OONI OF IFE AND OTHERS JOIN QUEEN ELIZABETH II IN THIS YEAR COMMONWEALTH CELEBRATIONS IN LONDON

The Ooni of Ife, Alayeluwa Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II, President of Ghana, His Excellency,Nana Akufo Addo and Former Prime Minister of Barbados Arthur Owen are expected to join Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, other members of the Royal Family, Commonwealth Secretary General and other leaders of the Commonwealth as Special Guest Speakers during the this year's Commonwealth Day Service and Commonwealth Africa Summit 2017 where "Leveraging our Commonwealth Heritage for economic development and collective growth" will be at the top of conversations during summit slated to hold from the 13th – 15th March 2017.


In line with the yearly history of the rich tradition of Commonwealth celebration which is geared towards the promotion of mutually respectful cultural values of all member states, Ooni Ogunwusi will be involved in a number of events to include the Commonwealth Day Service and the Commonwealth Africa Summit slated to hold from 13th to 15th March 2017 where the African foremost monarch is expected as a keynote speaker and a Special Guest of Honour to lay wreath at the Memorial Gate in remembrance of Africans who died in the 2nd world wars.


As the Arole Oduduwa and Spiritual Leader of all Yoruba people at home and in Diaspora, His Imperial Majesty who will during his 2-week visit to the UK meet with the multitude of Yoruba subjects residing in the country will be hosted by members of the British Parliament business leaders to discuss mutually benefits in cultural, economic and educational collaboration and partnerships.


He will also visit the Old Royal Palace of Queen Elizabeth I at the Hatfield House where he will decorated as the promoter of African Culture in modern Europe with a performance of MOREMI stage drama by the Elite Royal College of Mundon.


Ooni Adeyeye Ogunwusi Ojaja II will dedicate part of his schedules to meet with Nigeria High Commission heads, Nigerians-British Mayors(past and present), Local Councillors, business professionals, the youths who are global players in their fields of endeavours.


He will also be sitting as the Royal Distinguished Guest of Honour during the 2017 annual CANUK awards and dinner event aimed at recognising high achieving Nigerians in the United Kingdom.


The Commonwealth Africa Summit 2017 activities will begin with a wreath laying service in honour of those who were lost to the 2 world wars and will be followed by a Service at the Westminster Abbey in the Presence of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and other Royals.


Her Majesty will host the Ooni, other Commonwealth leaders and eminent individuals in attendance at a dinner reception at Marlborough House as part of the activities to celebrate the Commonwealth Week.


The Summit business activities will begin on Tuesday 14th March with an Opening Plenary and close with a Dinner on Wednesday 15th March in Westminster.


The 2017 Commonwealth Africa Summit will be attended by government leaders from across Africa and the Commonwealth in addition to business leaders from all member states. At the 2017 Commonwealth African Summit, prominent leaders will deliberate on the theme ‘from Shared Prosperity to Collective Growth’ - one that promote prosperity and secures Africa’s future.


 Issues such as energy and power, Africapitalism, trade and investment, sustainable livelihood, child rights, counter insurgency and terrorism will be discussed and lasting solutions proposed.


Other activities lined up to mark the Ooni's 2week from 11th to 25th March 2017 are as follows:


*Special press interview with The Times, Economist and The Guardian


*Meeting with the Mayor of London


*Business Leaders Luncheon with Chambers of commerce leaders


*Meeting with Nigerian Mayors and Councillors(past and present)


*Meeting with Nigerian professionals at the Nigeria High Commission


*Visit to the British Museum to engage in the tour of "The Kingdom of Ife Archive" and other Artefacts


*Church service with the Head of Church of England - Archbishop of Canterbury


*Lecture at Oxford University with Oxford African Society


* Meeting with the Traditional priests in Diaspora


*Cultural celebration and Gala receptions with Egbe Omo Oduduwa, Yoruba, Yoruba Federation Egbe Omo Ile-Ife, and other dynamic cultural groups


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SENATOR ANDY UBA DEFECTS TO APC TO 'SERVES THE YEARNINGS OF HIS PEOPLE'

Andy Uba, senator representing Anambra South senatorial zone under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The lawmaker who disclosed this at a news briefing on February 1st, in his home country, Uga, Aguata Local Government Area of the state, said he joined the APC at the ongoing registration of party members in the state.

According to him, APC has ideology and focus which he needed to tap into to provide quality representation of his constituents. Another reason he joined the APC is because of Senator Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment, APC National Auditor, Chief George Muoghalu and other personalities in the party with sound ideas and whom he looked up to in politics.

The senator said he would be very effective in serving the yearnings of his people more now that he was in APC and urged other Igbo politicians to follow his footsteps.

Source: THISDAY

HOW A POWER-DRUNK SOLDIER BEAT COMMERCIAL MOTORCYCLIST TO DEATH IN LAGOS !

A power-drunk soldier, identified simply as Sergeant Taiwo, has brought sorrow into the family of a 25-year-old commercial motorcyclist, Abu Alhaji, whom he allegedly beat to death.

Taiwo, aka Sir T, lives  in Myyong Army Barracks, Yaba, and is reportedly in detention in the barracks.

The motorcyclist, father of a six-month-old child, was said to have taken a woman, who wanted to buy snacks, to an eatery in the Morroco, Shomolu area, while the soldier parked his Toyota Camry on the premises.


Punch learnt that Abu was waiting to take the passenger back to her destination when Taiwo, who had gone to a beer parlor opposite the eatery, came back to pick his car.

It was gathered that while Taiwo reversed his car to exit the premises, the vehicle hit the back of the victim’s motorcycle.

Punch learnt that as Abu struggled with the motorcycle, the woman arrived at the scene.

An eyewitness, Bolaji Oke, said the woman quickly hit the body of the car to alert the soldier not to run over Abu, who was still battling with the motorcycle.

“The soldier came out of his car and slapped the motorcycle rider repeatedly. As the rider tried to explain to him what actually happened, he descended on him with blows and beat him up. The passenger fled in the process.

The soldier beat the rider until he could not stand on his feet; and he left in his car. As he was beating the man, he said nothing would happen if he died. Everybody present was afraid to intervene because he is a soldier. Somebody informed his younger brother, who rushed to the scene. The case was reported at the barracks and the victim was taken to the Military Hospital in Yaba around 9pm on Friday,” Oke said.

It was said that the incident was also reported at the Alade Police Station.

A resident of the area, who gave his name only as Collins, told Punch, that Taiwo was notorious for intimidating people, adding that he recently ran into trouble with a major because of his attitude.

He said, “Sometime in December, Taiwo slapped a man at the beer parlour, saying the man was staring at him. In the end, it turned out that the man was a major and he started begging him.
After that encounter, he had a disagreement with one of the women, who work at the beer parlour. He tore the woman’s clothes. I think he should pay for this.”

There was disquiet at the victim’s residence in the Badulaye area of Shomolu when our correspondent visited his relatives on Wednesday. Sympathisers thronged the residence to commiserate with the family.

Distraught Abu’s elder brother, Adamu Alhaji, who lives in Kano State where the victim hailed from, said he was relaxing in a mosque after observing Ishai (8pm) prayer when Abu’s younger brother, Shuaib Alhaji, informed him on the telephone that he had been hospitalised.

“I took a night bus to Lagos. When I arrived around 11am on Saturday, I was taken to the hospital’s mortuary. Abu died at about 7am on Saturday. Shuaib travelled to Kano on Monday to look after our parents because they have been weighed down since they learnt of Abu’s death,” he added.

Adamu urged the army authorities to support the family to cater to their ageing parents and the deceased’s nursing wife, adding that the death was an irredeemable loss to the family.

He said, “Abu was hard working and generous. He sent money every month to our parents and his wife. His son is just six months old. The soldier does not deserve to be in the Nigerian Army; he should be dismissed.”

The acting Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, 81 Division, Lt. Njoka Irabor, said investigations were ongoing into the incident.

“We cannot actually say anything until investigations are concluded on the issue,” he added.

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, who confirmed the story, said the command was working with the Nigerian Army to ensure the prosecution of the killer soldier.

She said, “According to the information we gathered, the man (Taiwo) was reversing his car and hit the motorcyclist. It generated crisis and he beat him up. The motorcyclist fell and was rushed to a hospital where he died.
The case was reported to the police three days after the incident. The command was able to reach out to the army. We got a report that the man had been apprehended and the army wants to do the needful so that we can also follow up on the prosecution.”
Source: Punch

MISSING COVENANT UNIVERSITY GRADUATE FOUND !

Howard Derex-Briggs ,Covenant University graduate,  has been found after he went missing for 48 hours in Lagos.

Howard had left his residence, Anifowose Surulere, Lagos casually dressed without his phone on Monday 30th Jan 2017 to get a few things across the street and was yet to return home two days later.

According to a fresh update from the Covenant University Alumni President, Howard has been found and details will be communicated shortly....read what he wrote below .......

APPRENTICE KIDNAPS BOSS 3-YEAR OLD BABY IN LAGOS (PHOTOS)

 Oluwasemilore Adebiyi , 3, was kidnapped last Saturday 28th of january, 2017 by one Miss Grace John from Benue State, who is an apprentice with her mum at No 1 James Oyedele St, Mosalasi Alagbado at around 3pm.

Kindly contact any police station or security agencies if sighted or her father Mr Lawunmi Adebiyi on 08028521316.

Apprentice Grace had resumed work at Oluwasemilore's mother, Tobiloba Adebiyi's bead and hat making shop last week, Monday, January 23rd. She was asked to provide a guarantor as well as a passport for documentation but the apprentice kept giving excuses.

According to the baby's father: "On that Saturday January 28th, she told my wife that she wanted to go and buy gala and my daughter pleaded with her mum that she wanted to follow Aunty Grace. The mother permitted her to go.
Minutes after Grace and the little girl failed to return, my wife started looking for her. She saw them on the road with one guy who she thought was Grace's brother/guarantor and that they were coming to her shop to fill her guarantors form. When they did not return, she went back to the place where she had earlier seen them but couldn't find them again.
She started calling Grace's number who would pick up and drop immediately until she switched off her phone"
The little girl's mother, Tobilola, said she had previously taken a photo of Grace with her phone but after the incident, she couldn't find the photo again. Apparently, Grace had deleted the photo as she planned to kidnap the little girl.

PASTOR COMMITS SUICIDE OVER CONFLICT WITH GIRLFRIEND (LIVE STREAMS VIDEO)

A Zimbabwean gospel musician cum pastor, Richard Nhika, 38, filmed himself as he committed suicide because of a conflict he had with his girlfriend, Nomatter.

In the video, Richard can be seen in a bush in Goodhope, Westgate, Zimbabwe, holding onto a bottle as he spoke into the camera, his message directed at a woman believed to be his girlfriend.

"I will always love you Nomatter, which is why when I saw you I never insulted you or said anything bad. I have decided to die next to this tree so that everyone can see, this is real poison you can even see for yourself.”  He said before downing the contents of a bottle believed to be pesticide.

A day later, Nhika died in Harare’s Parirenyatwa hospital, Zimbabwe.
Spokespersons from the deceased's family, Pauline Busu and Nyasha Nhika, expressed their shock at

Richard's action and revealed they never believed he could commit suicide due to his religious background. They also revealed that they do not know the girlfriend he mentioned but will like to meet her so that she can explain what happened and give them closure.

They said; “When we got to the scene where he committed suicide, we found the video in his phone which he had shot taking away his life.

“We are convinced that this was a spiritual attack that happened to him because in his normal senses, he would not have done something like this.

“He was a pastor at AFM Church and he was actually launching his album he featured Mathias Mhere, Dereck Mpofu and Sharon Manyonganise and no one ever expected him to do such a thing."

Richard reportedly never gave his family cause to believe that he was going through a hard time, however, according to the accounts of the spokesperson, two days before his death he began waking up in the middle of the night to pray for long hours, but no one considered that out of place since he's a pastor.

“He was fine, he never shared with us if he was facing any problems with anyone, we only heard of him mentioning a lady called Nomatter in his video," Nyasha said.

See the video below;WATCH THE VIDEO HERE

TOYIN AIMAKHU'S EX .....SEUN EGBEGBE ARRESTED AGAIN TRIED TO DUPE BUREAU D'CHANGE $60,000 ! (VIDEO)

Toyin Aimakhu's (Abraham)  -ex, Seun Egbegbe has been arrested again, allegedly because he was caught trying to swindle an unsuspecting Bureau D'Change mallam today.
According to eyewitnesses, It was alleged that  Seun came with his entourage to change money and he tried to swindle the bureau de change mallams who raised alarm and he was thoroughly beaten by onlookers before he was whisked away by the police.

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, has confirmed it was $60,000 , that he tried duping BDC mallam of.

The embattled film maker, Seun Egbegbe, is currently under detention at Area H, Ogudu, for allegedly defrauding some bureau de change operators of $60,000.

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer SP Dolapo Badmos, confirmed the $60,000 fraud to in a text message. She said,
“Yes, the command in investigating him. He is under interrogation at Area H now.”
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