THE STRANGE THINGS I HEARD THIS WEEK

A) Ghana's Vice President drove into a local (home brand) vehicle factory and bought two SUVs.

Eh! Na custom-made BMWs our Ogas at the top they use here o.

B) One bros said he would impregnate and beat another man's wife.

However, I can't tell which of the two doings will come first. He must have been practising these for a while. Anyway, make we ask wetin the woman tell am b4 e get these ambitions sha.

C) Lawmakers making laws, sorry, noise about being owed one month salary!

Who be the slothful worker wey no know say our lawmakers need even their August salaries and allowance because times are hard?

President No Nonsense

Vendor escapes N44,000 recharge card scam

The almost-sharp guy

A middle-aged man, yesterday, met his waterloo while attempting to steal recharge cards worth N44,000 from a female vendor at a complex around Bode Thomas area of Lagos State.
The suspect was apprehended, beaten up and taken to the police station.
According to an eyewitness, Temitope Ajayi: “The suspect, who was well dressed, told the young lady selling recharge cards that he owned an office in the complex and one of the parked  Sport Utility Vehicles.
“He took all the lady's recharge cards and asked her to sit somewhere in the compound to calculate the total cost, while he informs his Secretary to bring her the money.
“After pretending to climb the stairs into the building, the suspect returned and told the young lady that her money is on the way, she should wait for his Secretary.”

He had unprotected sex and prankster took him to the cleaners

Dailymail UK

IT CAN ONLY BE EDUCATION

The Yoruba proverb has established that the child that is not trained will sell the family’s heritage. This is supported by all religions and traditions. I conceptualise the family here as a nation or country. Any country that takes for granted the EDUCATION of her citizens will not have peace. Now you are bothered by the pipeline destructions. Now you want to arrest all hawkers in Lagos. Now you want to ban okadas on highways because its casualties dominate the emergency wards.

Dear Government of Nigeria, there is only one thing that is best to do now: solidify education!
Vocational education is evidently collapsed and schools are now overcrowded. Twenty thousand students apply to schools that can at best admit seven thousand students. Great tailors, painters, hair stylists, mechanics, vulcanizers are busy writing UTME. 

 Gani Gab Abisoye Bamgbose

Black Lives Matter: The Baton Rouge photo hailed as 'legendary'

In the wake of ongoing protests in the US against the killing of black men by police, more than to 100 people were arrested in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Saturday.

In the wake of the demonstrations, and growing debate over the seeming militarisation of American police, one photo has stood out.
It was taken by Jonathan Bachman, a New Orleans-based photographer who has been working for Reuters in the past few days.
BBC

Abuja preacher's murder

Pastor Olawale Elisha, her hsuband

Wife of the Vice President, Dolapo Osinbajo, with some of the late preacher's children.

Late Mrs Eunice Olawale

Where she was killed

One of the miscreants living in the area

OKIJA AGAIN: Anambra landlord drags tenant to Kija over N36,000 rent

A tenant, Mr. Chukwudi Diribe, in Awada, a suburb of Onitsha, Anambra State, has been reportedly dragged before the celebrated Ogwugwuakpu shrine in Ihiala Local Government Area of the state, popularly known as Okija Shrine, over house rent.
His 70 years old landlord sought the aid of the shrine when his tenant, Mr. Diribe, insisted that he does not owe the him the N36,000 he (landlord) alleged.
Few days after insisting that he paid the landlord when due, a messenger from the shrine brought a letter, saying that the shrine had invited Mr. Diribe to come and defend on the allegation levelled against him by his landlord.

A SELFIE? She must be in the SPIRITE!

SOURCE: Facebook

OPINION: Before Parents Start Eating Their Kids...

Haven't been able to write or post steady for awhile. So I appreciate this write-up and wish to share. Read the full piece on the original writer's blog.

“Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man is starving.” O. Henry, 1862-1910, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, P 233. 

Nigeria is descending to a new low in barbarism, which if left unchecked will define the new era of politics. Parents, presumed to be sane, but obviously callous and distressed, now sell their kids to procure food for the rest of the family. Whether the evil is perpetrated with a heavy heart is difficult to say until we conduct a study into the motivations of the few known examples to date. And, the sooner the better, because this trend might gain momentum and become irreversible for a long time to
come. It is difficult to imagine how parents would determine which of their kids to be sold. That they don’t particularly care what fate befalls that child is obvious. That they don’t consider that the sale of one child for a pittance will not solve their problems permanently is also clear. They certainly don’t ask themselves what will happen when the food purchased with their own kids’ blood money is exhausted.
Kevindjakpor

Robbers chop off DPO’s ear in Anambra

The Divisional Police Officer for Ajali in Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State (names withheld) had one of his ears chopped off and was stripped naked for attempting to arrest members of a notorious robbery gang.
The said DPO had led his team to the den of the nine-man gang that had been terrorising Nanka, also in Orumba North, for years.
Anambra State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Awkuzu Okechukwu, said that following a raid on Nanka community, Ifedilichukwu Nwankwo, Chidi Nwankwo and Udoye Kenechukwu were arrested after previous attempts by the police from Force CID, Abuja, and Zone 9 Headquarters, Umuahia, to arrest them failed.

Sex worker causes pandemonium after attempt to seduce magistrate fails

A sex worker,  who failed to show up in court last week Friday, caused a stir at the Magistrate’s Court, Monday, when she could not seduce the magistrate, who then ordered her remanded at Afokang Prison, Calabar, for jumping bail.
The Bayelsa State-born sex worker, Princess, was reportedly arrested alongside her colleagues at the Moonshine Brothel, located at Uwanse two weeks ago in the wake of the clamp down on sex workers and hoodlums, following rising crime wave in Calabar.

PLAYFULLY: 7-yr-old kills househelp with father’s gun

Police in Abia State are currently investigating the death of a female househelp allegedly killed by a toddler with his lawyer-father’s gun in Aba.
Meanwhile, security agents in the state have launched efforts to rescue a kidnapped Medical Director of Abia State Polytechnic, Aba.
Though information about the death of the househelp is still sketchy, it was gathered that the lawyer’s child, said to be about seven years old, jokingly shot dead their house help with his father’s gun.
The child was said to have picked the father’s gun from his bedroom, thinking it was a toy gun.

Economic situation is affecting One Chance business in Lagos

According to one of the six On Chance robbery suspects arrested by operatives of Rapid Response Squad, RRS, in Lagos, yesterday, the economic situation in the country is affecting ‘business.’
The suspect, Adeleke Rasaq, 24, who was arrested alongside his gang members, Lucky John, 22, in Abule-Egba, Agbado Oke Local Council Development Area, they do not make much money from One Chance as they used to in the past.
One Chance is the popular name for a type of robbery in Lagos, where unsuspecting passengers are robbed in commercial buses, Danfo, whose ‘driver’ and some ‘passengers’ are members of a robbery gang.
The arrested Adeleke, who resigned as a factory worker to join One Chance robbery gang, said: “We do not make much money like before. The present economic condition in the country has greatly affected One Chance business. We have not been able to make much money— everywhere is dry.”
Corroborating Adeleke’s confession, his gang’s member, Frankly, said: “We have not made much money since Monday (last week). We have been sharing N20,000, N30,000 and N40,000.
“This is unlike before. When I operate alone, I could make close to N150,000 daily. Now, business is so difficult.”
He said he teamed up with Lucky because pocket-picking was not easy in Lagos any longer.
He said: “When you work alone, you might not make much. It has not been easy working independently lately. So we have to team up to make more money to survive. Both of us live in Badagry.
“Every day, we come to Abule Egba, Agege, Fagba, Egbeda to operate. As soon as we make enough money, we would retire for the day.”
Explaining how he joined the robbery syndicate, he said: “I resigned from the company I worked for when I noticed that a lot of my friends in Ajegunle, who were doing this kind of hustling were living better than companies’ chief executives.
“Every guy does this in Ajegunle. We do not see it as a crime: it is called hustling,” adding that he joined the gang six years ago.

3 injured in free-for-all over Ronaldo, Messi in Abakiliki

Three football fans were wounded in a free-for-all in a bar in Abakaliki on Saturday night over an argument about who is the better player between Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal and Lionel Messi of Argentina.
An eyewitness said that the incident occurred at the Kpirikpiri area of the town during the EURO 2016 second round match between Portugal and Croatia.
Portugal won the match 1-0 courtesy of a Ricardo Quaresma 114th minute goal that sent them into the competition’s quarter-finals.
Trouble started when a Ronaldo supporter, identified as Marshal, celebrated wildly as the Real Madrid star’s shot was parried into Quaresma’s path for the goal, to the annoyance of the Messi supporter, named Obinna.
The duo had argued all night over who the better player is between Messi and Ronaldo: the stars play for Spanish clubs, Barcelona FC and Real Madrid FC, respectively.
It was learned that immediately Quaresma scored, Marshal rushed to Obinna and mocked him, chanting “I told you, I told you Ronaldo is the best.” Obinna reportedly pushed Marshal and a fight ensued.

Will my boyfriend ever propose after 19 years together?

My boyfriend and I have been together for almost 20 years and we have two children whom he takes full responsibility for.
We’ve discussed marriage but he says with the high rate of divorce and the experience he’s had living in a polygamous home, he doesn’t want the hassle of a divorce if we ever spilt up.
Everyone around me is married, but my man simply refuses. I feel so rejected; we don’t live together. Do you think he’s using me?

Is he controlling me through sex?

I love my boyfriend, but when he wants sex, he wants it right away— whether I’m about to leave for work, I’m getting ready to meet friends or just in a hurry to get something done at home.
I used to find this quite a turn-on, but recently a friend has warned me by suggesting it could be his way of controlling me, especially if I’m about to do something that doesn’t involve him.
What do you think?

Sahur is not breakfast

As-salam Alaikum waramotullai, wa barakatuh!
The kindness of Allah cannot be overemphasised when one ponders on the blessings in the act of eating sahur during Ramadan. For almighty Allah (SWT), it is not enough blessings that He provides us with food on our table, but He further blesses anyone who wakes up in the first rays of dawn to eat the same food for sahur.
The Prophet (s.a.w) was reported by Anas to have said: “Eat something for sahur even if it is a date. For there is in it barakah.” (Al-Bukhari and Muslim) Isn’t it great that Allah is rewarding us for eating?
The prophet taught his companions and, by extension, every Muslim that they should begin their fasting by taking something. It does not necessarily have to be a heavy meal. In fact, overeating negates the spirit of fasting. It is advised to wake in the pre-dawn period to appropriately kick-start fasting by eating sahur among other things. Eat moderately even as you remember those who could not afford a meal for that purpose.

Master's students drown during birthday party in Lagos beach

Tragedy struck in Lagos when two ladies drowned at Elegushi Beach, Lekki.
The ladies, Funmi, 24, and Shola, 27, were graduates of International Relations from Covenant University, Otta, Ogun State, and were studying for their Masters in International Law and Diplomacy at the University of Lagos, UNILAG.
The deceased, who were in the company of some friends, were at the beach to celebrate the birthday of one of their friends, when an alarm was raised by one of them, who noticed a heavy tide sweeping the ladies away.
Unfortunately for them, they drowned before help could come, with some local divers saying such incidents occurred daily.

ALLI

I'm that star up in the sky
I'm that mountain peak up high
Hey, I made it
I'm the worlds greatest
And I'm that little bit of hope
When my back's against the ropes
I can feel it mmm
I'm the world's greatest