Goods
worth millions of Naira were destroyed in a fire outbreak that
occured at the Keffi main market early this morning. This is the fifth
time the incident is occurring in five years. Many of the traders who
are still in shock at the incident, said the fire disaster happens
almost every December.
A
man who mudered his friend and cut him into small bits for disposal has
been sentenced to death by hanging.Stephen Anona was sentenced this
morning by the Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo over the death
of Daniel Bassey Solomon three years ago. Daniel, an Uyo-based barber,
allegedly owed Stephen a debt of N750,000 which he was reluctant to pay.
Stephen Anona then lured his victim into his rented one-room apartment
on Itu Road, Uyo, on July 28, 2015, and gave him food to eat. Unknown to
Daniel, a susbtance was put in the food and he fell into a deep sleep
afterwards. Stephen then used a sharp machete and cut off Daniel's
head, legs, hands and abdomen, and carefully packed them into different
bags which he secretly dumped in gutters and other places. 
Stephen
Anona was initially charged to the magistrate’s court from where he was
remanded in Uyo Prison before the case was transferred to the High
court
On
Sunday the 9th of December 2018 top celebrities gathered at the Cruise
Piazza 6A Emma Abimbola Cole street Lekki Phase 1 for the official
opening of Cruise Designs & Interiors flagship store. Cruise Designs
& Interiors, a dynamic design studio who offers comprehensive
interior design services for homes and offices in Nigeria, specializes
in corporate and private designs and are dedicated to achieving the most
out of your space. Cruise Designs & Interiors also provides access
to products to complement the design consulting services including
furniture, both new and antique, decorator fabric and home and office
accessories. The guests were amazed with creativity and innovation in
interior designs as they had not seen anything like this in
Nigeria. Check out more from Cruise Designs &
Interiorswww.cruisedesignsandinteriors.comInstagram:
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Football
legend, David Beckham is reportedly in secret talks to be the first
footballer in the World to travel to SPACE'According to The Sun UK, the
former British footballer, 43, has been 'mulling it over for some time'
and it's looking like it could happen now that 'space travel is becoming
a more realistic prospect'.The publication also claimed that the
father-of-four apparently even wants to 'kick a ball' while he's up in
the 'celestial heavens'. A source told the newspaper: 'It’s something
that David has talked about for quite a while. It has been mooted in the
past but now space travel is becoming a more realistic prospect it
could be a reality.'The insider also added that David's children
Brooklyn, 19, Romeo, 16, Cruz, 13 and Harper, seven, are all said to be
beside themselves over the prospect, and 'have been talking about it and
think it would be pretty cool'.The source goes on to admit that David
has 'admitted privately he's very nervous' about the prospect of being
blasted into the ether
L-R:
Mr. Fadi El Chami, Export Area Manager, Africa/Middle East of Valio
Limited, Finland, His Excellency, Dr. Jyrki Pulkkinen, Ambassador of the
Finland to Nigeria; Dr. Isaac Amos, Managing Director/Chief Executive
of Thompson & Grace Pharmaceuticals Limited, Exclusive
Representatives of Valio Limited in Nigeria; Mr. Paavo Salminen, Senior
Vice President of Valio Limited, and Mrs. Uduak Isaac Amos, at the
unveiling of lactose-free Valio Powdered Milk at the Finland Embassy,
Abuja last week. 
Testing
the Lactose-free Valio Milk in Lagos: Honorary Consul of Finland in
Lagos, Nigeria, Dr Kinsley A. Akinroye; Mr. Paavo Salminen, Senior Vice
President of Valio Limited, Finland; Ms. Suvi Laakso, Second Secretary,
Embassy of Finland, Abuja, Nigeria; Dr. Isaac Amos, Managing
Director/Chief Executive of Thompson & Grace Pharmaceuticals
Limited, Exclusive Representatives of Valio Limited in Nigeria; Mrs.
Uduak Amos, and Mr. Olu Raheem, Honourable Trade Commissioner of Finland
to West Africa, testing the lactose-free Valio Powdered Milk produced
in Finland which was unveiled last week at Lagos Intercontinental Hotel,
Victoria Island. 
Dr.
Isaac Amos, making a presentation on lactose-free Valio Powdered Milk
at Lagos Intercontinental Hotel, Victoria Island. T&G
Pharmaceuticals launches Lactose-Free VALIO Powdered Milk into Nig
Market A leading pharmaceutical company, Thompson & Grace
Pharmaceuticals Limited (T&G Pharma), Lagos, has introduced the
health-giving lactose-free Valio Powdered milk into the Nigerian market.
Unveiling the four variants of the milk product at separate events in
Abuja and Lagos respectively last week, Managing Director/Chief
Executive Officer of T&G Pharma, Dr. Isaac Amos declared that Valio
milk produced in Finland by Valio Limited, and other dairy products from
the company are easy to digest and they contain low carbohydrates and
high protein content. According to him, “the milk has the natural
taste, colour and aroma of milk without sweetness, which can give the
consumer the pleasant healthy experience”, adding that it has no
preservatives. "The milk is suitable for drinking, cooking and baking.
It is good for our health,” he said. Dr. Amos disclosed that Valio Milk
comes into the Nigerian market in four variants of “Valio lactose-free
whole milk; Valio lactose-free semi-skimmed milk; Valio lactose-free
skimmed milk; and Valio skimmed milk.” He explained that Valio Milk is a
product for the entire family – from age one and above.” He noted that
it is good for pregnant women as it will help them to breast feed and
live a healthy live after delivery. According to Medical research,
lactose is a natural carbohydrate in milk which is also called
milk-sugar. Lactose intolerance is a condition in which unabsorbed
lactose causes digestive problems, such as diarrhoea, flatulence and
bloating, with approximately 65 percent of the human population having a
reduced ability to digest lactose after infancy. The research report
further explained that lactose intolerance in adulthood is most
prevalent in people of East Asian descent, affecting more than 90
percent of adults in some of these communities, and is also very common
in people of West African, Arab, Jewish, Greek, and Italian descent. Dr.
Amos said that there isn’t a cure for lactose intolerance and no known
way to make the body produce more lactase. “But it can be managed by
limiting consumption of dairy products, eating lactose-reduced food such
as Valio milk,” he advised. Valio powdered milk is exclusively
marketed and promoted in Nigeria by Thompson & Grace Pharmaceuticals
Limited, Lagos. Speaking at the unveiling of the product at the Embassy
of Finland in Abuja, Senior Vice President of Valio Company in Finland,
Mr Paavo Salminen, said that most lactose-intolerant consumers do not
use milk at all, substituting it with water, but with Valio lactose-free
milk, such consumers can now finally come back to dairy. "Nigeria is a
great country with excellent people. We are introducing this
lactose-free milk in the country as a means to improve the health of the
people as well as the economy of the nation", Salminen said. He
explained that Valio lactose-free milk is made from fresh
premium-quality Finnish milk that is collected from Valio's milk farmers
in Finland. Finlad Ambassador to Nigeria, His Excellency, Dr. Jyrki
Pulkkinen, said his country is known for good and healthy foods, adding
that introduction of Valio Milk from his country will further improve
the relationship between the two countries. H.E. Pulkkinen said
lactose-free milk was a success story in his country, expressing
optimism that the milk would record success in Nigeria. At the
unveiling of the product at the Lagos Intercontinental Hotels, Dr.
Kingsley Akinroye, Executive Director of Nigeria Heart Foundation and
Honourary Consul of Finland to Nigeria, encouraged Nigerians to consume
Valio Milk as good nutrition can help to conquer any heart-related
diseases, noting that Finnish people have a life expectancy of 70 years
due to good nutrition.
Mo
Abudu has added another feather to her cap as she is elected Director
of International Academy of Television, Arts & Sciences.The media
mogul while announcing her appointment into the organization responsible
for staging the world famous International Emmy Awards, promised to use
her new position to ensure that the work of Nigerians in TV and films
are recognized across the globe.See what she wrote below.
Some
Igbo brothers are currently trending on social media after a video
showing their reaction immediately they found out a woman they took home
for sex was actually a transgender, went viral. What they said in Igbo
is quite funny. Watch the video belowthese igbo boys mistakenly carried a
(man) transgender from the club.their reactions killed me
pic.twitter.com/HjIYcgdNyU— llll (@ManLikeTams) December 20, 2018
On
Thursday December 20th, popular police officer, Dolapo Badmus led her
colleagues to reward motorists with up-to-date car particulars in
Lagos. Badmus who champions the course for a better image for the
Nigerian police, handed Christmas gifts to road users with
valid particulars. She shared some pictures and videos on her IG page
and wrote;It’s Yuletide season and we at Zone 2 Command decided to reach
out to members of the public.
We
randomly stopped vehicles and ask for their particulars, anyone with
detailed particulars were gifted our packed gift! I was elated with
people’s reactions! They never believed police can give them gift! Why
not?! We can give gift! It was an eventful session, reactions were
superb... I heard a lot of “wooows” most of our recipients expressed
their shock and at the same time gratitude. We at Zone 2 Command will
continue to reach out to members of the public positively and continue
to show them that we appreciate every law abiding citizens while we
won’t relent in trailing the ones at conflict with law.Thanks to all and
sundry who obey law and order thereby lessening our burden. Police is
your friend! 
Chiedozie
Azuike, a 17-year-old who recently gained admission into a private
university in Enugu state, has been declared missing. Punch reports
that Chiedozie went missing on the day he was to resume in the
school. The distraught mum of the missing undergraduate, Maureen Azuike,
says she believes that her son was hypnotised because strange things
had been happening around him before his disapperance. She said
Chiedozie left her house on Monday with the intention of going to school
to resume. She however returned home and found his phone, the money she
gave him and also his school documents at home. When she called the
school to find out if he was there, she was informed he was not in
school.“After paying the necessary fees, I begged his former lesson
teacher to help me take him to the school since I was busy. The teacher
had previously taken him to the school for registration on two occasions
and December 4 was when he was supposed to resume in the university
finally. I had told the teacher that he would help us to take him to the
school and he said there was no problem.“On Monday night when I got
back from work, I told Chiedozie to get his things ready that he would
be going to school the next morning with his teacher. He asked me the
time the teacher would be coming and I told him to get ready by 7am.“He
had been at home all this while and he usually slept all day and watched
TV at night; so, that night, I discovered that he was not sleeping as
usual and I told him to go and sleep because of the journey he would
embark on in the morning.”When I wanted to do a change of course for
him, he said he had lost his SIM card, so I gave him my second SIM so
that he could put it in a phone that had been at home all this while.
That morning, I gave him the SIM and the sum of N10,000 to spend for the
week; I also gave him extra N15,000 wrapped in a paper to give to the
teacher so that he would use it to buy provisions for him when they get
to Enugu since I didn’t have the time to buy them for him.“Around
7.30am, I left the house and I told him to wait for his teacher; his
other siblings were also at home that day. At about 9.20am, the teacher
called me that he was in our house waiting for my son and that his
siblings told him that Chiedozie had gone out with his bag. I was
surprised because I told him to wait for the teacher; so, the teacher
suggested that he would go and check the two parks that they use
whenever they travelled together. One is the Peace Park and the second
one is the ITC. He went to the two parks and called me that he did not
see him.”Panicking, she called the school and was told he had not
reported. When she got home, she found the money she gave to him and his
phone with all his call logs deleted.“The next day, I called the school
again and they said they had not seen him, so I went to the police
station and the fire service station in Owerri and the person I met at
the police station just took my statement and said the officer who would
handle the case would call me in the morning. A woman called me on
Thursday morning and I went to the station to see her and I gave her his
passport photograph and wrote a statement on what happened.The next
day, I was asked to bring N15,000 so as to enable them send signals to
all the police stations in the state. I noticed that someone had used a
sharp object to tear my children’s window a few weeks before Chiedozie
went missing and the children alerted me to it. I believed he was
manipulated out of the house even though I used to quarrel with him if
he did something wrong. He didn’t have any friend, but two months ago,
he told me that he closed his Facebook account, and I asked him why, but
he said nothing, but I think some people were disturbing him there. I
think he was manipulated out of the house because of the recent
occurrence in my house of people flashing light into my room and my
children’s room net being torn with a sharp object.”The matter has since
been reported to the police.
US
Defense Secretary, James Mattis announced on Thursday that he would
resign at the end of February, sending a letter to President Trump
saying he deserved a secretary "whose views are better aligned with
yours." The announcement came a day after the White House said the
U.S. would be withdrawing its troops from Syria, as well as reports it
was also considering a drawdown in Afghanistan. Both moves have been met
with opposition by Pentagon officials and members of the foreign policy
establishment. In a striking resignation letter to Trump, Mattis
signaled his concern with the way Trump treated allies in NATO as well
as rivals such as China and Russia. He wrote that his “core belief” is
that U.S. strength is “inextricably linked with the strength of our
unique and comprehensive system of alliances and partnerships.My views
on treating allies with respect and also being clear-eyed about both
malign actors and strategic competitors are strongly held and informed
by over four decades of immersion in these issues. We must do everything
possible to advance an international order that is most conducive to
our security, prosperity and values, and we are strengthened in this
effort by the solidarity of our alliances.Because you have a right to
have a Secretary of Defense whose views are better aligned with yours on
these and other subjects, I believe it is right for me to step down
from my position," Mattis wrote. The letter did not mention Trump and
did not include statements typically found in resignation letters about
it having been an honor to serve the president. It was addressed "Dear
Mr. President," and concluded with a line about how it had been an honor
to serve the nation and "our men and women in uniform." 
US
rapper, Young Jeezy’s 22-year-old son Jadarius was reportedly slashed
in the face during an altercation that allegedly left another man
dead.According to TMZ, Jadarius was involved in an incident Sunday
morning in Georgia that ended with gunfire. The Gossip site reported
that Officers responded to shots fired call, and when they arrived they
found a 37-year-old man had been shot. He later died at the
hospital Police confirmed that Jeezy's son sustained a “possible knife
wound to the face” and was treated at the scene, but it’s unclear what
occurred prior to the altercation between the two. Drew Findling, the
attorney for Jeezy’s son, told TMZ “We are grateful to law enforcement
for releasing Jadarius after their preliminary investigation. He
continues to receive medical treatment for the injury he endured during
the incident.” Another source added that Jadarius was acting in
self-defense during the altercation. Police are now investigating two
burglaries that occurred nearby around the same time as the shooting
possibly involving the man who was killed.
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Samuel
Hunsu, an 85-year-old herbalist has been arrested by the Zone 2 Police
Command, Onikan, Lagos State, in possession of fresh human heart. The
suspect was said to have been arrested in Abeokuta, Ogun State and the
police alleged that the old man specialized in using human parts for
money making rituals. Hunsu, however, claimed that the hearts were given
to him by one Abiodun, who had earlier consulted him for money
ritual.His words: “Initially, I was consulted by Abiodun. He wanted me
to prepare money charms making for him. When I told him what was
required for the ritual, he promised to get them. I was surprised when I
saw him with fresh human heart. When Abiodun eventually brought the
heart, I asked him where he got it. He said that he removed it from a
thief that was killed at Ijoko area of Ogun State.Immediately he dropped
the heart, he left and promised to come back. That was how I took the
heart and preserved it with dry gin and chemical under my shrine,
pending when the owner will come back. I don’t know Abiodun or where he
lives. He told me that he came all the way from Kwara State.”According
to police, there had been reports that two people had died in the
herbalist’s shrine. A police source added: “When we asked him, he
claimed those two people died while receiving treatment. He said that he
buried them in his shrine, rather than release them to their families.
The following day, we went with a search warrant. It was during the
search of the shrine that we discovered the heart kept in a plastic and
buried in the shrine. We understand the heart had been with the
herbalist for two weeks, but there was no sign of decomposing.
The
Independent National Electoral Commission has raised alarm that the
ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities would affect
its preparations for the 2019 elections. On November 5, 2018, ASUU
began an indefinite strike action over the failure of the Federal
Government to implement three areas in the Memorandum of Action it
signed with the union on September 14, 2017. On Thursday, a National
Commissioner for INEC and Chairman of its Information and other
Education Committee, Festus Okoye, expressed concerns about the effect
of the ASUU strike on the 2019 elections during the opening of a
one-day seminar on media gender sensitive reporting. The commission said
that it would deploy over one million ad hoc staff made up of lecturers
in federal tertiary institutions, members of the National Youth Service
Corps and students of federal tertiary institutions in the elections.
The categories of ad hoc staff to be used during next year’s elections
would serve as Returning Officers, Collation Officers, Supervisory
Presiding Officers, and Assistant Presiding Officers. But Okoye
expressed fear that the elections could be impacted negatively if the
strike was not urgently called off. He said, “It is next to
impossibility for members of the NYSC to provide all the ad hoc staff
needs and requirements of the commission, and over 70 per cent of the ad
hoc staff requirement in some states of the federation are drawn from
students of federal tertiary institutions. Hence, the lingering strike
by ASUU will no doubt have serious impact on the preparations for the
conduct of the 2019 elections. We therefore call on ASUU and the Federal
Government of Nigeria to quickly and genuinely resolve the lingering
impasse that has led to uncertainty in the education sector.The national
interest, the interest of our democracy and the reputation of Nigeria
demand the immediate resolution of the issues that led to the strike and
we so urge.It is important that students in federal tertiary
institutions should and must be in school at least a month before the
February 16 Presidential and National Assembly elections. They are a
critical resource and their absence will have adverse effects on the ad
hoc requirements of INEC.
TV
host, Shade Ladipo says she wonders why people constantly bash BBNaija
star, Antolecky on social media.According to Shade, Anto is a totally
'forgettable star' who wouldn't be around for that long. Shade said this
in a programme that aired on Silverbird TV recently.Watch the video
below. View this post on Instagram Tv host Shade Ladipo
says BBNaija star, Antoleck is totally forgettable and wouldn't be
around for that long
Remy
Ma is back home and recovering after having post-pregnancy
complications that led to an emergency surgery.The rapper revealed that
the worse is over and thanked all the hospital workers who took care of
her and her baby girl.See what she wrote on Instagram below. 
The photo was captured during Asisat Oshoala's recent football4girls camp in Lagos.
