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     The Police in Ogun State, yesterday, released unconditionally, the 30-year-old trader, Joe Fortemose Chinakwe, who was arrested last Saturday for naming his pet dog ‘Buhari’.                                                                                                   The embattled trader, Chinakwe.   The embattled trader, who was visibly angry after his three-day incarceration in police cell, was let off the hook around 5pm on Tuesday after the intervention of both the Serkin Hausa and President-General of non-indigenes in the state. It was learned that the prompt intervention of the elders made the complainant to withdraw the case he reported against the trader at Sango-Ota division which was later trans...

     All appears not to be well with veteran Nollywood actor, Martins Njubuigbo, popularly known as Elder Maya. Reports have it that Elder Maya, who is arguably the longest surviving Nigerian actor, is down with a liver-related problem as the actor is down with a swollen leg, which causes him pain.                                                                                          Martins Njubuigbo (Elder Maya)   The actor, fondly called Papa Labista, who is popular for his village chief priest’s roles in movies, was reportedly diagnosed with liver disease at an undisclosed hospital in Lagos State. This was disclosed by his fellow colleague, actor Ernest Obi, through his Instagram account. According to him: “Elder Maya is...

                             Barely a week after Nollywood lost one of its veteran actors, David Ihezie to the pangs of  death, the industry  has recorded yet another tragedy. Lekan Lekinson, a veteran Yoruba actor  passed on, last Wednesday, January 25, in Osun state. He died after a prolonged battle with diabetes.     Only this month alone, the industry has lost three veteran actors to the pangs of death. David Ihezie, who died last Thursday in Enugu and Isaac Onuzu an Abia State based actor who also died early in the month.                                                                                    Late Lekan   Also,  last Monday night, comedian...

            Hillary Clinton’s campaign sought to draw a line Monday under her health scare, stating she has no medical ailments other than pneumonia and that the Democratic presidential nominee will return to campaigning as early as mid-week. The statements came one day after Clinton, 68, fell ill at a 9/11 memorial event in New York and was seen stumbling as she was helped into her vehicle, forcing her campaign to disclose she had been diagnosed with the acute respiratory infection.     The incident — captured on amateur video — gave her rival Donald Trump, 70, a new opening to question her fitness for the nation’s highest office. Both candidates have now pledged to release additional details on their health in the coming days, as the race for the White House heats up with eight weeks to go until Election Day. “There’s no other undisclosed condition. The pneumonia is the extent of it,” Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon told MSNBC. “I expect ...

    •Says he belongs to 79 social clubs On September 22, 2016, King Sunny Ade, will be joining the league of septuagenarians, 70, and it is not by an accident of fate that he will not be having a quiet party with his family alone. By virtue of his status and his monumental achievements, it is inevitable that such landmarks in life be hijacked by many who have had their lives touched by the joy and talent this Ondo Prince is blessed with.                                                                                                  Sunny-Ade and Onyeka Onwenu   As Henry Longfellow once said “Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the san...

     After a quiet marriage in London to her new heart-throb, JJC Skillz, last month, screen character, Jenifa, born Funke Akindele, has reached out to her fans to pray for her for the fruit of the womb this year, sparking a healthy suspicion she might have been pregnant before the nuptial. The top-rated actress, 39, sent out the message to her over one million fans on Facebook , highlighting the many troubles she had in her previous marriage  to Kehinde Almaroof Oloyede, that barely lasted a year.   “I’m not shy to say this”, she began and begged “Please don’t ignore. You all know, I, Funke Akindele, Jenifa, has been married for a while now without any issue”, she wrote. “Some have even laughed at me, insulted me, judged me, without knowing the pains I go through. I put every effort in entertaining my fans and Nigerians at large, I made you laugh and some would even say I’ve inspired them in one way or the order. “Now I’m in another man’s house, please ...

     Some few months back, at one of these private A-list parties, Dora was having the time of her life. So were a few of us that shared a table.                                                                                                          love or Lust We were all social friends and the banter was smutty but harmless, until  Greg walked in. An obvious hunk, he was way beyond our reach because of his young age – barely 35. He obviously knew Dora as he stopped for a chat, his after-shave almost fouling the air. You know these seemingly cock-sure men, just before making an entrance at any function, they top up on their aftershave, ignoring the less-is-more doctrine. As he exchanged b...

    LAGOS—Doctors at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, Ikeja, are battling to save the life of a two-year-old girl, who was raped by a 28-year-old tailor, called Itua, in Oshodi area of Lagos.                                                                            Itua… It’s Devil’s handwork   Mother of the baby, Mrs. Ajibade, was reportedly going out with the baby, but left her to urinate behind their 1, Masako Street residence, only to return to find that her daughter had vanished. The suspect, a tailor whose shop was located opposite Ajibade’s home denied seeing the baby, when asked. However, the toddler’s mother told Vanguard: “My baby later came to me crying, pointing at her private part and, at the same time, calling ‘Itua,’ ‘Itua’. “I che...

*I was accused of killing him  – 90-yr-old Rev S.T. Ola Akande  *On Bola Ige’s murder:  My encounter  with Omisore in prison; Fryo was my student. *On 1993 presidential bid: What Sultan Dasuki told me   SAMUEL Titilola Oladele Akande, the third indigenous General Secretary of the Nigerian Baptist  Convention (NBC), fondly called  “the Archbishop of the Baptist Church of Nigeria”, served the  Convention in various capacities for 40 years (from 1951 to 1991), the last 12 of which he was the  General Secretary.                                                                                                             Ola Akande:...

  Dear Bunmi,                                                    I am in my 50s and have been married for over 25 years. I recently met one of my only son’s girlfriends and my life has never been the same again. Her body is simply wonderful; well-stacked boobs and glowing skin and she wears all the revealing clothes that are the rage these days. For months I fantasised about having sex with her.                                                                     love or Lust   Then she started making teasing remarks to me and flirting with me behind my son’s back. To cut a long story short, we are now lovers and I give her most of the financial support ...

      … worries over Iheanacho Jose Mourinho  believes Sergio Aguero’s derby suspension for City has  made it a more difficult pre-match task for United  in the build up to the  Old Trafford showdown.                            “It changes things because it is more difficult. When Aguero is available we know that Aguero plays, we know their formation, we know their dynamics, we know there are no doubts that when a player like him is ready he plays,” said the United boss. “They have an amazing rich squad in options. Now Guardiola can have many decisions. One thing is if he decides to play with Iheanacho, another thing is if he decides to play with Sterling or if he plays with Silva as a fake No.9 between the lines, he has so many options. “For us in the preparation for the game we have to go step by step, situation after situation because we try to reduce the unpredic...

          With Sergio Aguero missing through suspension, Guardiola had the option to deploy a midfielder or winger as a false nine, but he instead turned to Kelechi Iheanacho, and the youngster duly obliged by delivering a fine performance, during which he provided an assist and scored what proved to be the decisive goal in the 2-1 victory at Old Trafford.                                                                                         Iheanacho   Guardiola said: “He was the only striker we had in that moment. I thought about many other options – but I thought in the beginning to show to my players that I came to win the game.”   Despite being just 19, Iheanacho, who is now City’s youngest ever goalscorer in th...

   Mixed reactions, yesterday, trailed revelations of the discovery of $20 million in the accounts of companies and personal account of the immediate past First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan.     The money, which is in a local bank and which have been claimed by Mrs. Jonathan were placed on a No Debit Order in the course of investigations into the financial affairs of Mr. Waripamo Dudafa, who served as Special Adviser on Domestic Affairs to former President Goodluck Jonathan. Upon her insistence through an affidavit that the funds belong to her and should not be released, some prominent Nigerians, at the weekend expressed mixed reactions on the issue. Former Lagos State Commissioner for Police, Alhaji Abaubakar Tsav, former Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly in the Second Republic, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai, Second Republic member of the House of Representatives, Dr. Junaid Mohammed and Comrade Debo Adeshina, chairman of the Coalition Against Cor...

  A development  that may rock the relationship between the Nigerian Army and the Federal Capital Development Administration, FCDA, is building up and may crystallise into a show of force or legal tussle.   The spat is masterminded by the Nigerian Army which, on Saturday, September 3, 2016, sealed off the road leading to the 230 hectares of land known as the Maitama Extension District and drove out the workers of a company, Kakatar Civil Engineering Limited, providing engineering infrastructure for the district. The army says the land belongs to it. It did not, however, show any document to buttress its claim of ownership but has deployed soldiers to the site. By that action, the company’s working tools, like asphalt-producing plants, rock crushers, state-of-the-art fabrication workshop and earth moving equipment like bulldozers and excavators, as well as trucks, are trapped: they can neither be maintained nor repaired while those to be moved out for external jobs...

*Don’t bomb Ijaw communities; they’re not militant camps – IPDI WARRI-  THE Niger Delta   Avengers, NDA, has rebuffed President Muhammadu Buhari’s threat to give Niger Delta militants the Boko Haram treatment, saying that he could win the battle with military operations, but would never win the oil war. Spokesperson of the militant group, self-styled Brig Gen Mudoch Agbinibo, in a statement, also advised President Buhari to shed the garb of a stooge to the imperialists when he speaks outside the country, adding that with its unannounced cessation of hostilities, what was expected of the federal government was to put in place a legitimate dialogue to reform Nigeria.                 Its words: “We call on President Muhammadu Buhari to put away the garb of a stooge to the imperialists whenever he speaks outside Nigeria. We have listened carefully and halted hostilities in the Niger Delta; we expect a genuine and positive att...