A downpour that lasted  about two hours, on Monday, wreaked havoc on different parts of Lagos and Ogun states, destroying property and telecommunications infrastructure, and uprooting trees.
Many residents of the two states could not go about their daily businesses as a result of flood that accompanied the heavy rainfall.
The downpour, which began around 9.30am, forced many residents to stay indoors, while others, who took the risk to leave their houses, got stuck in traffic and at various bus stops.
PUNCH Metro learnt that two buildings partially collapsed in the Abule Egba and Ladipo areas of Lagos, while trees fell on roads and vehicles in different parts of Lagos and Ogun states.
Our correspondents learnt that the roofs of several buildings, including those of two classrooms at a primary school in the Ayede area of Ogun State, were blown off by the rainstorm.
A source, who spoke to one of Punch correspondents on condition of anonymity, stated that the incident destabilised the pupils.
She said,



Another victim of the downpour, who identified himself simply as Johnson, stated, “The strong wind that accompanied the rain destroyed a billboard around the Sango tollgate area and blew off the roofs of six houses.
“The rain also destroyed some kiosks around the Singer bus stop, Ijako, Ogun State.
“There was traffic at the Iyana Ilogbo area of the state because of the water that filled the potholes, which Julius Berger refused to fix, and this caused drivers to drive slowly, which resulted in heavy traffic.
“Some electric poles fell in the Ifo area of the state, which will make some areas not to have power supply.”
A businessman in the Ikeja area of Lagos, Longimus Onye, who lamented the delay in displaying his wares because of the rain, expressed optimism of making a profit for the day.
“Because of the rain, I could not display my wares on time but I hope people will still come out and buy, but I want to urge the government to fill the potholes on the road from Agege to Ikeja in order to reduce the traffic problem,” he said.
 
The General Manager, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Adesina Tiamiyu, confirmed the partial collapse of some buildings as well as trees being uprooted due to the rainfall.
He, however, noted that no life was lost.
Tiamiyu stated,
 
According to the Public Relations Officer, Lagos State Parks and Gardens Agency, Sanusi Abdulateef, the rainy season comes with a lot of emergencies similar to what happened on Monday, adding that officials of the agency were on top of the situation to restore normalcy in the affected areas.
 
He said,

The state government, in a statement jointly signed by the Permanent Secretaries, Ministry of Information and Strategy, Fola Adeyemi, and Ministry of the Environment, Abiodun Bamgboye, urged Lagos residents to remain calm, adding that Monday’s experience was as a result of climate change.
The statement read in part, “Sometimes when it rains, we are likely to have flash-floods on our roads as it sometimes happens in other parts of the world, but the relief here is that the flash-floods will disappear in a couple of hours.
 

On Sunday May 19,2019 Big Brother Naija star Cynthia Nwadiora A-K-A CeeC launched her sports wear brand Cegar.
In Attendance were her Father,her sister,her fans and some of her former housemates like Vandora,Nina,Leo,Bambam. Kemen of Big brother Naija 2017 was also in attendance.
And Amen Okorocha,son of Gov Rochas was also at the event,he played the piano for CeeC and he bought the entire Cegar collection and tongues began to wag that he is Ceec’s secret Boyfriend.
   

   

   
   
             

             

             

                                     

                                     

                                     

Nollywood actor, IK Ogbonna's wife, Sonia took to Instagram to share these hot photos with her killer curves on display.
Sonia Ogbonna flaunts her killer curves in new hot photos


Meanwhile, there have been reports that IK and Sonia's marriage have hit the rocks after she dropped his last name from all her social media accounts. The mother of one who is a life coach, a blogger, and a relationship expert edited her name from Sonia Ogbonna Morales to Sonia LaReina.
IK on his part, dismissed reports of their breakup and only stated that they were going through some challenges like other married couples.
During a recent question and answer session on her Instagram, she revealed that she's in passionate relationship with herself when asked if she's single or married.

A Nigerian man took to Twitter to reveal that he seeks his wife’s permission before going out and the tweet made him go viral.
Kenna tweeted:




Whille a few people did not agree with his method, a great number of married men say they do same in their homes too and it promotes accountability.
Below are some reactions to his tweets.

Confusion had begun to grow among Nigerians whether there will be public holiday on the 29th of May, following the declaration of June 12 as ‘Democracy Day.’
Since the beginning of the 4th republic, May 29 has always been declared work free day to mark the return of Nigeria to democracy.
The Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who addressed the issue during a press conference that was broadcast live by the NTA, Radio Nigeria and Voice of Nigeria disclosed that President Buhari will be sworn in on May 29th.
The Minister also revealed that the Presidential inauguration will be a low key event.
He further said that the foreign dignitaries that would have been invited to attend the inauguration will be invited to attend an event on June 12 (Democracy Day).
for Both May 29 and June 12 are public holidays.

According to a report by Vanguard, the residents of Benin Kingdom, Edo State Capital, were weekend stunned to see traditional priests and priestesses of different deities, native doctors, Ewuaise palace society and different ancient traditional worshippers including Olokun and Ovia priestesses in their regalia parading some major streets.
Their mission was to invoke age-long traditional practice of cleansing the land and appeasing the gods following the upsurge in cases of killings occasioned by armed robbery, cultism, kidnapping, sacrilegious acts and the seeming inability of security agencies to stem the tide.
The different traditional worshippers, native doctors and priests in their hundreds besieged the ancient Urhokpota ground in red attires with different traditional instruments of war and unanimously heaped disastrous curses on those committing sacrilege in the land and throne of the kingdom.
According to the native doctors and traditional priests, the curses were also targeted at traditions’ violators, sponsors of cultism, kidnappings and other heinous crimes in the kingdom.
Shortly after the slaughtering of animals and offering of sacrificial materials to ancestors, the various groups took turns to pray and lay curses on those violating the law of the land.
The groups, thereafter, had a precession to strategic places in the town including Sokponba Road, Kings Square, Murtala Mohammed Way, Igbesamwan Street, Akpakpava Road and ended at Emotan Shrine on Oba Market Road. The exercise was presided by the Ewaise Group headed by Chief Eguezigbon and Chief Ohen-Egie of Ogbeson.

Tiwa Savage Stuns In These New Market Theme Photoshot

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has released a statement as an update to the arrest and trial of Nigerian musician; Naira Marley. The statement as posted on their Instagram page @officialefcc reads

Demi Rose enjoyed a casual saunter around her Tunisian hotel over the weekend, in a VERY risqué ensemble.
The brunette bombshell was seen floating around the corridors in a white bikini, which only just contained her busty assets and barely covered her modesty.
The ensemble appeared to channel a Greek goddess look with sweeping white panneling at the bust and a flowing muslin train fluttering behind as the 24-year-old stepped along the hallway.
Demi commanded attention in the saucy bikini, which was connected with thin white straps, buckled together with gold fasteners.

A heartbroken dad has broken down and wept bitterly after losing his two children within a space of two days.
The sad incident happened in Edo state.
In the video which is less than a minute, the unidentified father can be seen wailing.
He narrated that he lost his new born son two days ago and that just yesterday, he lost his daughter to an ailment.
Accordng to him, his daughter was rushed to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital UBTH for treatment but was turned back because the hospital had no light. She lost her life while he was seeking other ways to get her medical attention.

 

The Ogun state police command have arrested a 52-year old man, Tayo Ogunmola, over an attempt to defraud the state’s Commissioner of Police Bashir Makama.
A statement released by the command’s public relations officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, says that the arrest of the suspect followed a phone call he made to the police commissioner, pretending to be an old herbalist who mistakenly sent a recharge card pin to the telephone number of the CP pleading for the pin to be sent back to him.
Makama who is familiar with the antics of the fraudsters decided to play along with him while he sent men of the Intelligence Response Team to technically track and apprehend the suspect.
At a stage, the suspect who was not aware that he is being trailed, presented himself as a commissioner of police, a deputy Inspector general of Police, ready to assist Makama only if he can part with a certain amount of money not knowing that the person he’s been discussing with is a serving commissioner of police.
Luck however ran out on him when he was traced to his hideout at Araromi phase 11 in Ilogbo area of Ota where he was promptly arrested.
On interrogation, he confessed being a fraudster who had defrauded many unsuspecting members of the public of money running into millions of Naira out of which he built the house he is living in.
Makama has ordered the monitoring team to properly investigate the suspect with the view of arresting his other accomplices and arraign them before a court of competent jurisdiction.

Ghanaian musician Stonebwoy released an official statement apologizing for his recent behaviour at the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards(VGMA) which happened last Saturday.



It all started when Stonebwoy was called on stage to receive his award as the Reggae/Dancehall Artiste of the Year. Shatta Wale and his team followed closely behind to support the musician, however, they misinterpreted it as a form of protest and decided to engage in a fight.



Expressing his deep regret at his actions, he sent out an official apology letter which reads below;



 

There are certain pieces of kids clothing that you might not think about buying because they’re too expensive. For example, Zion’s Gucci cardigans.
Now, would you actually buy that stuff for your kids? Probably not, but some celebrities would.
Zion gets the priviledge of wearing such costly items on a daily basis. After all, his dad is getting millions for what he does!

Every doctoral voyage has its own length, most, with the lowering of the mast and the conferring of the cap lasting two or three years after.
For Dr. Adetunji Adeniyan, a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Lagos, his journey with sums and equations took an unlikely route, lasting 25 years!
 
In The Beginning
Dr. Adeniyan said: "I went to school in the village, it was in the Western region at Ikire, a few kilometres to Ibadan...I was a very good lover of mathematics.



"In those days there used to be elementary mathematics and additional mathematics, we weren't much who took the course but I stood out and did very well in it so my background in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Biology became very sound" he said.
The lecturer who has always been a keen lover of mathematics and a prestigious student never foresaw the problems that will hinder his progress and had logically concluded that he would have his qualifications in.
"My late uncle, he was a lawyer and I used to live with him in Ikoyi. He wanted me to study engineering but I opted for mathematics against his wish. He was worried that I will end up just teaching"
Despite stern warning from his uncle he said, "I  went for an interview to get a banking job and at the same time, the University of Lagos was recruiting and they offered me a job as a graduate assistant."

Then Things Fell Apart



In 1983, after completing his masters, he proceeded to obtain a doctorate degree.
When his supervisor, Prof. Bachir, an Indian, made a decision to leave the country due to a deteriorating economic system.
A rapid decision it was as it deterred Dr. Adetunji from his almost concluded doctorate program.
He had showed keen interest in plasma dynamics or magneto hydro-dynamics in the area of applied mathematics and Prof. Bachir was the only lecturer in that capacity.
After his supervisor left, there was no one to fill in his position.
However, Prof. Bachir was willing to see to the end of Dr. Adetunji’s work.
He therefore sent a letter to the institution to make provisions for Dr. Adetunji to join him overseas so he can complete his program.
He further added that he would be given free accommodation and an office space to occupy as a lecturer, all the institution needed to do was to get him funds to travel. The university on the other hand, claimed to be broke and could not send him there.
With his supervisor and several other white lecturers gone, Dr. Adetunji and few other lecturers available were left to teach rather voluminous classes.
As a disciplined and hardworking lecturer, Dr. Adetunji did not brook idleness as he would always saddle his students, who were about three thousand, with several assignments and he will solely do the job of grading all of their papers.
The university did later assign an assistant to help him out but this, coupled with the fact that he had no supervisor, made it impossible for him to complete his program till it was terminated in 1989.

Following the termination of his program, his colleagues, Prof. H.N Odogwu and Dr. Mrs. Ogbonna, who were also faced with the problem of a supervisor, switched to other  field and went abroad to continue respectively.
Dr. Adetunji was apparently faced with a choice to opt for other fields whose supervisors were readily available but his tenacity to continue in a desired field of interest and lack of funding to seize opportunities outside the country kept him precluded him.
Afterwards, he decided to go into the school transport system in order to augment his  salary.
This growing small scale business occupied his time till he was able to reapply for his PhD degree in 1998/1999. He was not ready to allow unfavourable circumstances to hinder him from achieving his goals and was even more focused and determined.
Good Things To All Who Wait
He worked relentlessly again without a supervisor and not until 2010 before his PhD program success began.
While his initial unsupervised thesis was ready as at that time, he only had to revisit it when he met Prof. Daniel Makinde who came from South Africa to give a lecture at the institution. During the lecture, he spotted Dr.Adetunji’s intelligent response amidst the larger audience.
He met with him afterwards and was appalled that such an intelligent individual had been spending years chasing a degree he was way qualified for.
Having understood the barriers, he gave Dr. Adetunji thirty-six articles to read and convinced him to change to his own field which was quite similar to what he (Dr. Adetunji) wanted.
He adhered to the advice and with this, he progressively moved. Officially, his thesis was submitted in August 2016.
He graduated and was given a honourary award as the longest serving lecturer in the university.

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Nigerian Woman goes half naked in the middle of the night to pray for the release of #NairaMarley from #EFCC’s detention.

Binta Diallo, Wizkid’s second baby mama has revealed that the father of her child, has never taken a photo with their 3 year old son, King Ayo.
This was revealed during a Question & Answer session with her followers.



If you recall, Binta during one of her rants last year revealed that the singer has just met their son just once.. and that’s when he was newly born.
Apparently, since then, he has not been in the child’s life since then.
Wizkid keeps showing off his third son, Zion he had with his manager, Jada Pollock.
Folks on social media are saying he never shows love to even his first son, Boluwatife.
Oh well!

Super Eagles and Leicester City midfielder, Wilfred Ndidi, flaunts his pretty girlfriend

A Nigerian Youtuber and Domestic Violence advocate, Morolake Hycinthia, has been arrested for fraud in the U.S.
The 24-year-old suspect was picked up Utah on May 4, 2019. She is currently being held for possessing another person’s identity, identity fraud, knowingly using false financial information. Her bail has been set for $20,000 for one of the charges.

An Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Friday remanded a school teacher, Benjamin Ogba, who allegedly defiled four school girls under the age of 12.
Ogba, 44, is facing a two-count charge of unlawful carnal knowledge and indecent treatment.
He, however, pleaded not guilty but was denied bail.
The Chief Magistrate, Mrs A.O. Komolafe remanded Ogba at the Ikoyi Prison pending legal advice from the State Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
Earlier, the Prosecutor, Insp. Emmanuel Silas had told the court that the defendant had committed the offences between April and May at Shalom Private School, Oke-Ira Road, Railway compound, Ebute Meta.
Silas had told the court that the defendant had unlawful carnal knowledge of four schoolgirls aged 7, 8, 7 and 12.
The defendant also allegedly fondled the Bosom s of the four girls and their private parts.
The alleged offences contravened Sections 137 and 172 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
Chief Magistrate Komolafe has adjourned the case until June 26.(NAN)

I am Not Ready To Marry, It Will Slow Down My Career - DJ Cuppy
DJ Cuppy who is currently in Ghana to promote her single titled ‘Abena’ featuring Ghana’s Kwesi Arthur, Nigeria Ceeza Milli and Shaydee, revealed that she is not ready to marry as it will slow down her career.
The Nigerian entertainer who featured in the Starr Drive with KOD and Cookie Tee on Thursday, further revealed that she doesn’t feel comfortable being referred to as a female DJ.
According to her, she did not look up to any female DJ when she started building her brand, and no other DJ does the job better than her. On the rivalry between Ghanaian and Nigerian music, DJ Cuppy stated that Nigerian music was inspired by Ghanaian music, and so must be acknowledged as such.
DJ Cuppy who also revealed on the show that she is not ready to get married as it will slow down her career, said “I am not ready to marry and have kids now because it will slow down my career.”