The Super Falcons of Nigeria have emerged champions of Africa for the 8th time in 10 attempts, after Desire Oparanozie’s solitary strike downed hosts Cameroon. Asisat Oshoala also emerged the golden boot winner scoring 6 goals in the tournament. .
Super Falcons’ female coach, Florence Omagbemi, has also entered the history books as the first woman to win African Women’s title as both player and coach
Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State said, yesterday, that he married his wife as a virgin, which is the pride of Africans, who value the virtues of chastity.
Governor Ayade, who made the disclosure in Calabar, while delivering a lecture on the HIV/AIDS scourge to mark the 2016 World Aids Day, said the greatest gift any woman could possibly hand to her husband was to present her body as a virgin to him.
He said: “I should say to the teenagers here today that when somebody leads you to the altar, at the end of that day he should be glad to say I married my wife a virgin.”
The governor stated that young people easily gave in to sex due to financial inducement, peer pressure and influence of international movies and believed that with the use of condom they were secure from HIV, which in most cases was not full-proof protection against the pandemic.
According to the governor, “when people use condom, they think they are safe which is the major cause of infection because evidence abound that the use of condom does not provide total protection against HIV/AIDS since the condom itself has small holes that are 0.05 wider than microbes, which makes HIV virus to pass successfully.”
Dr Rose Nyambi, the Director General of the State Action Committee Against AIDS, SACA, said the state had 164,267 persons (108,000 females; 61,827 males) living positively with the virus.
In a recent interview with Encomium, Nigeria’s richest blogger, Linda Ikeji, reflected on how God changed her status from Mushin to Banana Island. Read excerpts below:
A lot of people want to know how you got your wealth?
From blogging! A thousand percent is from blogging. I don’t do any other thing. There is so much money to be made from blogs that people do not know.
How many staffers do you have?
I have over 30. Last month was the first time I paid a lot of people. I was like, I could have kept this whole money for myself but it is part of expansion and growth.
Do you think you court controversy or just misunderstood?
I don’t go out of my way to look for controversy maybe I am being misunderstood. I am a blogger and a business woman, I have to go out of my way to look for gossip for my readers. I don’t want anybody to fail. I don’t wish anybody evil.
How did you feel when Kemi said you took money from Dasuki?
I have never denied it. The reason I never said anything about it was because it was overwhelming. Someone called me and said I should calm down. The person said people have not come to terms with the fact that I bought such a property. Before the whole stuff started, I have never heard of the man’s name. The only money I collected from any APC or PDP was for advert. I know I am not guilty of anything. If not, EFCC would have come for me by now.
When people say such things, I understand where they are coming from. Those who are not into online business will not know how it works. It is only those into online business that know I can buy two of that house.
What will happen to your house when you get married?
My parents would live there. I live with all my family now – my parents and my sisters.
Can you tell us how you felt the day you bought your house?
I was extremely happy. I couldn’t believe it. From Mushin to Surulere to Banana Island. I think you have only one life to live. My dream was a luxurious house and I said if I could afford it, I would get it. It was such an amazing day for me.
Less than two weeks after a Nigerian, 38-year-old Chijioke Obioha, was executed in Singapore for smuggling 2.6kgs of dried weeds that tested positive for cannabis, officials of the NDLEA, at the Lagos airport, have prevented Augustine Uchenna, 38, from execution in China.
The suspect, who sells safety equipment in Lagos, was caught attempting to smuggle 10.275kg of cannabis to China, where drug trafficking attracts death penalty. .
The drug was detected during the outward screening of passengers on an Ethiopian Airline flight to China. The drug was hidden inside foodstuff like garri, bitter leaf, bitter cola and other spices.
During interrogation, Uchenna said that he was not aware that drug trafficking is punishable by death in China. “My friend in China promised to pay me N600,000 to take 10.275kgs of cannabis to China.
This is my first time of smuggling drugs and I never knew that drug trafficking is punishable by death in China. I import safety equipment and I have been going to China to buy my goods since 2011. .
The economic recession affected my business that I find it hard to pay my rent. This was what led me into drug trafficking”, he stated. Augustine hails from Enugu State and is married with three children.
A distraught team-mate of the Brazilian footballers killed in the Colombian plane crash has made the astonishing claim the players were ‘assassinated’, declaring in an emotional outburst: ‘That wasn’t an accident’.
Clearly still in a state of shock, Chapecoense player Moises Santos, who did not travel on the doomed jet because of injury, claimed pilot Miguel Quiroga ‘was the only guilty one’ in the tragedy.
Speaking exclusively to MailOnline, the grieving player – one of just seven who didn’t take the doomed plane – wept as he said he would ‘certainly have been among the dead’ if he had been fit.
He said: ‘
At the moment I got injured I questioned God, and said to my wife ‘why me?’ Today I can see that because of my injury, God delivered me.
‘But how can I say that God delivered me, when he didn’t deliver my friends who were on that plane? If he saved me why didn’t he save them as well? I don’t have any reason to talk of being delivered.
He then made the astonishing claim:
‘My friends were assassinated – that wasn’t an accident.’You can’t hope for much from human beings. That guy who was taking the Chapecoense players, he destroyed many families, he destroyed the whole city of Chapeco. For Chapeco get back everything that we were living will take a long time. ‘Many people in Chapeco were dependent on the players, the families of the players, and now what are they going to do? This is the question that everybody is asking, what is going to happen to the families?
A Nigerian man has sparked reactions and got everyone talking after he was spotted backing their baby while his wife wrote an exam at the National Open University of Nigeria, Minna, Niger State.
Delecctable Nollywood Actress, Amanda Ebeye who recently put tobed, a son, Benjamin, has come out to slam people criticizing her life.. She took to Instagram rant a bit.
She said:
“To those who put on spiritual black coats and white wigs a.k.a. Judges…… you need to take up a job in the court room. Channel your talent positively or better still please be seated with God on d last day so you can decide who goes in to heaven and who doesn’t lol. All I can say is get a life. You’re the most unhappy in everything, your marriage, your relationships and that’s why you’re on social media posting pictures and getting 5 likes and 2 comments. It keeps you going right?? Lol. You re quick to say God forbid it can’t happen to me but d mistakes you’ve made, what men have done to you. Lawd have mercy !!!!!!!!!! but you remain a sucker for them. You give the name baby mama but I’ll rather be one dan be unhappy as you. You live for men, you worship them and feel without them you’re dead. I live for my kids, I worship my God and Him alone is allowed to judge, none of us. I’ll rather be someone’s mother and be single dan be married and unhappy like you. Have to treat infections my wayward husband brings home to me or have to deal with the children he brings home to me to take care of. What a sham. And then I pride myself as happy and I become a judge. Every time you’re crying, asking God why you’re still in this marriage but you can’t walk out cause of what pple will say. Difference between both of us, I don’t care but you do and that’s why you’ll never be happy. Life is not man man man my dear, if you’re not happy cause I know you’re not, carry your bag and leave. We still have cool spots in the singles club. Marriage is not by force. Don’t go and die before your time foolish woman. Please please Please get a life and stop judging, cause you are no role model.
