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The President of Air Peace Airline, Allen Onyema, has compensated the Super Falcons’ past and present teams with the sum of ₦20 million. This is contained in a statement signed by Ademola Olajire, Director of Communications at the Nigeria Football Federation, on Wednesday, the  News Agency of Nigeria  reports. Onyema presented the cheques to the various teams after the finals of the maiden edition of the Aisha Buhari Invitational Tournament on Tuesday. South Africa’s Banyana Banyana beat the Super Falcons 4-2 in the final match at the Mobolaji Johnson Arena, Lagos.  The statement read that Onyema was not dismayed by the defeat the Super Falcons suffered in the hands of South Africa’s Banyana Banyana. “He presented the sum of ₦10 million to the Super Falcons’ class of 1999 that reached the quarter-finals of the FIFA Women’s Cup in USA who were honoured by the NFF at a special Awards ceremony in Lagos on Monday. He also gifted the present bunch the sum of ₦10 million,” the ...

  A first edition copy of the classic novel “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley was sold for $1.17 million at a recent auction in New York. CNN reported that Christie’s, which hosted the auction, estimated the book would go for $200,000 to $300,000. The book, however, sold for nearly four to six times as much, setting a record for the highest price paid for a published work by a woman, according to Fine Books Magazine. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821. The copy was one of 500 originally printed anonymously by author Mary Shelley in 1818. It comes in three volumes and features the original hardcover boards. It also includes a preface by her husband, poet Percy Shelley, along with a dedication to her father, William Godwin, a journalist and political philosopher. According to the description writ...

The Presidential Implementation Committee on Federal Government Landed Property has stated that it has the powers to sell or lease out any property of the Federal Government without prior knowledge of the ministry, department or agency using it. The PIC made this known to an ad hoc committee of the House of Representatives, which is investigating the abandonment of Federal Government property across the country. The Secretary of the PIC, Bala Sanusi, while speaking at the resumed investigative hearing of the committee, noted that it would be cumbersome for the presidential panel to inform all the MDAs of its intention to sell or lease out the over 25,000 property handed over to it. Sanusi said this while responding to questions on the sale of a property located on 45, Martins Street, in Lagos State, which belonged to the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, to Seamens Traders Limited for N100m. The Director-General of the FRCN, Mansur Liman, who also testified before the committee, ha...

The leadership of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), has said that it will not allow any pro-Biafran agitator in any form to ridicule the Ndigbo The group, therefore, called on the five Southeast governors to sack any market or national union leadership that promotes sit-at-home from September 20. In a statement issued on Friday by the leader of MASSOB, Uchenna Madu, the group condemned the criminal and violent acts of some miscreants under the disguise of pro-Biafra agitators. They maintained that the “miscreants” were causing havoc and atrocities during Mondays’ sit-at-home exercise under the guise of agitation for Biafra. “We can no longer watch criminals destroying the economies of Ndigbo in the name of sit at home exercise. It is no longer acceptable to MASSOB. “Starting from Monday, 20th of September, there will be no more sit-at-home exercise for the people of Biafra. “The weekly sit-at-home exercise has inflicted uncountable economic i...

Lead Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Edo State, Dr. Joseph Okoeguale, has warned women against inserting ice cream into their vagina or injecting seasoning cubes into their buttocks. Dr. Okoeguale also warned against inserting potash alum and other chemicals into the vagina, noting that those engaging in such practices are putting their health at risk. Women who indulge in the practice of putting different substances in their vagina claim that such practice boosts sexual pleasure and fertility. They also believe that injecting certain substances in their buttocks can equally help increase their buttocks size. However, the expert says there is no scientific proof supporting their claims. Speaking in an interview with reporters, Dr. Okoeguale warns that these methods have the potentials to cause ulcers and infections in the genitals. Okoeguale, who is also the Deputy Director, Institute of Viral Haemorrhagic Fever and Emergent Pathogens at IS...

Popular Nigerian rapper, Olanrewaju Ogunmefun, better known as Vector, recently bagged a chieftaincy title,   Amuludun , in the Lafiaji community of Lagos Island. The   Early Momo   rapper in an interview with   Sunday Scoop   maintained that he didn’t pay to be given the chieftaincy title. He said, “Among other things, it feels good that I am appreciated for bringing more positive attention to Lagos Island within my community. A Yoruba adage says ‘charity begins at home.’ It is a blessing to be recognized in one’s home.” Asked if he paid for the title, he said, “No, that wasn’t my experience. I was summoned by the Lafiaji community in appreciation of my positive works in the community. I don’t think it makes sense to pay people to appreciate one. The title of ‘Amuludun’ is simply a title bestowed on someone who brings joy to the people.” Vector also noted that his fans who were surprised with his singing prowess in the song,  Early Momo , were unaware of t...

An Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan, yesterday, granted a relief sought by the Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a Sunday Igboho and ordered the Federal Government to pay him N20 billion for breaching his fundamental rights. The court also dismissed an application filed by the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, challenging its jurisdiction to hear allegations against Federal Government agencies. Igboho had sued the AGF, the Department of State Services (DSS) and the director of the DSS in Oyo State, demanding N500 billion in damages over the raid on his Ibadan home on July 1, this year. He also sought an order of the court directing the respondents to return all the items seized from his house. He listed the items to include N2 million cash, travel documents, gold jewelry, wristwatches, two mobile phones and other items yet unknown but which were allegedly carted away by the DSS. Two persons were said to have been killed while 12 others ...

A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has convicted and sentenced two women, Onyema Worlu, and Edina Lovelyn-Worleru, to life improvement for causing the death of a man, Israel Georgewill. Lovelyn-Worleru, a prophetess in a church in Rumuche community, in the Emohua Local Government Area of the state, was said to have prepared a poisonous substance in the name of love portion for Worlu to put in the food of her boyfriend, Georgewill, in 2012. The trial judge, Justice Adolphus Enebeli, in his judgment after over nine years of legal battle, found the two guilty of the crime and convicted them. Justice Enebeli convicted them for manslaughter, instead of the murder charge in an earlier suit on the incident. The judge held that the prosecution proved its case and that the statements of the first defendant, Worlu, at the police station were voluntarily given. In the statement, the convict admitted that she administered the love potion as prepared by the prophetess in order to ge...

“Finding out I had hypertension was a shock. I had always thought I was fairly healthy for my age, and put anything out of the ordinary down to simply getting older,” 42-year-old Adamu Musa told reporters. “My diagnosis was completely accidental. I thought I had an eye infection and had called my optician to cancel my yearly eye test because of it. He insisted I came in, took a look, and told me that it wasn’t an infection… it was burst blood vessels caused by high blood pressure. I called my doctor, had a blood pressure test straight away, and was told that I had hypertension. It turned out that my cholesterol was also very high and the doctor said I could have a heart attack or stroke at any point,” Musa said. Musa, who is married with six children, further explained: “My doctor prescribed some medications and told me to lose weight, get more active, and eat healthily. In a few months, I’d managed to lose around 5kg through diet and gentle exercise but my blood pressure and cholester...

  Mangochi Senior Resident Magistrate Court in Malawi, on Wednesday, September 15, sentenced a 20-year-old woman to 17 years imprisonment with hard labour for pouring hot water on her husband over financial issues.   The court heard through state Prosecutor Sub Inspector, Blessings Madikhula that the victim, Wilson Chimenya, 34, married the convict, Nunu Saidi last year and he moved her into his house with three kids from her previous marriage.      In July 2021, they temporarily separated for reasons best known to themselves and the convict left her matrimonial home.   Madikhula added that the woman went back to her house on August 28, 2021 and asked the victim for financial support for the initiation ceremony of her children. The victim refused to help claiming the children were not his biological children, a thing which angered the wife.   The couple started fighting which ended up witth the wife grabbing a pot of hot water from the fire and po...

  Apple CEO Tim Cook strode through a slickly produced video Tuesday to launch a new iPhone, with few hints of the exceptional string of troubles facing his company including policy reversals, a spyware attack and legal fights. Cook from an empty, darkened auditorium  raved over upgraded cameras, brighter screens and new features for some of the Silicon Valley giant’s other devices like the iPad. “These are the best iPhones we’ve ever created,” Cook said, noting Apple’s work to design the “very best products and services to enrich people’s lives.” Yet a head-spinning series of problems have occupied the recent public discussion of one the world’s most valuable companies. Due to a long and loud fight over its online app marketplace, a judge ordered Apple last week to allow developers to sidestep its hefty commission on purchases. It has also delayed a plan to scan its customers’ devices as part of a child abuse prevention move, after privacy advocates howled over the risk of op...

Authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have named six Nigerians with ties to Boko Haram as terrorist financiers. The UAE cabinet, on Monday, issued Resolution No 83 of 2021, designating 38 individuals and 15 entities as backers of the sect and other terrorist cause. Nigerians on the UAE’s terrorism list include Abdurrahaman Ado Musa, Salihu Yusuf Adamu, Bashir Ali Yusuf, Muhammed Ibrahim Isa, Ibrahim Ali Alhassan and Surajo Abubakar Muhammad. The six persons have been previously tried and sentenced in the Western Asia country. MEANWHILE, management of 9mobile has clarified that its Executive Director, Regulatory and Corporate Affairs, Abdulrahman Ado, is not the same as ‘Abdulrrahman’ Ado ‘Musa’ purportedly designated along with others by UAE as terror financiers. The name, Abdurrahaman Ado Musa, has been latched on in the media and certain quarters, hence the clarification, the company noted. It described Ado as a respectable law-abiding Nigerian, who served the country diligen...