Church Aborts Couple’s Wedding Over Groom Refuse To Remove Designer Shoes

What was planned as a day of joyful union between a couple (names withheld) weekend turned awry as the spiritual leader of a fast growing miracle church in Benin City, Edo State capital declined to wed a couple following the refusal of the groom to pull his Italian designer shoes before entry into the church.

Worshipers, friends, family members and well-wishers who stormed the church were disappointed as the groom, who claimed he bought his shoes for N50,000, was adamant as he shunned pleas from his bride to comply with the rules of the church.

According to a source in the know, the church is reputed for miracles which have led to the influx of new converts from residents in the vicinity. It was learnt that the groom’s who was expected to prevail on the groom shunned all effort to ensure that the wedding took place.

Meanwhile, as the drama raged, guests and well-wishers who were seated under the canopies for reception at the same venue were lavishly entertained by hired caterers as the confusion between the church’s overseer and the couple.

The beautiful bride who refused to be consoled over the incident wept profusely before church members, and the groom soon followed as tears freely ran down his cheeks.

A senior pastor in the church who does not want his name in print said: “It is quite unfortunate that the groom is adamant.

“We expected that the bride who is our member must have educated him enough.
It is not new among our members.
Politicians, business moguls who often visit comply with our ways of worship and I must say that what we do here is divine and biblical.

Doctor Bathes Her House-Help With Hot Water and Hot Yam For Leaving The Door Open

I’m shocked a doctor of all people can do this…

Nwanga Chidiebere, a 16-year-old JSS 3 student of Presco Secondary School, Abakaliki, is battling to stay alive at Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki (FETHA), Ebonyi State after being attacked with hot water by his boss, a female doctor at FETHA, Mrs Jane-Glad Ugba.

Chidiebere said he was wrongly accused of leaving the door open whereas it was his boss’ eldest son that did. While being punished for the first offense, Jane accused him again of allowing the yam he was asked to cook to get burnt.

She then emptied the yam and hot water on his back and chased him out of the house. He slept in a church overnight and in the morning, while roaming the street, a female member of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) accosted him and took him to the hospital. .
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His boss didn’t know his whereabouts until she came to work, FETHA, and saw him on admission at the Plastic Surgery Department of the hospital. The state Police PRO), ASP George Onuorah, confirmed the incident and disclosed that Mrs. Ugba had been arrested and arraigned in court newtelegraphonline reports.

So the doctor, a mother who with children didn’t know about his status until she went to work to meet him on admission…We live in a truly terrible society

Martins Expresses Shock Over Oliseh’s Invite

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The Super Eagles attacker Obafemi Martins has reacted to his recent recall to the national team after two years absence.

Speaking to BBC sports, Martins revealed it was a bit of shock after he got coach Oliseh’s invite.

He said: “It was a bit of a shock, but a nice shock. I’m very happy, because I have always worked hard, supported and respected all the players picked by the coaches.

“I thank coach Oliseh for this great opportunity. I’m just looking forward to going out there and playing for Nigeria again.”

However, in an interview with Completesportnigeria.com, Oliseh disclosed that Obafemi Martins must earn his place in the starting line-up of the team.

He said: “Martins will offer us some other qualities in attack but first he must earn his place in the team.”

Oliseh also spoke about the home-based Eagles and expressed his delight with their qualification for next year’s African Nations Championship in Rwanda.

He said: “I was so impressed with the team’s play in the first leg and though I was not with the team in the second leg, I was told they did brilliantly considering the hostility.

A Bearded Guy Meets a Stranger on a Plane Who Looks Exactly Like Him

These two men are not brothers! Last week on the flight from London to Galway, 32-year-old Neil Douglas met a man that looked exactly like him. The doppelganger, 35-year-old Robert Stirling, had changed seats so that a couple could sit together.

Really strange and amazing.

South African Women Protest Against Sexualized Painting Of Zuma

Female supporters of South African President Jacob Zuma on Friday marched through the capital Pretoria to defend him against attacks including a satirical painting depicting him engaged in a sex act.

Several hundred members of African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL) rallied outside the Union Buildings, the official seat of the government, where huge student protests were held last week.

The emergence of a nationwide student protest movement has shaken Zuma’s government amid dire economic data, high unemployment and growing mistrust of the ANC two decades after the end of apartheid.

The ANC Women’s League held its march to demonstrate its loyalty to Zuma, 73, who was recently depicted in the graphic painting by a local artist Ayanda Mabulu.

“The painting denigrates the president, not just him, but women as well, given how a woman is portrayed,” Toko Xasa, ANCWL spokeswoman, told AFP.

“We can’t allow that to happen.”

An ANCWL statement before the march attacked “the portrayal of the President’s genitals in the mouth of a woman,” and said the event would celebrate Zuma’s role in transforming the country since apartheid.

“We, therefore, stand firm in saying ‘hands off President Zuma’ as the leader of the (ANC) organisation and father of the nation,” it said.

Entitled “The Pornography of Power”, the brightly coloured painting depicts Zuma in a sex act surrounded by symbols and characters that the artist said represent rape, colonialism, slavery and exploitation.

Mabulu, the artist, defended his work and said that the protest was misguided.

2-Year-Old Baby Stranded In Hospital After Hit-And-Run Driver Kills Mother

GA woman was crushed by a speeding car on Wednesday while her two-year-old baby was injured as they were crossing the Abuja-Zuba expressway.
It was gathered that the deceased, a newspaper vendor, simply identified as Mama Favor, was carrying the baby on her back as she dashed to across the ever-busy expressway when a hit-and-run driver knocked her down.
A witness said the baby was flung into a gutter by the roadside while the mother  lay lifeless on the centre of the road.
The witness who faulted the deceased for not making use of the pedestrian bridge, said she was still lying unconscious on the road and about three other cars ran over her before her body was evacuated.
He said the driver ran away while the mangled corpse was moved away by NEMA officials and police officers who arrived the scene almost immediately, adding that the baby was rescued alive.
Similarly, an elderly man lost his life after he was knocked down by a speeding car in the same area.
It was gathered that the deceased, a Nigerien, identified as Mahaman Hachimuo, was crossing the expressway when he met his death.
A witness said efforts by the driver to avoid hitting the man did not succeed as the deceased rammed onto the wind screen smashing with the particles of the glass injuring the driver.
According to the witness, the deceased was immediately taken to the Kubwa General Hospital by officials of the FRSC, along with the driver.
Confirming the two accidents, the Dutse Divisional Police Officer, SP Hajiya Aisha Yusuf, said the baby was receiving treatment at the paediatric unit of the hospital, while both corpses had been deposited at the morgue.

Cross River Perm Sec Suspended Over Ban Of School Devotion

The Cross River Government has suspended indefinitely, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Anne Odey, for “flouting civil service rules”, amid a controversy over ban of morning and afternoon prayer sessions in schools.

Jude Ngaji, the State Security Adviser to Gov, Ben Ayade, disclosed this on Friday in Calabar while speaking to journalists.

Mrs. Odey in a statement had directed all private and public primary and secondary schools in the state to stop morning and afternoon devotion forthwith.

According to her, the directives came from the Commissioner of Police, Henry Fadairo, in view of the security challenges facing the nation.

On Wednesday, the state Chairman of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Archbishop Joseph Ukpo, in a statement, called on the state government to immediately withdraw such directive.

The CAN leader said that such directive negated freedom of worship.

“This directive to suspend morning devotion will negatively affect the moral upbringing of our children who are the future leaders of this country,’’ the statement stated.

Halloween Tragedy: 27 Dead After Nightclub Explosion During Halloween Concert

An explosion and fire that happened at the Colectiv nightclub in the Romanian capital Bucharest during a Halloween rock concert yesterday has killed 27 people.

154 people are injured in total and it is believed the death toll could continue to rise.

According to reports, the fire started after fireworks burned through scaffolding. Clubgoers initially thought the flames were part of the show and did not immediately react, only for the blast and fire to tear through the building. See more pics from the chaotic scene after the cut. It is believed that around 400 people were in the club at the time of the blast and following fire.

Victor Ionescu, who was at the club with his girlfriend, told Antena 3 TV that ‘people were fainting,

They were fainting from the smoke. It was total chaos, people were trampling on each other.’ Flames reportedly engulfed clubgoers, burning their skin and hair. Media reports that emergency services arrived 11 minutes after the first call at 10.32pm local time.

Russian Plane Crashes In Sinai, Reportedly killing All 224 People On Board

A Russian passenger airliner crashed early Saturday in the Sinai Peninsula, with 224 people aboard, officials said.

All passengers were killed, the Russian Embassy in Cairo said on Twitter.

Russian state media reported that many of the 217 passengers were Russians returning from vacation. The passengers were reported to include 17 children. There were seven crew members.

The plane had departed the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in the Sinai on a flight to St. Petersburg, Russia.

Here’s what we are learning as the day wears on:

• Al-Ahram, an Egyptian state-run newspaper, quoting medical sources, reports that 100 intact bodies have been recovered and are being prepared for transfer to a morgue in Cairo, but other bodies are in pieces. The recovery of 100 bodies this quickly from a smoldering wreck seems highly unlikely, however.

• Bodies of plane crash victims are being recovered from the crash site, the Russian Embassy in Cairo says on its official Twitter account.

• An Egyptian investigation team has reached the crash site of the crashed jet in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, state-run Nile TV reports, citing the minister of civil aviation.

• Airbus, the plane’s maker, issues a statement on Twitter: “We are aware of the media reports,” the tweet reads. “Efforts are now going towards assessing the situation. We’ll provide more information as soon as available.”

CNN

Banks To Demand BVN From Today

Deposit Money Banks will from today (Monday) begin to request for the Bank Verification Numbers from their customers before providing basic banking services.

This followed the Saturday expiration of the October 31, 2015 deadline set by the Central Bank of Nigeria for all bank customers to obtain their BVN.

As of Friday, the Nigeria Interbank Settlement System Plc, the organisation in charge of the BVN project, said 20.8 million customers had so far registered and obtained their BVN.

The NIBSS, which is owned by the CBN and the DMBs, had last week said it had spent over N8bn on the BVN project.

According to the Managing Director, NIBSS, Mr. Ayo Shonubi, there are 45 million bank accounts in the country.

But the CBN has said that the number of bank customers who have not obtained their BVN should be far less than this figure given the fact that an average Nigerian owns about two to three bank accounts.

“Given the tradition of multiple account-holding by an average Nigerian, which could be conservatively estimated at about two or three per an account holder, therefore, it could be safely assumed that over 40 million accounts might have been enrolled to the BVN,” the central bank explained on Thursday.

“Furthermore, some Nigerian bank customers in the Diaspora have taken advantage of more facilities provided for enrolment in more locations abroad.

“It is evident that there has been less pressure in banking halls across the country, which goes to buttress the fact that a greater percentage of account holders have been enrolled with the exception of those yet to link their accounts to their BVN.”

Shonubi had last Monday expressed optimism that all bank customers would register before the October 31 deadline.

As of Friday, only a handful of customers seeking to obtain the BVN were noticed in banking halls across the country.

Punch