Veteran actress and philanthropist, Halima Abubakar has once again impressed her fans as she looks absolutely radiant and stunning in her new collection of pictures released today.
Halima Abubakar, who has proved her mettle as one of the longest standing and relevant actresses, is not relenting on her oars. She is set to float Habibi Luxury Items, a store that deals in all kinds of jewelry, hairs and luxury items. The store will be opened on June 12, which also coincides with her birthday.
Habibi Luxury Items stores, according to Halima, will soon be opened in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and other states of the federation.
She hinted that “we will also be doing deliveries once the orders are placed online or electronically. It’s a one-stop store where you can pick or order for golds and diamonds.”
For many years, the proud Kogi State indigene has been putting smile on the faces of the less privileged persons in the society under the auspices of her Halima Abubakar Foundation.
The foundation has been saddled with the responsibility of providing free food for children in rural areas from the actress’s farm produce. Hundreds of children have been fed from this charity project over the years.
Halima Abubakar has also been an ambassador for good hygiene in children. She has been sensitizing the girl and boy child, talking about how to take care of the human body from the child perspective.
“We also give out sanitary pads and every necessary hygiene items. All these and more are what we do for children in rural areas who ordinarily won’t have access to what their counterparts in the cities have,” Halima added.
Meanwhile, one of Halima’s movies, Inside Nollywood, is set to be premiered on Netflix.
PSociety gazette reports that the leader of Christ Apostolic Church, Prophet SK Abiara has visited the widow of Prophet TB Joshua who was called to glory last weekend.
Several sympathisers have gone to the deceased house to console his widow and the CAC Leader has just joined the list
Yesterday, the Lagos State Government was there to present a signed Console letter by the governor, also, several state government including the federal government have sent their condolence messages to SCOAN, His family and widow
Society gazette reports that a pastor in Kajola, near Osogbo, the Osun State capital, Olagunju Adetunji, was on Wednesday paraded by the state police command for being in possession of human hands and legs.
Also paraded alongside the 40-year-old pastor were Rasheed Ajani, Saka Akeem, Abiodun Adetimilehin and Adewumi Gbadamosi, a herbalist, for allegedly killing a teenager simply identified as Kehinde near a hospital in Osogbo.
The state Commissioner of Police, Wale Olokode, said acting on intelligence, operatives arrested the suspects at Oke Ayepe area of Osogbo and Kajola ljesha.
“The suspects were arrested with two decaying hands and two legs of one Kehinde, whose surname and address are still unknown. The principal suspect, one Adewumi Gbadamosi, confessed to the crime and said the victim’s head was given to one Olagunju Adetunji for rituals,” the CP stated.
Gbadamosi told journalists that he shot Kehinde dead while on night guard duty post in Osogbo, adding that after shooting, he dismembered him, took some parts and threw the remains into a river.
The 50-year-old herbalist explained that he gave the head to Adetunji and his friend, Saka, who had approached him for help because of poor patronage.
He also said Ajani, who was also working as a night guard, assisted him to carry the deceased after he had killed him.
But Adetunji denied receiving the deceased’s head from the herbalist, but admitted meeting Gbadamosi once in his church after his friend, Adetimilehin, brought him for spiritual help.
Olokode said the suspects would be arraigned before a court after investigation had been completed.
The president’s comment comes amidst the rise in the activities of bandits in some states in the two zones.
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that he has given the military and police a marching order to be ruthless on bandits in the North-west and North-central zones.
The president stated this in an interview on Arise TV, aired Thursday morning.
The president’s comment comes amidst the rise in the activities of bandits in some states in the two zones.
Thousands of persons, including students, have been kidnapped for ransom in different states in the zones.
These have made many farmers desert their farms. Some others negotiate with the bandits to go to their farms.
Marching order
In the interview, the president said Nigerians will see the difference in the activities of the security agents.
He said the country cannot afford another famine that could arise if the activities of the bandits are not checked.
“People of the same culture killing each other, stealing each other’s cattle, as I said, we are going to treat them in a language they understand.
“We are going to give the police and the military power to be ruthless and you watch it, in a few weeks time, they will be different.
The Federal Government through the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate, PTAD, has begun the payment of the consequential adjustment to pensioners under the Defined Benefit Scheme, DBS.
The Executive Secretary of PTAD, Chioma Ejikeme, disclosed this development through a statement by the Directorate’s Head of Corporate Communications, Mr Gbenga Ajayi, informing that the payment was in fulfillment of the promise she made following the announcement of President Muhammadu Buhari’s approval of the implementation of the consequential adjustment to the pension benefits occasioned by the new minimum wage increase of 2019.
Ajayi recalled that Ejikeme promised that the upward adjustment of pension benefits would take effect from May 2021.
He said that while reacting to the messages of gratitude received from some pensioners, the Executive Secretary assured them of PTAD’s commitment to the welfare of the DBS pensioners.
Ejikeme, however, cautioned them against fraudsters who called pensioners pretending to be staff of PTAD, saying that no staff of the directorate would request for gratification before processing their pension payment.
She urged the pensioners to report such phone calls and other activities of the scammers to PTAD for adequate investigation and possible prosecution.
Pensioners under the Civil Service Pension Department, CSPD, Parastatals Pension Department, PaPD, Police Pension Department, PPD, and Customs, Immigration and Prisons Pension Department, CIPPD, have begun receiving their accrued arrears.
Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has called various parties’ calls for Nigeria’s breakup “idiotic.”
He said this at the luncheon and investiture of Kehinde Isijola as the new chairman of the Nigerian Institution of Surveyors (NIS), Ogun State branch, on Wednesday in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
He criticized proposals for secession at a time when Africa is working to reintegrate its political, social, and economic systems.
While stating that disintegration is not the solution, Obasanjo warned that if the country splits up, minority groups would suffer.
Pakistan, Yugoslavia, and Sudan, he said, are instances of countries that have split away but have yet to find long-term answers to their problems.
“If there is any Nigerian who does not feel worried about the country’s position, that person is a human being without being human,” Obasanjo stated.
“Any Nigerian who is human will be concerned, if not outraged, by the country’s current position. We’re concerned about the security situation, the economic situation, and our political position, and the drum we’re hearing is one of disintegration.
“I am a strong believer of one Nigeria, but not one Nigeria at any cost, but one Nigeria where every Nigerian can feel proud that he or she has a stake in this country.
“No Nigerian is born a slave in this country. No Nigerian is born to be oppressed in this country and those of us that have shed part of our blood and sweat for this country, we did that because we wanted a country where every Nigerian can claim as his or her own.
“I believe that if we talk among ourselves the way we should and if we change the narrative, I believe this is a great country. That we are not making Nigeria what God wants it to be is not the fault of God, but the fault of ourselves, particularly our leaders.
“One thing that gives us strength is our diversity. If all that we have is Republic of Oduduwa for those who said so, their position is understandable. If that is all we have, members of that country will be diminished compared to be a citizen of Nigeria. Citizens of Oduduwa Republic or any other republic from Nigeria will be diminished compared to citizens of Nigeria.
“In this age and time that we are talking about the reintegration of Africa for economic development, disintegration of any country will be almost idiotic. Even if we have Igboland as an independent country, Yorubaland an independent country and Fulani/Hausaland an independent country.
“And as a friend of mine in the military used to say then, what will become of the over 300 minorities – the Jukuns, the Gbasamas? Where will they belong? The only reason they can raise up their heads is because they belong to Nigeria. Are we thinking of them or are we are just being selfish? It doesn’t matter what we do, we will still be neighbours.
“We had seen it before, India was broken into India and Pakistan, they are still at war till today. Yugoslavia was broken into how many countries, they haven’t sorted it till today. Sudan was broken into Sudan and South Sudan, I don’t believe South Sudan is better for it and that is the truth.
“I believe it will cost us less to work for our unity, there are many things wrong, but those things are correctable if we make efforts to correct them and hold us together than what it will cost us to break up and be perpetually at war and all our money will be spent in building an army. I know what an army contains, I know what it means to keep an army, an army that may not be productive, let us think about it.”
According to a news that was posted by Linda Ikeji Blog this morning, it was alleged that the operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have successfully apprehended two robbers, whose names were given as Fidelis Francis, 28 and Lukman Jimoh, 40, for allegedly robbing a branch of RCCG in Ogun State.
According to what police said concerning their arrest, it was made known that when they received distress call about the activities of the robbers, the D.P.O of Sagamu Police Division, CSP Okiki Agunbiade, mobilized his men to the scene, but the robbers have escaped through the fence before their arrival. When police arrived and were combing the surrounding bush near the church, they saw a Lexus Saloon car with registration number KJA 469 EP, parked at a get away position, which is not too far from the church vicinity.
Police suspected that the vehicle might belong to the suspects, and due to that, they mounted surveillance around it and waited for the owner to come for it, and after waiting for five hours, the suspects came and police apprehended them.
While police were searching the vehicle, two iron bars similar to the ones recovered at the scene of crime was recovered from the car. This further increased their suspicion and the two men were taken to the church, where the CCTV footage was played and the two suspects were seen in the footage as they were breaking into the church.
The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, says it has no objection to the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN’S, request for Ecclesiastical courts as long as Muslims are not dragged there.
Recall that the Bauchi State chapter of CAN had called on the Federal Government to establish Ecclesiastical courts for Christians, equivalent to the Sharia court for Muslims.
The Christian body had said the courts would ensure that disputes among Clerics and domestic and civil issues concerning Christians would be resolved amicably.
Reacting to the call in a statement issued on Wednesday, the Director of MURIC, Ishaq Akintola, described the request from CAN as fair.
The director said: “Christians are free to demand for their own courts so long as Muslims are not to be dragged to such courts.
“We know Christians already have Christian law in the country. We could have opposed their new demand but we do not have to be petty.
“Let them have as many Christian courts as they wish.
According to the statement, all courts in Nigeria are Christian courts because they originate from the common law introduced by the British in the colonial days.
The statement said: “The Bauchi chapter of CAN cannot tell us that there are no Magistrate courts, High Courts and a Court of Appeal in the whole of Bauchi? Now, what are those courts? Are they not Christian courts?
“We know that nobody can stop Oliver Twist from wanting more. Neither do we need a Charles Dicken to identify the disciples of Oliver Twist in 21st century Nigeria.
“But we want Nigerians to know that Christians already have Christian law in the country because the common law which we have been using since colonial days to date is Christian law.
“Our contention that common law is Christian law is based on vehement declarations of British judges on the subject.
“For instance, in the case of Bowman versus Secular Society Limited (1916 – 17), the learned judge said, ‘Ours is, and has always been, a Christian State.
“The English family is built on Christian ideals and if the national religion is not Christian, there is none. English law may well be called Christian law.’ (Bowman versus Secular Society Limited, 1916 – 17, United Kingdom Appeal Case 406).
“Lord Finlay, the then Lord Chancellor, also remarked in the same case, ‘There is abundant authority for saying that Christianity is part and parcel of the law of the land.’
“There is no doubt, therefore, that the Christians already have Christian law which was the same law that the Christian colonial masters brought to Nigeria and forced on all of us (including Muslims).
“Both the criminal and civil aspects of Islamic law were totally abrogated in the South West while only criminal law was abolished in the North.
“How beautiful would Nigeria have been if Nigerian Christians, particularly CAN, had been equally objective when reacting to demands forwarded by Muslims?
“But instead of being constructive, CAN always rejects any idea moved by Muslims even when it does not affect Christians in any way.
“As we speak, Christians have opposed the demand of Muslims in the South West for Shariah even though they know quite well that the Muslims are only asking for civil Shariah, not the criminal Shariah which they fear involves amputation.
“They also know that Shariah will only be applied on Muslims alone. Shariah is the law of the Muslims, by the Muslims, for the Muslims.
“Let it be on record that although Christians have always opposed Yoruba Muslims who have been agitating for civil Shariah, Nigerian Muslims raised no objection when Bauchi Christians asked for Christian canon law.
“Posterity will judge who is more liberal, more accommodating, more understanding and more tolerant.
“The Muslims demanded Shariah, CAN screamed blue murder.
“To date, no single Christian has been taken to Shariah court even after two decades of the reintroduction of Shariah in Northern Nigeria.
“The Muslims demanded Islamic banking, CAN threatened hell and brimstone. Islamic banks have been operating in Nigeria since January 2012 and the country has not been Islamised.
“Our neighbours are fond of crying wolf where there is none.
“All the noise about Islamisation is therefore sheer propaganda, a mirage, a phantom, a sham. CAN is chasing shadows,” the statement concluded.
Looks like superstar Wizkid just subtly announced that he’s going to change his name.
While at this point, it’s all speculations, all clues point to that. Wizkid is finally changing his name.
The 30-year-old singer hasn’t always gone by the name Wizkid. As a kid, he used to be part of a gospel group and at that time, he went by the name Lil Prinz.
He released his debut studio album, “Superstar” as Wizkid though.
It’s not common for artists that are as big as Wizkid to change their names after so long at the top. 2face did, though, when he changed to 2baba, years ago.
Recall that in 2019, while the anticipation for “Made in Lagos” was building up, Wizkid tweeted that after dropping MIL, he would only release one more album as Wizkid.
Of course, that could only mean two things. Either he’s gonna change his name or he’s gonna retire. Retirement doesn’t seem likely though.
Earlier today, he changed his display name on Instagram to “Big Wiz” and this has got fans talking.
Is he going to start going by the name Big Wiz now? Well, guess we gotta wait and see.
A Child molester known as Amandi Levinus has met his waterloo after an investigation has revealed that he repeatedly defiled about three minors in his compound in Lagos.
Information made available to this publication has it that this young man has been perpetrating this act for many years without been caught, and probably threatening his victims not to tell anyone about it.
The revelation wouldn’t have been gotten if not for the mother of one of his victims who went to her daughter’s school where a counselling programme was held for the students with the parents in attendance.
The counselling session was to educate the pupils about sex and when to voice out whenever anyone touches them in sensitive parts of their body. During the session, pupils were allowed to talk about their experience, which led to her daughter confessing to having been molested by a known face.
When speaking to this publication, the mother expressed shock at the revelation because she never thought something of such could happen to her daughter. She made it known that it was later discovered that her daughter was not the only victim.
Angered by this development, the culprit was questioned and arrested but claimed that he never penetrated with his manhood but makes use of his finger to perpetrate the evil act.
Meanwhile, the mother went to the hospital to do a general checkup on her daughter and it was revealed that the anal and vagina system has been tampered with.
‘’It happened at home, it was not once, I don’t know what he threatened the children with because he didn’t do this with just my daughter, he does it with two other kids. it has been going on for couple of years and according to my daughter, the first incident happened in 2018 when they just moved here. The most recent one according to her happened in June/July 2020.
We just discovered, she has not been feeling fine so I came home because I don’t live here, I had to come because she was sick, immediately I came I decided to go to her school. They invited counsellors to their school and they were able to talk to the kids, a lot of them confessed but I concentrated on my daughter, it’s really bad, I’m yet to recover from the whole thing.
We went to Idimu police station yesterday, they gave us a letter to go to Ikeja hospital to run a general test on her, He’s been claiming that he has not penetrated but from the test, He has tempered with her anus and Vagina, I’ve been crying, still in shock.
The man is still in the police station and we were asked to come back on Friday’’
