Bayo Olabiyi's Blog: September 2016

Friday, 30 September 2016

Chelsea's Courtois Is The Worst Golkeeper In EPL-Report

Thibaut Courtois appears to be the worst goalkeeper in the Premier League, according to statistics published by the Daily Mail.

Despite displacing Petr Cech as Chelsea’s first choice keeper, the Belgian is currently he worst in his position in the English top-flight according to the statistics.

Courtois began the season brightly, but everything appears to have unravelled after successive defeats to Liverpool and Arsenal.

Comedian Seyi Law and wife welcomes a baby girl after 5 years of marriage.This his message announcing the arrival of the New born;

'And today,the Lord blessed my household.After 5 years of marriage and exactly 9 years after we met,God has blessed us with a beautiful baby girl.Ladies and Gentlemen,help us welcome our Princess:

CHIDERA OLUWADEMILADEOLA TTIWALOLUWA AVIELLA Article.

Glory be to God Almighty.Baby,Mother and Father are doing well.

SEYILAW

PS:

No pictures until after her endorsements.I go do pass Tiwa Savage.'

Congrats man.

Early Morning Sex Is Beneficial To Health-Scientist

Prof. Musa Yakubu of University of Ilorin has said that having sex in the early morning lowers blood pressure and reduces risks of heart attack.

Yakubu of the Department of Biochemistry made the assertion in a paper, “Knocking Down the Barriers to Four O’Clock Activities and Reproductive Inadequacies”, presented at the 163rd Inaugural lecture of the university on Friday.

Regular intake of water and fruits can help in curing haemorrhoids, also known as piles, a pharmacist, Rabi’u Hussain, said on Friday.

Hussain, who works with the Murtala Muhammed Specialist Hospital, Kano, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano.

Cool FM’s On-Air Personality, OAP, born Ifedapo Oyerinde, popularly known as Freeze, has again lambasted pastors who force their members to pay tithes.

The controversial OAP shared a post on his Instagram account @daddyfreeze, of a fan complaining about her church and tithing, saying she left her church because her zonal pastor was threatening brimstone and fire against those who refused to bring their first seed.

US President Barack Obama speaks during the funeral of former Israeli president and prime minister Shimon Peres at Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl national cemetery on September 30, 2016.(AFP)

US President Barack Obama said Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’s presence at Shimon Peres’s funeral on Friday was a reminder of the “unfinished business of peace.”

At the start of his eulogy for Nobel Peace Prize winner Peres in Jerusalem, Obama mentioned Abbas, who was seated in the front row, and said his “presence here is a gesture and a reminder of the unfinished business of peace.”

The Lagos State University (LASU) said on Friday that 24, 734 certificates of graduates who left the institution over the last 10 years were lying uncollected at its registry.

Mr. Adekoya Martins, Acting Head, Centre for Information, Press and Public Relation, LASU, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the certificates were for students who graduated with diplomas and degrees.

Gandoki is giving comedy world record a shot.He started yesterday and continues today to end it tomorrow.He is doing 48 hours of non stop comedy,the current world record holder did 40 hours 8 minutes at Dubuque,USA.He is The Midnight Swinger aka David Scott (USA) at the Diamond Jo Casino,Dubuque,Iowa,USA between 29 -30 April,2013. Best of luck to him.

2 Baba Visited His Imperial Majesty The Ooni of Ife

2 Baba visited the Imperial Majesty Ooni of Ife,Oba Adegeye Ogunwusi in his palace in Ile-Ife ,he said;

"Wowwwww!I must say I've never been blown away in the presence of somebody like this.HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY The Ooni of I'VE.Such an intelligent and charming human being plus over handsome.Thank you so much for the honour.ONE NIGERIA.VIOLENCE FREE WORLD VFW.NMVA.BIG things coming up"

66 Year Old Fake Lawyer Arrested In Lagos

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 66-year-old man, said to have been practising as a lawyer with no certificate for 22 years.

The suspect, Kayode Jones, who was paraded on Thursday by the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni, at the command’s headquarters in Ikeja, was arrested in a lawyer’s attire, at the Lagos Judiciary 2016/2017 legal year event on Tuesday, in the premises of the Igbosere Division of the state High Court.

The alleged mysterious attack from ghosts or spirits suffered by some persons at a popular brothel in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, have continued to trail mixed reactions.

This is just as a commercial sex worker, Miss Chika Obi, who was one of the unconscious victims in the wake of the attack, regained consciousness, saying she did not know how she landed in the hospital.

The authorities of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, Akoka, have shut down activities at the institution’s main campus, Akoka due to a protest by students.

The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, and its Joint Campus Committee affiliate protested at the gate of the institution against the unjust rustication of some members of the students’ union.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech during the funeral of former Israeli president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres at Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl national cemetery on September 30, 2016.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres as a “great man of the world” on Friday and promised there would be peace as he eulogised him at his funeral.

The Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, has expressed its resolve to verify all assets declared by top serving and former public officers at the federal, state and local government levels.

A statement by the Chairman of the CCB, Mr. Sam Saba on Thursday, said all officials concerned are expected to appear physically before the commission for the verification.

Chief Magistrate F.N Amanze of the Magistrate court in Port Harcourt has remanded one Ibinabo Franklin in prison for using his seventeen-year-old daughter as a sex slave.

Thirty-eight-year-old Franklin had confirmed to the court that he had canal knowledge of his daughter.

Franklin, in his testimony, told the court that he chained his seventeen year old daughter, raped her and left her bleeding.

Arsene Wenger has refused to rule himself out of contention for the England's manager's job, after he was linked to the vacant position, following Sam Allardyce’s sacking.

Speaking on Friday, Wenger said: “My priority is to do well here (at Arsenal). It has always been my club and one day if I am free, why not? For now I am focused on the job.”

Abdulmumin Jibrin

Suspended lawmaker, Abdulmumin Jibrin, on Thursday gave his colleagues in the House of Representatives three days to return all questionable allowances they paid themselves.

Jibrin said any lawmaker who fails to heed his call should be prepared for the backlash that would follow when he publishes details of how such official perpetrated the fraud.

The Lagos State Police Command says it has arrested 23 suspected armed robbers and rape suspects within 10 days.

Among the suspects arrested between September 15 and 28 were two policemen, a fake policeman and a dismissed Lagos State Traffic Management (LATSMA) personnel.

President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Abuja congratulated the government and people of Edo State on the successful conclusion of the gubernatorial election, and the victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Godwin Obaseki at the polls.

In a telephone call to Governor Adams Oshomole, President Buhari commended the well-articulated campaign programme of the APC in the state, the doggedness of the governor, governor-elect and party members in going round the state to reach the people with records of good governance over the years and a promise of continuity.

Rodrigo Duterte

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has appeared to compare himself to Adolf Hitler, saying he would be “happy to slaughter” millions of drug addicts just like Nazi Germany killed three million Jews.

“Hitler massacred three million Jews … there’s three million drug addicts. There are. I’d be happy to slaughter them,” Duterte said early on Friday on his arrival in Davao City after a visit to Vietnam.

Over four million businesses currently advertise on Facebook, with 70 per cent outside the United States of America.

According to the Facebook, which disclosed this on Wednesday, the fastest growing region is South East Asia with the following countries: Vietnam, Indonesia, Greece, Ukraine and Philippines.

It was harvest of tears on Thursday in the Ipakodo, Ikorodu area of Lagos State, after some gunmen invaded a house and murdered a man and his two sons.

The suspects, who killed the man identified as Celestine Nwokoye, and his sons, also shot his wife and his two daughters, who are battling for their lives at the moment.

The wife and the injured daughters were said to have been rushed to the Ikorodu General Hospital, where they are currently receiving treatment, Punch reports.

Three men, Kingsley Oke, Henry Osadere and Francis Ekwe were on Thursday arrested for allegedly raping and impregnating a 14-year-old girl in the Agric, Ikorodu area of Lagos State.

The suspects resided in the same area, Majidun, Ikorodu, with the parents of the teenager.

It was gathered that the trio raped their victim, a primary 6 pupil, sometime in August 2016, after the mother went for a vigil.

The presiding pastor of the Ona-Iye branch of Christ Apostolic Church, Wale Fagbere, who was reportedly found motionless in a shrine at Ketu community, Ayetoro, in the Yewa North area of Ogun State, has denied being struck by idols while destroying the shrine.

Israelis, along with dignitaries from around the world, were gathering in Jerusalem on Friday for the funeral of former President Shimon Peres.

US President Barack Obama, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, French President Francois Hollande, German President Joachim Gauck and other world leaders are among those attending.

Senator Dino Melaye

I’m looking for a knife, a very long and sharp one. I’m not possessed with murderous rage over the recession. The Central Bank governor, Godwin Emefiele, has said the worst is over and I believe him.

I’m just a law-abiding citizen in the Federal Capital Territory and all I wish to do is to carry out, to the letter, a recent order by the chairman of the Senate committee on the FCT, Dino Melaye.

David Shikfu Paradang

The trial of former Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, continued on Thursday before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, with the cross-examination of PW1, a former Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, David Shikfu Paradang.

Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau

The Federal Government has declared October 3, as public holiday to mark Nigeria’s 56th Independence Anniversary.

This is contained in a statement issued by the Acting Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Alhaji Muhammadu Maccido, yesterday in Abuja.

He said the Minister of Interior, retired Lt-Gen Abdulrahman Dambazau, assured Nigerians at home and abroad that Government was working assiduously to cushion the effects of the current economic challenges.

“The minister enjoins all Nigerians to continue to support President Muhammadu Buhari in his determination to build a strong, virile and united country in line with the dream of the country’s founding fathers,” he said.

Man Docked in Badagry For Threatening to Stab Friend to Death Over Bread

A 20 -year -old man, Abayomi Ogunbayo, who allegedly threatened to stab his friend, Bayo Adeite, to death with a knife, was on Wednesday brought before a Badagry Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State.

The accused, whose address is unknown, is facing a charge of threat to life.

Iwobi,Iheanacho Shortlisted For European Golden Boy Award Year 2016

Nigerian youngsters Kelechi Iheanacho and Alex Iwobi have both been shortlisted for the 2016 Golden Boy awards, an award that is given to the most outstanding young player in Europe.

The duo has been terrific for their clubs since promoted to the first team last season, and have also both had impressive starts to the new campaign.

A packed commuter train crashed into a station in New Jersey during the morning rush hour Thursday, officials said, 1 person died with more than 100 people reportedly injured.

The train failed to stop as it pulled into the transit hub of Hoboken, just over the Hudson river from New York, according to early photographs of the accident released by AFP.

A trader, Mrs Happiness Ama, who could no longer tolerate constant beating of her mother by her husband, on Thursday sought to end her marriage.

Happiness, 41, approached an Igando Customary Court in Lagos, saying that her husband, Jerry, with whom she had three children in their 21-year-old marriage, turned her mother into a punching bag.

INEC Declares APC Governorship Candidate ,Obaseki As The Governor Elect in Edo Guber Election

Godwin Obaseki

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared APC candidate, Mr Godwin Obaseki, as the winner of the Edo State governorship election which held on Wednesday, September 28.

After the collation of results from the 18 local government areas of Edo state in south-south Nigeria, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) polled a total of 319,483 votes while his closest from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Osagie Ize-Iyamu, polled 253,173 votes.

An Israeli man lays a wreath near a portrait of former Israeli President Shimon Peres, as a woman photographs nearby, as Peres lies in state at the Knesset plaza, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem September 29, 2016.

Thousands of Israelis filed past the flag-draped coffin of Shimon Peres outside parliament on Thursday, honouring the former president and prime minister who won worldwide praise for his efforts in peace talks with the Palestinians.

U.S. President Barack Obama is among foreign dignitaries due to attend the funeral on Friday of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who died on Wednesday at 93, two weeks after a stroke.

The body of a lady suspected to be a commercial sex worker, alongside the body of a man and some unconscious persons, was on Wednesday retrieved from a popular brothel in Umuahia, the Abia State capital.

While the cause of what led to their death remains sketchy, eyewitness accounts claim that it was a mysterious attack by ghosts or spirits.

A 35-year-old man, Ejike Onyejekwe, has been killed in the FESTAC Town area of Lagos State.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the victim, who lived on 21 Road, K Close, FESTAC, was stabbed to death after winning a lot of money from a lottery.

Our correspondent gathered that Onyejekwe, to celebrate the winning, bought drinks for his friends and threw a party last Thursday and Friday.

Smoking is the single most important source of preventable morbidity. Simply put, if you are a smoker and you quit, you lower your chances of getting a preventable disease and therefore less likely to die a premature death. Tobacco kills half of its users. Tough, but true! According to World Health Organization, WHO, tobacco kills 6 million people yearly, 5 million die from direct smoking and about 600,000 non smokers die from exposure to tobacco smoke.

A bill seeking to amend the Trafficking in Persons (Prohibitions) Law Enforcement and Administration Act No.28 of 2005 has proposed a 10-year jail term for persons operating “baby factories.”

The bill, which was sponsored by Enitan Badaru, passed the second reading on the floor of the House of Representatives on Wednesday.

The United States Government has said it will not hand over physical cash accruing from looted funds by Nigerians in the country to the federal government.

This was disclosed yesterday in Abuja by the International Affairs Fellow, Under Council of Foreign Affairs, Mathew T. Paige.

Atiku Abubakar

Former Vice President and chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar, has decried the decision of the Natitional Working Committe (NWC) of his party under Chief John Odigie-Oyegun which jetitioned the recommendation of Ondo Appeal Committee in favour of Chief Rotimi Akeredolu.

UCL matches results for yesterday.

Nneka Ogwumike Named 2016 WNBA Most Valuable Player Presented By Samsung

Los Angeles Sparks forward Nneka Ogwumike has been named the 2016 WNBA Most Valuable Player presented by Samsung, the league announced today. The fifth-year forward earned her first MVP award and became the eighth different player in the last eight years to win the honor. She is the third winner for the Sparks, joining teammate Candace Parker (2008, 2013) and Lisa Leslie (2001, 2004, 2006).

Play boy Features First Muslim Woman in Hijab

Playboy magazine, once famous for bunnies and soft porn, for the first time is featuring a Muslim woman wearing a hijab, in a spread that is drawing both praise and criticism.

American journalist Noor Tagouri appears in the magazine’s October “Renegades” edition, a series that focuses on men and women “who risked it all — even their lives — to do what they love.”

A 60-year-old Pastor, Raji Michael Ayoola, has been arraigned at the Federal High Court in Lagos for attempting to export banned narcotics.

The National Drugs Laws Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) disclosed this on Wednesday.

Hon.Abdulmumin Jibrin

The House of Representatives on Wednesday suspended Abdulmumin Jibrin, a lawmaker from Kano at the centre of the unfolding budget padding scandal, for 180 legislative days.

The House seats three days in a week and this consequently means that Mr. Jibrin’s suspension would last more than a year.

The two leading candidates in the Edo State governorship election, Godwin Obaseki of the All Progressives Congress, APC and Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP are racing neck and neck against the background of mixed fortunes for some of the state’s leading political leaders.

Champions of the 2015/16 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) season stand to win N40m from the Merit Award of the League Management Company (LMC). Rangers International of Enugu and Rivers United of Port Harcourt are the two clubs in contention for the big prize money from a total of N200m pool set aside by the LMC as reward for final position on the league table at the end of the season on Sunday.

The world’s first baby has been born using a new ‘three person’ fertility method, the New Scientist has revealed.

The five-month-old boy has the DNA from both his mum and dad as well as a third bit of genetic code from an outside donor.

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