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  • BNXN wins 2022 Bentley after headies awards

    BNXN wins 2022 Bentley after headies awards

    Singer Daniel Benson aka BNXN emerged next rated for Headies award.

    He dedicated the award to his late mother.

    The “Buju’ crooner was nominated in the same category with Ayra Starr, Zinoleesky, Lojay and Ruger

    As the winner, he went home with 2022 Bentley

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    BNXN appreciated organisers, saying: “First of all, I want to thank God. His the reason I am here, the reason am able to win this award. I dedicate this to my late mom. She died of breast cancer. This is for you mummy, this is for my family, my management, my brother, Ayra, Ruger, I love this boy. And for everybody that actually believe in the dream.”

    He also appealed to Lagos Governor, Babajide Sanwoolu to assist him clear his Bentley down to Lagos

    He said: “My Governor, please o, they gave me car. The money is plenty. I can’t bring it to Lagos… If you want me to drive it, maybe you will help me bring it to Lagos. Thank you guys so much. I love you guys. My Governor abeg, help me bring my car to Lagos.”

  • NDLEA arrests bandits, seizes tramadol in Gombe, others

    NDLEA arrests bandits, seizes tramadol in Gombe, others

    While combing the Ala forest in Akure North LGA Ondo for a drug lord , operatives of the NDLEA have intercepted eight suspected bandits terrorising farmers in the area.

    In a statement by Femi Babafemi, Director, Media and Advocacy on Sunday, those arrested include: Austin Dickson, 47, who is the gang leader; Sunday Adekunle, 31; Kayode Oluwaseun, 29; Kolawole Kazeem, 33; Oladimeji Makinde, 37; Emeka Charles, 46; Ojo Oluwadare, 40; and Lanre Oluwajana, 44.
    The suspected bandits were nabbed on Friday, 2nd September 2022. Recovered from them include twenty five (25) bags of cannabis sativa weighing 296kgs; Six (6) explosive devices; six (6) cartridges; four (4) motorcycles and assorted charms used in terrorising farmers in the forest.

    NDLEA operatives on Monday 29th August raided a suspected clandestine laboratory at Opic estate, Agbara, Lagos.

    The statement further stated that clues from the property led operatives to another in the vicinity where one Peter James was apprehended with some quantity of the substance. A follow up operation within the estate also led to the arrest of a meth dealer, Mathew Bobby Imonitie, who was caught with 4.033kilograms of the illicit substance.

    According to Mr. Babafemi: “A raid at a rented apartment in Raji Rasaki First estate in Festac town, Lagos on Saturday 27th August led to the seizure of 412,780 tablets of Tramadol and the arrest of one of the suspects involved, Kingsley Duru.

    “In the same vein, troops of 81 Division of the Nigerian Army have handed over to the Lagos Command of NDLEA Seven Hundred and Ninety Two (792) blocks of cannabis sativa smuggled from the Volta region of Ghana into Ogun State but intercepted at a checkpoint along the Ilaro-Benin Republic border.

    “Also in Niger state, NDLEA operatives on Thursday 1st September intercepted a truck conveying animal feeds from Lagos to Kaduna with four hundred and forty nine (449) compressed blocks and one hundred and eleven (111) bags of cannabis sativa weighing 1,531kg belonging to a dealer in Zaria.

    The statement added: “The drug consignment was said to have been loaded into the truck in Akure, Ondo state. The truck driver, Yahaya Sani, his assistant Samaila Rabiu, his motor boy Bilal Ibrahim, representative of the cannabis owner, Awolu Isyaku and a passenger Mustapha Abdulrahman were all arrested.

    “In Gombe State, operatives intercepted Eight Hundred and Eleven Thousand (811,000) tablets of Tramadol, Diazepam and Exol 5 weighing 150kg in a vehicle loaded in Onitsha, Anambra state at Ahmadu-Kafi area of Gombe.

    “In Sokoto, operatives on Saturday 3rd Sept intercepted a commercial bus from which two five CD loader players were recovered along Sokoto-Bodinga road. Upon search, 5.5kgs of cannabis were discovered inside the CD players and the owner, Nasiru Ibrahim arrested while in another bus, a suspected bandit Sani Ibrahim, 37 was arrested with some ammunition and cannabis sativa along Kware road.

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    “An Abuja businesswoman, Onyinye Nwoke, 38, has been arrested following an intelligence-led raid at her residence, House 56 Aldenco Estate, Galadimawa where operatives uprooted fresh stems of cannabis plants grown at the backyard of the house. The uprooted plants weighed 18.4kgs while 800grams of cannabis seeds were also recovered from the house.

    “A 53-year-old physically challenged man, Ehiarimwiam Osaromo Emmanuel, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the departure hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos for drug trafficking.

    “Ehiarimwiam was arrested on Sunday 28th August on his way to Italy, via Doha on a Qatar Airways flight. An indigene of Orhionmwon Local Government Area of Edo State, he was found to have concealed five thousand (5,000) tablets of Tramadol 225mg in his luggage.

    “Preliminary investigation reveals that the suspect is a frequent traveller who often travels with lots of bags containing mainly food items, body cream, hair attachment and drinks. The suspect was said to have presented his usual large consignment to NDLEA operatives for search but held on to some packages, which were retrieved from him and properly searched during which the drugs were discovered.”

  • Bovi schools critics over parenting skills

    Bovi schools critics over parenting skills

    Comedian Bovi Ugboma has schooled critics questioning his parenting skills.

    He shared video of himself informing his 8-year-old daughter, Elena to join his brother and mother in the kitchen so as to learn how to cook

    The daughter replied saying she was not ready for Bovi’s drama knowing fully well that he can’t also cook.

    Elena’s response to the father has however garnered several reactions.
    While some criticised her, others lauded the young girl for being outspoken

    Reacting to critics, Bovi stated they were both having fun and her confidence resulted to the conclusion that she was rude.

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    He said: “How times have changed. UPDATE- I have read all the comments and I’m convinced people see what they want to see. To those who found it lighthearted, you can tell there’s emotional equilibrium in their lives.

    “They could see that speaking freely doesn’t necessarily mean indiscipline. And we were basically on cruise. As for those who were alarmed, check well, we were raised to think confident use of words amounts to being rude.

    “That’s why in some places, a younger person asking an older person “how are you” or “how nau” is regarded as being rude. Cheer up. You’re triggered because you were abused growing up and you have mistaken being outspoken for being rude. That’s not to say kids can’t be rude. But in this scenario, she wasn’t being rude. Cheer up!”

  • Yahaya mandates committee to organise successful Goinvest22 summit

    Yahaya mandates committee to organise successful Goinvest22 summit

    Gombe Governor Muhammad Yahaya has inaugurated a steering committee for the proposed Gombe Investment Summit with a mandate to committee members to commit themselves to successfully hosting the first edition of the summit.

    Yahaya, who inaugurated the committee over the weekend, expressed confidence the setting up of the committee would see to the successful hosting of the investment summit.

    Deputy Governor, Dr Manassah Jatau, who would serve as the committee’s chairman represented the Governor.

    He urged the committee members to devote their time to attracting investors that would help grow Gombe State economically.

    “I urge all us of to take this assignment seriously, devote our time so that we have investors that will help in arresting the socio-economic challenges that are confronting us,” the Governor said.

    The committee has four terms of reference, which include providing strategic guidance in the actualisation and successful hosting of Gombe Investment.

    Others are to liaise with government and private sector operators to ensure participation in the summit and to drive pre-summit engagements and post-summit follow-ups.

    The investment summit tagged GoInvest 2022, will hold between October 11 and 12.

    Members of the committee are Jatau, Dr Umaru Kwairanga – Chairman, Gombe State Investment and Property Dev Co Ltd, Haruna Jalo Waziri – Managing Director/CEO, Central Securities Clearing Systems Plc, Muhammad K Ahmed, Mohammed Magaji, Commissioner of Finance and Dr Ishiyaku Mohammed who will serve as the secretary.

    The summit is facilitated by Gombe State Government and other partners under the patronage of Vice President Yomi Osinbajo, and the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission in Gombe State.

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    Gombe State is centrally located in the North East. It provides a favourable investment environment as the state ranks Number 1 in the ease of doing business, acting as a logistical centre and a gateway to Northern Nigeria, Nigeria, Africa, and the global markets.

    The GoInvest 2022 summit, with the theme ” Industrialization, the pathway to Innovation, Transformation and Development of Gombe State,” aims to find, engage, and attract new investment leads, market Nigeria as a top investment location, and facilitate interactions between potential investors and the state.

    Business to Business and Business to Government meetings, Ready to Offer Investment Projects, Premium Land, Public Private Partnership (PPP) Projects, and other opportunities are all open to investors, financiers, investment facilitation agents, and companies interested in doing business with the Gombe State.

    On the fringes of COP27, the summit also hopes to facilitate agreements that would promote growth in key industries and demonstrate Gombe State’s leadership in the fight against climate change.

  • Headies: Davido wins best humanitarian, digital artiste awards

    Headies: Davido wins best humanitarian, digital artiste awards

    Afropop artiste, Adedeji ‘Davido’ Adeleke has won the Digital artiste of the year and the Humanitarian Award of the Year at the 15th Headies Awards.

    The 29-year-old singer clinched the two awards at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

    Davido flowed veteran rapper RuggedMan, PSquare, 2Baba, Don Jazzy and Lord Bliss to win the Humanitarian Award of the Year.

    Last year, the ‘Fall’ singer donated N250million he received from his friends and colleagues to orphanages across Nigeria as a way of celebrating his birthday.

    Read also:Wizkid wins five Headies awards

    He also outsmarts Burna Boy, CKay, Joeboy, Rema, and Wizkid to grab the Digital Artiste of the Year.

    In 2012, Davido won the Next Rated award at The Headies after releasing “Dami Duro”, the second single from his debut studio album Omo Baba Olowo. He has gone on to win eight Headies awards including the Best R&B/Pop Album, Hip Hop World Revelation of the Year, two-time Song of the Year, Artiste of the Year twice and Best Pop single.

  • Brighton crush Leicester City 5-2

    Brighton crush Leicester City 5-2

    Brighton fought back from conceding a first-minute goal to beat struggling Leicester City in a seven-goal thriller at the Amex.

    Leicester, bottom of the Premier League, scored after only 51 seconds when Kelechi Iheanacho finished from Patson Daka’s pull-back from the left.

    However, the lead only lasted eight minutes before Solly March’s header deflected into the net off Leicester defender Luke Thomas.

    Brighton went ahead in the 15th minute, capitalising on a loose pass from James Maddison with Moises Caicedo scoring after being set up by Enock Mwepu.

    But in a frantic first half, Leicester scored again after 32 minutes. Youri Tielemans, deep inside his own half, played a ball over the top of the Brighton defence, Daka held off Lewis Dunk’s challenge and slotted the ball past Robert Sanchez for 2-2.

    Alexis Mac Allister thought he had restored the Seagulls’ lead with a spectacular strike from 30 yards but, after a video assistant referee check that lasted more than four minutes, the goal was eventually ruled out for offside.

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    It did not prove to be crucial as Leandro Trossard scored Brighton’s third from Pascal Gross’ pass, with Trossard then winning a penalty, which Mac Allister converted for the fourth.

    Fittingly, the last say went to Argentina midfielder Mac Allister who curled in an excellent 25-yard free-kick in injury time for his second goal and Brighton’s fifth.

    The result maintains Brighton’s excellent start to the season and they are fourth in the Premier League, while Leicester, with just one point from six matches, are three points adrift at the foot of the table.

    BBC

  • Man Utd end Arsenal unbeaten run 3-1

    Man Utd end Arsenal unbeaten run 3-1

    Manchester United’s £82m new boy Antony scored on his debut and Marcus Rashford got two as Erik ten Hag’s men ended Arsenal’s 100 per cent start to the season at Old Trafford.

    The Brazilian opened the scoring 10 minutes before half-time in the pulsating duel.

    Rashford claimed the assist for that and then, after Bukayo Saka had levelled on the hour, the England striker profited from two clinical United counter-attacks.

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    Bruno Fernandes was at the heart of both, splitting the Arsenal defence for Rashford’s first, then sending Christian Eriksen clear as the Dane provided the striker with a tap-in.

    It was Rashford’s first Premier League double since December 2020, helping lift them to fifth in the table.

    Arsenal remain top. However, after their excellent start to the season, manager Mikel Arteta will be concerned at how easily his side were opened up, although the Gunners did have a first-half Gabriel Martinelli goal ruled out by VAR.

  • Tinubu celebrates Iwuanyawu at 80

    Tinubu celebrates Iwuanyawu at 80

    The All Progressives Congress (APC), Presidential Candidate, Asíwájú Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has extended goodwill messages to prominent newspaper publisher and politician, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyawu, on his 80th birthday.

    In a statement at the weekend by his Media Office in Abuja, Tinubu said Chief Iwuanyawu is an elder statesman who has made indelible marks in Nigeria as a frontline politician, an astute businessman, newspaper publisher and sports administrator.

    “Over the decades, Chief Iwuanyawu has demonstrated his love for Nigeria and the unity of our country with a wide network of friends across ethnic, religious and geopolitical divides.

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    “To reach the respectable age of 80 in good health is a special privilege which only God can make possible. I join family, friends and associates of Chief Iwuanyawu in praising Almighty God for his unlimited grace on his life. I wish our elder statesman more years in good health and abiding grace of God.”

  • 2023: We’ll back Tinubu’s campaign financially, says Enugu APC guber candidate

    2023: We’ll back Tinubu’s campaign financially, says Enugu APC guber candidate

    The governorships candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu State, Chief Uche Nnaji has said party members in the state will contribute money to fund the election campaign of the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in the state.

    Nnaji also said that stakeholders in the party in the state will not wait for the party to give them money to be able to fund the election campaigns.

    Speaking at a critical stakeholders meeting at the party’s office in Enugu on Sunday, Nnaji said the need to make personal contributions ahead of the campaigns and election was to stop people whose stock in trade was to hijack election funds in the name of party stakeholders.

    He said, already, some mercantile politicians who claim to be stakeholders of the party in the state had started positioning to hijack campaign funds rather than working for the party’s victory.

    He disclosed that one of their antics was the demand for removal of the state executive of the party by some of the stakeholders, who are largely based in Abuja.

    “You cannot remove a performing executive of a party just six months to election. We cannot allow that to happen. We want to be small but effective

    “Their interest is to hijack the presidential campaign funds like they did in 2015 and 2019 elections and share it among themselves. But we have already caught them in their track.

    “We have therefore decided that we will tell our presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and APC national chairman not to bring his campaign money to Enugu because it’s a target for which the so-called stakeholders want to destroy our party in Enugu. Bringing the money will cause more confusion.

    “We don’t need Tinubu’s money to work for his victory in Enugu in 2023. We will use our money to work for Tinubu and go for a refund after elections”, Nnaji said.

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    He used the opportunity to inform all party members, especially the stakeholders to return home to the state and work for the party at the grassroots level and stop playing Abuja politics.

    He continued, “We’re not pushing anyone away. We’re only asking all the so-called stakeholders to come home and put their money in this party.

    “To that effect, all the stakeholders have to put their money in our campaigns to be able to answer stakeholders. After elections, we will go to Tinubu and APC yo ask for a refund of all we have spent”.

    Nnaji assured the stakeholders that APC was on the verge of changing election narratives in the state.

    “Before now, APC was never a political party. Some people used the party to negotiate for money. Another party was paying their salaries.This mischief these people are trying to create won’t go anywhere”, he declared.

    The stakeholders, who passed a vote of confidence on the state chairman of the party, Chief Ugochukwu Agballa, assured that they would carry out a purpose driven campaign ahead of the elections.

  • Omoluabi Day to celebrate Yoruba values Sept. 11

    Omoluabi Day to celebrate Yoruba values Sept. 11

    Premium lager beer, Goldberg, is leaving no stone unturned in its bid to celebrate the Yoruba cultural values of excellence, hard work, good character, respect among many others as the second anniversary of the Goldberg Omoluabi Day takes centre stage on Sunday, September 11.

    The day is set aside annually by the brand to recognise and celebrate the exploits of industrious sons and daughters of Southwest Nigeria who are often referred to as Omoluabi, and who continue to contribute meaningfully to the development of the society, and the preservation of the Yoruba culture.

    With this year’s day themed “Omoluabi to the World”, the brand will engage its teeming consumers via digital and traditional media, cheering them on to continue to exude and export the Yoruba culture to the world.

    Speaking on this year’s theme, the Senior Brand Manager, Goldberg, Mr Olaoluwa Babalola, reiterated the brand’s commitment to preserving Yoruba cultural values as a way of shaping the future.

    “As a brand, we believe very strongly that we can only shape the future by keeping our values and traditions alive and fresh.

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    “This is why we are encouraging our consumers and indeed every Yoruba man and woman out there to wear the Omoluabi badge with pride and continue export the Yoruba culture beyond the shores of Nigeria.

    “It is important to note that this year’s celebration is also open to everyone who identifies as an Omoluabi and is proud of that identity, irrespective of socioeconomic class or gender. We will also be rewarding some distinguished consumers who have lived up to the Omoluabi status,” Babalola mentioned.

    It will be recalled that in September 2021, His Imperial Majesty, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, the Ooni of Ife, graced the maiden edition of the Goldberg Omoluabi Day where the monarch endorsed the day and commended the brand for its role in culture preservation and celebration of the good people of Yorubaland.