are Dennis Igbobo, Elvis Osas, Earnest Ugiagbe, Bright John, Lucky Iyare, Gift Osagie, Godday Ruth, Ovioma Gift, Otoboh Fabour, Believe James, Endurance Idemadia and Marian Josiah.”

According to Daily Trust, some of the victims said that they were pushed by hardship and the search for better opportunities.

Davido Brother & Hypemen Slam Eachother On SnapChat

 Davido’s brother Adewale Adeleke and Davido’s hype man, Special ED are not cool with each other as both has been shading each other on Snapchat.
Seems Special ED started it all as from the time he posted, see the reply from Adewale Adeleke below!

Here’s Spesh’
                               
                                   
                          And then Adewale