30 years and Still Counting - Tale of Two Wedding Anniversaries for Pst. Sam Adeyemi and Min. Raji Fashola
AdminMarital bliss is not something that every married couple has come to know. Since Nigerians decided to inherit the divorce predispositions of the West, the stallion of marital bliss has neighed further away for many couples. However, some wedded pairs have refused to let water into their boats, continuing to enjoy the blessings of peace and happiness in their marriage. Pastor Sam and Adenike Adeyemi, as well as Minister Babatunde Raji and Abimbola Fashola, are great examples of the latter. Now celebrating 30 years of marriage on May 1, the Adeyemis and Fasholas are a source of comfort for unmarried Nigerians everywhere.
One can go on celebrating the marital bliss of the Adeyemis and never tire. Pastor Sam has been a blessing to Nigerians as far back as when he first came on the radio to teach the ways of success.
The 56-year-old senior pastor of Daystar Christian Centre, Lagos, has come a long way since then, with his wife, Adenike, solidly behind him. As he has noted plenty of times, Lady Adenike is one of the main reasons he has come this far, going from one of many motivational speakers to a global phenomenon, inspiring millions and millions of people to heights never before reached.
On their lane, the Fasholas have been no less impactful. The outgoing Minister of Works and Housing and former Governor of Lagos State is a wonder. Soft-spoken and easygoing, Fashola has demonstrated that power does not always make for a crooked neck or an arrogant tongue.
Even so, those that know him know that Fashola has been able to maintain his original heart because of the unshaken support of his wife, Dame Abimbola. She is the one who in the last 30 years has stood solidly by him, satisfied with his successes and comforting him in his failures.
For both the Adeyemis and the Fasholas, 30 years of marriage has proved a big blessing. It has been one new height after another. This is the perfect demonstration that marriage between people who genuinely love each other is a blessing and will always be a blessing.
[ThisDay]
Vastly-experienced Dr Reuben Adeleye Abati was the presidential spokesperson during the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan. He is even more popular today as one of the anchors of a thriving morning TV show in the country. He tells a bit of his journalism story to SAM NWAOKO in this interview.
SIR, how did your journalism start, how did the beginnings of your journalism come about?
I started writing for Nigerian newspapers since my undergraduate days. I was sending comments like letters to the editor to newspapers like The Chronicle when I was an undergraduate in Calabar. During my youth service in 1985 in Benin, I also contributed opinions and comments to the Nigerian Observer. In those days, states had their own newspapers and they were also very active. That was the beginning. When I got to the University of Ibadan as a graduate student, I wrote for virtually every newspaper to such a point that I was a major contributor to the book review pages of the Nigerian Tribune and Daily Sketch. The Features Editor of Daily Sketch at the time encouraged me and always published me on a weekly basis. The Tribune also published me almost on a weekly basis. That was the time I got close to people like Dare Ajayi, who was with the Tribune at the time. In Sketch, we had people like Sam Adesua. We had very active journalists. While writing for the regular press, I also contributed to The Guardian newspaper. During that time, I must have written virtually every other week. If I did not write for The Guardian, I wrote for The Times Literary Supplement or I wrote for The Guardian Literary Supplement. I was very prolific on the pages of Nigerian newspapers.
On the side, I also wrote romance. I became a Contributing Editor to Hints Magazine, a romance magazine that was very popular in the 1990s, especially in university campuses in the country. I was writing two columns. Hints Magazine grew and founded another publication called Channels Magazine. I also wrote for Channels. The company was called True Tales Publications and the owner of that company is Dr Ibe Kachikwu, a former NNPC GMD and former Minister of State for Petroleum.
I finished my PhD and moved on to go and teach at Ogun State University. Even as a university lecturer, I kept writing because it had become a habit. Then it happened that there was this long ASUU strike that went on for almost a year. We were just on campus doing virtually nothing. The only option available to me was to focus more on all these writings. That was how I came to Lagos and got invited to be Editorial Page Editor of a newspaper called The Hammer founded by Alhaji Najeem Jimoh, a former Editor of The Punch. So, I became the Editorial Page Editor of The Hammer with our office at Oregun in Lagos. Then, the people at The Guardian heard that I was with The Hammer and said ‘well, if you want to come into full-time journalism, we think the best place you should be is The Guardian’. So, they came and lured me away from Alhaji Najeem Jimoh. So I ended up at The Guardian.
At the time, however, The Guardian said they were looking for a young member of the Editorial Board – somebody young, educated who writes very well. When they invited me and I went to meet Dr Olatunji Dare, I was given two options — either to go to African Guardian or to come to the Editorial Board. So, I chose the Editorial Board. So, once I got into The Guardian, my full time journalism continued. Then, there were two options before me – if the universities opened, I should return to teaching or I should stay in The Guardian. By the time the universities would reopen, I had already taken up full employment at The Guardian. That was how I didn’t go back to full time teaching. When the universities reopened, they said ‘okay, even if you are not coming back, you have to keep teaching your courses. We will now make you a visiting lecturer’. I did that visiting lecturer thing till about 1997. I was shuttling between Lagos and Ijebu Igbo to go and teach every weekend. Eventually along the line, I had begun to study law at the Lagos State University, so it became very difficult at a point to combine teaching with journalism and the studying of law. The one I had to strike off the list was teaching – going to Ijebu Igbo every weekend to go and teach. That way I got trapped in journalism. I got promoted Chairman Editorial Board and I also held several other posts in The Guardian. Then, I landed in Abuja.
Before Abuja, you practised journalism from the outside, what I may refer to as ‘free bird’ experience before you went to serve in government, which would have been journalism in a controlled environment. What comes to your mind when you weigh the two experiences?
By 2011, I had been Chairman, Editorial Board of The Guardian Newspapers for more than 10 years. In the course of my stay in full time journalism, I had gone abroad to the University of Maryland at College Park to study journalism – Mid-career journalism Fulbright programme. By 2011, I had spent more than 20 years in journalism. There is a point you will reach in a particular line of work you begin to get bored and you start looking for adventure. When I was invited to come and be presidential spokesman, I said ‘well, this is something new, something different; another experience. Let’s try it’. In any case, there is nothing new in newspaper house work that I had not seen. So, I went on the limb of adventure. It then turned out that it was a very useful experience.
We do basically the same things that you do in the newsroom. We report a story, it’s just that this time round, you have to report a story to favour government – your principal. It is still a kind of journalism handling the presidential media team or the communications team. You are interfacing with the State House Press Corps where we have quite a large team, although from different media houses.
The only difference here is that you are providing guided communication, you are there as an insider trying to report the government positively. That in itself has its own challenge because a lot of people will say look at this man who has been criticising government, who is known as a social critic, is defending government. I used to tell people that these are two sides of the same script – informing people, providing information. It’s just that on the side of the newsroom depending on the orientation of your media house, you have more latitude to perform your duties. If you are on the side of the government, you are basically reporting government to the people but also trying to make government look good. That is just the only difference but the experience that you go away with, I always tell people, is like going to school. When you are in the newsroom or in your media house you just do everything like ‘aluta continua’ kind of thing.
Many journalists of today rely on Google and Twitter. Anything that they see there that is what they run with, half of which is not well-informed. But when you go into government, you gain knowledge of how government works. You understand that other side of the street from inside: how are policies made? How is government run? What influences the decisions? What are the various dimensions to governance? What are the issues? Where are the corpses buried? You gain a better knowledge of how your country is run. By the time I was leaving that position in 2015, I used to boast confidently that if you give me this country to run, I will run it. I say this because, sitting in Council every Wednesday in a corner very close to the president – if he needed anything he will ask me to quickly do this or that and it will be part of my duty – you hear his every conversation, I follow him everywhere and to every meeting. That in itself is a form of education. So, you have better knowledge of how your country is run. As far as I’m concerned, going to serve in the Villa for four years, there may be no certificate, but for me it is equivalent to the acquisition of a second PhD.
You have written so much but after four years in Abuja, after your journalism on the other side, you wrote about demons in Aso Rock Villa and this has remained a reference. How did the reactions to that article come to you?
That article appears to have become so popular. A lot of people thought it was fiction, but it was not fiction. What I reported in that article – the spiritual side of Aso Villa – is about direct experience in that place. In fact, you will recall that after I wrote that article, some other people gave accounts of their experience in the Villa. What I even narrated was not the full story. People were dying, people were losing their loved ones, people were having all kinds of strange experiences. I was simply saying that, yes the presidential villa is a security zone but people there are also human beings who go through all kinds of strange experiences. It is so bad that it is only the people who are affected who would be able to tell the story. I’m also saying that look, to go there for four years or eight years and go back home in one piece calls for celebration and I wasn’t making up that article. I had the mind that okay, one of these days I will return to that article and rework it, add more to it and include people’s testimonies. Nigerians will think it was fiction and said Abati was giving excuses for the failure or non-performance of the Jonathan administration. But here we are, eight years after the fact, nobody is referring to Dr Jonathan as a ‘clueless president’ anymore because Nigerians have been confronted with the true definition of cluelessness. President Jonathan has been vindicated before the very eyes of Nigerians. So, sometimes, people talk about things they don’t know about or what they have not experienced. But part of our training as literary persons is to observe society and as journalists to report society and to give a picture of the society and hold a mirror to the society so that the society can see their reflection. So, I’m sure persons who have now also gone to the Aso Villa and who will be exiting will have their own stories to tell. Not many of them will come out and say when they were there they were having visions of encounter with angels except they do not want to say the truth.
Post-Aso Rock sir, your new experience is TV. Having been a print man all along what are some of the marked differences you have experienced on the job on TV as against the print media?
Many people think that I stumbled onto broadcasting. I’m a graduate of a department called Department of Theatre and Media Arts, University of Calabar. In our time, it was called Department of Theatre Arts but they later changed the name to Department of Theatre and Media Arts because there are about eight different specialisations in that department. One of the things we did was media studies. One of the things we did was broadcasting and incidentally, we did radio; we did television and television production was in fact my sub-specialisation. But here in Nigeria nobody pays any attention to details. People are given jobs or positions because they know people, nobody double-checks their background. I have a background in television in terms of my training. You will recall Patito’s Gang, that programme that was set up by Professor Pat Utomi. I was part of Patito’s Gang from the very beginning once as a panelist and later as a presenter when Professor Utomi went into politics, when he went to run for president. For three years, I was in charge of that programme until when Professor Utomi returned. Even when he returned, he allowed me to carry on until I went to Abuja. So, speaking in front of the camera is not new to me. I’ve Patito’s Gang for over 10 years before I went to Abuja. So, all the processes of sitting down, looking into the camera, speaking into the camera are not new to me. But Arise News is a different experience. It is a daily appearance and it is an international TV station and the production is live, real time. So the dynamics have differed. Every morning, you sit down there and as you are sitting down you know that you will be watched all over the world. That in itself is a special kind of experience. It gives you a special kind of adrenalin. However, what people see are the anchors, the faces on the television but it’s a team work. There is a whole team in the background: Director, producer, manager, make-up artist, engineer, cameramen etc and all of them are there every morning to help us put something out and make it look as if it is spontaneous. A lot of activities are going on at the back of the production process and I find that quite different from the newspaper. In the newspaper process, if you are a writer or you are a reporter, the process is not as complex. You go and write your report, you give it to the sub-desk they will fine-tune it and put it in the paper. If you are a columnist, you write your copy and they put it out. If you are an editor, people submit their copies, you look at it and take a decision on what you want to use. You have more control over what you want to put out. But in broadcasting, especially television broadcasting, it’s a whole team and it’s live. So, all of you working together will just have to create a special synergy because it is live, you won’t have time to be adjusting things and you have to be in your best form. That puts additional pressure on you. If you are a reporter doing documentary, you might have some time. So also is a reporter doing a report might have a little time. But the challenges are just as daunting. The linkage between the print and broadcasting is that you are serving the public and you are being assessed by the public. However, the basic principles are the same at the level of principles; at the level of output and at the level of professionalism. I enjoy it, it’s fun. I wake up every morning knowing that you have to sit on that chair and you can’t go there and forge it or pretend. I always tell the younger people that this is a profession in which you have to do your home work well. You have to prepare. If you are writing, you have to be sure of what you are writing, if you are going to speak and communicate with the public, you have to be sure of your details. You can’t be going on TV every morning and you are sounding stupid. There are a lot of people out there who know the subject better than you. The only difference is that they are not on television. So, when you want to comment on what they are saying, you have to give them informed opinion. This Google culture is probably a big threat to television commentary. People go on Google and go on Twitter for everything and it is going to get worse with artificial intelligence.
Reactions to what your show on TV gives every morning vary and sometimes, many of the feedback on the social media come from the younger people. Do these reactions or feedback get at you? How do you receive them?
We are in the age of social media; we are in the age of Twitter and so on. Now we are talking about artificial intelligence, tax GPP and so on. Technology is affecting everything and has further expanded the frontiers of democracy. Everybody complains about what happens on the social media because everybody has access to the social media. Social media platforms also grant anonymity. So people hide under that anonymity to say what they like. There are positive sides to it. For people like us who are engaging with people everyday, you have no control over what people say whether they are speaking from a position of knowledge or ignorance, you have no control over it. The only control you have over it is that if you say you have been maligned or you have been abused, there is a law called Cyber Crimes Prohibition and Prevention Act. So you can seek redress in the court of law. But how many people have the time to take people to court even if they abuse you? For someone like me, I’m not bothered. Some other people resort to engaging them. When they abuse them on the social media they will be responding. For me, that is a waste of time. I don’t have the time because many of these people who are abusing are hired. They are paid N20,000 per month and are instructed to go and abuse people. Some of them are agents of political parties. During the campaigns, I got abused, I got trolled. It didn’t bother me because I knew that once the campaigns were over, many of them would lose their commission and you can focus on more serious-minded people. That’s my attitude to that, if you want to speak theoretically, every feedback is useful and that is putting it in the context. Take everything as a feedback but just make up your mind that your primary commitment is to make sure that you do your best. On this job, you take an exam every day. The pressures come from every direction, you just have to keep going on. We are inspired by the example of more senior journalists who have been in this profession for years and are still writing. When you look at the likes of Dan Agbese, Yakubu Mohammed, Akogun Tola Adeniyi – all these people are still very active in the profession. Chief Segun Osoba may have stopped reporting since he went full time into politics but you will see that his heart is still in journalism. There is a generation behind that their own, you still see these people working, and forging ahead. When you engage these people you will see that they love what they are doing whatever the platform. That in itself motivates people like us that this is one line of engagement in which you can stay and continue to function until you creator calls you. That in itself is a source of adrenalin.
[Saturday Tribune]
he Uk Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) says it will investigate those who wrote its exams at a computer-based test (CBT) centre in Ibadan, Nigeria.
The council said the investigation is necessitated by concerns that registrations of those who passed its exam at the centre could be “fraudulent or incorrect”.
The development was announced by the council in a statement on Thursday.
The NMC uses a test of competence (ToC) to assess the skills and knowledge of people applying to join its register from overseas.
The test is in two main parts: a multiple-choice CBT which applicants usually write in their home country; and a practical test known as the OSCE which people take in the UK.
But in the statement on Thursday, the NMC said an organisation called Pearson VUE which runs the CBT programme on its behalf, recently raised the alarm of “anomalous data” at one of its third-party CBT centres in Ibadan.
The NMC said Pearson VUE stopped testing at the centre immediately.
A total of 1,970 candidates took their CBT at this centre, of whom 512 are on the NMC register.
“A total of 512 people on our register (around five percent of all the professionals on our register who qualified in Nigeria) took their CBT at this test centre,” the statement reads.
“We’re writing to them to set out what’s happened and to tell them we’re opening cases to determine whether or not they gained fraudulent or incorrect entry to the register.
“More people have applied to join the register but are not yet on it, therefore they can’t practise as a nurse or midwife. We’ve paused their applications.
“We’re writing to these applicants to ask them to retake the test, and to request more information that we’ll use to make a final decision about their applications.
“Pearson VUE has reviewed all data relating to the NMC’s CBT from every test site globally, and there is no evidence of similar activity at any other site.
“Our paramount concern is to maintain the integrity of the register to protect the public. At the same time, it’s critical we approach any investigations about individuals objectively and transparently, avoiding any unfair discrimination.”
However, the UK NMC noted that it has “not yet made any determinations about individuals”.
Maria Chike, the former BBNaija housemate, says she was not aware Kelvin Anene, her lover, was married when they started dating.
In October 2021, Cubana Chief Priest, the Nigerian socialite, accused Maria of having an affair with his sister’s husband.
He argued that the alleged affair led to his sister’s divorce from Kelvin.
Maria responded in July 2022 with a cryptic Twitter post wherein she said “my silence is for the best of so many people involved”.
But in a recent interview with Chude Jideonwo, the media personality, the reality star reiterated her innocence regarding the allegation.
Maria said she will stand by the truth which is that “I didn’t destroy any marriage”.
She also argued that she has never ruined any home.
“I actually wasn’t aware whether or not he was married. When we first started dating. I’m going to stand by it and that’s the gospel truth. I didn’t destroy any marriage. I have never and I would never,” she said.
In a recent interview with TheCable Lifestyle, Maria also said she “has never broken any home”.
“No, I did not in any way snatch anyone,” she had said.
“First of all, I don’t owe anyone an answer. It’s my personal life, and that’s my private dating life that I will never speak about. Just to rephrase that, no, I’ve never had to break a family. I’ve never done that.”
[TheCable]
The General Superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Pastor William Kumuyi, on Friday, stated that young people are a critical mass that can make Nigeria stand out, but they must be guided and equipped with the right values to achieve this goal.
He spoke virtually at a press conference in Abuja ahead of the global children and teenagers convocation jointly organised under the auspices of Global Crusade with Kumuyi, GCK.
According to Pastor Kumuyi, Nigeria has a bright future, and young people are an essential part of that future.
He, therefore, emphasized the importance of catching young people early and inculcating in them the right values.
“Nobody is born a doctor, an engineer, an achiever, a militant courageous soldier. We’ll all start at the ground level,” Kumuyi added.
Speaking also, the FCT Overseer of DCLM, Pastor Elijah Adebiyi, who echoed Kumuyi’s sentiment, stated that the convocation is open to children and teenagers between the ages of 5 and 19 and will provide a platform for young people to interact with one another and learn from experienced teachers.
Adebiyi said, “We believe that young people are the future, and we want to invest in them.
“Nigeria is a ‘country of the young’ with almost half the entire 200 million strong population, 46 percent, currently under the age of 15, while for children under the age of 5 stands at nearly 31 million, and annually at least 7 million babies are born.
“This is a critical mass of Nigerians that can make our country stand out if we catch them young by inculcating in them spiritual, academic and moral values.
“The children and teenagers convocation is an opportunity for young people to come together and learn from experienced teachers who are committed to providing them with the right values and skills to succeed in life.”
The global children and teenagers convocation will take place from May 11th to May 14th, 2023, at the Main Bowl of the Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja.
[Vanguard]
Rescued Chibok Girl Narrates How Late Boko Haram Leader, Shekau Forcefully Married Her Off To 3 Terrorists
AdminHauwa Maltha, one of the Chibok schoolgirls recently rescued by the military in Borno State narrated how deceased Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau forcefully married her off to three different terrorists within nine years after they were kidnapped in 2014.
The Theatre Commander, North-East Joint Operation, Hadin Kai, Major General Ibrahim Ali, said Hauwa, 26, and Esther Marcus, 26, were rescued in Sambisa Forest on April 21, 2023.
Speaking with newsmen on Thursday, May 4, Hauwa expressed delight with their rescue, explaining that the military rescued them when they went out to fetch water in the forest.
When asked if they were forced to get married to three husbands, she said:
“Yes, it was Shekau that married us to them. The first husband went away. Unfortunately, he never returned and Shekau said the marriage had collapsed since they chose to be infidels.
“We did not do it intentionally. I married three different men. There, I married another fighter at the village, and he died after a fight between the Shekau soldiers. I have two children with him before the last one," she added.
While briefing journalists at the Maimalari Cantonment in Maiduguri, Maj.-Gen. Ibrahim Ali, said that Hauwa Maltha and Esther Marcus, both serial numbers two and 103 in the list of the missing victims, were rescued by troops of 114 Taskforce Battalion Bitta at Lagara, under the 21 Armoured Brigade Bama during Operations.
He said that Hauwa Maltha, 26-year-old, and Kibaku by tribe from Jila in Chibok Local Government of Borno State, and her 3-year-old baby were rescued.
He explained that while in captivity, Hauwa got married at Gulukos, a village in Sambisa forest, to one Salman, a cameraman to Abubakar Shekau.
"Salman later died in Lake Chad. Thereafter, Hauwa Maltha got married to one Mallam Muhammad in Gobara and had two children for him who later died due to sickness. Muhammad, her second husband, was also killed in Ukuba terrorist enclaves in Sambisa forest during clashes between Boko Haram/ISWAP,” he said.
“Hauwa who was about eight months and two weeks pregnant during the time of her rescue delivered a bouncing baby boy on 28 April 2023 while undergoing thorough medical examination along with her baby Fatima at 7 Div Medical Hospital and Services,” he said.
Ali explained that while in captivity, 26-year-old Esther was forcefully married to one Garba, also known as Garus, a Boko Haram fighter who was killed during troop’s offensive operations on terrorists’ enclaves.
"She was later married off to another insurgents, Abba, in Ukuba terrorist enclaves in Sambisa forest until her rescue by troops of Operation Hadin Kai.
"Since their rescue, they have undergone thorough medical examination along with their babies and are adequately resuscitated and will be handed over to the Borno State government for further administration.
“These results are evident as troops have rescued about 14 Chibok girls recently,” he said.
"The girls rescued so far include; Aisha Grema, serial number 11 on the abducted Chibok girls list, Hannatu Musa, number 7 on the list, and Sera Luka, number 38 on the list.
"Others are; Ruth Bitrus, number 41, Mary Dauda, number 46, Hauwa Joseph, number 18, Falmata Lawan, number 3, Asabe Ali, number 12, Jankai Yamal, number 20, Yana Pogu, number 19, Rejoice Sanki, number 70 and Hassana Adamu, number 35,” he said.
Reacting to the development, the District Head of Chibok, Engr. Zanna Modu Chibok said he was elated with news of the rescue of more girls but he wished if they had all come out.
"It is a thing of joy to all of us that hope is not lost, we sincerely thank all who have made this possible. We salute our gallant troops for this feat and more. We shall continue to pray for the safe return of others who are still captives,” he said.
The identity of the Nigerian actor in the trending explicit video involving cross-dressing, Okuneye Idris Olanrewaju, also known as Bobrisky, has been unveiled as Saint Claire, a popular adult film actor and escort.
Naija News learnt that Bobrisky shared a s3xual video with an unidentified man to advertise an aphrodisiac product.
The video meant to advertise an aphrodisiac product, garnered mixed reactions and raised questions about the man’s identity.
Zealous social media users had previously fingered popular Nollywood actor, Joseph Momodu, as the man in the video, which he publicly debunked and clarified despite their resemblance.
However, Momodu were right as the findings show that the mystery model in bobrisky’s trending video is Saint Claire.
However, Nollywood actor, Joseph Momodu has denied being the mystery man in a trending video involving Idris Olanrewaju, also known as Bobrisky,
Momodu took to his Instagram page to clarify that the man in the video is not him, despite their resemblance.
He urged those criticizing him over the video to stop, emphasizing that he is not the model featured with Bobrisky.
In his statement, he wrote: “My attention is drawn to a disturbing video trending online, about an influencer & a model Advertising a product, while the model used by this influencer shared striking looks with me accidentally, let it be known that it is not me, please, you people should stop insulting me already.”
The musician on Thursday won a US copyright lawsuit which alleged he copied parts of Marvin Gaye’s hit song ‘Let’s Get It On’ for his own track ‘Thinking Out Loud’.
He was dragged before a Manhattan court in New York by the estate of the legendary R&B artist Marvin Gaye over alleged plagiarism of the deceased 1973 song.
The 32-year-old musician who first appeared before a New York court on May 3, 2023, told the federal jury that he’ll quit music if he is found guilty of ripping off Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’.
The singer-songwriter who was accused of lifting a four-chord progression from the soul classic in his song ‘Thinking Out Loud’ also described the $100m trial as ‘insulting’.
However, On May 4 2023, the jury found him not guilty of plagiarism
Following the trial, which included several live singing performances by Sheeran, jurors found he had not infringed on the family’s copyright interest in Gaye’s song.
[RippleNigeria]
Talented humour merchant, Seyi Aletile, professionally known as Seyi Law, has stated that his family has received several threat messages over his support for president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The comedian had declared his love for Tinubu, the president-elect before the general election was held and he has not backtracked since then.
The father of two, who relocated to the United Kingdom a few years ago, shared screenshots of the threat message his wife received from a troll and added that he has a lot of such messages as well.
The troll stated that the comedian and his family will not enjoy their stay in the United Kingdom.
According to the troll, since the comedian wanted to destroy Nigeria, his daughter would also lose her life in the UK.
“Tell your husband, UK no go contain Una. This your daughter must die. Since he joined the people destroying Nigeria and he carry una go UK go hide, na that same UK dem go take kill this una daughter.”
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The decomposing body of a nursing mother, Mrs Kehinde Jibril, abducted by suspected kidnappers at Ago-Oja town in the Asa local government area of Kwara state, has been discovered.
Sources in the rural agrarian town said that the corpse was found on Thursday along Ojoku road in the Ago-Oja axis after frantic efforts to locate and rescue her from her abductors had turned fruitless.
It is recalled that Kehinde Jibril was abducted two days before the last Eidel-fitr celebrations at her husband’s residence in Ago-Oja.
The kidnappers, who had initially targeted her husband, said to be a cattle dealer, abducted the wife because the husband was not at home when the kidnappers came calling.
Another victim abducted alongside Mrs Kehinde on the same day in the same town, Oriyomi Babatunde, was also injured during the abduction and later died in the hospital where he was taken for treatment.
Kehinde had since been buried according to Islamic rite at Ago- Oja town.
It was gathered that the family of the deceased had made part payment of the ransom demanded by the kidnappers.
The traditional chief of Ago-Oja town, Baale Daudu Arolu, confirmed the discovery of the corpse and burial of Kehinde in a telephone interview.
Sources close to the family of the deceased disclosed that the latest part payment of N6mllion, demanded by the kidnappers, was allegedly delivered before the discovery of the nursing mother’s corpse.
The kidnappers had last Friday reportedly directed the family of the deceased to bring ransom for her release to Eiyekonrin town and later to Ogbomoso in Oyo State, but they could not be located.
A man identified as Miyin Miller, was caught while allegedly trying to defraud a Point of Sale (POS) operator “using charms” in Emeyal community in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.
It was gathered that the incident happened on Wednesday, May 2, 2023.
Miller was said to have given the POS operator lots of white papers cut to sizes of Naira notes, to deposit as money but his charm did not work.
He was beaten by angry youths of the community who caught him.
The suspect confessed that he used the same method to defraud a POS operator of N150,000 (One Hundred & Fifty Thousand), in Imiringi, a neighboring community, before heading to Emeyal where he met his waterloo.
He was handed over to the CDC of Emeyal II for further interrogation and investigation.
Josephine Otabor, the Big Brother Naija Season 7 winner, who is simply known as Phyna, has made a new revealation,
She revealed that she might get married soon.
The reality star disclosed that she is getting a lot of marriage proposals.
Taking to her Twitter handle recently, Phyna revealed that suitors have been bombarding her Snapchat account with marriage proposals.
She said it was a sign that she is about to settle down.
She wrote: “I think I will get married soon because I see marriage proposals everywhere on my Snapchat.”
Her revelation sparked excitement with fans flooding the comment section with advance congratulatory messages as well as wedding invite requests.
Adewale Mayowa Emmanuel, the popular Nigerian singer, who is better known as Mayorkun, has opened up on why he is yet to have a baby mama.
The ‘Che Che’ crooner disclosed this recently via Snapchat.
A fan had asked the singer why he is yet to have a baby mama during a question-and-answer session.
Responding, in the video message, said, “I still dey find the baby mama [laughs].”
The 29-year-old is one of the few male musicians without baby mamas in Nigeria.