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  • I support my daughter to marry man she met on TikTok – Mr Ibu

    I support my daughter to marry man she met on TikTok – Mr Ibu

    Popular comic actor, John Okafor, popularly known as Mr. Ibu said he sees nothing wrong with his ‘daughter’, Jasmine, getting married to a man she met on a social media platform, TikTok.

    Ibu disclosed this in a recent interview with The Punch.

    “She is not my biological daughter but I trained her. She calls me daddy and I call her daughter. I am okay with it (her getting married). I have been praying for them and I will keep on doing that.

    “Man and woman got to know each other one day. It is a gradual process. However, I don’t want to see tears.”

    Mr Ibu, in the interview, also said he doesn’t want any of his children to bear a resemblance to him.

    He said, “God forbid that my children look like me. There must be something wrong with any of my children who decides to resemble me.”

  • My mother came back to life three hours after death – Iyabo Oko’s daughter

    My mother came back to life three hours after death – Iyabo Oko’s daughter

    Confusion has trailed the health status of veteran Nollywood actress, Sidikat Odukanwi, popularly known as Iyabo Oko.

    On Wednesday morning, news of Iyabo Oko’s death flooded the Internet.

    However, minutes later, the daughter in a viral video said she was alive.

    According to her, her mother resurrected three hours after she was confirmed dead.

    She said: “As you can see, I’ve been crying since. My mother is still alive just keep praying for her.

    “I posted her yesterday after she was confirmed dead but my elder brother called me later and said she came back to life after three hours, so we thank for life .”

  • Ooni was absentee father, didn’t raise daughter as claimed — Princess Adeola’s mother alleges

    Ooni was absentee father, didn’t raise daughter as claimed — Princess Adeola’s mother alleges

    Ooni of Ife Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi did not raise his daughter Princess Adeola Ogunwusi as a single father, her mother Omolara Olatubosun has claimed.

    Oba Ogunwusi had on social media recalled how he suffered to raise his daughter which he had at age 19. The post was in celebration of her birthday on October 18, 2021.

    However, Olatubosun said in a statement that Oba Ogunwusi was not present in the child’s life in the first 10 years.

    She said, “Yeye Ogunwusi was never present in Adeola’s life for the first ten years of her growing up which makes the ‘single father’ narrative shocking, annoying and disrespectful to hear by all who know the truth of the story. I, Omolara, took care of my daughter physically, financially and emotionally, with the moral support of my mother and my siblings.

    “I was a pregnant teen, but he was nowhere to be found, and I bore the responsibilities for our child, and paid the physical and social cost of raising her alone in my mom’s house.

    “Yeye Ogunwusi saw Adeola for only five minutes at the hospital when she was born. The next time he saw her was when she was already four years old and ten years old respectively.

    “I got NO monetary or material support from him or ANYONE while raising my child. I could not have, because he was also just finding his way in the world.

    “Adeola started spending holidays with Yeye Ogunwusi and his then wife (Bukola Bombata) in Lagos when she was thirteen in 2007, and started living with them when she was fifteen in 2009. This was when he began any financial and personal involvement in her life at all.”

    Tubosun said she kept mum about it all this time because of her daughter, adding that she had also reached out to him privately “to stop repeating the lie that he ‘raised my daughter as a single parent since she was born.’”

    She dared the monarch to post pictures of him and Princess Adeola or the receipt of any expense he bore on her before she clocked 10.

    “If Yeye Ogunwusi is proud of the daughter we have raised, he can say so without any attempt to minimize or denigrate the very foundation on which he’s now attempting to build, and from which he cowardly fled when the going was tough,” she said.

     

  • Gunmen invade Benue monarch’s palace, kill son, abduct daughter

    Gunmen invade Benue monarch’s palace, kill son, abduct daughter

    Gunmen broke into Ikpomolokpo palace in Gege Ward of Ado Local Government Area in Benue State in the early hours of Monday, killing the son of the monarch, while his daughter was whisked away.

    Witnesses said the gunmen stormed the community at about 2am and headed to the palace of the clan head, where they wreaked havoc.

    The villagers said that they heard gunshots severally from the residence of the clan head but could not intervene because they themselves were helpless.

    The Chairman of Ado LGA, Chief James Oche, confirmed the incident to journalists in Makurdi, saying he received a distress call on the incident.

    Oche said: “Some gunmen at about 2am today (Monday) entered into the residence of the clan head of Ipomoloko through the fence and asked for the wife of the clan head from the son whose name is Thompson.

    “The young man told them that he did not know the whereabouts of his mother and they shot him dead and they now took the sister away.”

    The Council Chairman added that he immediately alerted troops of Operation Whirl Stroke, but before they could get to the palace, the gunmen had escaped into the Atiga forest in the area.

    Oche said the troops were already trailing the culprits with the aim of apprehending them and rescuing the abductee.

    The spokesperson of the Benue State Police Command, DSP Catherine Anene, was unreachable as of press time as her telephone line was switched off.

  • Again, Danish murder suspect denies complicity, narrates how he woke up to find wife, daughter dead

    Again, Danish murder suspect denies complicity, narrates how he woke up to find wife, daughter dead

    A Danish national, Peter Nielsen, accused of killing his Nigerian wife and daughter has told a Lagos High Court that he woke up in the morning and found the victims dead on the kitchen floor.

    Nielsen stated this on Tuesday during the resumption of his trial, adding that he watched a football match together with his wife and was intimate with her a night before her death.

    “I kissed my wife and daughter and went back to sleep, about 2:35 am,” the Danish national told the court.

    “I woke up around 7:30 am and noticed that my wife was not in the bedroom so I went to look for her.”

    He was led in evidence by his counsel, Mr. Olasupo Shashore (SAN), who told the court that the evidence of the defendant was very crucial to his defence.

    He told the court that on April 4, 2018, his family members watched television together.

    Nielsen said his wife joined him to watch a football match which was unusual.

    About the night of the football match, Mr. Nielsen said his wife knew it was a very important match to him and to his surprise she watched it with him.

    He continued that around 9:45 pm, his wife and he continued watching the highlights from the game, before going to bed together.

    He said that around 2:30 am, they both were woken by their daughter, Petra, who entered the room and said she wanted to watch cartoons on the iPad. And that his wife took Petra to the sitting room to watch cartoons on the Television.

    The witness/defendant said he went to the kitchen and got some juice and snacks for Petra, while his wife warmed some food for Petra later.

    The witness said he entered the sitting room and found their maid and other girls standing in the sitting room.

    Nielsen said he asked them about his wife but they said they didn’t know.

    He said he searched for his wife but saw her lying lifeless with their daughter on the kitchen floor. Nielsen said there was a strong smell of gas when he opened the kitchen door.

    The witness said he tried to resuscitate his wife and daughter but when he realised that they were dead, he called his wife’s stepfather and told him and his wife to come to Lagos.

    He said police arrived shortly before noon and asked him to call their family doctor.

    “The doctor eventually came and afterward certified the two bodies dead,” he said.

    However, while the witness was trying to narrate about the wife’s step father, the prosecution led by the Commissioner for Justice Lagos State, Mr Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN) objected to the evidence.

    Onigbanjo said it was hearsay evidence and hence should not be admitted in evidence.

    The defendant counsel maintained that the court should allow the evidence.

    After the counsel’s argument, Justice Bolanle Okikolu-Ighile, adjourned for ruling and continuation of hearing until November 23.

  • Mother, daughter fight dirty over boyfriend in Anambra

    Mother, daughter fight dirty over boyfriend in Anambra

    Nemesis has reportedly caught up with a woman and her daughter who tried to outsmart each other in their illicit relationship with the same man as they went into fisticuffs on Wednesday in the lover-boy’s apartment at Nkutaku Layout in Okpoko, a suburb of Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State.

    Information has it that the man, who is in his early 30s, is a boyfriend to the woman and usually patronises her restaurant at Ochanja market, near Onitsha, where her daughter also assists her mother to sell.

    According to a neighbour who had been following the dramatic battle for the lover boy, trouble started when the young lady in her early twenties began to succumb to love advances from the friendly customer simply identified as Oga Dubai.

    “She did not know that her mother and Oga Dubai were already dating secretly before he decided to switch to her,” the source who did not want his name mentioned in the print said.

    He continued: “The mother kept her calm initially thinking that it was mere friendly play.

    “But trouble started when on one of the man’s visits to the restaurant, the daughter rushed to him and embraced and kissed him.

    “Angered by her daughter’s provocative action, the mother warned her to behave herself in a good manner, but the daughter fired back that she was old enough to choose whom to love and that she loves Oga Dubai and would like to marry him if he eventually proposes to her.

    “After a brief exchange of words, the duo kept their cool and went home as if nothing happened.

    “Not ready to surrender her lover to her daughter, the woman decided to play the spoiler game on them.

    “Days later when the man invited her daughter to his house at Nkutaku layout Okpoko, her mother was already tipped off and she trailed her to the rendezvous for a showdown.

    “The daughter did not know that her mother was a regular visitor to the house and as such very familiar with co-tenants to the man.

    “So after about three hours after her daughter went to the man’s house, she decided to pay an unscheduled visit to the man.

    “On arrival, she made straight to the man’s apartment without greeting the co-tenants as usual whenever she came calling, ostensibly to get them in action.

    “After knocking, she pushed the door open and saw both unclad, with the daughter’s handbag hung on the wall.

    “The woman kept her calm and managed to hold herself until the man told her: ‘You are supposed to wait for someone to come and open the door for you before you come in.’”

    According to the witness, this infuriated the woman who raised her voice, accusing the man of sleeping with mother and daughter, swearing that she has cut their relationship and that the girl will not return to her house again, but will remain there in the man’s house.

    The source added: “As the heated argument ensued between the man and the mother, the daughter tried to sneak away, but unfortunately for her, the mother rushed outside and held her, dragging her back to the man’s house.

    “As the girl was trying to resist her mother, the mother started beating her up and calling her lover-boy snatcher.

    “As the beating became unbearable, the girl fought back and tore her mother’s clothes into shred, exposing her nakedness.”

    The timely intervention of on-lookers who rushed and separated them saved the situation and both headed home from different directions. while abusing each other, calling themselves ashewo (prostitute).

    A man who claimed to be one of the co-tenants of the lover boy also disclosed that the mother of the girl visits the man regularly and that the day of the fight was the first they saw the young girl.

    “The woman comes to our compound steady, we even think she is the wife to the man. Sometimes she will cook and fetch water and wash the man’s clothes,” he said.

  • Pele to leave intensive care this week, daughter says

    Pele to leave intensive care this week, daughter says

    Pele will be moved out of intensive care in the coming days as the Brazil footballing great continues his recovery from surgery, his daughter Kely Nascimento has said.

    The 80-year-old, who is the only male player to win three World Cups, has been in the Alberto Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo.

    He has been there since doctors removed a tumour from his colon earlier this month.

    “He is doing well post-surgery, he is not in pain and is in a good mood (annoyed that he can only eat jello but will persevere!),” Nascimento said on Instagram.

    “He will move into a regular room in the next day or two and then go home.

    “He is strong and stubborn and with the support and care of the brilliant team at Einstein and all of the love, energy and light that the world is sending, he will get through this!”

    Pele, whose real name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento, has had mobility problems since a failed hip replacement surgery in 2012 and cannot walk unaided.

    His public appearances were already being cut before the COVID-19 pandemic and since then he has made few unnecessary forays outside his house near Santos.

    Pele won the 1958, 1962 and 1970 World Cups and remains Brazil’s all-time leading goalscorer with 77 goals in 92 matches.

  • Kevin Hart opens up on how his daughter reacted to cheating scandal

    Kevin Hart opens up on how his daughter reacted to cheating scandal

    American actor and comedian, Kevin Hart has opened up on how a series of public scandals affected his kids.

    Speaking with Will Smith, on Red Table Talk on Sunday, Hart spoke about how scandals on his extra-marital affair and the controversy surrounding past homophobic commentaries created a tense relationship between himself and Heaven, his 16-year-old daughter.

    In 2017, the stand-up comedian apologised to his family after claiming that someone was trying to blackmail him over a video showing him with another woman.

    A year later, shortly after the actor was proclaimed as the host of the year’s Oscar Awards, some social media users had dug out a few of his old tweets perceived to contain homophobic remarks.

     

    In the dialogue with Will, Hart said the period made him realize the impact his fame has on the affairs of his immediate family.

     

    “My talk with [my daughter] Heaven… that was one like no other,” the comedian said.

    “Getting my daughter back, getting my daughter to understand that I was sorry, that I made a mistake; that was real… Until this day, my daughter is tough on me.

    “My daughter was so upset because she couldn’t process how people could think this about her father. And it was so tough because this was when I started to realize how my fame has an impact on my household.”

     

  • Prince Harry, Meghan Markle welcome baby girl

    Prince Harry, Meghan Markle welcome baby girl

    Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced Sunday the birth of their daughter Lilibet Diana, who was born in California after a year of turmoil in Britain’s royal family.

    “Lili is named after her great-grandmother, Her Majesty The Queen, whose family nickname is Lilibet. Her middle name, Diana, was chosen to honor her beloved late grandmother, The Princess of Wales,” said a statement from the couple.

    The child — the couple’s second, who will be eighth in line to the British throne — was born Friday in Santa Barbara and was now out of the hospital and at home.

    “She weighed 7 lbs 11 oz. Both mother and child are healthy and well, and settling in at home,” the statement said.

    The couple, also known as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, live near Los Angeles following their decision to quit frontline royal duties early last year.

    The couple sat in March for a bombshell interview with US talk show host Oprah Winfrey, triggering the royal family’s biggest crisis since Harry’s mother died in a car crash in 1997.

    During the two-hour sit-down, viewed by more than 17 million people in the US and over 11 million in Britain, Harry and Meghan said racism had played a part in them quitting the UK for North America.

    The couple said a senior royal had speculated how dark their child’s skin would be before he was born. Meghan’s mother is Black and her father is white.

    Meghan, a former actress, also told Winfrey she was “naively” unprepared for life as a royal and had contemplated suicide while pregnant with her first child Archie.

    Harry, 36, and Meghan 39, accused newspapers of racial stereotyping, particularly set against coverage of Harry’s sister-in-law, Kate, who is white.

    Prince Harry was said to have a good relationship with his grandparents.

    He told talk show host James Corden earlier this year that he had spoken via video call Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip since moving to the United States so they could see their great-grandson Archie.

    Harry has spoken to his father multiple times since the Oprah interview came out, notably after Prince Philip’s funeral, according to British media.

    In a new documentary series released last month, Harry once again emphasized that his family turned a blind eye to the struggles of his wife, saying he will “never be bullied into silence.”

  • Buhari blesses Emir of Daura’s son, AGF’s daughter as they wed in Kano

    Buhari blesses Emir of Daura’s son, AGF’s daughter as they wed in Kano

    President Muhammadu Buhari has given his blessings to Muhammad Umar Faruk and Maimuna Ahmed Idris, as they were joined in matrimony on Saturday.

    Muhammad is the son of Emir of Daura, Alhaji Faruk Umar Faruk while Maimuna is the daughter of the Accountant General of the Federation (AGF), Ahmed Idris.

    In a message delivered on his behalf by a delegation to Kano State led by the Minister of Defence, retired Maj.-Gen. Bashir Magashi, Buhari said his sincere blessings and good wishes will remain with the newly-weds.

    A statement by the president’s spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Saturday, the president prayed for peace, harmony and prosperity in the home of the couple, appreciating their kind invitation.

    The Ministers of Water Resources, Sulaiman Adamu; Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, and Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media and Publicity), Garba Shehu, were also in the delegation.

    Maimuna, the bride, was given out in marriage by Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State while the groom, Muhammed Daha, who is also the Dan Buram Daura, was represented by Magajin Garin Daura, Alhaji Musa Umar.

    In a homily, the Chief Imam of the Kano Central Mosque, Prof. Sani Zahraddeen, who contracted the marriage at the Palace of the Emir of Kano, admonished the couple to respect one another and warned the community against mistreatment of women.