British rapper and singer, Stephanie Victoria Allen, popularly known as Stefflon Don, has revealed the major reasons she broke up with Nigerian Grammy award-winning singer, Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, popularly known as Burna Boy.
Naija News recalls that the former love birds parted ways late last year over speculations of alleged cheating.
However, Stefflon Don in a post shared on her Instagram story on Sunday 7th August shed more light on why their relationship crashed.
According to the singer, she broke up with Burna Boy because of his ego, stressing that the ‘Twice as Tall’ crooner always sees his colleague, Wizkid as competition.
Stefflon Don added that Burna Boy can’t satisfy her in bed and bullied her the last time she spoke about the issue.
She wrote: “I broke up with Burna Boy because he has a fragile ego. He sees his friend Wizkid as a competition, despite knowing Wizkid is bigger than he is. He can’t even satisfy me in bed. SMH. He bullied me the last time I wanted to talk, but not anymore.”
BREAKING! UNILORIN Graduate Emerges Eva Wine Nigeria Brand Ambassador
A University of Ilorin graduate, Miss Ebun Dosunmu has become the Brand Ambassador for Nigeria’s Premium non-alcoholic drink, Eva Wine.
Dosunmu emerged the winner following “The Search for Miss Eva”, a keenly contested competition, which lasted for 5 weeks and saw no fewer than 600 video entries from young women across Nigeria.
She is now the first ever brand ambassador for the popular non-alcoholic wine drink.
Ebun, a TV/Red carpet host/producer, brand strategist, and content creator, outshined nine other finalists to win the title in a keenly contested grand finale which held at the 5-star Lagos Marriott Hotel, Ikeja on Sunday, August 7, 2022.
The glamorous event brings to climax the high-energy online competition which received hundreds of video entries from young ladies all across Nigeria, among which 30 were shortlisted and 10 finalists emerged.
During the final event, the contestants presented varying performances of their talents and creativity, from singing to poetry, painting and many more, to the delight of the audience.
Nollywood superstar and show host, Deyemi Okanlawon then engaged all the finalists in a fireside chat which gave the judges the opportunity to closely assess them on eloquence, intelligence, connection with the brand and general affairs.
After their review of the night’s performances as well as points garnered earlier in the competition, the judges presented the host with the result and he went on to announce the bubbly Ebunoluwa Dosumu as the winner, while Niki Amachree emerged as the first runner-up and Lilian Orakwe was named second runner-up. Pamela Ifejoku was named third runner-up.
Ebun, who is also a graduate of the University of Ilorin, Kwara state, goes home with the grand prize of 6 million naira, an all-expense paid vacation in Dubai courtesy of Africa’s leading full-service travel company, Voiaj Travels, a complete makeover, staycation, product supply and many more.
The first runner-up wins 500,000 naira, a complete makeover, staycation, product supply, while the second runner-up wins 300,000 naira, a complete makeover, staycation, product supply and other exciting prizes.
The Country Manager for Eva Group, Tope Akanni, expressed excitement at the success of the competition. He identified the high level of creativity displayed by Nigerian ladies in their entry videos as well as the “My Eva Story” videos as one of the highlights of the competition.
He said; “We already promised that our ideal Miss Eva would be a wise young woman who can represent Eva Wine, home and away, as a virtuous, warm, creative, fun, and friendly personality. Now that we have found her, Nigerians should look out for her in the next one year because she will be the face of the brand on TV, billboards, social media, events and everywhere, from chat rooms to boardrooms.”
Reiterating why the Eva Wine brand decided not to engage a top celebrity or influencer as its brand ambassador, Mr Sanni explained how fulfilling it has been for the brand watching exceptional young ladies grabbing the Eva Wine opportunity to become self-made celebrities.
He promised that the Search for Miss Eva is the beginning of a new era in which the Eva Wine brand would support and invest more in the Nigerian youth through the media and entertainment industry.
The Managing Director of Voiaj Travels, who was also one of the judges, Lanre Olaniyan, noted that the toughest task on the night was trying to arrive at the final decision due to the sparkling qualities displayed by all the finalists. He noted that all the contestants are indeed winners and they should be proud of themselves.
“It’s a huge congratulations to the Eva Wine Nigeria team and to the winner. We are indeed proud of this project and our partnership. As the official travel partner for Miss Eva, I’d like to say her celebrity travel lifestyle starts now and we cannot wait to welcome her to the beautiful city of Dubai,” he said.
For five weeks, Eva Wine Nigeria has deployed an exciting online activation engaging young ladies across Nigeria in a reality-type talent competition with intense activities to test their eligibility for its brand ambassadorial role.
Young ladies across Nigeria were required to record a short video celebrating creatively with a bottle of Eva Wine and vibing to the campaign theme song #happymisseva.
The grand finale was streamed live on Eva Wine’s YouTube channel, Eva TV.
Nigerian athlete, Tobi Amusan has set a new record by winning the 100 meters hurdles gold at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, the United Kingdom.
The 25-year-old clocked 12.30 seconds to set a new games record.
Her victory has also secured Nigeria’s 10th gold medal in what has been an amazing year.
Amusan’s time of 12.30s has eclipsed the 16-year-old 12.65 seconds Games record set by Jamaica’s Brigitte Foster-Hylton in Melbourne, Australia.
Devynne Charlton of the Bahamas came second while Briton Cindy Sember who celebrated her 28th birthday with a win in the semis settled for the bronze.
Only a few weeks ago, 25-year-old Amusan broke the World Record with her 12.12 seconds semi-final win before going on to win the world title in Oregon with 12.06s wind-aided time.
Former Inspector-General of Police, Mr Tafa Balogun, was buried in his country home of Ila-Orangun, Osun, on Saturday.
Balogun was appointed Nigeria’s 21st Inspector-General of Police on March 6, 2002. He left the office in 2005.
He passed on in Lagos on Thursday, four days to his 75th birthday.
The funeral prayer was observed in accordance with Islamic rites at the Ila-Orangun Central Eid Praying Ground.
Chief Imam of Ila-Orangun, Dr Abdulhammed Salahudeen, presided over the burial prayers where he preached the need for humans to discharge good deeds as death is inevitable.
Former Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, who spoke with newsmen at the side-line of the burial, described Balogun as one of the greatest gentle police officers Nigeria has ever produced.
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Arase described the departed IG-P as a mentor and a father who impacted a lot of police officers intellectually.
“He was an operational icon, intellectual to the core; a cerebral officer. Even in death he remains my mentor and benefactor.
“He was like a big father when it comes to policing difficult issues. You can always go to him for advice and we will miss him for that,’’ Arase lamented.
NAN reports that the Commissioner of Police in Osun, Mr Olawale Olokode represented the current Inspector-General of Police, Mr Usman Alkali Baba at the burial.
Mr Ismail Omipidan, Chief Press Secretary to Gov. Gboyega Oyetola of Osun, and the Osun Finance Commissioner, Bola Oyebamiji, both represented the state government at the funeral heavily attended by police personnel. (NAN)
Court Grants Access Bank Power to Take-Over Sonny Odogwu Estate over N26bn Debt
Justice Daniel Osiagor of the Federal High Court, Lagos today upheld the N26 billion debt claim by Access Bank PlC against the estate of the late Ide Ahaba of Asaba, Chief Sonny Odogwu.
Osiagor upheld the bank’s claim after dismissing the preliminary objection filed by the estate of the late Chief Sonny Odogwu challenging the claim of the bank adding that a consent judgement had earlier been entered in which parties to the debt agreed on the payment of N12 billion as full and final payment.
The defendants in the preliminary objection added that having taking benefit of the consent judgement, the plaintiff can’t turn around and ask the court to set aside same.
However, Access Bank it it’s claim before the court said the said judgement was floored in that it was delivered by a court that lacked jurisdiction to entertain it at the time it was entered as consent judgement.
The bank through it’s counsel, Kemi Balogun, SAN said the matter having been placed at the bossom of the Court of Appeal , the lower court which entered the consent judgement as the judgement of the court is Functus Officio ( lacked jurisdiction) and that the only court that has the power to adjudicate on such matter at that level is the appellate court.
Justice Osiagor while dismissing the objection of the defendants nullified the consent judgement entered by Justice Rilwan Aikawa which sanctioned the consent judgement on the ground that it lacked jurisdiction to grant such order as it is functus officio of the matter as at the time he granted the order.
The judge then affirmed the earlier judgement of justice Saliu Saidu which ordered the defendants to pay it’s outstanding indebtedness of N26 billion.
Justice Osiagor however ruled that the payment must be less all amount earleir paid to the judgement creditor
The court also award a cost of N200,000 against the defendants’.
It would be recalled that Access Bank Plc and the late Ide Ahaba of Asaba, Chief Sonny Odogwu, entered into a N26 billion loan agreement when he was alive. The late businessman wanted to use the facility to build luxury apartments to be known as Le Meridien Grand Towers in highbrow Ikoyi, Lagos.
In line with global best practices, the bank demanded for collateral security.
Thus Odogwu mortgaged prime properties in Lagos, Abuja, Dubai, and Los Angeles to Access Bank in return for the facility. After the death of the businessman, the mortgaged properties eventually become a subject of litigation
Trouble started when the estate of the late Chief Odogwu, reacted angrily to a move by Access Bank to take over the uncompleted property due to the non performance of the loan.
The defendants’ went to town with a statement that the property was not part of the consent agreement reached by both parties, and registered as a judgment of Federal High Court, Lagos. The release signed by the estate lawyer, Chief Anthony Idigbe SAN was published by various media platforms on Tuesday.
Reacting to the statement, Access Bank said that the Ikoyi property was not the only one that fell within the purview of the November 3, 2015 Federal High Court judgment that ordered the bank to take over the properties used it as collateral in lieu of the N26 billion loan facility.
Other properties include Berendo Property located in Los Angeles, State of California, United States of America, Unit No: FN428, The Fairmont Palm Residence (North), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Asokoro Shopping weMall, Abuja, 1 Happy Home Street, Kirikiri, Lagos, properties located at Kingsway and Lawrence Roads, Ikoyi Lagos.
Access bank also stated that it is is the successor in title to Diamond Bank Plc following its merger with Diamond Bank Plc.2
The crux of the matter was that former Diamond Bank PlC granted facilities to the Judgment Debtors for the construction of a property to be known as Le Meridien Grand Towers located and lying at 31-35 Ikoyi Crescent, Lagos and registered as No. 17 at page 17 in volume 100 at the Federal Lands Registry, Ikoyi, Lagos. The property is mortgaged to the bank as collateral for the facilities.
However, litigation that ensued over the inability of company, Robert Dyson & Diket Limited to liquidate the facility, Access Bank secured a Judgment in the sum of N26,229,943,035.22 consequent upon a Federal High Court judgment in Suit No. FHC/L/CS/1633/2014 delivered on 3rd November 2015 against Robert Dyson & Diket Limited & 2 Ors (the Judgment Debtors) in relation to the Project Finance for development of a seven-star hotel and residences (“the Project”).
Following the Judgment, Robert Dyson entered an Appeal against the said judgment and a motion staying the execution of same in APPEAL NO: CA/L/1151/2015 – ROBERT DYSON & DIKET LIMITED & 2 ORS. V. DIAMOND BANK PLC & 3 ORS.
The Judgment Debtors also filed a Counter-Claim against the Access Bank in the State High Court: SUIT NO: LD/1666CMW/2016 – LEADWAY CAPITAL & TRUSTS LIMITED V. DIAMOND BANK PLC & 2 ORS.
Senegalese President Macky Sall’s coalition has lost its absolute majority in parliament but finished first by a narrow margin in parliamentary polls, provisional results showed on Thursday.
It is the first time since the historically stable West African country’s independence in 1960 that the ruling party’s camp has lost that majority and will have to rely on other forces in parliament to pass legislation.
The president’s coalition, which includes his party Alliance for the Republic (APR) and other parties, won 82 seats of the National Assembly’s 165, the national vote-counting commission said, down from the 125 it won in 2017.
This is in confirmation of the prophecy of Nigerian prophet, Primate Elijah Ayodele who had foretold the outcome of the election long before it was held.
In a prophetic statement released on 4th of July, 2022, the man of God made it known that the president of Senegal will not have a majority in the parliamentary election if he doesn’t change his tactics. He further noted that the outcome of the parliamentary election will cause a crisis for him.
These were his words
‘’In Senegal, there will be efforts to ensure the President doesn’t get a majority in the parliamentary election coming up in July. If the president doesn’t change his tactics now, he will not have a majority and it will cause crisis for him.” (https://theeagleonline.com.ng/primate-ayodele-reveals-outcome-of-presidential-polls-in-three-countries/)
Just as he foretold, the president, despite forming a coalition failed to secure an absolute majority in the parliamentary election and of course, this will lead to a crisis for him in the presidential election.
The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo has accused the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) of being unrealistic with their demands.
He stated on Friday that the government can’t borrow money to pay the striking members of ASUU amidst cash shortages when other sectors of the economy also need attention.
According to Keyamo, ASUU should be begged to shelf their strike so the members can return to work, students can resume studies and the nation’s public universities can be re-opened.
Naija News reports he made the call on during an appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today.
In his words, “Should we go and borrow to pay N1.2 trillion yearly?
“You cannot allow one sector of the economy to hold you by the jugular and then blackmail you to go and borrow N1.2 trillion for overheads when our total income would be about N6.1 trillion. And you have roads to build, health centres to build, other sectors to take care of.”
The Minister said all concerned persons should appeal to ASUU to in the spirit of national interest, reconsider their stand.
“Like the President said the other time, those who know them, appeal to their sense of patriotism,” he said.
They Are Not The Only One In Nigeria
“Let them go back to classes. They are not the only one in Nigeria. They are not the only ones feeding from the federal purse. The nation cannot grind to a halt because we want to take care of the demands of ASUU.”
Naija News reports ASUU has been on strike since February 14, 2022, and has vowed not to resume until the federal government meets their demands.
Some of their demands include improved welfare for lecturers, revitalisation fund for public universities, implementation of the 2009 agreement, and dropping the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) for the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS).
Governor Gboyega Oyetola of Osun State on Friday submitted a petition at the Election Petition Tribunal in Osogbo to challenge the outcome of the July 16 governorship election, which produced Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the governor-elect of the state.
It was gathered that Oyetola was accompanied by his wife, Kafayat, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Chairman in the state, Prince Gboyega Famodun, and some members of the state executive council.
According to reports, the Governor and the party submitted documents challenging 749 polling units across ten local government areas of the state for various electoral malpractice, especially overvoting.
Oyetola, through the petition, claimed that the Osun gubernatorial election was fraught with certain irregularities, adding that Senator Adeleke was not qualified to have contested the election in the first place, having allegedly submitted a forged certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission.
Speaking to The PUNCH, counsel to Oyetola, Kunle Adegoke (SAN), listed 13 grounds on which premises Adeleke should be disqualified.
Adegoke said, “We have nothing less than 50 lawyers, including 10 SANs that we cannot list all of them, so we have listed about 20 lawyers in the petition. We have 13 reliefs. What we are contesting is that the election is fraught with certain irregularities by which the person declared winner ought not to have been declared, and the petitioner, Alhaji Isiaka Gboyega Oyetola ought to have been declared the winner on the ground that Nurudeen Ademola Adeleke was not qualified to have contested the election in the first place, having submitted a forged certificate to INEC.
“The second is that the election in 749 polling units was fraught with irregularities, and the election in those units ought to have been nullified. All the polling units mentioned are in 10 Local Governments out of 30.
“So, if the election in those units is nullified and the votes are canceled, then Alhaji Isiaka Gboyega Oyetola will have comfortable requirements of the constitution to be declared winner of the election.”
On his part, the Chairman, Media Management Team of Osun PDP, Prince Diran Odeyemi, dismissed the petition of the APC.
He said: “It is so unfortunate that APC did not believe in the spirit of sportsmanship. We would have expected them to congratulate Adeleke. Many of them, who are championing the cause of tribunal, lost in their polling units and their wards.
“We wonder what they want to take to the Tribunal now. We are not afraid or losing sleep, Oyetola can’t win. We will meet them at the tribunal. Regarding the allegation of forged certificate, there is nothing like that. They are only looking for an avenue to come back to government through the backdoor. PDP is thorough political party that look at all the certificates presented by the candidates.”
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Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has grilled the Head of Asset Recovery and Management Unit, Ministry of Justice, Ladidi Mohammed, over allegations of fraud.
Naija News understands that the EFCC had detained and questioned Mohammed, who is a close ally of the Attorney-general and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, for days over allegations of fraudulent sale of recovered assets running into billions.
Mohammed, who was granted administrative bail on Thursday, was back at the anti-graft commission on Friday for further questioning.
Sources told The Cable that Mohammed had told operatives of the EFCC that she acted under ministerial instructions in disposing of some assets which were forfeited to the federal government by persons undergoing corruption trials, but she could not tender any documented evidence to back her claims.
It was gathered that the Commission is investigating dubious transactions involving Nigerian assets that Mohammed is accused of selling off under suspicious circumstances.
Malami had reportedly secretly granted a company and its attorneys a multibillion-naira assets recovery contract.
