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Ibeju-Lekki residents lament over loosing valuables to flood

Sep 9, 2018 topnews

Persistent rainfall coupled with poor drainage facilities has led to the lose of valuables worth millions of Naira by some residents of Ibeju Lekki in Lagos on Saturday. Some of the residents said the early morning downpour left several roads and homes in the area flooded. Mr Luqman Balogun, a member of the Community Development Association, in Ibeju-Lekki, said that it had been a long time since the community witnessed such torrential rain. “We can neither go to the office nor stay at home comfortably now as many of our…

Wizkid, Naomi Campbell Spotted Together At GQ Men Of The Year Awards

Sep 8, 2018 topnews

The GQ Men Of The Year Awards celebrate men and women who have helped to shape the world’s cultural landscape over style, politics, entertainment and sport during the course of the year. Supermodel Campbell, who was named fashion icon of the year, was honoured by singer and actress Zendaya, while Legend was presented with the Hugo Boss most stylish man prize by his wife Chrissy Teigen. Wizkid appeared to be relishing the company of international model, Naomi Campbell, and the duo looked like an item as they strolled the red…

Bola Tinubu’s Alpha Beta Accused of N100bn ‘Money Laundering, Tax Evasion, Fraud’

Sep 8, 2018 topnews

Alpa Beta, a consultancy firm owned by Bola Tinubu, former Governor of Lagos State and National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is at the centre of a N100billion fraud, tax evasion and money laundering petition written by Mr. Dapo Apara, its Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer. According to Apara’s petition to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Alpha Beta “has become an avenue for official corruption of government officials, a conduit pipe for massive money laundering scheme, tax evasion, among other vices”. In the petition, sent on his…

Bolt Takes Break from Mariners

Sep 8, 2018 topnews

Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt will put his efforts to carve out a football career on hold for a week to fulfil a “previously planned” overseas commitment. The 32-year-old Jamaican has been trialling with the Mariners for the last three weeks in the hope of securing a professional contract for the 2018-19 A-League campaign. The break, from Sept. 9-16, had been agreed before he joined Mike Mulvey’s team for training, the club said in a statement. Bolt made his debut for the Mariners on Aug. 31, coming off the bench…

First Sex Doll Brothel in Italy said to be fully booked for weeks

Sep 8, 2018 topnews

Hotel management of Italy’s first sex doll hotel, LumiDolls Torino, said the hotel is fully booked. Although sex workers are not illegal in Italy, human brothels are. This new hotel attracts a service of €80 (N33,235) for 30mins. This amount comes with its perks. Customers will be allowed to choose whatever dress they want their dolls (male and female) to be dressed in. Also, the male doll’s penis can be adjusted from five to seven inches. Share on: WhatsApp

Anthony Joshua’s £200k custom-built Land Rover stolen

Sep 8, 2018Sep 8, 2018 topnews

Anthony Joshua’s custom-built Land Rover has been reportedly stolen. The personalised luxury motor – embossed with AJ’s signature – was stolen just days before his world title fight against Alexander Povetkin. Joshua is set to defend his WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight crowns against the Russian challenger, 39, at Wembley next Saturday. AJ was training at the English Institute of Sport (EIS) in Sheffield, South Yorks., when it was nabbed from a relative’s home in London on Thursday. Joshua parked the black motor – complete with a drawer for his…

Matron arrested for allegedly cutting off One-year-old’s cheek

Sep 8, 2018Sep 8, 2018 topnews

The police has arrested a matron at a private hospital on Shibiri Road, Ajangbadi, Lagos State, Mrs. Victoria Ukwu, in connection with a mutilated body of a one-year-old twin, Favour Orogbu. Two nurses at the hospital, Navico Clinic and Maternity, who were on duty on the day of the incident, were also apprehended. The right cheek of the victim was reportedly sliced off by a yet-to-be identified person after she died at the facility last Friday night. But the matron was said to have claimed that it was a rodent…

NGSA DG says no cause for alarm over earth tremor in Abuja

Sep 7, 2018 topnews

Alex Nwegbu, the Director General of the Nigerian Geological Survey on Friday assured residents that there is no cause for alarm following the earth tremors that hit Abuja. Nwegbu gave this reassurance at a press conference held in Abuja. He said: “I will like to assure Nigerians that there is no cause for alarm. Nigeria is not on the boundary that can make us suffer an earthquake.” “Hence, we might just get low level earth tremors. For those at Mpape, as long as you’re not at risk from a building…

LGBT Community in India Celebrate Gay Sex Law

Sep 7, 2018 topnews

Members of staff at one of New Delhi’s most luxurious hotels performed an elaborate dance routine in the lobby yesterday in celebration of a historic Supreme Court ruling on gay rights. The Lalit hotel’s Keshav Suri, one of the court’s petitioners, entered the lobby to rousing applause, gave his husband a peck on the cheek and declared: “It is time to celebrate. It is time to come out of the closet.” Suri’s dancers wore rainbow makeup and bright Indian outfits to mark the end of the notorious Section 377 of…

Court orders arrest of Mike Adenuga’s son, Eniola over child custody

Sep 7, 2018 topnews

An order of arrest has been issued by a Tinubu Chief Magistrate’s Court against Eniola, the son of telecommunication’s guru, Mike Adenuga. The chief magistrate, Mr T.A. Elias, in a ruling on Thursday, August 16, 2018, said the 28-year-old was in contempt of court for refusing to give the custody of his child, Anthena, to the mother, Damilola. Elias said Eniola should be arrested until he gives “full custody of the subject (Anthena) to the respondent (Damilola).” Eniola and Damilola reportedly dated during which the 25-year-old became pregnant and had…