The court wedding of media personality, Debola Williams to his partner, Kenny, daughter of former Ogun state governor, Gbenga Daniels, took place in Lagos on Saturday, March 6.
The wedding had in attendance family and close friends of the couple who got engaged in November 2020. See more photos below
The youth leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Garki Ward, Hon. Babangida Sadiq Adamu, on Saturday, married two women same day in Abuja.
Adamu, a Real Estate Broker, married Malama Maimuna Mahmud and Malama Maryam Muhammad Na'ibi on Saturday, March 6. See previous report here LIB
The first wedding fatiha took place at Kado Bmiko Juma'at Mosque, beside Kado Bmiko Primary School, 1st Avenue Gwarinpa at 10:00am.
The second wedding was held at Garki Village Central Mosque, Garki II Abuja at 1:30pm.
A grand wedding reception was held at Apo Resettlement Town Hall, Abuja.
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A man broke his wife’s jaw during an argument over their dog’s dinner, forcing her to have emergency surgery.
Patrick Coleman, 47, had an argument over the dog's dinner with his wife Jaqueline Coleman and attacked her until she was rescued by a neighbour.
According to reports, he was spared jail after his wife told the judge it would hurt her family financially and cost her sons their home if he went to prison.
Liverpool Crown Court heard he was being "aggressive" in their living room in St Helens, Merseyside on October 10, 2020.
Judge David Aubrey said the argument “appears to have related to the family dog” and how it was “either eating or not eating his or her meal” when he "lost it".
Speaking to Coleman, the judge said; "the red mist descended" and "it was the first occasion that you had ever laid a finger on your wife”.
The judge said if there had been “any suggestion of prior domestic violence” he would have been jailed.
Paul Blasbery, prosecuting, said Coleman shoved his wife backwards, and then when she pushed him back, he punched her in the left side of her jaw.
He grabbed her and threw her onto the stairs, before “constantly punching her to the face and the body”.
He then pushed her onto a sofa and put his hands around her neck, but "thankfully" a neighbour rushed inside and stopped the violence.
Two days later Mrs Coleman went to the hospital and had her jaw moved back into the correct position, with a titanium plate and four screws inserted.
Coleman told police "it was my fault" when arrested.
He admitted inflicting grievous bodily harm and was handed a 12-month suspended sentence.
In a victim statement, Mrs Coleman said he had never previously been violent during their 26-year relationship.
She said she was concerned about the future, had debts and a mortgage that she couldn't afford to pay on her own, if he was jailed and if she was not able to help with caring responsibilities she might also lose her job, she added.
Mrs Coleman said: "I worry this will feel like we've been punished more than Patrick."
Charles Lander, defending, said Coleman had lost his home and "the love of his wife".
Coleman wanted to "reunite" with his family "if they would want to be reunited with him”, he added.
He said Coleman, who was living in a rented bedsit but also paying towards his mortgage, had mental health issues and was drinking before the attack.
He is now free but stands the risk of facing imprisonment if he attacks his wife again.
The driver of Adamawa United Football Club who was kidnapped last weekend has finally been released.
Kabiru Mohammed was released around 11.30pm on Wednesday, February, 24, according to The Nation
Mr. Kabiru was reportedly kidnapped along Benin-Ore-Lagos road when the team bus was attacked by gunmen on Saturday, February 20, at round 6.30am, along the Benin-Ore-Lagos highway.
The gunmen were said to have taken money and phones from players and officials of the team before abducting the driver.
The football team had been on their way for a football clash with MFM Football Club, Lagos, on a week 11 NPFL fixture.
After the driver was kidnapped, the kidnappers demanded a ransom of N50 million.
Permanent Secretary of the Adamawa State Ministry of Youths and Sports, Alhaji Aliyu Jada, confirmed to the publication that the freed driver is on his way back to Yola.
“I spoke with him, he was very coherent, he is on his way back (towards Yola) now,” the permanent secretary said.
Jada, who had been negotiating the terms of release of the driver, did not disclose how much was finally paid as ransom to secure his release.
Cattle and Foodstuff dealers under the aegis of Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN) on Thursday February 25, began a nationwide strike following the expiration of a seven-day ultimatum given to the federal government to attend to their demands.
The union had demanded payment of N475 billion compensation for lives of members and properties lost during the #EndSARS protest and Shasa market chaos, and dismantling of all road blocks on federal highways due to problems its members get subjected to when carrying out their duties.
Grand Matron of AUFCDN, Hajia Hauwa Kabir Usman who announced commencement of the strike asked the police not to disturb task force of the union who will carry out enforcement of the strike by ensuring that no food and cattle were moved from North to the South.
Usman said;
“The leadership of the union has already made a strong plan to ensure that all our exits (our borders) between the Northern and Southern part are closed.
“Every truck that will go out has to be checked. If you carry any food or cattle, you cannot take it out except you take it back or be destroyed there. None of the security agents should dare intimate our task force members because if they do, we will fight it legally.”
Usman who recalled how they gave a 21-day ultimatum to the federal government, vowed that the union would not compromise on its demands.
Pope Francis has appointed a new personal doctor weeks after the previous one died from Covid-19.
The 84-year-old pontiff picked professor Roberto Bernabei, an expert in health care for the elderly, as his physician, the Vatican said in a statement on Wednesday, February 24.
Bernabei, 69, leads the geriatrics and rehabilitative medicine department at Rome's Gemelli, the Catholic hospital where popes are traditionally treated.
The last papal doctor, Fabrizio Soccorsi, died aged 78 on January 9 of Covid-19-related pulmonary complications, following a hospitalisation for cancer.
Francis is believed to be in relative good health, despite having had part of his lung removed when he was a young man after developing pleurisy.
Last month, he cancelled several events due to a chronic nerve condition that causes hip pain and makes him walk with a slight limp.
The pope later received the coronavirus vaccine alongside his predecessor, former pope Benedict XVI.
Billionaire Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates has stated that former U.S. president, Donald Trump should eventually have his social media accounts re-activated.
Twitter cut the former president off from some 88 million followers after the deadly riot on Jan. 6, when a group of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol while Congress was certifying President Biden's victory, leaving five people, including a U.S. Capitol Police officer, dead. At the time, Twitter said that Trump's tweets posed "the risk of further incitement of violence."
Facebook, Snapchat and Reddit also suspended Trump's online presence indefinitely following the attack.
Now Gates says that social media companies should let President Trump back on their platforms, despite his "corrosive" election fraud claims.
Gates, asked during an interview with CNBC on Thursday, February 18, whether he would let Trump back on social media if he were a member of Facebook's oversight board, he replied;.
"I think at some point he probably will be allowed back on and probably should be allowed back on," the billionaire philanthropist said.
Gates suggested that if social media companies allow Trump to return, they could put a warning label on any false statements he makes.
"It’s weird when you’re, you know, saying that the election was stolen without any facts there. And how corrosive that is," Gates said.
"But I’ll bet they’ll find a way to let him back on."
House Democrats, joined by 10 Republicans, impeached Trump on Jan. 13. The Senate voted 57-43 in favor of the impeachment count, ten short of the 67 needed to convict.
"You know in a way ... people’s interest in what he says may go down quite a bit," Gates added. "That’ll be interesting to watch."
