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Moment a car owner invited babalawo to his compound after his car's brain-box was stølen overnight 😳🙆

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This particular guy has died more than 10×
Don't be surprised if he is Mossad agent.

Israel strikes Iran targeting nuclear sites, Israeli military official says

Israel hits Iran’s nuclear program and military leadership in unprecedented strikes

Israeli security source says top military leaders and nuclear scientists were targeted in opening strikes

Israel struck at the heart of Iran’s nuclear, missile and military complex early Friday, in an unprecedented attack that reportedly killed two of Iran’s top military commanders and plunges the wider Middle East into dangerous new territory.

The strikes on Iran’s nuclear program and senior military leaders could be a turning point in the long-running conflict, as Israel braces for a major Iranian retaliation and – with the threat of a wider regional war breaking out now a real risk.

In a televised address to the nation, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the military operation had “struck at the head of Iran’s nuclear weaponization program” and targets included Iran’s main enrichment facility in Natanz, Iranian nuclear scientists, and Iran’s ballistic missiles program.

“Moments ago, Israel launched operation Rising Lion, a targeted military operation to roll back the Iranian threat to Israel’s very survival,” Netanyahu said in a televised address.

“This operation will continue for as many days as it takes to remove this threat.”

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned that Israel will face “severe punishment” for the attacks, and confirmed that a number of Iranian commanders and scientists had been killed. Iran’s Armed Forces spokesperson said both the US and Israel would “pay dearly.”

General Hossein Salami, the commander-in-chief of the country’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and one of Iran’s most powerful figures, was among those killed in the attacks, the IRGC confirmed. Major General Mohammad Bagheri, the chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces and the country’s highest ranking military officer, was also killed, according to Iran’s state TV IRINN.

Friday’s strikes suggest Netanyahu saw a window of opportunity to fulfill Israel’s longstanding objective of obliterating Iran’s nuclear program. Iran is in its weakest military position in decades following crippling economic sanctions, previous Israeli strikes on its air defenses and decimation of its most powerful regional proxies, including Hezbollah.

A sixth round of nuclear talks between the US and Iran had been scheduled for Sunday, and US officials had previously told CNN that Israeli strikes on Iran would be a brazen break with President Donald Trump’s approach on the Middle East.

The United States was not involved in the strikes, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, noting that Israel had “advised” the US that it believed the “action was necessary for its self-defense.” Earlier, President Donald Trump had warned of the possibility of “massive conflict” in the Middle East that could take place “soon.”

Repeated explosions could be heard in Tehran and photos and videos showed what appeared to be apartment buildings damaged or lit up in flames and wounded residents, according to Iranian state media. Iran’s airspace has also been closed, its civil aviation authority said.

Sirens sounded across Jerusalem before dawn Friday as Israel declared a state of special emergency, closing its airspace, shutting schools and banning social gatherings and non-essential work. Israeli sources told CNN they were bracing for a significant Iranian retaliation, and military chief of staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said “tens of thousands” of Israeli soldiers were being called up in preparation.

An Israeli source told CNN that Israel was planning to carry out multiple rounds of attacks against Iran, saying: “This is not a one-day attack.”

Fears of wider war
Analysts and experts have long warned that Israeli strikes on Iran’s nuclear capabilities could trigger a massive Iranian retaliation and threaten to tip the region into a full-scale war.

And if Israel and Iran become entangled in wider conflict, it could risk drawing in the United States into the fray. The US has long been Israel’s closest ally and biggest weapons supplier — there are currently about 40,000 US troops across the Middle East, including nearly 4,000 US in Iraq and Syria.

Indications of that risk emerged earlier this week as the US ordered the departure of non-essential personnel from locations around the Middle East as intelligence warnings increased that an Israeli strike on Iran was imminent.

Netanyahu has repeatedly pushed for a military option to stop Iran’s nuclear program, and recent US intelligence reports said that Israel was seeking to capitalize on the destruction inflicted after it bombed Iran’s missile production facilities and air defenses in October.

President Donald Trump takes questions in the East Room of the White House on June 12, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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Trump didn’t want Israel to strike. They did it anyway.

Experts say an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities would also likely spell the end of its nuclear negotiations with the US.

The facility at the heart of Iran’s nuclear ambitions was engulfed in flames on Friday, according to social media images geolocated by CNN and Iranian state television.

The nuclear complex in Natanz, a city about 250 kilometers (150 miles) south of the capital Tehran, is considered Iran’s largest uranium enrichment facility and houses the country’s advanced nuclear program. Analysts say the site is used to develop and assemble centrifuges for uranium enrichment, a key technology that turns uranium into nuclear fuel.

Friday’s strikes came shortly after Tehran said that it would ramp up its nuclear activities due to the International Atomic Energy Agency ing a resolution saying that the country was not in compliance with its non-proliferation commitments, senior US officials told CNN.

Iran oversees a so-called “Axis of Resistance” across the region that includes loyal proxies such as Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen as well as various militia groups in Iraq and Syria. Since Israel’s war in Gaza began, attacks by those proxy groups have escalated in solidarity with the Palestinians.

Last year Israel and Iran’s years-long cold war erupted into the open with a series of missile strikes on each other. At the time, the US warned Israel not to strike Iran’s energy or nuclear infrastructure. And Iran rushed to downplay the strikes, responding with visually powerful but carefully calibrated retaliation that caused limited damage.

Friday’s operation goes much further than previously seen. CNN’s security analyst Beth Sanner said that removing Salami is akin to taking out the US chairman of the t chiefs of staff: “You can imagine what Americans would do,” she said.

Iran is now “under existential threat” and as such, the Israelis will be expecting “a massive, much bigger retaliation than what they saw last time,” Sanner added.

CNN’s Oren Liebermann, Jeremy Diamond, Rhea Mogul, Nectar Gan, Jessie Yeung, Todd Symons, Jerome Taylor, Ross Adkins, Juliana Liu, Leila Gharagozlou, Isaac Yee, Teele Rebane, John Liu and Chris Lau contributed reporting.
This is a developing story and will be updated.

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https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/12/middleeast/israel-iran-strikes-intl-hnk

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That's Keloid
Has high recurrence rate and so requires specialized treatment

go to AB Bumps in Ikeja....that's if you are living in Lagos.

This is a stain left in a lunatic asylum by a woman called Margaret Schilling in 1978. Numerous efforts to eliminate the stain have proven unsuccessful. It is still there to this day.

Margaret Schilling’s 1978 death at Athens Lunatic Asylum left a persistent stain on the concrete floor due to chemical processes.

Decomposing body fluids, rich in proteins and fats, likely seeped into the porous concrete, bonding with its minerals. Cold, damp conditions slowed evaporation, embedding the compounds deeper.

UV light or oxidation may have further fixed the stain, making it resistant to scrubbing, chemicals, or sanding. The concrete’s composition could also play a role, trapping the organic material permanently.

Paranormal claims of a cursed stain or ghostly sightings lack evidence and are considered folklore. The asylum, now The Ridges, closed in 1993; the stain is part of tours.

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THIS IS SO HEARTBREAKING 💔

Pratik Joshi had been living in London for six years. A software professional, he’d long dreamed of building a life abroad for his wife and three young children, who stayed back in India.

After years of waiting for due clearances the dream was finally coming true. Just two days ago, his wife, Dr. Komi Vyas, a renowned doctor in Udaipur, resigned from her job. The bags were packed, goodbyes said, the future within reach.

This morning, the family of five, filled with hope and excitement, boarded Air India flight 171 to London. They clicked a selfie. Sent it to relatives. A one-way journey to a new life. But they never made it. The plane crashed. No one survived.

In a matter of moments, a lifetime of dreams turned to ash. A brutal reminder, life is terrifyingly fragile. Everything you build, everything you hope for, everything you love, it all hangs by a thread. So while you can, live, love, and don’t wait for happiness to start tomorrow.
#watchtimini #facebookviral #fyp #reel #reels #video #viral #story

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banjicom:
Which kind of poor Ai editing is this?
Try and do better next time

Why is it very difficult for you guys to read, research and understand before commenting?

Scientists in Canada discovered a frog with no eyes on its face. Instead, its eyes are INSIDE ITS MOUTH. 👁️👁️

The eyes are perfectly healthy. The toad just has to open his mouth to see.

The toad was first photographed by Canadian researcher and photographer Scott Gardner, who documented this rare mutation as part of a scientific survey.

Though shocking, scientists say this kind of mutation — where the eyes form internally instead of externally — is rare but known in amphibians. The case became famous enough to be featured in Richard Dawkins’ Climbing Mount Improbable, where it stood as a striking example of evolution’s strange pathways and biological anomalies.

Discovery and Documentation: Scott Gardner, a photographer working for The Hamilton Spectator in 1992, captured this unusual toad in Burlington County, Ontario, Canada. The toad lacked eye sockets on its face, with its eyes instead located inside its mouth. This image became iconic, featured in Richard Dawkins' Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), where it serves as an example of evolutionary oddities and genetic variation.

Mutation Type: This is a rare developmental anomaly where the eyes form internally rather than in their typical external position. According to the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (2022), such mutations in amphibians can result from disruptions in gene expression during embryogenesis, particularly genes related to eye and retinal development (e.g., those affecting lens crystallins and phototransduction). The fact that the eyes are "perfectly healthy" suggests the mutation didn’t impair their functionality, just their placement.

Adaptation and Survival: The toad’s ability to open its mouth to see is a striking adaptation. While this might seem impractical, studies on amphibian vision (e.g., Schott et al., 2022) indicate that such anomalies don’t necessarily hinder survival if the eyes retain basic light-detection capabilities. The toad likely compensates by relying on other senses (e.g., touch, vibration) or by using its mouth as a viewing aperture, a behavior that could be studied further.

Evolutionary Significance: As Dawkins highlights, this case exemplifies how evolution can produce unexpected outcomes through random mutations. The mutation isn’t advantageous or selected for but rather a neutral or mildly deleterious quirk that happened to persist. The Diversity and evolution of amphibian pupil shapes study notes that amphibian eye placement and shape can vary widely, especially in species with biphasic life cycles (aquatic larvae to terrestrial adults), making such anomalies more observable in this group.

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Nigerian Woman Marries A Mannequin To Represent Her Husband Who Is Based Italy 🇮🇹 and couldn't return for the Traditional wedding...🍾🎊🎉💃🕺🥂🍾💕

Anyway congratulations 🎊 👏 💐 🥳

The man no send anyone again......this is pure marketing of products and should be taxed .

Ground Rent: Avoid Diplomatic Problems, Falana Warns Wike Against Sealing Embassies

The senior advocate warned the FCT minister that sealing embassies on Nigerian soil violates the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations.

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has warned the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, not to contemplate sealing 34 embassies and foreign missions said to be owing ground rents in the nation’s capital city Abuja.

“Embassies and missions cannot be invaded because they have not paid ground rent, which is not applicable for all of them,” the senior advocate said on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday.

The Wike istration in the FCT had published the details of 9,000 debtors in newspapers, asking them to pay their ground rents to avoid the risk of forfeiture of their land.

The FCT istration announced on May 23, 2025, that it would take possession of about 5,000 affected properties owing ground rents between 10 and 43 years and began sealing and taking over properties of debtors including the PDP national secretariat but President Bola Tinubu granted the defaulters a 14-day grace period to settle their outstanding payments and penalties.

The grace period elapsed on Friday, June 6, 2025, which was a public holiday for Eid celebrations. Many Nigerians anticipate the next line of action by the Wike istration after the Sallah holidays on Tuesday, June 10, 2025.

Falana argued that there are about 20 high court, appeal court, and Supreme Court decisions that ruled that the FCT authorities have no right to unilaterally seal up any property within the nation’s capital.

The senior lawyer said, “As far as the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations is concerned, the premises of any embassy in Abuja are inviolable by Article 22 of the convention.

“If we embark on invading the embassy of any country, it’s going to lead to serious diplomatic problems for Nigeria. So, it is not allowed.

“The minister cannot order that a house be sealed up because the right to a fair hearing is guaranteed by Section 36 of the Constitution and Article 7 of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights Act. What this implies is that before you can take action against me, you must give me the right to make a representation.”

Falana said the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar; and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Lateef Fagbemi; should quickly advise the FCT minister.

“I expect the Minister of Foreign Affairs to have intervened. I also expect the Attorney General of the Federation to intervene,” he said.

“The rule of law must be allowed to operate. Yes, people are owing. Too bad! But if you want to collect your money, you must go to court.

“There is a tribunal in Abuja — Urban and Regional Planning Tribunal constituted by five from the building industry. That is the body that has the final say on demolition and attempts to seal up properties. In other words, anybody who is aggrieved by the threat to seal up a property is advised to go to court. We are operating a democracy,” he added.

https://www.channelstv.com/2025/06/09/ground-rent-avoid-diplomatic-row-falana-warns-wike-against-sealing-embassies/

This Trump behaves like toddler...

Who will tell him?

Jangofarasin.....inspired by John Wick.

In as much as I know that they are doing their job. They get paid to do that . I would say one thing Trump got right is that we SH..T H..E COUNTRY Period !!

Dare Art Alade's car catches fire on 3rd mainland bridge, burns to the ground...

Yesterday, around 4pm, our car caught fire on the 3rd Mainland Bridge and burnt to the ground. It was a shocking and painful experience, but we’re incredibly grateful that the driver made it out safely. No lives were lost, and that’s what truly matters.

We give thanks in all things. THANK YOU JESUS!!! Thank you to everyone that stopped to help.

- Dare Art Alade

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Ignorance at its worst..

Larryfest:
In a tinted vehicle i wonder how the content creator knew exactly when the pastor would be driving by
Probably they are both creating the content together because that doesn't look like a real gun... Everything is content this days

Why defending dudes that love to demo with AK47 at the Altar....

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Content creator who films exotic cars in Lagos captures the moment pastor Adefarasin allegedly flashed him a gvn for filming his car.

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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ connection to a famous gangster is part of his family lore

As the federal criminal trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs continues, many parts of his past are being revisited.

That includes his father’s friendship with the late gangster, Frank Lucas.

Melvin Combs was a drug dealer who was fatally shot in 1972, when his son Sean Combs was three years old.

“That’s not something I glorify, but he was in Harlem and he was doing his thing, selling narcotics,” Combs told journalist Toure in an interview 13 years ago. “And we all know what that gets you. That’s only going to have you end up in jail or dead. It is the reason why I didn’t follow in those footsteps.”

In that interview, Combs was clear that his father did not work for either Lucas or another famed Harlem gangster, Nicky Barnes, but rather was “as big as them” in the hustling game.

The younger Combs didn’t shy away from his father’s history.

“I’m definitely like him,” Combs said. “But I’m just doing it in a legal way.”

Combs has pleaded not guilty to charges that include racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution in an ongoing federal criminal trial in Manhattan.

His mother, Janice Combs, had initially told her son his father had died in a car crash. He told Toure he found out what his father had been involved with on his own.

“This was before the internet and I had looked up my father’s name and I saw an article about my mother wearing a full length chinchilla [a fur coat] to a funeral and taking me and I was in a mink,” Combs recalled. “And that was like the story of just the glamour and like the decadence of our family and just like he was the kingpin, you know, of Harlem and how he had got assassinated.”

He said he understood why his mother hadn’t initially been honest with him about his dad. Due to where they were living when he was growing up, Combs said he believes he would have become “one of the biggest drug dealers out there because…the type of person I would have wanted to follow in my father’s footsteps.”

Melvin Combs had a connection to Frank Lucas, a famous drug lord in Harlem during his heyday in the 1960s and 1970s.

Lucas was famously portrayed by Denzel Washington in the 2007 film “American Gangster.”

He was sentenced to 70 years in prison after being convicted of federal drug charges in New York and state charges in New Jersey, but only served seven before turning informant and going into the Witness Protection Program, according to the New York Times.

Lucas emerged in later years to share his story and during an interview with Vlad TV said he and Melvin Combs were “good friends.”

“We did a lot of business together,” Lucas said. “Of course it was not legal business, but we did a lot of business together.”

Lucas expressed sadness regarding the elder Combs’ murder and said he met Sean Combs when he was a little boy.

“His daddy used to bring him over my house,” Lucas said. “He used to come see me on various business and he would bring him over my house.”

Lucas added that about a year prior to the Vlad TV interview, he had connected with Combs, who was seeking information about his late father.

“I told him something about his father, but I didn’t give him the whole story because he didn’t press me,” Lucas said. “He just asked me casually and I told him casually. But if he had pressed me, I would have told him the whole story.”

Combs told Toure that the world didn’t know the whole story about him.

“People don’t really know me,” the Bad Boy Record founder said at the time. “And that’s by design.”

“Who is this person, the Sean Combs that we don’t know,” Toure pressed.

“We have yet to find out,” Combs responded. “You have to come along for the ride.”.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/04/entertainment/sean-combs-father-frank-lucas

Ebonyi airport’s leaking terminal building re-roofing to gulp N2bn after N20bn runway rehabilitation

The Wilberforce Chuba Okadigbo airport, located in Ezza North and Ezza South local government areas of Ebonyi State, which was constructed during the istration of former Governor David Umahi, an engineer, remains a subject of controversy, gulping billions of naira without serving the purpose for which it was built.

The facility was inaugurated a few weeks to the end of the Umahi istration. But since it was constructed, the airport has continued to have one issue or the other arising from the construction pattern, preventing smooth flight operations at the airport.

Umahi’s successor, Francis Nwifuru, had told the people of the state after taking the mantle of leadership that the runway was constructed with concrete, which made it impossible for flights to land at the runway and immediately commenced its rehabilitation.

The rehabilitation of the runway cost over N20 billion. It was inaugurated by wife of the President, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu.

After the inauguration of the runway, full flight operations couldn’t commence at the airport. Another issue has been discovered at the airport by the governor, who said the terminal building at the airport was leaking and must be re-roofed for flight operations to go on in the airport without hitches.

He disclosed this to journalists at Abakaliki, the state capital, while answering questions on the airport after the second anniversary celebrations. He said the re-roofing of the leaking terminal building would cost about N2 billion and that the bill has been brought to him by the contractor that will handle the project.

Nwifuru said: “People are just taking the Ebonyi airport issue to the stage that I don’t know. We don’t really have issues in Ebonyi airport. The other day, I saw a post on Facebook where water took over some sections of the airport and I went to the airport myself and saw what happened.

“Originally, some places were designed to be flat roof and it was roofed with concrete. Some places were also designed to be roofed with corrugated aluminum, while very much oven-baked aluminum was used to roof those places and those places that were used with aluminum are not leaking.

“Now, we found out that where we have water collectors and the drainage inside the roof and we started having some leakages there for which you can’t blame anybody. Before, we were blaming some contractors but now we have realized that its not the contractors’ fault.

“So, what we are doing now is to re-roof everywhere. They have brought their bill and it is about N2bn to re-roof it but it’s not an issue. We didn’t give anybody job and the person didn’t do it. If we had given the person job and the person didn’t do it, we would have been saying that the person did a shoddy job. But we hope this is a flat roof and we did a decking. That the decking is leaking is not anybody’s fault.”

Nwifuru took time to explain why commercial operations were yet to begin in the airport. He explained: “Flight operation is ongoing in the airport, depending on the side you want to talk about. If you talk about commercial operations in the airport, it is not of our own making.

“For us, it is politics and you must struggle as a leader to navigate all the troubles and sort it out. Once aircraft is landing in the airport, what it shows is that the airport is ready for operation.

“In commercial operation of the airport, there is what they called design plan of the airport, which we have not done and they are giving us about three to four months to do it. But they have given us what they called temporal approval for landing and it must be a booked flight landing.

“So, for the commercial operation to take off completely, we must do our own part as a state. Now, they are already investigating our staff and that is the last stage of it, to find out if we have qualified and professional staff that can handle so many departments, and once they certify that, then commercial operation will take off.”

The governor had told the people of the state that a lot of projects were still ongoing at the airport. He made the revelation in Izhamgbo, Ohaukwu LGAof the state when he flagged off construction of the industrial city in the area with many stakeholders of the state in attendance.

“In that airport, we have a lot of projects ongoing but you know an elder doesn’t say everything he sees, but we have a lot of projects ongoing in that airport. Our tower is a temporal tower we brought from NIMET and they are threatening to take their tower and our own is ongoing.

“Our airport lighting is also ongoing and ours is one of the most sophisticated and one of the most modern monitors. So, you can be in London and look at the airport and when you are landing, you can land at a zero degree.

“So, it is going to be one of the best if we are able to complete it but I was promised by the contractor few days ago that the light at the runway will be on before the end of next week.

“Now, we have so many other issues at the airport. The whole of the terminal building, we need to pull it down because it is leaking all round and we have sunk a lot of money there and it is Alo Aluminum. It’s high time we call names.

“It is the problem of Alo Aluminum because at a point of giving contract for the roofing of that building, Engineer Dave Umahi said I will not give this thing to any contractor. I will give it to the manufacturer so that if there is any problem, we will hold him responsible and he paid Alo Aluminum handsomely for that job.

“But we will get it done, don’t worry. Nobody can bring my morale down. So, that is what is going on there. They said we should do what is called plang which we are almost through. Some of our people are also the trouble because about last five months, the commissioner for aviation applied for the money and we approved it in Exco and I released the money and I was never told or discussed with that this project has not been completed because it’s a paper work, it’s not a physical thing that I can say, it is done or not done and once you are done, you will present it to the NCAA or FAAN.

“So, it is when this crisis came that I found out that this project has not been completed. So, there is no formula, there is no details for them to know what is happening in that airport, what is functioning and what is not functioning.

“So, before they bring commercial aircraft there, everything has to be on ground and to be working and that’s another issue but that one is from our people and you don’t need to blame anybody. It’s another issue but by the grace of God, we must combat all the issues that are there to challenge us and it is also to educate us. Sometimes, when you face difficulties, you learn a lot. I am happy that, by the special grace of God, we will get it right. Before the end of next month, we will get it right,” he said.

The state commissioner for aviation and transport technology, Mrs. Ngozi Obichukwu, said the airport remains one of the best in the country despite the issues therein. She dismissed the claims of flood in the airport, describing those peddling the rumour that the airport was facing flood as peddlers of falsehood.

She said: “There is nothing like flooding in this airport. This is a clean project that we are already putting in use. Aircraft have been landing and taking off in this airport, we just received two flights this morning.

“You saw one that was parked there. Another one is coming before 5pm today. Like I’ve been saying, we have rules and regulations from the regulatory bodies of aviation.

“The airport is not an ordinary keke park, or bus park, or ordinary motorcycle park. It is something that is scientific. And it is something that is technical.

“The airport is where we want to ensure the safety of lives. Let there be safety. And for you to get it right, you must do according to these laid down regulations. Right now, we are just ending with chartered flight regulation.

“We are entering another regulation of enger lifting. And that is why if you go to some of our platforms, you see where I posted our flight operation in June.

“Those of our engers that are air-friendly, the world’s air travellers, can board United Nigeria Airlines to Ebonyi from Abuja. They can board Abuja, or rather Ebonyi to Abuja. And then they can board Lagos to Ebonyi, and Ebonyi to Lagos.

“Again, further information about where you board, how you are going to pay, how you are going to land and all that will be posted very soon. So, we are good to go. We are taking it one at a time.

“We cannot run faster than our shadows and we cannot do something that will close the airport. Any slightest mistake will close this airport from the federal regulators. That is why the governor, a determined man, a successful man, a seasoned , is taking his time to make sure that whatever they require, whatever they ask him, he does it.

“So, we are not in a hurry. We don’t want to make mistakes. The edifice is serving its purpose already. Very soon, the engers will outnumber even the people that are not aware that Ebonyi is existing, will be aware that Ebonyi Airport is on. But let us take it one at a time.

“Those who are saying that the Chuba Okadigbo Airport is not working are liars.They are born liars. Some of them have never even crossed this gate. Some have never even entered the door of a flight. And some will be telling you there is nothing. How will you know that the airport is working when you have not even been here?

“And so my governor is not moved by negative criticism. He is determined to succeed. And he is succeeding and nobody will stop him from getting to the goal. We are already there.”

But a chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Moses Idika, described the airport as a fraud. He argued that the airport was never planned neither was consultation made before its construction.

“Like I have stated in other fora, the Chuba Okadigbo Airport is a fraud orchestrated to swindle Ebonyi State. The airport was never planned, proper consultations were never made and that is why the airport cannot work.

“I spoke with a very senior official of one of the regulatory agencies of the federal government and the person said that Umahi finished building his airport before looking for certifications and accreditation.

“So, from the runway, the terminal building to the access roads, all are substandard. You can see that the terminal building may have to be brought down completely and rebuilt, same for the tower and other facilities.

“Imagine that Gov. Nwifuru spent over N20 billion to repair an unused airport runway, yet no plane is landing there, not even chattered flights. So, I urge Ebonyi people to call for an immediate probe of the scam called Chuba Okadigbo Airport,” Idika said.

About N42 billion was expended on the project by the Umahi istration that initiated it. Residents of its host communities alleged that their properties were destroyed without compensation as they were forcefully evicted from their homes before the airport was constructed. Bulldozers were used to demolish buildings.

Stakeholders of the communities, including traditional rulers and government officials, ed the siting of the airport in the communities, while common residents rejected it and vowed that they would never leave the communities as, according to them, the location was their ancestral homes.

The residents refused to leave the communities and held a series of protests to insist on their decision not to vacate the land. The state government had to employ force against them and their properties were destroyed with armed security men stationed in different parts of the communities to ensure that the residents did not obstruct any activity on the land for the construction of the airport.

The then government succeeded in taking over the land and constructed the airport, which generated criticism from many of the public. Critics of the multibillion-naira airport argued that it was not needed in a state where poverty was its biggest challenge, coupled with high internal and external debts and its closeness to Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu. They said that the Ebonyi airport was less than 45 minutes’ drive to the Enugu airport.

The critics said, according to data from from National Bureau of Statistics, Ebonyi has the highest poverty rate in Southern Nigeria, with a staggering 80% of its esimated four million population classified as living in poverty.

They further argued that the state was one most indebted states in the country and owing external debt of $92,655,060.01, or N157 billion, while its cumulative internal debt stands at over N70 billion, aside from various commitments to some other domestic financial institutions.

The data, according to the airport critics, was released in June this year but the state government, represented by the commissioner for information and state orientation, said it has never borrowed a dime to run the state and was not ready to do so, saying the debt was inherited. It described the data as unverifiable.

https://thesun.ng/ebonyi-airports-leaking-terminal-building-re-roofing-to-gulp-n2bn-after-n20bn-runway-rehabilitation/?amp

NBM takes Edo State Government to court over demolition of secretariat

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Mongolia PM resigns after son's luxury holiday stirs public fury



Mongolia's prime minister has resigned after social media photos of his son's lavish lifestyle sparked an anti-corruption investigation and weeks of mass protests.

Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene, who has denied wrongdoing, lost a confidence vote in parliament on Tuesday.

The viral photos purport to show Oyun-Erdene's son and the son's girlfriend flaunting a black Dior shoulder bag and several shopping bags while on their engagement holiday.

Protesters questioned how Oyun-Erdene's family could afford such luxurious living. Local media reported that the country's anti-corruption body had been looking into their finances.

The photo of the Dior bag, reportedly posted by the girlfriend, had the caption: "Happy birthday to me". Another photo purportedly showed the couple kissing in a swimming pool.

The images have been shared on social media and published by local media.

During Tuesday's confidence vote, 44 of the 88 lawmakers who took part in the secret ballot voted for Oyun-Erdene, while 38 others voted against him. He needed the of at least 64 of parliament's 126 .

"It was an honour to serve my country and people in times of difficulties, including pandemics, wars, and tariffs," he said after the vote.

Hundreds of protesters, many of them young people, had been taking to the streets for two weeks before the vote, demanding Oyun-Erdene's resignation.

Oyun-Erdene has rejected allegations of corruption, accusing critics of launching a smear campaign against him.

According to Transparency International, Mongolia has seen worsening corruption since Oyun-Erdene came into power. Last year, it was ranked 114th out of 180 countries in of government transparency.

A former communist state sandwiched between Russia and China, Mongolia has been transitioning to democracy since the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.

Corruption is a persistent problem. Last year, US prosecutors sought to forfeit former Mongolian PM Sukhbaatar Batbold's two New York apartments that he allegedly bought using stolen mining funds.

Batbold, who served from 2012 to 2015, denied wrongdoing.

In recent years, Mongolia has sought to build closer ties with the West, counting the United States and European countries as part of its "third neighbour" foreign policy.

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The Official Languages Found in the Most Countries of the World, Mapped
English came out on top by a large margin.

It might be where the language itself originated, but oddly enough, English isn’t the official language of the United Kingdom.

In fact, the UK has no official language at all. Instead, English only has de facto official status: Its position as the national language of UK law, government, business, and education has never been enshrined in law. (The same used to be true of the United States until, after a centuries-long status identical to that of the UK, it adopted English as the legal, or de jure, official language in 2025.)

Around the world, though, the UK is something of an international outlier in not nominating an official national language, as the vast majority of countries have. And what’s more—as a new survey by language website WordTips has revealed—more countries have adopted English as an official language than any other language.

WordTips examined both the de facto and de jure official languages of every country and overseas territory in the world, and totaled up the number of times each one was listed. English came out on top with 59 of the world’s countries naming it as its official (or one of its official) languages by a large margin.

In Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, English is the de facto language, while the remaining 56* official anglophone countries include clusters in the Caribbean (Barbados, the Bahamas, Jamaica, etc.), the Pacific (Fiji, Nauru, Palau), and Africa (including Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania). Canada (minus Québec) and the U.S. find themselves in the English total too, as well others like Singapore and the Philippines.

French comes in a respectable second place in the study, as the official language of a total of 29 countries. sits alongside Monaco, Switzerland, Belgium, and Luxembourg as using French as its official language in Europe. Just as with English, there’s a further cluster of francophone countries in Africa (Benin, Guinea, Madagascar, and Rwanda among them). Canada makes the French list too, thanks to Québec, alongside the only other North American francophone nation, Haiti.

The rest of the top five is rounded out by Arabic in third place (with 22 countries), Spanish in fourth (15 countries), and Portuguese in fifth, whose list of 10 countries spans the entire globe: Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, and São Tomé and Príncipe.

Single-figure languages filling out the remainder of the list include German and Swahili, which tie with six countries each; and both Russian (Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia) and Italian (Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City) are used as official languages in four neighboring nations each.

Neighboring nations make up much of the rest of the study, thanks to groups such as Quechua (the official language of Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru), Berber (in Algeria and Morocco), and Swedish (Finland and Sweden). Hindustani is an official language in both India and Pakistan, and has the same status 7000 miles away in Fiji (which was historically used as a destination for indentured laborers during the British Raj). Likewise, Dutch is an official language in both Belgium and the Netherlands, but also in the former Dutch colony of Suriname, some 4500 miles away from Europe.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/geography/maps/official-languages-found-in-the-most-countries-of-the-world-map

NCC cracks down on DJs over copyright violations, issues 5-year jail threat

The Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC), has warned Disc Jockeys (DJs) to stop performing other people’s music publicly without a license or the owner’s authorisation, threatening to prosecute defaulters in a case that could lead to a N1 million fine or a 5-year jail term upon conviction by a court.

Dr John Asein, Director-General of NCC, disclosed this in an advisory issued on Wednesday in Abuja, according to a NAN report.

The NCC stressed that its attention has been drawn to the practice of some DJs, who publicly perform music without obtaining the requisite copyright licences from rights holders or their approved Collective Management Organisations (CMOs).

NCC Reacts
Asein explained that based on sections 9 and 12 of the Copyright Act, 2022, it is only the owner of copyright in a musical work or sound recording who has the exclusive right to reproduce, perform, or communicate it to the public.

“Engaging in any of these acts without the owner’s authorisation constitutes an infringement under the Act.

“Such infringement may constitute a civil wrong or a criminal offence under section 44 (7), punishable upon conviction by a fine of not less than N1 million or imprisonment for a term of not less than five years or both.

“The public performance of music by a DJ, whether at hotels, event centres, clubs, gardens, or recreational facilities, constitutes both a public performance and a communication to the public of the musical work and sound recording, as provided for under the Act,” he stressed.

The D-G highlighted that the commission would “not hesitate to investigate, arrest, and prosecute any DJ found to be in contravention of the law.”
He advised DJs to obtain appropriate licences and pay royalties to the approved Collective Management Organisation (CMO) before engaging in such performances.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the approved CMO for musical works and sound recordings in Nigeria is the Musical Copyright Society, Nigeria (MCSN).

“The Commission is aware that the Disc Jockey’s Association of Nigeria (DJAN), as the umbrella body representing DJs in Nigeria, has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with MCSN.

“Under the arrangement, DJAN is authorised to work with MCSN to facilitate the payment of royalties by DJs nationwide, based on the tariff that DJAN had negotiated with MCSN,” he added.

He stated that henceforth, the commission would be collaborating with other relevant authorities to the initiative of DJAN, to ensure that DJs carry out their trade in compliance with the Copyright Act.

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This is the first Aboki wey sabi book be this 😂

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Enugu Police Command Summons Council Chairman For Setting Up Vigilante Group To Go After Killer Herdsmen

According to security sources, Ezugwu was invited twice with his vigilante group to the state police command headquarters through the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Operations.

The police in Enugu State have summoned the Chairman of the Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area, Mr Chijioke Ezugwu, over allegations that he and his vigilante group have been combing forests and going after killer herdsmen, SaharaReporters has learnt.

According to security sources, Ezugwu was invited twice with his vigilante group to the state police command headquarters through the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Operations.


The D, a northerner, reportedly interrogated the council chairman "on the allegations of killing herdsmen."

"The aim was to stop the council chairman from flushing out the criminals and kidnappers who have been masquerading as herders to unleash terror on the people," the source disclosed.

The police reportedly wanted him to make a statement under caution, but the chairman refused, citing his legal background and duty to protect his people.

Ezugwu, according to the source, explained that the actions of his vigilante group were necessary to protect his people from attacks and kidnappings, stating, "You know the dire situation in my area and we have to be armed to go into the forest to protect our people."

The matter is said to have been taken up by Governor Peter Mbah, who intervened to prevent Ezugwu from being taken to the Force Headquarters Abuja, where the D felt his associaties would be able to bring up trumped-up charges against the council chairman.

The circumstances surrounding the governor's intervention have also raised suspicions, given the alleged connections between the governor and northern interests.

"In the past months, several people in the council area have been killed and farmlands destroyed. So many have also been kidnapped and millions of naira paid in ransom. Some are still under their captors," lamented another source.

"Of most recent is the killing of a 90-year-old man and wife in Nimbo. It should also be noted that marauding herdsmen not only operate from the forest but they come into people's homes.

"Now the chairman took the bold step to protect his people and started going into the forest, that the police didn't respond to all these problems and killings but now, he is being harassed by the police," said another source.

SaharaReporters reported on June 2, how a 90-year-old man, Elder Otiakugwu, and his wife were allegedly killed in their home at Ekwuru village of Nimbo, Uzo-Uwani LGA by assailants suspected to be marauding herdsmen who had made life miserable for local communities.

The unfortunate incident, which was latest in the series of carnage going on for months in the Council Area occurred on last Wednesday.

The witnesses had told SaharaReporters that the victims' grandchild had visited them earlier and returned to school, unaware of the danger that awaited them.

"The assailants entered Ekwuru village of Nimbo unnoticed, met the nonagenarian and his wife eating. They killed them and dropped their blood soaked machete on their body and fled under the cover of the night. It was in the following morning being Thursday that they were seen lying dead in the pool of blood," said the witnesses.

The community is still reeling from the shock of the brutal killing, with many questioning the motive behind the attack. "What may have been the offence of the oldest man of the community and his wife to be gruesomely killed?" residents lamented.

This incident has reignited fears in the community, which has been plagued by attacks from Fulani herdsmen in the past. In 2016, about 12 indigenes were killed in a similar attack. Since then, the community has been under siege, with reports of killings, rapes, and destruction of farmlands.

On May 18, SaharaReporters reported the killing of seven farmers in Daba and Nimbo communities in Uzo-Uwani LGA and the kidnap of six others by marauding herdsmen.

Those killed were from Aku community in Igbo-Etiti Local Government Area of Enugu but who were farming at Daba community in Uzo-Uwani council area.

It was reported that the assailants equally abducted three farmers from the community.

An indigene of Nimbo community identified as Simon Odenigbo was equally killed in a separate attack at Ekulu village. After the killing, the suspected kidnapers proceeded to Abbi community, and abducted three people.

No fewer than 36 people had been confirmed killed in various attacks across Uzo-Uwani local government with little police efforts to arrest the killers who regularly infiltrated the communities from neighbouring Kogi and Benue States.

Meanwhile, SaharaReporters' efforts to speak with the Command's spokesperson SP Daniel Ndukwe over the development were unsuccessful as he did not take his calls as at the time of filing this report.

Also, Mr Ezugwu did not take his calls when SaharaReporters reached out to him or respond to a text message seeking his comment on the incident.

https://saharareporters.com/2025/06/04/enugu-police-command-summons-council-chairman-setting-vigilante-group-go-after-killer

Griffon:
Okezie is a monumental failure.

He is busy jostling for political offices because he can’t get enough of public funds. A man who failed to leave a lasting legacy deserves no recognition from any body.

In the next six years, Otti for his good works in less than three years will be ed by every Abian and international bodies.

Real recognizes real.

IKpeazu just like his name is failure personified.

Florida family went fishing and caught 56 pounds of cocaine