POS Burglar: Young Man Allegedly Arrested For Attempting To Defraud Through POS Scam Turns 30k To 3k With Voodoo (Watch Video) A young man was allegedly caught attempting to defraud a divorced mother who relies on her POS machine to support her children. It was reported that the man went to his shop to deposit money, and after giving her card and following the procedures, the woman credited the man with 30,000. A short while later, the young man said the amount was only 3,000. This indicates that the man used jazz to convert the money to 3,000. This is…
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Kris Hallenga, founder of breast cancer awareness charity CoppaFeel!, has died at the age of 38. She was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer 15 years ago. That grim news inspired her to offer support to other young people in a similar position. Confirming her death, CoppaFeel! said: “She approached life in a wildly creative, fun and fearless way, and showed us that it is possible to live life to the full with cancer.” Hallenga was diagnosed with cancer in 2009, when she was in her early 20s – after being turned away from GP help for more than a year,…
“Seinfeld” premiered 35 years ago on NBC, becoming one of the most popular sitcoms ever and making Jerry Seinfeld and creator Larry David insanely rich. In promoting his directing debut “Unfrosted,” Seinfeld has lamented the current state of TV comedy, in a way that identifies some modern challenges while ignoring the complexity of how times have changed. Seinfeld voiced those remarks to the New Yorker while making the rounds (he joked about the extent of that promotional tour on “Saturday Night Live”) to support the movie, which looks back at the creation of the Pop-Tart in the 1960s. Yet the comic’s views of where comedy went wrong have…
The concert at Copacabana Beach on May 4 attracted more than 1.6 million fans. The Queen of Pop closed her global trek with a record-breaking show at Rio’s Copacabana Beach on Saturday (May 4), drawing more than 1.6 million fans to the majestic site. Although Copacabana Beach has seen larger crowds during past New Year’s Eve events, Madonna’s free concert beats the previous record held by the Rolling Stones, who performed there in 2006, according to a news release from promoter Live Nation. The 65-year-old pop superstar’s Rio show also surpasses her record attendance of 130,000 fans at Paris’ Parc des Sceaux in…
The tight end was greeted by the BWT Alpine F1 racing team with an aptly titled Tortured Poets track. Travis Kelce has arrived in … Florida!!! While attending the Formula 1 Grand Prix in Miami Sunday (May 5), the 34-year-old tight end met and chatted with fans, one of whom gifted him with a Taylor Swift-inspired friendship bracelet at the International Autodrome. RELATED Taylor Swift, The Beatles, Elvis & More Artists With the Most Weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200… In a clip posted to ESPN’s NFL Instagram page, the Kansas City Chiefs star graciously takes the beaded accessory and says, “You’re…
She began calling them out on yesterday May 5, 2024, via her Instagram page. Nigerian singer Yemi Alade has taken to X to put the Lagos State government on blast over the recent demolitions of houses in the Mende area of Maryland. Following the reports that the residents were given only two hours to vacate their homes for demolition, the entertainer took to her X profile on Monday, May 6, 2024, to call the Lagos State leadership out. Her post read, “Thank you for giving me & millions of others a reason to NOT INVEST IN LAGOS REAL ESTATE @followlasg. Maybe when…
Adekunle Gold fired shots at music producer Samklef over his failure to produce a song he was paid for. On May 5, 2024, Nigerian music star Adekunle Gold fired shots at Samklef after the producer accused his wife Simi of setting him up for online dragging. Different Nigerian artists have engaged in online back and forth over the last week since Wizkid and Davido brutally dragged each other. The latest duo to have a go at each other are Adekunle Gold and Samklef with the latter provoking a response for the rather quiet Adekunle Gold after accusing his wife award-winning singer Simi of setting him up for drags.…
The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Alhaji Mohammed Idris, has said that the Federal Government was not considering any foreign military base to counter insurgence and other crimes. Disclosing this on Monday in Abuja, Idris noted that the Federal Government was aware of the false alarm being raised in some quarters about discussions with some foreign countries on the siting of foreign military bases in Nigeria. He urged the public to “totally disregard this falsehood”. In his words: “The Federal Government is aware of false alarms being raised in some quarters alleging discussions between the Federal Government of Nigeria and…
Amid the raging arguments between the government and the organised labour on the need to review upwards the minimum wage, the Social Democratic Party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 general election, Prince Adewole Ebenezer Adebayo has said what the labour should be asking for is the provision of social investment and not wage increase. He argued that if social investments are provided, the question of who is a worker or who is not would not even arise because the minimum that the citizens expect from the government as enshrined in Chapter 2 of the country’s constitution would have been made…
The New York judge presiding over Donald Trump‘s historic criminal trial again found the former US president in contempt of a gag order on Monday and threatened to jail him for further violations. Trump, 77, is charged with falsifying business records to reimburse his lawyer, Michael Cohen, for a $130,000 payment made to a porn star just days ahead of the 2016 election against Hillary Clinton. Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, was threatening at the time to go public with her story about a 2006 sexual encounter with Trump, a salacious revelation that could have been potentially damaging…
A 30 year old man, Fatai Abdullahi, has reportedly stabbed his wife, Morenike, to death over minor argument in Akure, the state capital. The suspect, was said to have stabbed the wife with scissors after the argument. Police source said that the crime was committed on 27th of March, 2024. Contacted, the state police image maker, Funmi Odunlami, said that a complainant “she left the deceased and her husband at home on the 26/03/2024, for church early hours of the day and returned late on the same date, only for the husband to announce the death of his wife. “Preliminary…
…removes over 500 livestock shelves The Lagos State Government on Monday, embarked on demolition of over 100 shanties, housing illegal squatters at Adeniji Adele Underbridge, as part of the ongoing clean-up exercise across bridges in the state. Recall that the state government had recently enforced clean-up exercise of underbridges across the metropolis, which include: places like; Ijora, Apongbon, Obalende, Dolphin, where several illegal squatters were dislodged. On Sunday, the state Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Mr. Tokunbo Wahab, had disclosed plans to commence removal of shanties around Adeji-Adele. The removal according to the commissioner became necessary after the…
A Nigerian carrier, Air Peace, has received plaudits from former President Olusegun Obasanjo over his pleasant experience travelling with the airline from Lagos to London. Obasanjo also hailed the airline for its customer satisfaction during the six-hour flight. He told Nnenna Onyema, daughter of Chief Executive Officer of Air Peace, Dr Allen Onyema, in a video circulating on social media, that the journey was devoid of complaints. Obasanjo said: “Tell your father that I went and came back and I didn’t complain.” Reacting to Obasanjo, Air Peace wrote on its X handle: “It was great having the former President of…
A Constitutional Lawyer, Obe Agu, Esq., has berated the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, the latter’s weekend’s comment on the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, saying the immediate-past apex banker managed monetary policy and not Nigeria’s economy as erroneously portrayed by the number three citizen. Agu, in his reaction to Akpabio’s allegation against Emefiele at Ikot Ekpene Stadium over the weekend, said Emefiele was saddled with the responsibility of managing exchange rate and inflation as Head of monetary policy but not the economy. Recall that the Senate President while addressing his kinsmen from…
The youth wing of pan-Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Wing Worldwide, has called on the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) minister, Nyesom Wike, to immediately restore and pay adequate monetary compensation for alleged malicious and unwarranted demolition of properties worth billions of naira in Asokoro District of Abuja. The group said that its attention has been drawn to the very disturbing incident that happened at Asokoro extension Abuja where some agents of the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) in a gestapo style rolled out their bulldozers to demolish legitimate properties belonging to businessesman Nicholas Ukachukwu on the orders of the…
Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has protested to his Lagos State counterpart, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, over the reported repatriation of youths believed to be indigenes of Osun to their state of origin allegedly by Lagos State government authorities. Several luxury buses were reportedly seen dropping off hundreds of youth at various points of Ilesa area of the State at the weekend after allegedly rounding them up in several parts of Lagos State. A statement signed by the Spokesperson to Governor Adeleke, Mallam Olawale Rasheed, on Monday, said his principal has consequently interfaced with Governor Sanwo-Olu over the development, urging…
Borno State governor, Prof Babagana Zulum on Monday flagged off the construction of 113-kilometre Maiduguri Ring Road project linking the east, west, and southern parts of the city. The project is part of Governor Zulum’s urban renewal drive aimed at solving city congestion problems, addressing housing deficits, boosting job creation and economic growth. Zulum disclosed that the project would be executed in phases, starting with Maiduguri-K16.5 Road to Maiduguri-Monguno Rd. via Maid-Gubio Rd., covering 16.5km. “Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, is experiencing serious challenges as a result of the influx of internally displaced persons, which is putting huge…
A fire outbreak has razed some part of the Kano residence of former Kano State governor, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau. It was gathered that the fire which was suspected to have started from the Kitchen of the Mundubawa house of the former minister of Education, on Sunday night, destroyed the living rooms of Shekarau’s third wife, Halima. Although cause of fire could not be immediately ascertained. Confirming the incident, the Media Adviser to Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, Dr. Sule Ya’u Sule said that the fire started from the inner kitchen of the House which was at the ground floor of the multi-million…
…As FG woos investors at OTC 2024 Many indigenous companies and International Oil Companies, IOCs, have indicated interest in bidding for the 12 onshore and seven deep offshore blocks put forward for sale by the Federal Government. Gurutrends gathered yesterday that the companies have been reviewing the requirements, including technical competence and financial capacity, required by the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, NUPRC, to qualify for the bid. NUPRC regulates activities in the oil and gas sector in Nigeria Members of the Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria, PETAN, an association of Nigerian Indigenous Technical Oilfield Service Companies in the upstream and downstream…
Nigerian female scholar, Professor Rose-Margaret Ekeng-Itua, has become the first black woman to earn a doctorate degree (Ph.D) in Cybernetics in the world. Cybernetics is the scientific study of how information is communicated in machines and pieces of electronic equipment in comparison with how information is communicated in the brain and nervous system. Ekeng-Itua is a pioneer educator, administrator and engineer championing leading roles in Science Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) challenges in Africa, and paving the way for the African youth, especially girls. She earned the premiering degree from the University of Reading in the UK under the supervision…