Pirates Strike Again, Hijack Passenger Boat

Barely 48 hours after launching an ambush that killed three passengers on Tuesday, gunmen suspected to be sea pirates on Thursday hijacked a passenger boat along Nembe-Brass waterways.

Militants had on August 28 ambushed a military houseboat and killed a soldier and civilian crew. Again, last Friday, the bandits attacked an oil services vessel killing three security men on board.

It was gathered in the latest onslaught by the elusive pirates, that they trailed the boat after it had dropped off its occupants in Brass from Nembe before hijacking the boat.

Community sources who witnessed the incident said the suspected pirates armed with sophisticated weapons shot sporadically into the air before seizing the boat.


The driver of the boat and his crewmen were later allowed to disembark at the creeks while the bandits moved on.

The Chairman of the Bayelsa state Chapter of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria Lloyd Sese who confirmed the incident said that pirates’ activities on the waterways had made life unbearable.

A youth leader from area, Robert Desmond, condemned the incessant sea pirate attacks on the waterways.

Mr. Desmond described the acts as not only senseless but inhuman and wondered why a group of Bayelsa youth should be ”terrorising their own people.”

He tasked security personnel to be on the alert particularly the Brass-Nembe people who are in dire need of marine security.

He called on law enforcement agents to apprehend the pirates, destroy every network and arsenal they may have in their possession, in order to bring respite to the Nembe-Brass people.

Asinim Butswat, a deputy superintendent of police, and spokesman of Bayelsa Police Command, who confirmed the incident said that the command has intensified efforts to check criminality and restore security in the area.

Man bags two years jail term for defrauding lady N100,000 by sending her fake bank sms

Ojotomobor Ovuakponye has been sentenced to two years in prison by Justice Mohammed Yahaya of the Kano State High Court for fraud

According to NGHUBS, Ojotomobor Ovuakponye was arraigned in court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for fraudulently obtaining the sum of N100,000 (One Hundred Thousand Naira Only) from the account of one Jummai Ruqayya Mohammed.

The convict allegedly claimed to be a staff of Guarantee Trust Bank by sending fraudulent SMS to the complainant that her bank account had a problem and that she should contact her bank but unknown to her, she ended up contacting the convict.

A statement by EFCC read

The EFCC has secured the conviction of one Ojotomobor Ovuakponye before Honourable Justice Mohammed Yahaya of the Kano State High Court sitting in Gezawa.The convict fraudulently obtained the sum of N100,000 (One Hundred Thousand Naira Only) from the account of one Jummai Ruqayya Mohammed through the bank account of his girlfriend under the guise that he is a staff of Guaranty Trust Bank by sending fraudulent SMS to the complainant that her bank account had a problem and that she should contact her bank but unknown to her, she ended up contacting the convict.

Akon Spotted At An Airport in France

American-born Senegalese singer, Aliaume Damala Badara Akon Thiam, better known as Akon was pictured with one of his wives at CDG airport in Roissy en France, France.

This is the latest wife of the businessman who practices polygamy – His other wives including Rosina Bruck and Tomeka Thiam. He also has multiple girlfriends and has several kids, online reports say.

Kylie & Travis Scott are not Talking Marriage

Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott are not ready to get married -- not even close -- despite they're having a baby.

Sources connected with Kylie and Travis tell TMZ, they both feel they haven't known each other long enough to tie the knot. As one very connected source puts it, "They're still trying to figure out their relationship."

Kylie has no issues about being an unwed mother. Fact is, she's following in the footsteps of Kim and Kourtney. Khloe is in the same boat.


They are not even discussing marriage, but they're talking a lot about raising their daughter.

TMZ was told Kylie's the one who really wanted the baby. They met in April and she's 5 months along -- she got pregnant about a month after they hooked up.

Uganda Lawmakers fight in Parliament during presidential age limit( Videos& Photo)

Dozens of Ugandan lawmakers came to blows as members of the opposition party tried to stop the ruling body from passing a law removing the age cap from the presidency.

The fight started after some opposition ministers accused ruling party members of carrying guns, sparking a fierce argument which turned into pushing and eventually brawling.

Punches and chairs were thrown as ministers fought on tables and across rows of seats before plainclothes secret service agents hauled members of the opposition from the main chamber of parliament, located in Kampala.

After most of her ministers were hauled away by force, the leader of the opposition led the rest of her members in a walk-out, accusing the majority party of intimidation., Dailymail reports.

Ugandan law currently bans anyone over the aged of 75 from holding the country’s highest office, meaning current President Yoweri Museveni, 73, is ineligible to run in the next election.

But his party, the National Resistance Movement, has now brought a bill to scrap that law. Maximum term limits have already been removed, meaning the new rule change would allow leaders to rule indefinitely.

The National Resistance Movement holds a massive majority in parliament, meaning the law is almost certain to pass when it goes to a vote.

Opposition leaders say Museveni, who has ruled the country since helping to overthrow previous Ugandan leaders Ugandan leaders Idi Amin and Milton Obote, is attempting to establish a rule for life.

Musaveni has so far refused to be drawn on whether or not he wants to run at the next election, saying that the issue is ‘not important’.

Police have violently broken up street demonstrations protesting the effort to amend the constitution, arresting scores since the past week.

Erias Lukwago, the mayor of the Ugandan capital of Kampala, told reporters he is getting medical care after police officers allegedly ‘squeezed’ his genitals while arresting him outside his house last week.

Museveni, a U.S. ally on regional security, took power by force in 1986 and was re-elected last year in a poll marred by allegations of fraud and voter intimidation.

Although Museveni warned in the past that Africa’s problem was leaders ‘who want to overstay in power,’ he has since said he was speaking about leaders who were not elected.

Uganda has never seen a peaceful change of power since independence from Britain in 1962.

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More Katsina Women Doing Drugs Because Of Men

Khadijah Suleiman Saulawa also known as Queen Dijah is an undergraduate. While still in her twenties, she is already looking at what she can do for her society.

The founder of Queen Dijah Women and Children Awareness Initiative, a Non-Governmental Organization, NGO, out to look at issues surrounding the well-being of children and women in the rural areas and beyond, speaks on women doing drugs because of men.

Let’s look at women into drugs, why and where lies the problem?

 These days, more women are into drug taking. And it was revealed that men are the major cause why women are into drug taking. Most women nowadays hardly get the attention of their husbands. Continue...


Mingling with friends who are already deep into the intake of drugs, they are convinced that once they take it, all worries and troubles in their life will be a thing of the past. And so they are convinced to take and before you know it they become used to it so when their husbands are not around they don’t worry because they have what will keep them company.

Many women started this way and gradually it become part of them. I feel it is something to worry about because if nothing is done, the society will be in a mess not because of anything but because the generations to come will be a generation of drug addicts.

A situation where the mother consumes drugs, who controls the children from also going astray. So you can see that it is something that requires urgent attention and we have to start doing doing something about it now.

Fisherman Commits Suicide Over Loss Of Boat, Equipment, Fish In Akwa Ibom

Frustrated after losing all his fishing implements including outboard engine and his catch to boat mishap, a father of four, Mr. Imoh Iyip-Erong, committed suicide.

It was gathered that the fisherman, from Akpautong village in Esit Eket Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, “resorted to taking his own life, a night after the incident because of the frustration of losing his major source of livelihood.

 “We really do not know why he should take his life after his fishing boat and the day’s catch were lost as his boat capsized,” Effiong Bassey, a fellow fisherman, told Vanguard.


 Another family source said: “Iyip-Erong had been complaining since the incident happened, lamenting that his future had been completely ruined by the loss of his boat, outboard engine and fishing gears.

“We woke up to see his dangling body hooked to the roof with his wife’s wrapper, which he used as suicide rope.”

A family member said: “He has been buried after some traditional rites, because it is an abomination for one to take his own life in this our community.”

 The family member expressed surprised that “the father of four could take his life instead of sinking with the boat to save us the trouble of performing very expensive traditional sacrifices for his burial.”

According a traditionalist, Ubong Edem Ette, “in this type of death, we use a dog and other traditional items to perform some cleansing rites to remove this nature of death from the family.”

Man Dumps Lady After Collecting N1.9m To Marry Her

A 29-year old man, Mr Ebuka Okeke has been arrested and charged before a Lagos court for allegedly obtaining N1.9m from a single lady identified as Ogochukwu Ogbuehi under the false pretence that he will marry her but dumped her thereafter.

P.M.EXPRESS reports that apart from obtaining the money, Okeke brought a baked cake and made her take an oath that she will not tell anyone that he collected the said money to marry her. The incident happened between March and July this year at the Iyana Ipaja area of Lagos where the suspect and the complainant reside.

The suspect also went to the victim’s shop and drank assorted drinks worth N20,000 without paying at the same period.

However, it turned out that it was a scam and ploy Okeke used to obtain money from her as he did not fulfill his own side of the bargain.

Ogochukwu waited for Okeke to come and perform the marriage rites as they agreed but he was not forthcoming. She asked to know why he had not fulfilled his promise and he gave flimsy excuses. The lady then demanded for her money but he refused giving her back. The matter was reported to the Police at Area M Command, Idimu. Okeke was then arrested and taken to the Command for interrogation.

P.M.EXPRESS gathered that Okeke admitted that he collected the said amount from her and also promised to marry her. He said he found it difficult to convince his family to accept the lady because she was far older than him. He also explained that he had spent the money and asked to be given time to pay her in bits.

Okeke was charged before the Ejigbo Magistrates court for obtaining under false pretence and placing the victim under false oath. He pleaded not guilty and the presiding Magistrate, Mr Akeem Fashola granted him bail in the sum of N50,000 with two sureties in like sum. He was remanded in prison custody pending when he will perfect the bail condition and the matter was further adjourned till 18th of October, 2017.

We Are Not Against You- Zuckerberg Tells Trump

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has dismissed comments made by Donald Trump that the site has always been against him.

The US president accused the social network of "collusion" on Twitter, branding it "anti-Trump".

He made the same claim against the New York Times and the Washington Post.

Facebook will shortly hand over 3,000 political adverts to congressional investigators probing alleged Russian meddling in the US election.


The site believes the ads were probably purchased by Russian entities during and after the 2016 presidential contest.

Facebook, Twitter and Google have been asked to testify before the US Senate Intelligence Committee on 1 November about the allegations of Russian interference.

Facebook and Google have confirmed they have received invitations to attend the committee hearing, but none of the social media giants have yet said they will be present.

Former Five Star Music producer Dr. Amir slams Harrysong & Kcee with N45m law suit for intellectual theft

Former Five Star Music producer, Dr. Amir has dragged his former mates, Harrysong and Kcee to court over what he termed as ‘intellectual theft’, online reports say.

The producer behind most of the label’s hit tracks claims Harrysong’s song ‘Samankwe’ was stolen and is demanding N45m.

Dr Amir reportedly also filed a similar suit against Five Star Music artiste Kcee for unauthorized publishing of the song “Afro-shake” produced and written by him – He took to rant on his Instagram page, stating that he is in a dandy mood and leaving other negative vibes to the court.

Playboy Magazine Founder, Hugh Hefner Is DEAD

Hugh Hefner, American founder of the international adult magazine Playboy, has died at the age of 91. Playboy Enterprises Inc said he passed away peacefully at home in Los Angeles, from natural causes.

Hefner began publishing Playboy in his kitchen in 1953. It became the largest-selling men's magazine in the world, shifting seven million copies a month at its peak.

Cooper Hefner, his son, said he would be "greatly missed by many".

He paid tribute to his father's "exceptional and impactful life as a media and cultural pioneer," and called him an advocate for free speech, civil rights and sexual freedom.

"I’ve suffered with this man, let cancer eat you up. As for you my husband, may your manhood never function again"-Woman Lay curses on her husband’s side chick in Abuja

                            

Abuja based Nigerian lady, Azubike Chinenye took to Facebook to narrate how she woke up in the middle of the night to find her neighbour naked and laying curses on her husband and his side chick,

According to the woman, the side chick has made her husband her money machine with the help of an Abuja pastor. She then cursed her saying cancer should eat her up, and also cursed her husband saying his manhood will never function again.

                    

Read below…

“Last night, my son sleep walked into my room and laid next to me. I am not a deep sleeper so I noticed a presence. I stood up to switch off the fan and allow the natural air so he doesn’t get cold.
About to lay down and I heard a voice crying and saying, “unless my hands are not clean” I bent down and peeped through the window where I heard the voice from and saw a woman who I guess is my next compound neighbour. She was naked standing with a pot or calabash or something. I wanted to take pictures but for the first time, I had to fear my life.
She said and I quote, ” Shantel Mukoro, you have decided not to allow me enjoy my marriage, you have made my husband your money machine. You and your pastor (name withheld but I know him, he’s a popular man in Abuja) have used charm to get my husband. Unless my hands are not clean, let evil come upon me but if I’m innocent and I’ve suffered with this man, let cancer eat you up. As for you my husband, may your manhood never function again. Today, I transfer your glory to me, I will be the bread winner while you remain at home since you’ve decided to pay me evil for good”. She kept repeating these words without mistakes 14x.
Do you know my happiness? She was kind enough to curse her husband same way she cursed the side chic
So if you’re Shantel Mukoro based in Abuja and doing business with a fake pastor to get rich married men, please start saving money for chemotherapy because that woman stood naked in tears cursing them.
This happened exactly 1.23 am Nigerian time.
Feel free to share until Shantel Mukoro sees this.
Now I know why some men who were once vibrant are now being controlled by their wives.
Una good morning”

Young boy set ablaze in Enugu for misplacing a phone in his care

A young boy was yesterday burnt to death in Enugu for allegedly leaving a barber shop where a phone had gone missing. A certain Wisdom Kelechi had  poured petrol on his friend, Junior Onah and set fire on him.

Onah’s sin according to Guardian was that he left a shop where a mobile phone had been placed in his care to charge.

On returning to the shop, Kelechi could not find the phone. Livid at the loss of the phone, he went out and returned with a gallon of fuel, which he poured on his friend and set him on fire.

 Onah was  rescued by people, but sustained severe burn injuries and is still battling for his life at the hospital. 

                   
The police in Enugu, according to Guardian has since arrested Kelechi. Ebere Amaraizu, police PPRO in the state speaking on the incident said:

“The suspect has been promptly arrested by police operatives and he is helping in the investigation just as the victim was rescued with severe burns and taken to the hospital, where he is receiving treatment,” Amaraizu explained.

Saudi Arabia Appoints First Spokeswoman

In another breakthrough for women in Saudi Arabia that coincided with allowing women to drive, the foreign minister has appointed Fatimah Baeshen as its first spokeswoman for the Saudi embassy in Washington.

“Proud to serve the @SaudiEmbassyUSA as the spokeswoman. I’m grateful for the opportunity, the support, and well wishes #KSA,” Fatimah posted as she announced her appointment on her Twitter account early on Wednesday.

Fatimah, a Saudi national, was a director at the Washington-based think Arabia Foundation which she joined after working with the Saudi Ministry of Labour and the Saudi Ministry of Economy and Planning in Riyadh from 2014 to 2017.

Student Drowned As Friends Took A Group Selfie From Just A Few Feet Away

A college student drowned in a lake as his friends took a group selfie from just a few feet away - apparently oblivious to what was happening.

Vishwas G, from Bangalore, died on Sunday while out for a picnic with his pals. A shocking image has emerged showing his friends grinning into the camera as one took the selfie - said to also show his head bobbing on the surface of the water in the background.

Vishwas' grieving family later sat with his body outside the National College, where he was a student, in the Jayanagar area of Bangalore, in protest at his death.

They claimed lecturers in charge of the trip had been negligent but called off the action after management promised an investigation and disciplinary action against any member of staff found to be culpable.


Police confirmed that Vishwas G., the elder son of autorickshaw driver Govindaraju and his wife Sunanda, drowned in a 300-year-old temple tank.

Sumanth A., one of the students, said: "We had finished swimming and left for the Gundanjaneya temple and did not notice Vishwas's absence.

"One of the students was replaying his selfie photos and noticed Vishwas drowning being captured in the frame.

"He immediately alerted the NCC unit chief, Prof Girish, and other friends, and by the time they returned to the Kalyani, an hour had passed.

"Vishwas was nowhere to be seen."

Police said Prof Girish was present at the time but college authorities claimed that no faculty member had accompanied the students.

Local police officers later pulled Vishwas's body from the tanks and his parents rushed to the scene after they were alerted by his friends.

A police spokesman said: "Govindappa filed a complaint alleging that negligence by the National College management cost his son his life.

"We registered a case of unnatural death, based on the complaint, and may register a case against the college management if a probe confirms their negligence."

The spokesman added that police had not yet questioned the other students, as they had been in shock, but had their details and would do so in due course.

In Delta State Man Made To Drink bathing brother’s corpse to prove he didn’t kill him (Photo)

                  

A man in Delta state was made to drink water used in washing his brother’s corpse to prove he had no hand in his death. According to Sapele Oghenek, he was compelled by family members to drink the water to prove his innocence.

Sapele Oghenek wrote;

“Report enter studio say na last weekend dem go bury Mechuko for deir village. We hear and wash one video wey the family members for compel deir brother to drink the corpse water,wey dem use wash the deadibody,as tradition demands,in case e hand dey Mechuko death,make ground for chop am. Na d picture of when e dey drink d water dey attached to this update.”

Rooney Just Bought Coleen A £5m Villa In Portugal In A Bid To Win Her Back

Everton Striker Wayne Rooney has reportedly bought Coleen a £5million villa in Portugal in a bid to win her back following his drink-driving scandal.

Everton Striker Wayne hit the headlines when he was caught over the legal limit behind the wheel of 'party girl' Laura Simpson's car earlier this month.

A source has now revealed to Closer magazine that the shamed 31-year-old footballer is doing whatever it takes to regain his wife's trust - even buying her a luxury pad abroad.

The insider said: "Coleen wishes she could forget about the past - but she knows from experience [...] that the latest incident will be constantly dredged up.


"Wayne is begging her every day to give him another chance and has bought the family a new home in Portugal, but right now Coleen doesn't feel ready to discuss the future," the source added.

Mum-of-three Coleen, who has reportedly enjoyed ten holidays already this year, was in Majorca when she heard news of Wayne being pulled over by police in the early hours of September 1. 

Bisola Storm New York City,Strike A Pose With NYC Policemen

God gave you the opportunity. Her story inspires tho... Person wey dey beg for food, now ambassador, all expenses paid for to New York and more

29-year-old Nigerian man becomes youngest senior lecturer in UK university

                   

Salihu Dasuki has emerged the youngest senior lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. The 29-year-old announced his resumption to work as a senior lecturer of Computing, on Twitter.Dasuki graduated with a first class degree in Information Technology from Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus at 21. He went ahead to bag his Masters and PhD at Brunel University, UK, in 2012.

Gifty and Mr. 2kay expecting their first child (Details)

Ex BBNaija contestant, Gifty, is expecting a child and the pregnancy belongs to her estranged ex, Mr 2Kay. We also heard that she has been holed up at her mom's house in Badagry, Lagos. 

Our source, who is a friend to Gifty's mom's neighbor, said she was shocked when she stumbled on Gifty at her mom's place. She, however, said she couldn't get a picture. 
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Meanwhile, Gifty recently stepped out with actress Rosaline Meurer, and she looks pregnant indeed. As of this time, we can't categorically state that Mr. 2Kay is responsible for the pregnancy.

16-year-old boy ‘loses manhood’ after shaking hands with stranger

A mild drama ensued at Kurudu area of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja on Monday after a 16-year-old boy reportedly lost his manhood after shaking hands with a stranger.

                   

The boy, Salvation from Abia State, had claimed that his manhood shrank and that he was unable to urinate after shaking hands with one Usman.
According to a witness, Usman, an electrician from Nasarawa State, went to the area in search of a brothel.
Usman’s first point of contact was Salvation, who after showing him the direction to the brothel noticed some physical changes on him and raised alarm.
The incident attracted the attention of passers-by who pounced on Usman.
When PREMIUM TIMES arrived the scene of the incident, Usman was in the custody of soldiers who had rescued him from the mob.
Narrating the incident, a teary-eyed Salvation said he had never set his eyes on Usman until that night.

“I locked my brother’s shop around 7:45 p.m. to go and watch Arsenal match. This guy (Usman) came to ask me to ask for ‘Ashawo’ (sex worker) joint is in this area. I pointed the way to him and afterwards, he shook my hand.
“When he shook my hand, I just felt a change in my body, I felt something left me. I tried to urinate but I couldn’t. That was how I raised alarm and people held him (Usman),” he said.

After the alarm, residents and traders in the area reportedly accosted Usman, beat him up and were about lynching him before soldiers from the Post-service Amy Estate came to his rescue.’
Usman, a father of two, however denied using charms to ‘take’ Salvation’s manhood.

“I came to the area and asked him where I can get an Ashawo joint. He showed me the place and that was all. Before I knew what was happening, people were already beating me, accusing me of taking his manhood. I don’t have any ‘juju’ and I don’t know anything about it. Today is the first day I will attempt to visit an Ashawo joint,” he said.

After hours of pacifying Usman to undo the charm, one of the sympathisers suggested Salvation be taken to a brothel to “test if the manhood has been restored.”
Heeding the advice, Salvation was led to a brothel where he was reportedly able to ejaculate with the aid of a sex worker.
Usman, however, remained in custody of the soldiers perhaps for his safety.

Kylie Jenner Step Out With her baby bump (Photo)

                         

Reality star, Kylie Jenner stepped out today rocking her bumb…

The beautiful KUWTK star is reportedly expecting a child with rapper, Travis Scott..

“Stop fighting and get a dog” Banky W Reacts To Psquare brothers Feud

           

Singer and actor Banky W is back home after some months of putting some touches to his career abroad.

The singer returns home not only to meet his beloved dog ‘Duke’ whom he calls his first child but also returns home to meet fracas and chaos in the industry plus a deafening silence caused by the new feud between two top entertainers Peter and Paul Okoye.
Banky who shared a video to buttress his point shows us how much love a dog has in its heart, the video shows Duke jumping up and kissing it’s owner all over obviously a sign of happiness at the return of Banky.
Mr Wellington wishes everyone would get a dog and experience true undiluted love. He also encourages everyone fighting to stop the fight and get a dog!
“Wish we could stop fighting and get a dog” he added.
From where we stand, the fight between these brothers is not what a puppy love can settle…lol

Young Dolph Shot Multiple Times In Hollywood

Young Dolph has been shot in Hollywood and is being at a local hospital where he was rushed to.

Law enforcement sources say the rapper was just outside Shoe Palace at the famous Hollywood and Highland intersection when he was hit! Officers were nearby and they responded immediately.

At this time, no arrests have been made and it's unclear how many people may have opened fire. We're told he suffered multiple gunshot wounds but his injuries appear to be non-life threatening at this time.

It's not the first time this year the rapper's come under gunfire ... back in February his SUV was shot at over 100 times while he was in Charlotte, N.C. His family had better pray for him. Someone is after him!!!

Nigerian guy Displayed Affection with his older foreign lover at Shoprite Ikeja City Mall

A young Nigerian guy was spotted at Shoprite, Ikeja City Mall with his much older foreign lover