Photo from fashion designer Kunbi Oyelesi's court wedding

Kunbi is the CEO of April by Kunbi. She married her man Lanre this week. Congrats to the couple.

Hausa film actor, Adam Zango, goes on national TV to deny being gay

Popular Hausa (Kannywood) actor, Adam Zango, recently went on Desmims TV to refute claims that he is gay. Adam, who was a guest on the TV stations talkshow, held a Koran and swore that he was not gay and will never be.

“I am here to tell the whole world that I am not gay and I do not participate in any gay activities within and outside the Kannywood industry” he said.

Many of the actors in Kannywood have been taunted with rumors of being gay.

Prophet accused of abducting 16-yr-old girl said he wanted to cast out demons from her

A self-acclaimed prophet, David Ifunaya, arrested by the Lagos State Police Command  for allegedly abducting a 16-year-old Muslim girl, sent the operatives into reels of laughter when he said he wanted to cast out demons from the girl and to liberate her family from evil spirits.

The 26-year-old Ifunaya who said he is a prophet with Immaculate Ministry in Satellite Town, further told the police that he had a vision to set the girl and her family free and was only obeying divine instructions.

While parading the suspect before newsmen, the State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, said the suspect abducted the victim for three weeks after the the teenager told him that her father is a herbalist.

“Throughout her stay in his place, neither did he nor his victim call her parents, who were searching everywhere for her. She was later traced to the suspect’s home in Satellite area of Lagos, following which her parents reported the case to police.”

While confessing, Ifunaya said:

“I met the girl earlier this year and ministered to her. I had a vision that her family was under a spell and I told her so.

I later gave her a handbill which she rejected, saying that her aunt would be angry with her for collecting a Christian handbill, since they are Muslims.

She, however, requested for my number which I gave to her. Since then, she calls me for prayers and counselling. I even prayed for her and she passed her JAMB exams.

When she called and told me she was coming to my house without the knowledge of her parents, I refused but later agreed because she kept pleading that she needed spiritual help.

She also lamented that nothing was going on well for her and her family and attributed it to the spell in her family.

She said she was convinced I am a man of God because since I prayed for her, things have been going on well with her.”

The teenage girl, on her part, said she was carried away by the accurate prophesy Ifunaya gave concerning her and her family, and that she was on her way to her uncle’s place on July 31, only to find herself at the prophet’s house where she stayed for eight days.

“While in his house, he introduced me to his pastor as his sister. I slept in his bedroom and he never made any advances on me.”

Couple divorce after 83 days of marriage in Ibadan

The marriage between a 70-year-old Surveyor, Pa Owolabi Alowonle and his wife, Idia, will surely go down in history as one of the shortest after a Mapo Customary Court sitting in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State, annulled the union owing to irreconcilable differences.

Vanguard reports that the marriage which lasted just 83 days, was nullified by the court presided over by Magistrate Hentic Agbaje, after efforts made by family members and the court to reconcile the couple, could not yield any result.

It was gathered that Pa Alowonle was a widower when he married Idia, equally a widow but they could not sustain the love that led them into deciding to stay as husband and wife.

In delivering his judgement, Agbaje held that both Alowonle and Idia based their rush into marriage on infatuation and the urge to satisfy their selfish ambitions and as such, they failed to find out if they were compatible.

 “I don’t exactly understand why two elderly persons who are already widow and widower, should carelessly rush into a marriage without proper knowledge of one another.

Well, I only wish both of you good as you have both accepted dissolution of the union. Therefore, in the interest of peaceful coexistence, the 83-day-old union between Alowonle and Idia has ceased to be henceforth.”

Agbaje, however, directed Alowonle to provide a cash of N12,000 for Idia’s accommodation and another N2,000 for the movement of her belongings within seven days.

In his petition, Alowonle had told the court that his wife was causing disharmony in his house as well as being a threat to his life.

 “My lord, ever since Idia got to my home on May 18 this year, she has been doing everything possible to put an end to my life by not giving me rest of mind.

She has been causing serious disharmony among my tenants who were peaceful before she married me. She and her daughter from time to time, fight and gossip around the house, giving unfounded information of one tenant to the other.

As if that is not enough, Idia incited her daughter against me to abuse and break the long existing regulations I imposed on the house for peaceful coexistence of the tenants and my family.

I barred any form of singing of religious songs which I know could cause problems among Muslim and Christian tenants. However, the daughter she brought from her late husband deliberately started singing in the house.

In fact, Idia and her daughter have no respect for me.”

In accepting the divorce, Idia said:

 “It will be a big relief for me to exit his house, the house of trouble. My lord, when he met me as a widow, Alowonle promised to take good care of me, assuring that he had no wife since he lost his last wife.

However, just seven days after I moved into his home as a wife, he brought in another wife and started treating me like dustbin. Ever since then, he asked me to leave the shop he established for me with N25,000 and has even asked me to leave his house altogether. It is a thing of joy for me to be free again from his unfaithfulness."

Driver arrested for cloning boss' credit card, stealing N2.9m in 3 days

A private driver identified as Mayowa Adenuga, has been arrested has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly cloning the ATM card of his employer, and stealing the sum of  N2.9 million from his accounts within three days.

The 18-year-old Adenuga told the police that he stole the credit card when he was washing the boss' car and ran the ATM through a software, Credit Card Revealer (CCR), from where he cloned it and went on his stealing spree.

After cloning the card, Adenuga reportedly generated a new pin for it before handing it over to his syndicates, Opeyemi Adewale, 18, and Jeremaiah Titoye, 29, who used it to shop at Mega Plaza and Shoprite as well as withdrawing the monies from the accounts.

In his confession during his parade at the State Command headquarters in Ikeja, Adenuga said:

“Before I started driving my Oga, I used to be a fraudster. I went to a computer institute and so, I developed the device which we used to clone credit cards.

Honestly, my boss has been very good to me. It’s not up to a year that I started working for him but he has always treated me kindly. I know I should have returned the card to him when I saw it but I just wanted to test the software whether it will work.

And when I tried it and it worked, I knew that I could not use it myself because of the surveillance cameras at the ATM points.

So, I sent them and asked them to withdraw N200, 000 which they did. The following day, I told them to go to Mega Plaza and buy Apple laptop, phones, wristwatches and I also told them to go to Shoprite on Victoria Island and the one at Ikeja for shopping.

Everything they bought amounted to N2.7 million. I did not work with any telecommunication company to bar my boss’ calls and text messages. I blocked his calls and SMS on his phone when I had access to it."

"That way, he was not able to make calls or send SMS for about three days, until he went to the subscriber to complain.

I feel bad and I regret my actions. I am willing to pay back all that I stole from my boss. I am very sorry about my action,” Adenuga pleaded.

25-yr-old man docked for attempting to rape a pregnant woman

A 25-year-old man, Ismail Akorede, has been arraigned at an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court sitting in Lagos State, for allegedly attempting to rape a pregnant woman, Busayo Olamide, on Monday, August 8, 2016, at Masaka Street, Oko-Oba, Agege area of the state.

Akorede who is facing a one-count charge of attempted rape, according to the police prosecutor, Inspector George Nwosu, had sneaked into Olamide's apartment at about 8pm and when he found her sleeping, he attempted to have sexual intercourse with her.

“The accused sneaked into the room of the complainant with intent to have carnal knowledge of her while she was sleeping.

According to the complainant, he unzipped his trouser, removed the complainant’s wrapper and was about to penetrate when she suddenly woke up and raised alarm. All the residents of the compound rushed out to rescue the complainant.

The accused was arrested when he wanted to escape and handed over to the police.”

When the charge was read to him, Akorode pleaded not guilty and the presiding judge, Magistrate A.A Adesanya, granted him N200,000 bail with two sureties in the like sum, while adjourning the case till September 5.

Over 801 persons have been displaced by flood in Maru town, Zamfara state.

Alhaji Sanusi Mohammed, the executive secretary, State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Zamafara state said the affected persons included 180 women and 621 children.

Mohammed told NAN that 52 houses and farmlands were also destroyed during the disaster which occurred on July 29, 2015.

He said: "NEMA and SEMA have visited the affected town and conducted a joint assessment of the disaster. We will forward such assessment to our respective agencies for immediate assistance."

Mohammad called on residents of the state to avoid blocking drainages or constructing structures on waterways to avoid similar disasters.

The Nigeria Meteorological Agency had recently warned people along major rivers in parts of the country to vacate their houses to prevent loss of lives and property due to anticipated flooding the rivers.

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) hasadvised communities along the River Niger to evacuateimmediately to safer ground.

The agency warned in a statement it issued in Abuja on Saturday, August 6, 2016 that flooding might occur at any moment following intense rainfall and rises in water level.