smellgist.com: 2018

Tuesday 17 July 2018

Gov Ortom's Exit From APC, A Rumour - Oshiomhole

Adams Oshiomhole, the chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has described the alleged exit of the governor of Benue state, Samuel Ortom, from the party as a rumour.

Reacting to what the party called speculation, on Monday in Abuja, Oshiomhole said the party had a cordial relationship with Ortom.

“I know that Governor Ortom is a very senior member of the party and he has said so repeatedly in print and has said to me one on one that he will not leave the APC unless he was pushed out.

“Since I assumed the chairmanship of this party along with my colleagues in the NWC, I know of a fact, that we have not shut out any governor and certainly not Governor Ortom. And in these days of social media, I will not be responding on the basis of rumor and unverified reports,” the APC chairman said.

Super Eagles Player, Ahmed Musa Gets Nomination For Goal Of The Tournament

Super Eagles player, Ahmed Musa, who made Nigeria proud at the just concluded FIFA 2018 World Cup has been shortlisted for the Goal of the Tournament Award by FIFA.

A total of 169 goals were scored at the 2018 World Cup; but only 18 were shortlisted for the top award.

Musa’s second goal against Iceland was one of the goals selected. Other contenders to win the Goal of the Tournament title are;

Funke Adesiyan is upset! The actress has taken to instagram to call out those who blasted her for rocking a see-through outfit and splashing them online. Funke says if an English speaking actress had rocked such, she would be praised. She was then quick to warn those who slide in her DM to beg for money, saying she will curse them if they dare try it again. Issa ghen ghen thing. Read her warning below...

Lmao... Celebs are humans too ofcourse. Yesterday, actually, the day before yesterday Adunni Ade posted photos of herself in a white swimsuit leaving little to the imagination. Then yesterday she followed it with a bikini pic and her fans went gaga. Some praised her, while some kicked at it. Hours later, Adunni decided to troll them by posting a pic of her (left photo above) saying 'Any question for the day?'

Her celebrity friends and true fans got the drill and laughed and mocked those who insulted the actress's bikini photos, while others still went ahead to tell her to dress up! Anyway, mama is now back on IG giving them hot hot in red (right photo above).

The Okoye’s (Jude and wife) are today celebrating their 4th wedding anniversary. Jude took to IG to celebrate his wife posting the above pic with the caption;

‘’Just like yesterday it’s 4yrs already. Happy anniversary my dearest @kifycutie ❤️🍾🙏🏽🎉🥂❤️’’

His wife is yet to make any post about their anniversary and it seems she won't, but commented under her husband's post. Ifeoma has been using her page for more of business lately. She owns the 'The Painted Nail' and has been using the platform to give her business more exposure.

Nollywood Actress, Ronke Oshodi-Oke Celebrates 44th Birthday With New Photos

Ronke Oshodi Oke is celebrating her 44th birthday today. To mark this special day, she had a photoshoot yesterday and released the photos this morning... Two more pics and a video below...

She was a year older on the 13th of July and over the weekend her husband held a party for her at home, where he even invited Femi Otedola and he honoured them. You have seen photos of the billionaire at the party, now see that of other guests at the in-house party....

New Video: Tiwa Savage - Tiwa's Vibe

This is the official music video to Tiwa Savage’s ‘Tiwa’s Vibe’. It’s an ALL FEMALE CAST. Enjoy!

Why I Prefer Slay Mamas To Slay Queens –Ubi

Ayam dead........ Lol. Ubi Franklin has joined the ‘Ask Me Any Question’ Gang and a fan wanted to know if he likes slay queens. Remember it’s the truth segment? Ubi than happily replied, saying he loves slay mamas, LOL.

According to the father of two, Slay Queens are young, while Slay Mamas are mature!

Cough, cough, everyone reading this will totally agree that Ubi just spoke the TRUTH. Let's talk about the mother of his children; you will agree they are both SLAY MAMAS. And not just only that, he forgot to add he loves them BEAUTIFUL TOO. Lolz.

Mary Njoku MOCKS Her Diet Routine

The actress and CEO of ROK Tv took to IG to say it’s not easy to keep up with body goals. According to her, she worked hard for her money and can’t even enjoy it on good food, lol.

‘’Tired and starving. Everyday Salad🙄🙄. Work so hard for the money and I cannot even enjoy good food like correct pounded yam and some heavily crowded egusi soup. 😭😭😭. Na wa o! This Body goal business is not beans.’’, She wrote.

Arnold Schwarzenegger Calls Trump A ‘Little Wet Noodle’ After Press Conference With Russia

Arnold Schwarzenneger has branded President Trump ‘a little wet noodle’ after Trump almost told press he believed Vladimir Putin over his own intelligence agencies.

‘President Trump, I just saw your press conference with Putin and it was embarrassing,’ the former Californian governor shared on his social media pages.

‘I mean, you stood there like a little wet noodle, like a little fan boy, I mean… I was asking myself ” when are you going to ask him for an autograph or a selfie or something like that?” I mean, you literally sold out to this press conference our intelligence community, our justice system and worst of all our country.

The regional office of 9mobile in Rivers State has been shut over alleged non-payment of Pay As You Earn taxes of expatriates working for the firm to the tune of N108m.
9mobile said the clampdown on the telecom structure by the Rivers Internal Revenue commenced on June 26, 2018.

According to the company, the RIRS compelled it to make a payment of 30 per cent of the alleged sum or N32m, as a pre-condition for the re-opening of the Port Harcourt regional office.

9mobile however says it is not indebted to the Rivers State Government as it had no expatriate residing in the state on its payroll.

Instagram Beggar Curses Adeniyi Johnson After He Calls Her Out

Lol, i want to believe a man is actually behind the instagram handle _oluoluwaanifowoshe_. The handler commented on one of Nollywood actor, Niyi Johnson’s posts, begging him for N3ksaying ‘she’ is a single mom. Niyi then asked when ‘she’ would stop begging, and the handler replied saying WHEN YOU DIE. Their conversation and what others said below... Scream SCAMMER! Lol.

They are currently retweeting his hand work till they get an engineer who would help him nuture his talent. Brilliant!

You can follow @Yommie_Scream on twitter for more info!

Rukky Sanda Returns To Instagram After Cousin’s Threats

Rukky Sanda’s cousins have threatened her for not posting enough pictures on instagram as expected.

Rukky says she crawled back into her shell because she now somehow sees it as vain. But then, her cousins are threatening to disown her, so she has to dance to their tune, hence her new photos.

Her undiluted words below and ofcourse more photos...

A former governor of Abia State, Orji Kalu, was on Tuesday re-arraigned at a Federal High Court in Lagos on an amended 39-count bordering on fraud.

Mr Kalu, who is now a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

The anti-graft agency is prosecuting Mr Kalu alongside his former Commissioner for Finance, Ude Udeogo, and a company, Slok Nigeria Ltd., said to be owned by Mr Kalu.

President Buhari has informed the National Assembly that the 2019 elections will cost 242.4 billion Naira. The President disclosed this in a letter to the Senate on Tuesday which was read on the floor during plenary.

He explained that implementing a budget of 9.12 trillion Naira for 2018 will be extremely challenging and therefore does not consider it expedient to increase the 2018 budget to accommodate the funds needed for the 2019 General Elections.

Mikel Obi's girlfriend and mother of his twin-girls, Olga has revealed she is NEVER getting pregnant again. She clearly revealed this on instagram as shown above.

Sergio Ramos Engaged To Girlfriend Of Six Years

Real Madrid star Sergio Ramos is now engaged to long-term girlfriend, Pilar Rubio, having popped the question while the pair were on holiday.

Ramos has been taking some downtime following his World Cup heartache, which saw Spain crash out to Russia in the round of 16.

But the Spanish captain now has reason to cheer after his girlfriend of six years accepted his proposal at a romantic dinner on Monday evening

The World Cup-winning French team returned home to a heroes' welcome on Monday, parading down the Champs-Elysees as hundreds of thousands of cheering fans gave a raucous welcome to the country's newest idols.

After overcoming a determined Croatia to win 4-2 in Sunday's final in Russia, the team came back to euphoric crowds in Paris hoping to catch a glimpse of the players that have captured the nation's imagination.

Single Mother Who's A Petty Trader Caught Impersonating A Doctor

Wonders shall never end. A 35-year old woman, Mercy Duru Ezinne, a single mother of two, has been arrested for allegedly impersonating as a medical doctor.

According to reports, Mercy, whose highest educational qualification was as an auxiliary nurse, allegedly fooled many people.

She told her neighbors in the Oluwo area of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, that she is a medical doctor attached to the Federal Medical Center (FMC), Idi-Aba, Abeokuta, and had been living on that until recently when the bubble burst.

Fuel pipeline fire outbreak at NNPC depot minna, Niger State. Men of the state fire service were immediately mobilized to the scene.

Some villagers around were risking their lives with big bowls and containers to scoop fuel, completely ignoring the danger before it exploded.

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Could it be he was just assisting his mum in her business? Some thing he was trying to make extra bucks following the failure of the Federal Government to swiftly pay the allowances of the corpers across the country.

The corn joint has been tagged as his Place of Primary Assignment by funny commenters online.

Youths Beat Customs Officer Mercilessly In Lagos Over Man's Death

A Customs official would be thanking his stars after escaping death at the hands of angry mob in Apapa area of Lagos. It was gathered that the Customs personnel and his colleagues allegedly killed someone in the area because of "smuggled rice".

The young men in the area mobilized themselves and descended on the officer they could lay hands on.

The police yesterday shared pictures showing the moment some notorious kidnappers were nabbed by the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) of the IGP Monitoring Unit. The suspected criminals were responsible for the death of a staff of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), John Iheanacho, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

Despite collecting a ransom of N6million from his family, the kidnappers held the victim hostage in their camp in Afam, a community in Oyigbo area of the state, until he died from a gunshot wound.

His demise was hidden from the family about three months after his abduction, until his corpse was found in a shallow grave at the camp by the police last month.

An unidentified gunman has shot dead a Nigerian identified as Lawrence Ozumba, in Mpumalanga area of South Africa.

The assailant was said to have made his way into Ozumba’s compound on July 6 and requested to see him after which he shot him six times resulting in his death.

The Consulate General, Nigeria High Commission in South Africa condemned the incident and asked South African authorities to unravel the mystery behind the dastardly act.

Gunmen have kidnapped two entertainers, Ugo Stevenson and Izunna Obiakor, in Owerri, Imo State and demanded millions of naira as ransom for their release.

Stevenson, a 2008 winner of Nigeria Music Awards, is a popular high life musician, writer and public commentator, while Obiakor is the Chief Executive Officer of Twinstar Lightening and Stage House in Owerri.

The 2008 award winner was reportedly kidnapped around the World Bank area, while he was going home. His wife, who confirmed his abduction in a telephone conversation with a Punch correspondent, said the kidnappers had established contact with her, demanding N5m as ransom for his release.

Kylie Jenner has shocked fans by revealing she has had all of her lip filler removed. The 20-year-old revealed she had done so after countless followers remarked that a photo she posted of herself on Sunday looked like 'the old Kylie.'

The reality star first got lip fillers at age 16, after a boy remarked he was surprised she was such a good kisser with her 'small' lips.

''I got rid of all my filler,'' she responded with worried face emojis.

A self-confessed fraudster, Mahmuda Hamza, who has been extorting money from people with a police identity card has been arrested by the police in Sokoto.

Parading the suspect with some area boys at the police headquarters in the state on Friday, the command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Cordelia Nwawe, maintained that the Commissioner of Police in the state has declared war against area boys and other miscreants.

The PPRO also advised parents to talk to their wards to be law-abiding “as it is not going to be business as usual for criminals in the state.”

A Kenyan referee who had been chosen for the 2018 World Cup in Russia has been banned for life after accepting a bribe, an African Football Confederation (CAF) statement said Sunday.

Marwa Range was dropped from the World Cup list after a media sting exposed him accepting a $6,000 (R80 821,20) bribe from a journalist posing as a Ghanaian football official.

Herdsmen Killings : We've Evidence Of Politicians' Involvement – Presidency

The Presidency on Sunday said it was in possession of evidence to prove that some politicians were behind the killings allegedly being carried out by herdsmen in parts of the country.

It said the unnamed politicians were using criminals to perpetuate the killings.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said this in a statement in Abuja.

Shehu however said climate change, especially the drying up of the Chad Basin, had also been compounding the problem.

The police in Niger State have arrested two suspected robbers who attacked vehicles conveying goods from the market in Kokongi through Wawa village in the Borgu Local Government Area of the state.

The suspects, Jariri Chede, 25, and Janya Shehu, 20, were arrested by police detectives attached to New Bussa Division after robbing one Sunday Ishaya of Kokongi village of his money and other valuables.

It was learnt that the victim was driving to Kokongi en route Wawa village when the robbers dispossessed him of N70,000 and a Tecno phone valued at N73,000.

The singer shared the news online today. Big congrats to him…

How My Grandchild Died In A Car My Fan Gave Me, Iya Aladuke Explains Bitter Experience

Music legend, Hawawu Alake-Adisa, popularly known as Iya Aladuke Abolodefeloju, says an unforgettable incidence in her career was when she lost her grandchild to an accident in a vehicle she had received as gift.

The 86-year old creator of Senwele Yoruba music genre told the News Agency of Nigeria in Ilorin that the accident occurred three days after she took delivery of the vehicle given to her by her fan.

“Being a musician is a difficult task because it has a lot to do with metaphysical power. I recall many years back when I sang and was given a vehicle. Three days after I got the gift, I was involved in a fatal accident that claimed my grandchild and the vehicle was written off.

Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin just got engaged, according to multiple reports. The pop star reportedly popped the question last night, while they were staying at a resort in the Bahamas.

According to TMZ, 24-year-old Bieber and 21-year-old Baldwin were spotted at a restaurant where everyone in attendance was salsa dancing. Then, out of nowhere, the “What Do You Mean?” singer’s security detail told everyone in attendance to put their phones away because "something special was about to happen." That’s when Bieber reportedly got down on one knee.

Fuji Musician, Pasuma Wonder has taken to IG to celebrate his daughter, Aliyah as she turns 16 today.

The proud father wrote; ''Happy Sweet 16th Birthday to my Daughter Aliyah Niniola Odetola, May you be surrounded and all-encompassed in a massive sea of joy, love, happiness, family, & friendship. Continue to prosper & flourish in all parts of ur life. Amen.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 U know dat we treasure u & will do anything to put a smile on your face. LLnP my luv❤️''

Wawu! Kogi West Elders Forum REJECTS Melaye

Kogi West Elders Forum (KWEF) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected any attempt to impose Senator Dino Melaye as the sole senatorial candidate on the people of the Kogi West in 2019.

The group made this known through its chairman, Hon. Shaibu Momoh, at a meeting held in Lokoja, over the weekend.

The group declared that its main objective was to work with other leaders in Kogi West, to present a credible candidate from Yagba axis, warning that imposition of candidate by any group or individual will be resisted vehemently.

Son of Veteran Nollywood actors Joke Silva and Olu Jacobs, Olusoji is off the market as he is set to tie the knot with his fiancée, Boma. Mother of the groom, Joke Silva made the announcement on her instagram page. She wrote; '

'We prayed and waited patiently for this time…it’s finally here 🙌The Jacobs are going South to get their Kalabari bride 😍#BOJ2018 Part 1 loading''

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