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“My husband deceived me; he did not tell me that he had three wives before marrying me, ” says a divorce-seeking 42-year-old businesswoman, Funmilayo Otegbola. The woman told an Igando Customary Court in Lagos on Friday that her husband impregnated her and hurried her into the house. “When I became pregnant for my husband, I moved into his house although we are not legally married. “I discovered that he already had three wives living with him, there was nothing I could do since I was pregnant, I had to stay,” she said while responding to a divorce suit filed by her husband, Rufus Otegbola, for 13 years.

The battle of wits between the Presidency and the Senate took a new twist, yesterday, as the Senate summoned the Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption, Professor Itse Sagay, SAN, for describing the lawmakers’ actions as childish and irresponsible. The Senate asked Professor Sagay to appear before the Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, led by Senator Samuel Anyanwu, PDP, Imo East, to clear himself of the allegation and explain why he insulted the Senate as an institution.  L-R, Dogara, Saraki and President Buhari 

A housewife and mother of four, Kafayat Moses, on Wednesday asked the Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve her 15-year-old marriage to Moses Odeyemi over abandonment. Kafayat informed the court that her husband, though a Pastor, had abandoned her for another woman, thereby, denying her all the rights of a wife. “Things were going on smoothly between us until 2014 when Moses suddenly came to introduce to me a woman evangelist whom he said was a perfect spiritual worker with him. “Exactly two months after her arrival in our home, our good relationship started collapsing.

Stephanie Otobo, the Nigerian Canada-based singer and stripper who accused the General Overseer of the Omega Fire Ministries, Apostle Johnson Suleiman of having extra-marital affairs with her and others has, in a latest video, boasted that her god is greater than that of Apostle Suleman’s and that hers equally has more connections than his.  She added that Apostle Suleiman, upon all that has happened, chose to hide the truth from people instead of making it public.

Don't be scared, it's not here in Nigeria, our Politicians doesn't resign. It is the Governor of Ghana’s central bank, Abdul-Nashiru Issahaku that has resigned from his post. This was made known to journalists by anonymous source.  According to sources within the central bank, the governor who officially started his four-year term around September last year tendered his resignation on Wednesday citing personal reasons.

A pilot died on Wednesday during a flight from Dallas to Albuquerque, New Mexico. American Airlines have confirmed. BBC reports that the Boeing 737-800 was two miles from landing when the captain declared a medical emergency, an Albuquerque airport spokesman confirmed. “They landed without incident, taxied to the gate and were met by medical personnel,” he told the Albuquerque Journal.

A 40-year-old Pastor, Robinson Githumba of Eagle Prophetic Church has failed in his attempt to pray his dead wife back to life. Githumba and his followers stormed the Embu mortuary in Nairobi, Kenya yesterday praying in a bid to resurrect his wife, Polly Kagendo, 38, who died of Tuberculosis on Sunday.

President Muhammadu Buhari today host the outgoing Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to Nigeria , Mr. Fahad Abdullah Sefyan in Aso Rock.  President Buhari said that Nigeria appreciates the mutually beneficial relationship between the two countries. 

Theresa May's letter notifying the EU of Britain's intention to leave Credit: Downing Street The letter to the European Union signaling Britain's intent to leave the EU has been published. In the letter, signed by Theresa May and delivered to European Council leader Donald Tusk, the Prime Minister stated the UK was "leaving the European Union, but we are not leaving Europe". She wrote: "The United Kingdom wants to agree with the European Union a deep and special partnership that takes in both economic and security cooperation. To achieve this, we believe it is necessary to agree the terms of our future partnership alongside those of our withdrawal from the EU." British Prime Minister, Theresa May

The Prince of Wales has taken part in some traditional dancing in Romania's capital Bucharest as his nine-day tour of Europe continues. He is due to hold talks with Romania's Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu as the first full day of his visit to the country begins.

A statue of Cristiano Ronaldo unveiled at Madeira Airport on Wednesday has sent Twitter into meltdown over its apparent likeness to the footballer. The bronze bust was slammed as "horrifying", "appalling" and "awful" on social media as it and another figure were erected in the star's honour on the Portuguese island.

Cyclone Debbie has wreaked such havoc in north-eastern Australia this week that a shark washed up on the street. Emergency services in Queensland posted a picture of the bull shark that wound up on a road while swimming in flood waters caused by the extreme weather.

A pig that was saved from a slaughterhouse now spends her days creating artworks that sell for up to $2,000 (£1,600). Aptly named Pigcasso after her namesake Picasso, she started painting in October last year. She now has her own art gallery, with art collectors describing her pieces as "abstract". The sow was brought to the South African animal sanctuary where she now lives when she was a piglet.

It is an impressive feat, to reach and attained the glorious age of 100. Becoming Britain's oldest man quite another. Imagine then discovering that a fellow centenarian at the other end of the country is not only the same age but also shares the same birthday!

A man in northern London died after being mauled by his dog during an interview with a BBC documentary crew at his home, British media reported Wednesday. Mario Perivoitos, 41, was talking with journalists at the apartment complex in London’s Wood Green neighborhood where he lived, when his Staffordshire bull terrier pounced on him, biting his neck, according to the Guardian.

There was some cosmic justice. After stringing along a slew of nominees for secretary of state, ultimately humiliating Mitt Romney, President Trump got a dose of his own medicine.   The Post reports : Retired Vice Adm. Robert Harward has turned down President Trump’s offer to become his new national security adviser, according to two people with knowledge of the decision.

For months after he learned in 2015 that his 17-year-old daughter was kidnapped outside a club and raped by some of her former classmates, Javier Fernández said, he refused to go to the police. That's not to say he didn't want justice. It's all the single father wanted for Daphne, his youngest child. “I wanted to kill them all,” he told a New Yorker writer last year. But in Veracruz, Mexico, you don't rely on the police to punish the guilty and protect the innocent. “The last thing the system of justice provides is justice. I just didn’t trust the authorities,” Fernández said. 

President Muhammadu Buhari has cancelled a planned medical trip to the UK and has invited doctors to Nigeria instead.  The 74-year-old head of state spent 51 days on medical leave in London earlier this year, amid fears he was too ill to continue to lead one of Africa’s biggest economies. Buhari returned to Nigeria on 10 March, temporarily ending ill-health rumours. However, soon after, the presidency said the leader was planning to travel again in April for further medical tests.

As the dust raised by the crisis between Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh and her husband, Olakunle Churchill is yet to settle, the estranged husband’s younger brother, Tokunbo and the Chief Security Officer of the family, have spoken out. Recall that the union between the duo ended earlier in the year when the actress announced via her Instagram page that she had moved out of her husband’s house.

53-year-old veteran Nollywood actress, Ngozi Nwosu, has said that she will get married when the right time comes.  The actress, who is one of the pioneers of the Nigerian entertainment industry, said she has not given up on marriage. Miss Nwosu further insisted that she is still relevant in the industry.

Workers in the Governor’s Office, Calabar, Cross River State, were yesterday, locked out of their offices on the instruction of the state governor, Prof. Ben Ayade, at 7.33a.m., when he arrived his office and found that most workers were yet to report for work. Ayade, according to a source, arrived his office about 7.20 a.m., to find the entire place almost desolate as most workers, including cleaners, were yet to show up at their duty posts, a situation which irked the governor, causing him to instruct his security aides to shut the gate at 7.33 a.m. Those locked out include Mrs Tina Agbor, Secretary to State Government, and other principal political office holders whose offices were within the precinct of the Governor’s Office. Cross River Gov Ayade locks out SSG, Govt House Staff 

Indian police said on Wednesday that they have taken into custody, a man who allegedly buried his newborn daughter alive because he wanted a male child. The baby was reportedly rescued by local villagers after they spotted her feet sticking up from a shallow pit in a farmland within the Jajpur district of the eastern state of Odisha. The father of the child, Ramesh Chandra, was however, arrested by the police for attempted manslaughter.

Human rights lawyer Femi Falana, has said that the Senate’s suspension of Senator Ali Ndume was illegal. Ndume was suspended for six months, for raising false allegations against the Senate President, Bukola Saraki and Dino Melaye through order 14 and 15 at plenary last week. The suspension followed report of Senator Samuel Anyanwu-led committee on Public Petitions, Ethics and Privileges which recommended for his suspension for one legislative year.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has claimed that disclosing the amount spent on President Muhammadu Buhari’s medical vacation in the UK, may jeopardise national security. Mohammed stated this while briefing State House correspondents, at the end of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting on Wednesday.

The Senate Committee on Ethics and Privileges on Wednesday recommended the suspension of a former Senate Leader for 181 legislative days. This is contained in the Committee’s report laid before the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu.

Jay Leno is known an American actor, comedian, and legendary host of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He’s also one of the most well-known car collectors on the planet. Some collectors simply carve out space in their garage for an extra project or two, but Leno’s collection is so large that he had to build a custom garage that’s bigger than most people’s homes to hold all of his vehicles. Of the 286 vehicles that Leno owns, 169 are cars and the rest are motorcycles. He’s become such an esteemed car aficionado that Jay Leno has his own Popular Mechanics and Sunday Times columns. When the developers of the hit video game L.A. Noire needed to do some research into late 1940s cars, they didn’t hit the internet — they went to Jay Leno’s garage, which is full of them. As he owns a large number of antique and vintage automobiles Leno’s collection is quite pricey, and some of the cars are worth over $1 million.

Floyd Mayweather is selling one of the most rare and expensive cars in his collection -- his Koenigsegg CCXR Trevita -- one of only 2 in the world. Floyd's car guy, Obi Okeke, tells TMZ Sports Mayweather is selling the car to replenish his multi-million dollar car collection. We're told he also plans to purchase a $20 million yacht.

The news of a certain man who married two wives in Delta State has flooded the social media, even though facts surrounding the marriage could not be independently verified. Our Delta State Correspondent confirmed that the marriage did actually take place. The ceremony raised a lot of eyebrows after the wedding banner went viral online on Friday.

A 21-year-old woman, Rebecca Bassey, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly beating her husband’s three-year-old niece, Deborah Bassey, to death. According to police authorities, the suspect beat up the girl because she vomited and defecated on herself.The incident occurred at Ijaiye Ojokoro area of the state on July 22, 2013.

The Federal High Court in Abuja, yesterday, struck out the N1 billion suit that former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Mr. Andrew Yakubu, who allegedly stashed over N3 billion at his guest house in Kaduna, filed Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Andrew Yakubu, ex-NNPC GMD: says loot was a gift by ‘unknown persons’. Justice A. R. Mohammed struck out the suit after it was withdrawn by the plaintiff who is already facing six-count money laundering charge the anti-graft agency preferred against him. Yakubu, who was Group Managing Director of the NNPC between 2012 and 2014, had dragged the EFCC to court, demanding public apology and N1 billion as damages over his detention by the agency.

A 22-year-old Indian man, Ravi Kumar, has been arrested after he reportedly forced his 19-year-old girlfriend to drink acid. Kumar made the woman, identified only as Muskan drink acid over claims he was angry with her for allegedly cheating on him. According to Hindustan Times, the victim has been hospitalized with a burnt throat and face. She received around 20 per cent burns following the attack and is currently undergoing treatment in the emergency ward of AIIMS.

Popular Yoruba actress, Iyabo Ojo who has been recently linked up to sex scandals with founders and General Overseers of Omega Fire Ministry and Salvation Ministries, Apostle Johnson Suleman and David Ibiyeomie, respectively, has finally reacted to the numerous remarks that have been made about her on social media. Recall that Iyabo was recently mentioned as having amorous relationship with a popular Port Harcourt-based pastor.

The Lagos State Police Command has rescued a woman identified as Taiwo Titilayo Momoh, from jumping into the Lagoon from Third Mainland Bridge on Friday. This is coming few days after a medical doctor, Allwell Orji jumped into the lagoon from Third Mainland Bridge. His remains were retrieved from the water two days ago. The State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni addressing newsmen on Friday, at the State Government Secretariat, Alausa, Lagos, said that Momoh was in a taxi heading towards Oworonshoki on Third Mainland Bridge when she told the taxi driver to stop on the bridge.

A caterer, Nike Adegboyega, on Friday pleaded with an Agege Customary Court, Lagos, to end her eight-year-old loveless marriage, citing her husband’s fetish practices and threat to her life. “My husband constantly beats me and has turned me to a punching bag. “I have never enjoyed my marriage, I have been responsible for the upkeep of the family and yet, he does not appreciate all my efforts. “He is too abusive and has threatened to kill me several times,” she told the court. Testifying before Mr Phillips Williams, the court’s President, she said there was no love lost between them again. “My mother had warned me not to marry him that he doesn’t look responsible.

Men of Ogun State Police Command have arrested a middle-aged woman , Mrs Bisola Olukoya for allegedly beating her 16 -year- old Son, Toheeb Olukoya to death. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi in a statement said the incident occured at number 40, Ifelodun Street Onifade Itele in Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State. Oyeyemi said “The incident happened on the 17th of March 2017 when the suspect while beating the deceased used plank to hit him on the head , the action made the boy fell down and gave up the ghost.

The pedestrian wearing a brown headscarf and grey coat was pictured holding one hand to her head while walking past a victim being treated on the pavement. She was criticised when a row broke out online with one social media user accusing her of 'casually' walking past the injured woman. The photographer who took the picture of the said Muslim woman looking at her phone while walking across Westminster Bridge has defended her - saying she was 'distraught' and 'distressed'. According to him, the Muslim woman 'walking past' London terror attack was actually in shock and 'wasn't ignoring people... she was terrified'

Ontlametse Phalatse lives in South Africa with her mother and dreams of being a psychologist. Her father left when she was 3 and she and her mother live on assistance. Flies to Boston twice a year for treatment thanks to a charitable foundation. Progeria sufferers rarely live past 21. The elfin child with the big personality and bright smile calls herself 'the first lady' and dreams of the future. But doctors say 17-year-old Ontlametse Phalatse has only another couple of years to live. Ontlametse six years ago  Ontlamese Phalase  with  South Africa President Jacob Zuma

The police on Thursday arraigned a 24-year-old man, Chima Ezeakolam in an Apapa Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, charged with beating his sister, Queen Ezeakolam to a pulp over plate of extra food. Ezeokolam, a resident of Agbe Street, Olodi Apapa, Lagos, is standing trial on a two-count charge of assault and breach of peace. The prosecutor, Insp. Tony Elibeh, told the court that the defendant, who entered a not-guilty plea, committed the offences on Jan. 28 at their residence. He said Ezeokolam assaulted his sister, Queen, by beating her to a pulp after she refused to give him an extra plate of food.

Adeyinka Adelakun, a middle aged public school teacher in Ibadan, on Thursday narrated how his wife, kafayat, poured boiling water on his manhood which seriously injured him. Adelakun had approached an Idi-Ogungun Customary Court at Agodi in Ibadan seeking the dissolution of his three-year-old marriage to his wife on grounds of threat to life and constant fighting.  He also prayed the court to allow him have in his custody the two-year –old child of the marriage so that he could effectively take care of the child.

The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has announced the sale of Keystone Bank, one of Nigeria’s commercial banks. AMCON said the bank was sold to Sigma Golf Nigeria Limited and Riverbank Investment Resources Limited (the Sigma Golf – Riverbank consortium). The bank, formerly known as Bank PHB, is the last of three nationalised banks to be sold, the other two being Mainstreet Bank and Enterprise Bank. In a statement signed by Jude Nwauzor, AMCON head of corporate communications, the bad debt bank said it “is pleased to announce Sigma Golf Nigeria Limited and Riverbank Investment Resources Limited (the Sigma Golf – Riverbank consortium) as the new investors in relation to the acquisition of the entire issued and fully paid up ordinary shares of Keystone Bank Limited”.

The Senate has called for the resignation of the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Colonel Hameed Ali (rtd), saying he is unfit to hold any public office. The Comptroller-General of Customs, retired Col. Hameed Ali, Tuesday, said he will not honour the invitation of the Senate on Wednesday. Ali told State House correspondents after a closed-door meeting in the Presidential Villa, Abuja, that his position was informed by the fact that the case is in court. 

President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump is to have an office in the White House, her lawyer says.  The 35-year-old will have security clearance and access to classified information, but no official title or salary when she works in the West Wing. She will serve as her father’s “eyes and ears” while providing broad-ranging advice, her attorney told Politico.  Ms Trump, who owns a fashion brand, will join husband Jared Kushner, who is a senior adviser to the president.

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, yesterday, gave reasons why he is yet to appoint Commissioners and Special Advisers, saying that he needed to sanitize the ministries and set up a template with which would be commissioners would work.  The governor disclosed that he would send the list of commissioner nominees to the state House of Assembly for confirmation in the next one week, adding that any commissioner who failed to perform according to expectations would be dropped immediately. 

The Consul-General of Switzerland in Lagos, Mr Yves Nicolet, on Wednesday notified Nigerians that his consulate was not in the business of issuing visas to applicants. Nicole said in Lagos that it was advisable for Nigerians and non-Nigerians seeking visas to Switzerland to always visit the Embassy of Switzerland in Abuja.  “We want Nigerians and non-Nigerians to know that the Consulate- General of Switzerland in Lagos is not in the business of issuing visas to persons wanting to travel to Switzerland. “This Consulate-General does not have a visa section, and so, we do not and cannot issue visas. And we do not intend to open a visa section in the near future.

A 28-year-old housewife, Olotu Chizoba, who allegedly assaulted a co-tenant by beating her to a pulp, was on Wednesday arraigned before Magistrate O. Sule-Amzat sitting at Ogudu, Lagos. Olotu, who resides at Bello Street, Ikosi Road in Ketu area of Lagos, is being tried for assault occasioning harm. The prosecutor, Sgt. Lucky Ihiehie, told the court that the accused committed the offence on March 15 on Ikosi Road. He said the complainant, Mrs Samuel Nwali came to Ketu Police Station in company of her husband to report the incident.