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The family of a Nigerian man sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia has appealed for clemency and forgiveness for their son. Suleimon Olufemi has been on death row in Saudi Arabia for 18 years. He went for a lesser hajj in Saudi Arabia in 2002 and was accused alongside others of being part of a mob action that killed a Police officer in the kingdom 18 years ago. Mr Suliamon Olufemi, an Electrician, was born in Lagos on 20 April 1978 and embarked on Umrah to Saudi Arabia in 2002. On arrival at the airport in Jeddah, Suliamon called his friend, who he was scheduled to stay with in Jeddah, but the phone number was not going through, so he went to a place called  Karantina where he met some Nigerians when he could not locate his friend. Some days after Suliamon arrived in Saudi Arabia, he followed the Nigerians that offered him accommodation to a car wash in the Bab Sharif area of Jeddah, where many African nationals worked as car cleaners. Unfortunately,...

Purity, the first daughter of Nollywood actress Mercy Johnson Okojie, turned 8 on Wednesday, December 30. Mercy and her husband, Prince Odi, threw Purity a party that was attended by close family members and friends.  See more photos below  The post Photos from Mercy Johnson-Okojie's daughter, Purity's 8th birthday celebration appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog .

Emmanuel Waye, the National Publicity Secretary of Arewa Consultative Forum, says members of the forum are very sad and depressed over the wanton killings recorded in the region and that like many others, he has lost faith in President Buhari’s administration. Waye made this known in an interview with Channels TV on Wednesday, December 30. While addressing the deplorable state of security across the country, Waye said “We are very very depressed. We are very sad in the ACF. Nobody is happy because of what has been happening to our people.How can I have faith in someone who presides over this kind of thing? I had faith in him when I followed him as a reporter and he chased away some foreigners who were coming to kill us.When he was coming to be President, I had faith in him. I witnessed how successful this man was in chasing enemies out of our country in 1983. But now, 300 people kidnapped in his home state.” Waye added that no northerner is happy with the spate ...

Worried by the alarming rate of insecurity in Nigeria, Dino Melaye prayed to God to visit Nigeria in his anger and do what only he can do. He shared this prayer on his Instagram page. ''The cemetery is full of people who should be alive but for the colossal and gross ineptitude and incompetence of the Apc led Federal Government.Insecurity and pampering of terrorist have sent innocent souls to thier early graves and wicked people responsible (in and outside Government circles) for thier deaths are not only alive but they boldly continue in thier evil ways.God!!! Act NOW!!! Visit Nigeria in your anger and do what only You can do. SDM'' he wrote The post Insecurity: ''Visit Nigeria in your anger and do what only You can do''- Dino Melaye prays to God appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog .

A man took to Twitter to claim he discovered his uncle's wife was cheating by accident. He claims he met an Igbo trader at Yaba market and collected his number with the intention of calling him later to buy clothes. When he needed new clothes, he says he used his uncle's wife's phone to call the trader and saw the trader's number saved a LOML2 (Love of my life) on the woman's phone. Read his tweets below.  The post Man shocked after discovering what his uncle's wife saved Yaba trader's number with appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog .

The Nigeria Center for Disease Control says 1, 016 new cases of COVID19 were recorded in Nigeria on Wednesday, December 30. According to the statistics released by NCDC, Lagos state recorded 434 fresh cases while the Federal Capital Territory recorded 155 new cses. Other states with fresh cases include Plateau-94, Kaduna-56, Rivers-56, Oyo-30, Nasarawa-27, Zamfara-25, Abia-22, Enugu-18, Kano-18, Bayelsa-15, Edo-14, Ogun-11, Borno-10, Ebonyi-10, Jigawa-7, Anambra-4, Delta-3, Niger-3 and Osun-3. Nigeria now has 86,576 confirmed cases with 73,322 patients discharged. Sadly, 1,278 deaths have been recorded. See a breakdown of the number of cases per states below.  The post 1016 new cases of COVID19 recorded in Nigeria appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog .

A man has alleged that Cross River State media aide,  Hon Solomon Akongfe Aboh sexually molested and assaulted a woman in search of a job. Solomon Valentine, a public speaker and youth advocate shared photos of the woman with a bleeding face and wrote: "She was brought to Calabar by the  SA @AbohHon on the grounds that he will give her a job with cali air.   "He now kept her and started making sexual advances at her when  she refused this is the result. This is not the first."   Sharing a photo of the media aide's ID card, Solomon added: "She has been sexually molested by her boss severely when she requested for money to enable her travel back to Lagos where her parents stay @AbohHon Hon.Aboh,Solomon attempted to kill her. The ID card belongs to the boss for reference purpose."   Hon. Aboh is yet to respond to the allegations. See the public speaker's tweets below.  The post Public speaker accuses Cross River State Go...

Love & Hip Hop star Masika Kalysha has revealed that she's engaged to a man she met 10 years ago and ignored for over 9 years. She took to her Instagram Stories to share a clip of her and a mystery man with an engagement ring on her finger. She later confirmed she's engaged to the man and called him her fiancé. Although little is known about the man who proposed to the reality star, Masika said that she’s known him for 10 years and he had appeared back into her life just 4 months ago. She tweeted: "Met my fiancé 10 years ago. Curved him for 97% of those 10 years. Been dating for 4 months. He asked me to marry him 4 days ago. Last night I asked him what made you so sure after only 4 months of dating? He said I knew 10 years ago, on the day I met you that I was gonna marry u."   She added in another tweet: "Baby said are you sure you want to spend the rest of your life with the same man over and over again every day. I said yes. Are you sure? He said ain’...

Lamar Odom took to Instagram to reveal it's over between him and Sabrina Parr and he asked her to release his passport and passwords. He said she has wronged him in so many ways and has now taken control of his social media, hacking his account and refusing to release his password. He claimed he can only share posts online using the phone she set up and he asked her to stop before he exposes her. In November, personal trainer Sabrina Parr revealed she has split from Lamar Odom after a year of engagement, claiming that the LA Lakers star is seeking "help". She later returned to him. Now, Lamar is saying it's over and has asked her to leave quietly and return his passwords and passport. Read the post he shared to Instagram below.    The post "It's over. You've wronged me in so many ways" Lamar Odom announces split from fiance in open letter to her appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog .

A writer has taken to Twitter to reveal that she has become a victim of the traders at Computer Village in Ikeja. She initially took to Twitter to reveal that her uncle brought back multiple iPhone11 Pro Max phones and she's looking for buyers.   Apparently, trying to make a sale, she went to Computer Village with one of the phones, but when she got home with the phone, she found out it had been switched without her knowledge and she now had a different phone. She tweeted: "I have always heard of the infamous computer village. I visited that demonic coven of the most hideous criminals in Lagos today. I went with an iPhone 11 Pro Max. This is what I got back. I can’t even explain how."   She added: "I was sure I left there with the phone, I don’t understand where the illusion came in. That place is just the devil’s workshop."  The post Writer confused after she takes iPhone11 Pro Max to sell in Computer village but returns with a different pho...

A Republican Senator, Josh Hawley of Missouri, has added a new twist to the US election certification process by announcing Wednesday, December 30, that he will object when Congress counts the Electoral College votes next week, a process that which will force lawmakers in both the House and Senate to vote on whether to accept the results of President-elect Joe Biden's victory.Hawley is the first senator to announce plans to object to the results.It's a bold move seeing that for the electoral college votes to be counted,  a House member and senator are required to mount an objection when Congress counts the Electoral College votes on January 6. The objection will not change the outcome of the election, but will delay the affirmation of Biden's victory over US President Trump in the November election.   Democrats control the house and will reject any objections in the House, but Republicans who control the Senate could increase the post electoral drama spurred on by Tr...

Three sisters got pregnant at the same time and all gave birth to babies one week apart. One of the husbands of the sisters took to Twitter to share photos of the sisters' silhouettes and photos of the babies they bore between intervals of one week. He tweeted: "So early this year, my wife (middle silhouette) and her two sisters got pregnant same time, still can't figure how that happened, we the men involved are still livid anyway.  Thank God for the blessings, they had their babies a week interval each."   The post Three sisters get pregnant at the same time and each gave birth one week apart appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog .

The Nigeria Football Federation has approved the invitational tours of Turkey and Morocco proposed for the country's senior women's national team.The Super Falcons, Africa's biggest and most successful women's football team, have not played a match since they were eliminated from the Olympic Games qualifiers by Cote d'Ivoire in October 2019 at the Agege Stadium in Lagos.But their almost one year of inactivity, didn't stop the Super Falcons from climbing one spot on the Fifa rankings to  37th position in the world, while also retaining top spot in Africa. NFF president, Amaju Pinnick revealed last week that his leadership were considering the involvement of the African champions in the Turkish Women's Cup.Following an NFF executive meeting on Tuesday, the body has now approved the participation of the team in next year's tournament, and also a pair of friendlies with Morocco."As a way of getting the Senior Women National Team, Super Falcons, busy in ...

Odun Eweniyi, the co-founder of PiggyVest, has narrated how a girlfriend found out online that her boyfriend had gotten married only hours after they spoke on video call. Odun tweeted: "Someone I know facetimed her boyfriend last Saturday morning. "He got married that Saturday afternoon. But not to her. She saw the photos yesterday. "And yes, he’s Yoruba."    The post Girlfriend finds out online her boyfriend had married someone else hours after they spoke on FaceTime, PiggyVest co-founder Odun Ewniyi narrates appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog .

The United States military flew nuclear-capable B-52 bombers to the Middle East on Wednesday, December 30, amid ongoing tensions with Iran and Iranian-backed militias in Iraq, as well as new reports that Iran may seek to retaliate against the US to mark the one-year anniversary of the drone strike that killed Gen. Qasem Soleimani, Iran's second most powerful figure in January 2020.According to a statement, published Wednesday from US Central Command, which oversees military operations in the region, the deployment of the nuclear capable bombers was "to underscore the US military's commitment to regional security and demonstrate a unique ability to rapidly deploy overwhelming combat power on short notice,"      "The United States continues to deploy combat-ready capabilities into the US Central Command area of responsibility to deter any potential adversary and make clear that we are ready and able to respond to any aggression directed at Americans or our in...

A chief magistrate’s court sitting in Dutse, Jigawa State capital has sentenced one Sabi’u Ibrahim Chamo, pictured left, to prison for the defamation of character of the state governor, Badaru Abubakar. Chamo was first arrested on Christmas eve December 24 and detained before he was charged to court for failure to substantiate the allegations he made on Facebook. He had alleged that the governor had duped many APC aspirants by collecting their money to give them party tickets. During the trial, after the first information was read to him, Chamo pleaded guilty to the charge and the court sentenced him to six months in prison, with options of payment of N20,000 fine and 20 strokes of cane to serve as a deterrent to others.  The post Jigawa court sentences man to prison over Facebook post against Governor Badaru appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog .

A woman who claims she was the girlfriend of the man who set off the Christmas Day explosion in Nashville, told police last year he was making bombs in his vehicle, according to a statement and documents the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (MNPD) have released.According to the documents, on August 21, 2019, police received a call from an attorney representing Pamela Perry, the woman who said she was the girlfriend of the bomber Anthony Warner. Her lawyer, Raymond Throckmorton, said she had made "suicidal threats to him via telephone."When police arrived at Perry's home, they found two unloaded pistols near Perry, who said they belonged to Warner, the Nashville bomber. She told officers she did not want them in the home any longer and that Warner was "building bombs in the RV trailer at his residence," according to a "matter of record" report from the MNPD.The police also spoke to Throckmorton, who was also present at Perry's home. Throckmo...