Lautechgossip: When Premiere Lotto boss, Kessignton Adebutu’s daughter Temitope Adebutu was tying the knots with former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s son, Olujonwo, exactly a year ago in a lavish wedding ceremony, nobody envisaged that they would turn enemies.
A year after the solemnisation of the marriage, the former love birds have gone their separate ways and both have decided to seek the dissolution of the marriage in a court of law.
Olujonwo is alleged to have reported Temitope to her employer, the Ogun State Judicial Service Commission and filed a case against her at Magistrate Court in Lagos Island over allegations of domestic violence. The estranged husband alleged that his wife subjected him to repeated acts of domestic violence, as well as threatened to kill him.
Following the recent development, the Adebutu family has risen in defence of their daughter, accusing their son-in-law of being economical with the truth.
A source close to the family revealed that Temitope is a gentle lady with proper upbringing. She has never hurt a fly all her life. The man is just looking for a way to tarnish her hard-earned image.
Before the wedding in 2017, it was gathered that he got a contract from Tope’s brother, Segun, who is the CEO of Petrolex Oil and Gas. The younger Adebutu did that to help Jonwo. “Aside the fact that Jonwo didn’t have enough money to maintain his home and wife, the marriage suffered constant interferences from his mum, Taiwo Obasanjo.
Also in a counter affidavit sworn by the estranged wife, she stated that trouble began to rear its ugly head right immediately after the wedding when he began to treat her with belligerence, cruelty, reprehensible and unwarranted hostility. It was stated that this treatment continued to negatively affect their marriage to the extent that he allegedly left her to travel to the principality of Monaco alone on 17th of June, 2017 for their honeymoon only to come five days later.
She also stated that during the few times they spent together, he was fond of calling her unprintable names including but not limited to ugly, fat, smelly, cancer. He always used to torment her with expressions such as ‘I married you out of convenience’, ‘our wedding was a sham, if I didn’t marry you, no one else would’.
It was further stated that she endured this trauma till March this year when the young Obasanjo approached her after allegedly deserting him for over four months and informed her that he was no longer interested in the marriage.
It will be recalled that Olujonwo’s mother, Taiwo Obasanjo, made a fuss about the wedding last year when she went to court to stop it. According to her, she had received a spiritual warning against her son having a big wedding and that if he wanted to throw an elaborate wedding at all, it must be done after his 34th birthday in June. Despite her pleas and objection, the wedding took place with the full support of their fathers in May 2017.
Amirullaha: An hippopotamus was killed in River Niger at Jebba in Mokwa local government of Niger state today (28-06)... They started hunting it since the early hours of yesterday... They successfully killed it today at 4pm after six heavy gunshots and numerous arrows... It was killed to avert tragedy in the area... Four local boats was destroyed in the process...
Nigerians no get joy
How would I advise these animals to avoid Nigeria, because the country that didn't spare her own citizens, that slaughter human beings like fowl, what do you expect? This is madness
johnmix12: The Worrisome Trend of Sensational Social Media “Journalism” and the Impact On Legitimate Business Concerns: Recent Travails of FCMB, GTBank and First Bank.
On June 25, 2018 I woke up to yet another social media trend – a news story with the bold and quite salacious headline “How Safe Are Customer Deposits At FCMB?” had taken over the digital airwaves. Between the shares and likes and comments, a storm in a cup had brewed to great proportions in a matter of hours. Yet again, a demonstration that the basic ethics of responsible journalism and ethical reporting have been thrown away in business and, indeed, everyday life.
In writing the article, the author had made detailed reference to alleged cases of fraud involving staff of FCMB and went ahead to imply that perhaps the bank’s depositors funds are unsafe.
It is quite of great concern to see so-called professionals go to town with such alarming headlines, with the full knowledge that most Nigerians will not bother to read the actual details. It is indeed of greater concern that this sort of material was released in the way it was, when by his own admission, the author had received specific information from the bank about its financial performance and ability to remain a growth driven and existentially sustainable institution.
I do not have an account with FCMB, neither am I in any way connected to the bank or its principals. I, however, do have the simple capacity to read between the lines and remove chaff from substance.
In the first place, for FCMB to have increased its shares in Legacy Pension to make it a full-fledged subsidiary as reported in this article, it means the bank is forward-thinking and focused on both diversifying and improving its service offerings and earnings. That’s a bold move, when you consider that the Pensions industry in Nigeria has the potential to be bigger than the banking industry in another decade or so.
But even more interesting is the fact that by his very own article, the author admitted that FCMB’s deposits grew to N689.9billion as at the end of December 2017, an increase of 5%, from N657.6billion in the corresponding year. Do customers increase their deposit in a bank they have fears over or which is on the brink? Is it not only logical that customers are only likely to increase deposits in a bank where they enjoy good service and feel at home? For a fact, I know that the KPMG Banking Industry Customer Satisfaction Survey 2017 placed FCMB in 5th position in the entire Nigerian banking industry in Retail Banking, SME Banking and Wholesale Banking. That’s no mean feat when you take into account the number of operators in the industry.
I think what stumped me the most is the fact that by his own article, the author let us in on key financial metrics of FCMB, including the fact that FCMB reported a gross revenue of N169.9 billion and a profit before tax (PBT) of N11.5billion, while profit after tax (PAT) was N9.4billion.
At face value, it seems to me that the author for reasons best known to him or her was determined to demarket FCMB and portray it in the most negative light possible. I do not dispute the possibility that there were some fraudulent activities – afterall, there is no smoke without fire and that tends to ring through more in Nigeria than elsewhere. However, this is an industry challenge – the Managing Director of the Nigerian Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS) Adebisi Shonubi (who a few weeks ago was nominated a Deputy Governor of Nigeria’s Central Bank) recently shared some startling statistics on fraud in Nigeria’s banking industry, revealing the number of reported fraud cases in Nigerian Banks had steadily risen from 1,461 in 2014 to 10,743 in 2015, 19,531 in 2016 and 25,043 in 2017. It has been argued that frauds in the Banks are not alien. In the United States of America it has been said, with compromised credit cards and data breaches often in the news in the past couple of years, fraud is top of mind with many people.
This deliberate attempt to demarket FCMB for reasons best known to the author also brings to mind the most recent attack on GTBank over the Innoson case.
It is not to be forgotten how earlier this month, social media went agog with news that a court had directed GTBank to pay 12 billion naira to Innoson Group, one of its clients with whom it has had a long-standing court battle. The misleading reports on social media had extremely sensational headlines such as “Court Orders GTBank To Pay 14bn To Innoson”; “GTBank Must Pay Innoson 14Bn Within 14 Days”; “GTBank In Trouble As Court Orders Payment of 14bn to Innoson”.
It was such a terrible jamboree on social media that there were certain broadcasts sent across Whatsapp and other social media asking people to withdraw their funds from GTBank immediately, on the premise that the bank would go bankrupt after payment of N14bn to Innoson. Of course, Nigerians will not pause to ask whether paying N14bn in settlement can actually cripple a bank that is widely considered Nigeria’s biggest bank brand and clearly, one of the most solid financial behemoths within the African continent. Nobody stops to ponder. The fact that this latest melee was a result of seemingly deliberate attempts to smear the GTBank brand raises more suspicion about the recent publication on the same online platforms questioning the safety of depositors funds with FCMB.
The GTBank vs Innoson saga has so terribly deteriorated on the account of sensational journalism and reportage, that it has taken an ugly ethnic dimension amongst the unlearned. Thus, on various online communities and platforms in Nigeria, you see Nigerians taking sides on the basis of GTBank being a “Yoruba company” and Innoson being an “Igbo company”. What a sad reality for a nation!
First Bank of Nigeria also witnessed the harsh and merciless bite of sensational reporting when recently there was commotion over the contempt judgement against the Bank and some of its key officials in the case Chief Isaac Osaro Agbara & 9 Ors. v. Shell Petroleum Development Ltd, Shell International Petroleum Ltd and Shell International Exploration and Production BV. Before fact could be removed from fiction, so many broadcasts and “breaking news” articles had surfaced online, all leading with headlines that were designed to damage and not just state the facts.
To make progress as a country and support businesses to thrive, this approach must be arrested. Must we sensationalize everything just so we can earn readership and our 5 minutes of fame, to the detriment of businesses and companies that provide livelihood for thousands of families across Nigeria? I think not.
Even where we need to address real matters arising, surely, the reporting can be more facts-based and less about blackmail and demarketing. As my Yoruba friends have a saying in their language “Even if they sent you on the errand as a slave, deliver the message as a free born”. Crying wolf falsely too many times has serious downsides. Social media credibility is extremely important for the dissemination of relevant, topical, up to date and authentic information. Using it constantly as a vehicle to settle scores, blackmail and seek for attention will ultimately harm the reputation of not only the charlatans in that field but also the real professionals. The fake news toga will be cast on all. That will be a big shame. Freedom presupposes responsibility. Freedom devoid of responsibility is excessive liberty.
These institutions need protection and we really need to stop portraying ourselves to the rest of the world as people always thinking of fraud and sleight of hand strategies to make ill-gotten wealth. There are many honest and hardworking people all over Nigeria. We deserve better than these constant sensational but fake so called 'investigative' write ups.
Written by Emefulenwanne Ibeayoka, a public analyst writing from Abuja
Well to keep the record straight, since the government sensored media are not giving us the information we need, people resorted to social media, which in fact is authentic more accurate and fact than any other medium. Take for example NTA, Even CNN are all fake news. People are winning. Stop confusing yourself, who listens to NTA news again?
saasala: I Dayo O. Davies being a young Video Director, yesterday for the first time in my life I saved a guy from KIDNAPPERS that claimed to be SARS/IMMIGRATION officers. Arriving at Lekki Phase one, I saw a young guy being dragged by two men which I confidently stopped, introduced myself as a Media Press and asked them what the young guy has done for him to deserve this kind of treatment because this guy was being slapped, kicked and dragged seriously wanting to force him into a commercial bus (DANFO). The guy answered that he didn’t do anything, he explained that he was stopped by these men and they asked him for his ID card which he provided and the next thing was for them to start slapping him telling him that he is not a NIGERIAN. Immediately, I challenged these men to let me see their own ID cards to be sure they are SARS/IMMIGRATION officers, but they could not! As i noticed they could not identify themselves, I started calling attentions and people gathered up immediately only for us to find out that these men are not who they claimed they were. As they left, people that resides in that area made us understand that they are KIDNAPPERS. Like @lasiselenu said which i also believe in, that with #ONEVOICE, NIGERIA can be a better place and there will be a REVOLUTION. People that have power to speak please speak, if you pretend not to see people in trouble one day it will be your turn.
This is a new way of KIDNAPPING people o. Nigerians, please be careful of these faces o, they are KIDNAPPERS, anyone that stops you on the road and ask you to enter the BUS that they are SARS or Immigration officers, please confirm they are genuine Government workers, else CALL FOR HELP!!!
deluxegift: Governor of Zamfara State, Abdul’aziz Yari, said he had no control over security machinery in the state, causing him to drop his responsibility as Chief Security Officer of the state .
The Governor, Speaking to newsmen in Talata-Mafara on Friday, Yari said that his decision stemmed from the seeming helplessness of the state government and the people over recurring killings in the state.
He deplored the prevailing situation where as the chief security officer of the state, he could not take decisions on strategies for protecting the state and its people, and had it implemented.
“We have been facing serious security challenges over the years, but in spite of being governor and Chief Security Officer of the state, I cannot direct security officers on what to do nor sanction them when they err.
“As Chief Security Officer, the nomenclature in just a name,” he said. The governor lamented that it was disheartening that killings in the state had continued in spite of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s order to security agencies to end the incessant blood-letting across the country. source https://globalsentinelng.com/2018/06/15/i-can-no-longer-secure-the-state-zamfara-governor/
When we talk about restructuring, you will not agree? This and many more reasons are why this country must be restructured to move forward
My only concern in this whole saga is the WhatsApp conversation snapshot where one Toyin was discussing about buying a girl for 8.5M for rituals, the police should investigate this matter very very well.
Nijablog: As shared on Facebook by one Jolayemi Stephen Sunday, a young man was spotted carrying three bags of cement at the same time and even went as far as lifting one with his teeth.
This is a lazy youth. When will this suffering end in this country? Go to China and see how they are using mechanical engineering to do almost everything
Mztarstrechy: It is going to be a great day again tomorrow 2nd July, 2018 in Port Harcourt as the Ooni of Ife His Imperial Majesty Oba Dr Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja ll commissions the Cultural Centre at 10am.
This is one of the best in Nigeria but what do you expect?This is the Rivers State Cultural Centre, Port Harcourt, abandoned by the previous administrations but reconstructed and completed by Mr Projects.
After freeing myself from GLO's spell ( i had to wait for 3mins after putting data on b4 the signal comes on, only for it to disappear after 10mins) , ntel and AirTel are now my favorites.
ntel now gives me 12gb for N1k and N3k for 48gb which I mostly use for streaming and browsing .
And AirTel N1k for N3.5gb as back-up.
Do you think I can get a better mobile plan that gives a cheaper data with more data volume ?
The problem is that so many men these days are too difficult to please. I guess his attitude towards the wife must have contributed to it. Besides when you love your wife's body and not her real self tendencies are high that such a matter could arise. Make your woman happy during the day and you will enjoy her during the night simple.
As far as I am concerned Fayose is the type of governor we need in Nigeria, the governor that rapo with the people, move with them, feel their pains. Mingle among them. Fayose is the best
Issafela: Senate President "Saraki" Having A Good Laugh At IGP’s "Transmission" Joke (Video)
During the APC’s State Congress, over the weekend, in Kwara State, the Senate President, Saraki, couldn’t control his laughter as the MC was trolling the I.G of Police, Idris, over his recent blunder during an event in Kano State.
The M.C had said “no one can come from Kwara State and not be able to speak good English as against always saying ‘transmission commission transmission’” a reference to the IGP’s gaffe. This sent everyone into an uncontrollable laughter.
Anybody who doesn't realize or know that Nigeria with the existing structure will never ever work is either myopic or a slowpoke or just being selfish. This country needs urgent restructuring in a radical way, or being divided for the people to be at peace. Who doesn't know at least by now that our problem is not about who occupied Asorock, but rather with the existing system. Nigeria has fundamental problem. Think people
Stop wasting your time on dead matters. From the intelligence gathering, it was proven that those men were never shot but faked their deaths to attract sympathy.
Christianity Etc › Re: Activist Tears Winners Chapel’s I.V, Accuses Oyedepo Of Preaching Hate by Tonason: 7:58am On Jul 02, 2018
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