Photo: Suspected armed robbers who attacked cocoa merchant and his son arrested in Ogun State

Men of the Ogun State Police Command has arrested three robbery suspects in connection with an attack on a cocoa merchant and his son.

The suspects identified as as Olumide Ifelowo, Abiodun Bayegun and Fatai Sowunmi launched an attack on on Isaiah Sowunmi and his son, Abiodun Sowunmi at Ogunmakin area of the state, in an attempt to dispossess them of their valuables.
It was gathered that a distress call put through to the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Owode Egba, CSP Sheu Alao, who went with a police team to the scene of the incident led to the arrest of  Ifelowo.

The victim, Sowunmi, was said to have identified Ifelowo as the one who shot at his son. Upon interrogation, Ifelowo reportedly confessed that he and one Jeje were invited for the robbery by Bayegun and Fatai.

He said further that Fatai provided them information that the victim had a lot of money as a cocoa merchant. His confession led to the arrest of Bayegun and Fatai, while a cut-to-size shotgun loaded with a live cartridge was recovered from them.

The victim of the attack, Abiodun was taken to an undisclosed hospital for medical care. The state commissioner of police, Ahmed Iliyasu has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS) unit for discreet investigation.
Source: Nigerian Tribune

Churchill Visits GrandMa's Hometown, Flags Off Agric Empowerment Scheme!

The hometown of Olak‎unle Churchill's grandma in Ondo state was besieged by praise singers yesterday when the business philanthropist stormed the town to flag off one of his many foundation projects.
The news of his visit attracted youths across the community who seek to benefit from the Big Church Green Agricultural / Mining Empowerment project aimed at empowering about 36,000 Nigerians in different states.

The Chairman Of Big Church Foundation, Olakunle Churchill who recently signed star artist Praiz as one of his foundations Ambassadors to spearhead the project, was indeed the centre of attraction at the community event.

The soft spoken philanthropist who was excitedly mobbed by the youths of the town for financial gratification celebrated his maternal people empowerment incentives. The long convoy of security details with exotic vehicles in his entourage train arrested attention in the community.

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Woman claiming to be cousin-in-law to ex BBNaija housemate, Gifty, says she's truly married. Shares her wedding photos!

A cousin-in-law to ex BBNaija housemate, Gifty has shared alleged photos from her wedding claiming that she lied about not being married. According to her, Gifty got married to her cousin who is also a Nollywood director, David Sorochukwu Akumah, on 6th April, 2014. She also claims that former Governor of Ebonyi state  Senator Dr. Sam Egwu was present at the wedding.

A facebook user, Juliet also claimed she attended the wedding in the company of her mum and still has some of the souvenir from the wedding. The cousin-in-law wrote;

#GiftyBBN.. It's appalling that you will never in your life be truthful even when you are caught in the act. JESUS!

I am Engr David Akumah's Cousin who refused to be quiet even though my family members are mostly scholars and God fearing,...and wish not to meddle with things that will bring more disgrace to the family's name...

but now I say Enough is Enough! Please Readers be aware

(TRUTH BE TOLD)

Gifty is Married to my Cousin David Sorochukwu Akumah AkA Sodafaces... a renowned Nollywood Director and Producer whom am not surprised that he decided to keep quiet over this matter till now because of his meek nature as a Quiet-Busy-Responsible man and had in the Past, vowed not to be associated with what ever Gifty is involved in because of scandals.

For the Records! My Cousine David never uploaded Gifty's wedding pictures as an instrument in removing Gifty from BBN as accused, or to claim her further as his legally married wife,... rather what he did was to shut down Folders of upto 1000 copies of both Bachelors, Traditional and White wedding pictures of him and Gifty from his Facebook account, immediately after they had a problem that was not properly managed by the couple themselves about Gifty's Cheating Life while still in his husband's house.

It's a Pity that Gifty is still a very big Liar, never truthful to her new Fans and will never be because that's how her fake identified super model mother as she said in Pulse TV interview brought her up. Obviously you can't give what you don't have...Gifty was not morally brought up due to want of making it big with the mother by all means over the years.

Please Nigerians disregard whatever that comes out from that big fake liar's mouth called Gifty because she cannot give what she does not have which is TRUTH. She was trained by a funny Mother who gave birth to over four children from different men inwhich all the children she have, never knew their father including the so called Gifty (#FACT).

Gifty... I decided to fight dirty through this piece of write up because you don't know the disgrace you have robbed and brought upon Rev. Professor Akumah's family which I belong to. You are a wife not some girlfriend of Mr2k or whatever he calls himself..and a point of advice to all men out there....please I beg of you try and find out a little info about any woman you are having an affair with because you may be sleeping with another man's wife and thereby bringing a curse to yourself ...don't forget our traditions in Nigeria is still very strong to fight offenders...

...And for #BBN or #BBA...please make true identification findings about married people on your show before reducing our Nigerian morals to zero.

Gifty those pictures online you saw and decided to react with lies when the game is over was a 2014 mobile upload pictures you used your hand to upload through my Cousin's phone when you guys were living together as husband and wife...obviously because you felt he had more Nollywood followers in FB than you and decided to use his platform unknowing to him of the wrong English expression you had attached to those posts of yours that turned against you..now he is undergoing a public disgrace and accusation from your likers that he wants to either use you to sale out as a brand or bring you down...Rubbish! Something he innocently knows nothing about and even does not know how to react to the blackmail because he is also a public figure.

I swear you get luck no be me dey marry you...seriously I for finish you in this your stupid online game.

In their wedding on 6th April 2014, our former Governor His Excellency Senator DR. SAM EGWU was in attendance alongside other important government dignitaries at Assemblies of God Church Odunukwe in Abakaliki followed by a grand wedding reception at WDC Hall in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State (#VERIFY- Please you are free to ask your friends around Abakaliki because it was a huge wedding)

Gifty! that your Husband whom though do not want to change his mind in not bringing you back to his house after all his family's persuasion to do so when your manipulative immoral mother came to his house at Asaba and took you away to Ghana simply because she asked for my cousin after one week of their white wedding to open a boutique for her (Gifty's Mother) in a choice place in Lagos and he begged her to be allowed for sometime to enable him recoup from his just concluded wedding spendings which she vehemently refused and took you! her daughter away.

I can only say may God forgive you and your mother because to you people... traditional and white wedding is just like a one day bikini Party ..chaii..na moneyooo my cousin take use package such wedding no be Paperooo Danm!...

Please Gifty this is not Liberia where your mum grew up...This is Nigeria where a woman can only leave her husband for good or bad either by way of tradition through giving Dowry back by the Elders or Court dissolving the union via Divorce proceedings.

Please Be wise and say the truth before you loose everything including your new fans and be rest assured that my cousin Brother may not accept you back because you and your mother have crossed the line...and if you continue blackmailing or threatening him weather publicly with your so called Online PR Team or phone calls as you and your mum is doing at the moment, then I will be forced to release Audio and Video facts of all of these am saying because I know some of your likers will still blindly say these pictures below i took with my own camera during their traditional and white wedding and also when the couple were signing Marriage certificate were all photoshoped or you are been framed as usual...So in absence of your next actions, I say May God help your mother to help you redirect your life positively before its too late since you both are inseparable. I believe you can also make it bigger with little or more morals like most of our Nigerian celebrities... GoodLuck

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Charles Soludo, Pat Utomi, others demand urgent release of IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu

Former CBN governor, Charles Soludo, Pat Utomi and other prominent Ibo men today paid a visit to Kuje prison Abuja where they met and interacted with detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu and some of his members.

After the meeting, Soludo on behalf of the other delegates addressed a press conference at Chelsea hotel Abuja  where they demanded for the urgent release of Kanu and his other members.
Kanu was arrested by DSS officials in October last year and is being tried fro treasonable offences.

Soludo in his statement said

“We are a delegation of Nzuko Umunna, a pan-Igbo group. We visited Nnamdi Kanu to hear his own point of view as well as share our own point of view with him. We believe that Nigeria has the potential to be great, and like most countries has its own challenges. Nigeria has never been more divided than now. Most discerning patriots have come to the conclusion that Nigeria as currently structured is destined to be a failed state‎. It is our considered view that most of the agitation is in response to a looting elite. We do not condone violence. We note that in 2015 Nigerians voted for change. As the ruling party, the APC has it a duty to deliver to the Nigerian people. So far, APC seems to have abandoned its cardinal duty to Nigeria. We are in a state of emergency at all levels. We demand the urgent release of Nnamdi Kanu, and his colleagues as part of the process of engineering a new Nigeria. No citizen of Nigeria deserves the treatment that is being meted to Nnamdi Kanu and his colleagues‎. Nnamdi Kanu is not above the law, and he should not be put below the law”.

Photos: Former Borno lawmaker Hon. Ali Darni Abba Saleh is dead

Late Hon. Ali Darni Abba Saleh , the former Member House of Assembly Kukawa Local Government Area, Borno State, died today at his Maiduguri residence. Borno State Deputy Governor, Hon Usman Durkwa represented Governor Kashim Shettima at the funeral prayer for late Saleh held at the 777 Housing Estate, Maiduguri, on Tuesday February 28. More photos after the cut.

Thief stripped, beaten and intestine ripped out by a mob in Liberia (Graphic photos)

A thief in Liberia was a victim of jungle justice after he was caught by an angry mob. He was stripped naked, beaten up and his intestines ripped out. According to the Facebook user, David Lagree who shared the photos, this happened at SKD Boulevard, Liberia. Very graphic photos after the cut.

Whistle blowers in Cross River promisesd N1 million for exposing Kidnappers and armed robbers, Governor Ayade reveals

Governor of Cross River state Prof Ben Ayade has announced that the sum of N1million will be given to anyone who can offer information leading to the arrest of kidnappers and armed robbers in the state.

He made this announcement on Tuesday at the Executive Council Chambers, Calabar, during a courtesy visit from the newly posted Commissioner of Police to the state, Hafiz Mohammed Inuwa.


The whistleblowing operation, which was named “Hafiz law”, according to Governor Ayade, reveals that anyone who blows the whistle on an armed robber or a kidnapper and by intelligence or investigation that armed robber or kidnapper is found to be true, that person is entitled to N1million.

To avoid a situation whereby innocent citizens are accused and prosecuted, Ayade said that thorough investigation will be conducted and only after they have been proven guilty beyond all reasonable doubt will they be prosecuted. He said that the state police have the capacity to conduct such investigation. He called on the citizens to report armed robbers, anyone found possessing firearms illegally, kidnappers and their allies.

The new CP, Inuwa, had earlier stated that he is open to working with citizens who are willing to join hands with him to make the state peaceful.

Photo: Pastor tied up his 13-year-old daughter overnight after he accused her of 'demonic activities'

The 13 year old girl was tied up overnight by her father, who is a pastor in Voinjama, Liberia, after he alleged that she is involved in demonic activities.

Meanwhile, the pastor's wife claimed that the girl was in the habit of stealing meat from their foo

FG files fresh charges against Senate President, Bukola Saraki, at the Code of Conduct Tribunal

The Federal Government has filed fresh charges against Senate President, Bukola Saraki, at the Code of Conduct Tribunal. Saraki is being tried for false declaration of his assets while he was governor of Kwara state. At the resumed hearing of the case today, the charges against him were amended to 18.


In the new charges, Saraki is accused of falsely declaring that he purchased a property at number 15A Macdonald Street Ikoyi, Lagos through his company Carlisle Properties Limited in 2003 when actually the said property was sold to G and C Real Estates Properties and Investment Company limited for 12million Naira.

He is also accused of making false declaration that he acquired the properties through sales of agricultural commodities, when it was purchased using a loan from a commercial bank. The case has been adjourned to March 2nd.

Who will win Best Celebrity Trump Hater at the Oscars? Piers Morgan writes

Read his write up below...

The Oscars are nearly upon us and tension is building. No, not for who might win the big awards on Sunday night, but over which star can win the most coveted prize for Best Celebrity Trump Hater on the Planet.   

This is the big one for all those hysterical Hollywood liberal snowflakes who’ve been frothing at the mouth since Donald Trump became President. 

 

They’ve got live TV, a billion or more people watching around the world, and a room full of 3,500 largely like-minded souls all waiting to roar on every Trump-bashing speech from the podium.   

All eyes, of course, will be on Meryl Streep, the Queen of Tinseltown and self-designated Chief Trump Hater, who has spent most of this awards season making ever more dramatic denunciations of her President. I have no doubt that Ms Streep is beavering away right now on some more headline-grabbing anti-Trump bile. 

But it’s worth remembering her words at the Golden Globes: ‘The instinct to humiliate when it’s modelled by someone in the public platform,’ she said, tearfully, ‘filters down to everybody’s life. Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence.’ Does it, Meryl? 

OK, well forgive me if I don’t now examine the way your fellow stars have used their own public platforms when it comes to discouraging disrespect and violence in relation to the President?   

This week, Judd Apatow, high profile producer of movies like 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up, told a Los Angeles audience that after election night he felt ‘like a person about to get raped but I didn’t know how bad it would be. Now, I feel like I’ve just been raped. I just don’t know if I’m going to get murdered.’ The crowd wildly applauded. 

Many of them, I suspect, had been on the recent Women’s March. Yet they were happy to cheer a sickening rape analogy from a man who has repeatedly attacked Bill Cosby over claims that he raped women, and who just 18 months ago was even honoured by the Rape Foundation. 

The audience cheered again when Apatow crudely mocked Melania Trump: ‘Every day she’s not in the White House, is a day she’s not getting f***ed by Donald Trump.’ And they whooped yet again when Apatow turned his tormenting turrets on Trump’s 10-year-old son, Barron: ‘He f**ing gets it. He knows his dad’s a f**ing a**hole!’ Nice stuff, right? Going after a president’s wife and young child in such a foul-mouthed, deeply unpleasant manner is, I’m sure, exactly what Michelle Obama had in mind when she said, ‘When they go low, we go high..’ 

During the recent disgraceful riots at UC Berkeley, just as protestors were seen on TV smashing windows, throwing smoke bombs and flares and setting fires alight, Apatow tweeted: ‘This is just the beginning. When will all the fools who are still supporting Trump realise what’s at stake?’ The coward then deleted his tweet, explaining: ‘I never support violence..’ Yes, you do, Mr Apatow. Just as you use rape as a shameful prop for your vile humour. He wasn’t the only celebrity encouraging violence on the night of the Berkeley riots. 

Comedian Sarah Silverman called for a coup, tweeting: ‘WAKE UP & JOIN THE RESISTANCE! ONCE THE MILITARY IS W US FASCISTS GET OVERTHROWN. MAD KING & HIS HANDLERS GO BYE BYE.’ Indeed, violence seems to be a running theme of these ‘peace-loving’ celebrity liberals. At the Women’s March in Washington DC, Madonna shrieked: ‘Yes I’m angry, yes I’m outraged. Yes, I have thought a lot about blowing up the White House!’ Robert De Niro has repeatedly said of Trump: ‘I’d like to punch him in the face.’ 

Last night, at the BRIT awards in London, Katy Perry had two giant skeletons of President Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May dancing on stage and then set them on fire.  

‘Rise up! The Revolution is coming!’ Hillary-adoring Ms Perry tweeted after the election. I think we can now see how that revolution would manifest itself. Many celebrities have raced to brand Trump the new Hitler, one of the world’s worst genocidal dictators who murdered 12 million people, including six million Jews in the Holocaust. 

Cher, who demanded Trump be ‘thrown in a volcano’, said his presidency would be like ‘Germany was in the ‘30s.’ Louis C.K. agreed: ‘The guy is Hitler.’ Richard Gere preferred a different dictator comparison: ‘He’s a guy who’s obviously Mussolini.’ Yes, obviously – because Mussolini was only responsible for 400,000 deaths. Some celebrities who profess to be appalled by the disrespectful way Trump talks, have no such qualms when it comes to their own rhetoric. ‘I think he’s the f**ing most vile person on the planet,’ said model Chrissy Teigen.

 ‘A monumental a**hole.’ Andy Cohen concurred, calling Trump a ‘f**ing a**hole’. Margaret Cho said Trump was ‘like no ply toilet paper.’ Amanda Seyfried called him a ‘snorting piece of garbage.’ The aforementioned De Niro said Trump was ‘a punk, a dog, a pig, a con…a fool, a bozo.’ Miley Cyrus branded him a ‘f**ing nightmare.’ Elizabeth Banks said he was a ‘fat old orange P.O.S.’ Rihanna stated he is an ‘immoral pig.’   

Jennifer Lawrence, who had apocalyptically warned, ‘If Donald Trump becomes president, that will be the end of the world,’ now says the only two words she’d want to say to President Trump if she meets him are, ‘F**K YOU!’ Johnny Depp, with a comical lack of self-awareness, said Trump is a ‘brat’. Well you should know, Johnny boy! Much of the absurdly hypocritical hysteria surrounding Trump is driven by the fact that all these celebrities loudly backed Hillary Clinton and never imagined she’d lose, so they’ve gone into some kind of anaphylactic shock.

John Legend said before the election: ‘It’s pretty clear that Trump’s brand of politics is not a winning brand of politics.’ That complacent confidence turned into sneering arrogance, best summed up by Hillary herself when she branded Trump supporters a ‘basket of deplorables.’ An attitude that Chris Kelly, head writer for Saturday Night Live, embraced with this stunningly offensive comment after Trump landed the Republican nomination: ‘Donald Trump is winning because everyone you’ve ever been on a bus with gets to vote too.’

In the end, it wasn’t a bus these self-satisfied luvvies needed to worry about, it was the Trump Train. Hillary and the Hollywood elites got run over by a candidate who tapped into real America’s cares and concerns, not the ones dictated from mansions in Malibu or the Hamptons. What is truly laughable is that all these Trump-loathing stars would still have you believe they stand for liberal values of fairness, tolerance, peace, respect, equality and democracy. 

Yet when confronted with their preferred candidate losing, they’ve resorted to exactly the kind of profane, ugly trash-talking and violence-encouraging nonsense that they claim to hate in the guy who won. And anyone who dares to say anything moderately favourable or reasonable about Trump, even if they didn’t vote for him or particularly agree with his politics, must be vilified, banned, boycotted, firebombed and shunned into silence. 

Their faux outrage is…outrageously sanctimonious. Perhaps, though, the real reason so many celebrities hate Donald Trump is that he is now more famous than all of them put together. Yesterday, the New York Times drew this conclusion after reporting evidence from data firm mediaQuant, which counts all mentions of a particular brand or personality in just about every outlet from mainstream media to blogs and Twitter, and then estimates what those mentions would cost if someone were to pay for them. In January, Trump broke mediaQuant’s records, receiving $817 million in coverage. 

This was more than the next 1000 of the world’s best-known figures - including Hillary Clinton, Kim Kardashian, Vladimir Putin and Tom Brady - COMBINED. (Their total came to $721 million.) Given the fact there are now many people on the planet than ever before, and most of us now have access to the internet and social media, the Times declared that Donald Trump is now the most famous and talked about person in history. 

So when Hollywood, the most fame-hungry, egotistical place on Planet Earth, rises to denounce him on Sunday night, just bear in mind that their fury might not be entirely unconnected to this one simple fact. 

Trump, until recently a mere reality TV host, is now getting all their A-list celebrity oxygen and the only way La La Land can get a piece of the action is to attack him. As H.G. Wells put it: ‘Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.’  

Middle aged woman slumps and dies at a park in Enugu

The Enugu State Police Command said that a middle aged woman was confirmed dead by Medical Doctors after she slumped  on Wednesday, February 22.


It was gathered that the deceased whose identity is yet to be established allegedly slumped at old park axis of Enugu Coalcity state at about 7pm and was quickly rushed to Esut teaching hospital Parklane Specialist Hospital Enugu for medical attention where she was later confirmed dead by the medical Doctor on duty at about 2am of 23/2/17.

Meanwhile, the dead body of the deceased person is now deposited at the same hospital mortuary for necessary action.

WTF? Woman cuts her pinky finger live on social media...

A 30-year-old British woman, who is a body piercer, did the most bizarre thing on social media last week. She cut off her own finger live on Facebook and when her followers asked her why she did, she said she just “she wanted to.”

She told her followers she was going to do it about a week before she did it and she counted down the days until she finally did it. See more after the cut...

Wayne Rooney ready to quit Man U for China & become highest earning player in the world wiith £1m p/wk salary

Manchester United and England football team captain, who recently became Manchester United's all time leading goalscorer, is now set to quit Man U and move to China in a £52m move that'll make him the highest earning football player on earth with a whooping salary of £1million per week.

Jose Mourinho, Man U's manager, has left the striker out of the starting line up in a lot of matches the last couple of months, and admitted in a new interview that his captain could leave the club before the Chinese league transfer window closes next week Tuesday as Rooney ponders a £1m per week salary offer.

Asked if Rooney will still be at Man U at the end of next week Mourinho said:

“You have to ask him. I cannot guarantee that I’m here next week, how can I guarantee that a player is here next season? What I can guarantee is that if one day Wayne leaves the club it is not because I want him to leave the club. I would never push a legend of this club to another destiny.

“You have to ask him if he sees himself staying in the club for the rest of his career or sees himself moving. It is not a question for me because I am happy to have him. You have to ask him, not me. I was very open with you in the answer. I don’t want him to leave.”

Rooney has started just one game in the last 8 matches, has 18 months left on his current £250,000-a-week deal but will not be given a new deal by Man U.

Sad photo of baby as he dies in his mother's arms one day after meningitis diagnosis

The moment 8-month-old Harry, who was diagnosed with meningitis B, died in his mother's arms, was captured in a sad photo and shared online by the baby's parents.

Louise and John Done had just welcomed their child a few months back and were excitedly planning their wedding.
The couple had gone out to make plans for their wedding when John's daughter, Shelby, called to let them know that Harry had taken ill. On getting home and seeing the child's state, an ambulance was called and he was given antibiotics by paramedics to help fight the illness. At the hospital, the parents were told that their son had suffered a severe brain damage and his kidneys were not working.

Within the space of one day, Harry's body doubled in size and was covered in black rashes. He was dead the next day while his mother cradled him in her arms.

Almost two years since Harry died, his parents have released the image of Harry as his life support was turned off and he took his last breath in his mother's arms because they want to raise awareness about the illness and help others from going through what they had to.

Louise, Harry's mother, spoke about their decision to release the photo, saying;

"The reason we released these pictures is because people don’t realise how brutal meningitis can be. Meningitis ravages them before your eyes. It’s unbelievable what it does. It eats you away. [Harry] looked unrecognisable. The rash was black, he was swollen and then we were told his kidneys weren’t working. He just doubled in size. We find it hard every day. You can’t describe the loss of a child. There is nothing else like it."