Former Golden Eaglets Coach, Fanny Amun arrested for assault

The legendary former Golden Eaglets Coach, Fanny Amun, has been arrested by policemen from Bode Thomas, Surulere, Lagos State for assault. Amun was said to have attacked a man identified as Okechukwu while he was walking along the street in Surulere.
Amun allegedly tore Okechukwu’s clothes, after beating him to a state of stupor.
According to eyewitnesses, Amun attacked the man because he had the impression that his wife was dating and sleeping with Okechukwu. Okechukwu later went to Bode Thomas Police Station to report.
Amun was subsequently arrested.
His wife was also invited and bore witness against him, insisting that she was at the scene when Amun assaulted Okechukwu.
She further explained to policemen that she and Amun had separated since 1991, after which Amun married another woman and has had four children and lived at Maryland with his new family. The wife said that she believed that Amun had moved on, so also had she.
She however said that she did not know why Amun was suddenly interested in her affairs after years apart.
Lagos State Police Command spokesperson, Ngozi Braide, who confirmed the incident, said that Amun assaulted Okechukwu on the street and tore his clothes.
Braide said that Okechukwu claimed that in the process of the attack, he was dispossessed of his N40,000 and a wrist watch.
According to Braide, Amun would be charged to court for assault

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Banned! Lagos Stops ‘Keke’ Operation On Major Roads!!

Lagos State government on Friday banned the activities of commercial Tricycles, popularly called Keke Napep from major roads in the state, saying, “it is meant to protect the lives and property of the residents of the state.”
Speaking at the 2013 Ministerial Press Briefing held in Alausa to mark the sixth anniversary of Governor Babatunde Fashola’s administration, Commissioner for transportation, Mr. Kayode Opeifa said the state government had held several meetings with the unions on the development, and “they have agreed to stay away from these roads.”
Some of the roads tricycle operation was outlawed are; all roads in Victoria Island, Government Residential Area, GRA Ikeja and Ikoyi. Also on Awolowo road and Awolowo way, Alausa and all major roads in Surulere Local Government.
The commissioner warned that tricycles are not replacements for motorcycle, popularly called Okada, in the state, as he said “it isn’t a sustainable means of transport for the state especially Lagos that is a megacity.”
“I learnt that some Okada riders have began to sell their motorcycle to by tricycle but they can no longer operate on these major roads again.”
The commissioner explained that section 3 of the 2012 Lagos road traffic law also outlawed the operation of the tricycle in the state.
The road traffic bill was signed into law last year by Governor Babatunde Fashola, a law aimed at improving safety on the Lagos roads.

“After that law was gazetted, the state government allowed tricycle to operate on some of these roads because vehicles available in those roads weren’t enough to convey the passengers plying the road,” he said.
Now that the state has enough Bus Rapid Transport, BRT and LAGBUS buses, as well as taxis on these roads, the tricycle won’t be needed anymore, Opeifa stated.
The state government has also vowed to impound any disused and abandoned vehicles across the state, as the commissioner explained that “4,632 vehicles were currently abandoned on over 9,100 roads in the State.”
“They constitute threat security of lives and property in the state.”
According to him, “While we are proud to improve on information of the removal of over 4,300 abandoned and disused vehicles from Lagos roads, it is saddening that recent survey by the CDA/CDC’s under the supervision of the Ministry of Rural Development have again in the last 3 month identify another 4,632 vehicles abandoned on over 9,100 roads in Lagos State.”
“These vehicles are veritable tools for hoodlums, miscreants, armed robbers and other forms of social vices. So also they pose health risk. We will not relent on enforcement.”
“To spare part dealers vehicle/Auto sales dealers please be advised as vehicles illegally displayed on road setback will be treated as abandoned/disused vehicle,” Opeifa said.
To this end, “we have instructed officers of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA and Vehicle Inspection Service, VIS, to immediately begin to impound any abandoned or disused cars in the state.”

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Omotola, Genevieve, Tonto, Others Become Red Cross Ambassadors

The Red Cross society has concluded plans to install the likes of Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, Genevieve Nnaji, Kanu Nwankwo, Jay Jay Okocha as its Celebrity ambassadors.

They will will unveiled at an event, which would be held in Lagos on Thursday, May 16, 2013 at the Lagos Sheraton Hotels and Towers, Ikeja.
Others are Olu Jacobs, Alex Usifo Omiagbo, Joke Silva, Tonto Dike, Stella Damasus, 2Face Idibia, P-Sqaure, Davido, 9ice, Banky W, Naeto C, Ali Baba Don Jazzy, Julius Agwu, AY amongst few others.
The event will also be used to mark the 150th anniversary of the organisation.

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Fake Pope Held in Rome for Looking Like John Paul II!!

A Slovak street performer dressed in white papal vestments has been detained and fined by the police in Rome for bearing too close a resemblance to the late John Paul II, the police said on Friday.

 

“The problem was that he looked a lot like Karol Wojtyla. He was detained for usurpation of title which is a misdemeanour,” a police spokeswoman said..

 

“The cassock he was wearing has been confiscated,” she added.

 

The man has been released and will have to pay between 154 and 929 euros ($200 and $1,200), depending on a decision by a judge, the spokeswoman said.

 

Another officer at the station where the 55-year-old man was taken quipped: “If he had been dressed like Tutankhamun nothing would have happened.”

 

The performer has been working the main avenue leading up to the Colosseum in his white skullcap for weeks — alongside Roman centurion imitators and other performers — but police said they acted following an anonymous complaint.

 

A vendor selling miniature Colosseum souvenirs on a spot overlooking the Roman Forum said he saw the man being detained on Thursday.

 

“He was right here, near me. He was taken away by two officers in civilian clothes who were pretending to be tourists,” he said.

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“I’m Coming Home, Tell The World I’m Coming Home”: Rapper Ja Rule Released From Prison

Rapper Jeffrey Atkins a.k.a Ja Rule has been released from prison

today following a 2-year sentence on tax evasion grounds.

The rapper started his sentence in July 2011 after he was convicted of criminal possession of a firearm and tax evasion

Ja rule was found guilty and given the 2-year sentence in 2010 when he pleaded guilty to attempted criminal possession of a weapon after a 2007 incident in which cops found a loaded semi-automatic handgun in his sports car. He turned himself in to authorities in June 2011.

In July 2011, Ja Rule was also sentenced to 28 months behind bars for tax evasion, after failing to pay taxes on more than $3 million in earnings from 2004-2006. Ja Rule served the tax evasion sentence concurrently with his gun possession sentence.

Although his sentence was meant to run till July, Rule has been released early and will complete the rest of his term in his home.

 

New York rapper N.O.R.E has already announced Ja Rule’s arrival on Twitter, posting “Just spoke to @Ruleyork everybody tell him welcome home!!!”

 

Welcome back Rule!!!!!!

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PHOTOS: See What A Secret Admirer Sent To Yvonne Nelson All The Way From Italy

Awww! Only a few celebrities get to receive surprisingly romantic gestures/acts from their fans and that was exactly what Yvonne Nelson got today!

A fan surprised the Ghanian actress by sending a beautiful flower bouquet all the way from Italy to Ghana. Yvonne was super excited and had to tweet "OMG from italy....speechless"' See the romantic flower below...

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57 year Old Man Arrested For Defling An 8 Year Old Girl!!

The police in the Nigerian city of Benin, Edo State, have arrested a 57-year-old man, Raphael Omada, for allegedly defiling an eight-year-old girl.

Omada who was paraded weekend before journalists at the State police Command headquarters, confessed to the crime, adding that it was the first time he did so.


The offence was allegedly committed about two weeks ago at Owan town, in Owan West Local Government Area of the State where the father of six children of ages 18 to 30 lives with his family.

Mr. Omada who hails from Nsukka, Enugu State, said on the fateful day, he capitalised on the absence of his wife and children, who were away in the farm, and lured the girl into his bedroom.

He claimed he inserted his middle finger into her private part.

He however denied Being Intimate with her.

According to the suspect, the bubble burst when the elder brother of the girl who noticed that she was moving with pain and difficulty, reported to their mother who eventually obtained confession from the girl. He said the alarm raised by the mother attracted neighbours who arrested and handed him over to the police.

The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Foluso Adebanjo, said the suspect would be charged to court for child molestation and abuse as soon as investigations are concluded.

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