In a recent interview with Pulse NG , ace Nigerian rapper, M.I Abaga
spoke about diverse issues affecting the Nigerian music industry and he
talked about the direction of his music.
M.I
in the interview talked about the aspect of financing in the Nigerian
music business and surprisingly, the rapper had good words to say about
internet fraudsters, who he claims have been filling the gap by
financing artistes, in the absence of corporate sponsors and brands.
In his words:
“There’s no bank in the history of Nigeria that has given one Naira to
any label. There’s one corporate entity that has given any label. It’s
young guys.
In fact, you’re more likely to get money from a Yahoo boy. Shout-out to Yahoo boys. May God prosper your business.’’
Popular Nigerian rapper, Reminisce has acquired a 2017 Lexus .The
talented artiste posted the photo on his Instagram page. Congratulations
to him! Check out the car below...
The son of former Honduran President Porfirio Lobo was sentenced to 24
years in prison on Tuesday after pleading guilty to a U.S. charge of
conspiring to import cocaine into the United States.
Fabio Lobo, 46, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Lorna Schofield in
Manhattan federal court. He had pleaded guilty in May 2016, about a year
after he was arrested in Haiti in a U.S. Drug Enforcement
Administration sting.
Lobo’s father was elected president of Honduras in late 2009 after a
military coup ousted then-President Manuel Zelaya. Porfirio Lobo left
office in January 2014, when current president Juan Orlando Hernandez
took office.
Before being sentenced, Lobo tearfully apologized to his wife, three
daughters and other family members, some of whom were sitting in the
courtroom.
“I want to apologize to the government of the United States,” he said.
“I apologize to the people of Honduras, to my mother and especially to
my father, who has nothing to do with this.”
Lobo asked Schofield to sentence him to ten years, the minimum allowed under the law. Prosecutors had sought at least 30 years.
Prosecutors said that in 2014, Lobo agreed to help two DEA agents posing
as Mexican drug traffickers transport multiple tons of cocaine through
Honduras so it could eventually reach the United States.
They said Lobo hoped to profit personally from facilitating drug
trafficking through the notoriously violent Central American country,
which has long served as a major transshipment point for U.S.-bound
cocaine smuggled out of South America.
At a hearing in March, the former leader of a Honduran drug trafficking
organization called Los Cachiros who is now cooperating with
prosecutors, Leonel Rivera Maradiaga, testified that he bribed Lobo and
his father for favorable treatment, court records show.
Other prominent Honduran business leaders and politicians have been
charged in the United States with drug-related crimes, including Yani
and Yankel Rosenthal, cousins who have both served in the nation’s
cabinet. Yani Rosenthal pleaded guilty to money laundering in July, and
Yankel Rosenthal to attempted money laundering last week.
Yani Rosenthal’s father, former Honduran Vice President Jaime Rosenthal, was also charged and remains at large.
Robbers, again, ambushed officials of a bank and their seven Police escorts along Benin-Asaba
Expressway in broad daylight yesterday, carting off N25 million.
One of the Police officers, who is supposed to be on duty in another
bank, was injured and rushed to a hospital in an incident Police
authorities in the state suspect is an insiders’ arrangement.
The Commissioner of Police, Delta Command, Mr. Zanna Ibrahim, who confirmed the incident to Vanguard,
said the Operations Manager of the bank, suspected to have arranged for
the Police escort, has been arrested and investigations on.
He disclosed that the policemen were on illegal duty and were yet to be seen hours after the attack.
His words: “A bullion van from a bank’s branch in Asaba left for its Agbor branch to pick N25 million.
The bank officials, to cut corners, illegally picked seven policemen
from different locations, yet to be determined, because the bank lacks a
serviceable armoured bullion van as required by law.
“On their way back, between Ubulu-Okiti and Otulu, along Asaba-Benin
Expressway, at about 2p.m., the team was ambushed by some robbers, who
operated in a Honda Pilot SUV and Toyota Corolla car, registration
numbers unknown, emptied the N25 million into their cars and escaped.
“One of the policemen, a sergeant, whose posting read another bank, was fatally injured and rushed to hospital.”
A total of 55 husbands have reported to the Lagos State Government
how their wives battered them in the last eight years in renewed cases
of domestic violence in the state.
The Attorney General and
Commissioner for Justice, Lagos State, Adeniji Kazeem at a media
briefing in Ikeja, yesterday, revealed that more men were now coming
forward to report cases of violence against them by their women.
Kazeem,
who is the chairman, Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team, DSVRT,
said there had been 55 cases of men reporting domestic violence against
them by their wives between January 2017 and now as against 14 that was
recorded last year, Vanguard reports.
However, Kazeem disclosed
that between January and September 2017, a total of 852 cases of
domestic violence and related cases were recorded in Lagos State, saying
that out of the total number, there were 564 domestic violence cases,
60 defilement cases, 30 rape cases, 11 attempted rape, 123 child neglect
and abuse cases, and 84 other cases.
He
said the data revealed that most of sexual assault cases were
perpetrated in the afternoon during weekdays, while corroborating that
95 percent of the perpetrators of sexual violence were known to the
victims, which according to him, necessitated the need to embark on
sensitization campaigns for parents on parenting skills and child abuse
prevention tips as well as training for children on child’s rights,
child abuse, safety and how to preserve evidence.
While some of
the cases have been charged to court, Kazeem said the State Government
through the Ministry of Youth and Social Development and other
stakeholders, provided shelter for the survivors. Aside that, the
Commissioner said all the survivors of sexual assault received medical
attention from comprehensive Primary Health Care Centres and referral
centres, among other efforts to properly rehabilitate and re-integrate
them into the society.
Kazeem, however, noted that under the
present administration, the interventions of DSVRT were gradually
breaking the silence around issues of sexual and gender based violence
in the state. “There is a growing confidence urging people to speak out
more, there is an astronomical increase in reporting of cases in the
media. Lagos has indeed revolutionized the way sexual and gender based
violence is being tackled in Nigeria with all the pioneering initiatives
of Governor Ambode,” Kazeem said.
A slightly shocked Lagosian, Kingsley took to his Instagram page to
reveal what he found inside a food he bought at a restaurant on Sunday.
He wrote;
My
Sunday experience at one of the popular eateries in Lagos. This screw
was found inside the egg, imagine the pain I felt when my teeth had to
jam it… Any good lawyer around? Copy @ronkyv
Olaseni Oshifala, the biology teacher at Queen’s College accused of
sexual molestation of students last year, has finally been posted out of
the school, TheCable understands.
Oshifala was posted to King’s
College, an all-boys school and the oldest unity school in the country,
by the education ministry in August.
The posting of the
controversial teacher, pending the conclusion of a fresh investigation,
was not made public by the education ministry.
He has since reported at his new duty post, and is to also teach biology there.
Three
students, Vivian Osuinyi, Bithia Itulua and Praise Sodipo, died in a
gastroenteritis epidemic in the school between February and March 2017.
TheCable
also sought a re-opening of the case of Oshifala, who was believed to
have been shielded by the management of the school during investigation
into the allegation against him.
In an interview with the newsite
in June, Adamu Adamu, the minister of education, said government was
reopening investigations into the Oshifala case.
Adamu also
announced the launch of a probe into “those responsible for the deaths”,
an investigation that may look into the tenure of Lami Amodu, the
principal of the college at the time of the tragedy.
In March 2016, Chinenye Okoye, a student, had alleged that Oshifala sexually molested her.
Some other students reportedly made the same claim.
The claims sparked off a public outcry as parents and citizens called for the prosecution of the teacher.
However,
an investigative panel set up by the education ministry cleared
Oshifala of any wrong doing because “none of his accusers was willing to
testify publicly”.
Queen’s College old girls had set up an
investigative fact-finding panel which indicted the teacher and also
revealed that the accusation by Chinenye was the sixth against Oshifala.
Oshifala is currently at King’s college.
