WAYNE ROONEY RETIRES FROM INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL

The England and Everton's striker, Wayne Rooney ,  31,  has announced his retirement from international football.  Rooney, who won 119 caps, putting him second only to Peter Shilton, and scored 53 goals since making his debut in February 2003, breaking Bobby Charlton’s national record of 49 in September 2015.

Rooney was permanent England captain since replacing Steven Gerrard in the role after the 2014 World Cup.

Rooney’s statement read: “It was great that Gareth Southgate called me this week to tell me he wanted me back in the England squad for the upcoming matches. I really appreciated that.

“However, having already thought long and hard, I told Gareth that I had now decided to retire for good from international football. It is a really tough decision and one I have discussed with my family, my manager at Everton and those closest to me.

“Playing for England has always been special to me. Every time I was selected as a player or captain was a real privilege and I thank everyone who helped me. But I believe now is the time to bow out.

“Leaving Manchester United was a tough call, but I know I made the right decision in coming home to Everton. Now I want to focus all my energies on helping them be successful.

“I will always remain a passionate England fan. One of my very few regrets is not to have been part of a successful England tournament side.

“Hopefully the exciting players Gareth is bringing through can take that ambition further and I hope everyone will get behind the team.

PHOTOS: BAALE AND THREE OTHERS ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY BURYING POLICE OFFICER ALIVE IN LAGOS

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, disclosed that the command has arrested the Baale of Oshoko village, Ibeju-Lekki and three others for allegedly burying a police Inspector alive.

The police boss said: “On November 25, 2016, Inspector Musa Sunday, attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) disappeared from Ibeju-Lekki while performing his duty. During an Anti-Kidnapping patrol, Sunday and other members of his team were alerted   to a fight between two families. The families were fighting over a land. Sunday and his team responded to the distress call. On getting to the scene, one of the communities involved turned against the SARS team, and at the end of the day, Sunday didn’t return.”

Owoseni added: “The next day, I led a team of policemen to the community, to appeal to the religious leaders, traditional heads and members of the community to release Sunday, but they all denied having him in their custody.

"With the technical support of Intelligent Response Team (IRT) headed by DSP Philip, and a sustained detective activity, Sunday's corpse was recovered with his AK-47 rifle, which was buried somewhere along the waterway. Four suspects have been arrested. The Baale of Oshoko village is among the suspects.”
The CP said that investigation has revealed that the Baale led other suspects to take oath of secrecy, to say they didn’t know the whereabouts of Sunday.

He disclosed that part of those that took the oath was the Baale’s two sons, who are still at large.The Baale, who identified himself as Aroki Badiru, denied his involvement in the murder of the policeman.

Badiru said: “I was in my house, when I heard that land grabbers had entered our community. Thereafter, I heard that one of the policemen had been attacked. I called a chief on phone to ask what happened; he told me that a policeman was killed by members of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC).”

It will be recalled that Sunday’s remains were exhumed and taken to hospital for examination. He was discovered to have been tortured, his hands tied backward, before he was buried alive.
Owoseni said that the suspects would be arraigned. He reiterated that the law does not respect anyone. 

FRAUDULENT MICROFINANCE BANK:HOW CHRIST EMBASSY PASTORS DEFRAUDED POOR CUSTOMERS

According to one Akin Kunle on Facebook, The Suisse microfinance Bank is owned by Christ Embassy Church a.k.a Believers Loveworld, the bank is located at Gacoun Plaza, 23 Road Festac Town Lagos.

 It is among the fleets of banks owned by the church, which also owned Parallex microfinance Bank and Refuge Home Savings. The Suisse MFB is run and manage by Pastor Ayodele Olusola who is the MD/CEO of the bank and members of the board of directors are senior pastors in the church including Pastor Lanre Alabi, Tokubo Odimayo, Adebisi Sogunle, Tim Onebamo.

Pastor Ayodele Olusola is the pastor of Christ Embassy Church ,Mafoluku ,Oshodi, Lagos. Ayodele Olusola who allegedly ran the bank as a personal business throwing all the ethics and rules of running microfinance Bank to the wind.

He recruited people who are members of the church as marketers to collect money from people on daily basis as savings. The marketers usually go about with savings cards, the first one thousand naira you save with them belongs to the bank and at the end of the month the bank will deduct another one thousand naira for helping you to save.

The Suisse MFB also have big savers who have their millions as investment in the bank. They collected Millions of naira from these set of people as investment with the promise of paying interest on it. Now the bank has ran into deep financial mess and the bank can not pay the poor savers and the big savers who have their Millions with them.

The estimation of the money the bank owned people is over 200 Million. The bank locked their premises on 16th of December and went hiding, all of a sudden resurface first week of February and paid few small savers less than two million and again have gone into hiding. And the church being money minded church is unwilling to rescue the situation.

I guess pastor Chris Oyakhilomen must be aware of this situation as The Nation newspaper carried it on the 28 of January as http://thenationonlineng.net/were-finished/ . This shows the church does not practice what they preach and is only after people money. And there is an allegations that Pastor Ayodele Olusola might used the money for Ponzi Scheme as he can not disclose what he actually used the money for. This is a big criminal offence which the government should look into.

NBC BANS OLAMIDE....DAVIDO AND 9ICE'S SONGS

The National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC] has banned Olamide, Davido and 9ice's songs from being played on Radio and TV stations across Nigeria.

Apart from "Wo" by Olamide which just came out, the rest are basically old songs. Check them out below...

A FAKE BLIND BEGGAR APPREHENDS IN IKORODU

A fake blind beggar, Abdullahi Abbas,37, who was apprehended in the Ikorodu area of Lagos state yesterday August 21st, has confessed to making between N5,500 and N8,000 daily just by disguising as a beggar.

Abdullahi who is always led by a 12-year-old boy (name withheld), begged for alms  every day at the First Gate and Odogunyan area of Ikorodu.

He was apprehended after an inquisitive resident of the area, Adeoye Baliks, engaged him in a conversation that made her raise an eyebrow. According to Vanguard, she raised an alarm and the man was examined by passersby and it was discovered that he was not blind.

When interrogated, Abdullahi who is from Oyo state, said he belongs to a group of beggars who feign various types of deformity just to get people to sympathise with them and give them money. But for the timely intervention of the vigilante group members in the area, the mob that had gather gathered were in the process of lynching him. He was rescued and then handed over to the police in Sagamu.

FILM CENSORS BOARD RAIDS ALABA MARKET...SEIZES PIRATED FILMS

The National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) in collaboration with the Movie Producers Association ,has seized many copies of Nigerian movies and duplicating machines from pirates in Alaba market.

The raid follows an amendment to the NFVCB bill of 2016 signed into law by the Acting President in March 2017, which states that the release of unauthorised works attracts a maximum of three years jail term or a fine of N500,000.

At the briefing were stakeholders that included Alhaji Abdulrasaq Abdullahi, Chief Eddie Ugbomah, Saint Obi, Yinka Ogundaisi, Gab Okoye, Funke Akindele, Emeka Aduah, Fred Amata, Dele Balogun, Kene Mkparu and Okechukwu Madu

The board’s Executive Director, Alhaji Adedayo Thomas, said, “The raid is the first in the series of national enforcement against unclassified, unapproved and operating an unlicensed film and video distribution and exhibition business which will be carried out in Nigeria through the National task force.

“This is a subtle signal to persons distributing unclassified film and video works, persons distributing film and video works not registered for distribution in Nigeria, persons operating film and video distribution business without appropriate licence, persons distributing film and video works on premises not licensed and all persons profiting from the sweat of film and video creative directors without proper right assignment that they should find other business as the Board under my watch will not rest until we get rid of them from our industry.”

Among the works pirated are big-budget cinema flicks such as the ‘Wedding Party’, ‘Jenifa’s Diary’, ‘Wives on Strike’ and A trip to Jamaica’. Also seized are multiple DVD copiers, writable DVDs and generators. According to the board’s management, some of the perpetrators were also arrested.

OSEMAWE OF ONDO KINGDOM GIVES OUT DAUGHTER'S HAND IN MARRIAGE

The Osemawe Of Ondo Kingdom,His Majesty Oba Victor Kiladejo,  over the weekend, gave his daughter’s hand out in marriage in a grand wedding ceremony.

The event was attended by Obas, chiefs and many other dignitaries across Nigeria. It was an amazing moment for the couple as well as their guests who has enough fun. See pics after the cut.

PHOTOS: Coutesy of Kemifilani Blog