"GETTING MARRIED THREE TIME HURT ME BUT IT'S WORTH IT" ~~STELLA DAMASUS

Nollywood star, Stella Damasus, has replied to a post her husband, Daniel Ademinokan, made on social media telling her how much he missed her and why she should hurry back home, while also hinting that he suffered mental abuse from his ex-wife, Doris Simeon.
Here’s what he wrote on Instagram;

“I’m so getting in trouble with @stelladamasus for posting this picture but only 3 people understand the inside joke here. LOL . Some people live an entire lifetime but never get a shot at true love. Some people may never know what it feels like to be TRULY loved. So they may never know what it feels like to wake up every morning next to your woman with no weave, no wig, no make up, and a heavy dose of stinky morning breath…and still love her from here to the moon and back. Can I get a witness? Babe, I miss your wahala. I miss the way you make me laugh from my core till I have a headache. I miss our late night conversations that lead to late night snacking, and that leads to tears and pain in the gym. Chai! (Damn! Focus dude). I miss the most amazing things that come out of the late night conversations, too.

Boo, hurry up and come home. We miss our stylist, my barber, our chef, our ‘egbe wedger’, our doctor, tailor, our Google, professor and our personal alarm clock.

Lately, I’ve been reading comments, reactions and people’s stories about our short film WHEN IS IT ENOUGH. I went back to see the film again last night and reversed the roles in my head. Wow! Some men may never have been hit by their wives but they were definitely abused & violated mentally. All I can say is, thank you Jesus for THE liberation. And thank you Boo for helping me through the healing process. The world doesn’t need the story but they’ll definitely experience the glory. One lesson I’ve learnt: when it comes to love – don’t settle. Never settle for what’s available if
it’s not what you want and know you deserve.

You’ve shown me what love is, can be, and should be. I love you babe. Oya hurry back home because Shakiratu down the street has come to borrow salt 3 times this morning already. You know it’s not salt she wants.  #MotivationMonday#Inspiration #WIE #WhenIsItEnough#DanielAdeminokan #Stell

And here’s Stella Damasus’ reply to this;

“@dabishop007 honey, words cannot express how you have made me feel. When people laughed at me and called me names, saying I have been married three times; it hurt me but in my heart I knew it was worth it. Taking a chance on love again was risky for me but only God knows how many nights I cried and told him if it was not meant to be he should close the chapter.

When I met you I found a friend, a father, a brother, a confidant and a business partner. I didn’t know God had plans for me. Plans that were better Than the ones I actually prayed for. Thank you for coming into our lives. You are the most romantic, appreciative, kind, loving, caring and understanding husband any woman can ask for. You also helped me through my healing process boo.

The girls love you so much for being an amazing dad and friend. I dey come back in two days o, tell shakiratu and the rest say the owner of your salt na kolo o, make dem travel far go find their own. I be one man army o, make dem no try me. When I get better thing, I dey hold am TIGHT. I no dey take am play football lie lie. I love you boo. See you soon.”

PHOTOS: MAN LEFT 4 WIVES AT HOME TO PICK A MAN POSING AS A FEMALE SEX WORKER IN ABUJA

Viral videos and photos shared on social media, claims that the man pictured below in dangling earrings, posing as a 'female sex' worker in Abuja, was picked up by an unsuspecting man who left his 4 wives at home for ‘him’.

He, however  got the shocker after the got home and settled down for business. Here are more photos below;

CHIEF AEBAYO FALETI PASSES AWAY

A renown Yoruba veteran actor, broadcaster, poet and writer, Chief Adebayo Faleti is dead.

Adebayo, an old student of Ibadan Boys High School died Sunday morning at University College Hospital, Ibadan at about 6. am according to sources.

Chief Adebayo who happened to be one of the pioneer staff of the first television station in Africa, Western Nigeria Television (WNTV) died at the age of 86. He received many awards, both locally and internationally, including the national honour of Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON)

He was responsible for translating Nigeria’s National Anthem from English to Yoruba. He also translated speeches being made by military president of Nigeria Ibrahim Babangida and Chief Ernest Shonekan, Head of National Interim Government of Nigeria, from English to Yoruba. Chief wrote clasical  three Yorba novels WON ROPE WERE NI,IDAMU PADI MIKAILU,AGBA LOWO MERI.
May his gentle soul rest in peace.

CORRUPTION :UNMASKING DIEZANI ALISON-MADUEKE

Alison-Madueke,  in an interview with OVATION Publisher, Dele Momodu, in November 2015, she denied every insinuation and allegation against her.  She said she never stole from Nigeria and had done no dubious deals as minister.

She said the rumours about her came from the imagination and wickedness of people who were merely envious of her success and power.  She did not have billions of dollars anywhere, she affirmed.

And contrary to the rumours, one of which was alluded to by Mr. Momodu, she did not own choice real estate abroad.  “I live with my husband in the same house we’ve lived since we married in 1999,” she declared.  “Our [only] house in Abuja was bought in 2007…Anyone who tells you I have houses anywhere should feel free to publish them…”

Last week, the United States called that bluff when it filed an assets forfeiture case.  But it is essential to point out that the US was not principally after Alison-Madueke.  The country has stringent money-laundering laws, and the story has emerged from the effort to recover several properties belonging to the former minister’s close associates and beneficiaries whose activities have benefited her.

The law also frowns on the bribing of a foreign government official, in this case Alison-Madueke. Two of those associates of hers, who are widely-known in Nigeria, are Kola Aluko and Jide Omokore, men who blossomed in the oil sector under her watch.  There are three other co-conspirators, identified only by numbers, presumably because they have a significant role to play in the forthcoming criminal processes. Thanks to ‘Madam D,’ their companies received over $1.5 billion in revenues selling Nigerian crude oil.

Awash with cash March 2012 and January 2015, Aluko purchased over $87 million dollars’ worth of real estate in New York and California for himself, as well as a luxury yacht for $82 million.

Which brings us to Alison-Madueke’s bluff.  In painstaking detail, US lawyers allege that the minister made Aluko and Omokore wealthy, and how in return the men and others purchased for the minister and her family a new luxury lifestyle, particularly in England.

“Anyone who tells you I have houses anywhere should feel free to publish them…?” Well then, how about these:

96 Camp Road, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, SL9 7PB (“the Falls,” purchased in January 2011 for £3,250,000);
39 Chester Close North, London NW1 4JE, purchased in March 2011 for £1,730,000;
58 Harley House, Marylebone Road, London NW1 5HL, purchased in March 2011 for £2,800,000;
Flat 5 Park View, 83-86 Prince Albert Road, London NW8 7RU, purchased in March 2011 for £3,750,000.

It is important to note that following each purchase, Alison-Madueke led the extensive re-modelling and decoration efforts.  And then, by her own account she acquired a lot of equally expensive Houston furniture: four million dollars’ worth.

“At least one of the items purchased in Omokore’s name, and paid for by Co-Conspirator #1, has been matched by vendor number, item number, and store-issued control number to furniture discovered in Alison-Madueke’s residence in Abuja, Nigeria,” US documentation shows.

Speaking of greed, there is more: Between August 2011 and January 2014, these men paid rents of £537,922 for two additional central London residences at 22 St. Edmunds Terrace, London NW8 7QQ. Flat 19 was occupied by Alison-Madueke and Flat 6 by her mother.  She must have been one proud mother.

In her Momodu interview, Alison-Madueke had claimed she was being treated for breast cancer, a report that was received with derision among Nigerians.   There were good grounds for the skepticism: her education in the US, her age, her NYSC service, her work record in Nigeria and her two ministerial chairs had all been riddled with credibility questions. In 2014, at height of her powers, the story also emerged that she squandered N10bn to charter a luxury jet for her use.

At the 2015 interview, and for someone said to be undergoing chemotherapy, she went to great trouble to meet her interviewer in various places in London, none—as it turns out—being any of at least six places she owns.  While she looked sick in the pictures, there was really nothing a make-up artiste could not achieve.  But even if she were sick, that would not detract from the issues that surround her.

Since then, however, details have leaked of a bribery ring she ran in Nigeria to try to guarantee Mr. Jonathan’s re-election in 2015.  And just days ago, a court in Lagos ordered the confiscation of a massive $37.5m Banana Island property she bought 2013.

In the end, this story is not really about Alison-Madueke, but about the poverty of Buhari’s anti-corruption rhetoric.

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ARABA YEMI ELEBUIBON: YORUBA CULTURAL AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY

Chief Ifayemi Elebuibon, an author,paywright, is a popular Ifa priest from South-western part of Nigeria. The 11th Araba of Oshogbo,  was born in Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria. He cames from a family acclaimed to be one of the authorites on Yoruba Traditional Institutions, A direct descendant of Olutimehin, one of Co-founder of the City of Osogbo. He began his priesthood training at age four.

He received his formal education through correspondence courses. His parents insisted on his through grounding in the traditional institution and culture through his apprenticeship with renowned priests of the day. Araba Ifayemi is a poet, performing artist, play write, herbalist and practising babalawo (ifa priest). He has published several books, and scholarly papers on various aspects of Yoruba traditional religion and culture.

Araba Ifayemi is also a recording artist with several credits on Yoruba poetic genre known as Ewi. His mostly social commentaries and parallax snaps cultural philosophy.

His traditional morality drama, Ifa Olokun Asorodayo called from Odu Ifa, was presented on Nigeria National Television Network popular series.

Yemi is an international scholar in-residence at San Francisco State University in California, USA, where he lectures on African Traditional religion and philosophy.

He is the founder of Ancient Philosophy International, Osogbo, Nigeria a Centre dedicated to teach African traditional religion and preforming arts.

He has trained a lot of students and initiated many into the tradition.

Yemi numerous awards and recognitions include lifetime achievement chieftancy as the Araba of Osogbo a title that elevated him to a venerated position in the priesthood hierarchy.
He has also been honored with a doctorate degree of the Brandice University USA. He is an associate staff at Institute of Cultural. he was appointed a vice chairman of Board of Traditional Medicine, Osun State. He is also the current president of International Congress of Orisa tradition and culture, Nigeria Chapter.

He maintain a botanica and mini-museum at his House of Culture that has become a must stop for visitors to Osogbo for teh city annual Osun Festival.
Yemi has travelled to many parts of the world at the invitation of organizations, institutions, colleges, and universities and local governments.
Membership and Awards include;Member of Rotary Club Osogbo; Member of Yoruba Centre of Excellence; Trophy Second Prize Bauch Nafest 89; Merit Award; Justice of Peace, Government of Osun State; Merit Award Osogbo Progressive Union; Silver Trophy Government of Oyo State by Sasa Eniyan Ore Sanya;An honourary decorated degree of traditional religion upon the Recomendation (USA 27-7-1993); etc.

PHOTOS : "I'VE NEVER MEANT TO KILL MR OLUMIDE ODIMAYO"~~SUSPECTED KIDNAPPER

When Mr Olumide Odimayo, a chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC) and also a London based businessman returned to Nigeria to complete his building in Ondo State, he never bargained that death would be waiting for him.

After Odimayo returned from London, he got some plank sellers to assist him to buy planks and finish his building.

These workers ended up being those that organized his abduction, leading to his subsequent death.
One of the suspected kidnappers, Mr David Seimiyengha, has confessed to policemen that he never meant to kill Odimayo.

He explained that while trying to escape with other kidnappers as they were being chased by community members who were determined to rescue Odimayo, he dropped the politician into the river and fled.

The suspect said: “Odimayo must have died because he couldn’t swim. I didn’t kill him and never meant to hurt him.”
The Ondo State Commissioner of Police, Hilda Ibifuro Harrison, said the suspects and others at large, stormed the residence of Odimayo and took him to unknown destination.

She said: “It was in the process of the victim being rescued by the community, that the hoodlums killed him and dropped his corpse into the river. One AK49 rifle and 21 rounds of lives ammunition were recovered from them. The body of the victim was found lifeless in a creek at Ajagba. The corpse has been deposited at hospital for autopsy.”

Aside from Seimiyengha, other suspects arrested in connection with the abduction and subsequent death of the victim is Fikesei Inuesokan, Bekewei Francis, Ekan Roman, Gbamila Success, Bodidi Idowo, Saturday Amos and Ijanboh Kehinde.

One of the suspects, Amos, said he and Ijanboh were not part of the kidnappers.
Odimayo was found dead in a riverine community in Ese-Odo Local Government Area of the state, four days after he was abducted from his house in Igbotu in Ese-Odo Local Government area of the state.

The deceased, a United Kingdom based businessman and politician, was kidnapped on June 15 by gunmen shortly after he returned from London.  Until his death, Odimayo is a prominent leader of the APC in his Ese-Odo Local Government Area. The body of Odimayo was found near Ogolo River, between Sabomi and Igbotu communities in Ese-Odo Local Government Area of the state.

Seimiyengha said:  “This man, Fikesei Inuesokan, met me and told me that he had a job he wanted to do, but didn’t know how to get rifle to carry it out. My friend KK said he could arrange a gun. He also arranged with others to kidnap the man. I didn’t know when they carried out the abduction. They took the victim to the creek and invited me to cook for them. According to them, they didn’t know how to cook. I was cooking for six people, including the victim. I agreed to cook for them because I needed money.”

Seimiyengha said; “We were in the creek when the community people came after us; I took the man away from the place. The community and my friends engaged one another in a fight. The man that supplied the gun was killed. After the death of our friend, we ran away, but the community people still continued to chase after us. When we got to the river, I crossed the river with the man. The community people started shooting sporadically, I had to drop him. He was alive when I dropped him and ran away. I guess he died because he didn’t know how to swim.”

 Inuesokan, who also admitted complicity in the crime, disclosed that one of the victim’s workers, Ekan Roman, brought the deal of abducting him.
Roman was hired by Odimayo to help him purchased planks for the roofing of his house at Igbotu that brought the idea of kidnapping him.
 Inuesokan said: “Roman said that if Odimayo could afford planks, he should have enough to pay for ransom. Odimayo gave the contract to Roman, and it was him who led us to abduct Odimayo. Odimayo was building a house and needed to roof it. I gave Roman part of the planks for the house. Roman said we should kidnap Odimayo, so that we could get more money from him. Three of us took the decision to kidnap the man.”

"MY DAD STARTED SLEEPING WITH ME SINCE I WAS 10"~~14-YEAR OLD DANIELLA

Fourteen-year-old Daniella wrung her hands nervously, looking down at the foot mat in the car in which she shared her story with our correspondent.

The strange place became necessary because she was only willing to share her story away from the earshot of her step-father, 37-year-old Francis Okezie.

Few days before, a neighbour had alerted child rights activists to the plight of Daniella over a suspicious bleeding she once noticed on the girl.

The neighbour was said to have asked Okezie about it but he simply explained it away as nothing.

When Daniella started speaking, the series of allegations she made were like bombs wrapped in words.

Okezie lives in a one-bedroomed apartment with Daniella and his own six-year-old biological daughter, a girl he had with Daniella’s mother.

When she started speaking, her words came out with trepidation.

Daniella refers to Okezie as “my dad” even though she told our correspondent that she knew that he was not her biological father.

She said, “My dad started sleeping with me in 2014. The day he started, my mother was not around that day. She was in church during a fasting and prayer programme. I was at home, so I was not in church with her.

“My mother was the one cooking for church members when they break their fast daily. I always told him I did not want to do that and he would leave me sometimes. Other times, he would still force me when I beg him to leave me alone. He said if I told anybody, I would die. I sleep on the bed while my dad and sister sleep on the floor.”

Asked if she thought her father was having the same sexual contact with her younger sister, she said no.

According to her, her mother, an Imo State indigene, has been away from home for about nine months even though she is not separated from her husband and neither are they divorced.

She was said to have left home for her village to take care of her mother.

Daniella said, “I don’t want to stay there anymore; I would like to go and live with my aunt in Ondo State. It is because of my mother that I am still living with him. I was afraid to tell my mother what he was doing.

“He forces me to do it when my mother is not around. If my mother goes out or is playing with her friends outside, he would do it.”

But that was not the worst of Daniella’s story.

In September 2016, Daniella allegedly got pregnant.

She explained that she did not know she was pregnant until her father took her to one Nurse Esther, whom our correspondent later found out is 32-year-old Esther Udoh, an auxiliary nurse who also works in a hairdressing salon.

Daniella said, “My dad just told me that day that he was taking me to Nurse Esther, who is a member of our church.

“When I got to Nurse Esther’s house, he went inside while I waited outside. When they were done talking, we left. When we got home, my dad gave me three white tablets at once.

“Some days after I took the tablet, we went for a Thursday service and I started having stomach pain. I told my mother about the pain. I told her I wanted to go to the toilet. I did but the pain was still there. Blood started coming out of me. My mother asked what happened and I told her I did not know why I was bleeding. My dad was with us in the church at the time.

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