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A lady identified as Christiana Edwards on twitter, visited her late father's grave yard to present him her newly acquired degrees. The lady who lost her father in 2013 decided to take her two Degree certificates to his grave yard where she presented them to him. Sharing the photos on social media, she wrote, “I did it daddy! 2 down, 1 to go!!". Her post has got so many people emotional after she shared them on her Twitter page with lots of people congratulating her telling her her father would be so proud.  Some reactions below: 

A woman, Chioma Ugwa-Brown has shared a story about her and two female pregnant neighbours. All the ladies married about the same time and conceived also about the same time and gave birth, almost simultaneously. And they all live in the same compound in Lagos, to compare notes and share experiences carrying babies in the womb. Chioma Ugwa-Brown who shared the amazing story on Instagram wrote; “One of the best parts about being pregnant for me was I had 2 amazing women who could relate to exactly how I felt at any point in time 😁😁😁 “People thought we planned it , 3 neighbors in the same compound , All newly weds and we all conceived almost at the same time. “The experience was so so surreal …… We helped each other through it all whether it was deciding who had the energy to cook that day so we could all eat or who had the strength to drive out and run errands or even contributing to order the junk foods we were craving”. All the three women have delivered their babies, with Chioma U...

An Igando Customary Court in Lagos State on Monday dissolved the 15-year-old marriage of a cleric, Yusuf Adeniyi, over infidelity. Yusuf’s wife, Rebecca, 44, sought the dissolution of the marriage, saying that she caught him cheating on her. Rebecca claimed that she caught her 47-year-old husband with a married woman on their matrimonial bed. The Court President, Mr Adeniyi Koledoye, granted the request, saying that the petitioner insisted on divorce. “The court is left with no option than to grant your prayer and hereby pronounces the union dissolved. “The court hereby pronounces the marriage between Mrs Rebecca Adeniyi and Mr Yusuf Adeniyi dissolved. “Both of you henceforth cease to be husband and wife. “Each of you should go on his or her separate ways unmolested; the court wishes both of you well in your future endeavours,” he said. Koledoye ordered Yusuf to be responsible for their children’s feeding, education and general welfare. Rebecca had also told the court that Yusuf had ex...

Davido reacts as Chris Brown selects his song 'Blow my mind' as one his his favourite tracks Chris Brown as part of his 15yrs celebration in the music industry chose 35 videos as his best videos and Davido’s ‘Blow My Mind’ happened to be one of them. Taking to Twitter, a fan of Davido applauded the musician for making it to such a prestigious playlist. “Chris Brown must really really love Davido sha. Chose his best 35 videos to mark has 15years in the game and Blow My Mind is number 6,” the fan wrote. In reaction, Davido wrote, “Real recognize real that’s all.”

Former minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili has called for an assessment of the physical and mental capability of President Muhammadu Buhari over the affairs of the nation. Ezekweili demanded that a medical panel be set up to assess the President, adding that the condition of Nigeria has become too grave for citizens to sit still. The former Minister said this on her official Twitter page, stressing that the State house physician cannot be trusted hence the need for an independent panel. Her posts read: “I think that at this stage and depth of fragility of the Nigeria-State, Privacy has to yield ground to our right to know as citizens, the state of health of Buhari. “We really must assess the physical or mental capability of Nigeria’ President to carry on the duties of office. “Citizens can collectively push for an Independent Panel to help us make the critical medical determination of the state of mind and body of our President Buhari. “The conditions of Nigeria have become too grave...

Barcelona will have to pay a €3,000 fine, after captain Lionel Messi paid tribute to Diego Maradona, by celebrating in a Newell’s Old Boys shirt on Sunday, SportsMail reports. Messi celebrated his goal against Osasuna, by taking off Barcelona’s blue-and-burgundy strip to reveal the red-and-black of Newell’s. Maradona, who passed away last week at the age of 60, played for Newell’s at the end of his glittering career. Messi also wore the same shirt at the start of his career, making it a fitting tribute. But the emotional tribute was against the rules of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, who are now poised to fine Barca for Messi’s celebration. After the game, Messi posted a photo of his tribute alongside an older image of Maradona in the same shirt, adding the message “Farewell, Diego” in Spanish.

Saturday’s killing of rice farmers at Kwashebe by Boko Haram insurgents in  the  Jere Local Government Area of Borno State attracted strong condemnations from eminent Nigerians and groups on Sunday. The AFP had on Saturday reported that the insurgents attacked  Kwashebe and killed no fewer than 43  rice farmers. The terrorists were reported to have tied up the farmers, who were working on rice fields, before slitting their throats. Although a member of the state Civilian Joint Task Force, Babakura Kolo, who assisted some of the survivors, put the number of people killed at 43,  the United Nations on Sunday said 110 rice farmers lost their lives during the attack. Groups and individuals, including All Farmers’ Association of Nigeria;   the President of the Senate, Dr Ahmed Lawan; the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila and the Coalition of Northern Groups, lamented that the attack would affect food security in the country. On Sunday, the UN shed more light on the ...

The US state of Pennsylvania’s supreme court dismissed another legal challenge to the election by supporters of President Donald Trump on Saturday, further reducing his already near-impossible odds of overturning the results. A Republican lawsuit had sought to invalidate mail-in ballots in the battleground state that President-elect Joe Biden won by about 81,000 votes — or to throw out all votes and allow the state’s legislature to decide the winner. The court dismissed both claims in a unanimous decision, calling the second one an “extraordinary proposition that the court disenfranchise all 6.9 million Pennsylvanians who voted in the general election.” The lawsuit argued that a Pennsylvania law from 2019 allowing universal mail-in voting was unconstitutional. The judges said that their November 21 challenge to the law was filed too late, coming more than a year after it was enacted and with the election results “becoming seemingly apparent.” Pennsylvania officially certified Biden’s v...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says he is concerned about the elections in Ghana not only as an African but also because of its shared colonial history with Nigeria. Obasanjo, in a three-page letter made public on Saturday, addressed the leaders of Ghana’s leading political parties, National Democratic Congress and the New Patriotic Party. He emphasised the need for peaceful electioneering for the country’s stability. The document, dated November 20, 2020, was titled ‘Letter to the leadership of New Patriotic Party (NPP) and National Democratic Congress (NDC) on ensuring peaceful, credible and transparent general elections on 7 December, 2020 in Ghana. In the presidential poll, the incumbent President and NPP candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo, will be facing John Mahama of the NDC, a replica of what played out in the 2016 election. Akufo-Addo had, in 2016, defeated Mahama as incumbent president in 2016. Obasanjo, in the letter issued by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi, so...

Governor of Borno State, Prof. Babagana Zulum, led relatives and residents to bury 43 farmers slaughtered by the Boko Haram insurgents. The funeral held at the Zabarmari area of Borno early morning on Sunday, according to a statement from the state government. The statement was titled, ‘Zabarmari: Zulum leads horrified kinsmen to bury 43 farmers killed by Boko Haram’, on Sunday. The victims lived in Zabarmari, a farming community in Jere Local Government Area, famous for rice cultivation and local processing. They were attacked on Saturday, at Koshebe village, a place in Mafa Local Government Area. Zulum, during his visit, was told that the death toll was yet to be fully ascertained. “Your Excellency, as you have seen here, 43 corpses were buried, but others have not been retrieved from the scene of the incident. Nobody can tell you the exact number of people killed. Some of the victims are still missing,” a resident was quoted as telling the governor. Zulum, who subsequently addressed...

Nigeria has been plunged into total blackout following the collapse of the nation’s power grid. The power grid was said to have collapsed in the early hours of Sunday. Eko Electricity Distribution Company, confirmed the collapse of the national grid collapse on Sunday via its Twitter handle. It explained that the current power outage was due to system collapse on the national grid. The company, however, assured Nigerians that electricity supply would be restored as soon as possible. “Dear customer, the outage you’re experiencing is due to a system collapse on the National Grid. We are working with our TCN partners to restore supply as soon as possible. Please bear with us #PowerUpdate #EkoElectricity #EmpoweringQualityOfLives,” the tweet reads.

Boxing fans have expressed their displeasure at Mike Tyson being “robbed”, after the former heavyweight champion earned a draw against Roy Jones Jr in his highly-anticipated return to the ring. ‘Iron Mike’ rolled back the years with a fine performance against former four-weight champion Jones Jr. The 54-year-old took the centre of the ring for most of the fight, putting Jones Jr on the back foot and landing punishing body shots throughout the contest. However, the judges scored the contest a draw after eight rounds, with both fighters appearing satisfied with the outcome. But some fans have questioned the verdict. Here are some of the opinions tweeted after the fight:

No fewer than 105 persons have tested positive for HIV in Ogun state during the COVID-19 lockdown. The Commissioner for Health in Ogun State, Dr Tomi Coker, said this at a press briefing to mark the 2020 World AIDS Day with the theme “United to end AIDS in the midst of COVID – 19”. Coker said statistics show that 20,827 people are living with HIV in the state. According to Coker, with the figure, the state has the highest prevalence of the virus among South-West states. The commissioner, represented by the Permanent Secretary, Hospital Management Board, Dr Nafiu Aigoro, said the 20,827 patients have been placed on Antiretroviral Treatment to keep the HIV under control. She explained that Ogun State has a prevalence rate of 1.6 percent. She noted that “during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, 49,211 persons have been counselled, tested and given results out of which 105 were tested positive.” “The first case of HIV and AIDS in Ogun State was reported in 1990. In 1999, when the first HIV/A...

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A truck driver identified simply as Taiwo has met his tragic end after he fell from a bridge in the Kirikiri area of Lagos State and drowned. Taiwo had reportedly parked a truck on the bridge on Wednesday to have fun, but he got drunk in the process. while he was sauntering on the bridge, he slipped and fell into the river below and drowned. Some people who were at the spot at the time reportedly tried in vain to rescue the 32-year-old man, who lived in the Ifo area of Ogun State. The case was said to have been reported at the Kirikiri Police Station by one Ibrahim who owns the truck. A police source at the station told our correspondent that Taiwo’s corpse was recovered the following day. He said, “The deceased driver was reported to be drunk and did not know when he mistakenly walked to the tip of the bridge. He fell and people around the area tried to rescue him. His body floated on Thursday and was recovered.” The police spokesperson in the state, SP Muyiwa Adejobi, who confirmed t...

THE recent 21st meeting of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum held to discuss insecurity among other issues bore some semblance to serious governance, but largely lacked substance like other similar ones before it. For instance, their resolve to engage religious and traditional leaders, as well as civil society organisations to boost security in the country and their reliance on the federal police and the army amounts to banking on a failed strategy. The entire security system requires a total overhaul with the states assuming greater role in securing the lives and property of citizens. The subsisting centralised security system has failed. Incontestably, criminal gangs are growing bolder, staining the cities and countryside with blood. In the past few weeks, a string of serious incidents has highlighted the broader trend of organised crime-related violence across the country. On November 14, gunmen kidnapped a lecturer and two children of another member of staff of the Nuhu Bamali Polytechn...

The Peoples Democratic Party on Saturday described the ruling All Progressives Congress as a party on its way to extinction. The opposition party alleged that there were underground moves by leaders of the APC to disown the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), over his leadership style. The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said these in a statement titled, ‘APC has turned Buhari into a lame duck President – PDP …says APC’s plots to disown Buhari cannot sway Nigerians.’ According to the PDP, with barely three years to the 2023 general elections, the APC has turned Buhari into “a lame duck, given the manifest failure of his administration in all sectors of national life.” The party said, “The frenzy by the APC to commence the 2023 election campaign just a year into President Buhari’s second tenure of four years in office further confirms that APC leaders are now looking beyond its current structure and government, having realised that the n...

Twenty-three-year-old Olalekan Faleye, a survivor of the shooting that attended the peaceful  #ENDSARS  protest at Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos, says he has become an amputee after the gunshot injuries he sustained to the leg on Tuesday, October 20, 2020. He had undergone surgical amputation of his bullet-ridden right leg. The shooting incident had attracted national and international outcry, with the Lagos State and Federal governments being urged to unravel the identity of the shooters and who deployed them. Speaking exclusively with  PUNCH HealthWise  a few days after he was discharged from the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Igbobi, Lagos, Olalekan said until the Lekki shooting, he had temporarily worked as a labourer with a construction company in Ikoyi to raise money for his ‘freedom’ as an apprentice cobbler. He also planned to use whatever was left after his freedom ceremony to rent a shop where he could carry out his cobbler trade. “Any time we had little or nothing to do at the co...

Comedian Woli Arole has expressed how he had first introduced rave singer, Oxlade, to the world when he was a struggling music act. The comic actor took to his Instagram to express his joy at Oxlade’s career rise one year after introducing him to his fans and followers in a short video. In a short video, Arole was spotted with Oxlade enjoying a chat. The one-year-old video had Arole telling the world that Oxlade is the next talent to watch out for on the Nigerian music scene. In the shared video, Arole wrote, “I don’t want to be remembered only for the jokes I crack but also for the lives I have impacted and touched. See this was last year, I was the one that reached out to oxladeofficial myself, I heard his song on my friend’s phone and I said, I was led to meet him. We met, we played, we chatted, I prayed for him and did a video with him which I posted. “Just in one year, see what God has done. I am grateful to God. This is just one out of many. My testimonies are the changed lives, ...

Argentina police have opened an investigation into possible negligence over the death of football legend, Diego Maradona. Maradona’s lawyer, Matias Morla, had earlier called for an investigation into claims that ambulances took more than half an hour to reach the football star’s house in response to an emergency call on the day of his death.   A preliminary autopsy report established that Maradona died in his sleep at noon on Wednesday of “acute lung edema and chronic heart failure”. The prosecutor’s office in Buenos Aires has opened a file to determine the cause of his death, and a family member claimed to the AFP news agency that there were “irregularities”. “You have to see if they did what they were supposed to do or if they relaxed,” the family member told AFP.   “The nurse made a statement when the prosecutor appeared on the day of Diego’s death, then expanded her statement and finally went on television to say that what she said was forced on her, so there is some contradiction ...