Gunmen kidnapped a journalist and reporter with Channels Television, Mr Joshua Rogers, at his residence in Rumuosi in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State on Thursday night.

Rogers, who covers the Rivers State Government House for his organisation, was reportedly trailed after he closed from work to his residence.

The miscreants accosted him before he alighted from his car, pointed a gun at him and whisked him along with his vehicle off to an unknown destination at about 9 pm.

A source who said he doesn’t want his name mentioned said the reporter had earlier covered an event in Ndoni in the Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni Local Government Area of the state where Governor Siminalayi Fubara, inaugurated a Primary Healthcare Centre.

The facility was built and donated to the state by the PAMO Educational Foundation, founded by former Rivers governor, Dr Peter Odili, on Thursday.


“We are appealing to the kidnappers to release him immediately and unhurt. He is just a journalist doing his job and not a money bag. So I don’t know the purpose of his kidnap.”

It was also gathered that the hoodlums had contacted his wife and demanded N30m as ransom before releasing him.

Efforts to reach the spokesperson for the State Police Command, Grace Iringe-Koko, for confirmation, were unsuccessful as she did not pick up several calls put across to her by PUNCH Online.

Iringe-Koko has also yet to reply to a text message sent to her as of publication on Friday morning.

In a surprising admission, Tony Mwaba Kazadi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Minister of Primary, Secondary and Technical Education, acknowledged having an unplanned pregnancy with Aminata Namasia.

Yet he said it was an accident at work.

In spite of the fact that they were both married, Namasia is claimed to have fallen in love with Kazadi after being appointed as the National Deputy Minister of Primary, Secondary, and Technical Education in Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde’s cabinet on April 12, 2021.

Namasia, however, was cited by a local newspaper, The Street Journal, as having refuted the story on her Twitter page, claiming that outside of her official and public duties, she has a life that must be respected by all; a right, she claimed, that is guaranteed to all Congolese by their constitution.

She argued that damaging her reputation shouldn’t be a practice that was condoned because it could jeopardise not only her relationships but also the reputations of her married male coworkers and their houses.

She said: “On the eve of the electoral contests scheduled for December of this year, political detractors can attack my opinions and political actions rather than opting for practices tending to smear my person.”

The tale was debunked by “a reliable Congolese” named Nugandu, who was quoted in The Street Journal, and claimed that it was all a part of the DRC’s political theatre.

This may not be the best or the kind of write up you expect to come across on Nairaland, but indulge me to put down a piece of my mind.

I respect culture and tradition, likewise religion. Culture and tradition helps to forge peace, love and unity in a society. Religion on a long helps to shape our way of life in relation to divinity.

Culture and Religion are awesome because I believe that with them, we should enjoy some form of liberty and the right to positive choices in life. But "IRONICALLY", these two aspect that affect our lives could be"ENSLAVING".

To cut my long story short, in this part of the world, our traditions are putting so much burden on us than it should be. And the churches are not helping matters.

Imagine that someone dies. And you as a child(ren) is/are expected to provide all manner of items to the deceased's maternal/paternal people in the name of informing and inviting them to the burial. And, they will always come to the burial with all manner of crazy demands.

The most shocking part is the church telling the deceased's family that the deceased is owning this dues or that dues, which has to be paid before the dead can be buried. Hence, placing more burden on the deceased's child(ren).

I only wonder when these rubbish will stop.

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, who reigned for 70 years, has died at the age of 96, and her eldest son, Charles, has become king. Here’s what you need to know about who is in line to succeed after him:

Charles is currently married to Camilla Parker Bowles, who will be queen consort.

Previously, he was married to and divorced from Princess Diana, who died in 1997. Prince William of Cambridge, their eldest son, is now first in line to the throne, according to the royal family’s website.

Second, third, and fourth in line to the throne are the children of Prince William and Kate Middleton, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis. George is the oldest at nine years old.

Fifth in line is Prince William’s younger brother, Prince Harry, who married American actress Meghan Markle. They have “stepped back as senior members of The Royal Family,” the website says. Their two children are sixth and seventh in line.

Eighth is Prince Andrew, Prince Charles’s brother, who was entangled in scandal for his past ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the US financier who killed himself while awaiting trial on sex trafficking and conspiracy charges. Andrew is followed by his children and grandchildren.

The other two children of Queen Elizabeth and the late Prince Philip -- Anne, Princess Royal and Edward, Earl of Wessex -- and their children and grandchildren follow.

A total of 23 people are now in the line of succession.

The website notes, “The succession to the throne is regulated not only through descent, but also by Parliamentary statute.”

Parliament more than 300 years ago laid down various conditions that the sovereign must meet. The conditions include a ban on Roman Catholics succeeding to the throne and a requirement that the sovereign must be in communion with the Church of England and must swear to preserve the established Church of England and the established Church of Scotland, the website says.

Arianne Chernock, a professor of British history at Boston University, said the religious requirements “have to do quite a bit with the fact that the sovereign is the head of the church of England. It’s a religious role as well.”

Amendments have been made in recent years to the system, including ending male primogeniture, which allowed a younger son to leapfrog an elder daughter in the line of succession; ending the requirement that those who marry Roman Catholics be disqualified from the line of succession; and limiting the number of those who require the monarch’s permission to marry to the sixth closest to the throne.

The system has “evolved over centuries,” Chernock said, but “it is open to modification.”

She said that the queen’s death was an important moment “in the sense that Queen Elizabeth ... never carried political power per se, but she was a hugely central and symbolic figure in national and global culture and politics, and a very stabilizing force at that, especially with all the tumult and turmoil of recent years.”

It’s not clear how Charles will fare as king, she said. “The longevity of the institution stems from the fact that it’s an institution that stretches back centuries. It’s never just about the person inhabiting the role. Charles will have, at least, some good will behind him, but he comes to the position with a much more challenging personal history. People know far more about him. So I think it will be a more challenging reign,” she said.

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, who reigned for 70 years, has died at the age of 96, and her eldest son, Charles, has become king. Here’s what you need to know about who is in line to succeed after him:

Charles is currently married to Camilla Parker Bowles, who will be queen consort.

Previously, he was married to and divorced from Princess Diana, who died in 1997. Prince William of Cambridge, their eldest son, is now first in line to the throne, according to the royal family’s website.

Second, third, and fourth in line to the throne are the children of Prince William and Kate Middleton, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis. George is the oldest at nine years old.

Fifth in line is Prince William’s younger brother, Prince Harry, who married American actress Meghan Markle. They have “stepped back as senior members of The Royal Family,” the website says. Their two children are sixth and seventh in line.

Eighth is Prince Andrew, Prince Charles’s brother, who was entangled in scandal for his past ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the US financier who killed himself while awaiting trial on sex trafficking and conspiracy charges. Andrew is followed by his children and grandchildren.

The other two children of Queen Elizabeth and the late Prince Philip -- Anne, Princess Royal and Edward, Earl of Wessex -- and their children and grandchildren follow.

A total of 23 people are now in the line of succession.

The website notes, “The succession to the throne is regulated not only through descent, but also by Parliamentary statute.”

Parliament more than 300 years ago laid down various conditions that the sovereign must meet. The conditions include a ban on Roman Catholics succeeding to the throne and a requirement that the sovereign must be in communion with the Church of England and must swear to preserve the established Church of England and the established Church of Scotland, the website says.

Arianne Chernock, a professor of British history at Boston University, said the religious requirements “have to do quite a bit with the fact that the sovereign is the head of the church of England. It’s a religious role as well.”

Amendments have been made in recent years to the system, including ending male primogeniture, which allowed a younger son to leapfrog an elder daughter in the line of succession; ending the requirement that those who marry Roman Catholics be disqualified from the line of succession; and limiting the number of those who require the monarch’s permission to marry to the sixth closest to the throne.

The system has “evolved over centuries,” Chernock said, but “it is open to modification.”

She said that the queen’s death was an important moment “in the sense that Queen Elizabeth ... never carried political power per se, but she was a hugely central and symbolic figure in national and global culture and politics, and a very stabilizing force at that, especially with all the tumult and turmoil of recent years.”

It’s not clear how Charles will fare as king, she said. “The longevity of the institution stems from the fact that it’s an institution that stretches back centuries. It’s never just about the person inhabiting the role. Charles will have, at least, some good will behind him, but he comes to the position with a much more challenging personal history. People know far more about him. So I think it will be a more challenging reign,” she said.

Ladies of nowadays have forgotten that their bodies will always remain the temple of God.
It very shameful to see ladies like this exposing their bodies up and down.

Solution: when people stop making them feel relevant, they will learn to dress properly

[color=#000099][/color]For those who know Agbara to Lusada to Atan road in Ogun state, you will cry for these communities.
Even as host communities to numerous number of manufacturing companies, they cannot boast of good roads.
This Ogun state government have purposely neglected these networks of roads.

The Nigeria government is so so clueless. What value have they added to these Telcos?

Yet, they intend increasing their licence fees. Which in turns will hurt the subscribers

Featherless chickens could be the future of mass poultry farming in warmer countries, says an Israeli geneticist who has created a bare-skinned “prototype”.

The new chicken would be lower in calories, faster-growing, environmentally friendly, and more likely to survive in warmer conditions, claims Avigdor Cahaner of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He created his red-skinned chicken by selectively crossing a breed with a naturally bare neck with a regular broiler chicken

But critics say past experience with feather-free chickens resulting from random genetic mutation shows they suffer more than normal birds. Males have been unable to mate, because they cannot flap their wings, and “naked” chickens of both sexes are more susceptible to parasites, mosquito attacks and sunburn.

“Featherless birds would also be very susceptible to any temperature variations – especially as young birds.

[color=#000099][/color] UEFA has invited Christian Eriksen, his wife, and the six paramedics who saved his life to the final of Euro 2020 at Wembley on Sunday July 11.



Recall the Denmark football star collapsed on the pitch during his side’s opening group game against Finland last month and was resuscitated by paramedics. CPR was administered and his heart was restarted with a defibrillator as players shielded the medics.

UEFA said Eriksen, his wife and six medics were invited to the final, but there was no confirmation he would attend.


One of the paramedics, Peder Ersgaard, said he was honoured to receive a VIP invite from UEFA boss Aleksander Ceferin.


“I’m excited, like a child on Christmas Eve,” he told the Fagbladet FOA magazine.


“I’m very proud of my efforts, but also of the whole team. It wasn’t a one-man effort.”


There is no confirmation on whether Eriksen will be in London yet as he is recovery at home.


Eriksen's agent Martin Schoots told Sportsmail: 'Christian still feels part of this group. Denmark is a small country — the bonds between players are very tight.'

The Minister of Justice and Solicitor-General of the Government of Alberta, Canada, Kelechi Madu, has slammed the Nigerian Minister of Justice and Attorney-General, Abubakar Malami, over the re-arrest of IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu.



In a post on his LinkedIn page, Madu said if reports that Kanu was abducted from Kenya were true, Malami was not only a ''disgrace to the rule of law but also not worthy to be a public officer.''



The Canadian official, who is also the Deputy Government House Leader, said Nigeria and Kenya violated international law in the manner Kanu was extradited and called on world leaders to apply appropriate sanctions.



Madu demanded the release of Kanu. He also urged the Nigerian government to ensure his safety.



Madu wrote: "The Attorney-General of Nigeria, Abubakar Malami, is a disgrace to the rule of law and not worthy to be an officer of the court.



"He has shown himself to be a bigot who does not understand what it means to live in a pluralistic society governed by the dictates of the rule of law."



Madu added: "Nigeria is burning, and the people of Nigeria, except those who are holding the country down, want out.



"You cannot destroy the hope and aspirations of a people destined for greatness and expect them to bow down in servitude.



"You cannot destroy a generation of people and expect them not to fight for their freedom. The power of guns, state-sponsored terrorism will not achieve peace or the preservation of Nigeria.



"The Igbo and other ethnic groups in Nigeria who are calling for Nigeria to be renegotiated do not seek violence or war. They seek peace. They seek progress and the advancement of their people. They seek fairness, safety, equity, and justice for their people.



"They seek the opportunity for their children to grow up and achieve their God-given abundant potential.



"They seek the rise of a people with the work ethic, intellect and capacity to be a truly global super power on the continent of Africa. They seek dignity over inhumane treatment. They seek life over death.



"Friends of the black world must unite and liberate the people of Nigeria from this bondage and from the claws of corrupt and inept politicians who have no business being near the corridor of Nigeria’s political power."

Microsoft’s so-called blue screen of death (BSoD) will turn black in the new Windows 11 operating system, according to those with access to a preview of the software.

The screen appears when users have a problem on their computer, often prompting a restart.

A black background will replace blue, matching the logon and shutdown screens in the new system.

The BSoD allows IT professionals to diagnose hardware and memory issues.

It usually includes information and data that can help to analyse what problem caused the screen to appear.

In 2016, a QR code was added to it which users can scan to find out more information about the fault.

Windows 8 also added an unhappy face to the screen in 2012.

Photos of the new screen suggest both the QR code and symbol will remain on the black version..

Windows 11 was launched last month and will be available as a free update to existing Windows 10 users - although some devices are unable to run the new system, which requires a minimum of 64 gigabytes of storage and 4 gigabytes of RAM.

Microsoft will wind down Windows 10 in 2025.

Another visual change is that the start button has been moved to the bottom centre of the screen from the bottom left.

The president said chances were fading that anyone else would be found alive under the mass of concrete and steel left by a collapsed condominium.

President Biden spent three hours Thursday consoling the families of those who died or were still missing under the rubble of a collapsed condominium building near Miami Beach, saying “the waiting is unbearable” for agonized relatives as crews halted a desperate search for much of the day out of concern that the rest of the complex could also fall.

In remarks after the private meeting, which was held in a hotel ballroom, Mr. Biden said the families were “going through hell.” Many have been waiting for more than a week for word about whether anyone might still be alive under the concrete and steel.

“I sat with one woman who had just lost her husband and her little baby boy, didn’t know what to do,” the president said. “I sat with another family that lost almost the entire family, cousins, brothers, sisters. And to watch them, and they’re praying and pleading and God let there be a miracle.”

For Mr. Biden, confronting the largest national tragedy since he took office was complicated by the fact that he could not eulogize those who were still unaccounted for, or hold out much hope for the missing. “They know that the chances are, as each day goes by, diminished slightly,” the president said. “But at a minimum, at a minimum, they want to recover the bodies. They want to recover the bodies.”

Eighteen people are known to have died in the collapse of Champlain Towers South, and as many as 145 people remain missing, numbers th­at have remained unchanged since Wednesday.

The president arrived in Florida hours after rescue workers were pulled off the debris pile amid concern that the rest of the building might fall. Although the search resumed hours later, the delay was another setback for a search that for days had proceeded slowly and without hopeful news.
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The leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has been re-arrested and brought back to Nigeria to face his trial, Nigeria’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has said.

At a joint press briefing on Tuesday with the State Security Service (SSS) in Abuja, Mr Malami disclosed that international collaborative efforts with security agencies led to Mr Kanu’s arrest and repatriation to Nigeria.

Mr Kanu and his co-defendant are facing treasonable felony charges at the Federal High Court in Abuja.

Mr Kanu fled the country in September 2017 after an invasion of his home by the military in Afara-Ukwu, near Umuahia, Abia State.

The Nigerian government obtained a court order on September 20, 2017, to designate IPOB a terrorist group and to proscribe it.

Details later…

Singer Bella Shmurda is showing us that education is key despite the massive success that he enjoys at the moment. The fast-rising singer recently revealed to fans on social media that he has returned to school to take his exams.

The hitmaker is a final year student of the faculty of arts at Lagos State University and is presently taking his semester exams at the prestigious institution. He shared a short clip of his exam papers and answer sheet from the examination room and lamented about how tough the exams were making his brain freeze.

A lot of fans have however condemned the singer’s post asking if phones were now allowed in the exam hall or he was been indulged by the lecturers because he is a public figure. Others wished him the best with his exams and asked him to focus on his studies.

Suicide as been named as the suspected cause of death.

John McAfee died by an apparent suicide hours after reports surfaced that he would be extradited to face federal charges in the US, according to local media.

The Spanish High Court had authorised his extraditions to the United States where he faces tax evasion charges, a court document released on Wednesday showed.

He was arrested at Barcelona airport in October 2020, said during an extradition hearing this month that the accusations against him were politically motivated.

McAfee was hit with a 10-count indictment in the Western District of Tennessee in October for allegedly evading taxes on millions of dollars in income.

He was also charged in a separate indictment in Manhattan federal court in March for a pump and dump scheme involving cryptocurrencies that he was touting on social media.

UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin disclosed this in a statement on Thursday.

This means fixtures in which the two teams score the same number of goals over the two legs will now have two 15-minute periods of extra time, and, if required, penalty kicks.

The statement read in part: “The away goals rule has been an intrinsic part of UEFA competitions since it was introduced in 1965. However, the question of its abolition has been debated at various UEFA meetings over the last few years.

Although there was no unanimity of views, many coaches, fans and other football stakeholders have questioned its fairness and have expressed a preference for the rule to be abolished.

“There is also criticism of the unfairness, especially in extra time, of obliging the home team to score twice when the away team has scored.

“It’s fair to say that home advantage is nowadays no longer as significant as it once was.

“Taking into consideration the consistency across Europe in terms of styles of play, and many different factors which have led to a decline in home advantage, the UEFA Executive Committee has taken the correct decision in adopting the view that it’s no longer appropriate for an away goal to carry more weight than one scored at home. “

The authorities of the Synagogue, Church of All Nations (SCOAN) has issued out a statement as regards the funeral arrangement of the clergyman, TB Joshua who died on the 5th day of June 2021, age 57.

The TB Joshua Ministries made this announcement through their official Facebook as they hinted about a week-long service of songs that will be held from Monday, July 5 to July 11 in his honour.

It was also disclosed that the pastor would be buried in the church premises.

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!

Good Morning and Win Today! Dear SCOAN and Emmanuel TV family all over the world, we appreciate your continued prayers, love and support.

We know you are aware that our father in the Lord, Prophet TB Joshua, has been taken home to be with the Lord. We want to assure you that nothing will stop the work of God at The SCOAN from moving on. Prophet TB Joshua may be absent in the body but he is present in the spirit (Colossians 2:5). Indeed, God is even more powerful at distance!

We are currently preparing for the week-long service from Monday 5th to Sunday 11th July 2021 in honour of Prophet TB Joshua’s life and legacy. He will be laid to rest at The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) in Lagos, Nigeria.

All services will be broadcast live on Emmanuel TV. The services which will be open to the public will be communicated to you at the appropriate time.

As our father in the Lord, Prophet TB Joshua says, “When we close our eyes to all things in this world, we shall open them in a world of glory.”

Emmanuel – God is with us. Jesus is Lord!

A woman from Spain has gone viral following her death, after publishing the exclusive guest list for her funeral in her obituary - where she says none of her relatives are allowed to attend

In life, sometimes people don't always get on very well with their family - it's sad, but it's true.

Family feuds can get pretty messy and we recently saw how one man had fallen out with his in-laws over their babysitting methods, while a woman was about to get into it with her daughter over lies about her dad.

And now we've seen that these ugly grudges can even be held after a family member has passed away.

As reported by The Daily Star, Maria Paz Fuentes Fernandez, a woman from Spain, has gone viral following her death on June 2, as she used her obituary to ban her relatives from attending her funeral and share the exclusive guest list.

Published in El Progreso newspaper in Lugo, Galicia, the obituary read: "Since my family has not been by blood for a long time, I declare in my last will and testament that only the people mentioned below can attend my funeral service, be it at the funeral parlour, church or cemetery."

Maria, whose age has not been given, went on to list 15 names of people who were invited to her funeral

The Sony Ericsson P910 is a smartphone by Sony Ericsson introduced in 2004 and the successor of the Sony Ericsson P900.

The P910 has a full QWERTY keyboard on the back of the flip (the flip can also be removed completely, allowing for a 'traditional' PDA form-factor). The biggest change from the P900 to the P910 is that the P910 supports Memory Stick PRO Duo and the phone's internal memory has been upped from 16 MB to 64 MB. Although Memory Stick PRO Duo comes in larger capacities, the maximum supported by the P910i is 2 GB. It is powered by an ARM9 processor clocked at 156 MHz and runs the Symbian OS with the UIQ graphical user interface. Also, the touchscreen displays 262,144 colours (an 18-bit colour depth), as opposed to the P900's 65,536 (16-bit). It comes in three versions:

P910i (GSM 900/1800/1900)
P910c (GSM 900/1800/1900 for China mainland)
P910a (GSM 850/1800/1900 for North America and Latin America)