Toke Makinwa's ex-husband slams her with multi-million suit for defamation

Celebrity marriage troubles here and there. Through his lawyer, Kemi Pinheiro (SAN), Maje Ayida has initiated legal proceedings at Lagos High Court, against his estranged wife, Toke Makinwa.

The Lagos-based celebrity fitness expert instituted the legal action against Toke over her memoir which he said contained defamatory words.

Kachifo Limited, publishers of the memoir, On Becoming, were also sued alongside Toke.

The suit is a follow-up to letters of demand earlier served Toke in December which she ignored.

Ayida is demanding N100m in damages in the suit which was filed February 7. He has requested the court to donate damages awarded him to four charities which will be nominated by him.

Maje had demanded that she retracts the defamatory words contained in the memoir and tender an unreserved apology, but Toke stubbornly continued promoting the book.

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Rivers Re-Run: PDP Wins Etche Constituency Election

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has won the Etche/Omuma Federal Constituency after INEC Returning Officer, Prof Shola Omotola completed the collation of results at the Okehi Center.

Collated Results for Etche State Constituency 2

With the results collated from the Supplementary Elections of February 25, 2017 and rerun elections of December 10, 2016, Chief Jerome Eke of PDP defeated Mr Ogbonna Nwuke of APC.

Also, Tony Ejiogu of PDP defeated his closest challenger, Mr Golden of APC.

The results: 

ETCHE/OMUMAFEDERAL CONSTITUENCY: APC 6220 PDP 15,221
ETCHE STATE CONSTITUENCY 2: APC 1618 PDP 4162

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Obama's former Chief White House photographer shades Trump's adminstration

President Barrack Obama’s former Chief official White House photographer, Pete Souza, shared the photo above and wrote: “President Obama meets in the Situation Room for the first time with his national security team on Jan. 23, 2009. During eight years I documented probably more than 100 meetings in the Situation Room. Not sure if it gets much use now.”

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Woman who chopped off husband's penis denies court charge

The Kenyan woman who on Monday, February 20, 2017, confessed to having knifed her husband’s penis has denied the claims.

Earlier we reported that Ms. Angel Mutuku, in her mid-20s had been charged for the act, which she committed on Thursday, February 16, 2017. The accused had a misunderstanding with her husband, Mr. Stephen Ochieng Oyuga, simply because he was sleeping for too long. Read here.

Appearing at a Mombasa Court on Thursday, February 23, 2017, where she was to be sentenced, she requested the charge be read to her arguing that she did not understand it.

When the court clerk read it again, she entered a plea of not guilty assault.

The case has now been adjourned till March 1 after the court also heard that the accused’s husband wants to forgive his wife.

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Founder of 'world's cheapest smartphone' firm arrested over fraud allegation

Mohit Goel, the director of Ringing Bells, the Indian firm which claimed to be selling the world’s cheapest smartphone, has been arrested on allegations of fraud.

The Indian Police Service arrested him after one of the phone’s distributors claimed it had not received handsets it had paid for.

The distribution company, Ayam Enterprises, who is accusing Ringing Bells of not fulfilling all of its orders. said it paid 3m rupees ($45K) after Mr Goel persuaded it to distribute the phone. 

Police spokesman, Rahul Srivastava who confirmed the arrest to the BBC, and said that Mr Goel would appear in court on Friday, March 3, 2017.

‘A number of similar complaints have been filed against him from other parts of the state. We want to investigate these claims thoroughly.

It’s important for us to expose these scams because innocent people end up losing their hard-earned money.’ He said

However, Ringing Bells which has been described as a ‘ponzi scheme’, first started taking money for the phones in February last year and promising delivery by June.

Many customers reportedly got their phones, while some didn’t. 

As some point, the demand for the cheap handset, which is sold through its own website, caused the company’s servers to crash.

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Fayose berates DSS over PDP ex-governorship aspirant, Gbadamosi’s arrest

Ekiti State Governor and Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum, Mr Ayodele Fayose has condemned the arrest and detention of a former governorship aspirant of the party in Lagos State, Babatunde Olalere Gbadamosi, by operatives of Department of State Security (DSS), describing the arrest and detention as a continuation of the tyranny and barbarism of the All Progressives Congress (APC) led government.
The governor, who decried the unwarranted arrest of Nigerians for merely expressing themselves on social media, warned that “nothing must happen to Mr Gbadamosi because up till today, the DSS has not told Nigerians why he (Gbadamosi) was arrested and being kept incommunicado, without access to his wife and doctor.”

In a statement issued on Saturday by is Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose said the DSS must begin to act responsibly by desisting from treating Nigerians as if the country was under military dictatorship, adding that;

“It is only in a banana republic that someone will honour invitation of security agency, only for him to be bundled into any available plane and moved from Lagos to Abuja without telling anyone what his offences were.” He called for immediate release of Mr Gbadamosi, whom he described as a prominent and law abiding Nigerians that has contributed immensely to the economy of the country, saying; “If they have any issue with him, let the DSS charge him to court.”

The governor maintained that it was worrisome that the DSS has turned itself to an instrument of oppressor that is more interested in bullying any Nigerian who writes on social media against the APC led government than securing the country and its people.

Governor Fayose, who called on the international community, especially the Amnesty International to beam its searchlights on activities of the DSS, said; “So many Nigerians are languishing in the DSS detention across the country, with many of them being detained for as long as 18 months.

“For instance, the head of Nigeria’s Islamic Movement (IMN), Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, has been in detention since December 2015 despite that the court ruled that he should be released. Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has been in detention since October 2015 while former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col Sambo Dasuki (rtd) has remained in DSS detention since December 2015.

“This to me is unacceptable under a democratic government and the international community must save Nigeria and its people from this tyranny.”

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BB Nigeria evicted housemates, Gifty and Soma get cozy at a club in Lagos

They had a brief affair while in the house. They met at a club in Lagos Friday and took this cozy photo. Planning on getting back?

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