Food and Drug Administration cautions use of mesh for pelvic organ prolapse

Mesh implants used to repair pelvic organ prolapse have been reclassified as 'high risk' by the American FDA.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has strengthened rules regarding the use of vaginal mesh implants to treat pelvic organ prolapse in women.
Problems are common
The devices were reclassified on Monday from a "moderate" to "high" risk category.
Manufacturers must now submit pre-market approval applications to the FDA to help the agency better assess the implants' safety and effectiveness.

Pelvic organ prolapse involves a weakening or stretching of internal structures that support organs such as the bladder, bowel and uterus.
It can happen in women after childbirth, a hysterectomy or menopause. It can cause pelvic pain, constipation and urinary leakage, and often affects sexual activity.
Surgeons have long used the mesh implants to reinforce weakened pelvic floor muscles and repair pelvic organ prolapse.
But, problems afterwards such as pain, infection, bleeding, urinary problems and pain during intercourse are common, the agency said.

"These stronger clinical requirements will help to address the significant risks associated with surgical mesh for repair of pelvic organ prolapse," Dr William Maisel, deputy director of science and chief scientist at the FDA Centre for Devices and Radiological Health, said in an agency news release.
"We intend to continue monitoring how women with this device are faring months and years after surgery through continued post-market surveillance measures," he added.

The updated requirements apply to surgical placement of the mesh implants through the vagina (transvaginal) to treat pelvic organ prolapse.
The new rules do not apply to other uses of surgical mesh.
Makers of transvaginal mesh implants already on the market now have 30 months to submit pre-market approval applications, while makers of new devices must submit an application before they can be approved for sale in the United States, the FDA said.

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Here are our top 10 suggestions for alternative resolutions.

If your New Year always starts with you reeling off the same old dutiful commitments to join a gym.

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If your New Year always starts with you reeling off the same old dutiful commitments to join a gym, start a diet and give up all those bad habits, why not try something different next year to boost your happiness and revitalise your life?

Here are our top 10 suggestions for alternative resolutions.

Get your photo taken in five interesting places
If you’ve got the travel bug and want to see a bit more of the world, why not make it a New Year’s resolution to visit five interesting places you’ve always wanted to see? Even better, make a visual record of the year by making sure you get a photo of yourself taken in each place.
Good photo opportunities include inside an igloo in Lapland, on the Great Wall of China, inside a volcanic crater or floating in the Dead Sea, but use your imagination to think of your own – the world’s your oyster after all.
Learn a decent party trick
You know that party trick you’ve got, the one that always comes out after a couple of drinks? Think about it; is it really so impressive in the cold light of day? If the answer is no, it’s about time you learned a new trick; one that will really impress.
Mastering a new skill – no matter how pointless – can increase your self-esteem, as well as earning you some serious social kudos next time you reveal it in public. For a physical challenge, why not work on your flexibility for a spot of contortion, or give yourself a mental challenge and learn how to recite the alphabet backwards in less than 10 seconds.
Break a record
Want to give your confidence a boost and work towards a new challenge? Then make this the year that you break a record! You could aim at breaking a personal fitness record or, if you want to aim a little higher, set your sights on a world one. With lots of diverse (and bizarre) records there for the taking, this may not be as difficult as you think.
Perhaps you could burn off some kilojoules with the world’s longest kiss, the longest time spent bouncing on a bouncy castle or the fastest one mile run completed wearing swim fins... Yes, these are all real world record titles if you fancy your chances!
Make a new friend a month
Fact: friends are great for your health, and the more you have of them the better. So, why not make it a New Year’s resolution to start collecting them? To expand your social circle, try to make one new friend a month by making a conscious effort to attend more social events, chat to strangers and get introductions to friends of friends.
Making friends with people with different personalities and interests from you can be particularly beneficial in helping you to broaden your horizons, explore different sides of your personality and find new ways to get the most out of life.
Develop a good relationship with your body
Many traditional New Year’s resolutions centre around improving our bodies in some way, whether by taking up a diet or joining a gym. Next year, make it your resolution to start to love the body you’ve got instead. While this doesn’t mean you can’t make changes to your diet and fitness regime if your health requires it, it does mean starting to love who you are in the process.
Work on improving your body confidence by focusing on the things you do like rather than those you don’t, and learn to dress according to your body shape, showing off your favourite features.
Learn something you never learned as a child
You may run your own company, pay your own bills and parallel-park like a pro, but do you know how to do a handstand or ride a bike? For this New Year’s resolution it’s time to nurture your inner child and learn that thing that you never learned to do.
Whether it’s the number of days in each month, how to spell ‘necessary’ correctly, how to ride a bike or swim, we all have something we never learned as a child that everyone else seems to know. Set this to rights and have some fun at the same time by redressing this gap in your knowledge. Your younger self would be proud!
Try a new food each week
Rather than cutting out foods from your diet as with so many New Year’s resolutions, opt to add more foods in to your diet next year instead (bonus points if they’re green!).
 Many of us don’t eat a varied enough diet, so ensure you are getting all the nutrients your body needs – as well as enhancing your enjoyment of food – by making a resolution to try a new food each week. Try hitting the fruit and vegaisle first to sample some exotic fruit and vegetables you may have yet to try, such as dragon fruit, lychees, romanescu and plantain.
Make the usual unusual
It’s easy to get into a rut where we do the same things day in, day out, with our days passing us by as a routine-filled blur. Next year, spice up your routine by vowing to do one small thing differently each day or week. Wear something you wouldn’t normally wear, run a different route, or order a different coffee perhaps.
Also, don’t fall into the trap of postponing your happiness by saving everything special “for best”. Instead, brighten up a routine day every so often by donning your diamond earrings, swapping faded comfy knickers for your favourite silk underwear, or eating those fancy chocolates washed down with a glass of champagne!
Sort out a financial worry
To help get your year off to a good start, try getting your finances in order by making a resolution to sort out one area of financial worry. Perhaps you spend a fortune on petrol or maybe it is your food bills that are blowing your budget?
Try to think of some alternatives to the main causes of financial stress, such as cycling to work instead of driving, growing your own vegetables or making your own beauty products. Not only will coming up with alternative solutions help you save some money, you may find that you enjoy them and that they boost your health too.
Do something nice for others every day
Many of our resolutions (these included) are inwardly focused, concentrating on ways to become thinner, healthier, wealthier people. However, while there is nothing wrong with improving yourself, it’s worth remembering there’s a whole world out there too.
Next year, why not make a resolution to focus outwards instead and help make the world a better place. Plan to do one nice thing a day for someone else; whether it’s something small like giving a compliment, or something potentially life-saving like donating blood or sponsoring a child in need. By knowing you are making a difference, you will also indirectly boost your own happiness and sense of achievement.

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Uganda police finding the missing 80kg cocaine

Kampala - Ugandan police said on Monday they were investigating reports that cocaine worth nearly $4m seized by customs officers at its main airport had disappeared from secure stores.
National police chief Kale Kayihura has set up "a task team to conduct an audit into the control and accountability of drug exhibits at the aviation police headquarters," said police spokesperson Fred Enanga.
"The task team is in its advanced stages of the enquiry," saying it was up to them to confirm if the drugs seized from smugglers between 2012 and 2014 had since been stolen.
The New Vision newspaper said about 80kg of cocaine - worth some $4m at street prices - reportedly had gone missing from the stores of aviation police at Entebbe international airport.
The state-owned newspaper, which quoted unnamed souces, said, "wheat and cassava flour and other substances were substituted for cocaine.
"The racket came to light after detectives took 17 separate samples from the stores for testing at the government analytical laboratory last year," the newspaper reported.

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Paul Walker will appear in Fast and Furious 8

 

 

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Los Angeles - Paul Walker will be "represented" in Fast and Furious 8.
The late Hollywood actor - who died at the age of 40, after a tragic car incident in Santa Clarita, California, in 2013 - is going to be featured in the eighth film in the blockbuster franchise in "some form or another", NBC Universal vice-chairman Ron Meyer has announced.
Asked if Paul's character Brian O'Conner will be in the movie, Meyer said: "Paul won't be in it, but he'll be represented in some form or another, but whether his image is in it, I can't tell you yet, but he won't be in the film as a performer, as an actor, the way we did it last time."
In Fast and Furious 7 Paul's image was shot using CGI and his younger brother, Cody Walker, 27, played the body double of his character Brian O'Conner.
Universal's Ron also promises the film will be much-like the other films without Paul.
He added: "It will still be Fast and Furious, it will just be without Paul."
Elsewhere, actor Vin Diesel - who reprises his lead role as Dominic Toretto - teased that the upcoming movies will be a lot darker and this will be brought out by Straight Outta Compton director Gary Grey.
Vin told Variety: "We have a director who is going to bring the darkness out and bring out the character."
Fast and Furious 8 is expected to be released on 14 April, 2017.

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Garissa university reopens in Kenya

 photo of students of the Garissa University taking shelter in a vehicle after fleeing.

Nairobi - Officials say the Kenyan university where Islamic extremists killed 148 people nine months ago has reopened amid high security.
Many Kenyans are praising the reopening of Garissa University College as showing that Kenya will not surrender to extremist violence.
Registrar Isaack Mohammed Noor said on Monday that at least 150 of 200 staff had reported for work at the college, a branch of Eldoret's Moi University.
Noor said that he had been living at the school during the April 2 attack and had vivid memories of the rampage in which 142 students died, many of whom he knew. Six security officers were also killed.
Somalia's extremist insurgents, al-Shabaab, claimed responsibility for the attack. The rebels have vowed retribution on Kenya for sending troops to fight them in Somalia.

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Islamic State of Iraq and Syria jihadists attack key Libya oil facility

Benghazi - The Islamic State jihadist group launched attacks near key oil facilities in northern Libya on Monday but were repulsed, an army official said.
The jihadists first carried out a suicide car bomb attack on a military checkpoint at the entrance to the town of Al-Sidra, killing two soldiers, said a colonel in the army loyal to the internationally recognised government.
"We were attacked by a convoy of a dozen vehicles belonging to ISIS," Bashir Boudhfira said. "They then launched an attack on the town of Ras Lanouf via the south but did not manage to enter."
IS has for several weeks been trying to push east from the coastal city of Sirte under its control to reach Libya's "oil crescent" and the key oil terminals of Al-Sidra and Ras Lanouf.
A Libyan oil official told AFP that a 420 000-barrel oil storage tank in Ras Lanouf caught fire during the clashes.
ISIS on Twitter announced that its fighters had led an "attack on the Al-Sidra area followed by violent clashes with the enemies of God".
The jihadists have taken advantage of chaos in Libya since the 2011 revolt that ousted and killed longtime dictator Moamer Kadhafi to extend their influence there.
Monday's attack is the first of its kind since IS seized Kadhafi's hometown of Sirte in June 2015.
The group said the attack came after it took control of Ben Jawad town, 150km east of Sirte.
It came as an air force colonel from the city of Misrata east of Tripoli said air strikes were carried out "from morning to nightfall" on jihadist positions.
The officer, who declined to be named, said the strikes focused on targets between Al-Sidra and Ben Jawad.
His comments came amid reports that IS fighters were advancing west of Sirte.
Fighter jet crashes
Meanwhile, Libya's national news agency LANA, quoting a military spokesman, reported that a MiG 23 warplane crashed in the region of Abu Hadi, southwest of second city Benghazi, because of a "technical failure in the hydraulic system".
The SITE Intelligence Group reported an ISIS claim that it shot down the plane.
Oil is Libya's main natural resource, with a pre-revolt output capacity of about 1.6 million barrels per day, accounting for more than 95 percent of exports and 75% of the budget.
But unrest has forced a major slump in production.
The country sits on reserves estimated at 48 billion barrels, the largest in Africa.
Libya has had rival administrations since August 2014, when an Islamist-backed militia alliance overran Tripoli, forcing the government to take refuge in the east.
The United Nations is pressing both sides to accept a power-sharing agreement it hopes will help reverse gains made by IS.
On December 17, under UN guidance, envoys from both sides and a number of independent political figures signed a deal for a unity government.
It calls for a 17-member government, headed by businessman Fayez el-Sarraj as premier, based in Tripoli.
The British ambassador to Libya, Peter Millet, tweeted his concern about the latest developments.
"Deeply concerned by reports of a #Daesh (IS) offensive at Sidra & Ras Lanuf. Reinforces the need for Libyans to back Govt of National Accord," he said.

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Malawi politician said :Homosexuals should be killed

Nyasa - A Malawian politician has demanded that homosexuals be killed after the country's justice minister Samuel Tembenu put a temporary prohibition on anti-homosexual laws, Nyasa Times reports.
Ken Msonda, who is the spokesperson for the former ruling Peoples Party (PP), also called on government to clarify its stance on homosexuality.
"Government should come up clear on the DPP [Democratic Progressive Party] administration's stand on the issue of gays and lesbians," Msonda reportedly wrote on his Facebook page.
He described homosexuals as being worse than dogs and that gays and lesbians were "sons and daughters of the devil".
“Arresting them won’t address this problem because sooner or later they are being released on bail. The best way to deal with this problem is to KILL them!” he wrote.
Msonda is not the first African politician to have openly discriminated against homosexuals.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has previously expressed his view on homosexuality, describing gays as being "worse than pigs and dogs".
A report by the Guardian indicated that the African continent was the most homophobic continent in the world.
According to Amnesty International homosexuality was illegal in 36 of Africa’s 55 countries and punishment in some result in death.

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Cape Town – Television in South Africa turns 40 years old today.

 

 

 Riaan Cruywagen 

 Cape Town – Television in South Africa turns 40 years old today.

The SABC TV service marks its 40th anniversary since the very first nationwide broadcast on 5 January 1976 when Dorianne Berry and Heinrich Marnitz welcomed viewers to the “opening night” of TV in the country.
The past four decades saw the SABC’s television offering going through various channel permutations with the South African public broadcaster currently providing 5 TV channels in the form of SABC1, SABC2, SABC3 and then two channels – SABC News and the archive rerun channel SABC Encore – produced exclusively for MultiChoice’s DStv satellite pay-TV platform.
The past four decades in South Africa also saw the launch of pay-TV with pay-TV broadcaster M-Net (that will be turning 30 years old in October), together with MultiChoice’s DStv and StarTimes Media SA’s StarSat as satellite pay-TV offerings.
Services like Platco Digital’s OpenView HD free-to-air satellite service in addition to a growing plethora of video-on-demand (VoD) services like Naspers’ ShowMax, Times Media’s VIDI, MTN’s VU and PCCW Global’s ONTAPtv.com are enhancing consumer choice in South Africa’s growing videosphere.
Meanwhile the global streaming giant Netflix told mike ben  that it will be launching in South Africa before the end of this year.
The milestone comes as the SABC that introduced television in South Africa continues to lurch from crisis to crisis four decades later.
The SABC isn’t celebrating the 40th anniversary since its first national TV broadcast was done from Auckland Park – complete with studio curtains and in colour – but the milestone is highly significant as the South Africa’s television industry is hovering on the verge of the biggest sea change since the introduction of television.
In 2016 the long-delayed commercial switch from analogue to digital terrestrial television (DTT) broadcasting will simply have to start in South Africa after the country missed the internationally agreed to deadline for the switch-off of analogue TV signals by June 2015.
SA’s digital TV challenges
While DTT will ring in the biggest systemic change for South Africa’s television industry since the medium started in 1976 and will bring ordinary South African TV viewers access to many more TV channels from e.tv and M-Net in addition to the SABC’s 5 existing channels, big problems and challenges await.
While millions of poor South African TV viewers qualify to get a government-subsidised set-top box (STB) – a compulsory decoder necessary to receive and watch digital television – these TV households without a SABC TV licence and who can’t pay for an annual licence are already being denied a STB.
This will see thousands of TV households cut off in a TV market where viewers can’t get enough of their beloved local South Africa weekday soap operas, impacting things like TV ratings, audience measurement and advertising.
As channels and new broadcasters under DTT are rolled out it will also lead to the biggest demand for TV content since the start of TV in South Africa in four decades ago.
Lost in the squabble over STB contracts and tenders, numerous digital migration standards and regulation amendments, as well as industry infighting and broadcaster litigation, has been the discussion about the actual TV content – what it will be, the financial cost to produce and acquire it, and where it will come from to fill new schedules.
While broadcasters like the SABC, e.tv and M-Net will each transmit more channels leading to further fragmentation of the existing TV audience, advertisers, agencies and ad buyers will battle with having to slice their existing ad spend to try and capture ever thinning audiences spread out over more channels.
Meanwhile local broadcasters will have to pay for foreign content and produce more local content for new TV channels to try and entice South African viewers to switch to DTT – burning through content that will have to be good enough to make viewers feel they need to switch in order to make the digital migration process successful, although these channels will not initially have a lot of viewers to make its existence commercially feasible.
Digital television will ironically require a huge capital investment for South Africa’s broadcasters in their own new TV content that won’t be initially seen by a lot of viewers.
Broadcasters will also have to continue to pay for “dual illumination”: broadcasting a DTT version of their existing and new TV channels’ signals but also continuing to transmit in parallel, the analogue signals of existing TV channels for a period of a few years until these analogue signals can be switched off.
This switch-off can only take place when the bulk of millions of TV households have eventually bought or received a set-top box and switched over … in a country where roughly two-thirds of all TV households don’t even have or pay for a SABC TV licence.

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Ouattara cuts sentences of three 100 prisoners

Ouattara cuts sentences of 3 100 prisoners

President Alassane Ouattara. (File, AFP)

Abidjan - Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara  says he has reduced the sentences of 3 100 prisoners, including some held over bloody post-election unrest.
About 3 000 people died in five months of violence in 2010-2011 in the west African nation following elections that saw Ouattara unseat then president Laurent Gbagbo.
The crisis erupted after the strongman leader refused to concede defeat, sparking months of violence that eventually drew in international troops.
"I have decided to use my right of clemency to grant full and partial sentence reductions," Ouattara said.
"This decision will allow thousands of inmates to get their freedom back and for others to see their terms shortened," he added. "It concerns a total of 3 100 people."
He did not give a breakdown of how many prisoners would go free immediately and how many would remain behind bars.
Campaigners cautiously welcomed the announcement.
"Ordinary prisoners will be pardoned but for political prisoners, that grace does not solve the problem," said Seri Gouagnon, a Gbagbo supporter.
"The most important thing is that he follows through on the announcement," said Desiree Douati, the head of a group that represents the families of those in prison in Ivory Coast.
Ouattara, a former economist, won a second five-year term by a landslide in October in the nation's first peaceful vote in more than a decade.
He has been credited with reviving the economy of the war-scarred country, the world's leading cocoa producer, investing in huge infrastructure projects that have helped raise annual growth to around 9%.
Gbagbo, who was eventually defeated by pro-Ouattara forces backed by the UN and France, is now awaiting trial before the International Criminal Court in the Hague.
The 2010-2011 crisis was a bloody epilogue to a decade of upheaval, splitting west Africa's economic powerhouse between a rebel-held north and a loyalist south.

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Bishop Chris Kwakpovwe Set for Annual ‘Our Daily Manna’ World Anointing Service

Preparations are already in top gear ahead of this year’s annual World Anointing Night service organized by the wave-making and lives-changing daily devotional, “Our Daily Manna” in conjunction with  The Manna Prayer Mountain, an inter-denominational Ministry located at Orioke-Ogudu, Ojota in Lagos.

The programme seen by millions as AN ANNUAL YEAR STARTER will hold on Friday 29^th, January 2015 at the expansive Tafawa Balewa Square, TBS in Lagos concluding a 21-day fasting & prayer which begins January 9^th.

The greatly anticipated event is drawing over 800,000 enthusiastic worshippers from various nations across the globe like the U.K., U.S.A., Zambia, Ghana, South Africa, Canada, Australia, Zambia etc. This edition’s theme is: “JEHOVAH EBENEZER- Lord Wipe My Tears’’ and people are encouraged to bring 12 HANDKERCHIEFS (MANTLES) which will be used in prophetic prayers. Thus, it is also a NIGHT OF 12 PROPHETIC MANTLES!

According to Bishop (Dr.) Kwakpovwe, “By the grace of God, as usual, the event will to be awesome, and there shall be the UNUSUAL! God told me that all kinds of barrenness (physical or spiritual) shall give way! What is supposed to make men or women cry in 2016 will be terminated and there shall be TOTAL DIVINE VISITATION head of the year. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever and He will show Himself alive again. It is divine mandate to start the year.”

Other anointed men of the mighty God along with Dr. Chris, and his wife, Ejiro, are expected to minister in prophetic words while notable gospel artistes will be on hand to sing. THERE SHALL BE LOTS OF PRAYING ALSO TO ROUND UP THE 21- DAY FAST!

Speaking on the vision of the devotional booklet, National Coordinator of Our Daily Manna, ODM and wife of the publisher and author of the devotional, Rev. (Mrs.) Flora Ejiro Kwakpovwe stressed that the ODM booklet is to provide people with daily practical life stories, inspirational Bible expositions, breakthrough prayer points, songs and strong prophetic declarations. The vision is ODM in every home!

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Onazi weds Sandra in Lagos

Onazi ans Sandra

It is indeed a season of weddings for Nigeria internationals as midfielder Ogenyi Onazi has also married his fiancée Sandra Ogunsuyi in a private ceremony in Lagos on December 29.

Onazi’s event follows those of Super Eagles teammates John Ogu and Simon Moses.

Onazi, who plays for Lazio in the Italian Serie A, and Sandra tied the knot at the marriage registry in Ikoyi.

A friend of the couple told The PUNCH Onazi and Sandra were joined by friends and family including former Eagles striker Ayodele Makinwa, the groom’s brother Thompson Onazi and close friend Ifada Ighodalo.

“I thank God for such a special day. Getting married is a milestone in the life of a man; to get married to a woman who you love and who loves you makes it even more special,” Onazi said in the New Year.

The bride, who is a Public Administration graduate, wore a low-cut white lace gown and hat for the ceremony. A reception followed immediately far out of public glare.

It was also learnt that the footballer and his queen were engaged for one year before the marriage.

Source: Punchng

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Ajimobi cancels Olubadan chiefs’ elevation

Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi

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The Oyo State Government on Monday issued a 48-hour ultimatum to nine elevated chiefs in Ibadan to revert to their former status, describing their promotions by the Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Samuel Odulana, as illegal.

A statement released by the state government said it was disappointed with the promotions after it requested that concerned high chiefs should submit their medical certificates of fitness before the Olubadan of Ibadan could elevate them.

The statement partly read, “Government’s suspicion and ardent belief are that the recent purported elevation could not have received the blessing of our highly revered father and traditional ruler, the Olubadan of Ibadan. He is reputed to be a forthright and foremost traditional ruler with an enviable track record of achievements and a firm belief in due process as well as a respecter of the rule of law.

“Consequently, government directs that the organisers and the beneficiaries to reverse the purported elevation within 48 hours, failing which appropriate sanctions will be invoked under sections 21 and 26 of the Chiefs Laws, Cap 28, Laws of Oyo State, 2000.”

In an attempt to clarify its position on the matter, the state government said since the inception of the present administration, it had resisted, as a matter of policy, any attempt to be lured into religious, chieftaincy and labour union issues.

“This is in order to maintain its neutrality, ensure fairness, justice and respect for the rule of law. Government will always uphold the sanctity of the rule of law and would neither encourage nor condone any tradition or peculiar culture of illegality, impunity, disregard and/or disrespect to constituted authority,” the statement said.

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Buhari misled over N47bn lawmakers’ exotic cars –N’Assembly

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The National Assembly on Sunday said its members were eager to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari over the President’s “claim” that the National Assembly planned to spend over N47bn to buy exotic cars this year.

The House of Representatives, on its part, stated that a meeting with Buhari would put the records straight on how the President got his figure, since the legislature had not contemplated “making such a mind-boggling” expenditure.

Buhari had, during his maiden Presidential Media Chat on Wednesday last week, wondered that the National Assembly planned to buy cars worth over N47bn, in addition to taking car loans and generous transport allowances.

“I can’t see the National Assembly spending more than N47bn to buy cars on top of transport allowance they collect.

“I have to revisit that story. The budget for their transport allowance comes up to N100bn. With the kind of money that goes into the National Assembly, we have to look at it conscientiously and see how we can live within our means,” he had said.

Buhari announced that he would hold a closed-door meeting with the legislators to discuss the issue.

However, both the Senate and the House of Representatives in their separate reactions less than 24 hours after the media chat, denied that there was a plan to buy cars worth the amount the President quoted.

Speaking with The PUNCH on Sunday, House Minority Leader, Mr. Leo Ogor, said the members were prepared to meet with the President, where the lawmakers planned to ask him how he arrived at the figure.

Ogor stated that since making the announcement last week, there had been no communication from the Presidency on when the meeting would take place.

But he told The PUNCH that members were willing to meet with the President to address the “misinformation for the purpose of avoiding needless crises.”

He added, “There is no meeting fixed that I am aware of for now.

“But, as a House, we welcome discussions with Mr. President to avoid unnecessary frictions.”

The minority leader also pointed out that the President made “several assumptions” about his powers, especially in relation to the power of appropriation.

According to him, Buhari, during the chat, seemed to assume that all the proposals of the executive in the 2016 budget of N6.08tn were sacrosanct and did not require any scrutiny by the National Assembly.

“We advise that, in keeping with the principle of separation of powers, he should read sections 4,5,6 and 80 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) jointly for clearer understanding of which arm of government has the power of appropriation.

“All that is contained in the entire budget remains a mere proposal until approved by the National Assembly the way it deems fit,” he added.

Ogor added that the National Assembly too would need to be convinced why the Presidency proposed to buy cars worth about N3.5bn this year.

He argued that while nobody raised eyebrows over the Presidency’s budget on cars, a “non-existing” figure of N47bn was quoted for the National Assembly as its planned expenditure on exotic cars this year.

The lawmaker stated, “The Presidency proposed to buy cars for almost N3.5bn, there is electrical wiring of almost N300m.

“There are so many proposals in the Presidency’s budget that we think should be subjected to thorough discussions. Some of the proposals in the Presidency’s budget may not even stand.

“Where we are not convinced, we will remove and take some sub-heads to areas we think they are needed.”

He claimed that Buhari took the wrong step my starting a “media war” with the National Assembly in his first media chat.

The lawmaker observed that the option of opening discussions with the National Assembly on issues he might not have been “adequately briefed on” should have preceded the media war.

Also, the Senate spokesperson, Senator Sabi Abdullahi, said the red chamber was prepared to meet with Buhari on the proposed plan by the National Assembly to purchase official vehicles for the 469 federal lawmakers.

Abdullahi told one of our correspondents on the telephone that media reports on the issue, which quoted various sums of money being the cost of procuring the vehicles, actually misled members of the public on the issue.

He explained that the exact amount that the vehicles would cost could not be determined by the National Assembly at the moment because the contract for their procurement had not been awarded.

He added, “We in the Senate are ready and prepared to meet with the President on the issue. There is no way we can exercise our legislative functions especially in the area of oversight, using our personal cars.

“We need official vehicles to move around the country because we do not have to rely on government agencies under our supervision for such logistics if we really have to carry out an unbiased exercise.

“Nigerians should also note that we are not asking for too much by requesting Sport Utility Vehicles as official vehicles because there is no senator or member of the House of Representatives that cannot afford one. So, to us it’s not a luxury but a necessity to do our work better. “

Abdullahi appealed to Nigerians, especially the media, to cooperate with members of the National Assembly in the task of performing its constitutional roles of providing necessary checks and balances for effective governance.

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Davido produces ‘result’ of lover’s cannabis test

Davido and Sophie Momodu

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Embattled artiste, David Adeleke, aka Davido, has released medical papers indicating that his lover, Sophia Momodu, allegedly tested positive for cannabis.

He also released a photo of his seven-month-old child, Imade, having a “breathing exercise”, which he claimed was administered every night to help her lungs “due to exposure to second-hand smoke and cannabis-infected breast milk.”

Davido threatened to hold Sophia responsible if anything bad happened to Imade.

PUNCH Metro had reported on Friday that 27-year-old Sophia had petitioned the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and other related offences, alleging that her daughter was abducted.

The petition, which was signed by her lawyer, Gbolaga Ajayi, of S. O. AJAYI & Co, alleged that the Adeleke family was planning to take Imade from her mother to the United States.

Davido had, however, faulted the claim, saying he was only taking his daughter for medical treatment in Dubai.

The report

He claimed that Sophia infected Imade with cannabis during breastfeeding, adding that the baby’s life was at risk.

The artiste on Sunday released a pathology report from the Clina-Lancet Laboratories, a medical facility on the Victoria Island area of Lagos State.

The report, dated July 12, 2015, indicated that Sophia tested positive for cannabis.

Davido accused her of neglecting their daughter, saying it was the reason the child was taken from her.

He said, “Imade was in her custody for two months, unchallenged and uninterrupted, until the baby took ill in July. Imade cried ceaselessly for 48 hours. She was rushed to the hospital where her condition confounded medical experts. Several tests were conducted on her and later on the mother.

“Medical reports proved that Sophia’s blood was polluted with cannabis and she had, during the process of breastfeeding, infected her child with complicated medical conditions associated with the use of alcohol and cannabis. The trouble spot for Imade was her lungs. She had difficulty breathing largely because of the contaminated breast milk and the severity of the “second-hand smoke” of marijuana inhaled by the poor child.

“The medical experts at the hospital were enraged and declared the mother unfit for nursing the baby. The team determined that they would hand over the baby to the Lagos State Government. My family pleaded with the hospital management. Sophia too was sober and contrite. We pleaded that the baby would be kept from the mother and that we would take over responsibilities for Imade’s welfare.”

Davido said Sophia voluntarily gave up the child to his family pending when her system would be cleansed.

Davido, who claimed to have been paying Sophia 300,000 per month, alleged that she increased her demand to N1m per month, which he said he could not pay.

He expressed anger that Imade was not allowed to travel to Dubai on December 29 after immigration officials, acting on a tip-off, stopped them at the airport.

“If Imade had not gone to Dubai (the first time), it is fair to say that she may not be alive today. Still, some people prevented her from keeping a follow-up appointment at the American Hospital in Dubai on December 29. My family refused to pay for Sophia’s flight ticket and as such Imade was prevented from travelling for her treatment,” he said.

However, Sophia, in a series of Tweets, had denied that her daughter was infected with any disease, adding that they were all excuses to take Imade from her.

She explained that she had been invited to a meeting where the cannabis claim was made.

She said, “On September 15, David’s dad invited us for a meeting that had in attendance two of his friends and Coco (his daughter).

“In that meeting, David’s dad apologised for the way I was treated in Coco’s residence and said the reason the baby was taken was because medical tests detected marijuana in Imade’s system and he needed to protect her from me and David.

“I couldn’t understand that because I don’t smoke marijuana and I objected at that meeting, but I was told to stay calm.

“After the meeting, his dad requested I leave my seven-month-old baby with him and told me I could come around to check her anytime. He also promised to pay me some upkeep and provide me with a car.

“I had to accept because I felt they had good intentions and since I could come to check my baby anytime, it was okay by me.

“They kept to their promise of the upkeep, but not the car. I didn’t bother since I could afford one. All that matter was my baby.

“Cannabis was never found in my system; it was a concocted lie to steal away my baby. I don’t smoke; I have never smoked weed let alone smoke while breastfeeding.”

Source:Punchng

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Photos:- Eva Alordiah’s Boyfriend Proposed To Her On Stage While Performing At The Headies

 

The rapper was performing on stage alongside Victoria Kimani at the Headies awards happening still when her boyfriend Ceaser came on stage and popped the question.
A shocked Eva accepted and they kissed on stage. Big congrats to them.

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Real Madrid Sack Rafa Benitez, Appoint Zinedine Zidane

Rafa Benitez has been sacked by Real Madrid and Zinedine Zidane named as his replacement.
Florentino Perez  who is the owner of Los Blancos is said to be displeased with the recent poor form of the club as they have now slipped to third and four points behind league leaders Atletico Madrid.

Real Madrid have sacked Rafa Benitez

Benitez who has also coached English clubs Liverpool and Chelsea has endured a tough season at the Bernabeu since taking over in June 2015, having fall-outs with some key players of the club. Their 2 – 2 draw against Valencia simply forced the management to take the crucial decision.

Real president Florentino Perez said: “I am here to say that the board has just decided, in a difficult decision, especially for me, to end contract of Rafa as first-team coach. I would like to make it clear that he is a great professional. Zinedine Zidane knows better than anyone what it is like to stand at the front and lead Real Madrid. Throughout his career he has always been able to face up to huge challenges. He is one of the greatest players of all time. Zinedine, this is your club, your stadium and you have all our support. Zidane you are, from this moment, the trainer of Real Madrid.”

A top source to the club revealed that the three-time world footballer of the year prefer a summer change but won’t turn down the chance to manage the ten-time European champions.
Revered Spanish football expert Guillem Balague spoke with Sky Sports and suggested that club president Florentino Perez might have lost confidence in Benitez many weeks ago.
He said: “Perez often says the opposite things privately. Over the last few weeks, he’s been saying Benitez is not the problem, he’s the solution. That’s what he said publicly.
“At the same time, he held a poll before Christmas with season ticket holders on who they would like as a replacement. He was was just waiting for the right moment to do what seems inevitable.

“It’s quite clear Benitez doesn’t have the confidence of the board or Perez. Perez wants Jose Mourinho to come back, there is no doubt about it, but if he did that right now he’ll have to get rid of five or six players, as some of the big players at Real Madrid do not want Jose Mourinho back.
“So how Florentino Perez sort that out? I don’t know. It won’t be now, it won’t be for a while. Who he is trying to convince is Zidane, but Florentino is not 100 per cent convinced that Zidane himself is the solution.
“So with no clear alternative, all that debate is happening at board level, and with Florentino and his entourage.”
The club is expected to an official announcement soon.

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I Understand Why I Was Named ‘International Person Of The Year’ – Jonathan

Former president of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan has been recently named the “International Person of the year” by The African Sun Times.

Person Of The Year': GEJ Expresses Gratitude For The Award

“I believe that my people, the Nigerian people, are more deserving of this honour,” Goodluck Jonthan noted.

In a statement published on his official Facebook page on Monday, January 4, the ex-president expressed gratitude to Africa’s number one and largest newspaper in the USA and noted that he understands why this medium might have thought him worthy of such an honour.
“I thank The African Sun Times for naming me as its International Person of the year, 2015. I am indeed humbled by this honour. When I think about it, I understand why this medium may have thought me worthy of such an honour.
“However, I believe that my people, the Nigerian people, are more deserving of this honour.We, the Nigerian people put to shame naysayers and prophets of doom and in 2015, we held a most transparent, violence free and credible elections that transferred power from one political party to another and from an incumbent to the opposition, without rancour, bitterness or strife.

“In the process, we proved that nobody’s political ambition is worth the blood of any Nigerian or any national of any country for that matter. That to me, is a most worthy testimonial of the character of the Nigerian nation and the resilience of our people which is why I dedicate this honour to them.
“May God continue to bless Nigeria and Nigerians. GEJ,” the statement read.
A few days ago, one of Nigeria’s online newspapers, The Trent also named Goodluck Jonathan the Person of the Year 2015.
While receiving the award, the former president said that he felt deeply touched by the kind gesture and honour coming months after he left office.

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Dele Momodu Is Not Being Truthful, If Anything Happens To My Daughter He Is Responsible – Davido

Less than 24 hours after music star, Davido released an extensive expose on the crisis rocking his relationship with his baby mama, Sophia and her uncle, Dele Momodu, we have gathered more facts on what allegedly led to the face-off.

File photo of Davido and baby mama Sophie Momodu.

In an extensive post released on Sunday January 3, Davido claimed he never had plans to marry Sophia Momodu, but just needed to take responsibility of the situation after a DNA test confirmed that he is the biological father of Imade, the baby named after his late mother.s
A reliable source told us that the major reason Davido swore to high heavens not to marry Sophia was because he met her in club, and she is a core ‘street girl’. It was also reported that she was not ready to change her habits, continuing even after she had started a relationship with the musician.
“It was just meant to be one of those casual sexes you have with any club girl. But due to his (Davido) negligence, the lady got pregnant. The truth is that no man would want to marry such girl, not even when she is not ready to change for the better,” our source said.
On several occasions, Sophia would sneak out of the apartment rented for her by Davido, leave her few months old baby with the Nanny, and go clubbing with her friends.
“More worrisome is the fact that she had even started sleeping around,” the source alleged.
we gathered that though Davido had been getting information about his baby mama’s escapades, he pretended not to be bothered until the day the management of Escape Nightclub brought a bill of N250,000 incurred the previous night by Sophia and her friends to him.
His refusal to offset the bill was the genesis of his crisis with Sophia, followed by Imade’s lungs illness.
Read Davido’s unedited piece on the whole issue below:
Birth of Imade Adeleke
“When the second trimester of Sophia’s pregnancy was closing, she tortuously announced to me that she was in the family way.
“My mind was bemused, and so was my soul confused. But I quickly realized that nothing more could be done to alter my status as a father-to-be. I knew that I was not ready to be a dad. Still, I adjusted myself to the realities of my new situation and the consequences of my past personal indiscretions. I made the determination that I was going to be a good dad. I also reasoned that my blunder is not enough pretext to make me a husband. I was just 21. And so I decided to be a responsible dad without being husband to the mother of my baby. I never was in love with Sophia neither was marriage ever in the offing.
“Without knowing for sure that I was the real dad of the baby, I entrusted Sophia to the services of a private hospital for both pre-natal and post-natal medical cares. An apartment at Lekki was leased for 2 years, and paid for by me. The burden of medical bills, feeding, transportation and sundry costs rested on my person. No family member of Sophia including Uncle Dele Momodu rose to help nor guide Sophia. 

File photo of Davido’s daughter Imade.

“I own my property at Lekki and had allowed Sophia to stay in the house because she claimed that she knew nobody in Lagos and that her father was deceased whilst her mother was resident in Abuja. For real, Sophia was a drifter without a dime, education nor career. My compassion, ignorance, naivety and poor judgment had combined to make me a victim to a much older lady with super cunning sense that was mixed with a vicious and diabolical nature.
“I stand accused but calmly accepted my responsibility for the sad misadventure that caused me to be a seat-mate with Sophia on a plane that was flying nowhere.
“All along, I have only been generous with Sophia without knowing for sure I was the father to the baby she was carrying. On May 14, 2015, Sophia delivered her baby named Imade. It was after Sophia had delivered the baby that DNA testing medically confirmed that I was indeed the biological father of our child named Imade.
“Once this status was obtained, Sophia started to apply maximum financial demands on me. I bought all the baby things and fully furnished her apartment. Sophia knew well how to spend money and yet contributed zero to the vast expenses that I incurred. None in her family contributed even a fake coin to the cost of having Imade.
“Uncle Dele Momodu, now the pompous moralist, never visited Sophia nor even delivered an ordinary greeting card to Imade nor to her mum. Throughout the many months that Sophia stayed at my house when she claimed she has no family in Lagos, Uncle Dele Momodu and his bossy wife never showed up at my house to say hello to either of us.
“When the going was good, Sophia had told me plenty things about her uncle Dele Momodu that I need not repeat here. And she never invited me to go with her to visit him and I don’t have the knowledge that she ever visited him throughout the time she stayed in my house. She always explained that a visit to Uncle Dele was needless and unnecessary. Uncle Dele Momodu never liked, and still does not like Sophia. He is now just grandstanding because Sophia had a baby for a fairly prominent family and famous Davido.
“The case of Mrs. Momodu baffles me even more. Why did she not think it necessary to move to Sophia’s apartment to help her out and show her the tricks of motherhood when Imade was newly born? Not once did she visit Sophia and her baby until December 2015. She gave neither care, love nor financial support to Sophia. Now, at 7 months old, and a child with special medical needs, Mrs. Momodu rushed to the Lagos Airport to make an awful botch of her standing as a mother: Mrs Momodu [is] certainly not a good person.
“She put time and energy to prevent my daughter and I, the real father of Imade, from travelling abroad to keep an appointment with the American Hospital, Dubai. At the point of dying in November, 2015 Imade had been rushed to this medical facility in Dubai, where she received helpful and adequate treatment, and was duly returned to Nigeria, without any side excursions.
“What then suddenly propels the fear or dangerous love of Mr& Mrs Momodu for Sophia? I deeply sense this couple never loved Sophia nor her late father. They also resent her mum, and probably are jealous that Sophia ever became a mum herself, and thus, wish that Sophia’s daughter who is also my daughter, must needlessly perish. 
“Where is the inherent value in a callous human ploy that directly intends to prevent a child from receiving necessary medical care abroad once the biological father, David Adeleke, the child’s grandfather and all my siblings who are uncles and aunties to Imade are booked to fly on this essential medical trip to which we have attached a restful family vacation? Sophia ain’t a member of our family, period.
“Surely, Sophia was not with Imade when she first visited Dubai, and yet Imade was promptly returned to Nigeria. And no one said Sophia cannot come to Dubai except that I declared that I don’t want the trip to seem like a spousal get-away. Sophia ain’t my wife and I refuse to let any action conspire to make us look like a couple. She seemed unable or unwilling to pay her way to Dubai. Also, her boastful Uncle, alas, refused to volunteer to pay her way to Dubai.
“I never suggested to an elder what he should take up as his personal responsibility if indeed he cared at all for Sophia as his robust involvement in our odd relationship wishes to establish. Mr Momodu never bought the ticket but wanted to enforce his cousin to join my family on this Dubai trip.
“Dangerous lights are furiously blinking red around my daughter, Sophia and my person. Uncle Dele Momodu and his wife are providers of the energy espousing the idea of a needless death tomy daughter. I now say it loud and clear, should my daughter die, this strange couple are mainly responsible.
“Mr Dele Momodu should just leave me and my family alone! His daughter is not who had a baby for me, and he has been too much of an absentee uncle to Sophia to have any traction on the moral authority that commands the soul and heart of this matter.
“Sophia never formally introduced him nor his wife to me, at any time. Why are they now crowding my space and that of my daughter?”
Custody, Lifestyle and Imade’s Loss of Wellness
“In May, the same month Imade was born, Sophia settled in her fancy apartment for which I paid a hefty bill for a 2 year lease. Her baby was healthy. And she seemed happy. I would take care of all the financial needs of Imade and still pay Sophia a living allowance of 300,000 Naira plus utility bills.
“Within a matter of weeks, Sophia was missing and lusting for the streets of Lagos, especially the glitzy night life. She often left Imade home for clubbing, binge drinking and a life of debauchery and deviant living. She would sleep all day and party all night. When awake, she was addicted to the telephone and cannabis.
“She paid the baby no attention at all and seems to despise motherhood and parenting. Imade was in her custody for two straight months, unchallenged and uninterrupted, until the baby took badly and severely ill in July.
“Imade cried, ceaselessly, for 48 hours. She was rushed to the hospital where her condition confounded medical experts. Several tests were conducted on her and later on the mother. Medical reports proved that Sophia’s blood was polluted to the maximum level with cannabis and she had by the process of breast feeding infected her child with complicated medical conditions associated with the use of alcohol and especially cannabis.

File photo of Sophia Momodu’s medical report.

“The trouble spot for Imade was her lungs. She had difficulty breathing largely because of the contaminated breast milk and the severity of the ‘Second Smoke’ of marijuana inhaled by the poor child.
“The medical experts at the hospital were enraged by the callous treatment of Imade by her own mother and declared her unfit for the caring and the nursing of a delicate baby. The team determined that they would hand over the baby to the Children’s Welfare Authority of Lagos State Government. My family started to plead with the hospital management. For the first time, Sophia too was sober, sorry and contrite. We pleaded that the baby would be kept from the mother once she was returned to us, and that we would take over responsibilities for Imade’s welfare.
“Voluntarily, Sophia, in the attempt to avoid the handing over of the baby to the children welfare authority, agreed to a compromise position that she would transfer Imade to the Adeleke family until the cannabis in the systems of both mum and daughter was completely out and comprehensively cleaned out. The medical expert also indicated that the full damage to Imade’s person could not be ascertained right away and that her mental state now or in [the] future could not be determined nor predicted until perhaps when she would have attained adulthood.
“This was why and how Imade was transferred to the custody of the Adeleke family.
“Soonest, Sophia began to make vigorous demands for the brand new car promised to her by me in May. My father stood out of all this matter and pointedly told me that although I was very young but I was already making big income and therefore must learn to be a responsible adult who takes care of business properly and accordingly. He had instructed since May, that I should provide the mother of my baby with a car, without delay. But I have since had a change of mind on this issue because of Sophia’s night crawling activities and reckless partying at night clubs. Her clubbing rendezvous escalated. In fact, she had gone to a club on Victoria Island and spent 250,000 Naira in one night. Unashamedly, she told the management of the club to slap ‘Davido’ with the bill. I have refused to pay but till date, the club has never let off the harassment of my person for the settlement of this wild bill.
“I still don’t believe that my obstinacy will finally absorb from the payment of this reckless charge. This was one of the main reasons I put the purchase of the car on hold.
“Meanwhile, Imade was increasingly worse off in wellness and she had to be flown to the American hospital in Dubai. I wrote a letter of release authorizing my sister to travel to Dubai with Imade. The hospital saved Imade who was returned to Nigeria with a medical equipment that had to be used daily to enable Imade to gain restful sleep and balanced respiratory rhythm. The photograph of this equipment is hereby attached.
“If Imade had not gone to Dubai, it is fair to say that she may not be alive today. Still, some people prevented her from keeping a follow-up appointment at the American Hospital in Dubai for the silliest possible reason. My family would not pay for Sophia’s flight ticket and thus Imade would be disallowed from travelling for the vital purpose of medical conditions that lend oxygen to her life. Which is more important to Mr Dele Momodu, the ticket for his cousin or the overall wellness of Imade? And why can’t this glamorous uncle buy the ticket for Sophia so that the life of Imade is not compromised? 
“The claim has been made that the aborted trip to Dubia was to take Imade to America. This is not true. Imade’s Nigerian passport is right now with the Immigration Office with no American Visa embossed on it and Imade, though qualified to possess an American Passport because her dad is an American citizen, still does not possess an American passport. True, her passport is being processed but the truancy of her mother has caused a major delay. I therefore ask, how will Imade have entered America without a visa on her Nigerian passport? The great dynamics of lying is that the liar is the first to know that he has told a lie, and the lies told would certainly demolish his integrity and the peace of his soul. Uncle Dele Momodu, beware!  
“The only reason why some of us are dancing naked in the market place today is because Sophia’s request to go to Dubai on my ticket was declined. She is demanding for her new car and a raise of her allowance to one million naira per month. The sole reason why she’s demanding for the custody of Imade is to justify the necessity for this delusional one million naira. A domestic matter that could have been quietly and sensibly settled has been tossed to the public domain with the brutal consequences to the most innocent actor in this drama, Imade.
“From December 23-28, Sophia lived at my father’s Lekki residence in peace except for the first one hour when a medication was misapplied by her and Imade speedily vomited for a fearfully long time. Sophia did not know how to even bathe her own baby. She brought a friend to stay with her in a 3-bedroom flat with a resident professional nurse and nanny. Overall, her stay was joyful and in alignment with the thrills of the Christmas holiday season.
“On December 29, less than 24hours of leaving my father’s house, Sophia was at the airport in the company of her uncle and his wife with malice aforethought and the aim to do maximum damage that would obstruct her child from travelling abroad to receive necessary and needful medical care.
“She was welcome to join us if she had bought her ticket or her uncle had funded her for the trip.
I offered to buy her a car and suggested a Toyota brand or Hyundai. She lost her cool and told me off. She wanted a fancy jeep and preferably, a Mercedes Benz Jeep. I laughed because she just wanted to be a Lagos Big Girl for nothing.
“She hardly can cope with the cheapest car much less the ruinous cost of maintaining a Mercedes Benz vehicle. In December she received 500,000 naira as her allowance without doing anything for Imade. Life is not a bed of roses. Neither have I ever promised Sophia a rose garden. Her spontaneous motions of delusions utterly baffle me!
“On her twitter page, she claimed she has recovered Imade from captivity. But Imade never was in captivity. Sophia certainly knows where Imade is. And it is where she left her on December 28, at my father’s house. What is the lie about? Sophia also claimed that she hasn’t seen her daughter in 5 months. This cannot be true. Sophia spent every Sunday with her baby at my father’s house since July 2015 when she voluntarily transferred Imade to the Adeleke family after the cannabis incidence. She and her daughter constantly appear on her facebook and twitter pages throughout this period of 5 months. What manner of unreliable and lying person is Sophia? The picture of your reconciliation with Imade after ‘captivity’ that you posted on your twitter page came directly from the photo shoot that you posed for at my father’s house during your Christmas stay. Why can’t you ever be affable with truth nor have a relationship with honour?
“Uncle Dele Momodu was the first to bring this domestic matter online and onto the internet. Uncle Dele Momodu ran smack into the internet highway on December 30 with video recordings that he dishonestly, immorally and unlawfully recorded at a government facility and office at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos.
“Uncle, you are wrong and you are not doing the right thing. By doing a thing so unlawful over a domestic matter between a 23-yearold boy and your niece is a bothersome slight that proved your niece must have learnt her sleazy ways from your own accomplished slap-happy conduct.

File photo of Imade Adeleke, Davido’s daughter.

“Life is beautiful if we all live in simple ways and do not engage criminal gadgets to replace integrity and honour. Your worthless video recording has achieved nothing, but exposed your naivety and lack of decorum. Your recordings cannot alter the fact that I am ‘Davido’ father of Imade and it cannot force me to be the husband of your cousin.
“In truth, I don’t know if you are uncle or cousin to Sophia. The word uncle has lost it esteem since the time that sleaze bucket took over our land. Still, Uncle Dele Momodu, it is immoral, unlawful and unethical to clandestinely record anyone, especially friends and family members. This scandalous act truly got you slaughtered and put a new slant on your person.
“Late evening on December 30, I responded to your vicious internet publications that attacked me and my family. As you well know, my response was a slam dunk that hurt you badly and diminished your person. You perhaps deserved what you got. But my father’s counsel and the love I have for Imade prompted me to recall the arrow aimed at you. You see, my father raised me well, and I promptly complied with his advice. I thus deleted all references to the issue of December 29 at the Airport and apologized to you in particular along with all my fans. I showed you respect even if you had drunkenly provoked me.
“Instead of reciprocating with love and elderly wisdom, you sustained your attack of me with even more venom and hatefulness. With all due respect for my dad, I am compelled to speak to your lies and your simulation of grand self-importance. I am 23 and you are almost 60. Your cousin has a baby for me. Rather than bring us together as a family, you wished for glowing embers to come out of cool cucumber. You know damn well how to grandstand. This is why you instructed your lawyers to put garbage on the internet in a matter that should be showcased in the court of law. Uncle, who offended you? Is it Davido, Sophia or Imade? It cannot be my late mum after whom I named Imade. Is it my gentle dad? Why have you engaged yourself in a bitter private vendetta with my family? Uncle, you will have your day in court.
“But you will soonest be forced to embrace the fact that the crowning glory of your puffing and pride rests in your stunning emptiness. Again, I dare you, publish the garbage in your vanity trunk or perish!
I am 23 and a performing artiste that God immensely blessed and I have joyfully made good in the industry. I won’t do this forever, and I shall timely step aside in the nearest future. I have a degree and I am stashing my monies aside so that I can build a decent future for Imade plus my future wife and family. “I believe as the Bible says, ‘every good gift is from above’.
“There is nothing better in life than to tell the truth and pray. May God ever stand by me and deliver to me my dreams and wishes. May He also deliver to your own children their dreams and desires. Uncle Dele Momodu, please, please leave me and my family alone even if it is clear, by God’s will, that you can’t do us a thing. As for me, this is the end of this conversation. May God lead both of us to the righteous path. I thank you very much, sir. “
Davido is a 23-year-old, multi award-winning Afro pop star who fathered a baby girl, in May 2015, from his relationship with then Abuja-based lady, Sophie Momodu.

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