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  • Super Eagles star Onyekuru, wife welcome baby girl

    Nigeria international Henry Onyekuru has become father of two after his wife welcome their baby girl.

    Onyekuru shared a post on his official Instagram status with the caption: “My princess is here.” He added: “I love you”.

    The 22-year-old left Everton in August 2019, two years after joining them due to his failure to secure a work permit in England. He was sent on loan to RSC Anderlecht and Galatasaray.

    Onyekuru won the Super Lig and the Turkish League Cup in his first stint at the club in the 2018-19 seasons.

    The Super Eagles winger recently re-joined Turkish League giants Galatasaray on a short term loan deal from AS Monaco after he made only four appearances for the French League side with one assist credited to him in the first half of the season.

     

  • My wife deprived me of sex for 1 year – Husband tells court

    My wife deprived me of sex for 1 year – Husband tells court

    A businessman, Malami Abdullahi, told a Sharia Court sitting in Magajin Gari, Kaduna state, that his wife, Fatima Abubakar, deprived him of sex for one year.

    A businessman, Malami Abdullahi, told a Sharia Court sitting in Magajin Gari, Kaduna state, that his wife, Fatima Abubakar, deprived him of sex for one year.

    Abdullahi, who lives in Rigasa, Kaduna, also told the court on Wednesday that Abubakar was having an extra-marital affair.

    ”I still love her and prayed the court to settle our issues and deny her prayer of seeking total divorce.

    “She picks calls from different men. I sent her home to learn how to live in a marriage union.

    “I reported to her parents several times. They pleaded with me and i took her back,’’ Abdullahi said.

    Earlier, the petitioner, through her Counsel, Adamu Garba, told the court that his client wants a divorce on grounds of battery.

    “He always beats my client. He has sent her packing to her parent’s home four times. The last time, he drove her home and divorced her but returned her after some months.

    “We are praying the court to terminate the marriage completely, she can no longer live together with him,’’ Garba said.

    The Judge, Muhammad Adam-Shehu, after listening to both parties advised them to settle their differences.

    Adam-Shehu adjourned the case until Feb. 6 for the parties to settle the matter out of court.

    The judge also ordered that the guardians of the couple must appear on the adjourned date, NAN reports.

  • Gunmen kidnap legislator’s wife in Jigawa

    Gunmen have kidnapped the wife of a member of the Jigawa State House of Assembly. Hajiya Zahra’u Haruna was abducted in the early hours of Saturday at her residence Dangyatum village in Jahun local government area of the state. Her husband, Haruna Dangyatun, represents Miga constituency.

    Abdu Jinjiri, police public relations officer (PPRO) of the state, said the victim, Zahra’u Haruna, was kidnapped by three gunmen on Saturday around 4am at Dangyatum village in Jahun local government area of the state.

    “Today at about 4am, a housewife named Zahra’u Haruna, was kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Dangyatum village in Miga local government area, “Jinjiri said.

    “Three unknown men came to the residence of victim with dane guns and cutlasses and took her to unknown destination.

    “But the police are already giving the suspects a hot chase

  • Gunmen kidnap lawmaker’s wife

    Gunmen kidnap lawmaker’s wife

    Police have confirmed the abduction of a housewife in Jahun Local Government Area of Jigawa.

    A security source said the woman is the wife of a Jigawa State Assembly member representing Miga constituency, Haruna Dangyatun.

    SP Abdu Jinjiri, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, said the victim, Hajiya Zahra’u Haruna, was kidnapped by three gunmen on Saturday about 4 a.m. at Dangyatum village.

    “Today at about 4 a.m., a housewife named Zahra’u Haruna, was kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Dangyatum village in Miga local government area.

    “Three unknown men came to the residence of the victim with guns and cutlasses and took her to unknown destination.

    “But the police are already giving the suspects a hot chase,” Jinjiri told NAN.

  • Johnson Omovidonor Umode: 1932 – 2019 – Francis Ewherido

    Johnson Omovidonor Umode: 1932 – 2019 – Francis Ewherido

    By Francis Ewherido

    Our Christmas Day festivities were first interrupted in the morning with the news that “daddy broka jovwo” (daddy was behaving somehow earlier), but a doctor had come to attend to him and taken samples for tests.

    By evening when the doctor came back to administer treatment, based on test results, he gave a yawn and gave up the ghost. That ended the earthly sojourn of Pa Joseph Omovidonor Umode, my father-in-law.

    Our paths crossed about 22 years ago when I met my wife. Throughout the courtship until the marriage preparations, his face was expressionless and he gave nothing away by way of words.

    The only reason I knew he approved of our marriage was that he did not oppose it. But I never knew what was going on in his mind much as I would have wanted to. My wife was his first daughter.

    He was ill when I met my wife and for much of our courtship.

    But I remember praying to God that if actually my wife was from God, He should prove it by healing my father-in-law so that he would walk my wife to the altar. Shortly before our wedding, his health improved tremendously and he actually walked my wife to the altar during our wedding. He also oversaw our traditional marriage a day earlier. During all the marriage ceremonies, he never gave anything away by words or expression beyond the usual marriage rites.

    But my wife continuously assured me that there was no cause for alarm. There was, however, something I did during my visits that endeared me to him. I always requested that we prayed before I left. My father-in-law loved it, so my wife told me later. She said, “You take prayers to win them over, carry their daughter.”

    Then, my first child arrived. Naturally they were very happy at the arrival of their first grandchild. My mother-in-law must have nudged him to join her on the trip from Delta to Lagos to see their granddaughter.

    He was probably reluctant to make the trip because fathers-in-law in Urhoboland rarely stay in the houses of sons-in-law. I do not quite know the reasons for the practice, but it looks like it is born out of pride and ego. My father-in-law must also have been reluctant because he was not sure of the kind of living space that was available.

    He certainly did not want to inconvenience us if the accommodation was small. When they came into our residence, the first question he asked was, “is this room and parlour?” I assured him it was a three-bedroom flat.

    Then they came into the inner corridor and he saw a heap of office stuff. “What are these?” he asked. I told him they are my office stuff. I explained to him that I had a disagreement with my partner, so we shared the office and working stuff and parted ways. “So you have no job,” he probed further. “For now, I am working from home,” I assured him. But he was not impressed.

    The next thing I heard was murmuring: “You have no job, how do you intend to sustain a wife and a daughter.” I was hurt.
    They stayed for a while and left. About a week later, my mother-in-law was back with a vehicle load of foodstuff. That was even more hurting and humiliating.

    In their first trip, they came with foodstuff as is the practice when going to see your daughter, who just had a baby. But for me, this second vehicle load of foodstuff was to confirm my father-in-law’s position that I was jobless and could not sustain my wife and daughter. Love was thick in the air and I remembered the advice my elder brother, Fr. Tony, gave us when we were preparing for marriage: “you must respect each other’s family.” So I kept my peace.

    Not too long after, my parents-in-law were back with more foodstuff. This time around, I decided to take my father-in-law with me on some of my hustle. It was during those trips that we struck a friendship that lasted till he died. The foodstuff they brought lasted for over six months.

    During this time, we only bought perishable items like bread and egg. Over time, I came to realise that it was just the nature of my mother-in-law. Habit or not, their gesture was symbolic. It showed me they loved and cared deeply for their daughter. Unconsciously, how the family you came from treats you sometimes influences how your spouse treats you. My parents-in-law never left me in doubt that they loved and cherished my wife.
    I learnt two valuable lessons from my father-in-law’s life.

    The first one is for young people to know what they want at an early stage. It gives them a head start over their contemporaries. At a young age, my father-in-law already knew paid employment was not for him. By age 37, he resigned from paid employment, went into business and made a success of it.

    Staying in paid employment or going into business has fundamental impact of your financial situation decades after the decision is taken. Some people who made mistakes in their choices are still groping or unfulfilled 10, 20, 30 or even more years after the decision is taken. It is something I always knock into the heads of my marriage course participants. If you see most job vacancy adverts in the newspapers, the maximum age they ask for is 45 years.

    Only in special cases, when special skills are needed, do they go beyond that. Before 40 years, you should know which side of the divide you fall into: paid employment or self-employment/business ownership. Thirty to 35 years is even better, so that if you made a mistake, you will have time to retrace your steps before you are 45 years.

    My father-in-law also had vision even with his limited education by today’s standard. He invested heavily in real estate. In doing so, he deliberately or accidentally prepared for his retirement. Since I knew him 22 years ago, he never did any new business. His investments sustained him. Even when he took ill, he was not a financial burden to anybody. He did not have to wait for his children or in-laws before he fed or sorted out his bills.

    That is the kind of old age we should all work towards. Old age is a delicate period of your life and you need to make adequate financial arrangements. Some of these old people you see dying are as a result of hunger, lack of proper medical care and suffering, not old age.

    Adieu, Pa Johnson Omovidonor Umode. You came, you saw, you conquered. You were resilient and beat the odds. Ultimately, you had to pay the ultimate price all mortals must pay. Rest on, daddy. Akpokedefa.

  • Martial’s wife attacks Mourinho

    Anthony Martial’s wife, Martial Da Cruz has criticised Tottenham Hotspur manager, Jose Mourinho for not playing her husband during his time as the head coach of Manchester United between 2016 and 2018.

    According to Da Cruz, Mourinho left Martial ‘suffering’ at Old Trafford, adding that she felt trapped by the injustice of the Portuguese towards the France international.

    “During our first two years together in Manchester, I experienced a very difficult period because José Mourinho did not play him [Martial] (between 2016 and 2018),’ Martial Da Cruz told L’Equipe.

    “In these cases, Anthony shuts himself out. You know he’s suffering, but he doesn’t say it. I felt trapped in my sense of injustice because, as a wife, you can’t say anything (to the coach).

    “We’re just watching our man go down. I was experiencing it so badly that I didn’t go to certain events so as not to meet the coach.”

    Martial has been impressive for Man United under current manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

    The forward has scored eight goals in 15 starts for the Red Devils so far this season.

  • I need a new wife, Babangida opens up

    Former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, rtd, has announced that he is in search of a new wife.

    Describing the kind of woman that will suit him at this stage of his life, IBB said he will not take a wife much younger than him because that will be a problem for the woman and for himself (IBB)

    Speaking with The Sun, the former Head of State, however, expressed the fear that the new wife may not be able to live the way he lived with his late wife and former First Lady, Maryam.

    Asaba Delta-born Maryam died on Sunday, December 27, 2009, succumbing to ovarian cancer at the University of California’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles. She died at the age of 61.

    IBB said, “Yes, I am quite sure. I’m searching and I’m hoping. But the longer I wait, maybe, the more problematic it becomes.

    “If it drags, I would be too old and the whole idea of having a partner would seem to diminish. But I will make sure [I have a partner] before reaching that stage.

    “If somebody is in the corner, you could organize that in three or six months.

    “And because it must be somebody you have known for a long time, or somebody you have been in contact with for a long time, you don’t just tell them look this is for marriage.

    “But as time passes, and relationship building continues, it could end up in marriage.

    “However, I have to be fair in my search. I really want to be fair. For instance, you don’t expect me to take a wife much younger than I am because that will be a problem for her and for me.

    “I have to be fair. Secondly, I do wonder if she (the chosen one) would be able to live the way Maryam and I did, which is not easy these days. So, I keep on praying; and I think it will happen.”

  • Comedian Ajebo welcomes first child with wife

    Popular comedian and media personality, Emeka Erem better known as Ajebo, has welcomed his first child with Uchechi Kalu, his wife.
    The entertainer took to his Instagram page on Friday to share a series pictures of himself and his wife, including one where he’s seen bearing the infant in his arms while in the maternity room.
    Revealing the child’s name as Zikora Shefa Ngozi Erem, Ajebo said he’s convinced there were supernatural beings present during his child’s birth as he had witnessed the process himself.
    “God has done so much for us, We cannot tell it all. The journey to fatherhood has been super amazing with my ride or die. This is the best Christmas gift we could ever ask for. Our bundle of joy, Daddy’s girl. I saw with my 2 eyes the entire birth process,” he wrote.
    “I stood confident in the fact that the host of angels was in that room. God be praised. I celebrate you, my wonder woman, play buddy and best friend. Thank God for the gift of you and our bundle of Joy Zikora Shefa Ngozi Erem. It’s Ok to call me Daddy Zee!”
    TheNewsGuru recalls that sonorous gospel singer,Osinachi Kalu, better known as Sinach, had also recently welcomed her first child at the age of 46.

  • Sad! Gospel artiste, Soulsnatcha loses wife

    Adekunle Ayoola also known as SoulSnatcha of the defunct gospel group, Rooftop MCs has announced the demise of his wife, Adora. The talented rapper shared the sad news on his Instagram page .

     

    According to him: “True saints don’t die. We multiply. It’s been 6 days since you have been gone, 6 days since my heart was forcefully ripped out. It’s still hard to breathe. People have been coming in large numbers and saying amazing stories of how you cared for them. I know they aren’t just being nice because I watched you balance your mountain of problems on your head so your hands can be free to help others with their rocks.

    “We spent almost every hour of 8 years with each other, I leaned on you for almost everything cos you were the organised one, the more administrative one whole I just freestyle everything. Good thing you taught me how to cook your way. Good thing I had all those years experience caring for you and the little people. I’ll give my life for Seven Trinitee zion and Rain. You trust me, I know how particular you are about them,” he wrote.

    In his tribute to her, Soulsnatcha promised his late wife that he and the kids left behind will be fine.

    “There’s so much to say we’ll talk offline. I’m at peace because we had decided a while ago to live a life in service to God and to pour into the lives of others and you have lived every day trying to achieve that. I know He gives grace when the burden is greater He sends strength to the weak with more affliction He sends mercy and gives joy. So don’t worry about us. We will be OK and we will never forget you. Good night my Adora( Adore her) Aka my sister in the Lord,” he concluded.

    In an interview, Soulsnatcha had revealed that he got married to his wife four months after he met her. They got married in 2011.

    On how he met his late wife, Soulsnatcha said:”The Rooftop MCs travelled for a series of shows in the UK, that’s where I met her (Abimbola). She came to have dinner with a couple of friends of mine at a restaurant. I quickly ended my meeting just to sit with her”

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  • My dear President Buhari, permit me to talk to your wife – Godwin Etakibuebu

    By Godwin Etakibuebu

    I am seeking your permission to this so that you will be aware that l am talking to Madam. There is more assured safety for me, in choosing this route, as bypassing you to talk to Madam might be dangerous, for a reason.

    Yes, the talk we [your wife and l] are having, may be passing through this public medium though, you might meet her reading this message in the “other room”, and that might keep you wondering ‘how this journalist’s letter arrived this room”.

    Now that your permission has been obtained l can commence the talk with her, without any fear of either the Director General of the DSS, the IGP of the Nigeria Police Force, or even both of them, coming after me for questioning and possible detention. I know you enough Sir that you are not that irrational person to give such order to get me questioned or even arrested. But those you “extra loyal officers” can do anything and at this age, the detention quarter that is “comfortable” for the types of Omoyele Sowore or Sambo Dasuki can never be good for me. So, thank you for granting the permission.

    Madam Aisha Buhari, permit me to introduce myself to you as one of your dedicated fans and admirers, albeit a devoted one for that matter. I am your fan not for anything cynic nor for selfish reason. Neither is my dedication to you has anything doing with [my] anticipation of any hope of “harvest”, either now or in the future. But, until very recently – in fact just a few days ago, l respectful remained dedicated to you for what l thought you stood for.

    I saw a very brilliant woman in you and that quality of brilliance remains. Nothing can take it away from you and I pray that any sickness which will tamper with your brain will never come close to you all the days of your life.
    You are beautiful and elegant and l am not being exaggeratedly maneuvering about it or being complimentary by saying that, because that is exactly whom you are.

    Your audacity in expressing yourself is not a common property of the majority, albeit women from the geographical location of your place of birth. Ipso facto, you will remain one in a million amongst women. On this, you are a woman of substance. You spoke your heart out at most times when silence would have been the preferred choice. You are so daring that some of your Fulani and Fulfulde brothers in the Villa once referred to you as “that suicide bomber from Adamawa”.

    There are many other attributes of grace and favour that your Heavenly Creator bestowed on you which shall always endear you to hearts of many. You are living in Wole Soyinka [our own Nobel Laurate in literature]’s world of his iconic writing, as you fitted appropriately to the description of the character in one of his books, captioned “The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny”. You have spoken against your husband and his government many times.

    It is for these glaring qualities that converted yours sincerely to become your admirer and many times without number, has defended most of your actions, ditto your person, on this page. However, some of your recent comments and actions have appeared more than just the ordinary roaring waves of the Ocean. And this has given your most addicted follower cause to rethink and re-evaluate your true personality. Let us go into those recent actions of yours that is compulsorily forcing the option of rethinking your person.

    Let us start from the very latest, albeit your comments on the Hate Speech Bill and the Protection from Internet Falsehood and Manipulations Bill first, before we zero down to your judgmental comment/verdict on top government officials and State Governors at the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) General Assembly meeting in Abuja, this last Friday.

    The first thing that must be conceded to you Madam is your constitutionally guaranteed freedom of Speech and your alienable right of association as enshrined in section 39 of the 1999 Constitution as amended. It means that when you “quickly” agree with those introducing these draconian Bills, mostly the one prescribing “death by hanging” for offenders, you were merely operating within the ambit of your freedom of speech.

    However, the Nigerian people were disturbed a little about that [your] pronouncement because the Aisha Buhari they knew wouldn’t have jumped into that boat by reminding them that a law like that operates in China without adding “that in China death penalty is also the faith of those that are found guilty of corruption”.

    Or Madam is it that you don’t know that any government official found guilty of corruption in China faces death by hanging? If only you had added that citation, everyone would have hailed you as their typical iconic heroine as all would have seen it as the most positive way in which you are helping your husband to fight corruption and stopping same from killing Nigeria.

    That would have mobilized nearly all Nigerians behind you in fishing out all those known to have corruptly enriched themselves, both in the past and the present; because the corrupt ones are not in short-supply in the present dispensation and this would have included your former ADC –CSP Sani Baban-Inna [involved in that N2.5 billion fraud], and escort them to the hangman after trial and conviction.

    But for your failure to add this most essential ingredient to the cooking of the soup, Nigerians are now skeptical and suspicious of your choice in backing Hate Speech Bill in isolation, without bringing corrupt government officials to the “arena of death by hanging”.
    Let us move to your statement on Friday, November 29, 2019, in Abuja, where you came out your typical self – the smoking Aisha. Madam, what you said on Friday, like l earlier mentioned, was typically you, speaking the truth to the Authority in defense of the Nigerian people, fearlessly.

    The people will always appreciate you for such boldness in defending them at all times. But something about your action which was wrongly displayed a few days somewhere else before your speech on Friday did not click. I will tell you that thing Madam but let us listen to your message to the dealers we unfortunately have in this country, parading themselves as leaders, albeit political dealers.
    “People cannot afford potable water in this country while we have governors,” you said, on Friday, at the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) General Assembly meeting in Abuja, when emphasizing the evil and calamity Nigerian people are suffering from inept governance. You were not done yet as you took further audacious steps by calling on these ruthless and callous political leaders by name. Listen again to what you said.

    “We should either fasten our seatbelt (meaning tighten our belts) or do the needful or we will all regret it very soon because, at the rate, things are going, things are getting completely out of hand. The VP (Yemi Osinbajo) is here, some ministers are here, they are supposed to do justice to the situation.”
    But wait a moment Madam. Why did you not mention your husband’s name? Are all those you mentioned not serving under your husband – the President? That must have been a great omission because the bulk stops on your husband’s table and not that of Yemi Osibanjo. Let us leave this interrogation to continue with the running discussion.

    Whoever says it is easy to roll out these facts while looking directly at the faces of the predators; which is what our political leaders are, would not be saying the truth. But you, being the real Lioness that originated from Adamawa and coming into anchorage in the Aso Rock Villa, leaves no one in doubt of what you can do. Except . . .
    . . . that a few days ago, you were in Lokoja, the capital of Kogi State, begging the traumatized and battered people of that State; a people so dehumanized by a wicked and heartless governor, to vote the same governor back to power. You even added that they should forgive Yaya Bello; your adopted son maybe, and vote for him again. And not once during that campaign did you “beg your adopted son not to inflict unjustifiable but everlasting punishment” on the good people of that State.

    Madam, that visit and campaign in Kogi State; which has been adequately rewarded as your preciously adopted son has returned back to power as the Governor of the State – courtesy of bullet and blood, would be seen as betrayal of the veracity of good conscience that went to equity with dirty hands, in the castigation of the governors and other top government officials. Let it be made boldly clear Madam that the argument here is not against the truth you spoke to Authority in Abuja on Friday because what you said to those “notorious men of power” remained the golden gospel truth. The point being made here is this: having known what they are – the Governors, how can you now justify what you did in Kogi State in sustaining the very worst of the worse of these same people into continuity?

    The questions that you should attempt answering are these:
    One, did you say that the “People cannot afford potable water in this country while we have governors”?
    Two, did you say that “We should either fasten our seatbelt (meaning tighten our belts) or do the needful or we will all regret it very soon because, at the rate, things are going, things are getting completely out of hand. The VP (Yemi Osinbajo) is here, some ministers are here, they are supposed to do justice to the situation”?

    Madam, my sincere advice to you is that, given all the good qualities God has endowed you with, you can help your husband; who is very sincere in all purposes and intents in leaving a better Nigeria for future generation, and help him in pulling this country from the doom of miss-governance because time for history-recording is approaching us speedily.
    You can do it and tint toward that fast because posterity will inevitably be here than most of us are thinking. God bless you mightily as you embark on this onerous assignment, more for the sake of future generations, which include your children’s children.
    Be assured of my esteemed regards.

    Godwin Etakibuebu; a veteran Journalist, wrote from Lagos.
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