Veteran actress, Idowu Philips, aka Iya Rainbow, said she wept when her son built her a house.In an interview with Saturday Beats, she said, “I am happy because for someone to be abroad and come home to build a house, he deserves to be praised and appreciated. “I was the one who helped him to purchase the land but he did not tell me what he wanted to do with it. He only told me he wanted to buy land, and I should help him inspect it, which I did and negotiated (the price). “I was also the one he…
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• Ten years after Dana Air crash, victim’s wife recounts ordealWhen Pastor Akin Olumodeji, a Pastor with the House on the Rock, The Refuge, Abuja and one of the 153 victims of Dana Air crash in Lagos of June 3, 2012, started reaching out to his friends out of the blues, little did the wife, Toyin Olumodeji, a staff with the National Universities Commission (NUC) know that he was bidding them an early farewell. Ahead of the ill-fated flight, he was acting awkward, keeping to himself, unusually quiet and sick. These were strange behaviours the wife was not used to.…
*Mum on primary, secondary schoolsOnyekachi Eze, AbujaThe presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, has told the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that his certificates were looted by unknown persons while he was on self-exile. Tinubu in his sworn affidavit in support of his nomination form, said he: “Went on self-exile from October 1994 to October 1999 (and) when I returned and discovered that my property including all the documents relating to my qualification and my certificates in respect of paragraph 3 above were looted by unknown persons.” The candidate skipped information regarding his primary…
Organ Harvesting Charge: Photo of boy taken to UK by EkweremaduEnclose are the photos of the alleged 15-year-old boy taken to the United Kingdom by Senator Ike Ekweremadu, to donate a Kidney to his ailing daughter. The boy identified as David Ukpo Nwamini, allegedly told the Doctors that He’s just 15 years old which made the Doctor to rescind from carrying on with the surgery, following that the doctors reported the matter to the UK Police, who wade in and took custody of the boy.
The video of a Northerner sharing his view on Nigeria’s 2023 presidency is going viral.The young man is trending for demanding a power shift from the North to the South next year.Dressed in a native attire with a cap to match, he accused Northern leaders of misleading the people. The citizen is a supporter of the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi.He recalled they were told that ex-President Goodluck Jonathan was not a Muslim. He also said the former leader was accused of being the mastermind of the dreaded Boko Haram sect.Parts of his words: “We were deceived during…
“I have been dead inside for too long” – Young man reportedly ends it all after leaving cryptic note in Abuja A young man identified as Emmanuel Omole, a photographer by profession, has reportedly ended it all. According to reports, the man ended it all at his residence in Abuja after battling unknown life issues. Although judging from what the deceased left behind, he felt he was a failure in life and had let so many people down.The man in search of peace had decided to go to the great beyond to evade the supposed persistent feelings of inadequacy he…
A young lady who is a member of a white garment church has unintentionally gone into a trance during a video shoot for TikTok.She wore her full religious regalia with the rosary and bible and decided to use it to create content on TikTok by singing a religious song. But things took a dramatic twist when it put her into a spiritual trance and she was unable to come out of it.In a video posted online, the girl’s family expressed worry and tried to get her to return to the physical realm but it all seemed futile.
A selfish son locked his mother at home for a month. When he returned, he was shocked by the sight that awaited him. Olive was a single mother who had one child with her husband Jack before he passed away due to an accident. She raised their son John on her own and, because she didn’t want him to feel the absence of a father, tried her best to satisfy him with all his desires.She doted on him too much and he grew up to become a spoiled and selfish man who could not survive without his mother’s help. At…
My wife went on a business trip for two days every single month, and I started to get suspicious. But a private detective uncovered something I never imagined, which changed our lives. Victoria and I met when I was a college senior. She was an Art History professor at school and 10 years older than me. I asked her out many times, but she always said she wouldn’t date a student. I couldn’t let her go.She was the most beautiful woman in the world, and I wanted to get to know her. After graduation, I tried again, and Victoria finally…
My daughter absconded from home as a teenager, but a year later, she sent me a letter that made my heart sink — she had learned her lesson and was ready to come home. Mothers are important. I know that now. My name is Tim, and I have a daughter named Kate, whom I love with all my heart. She is my only child and the only thing that reminds me of my late wife.Unfortunately, my wife passed away during childbirth, so Kate has never had a mother. Perhaps it’s why she grew up with so much angst. I tried…