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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A 45-year-old beer parlour operator, Mrs Kudirat Sodiq, on Friday told an Igando Customary Court in Lagos that her husband always bites her whenever they quarrel. She said that, Wahabi, her husband for 23 years, was also threatening her life. “My husband left scars on my body as he always bites me whenever we fight. “My husband will not leave me until he sees blood coming out from the wound, I have scars all over my body as proof of his abuse.” The petitioner said that apart from the bites, her husband was also threatening her life. “Wahabi is always threatening to kill me by suffocating me to death with a pillow. “Because of his threat, I ran away from the house I built and relocated just to save my life. “Last month, he came to my shop, saying that he will kill me, he smashed a beer bottle on the ground and wanted to stab me on my neck. “I used my hand to dodge it and the bottle cut me on my right hand, blood was gushing out but for the quick interventio...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has taken action at India’s request to halt the execution of an ex-naval officer convicted in Pakistan of espionage, officials in New Delhi said Wednesday. The Hague-based court had asked Pakistan to stay the execution of Kulbhushan Jadhav, 46, who was denied consular access despite several requests, Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman Gopal Baglay said. Pakistan had denied 16 requests for consular access to Jadhav in contravention to international law, Baglay said during a press conference in New Delhi. A non-binding letter had been sent to Pakistan requesting authorities not to act until the court had time to review the case, an official in the Hague with knowledge of the proceedings told dpa. India denies that Jadhav is a spy and filed an appeal with the ICJ to review Pakistan’s death sentence against him. The Pakistani government was examining India’s ICJ request and would come up with a formal response in the coming...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Abuja – Nigerian female artiste Yemi Alade will replace Innocent Idibia popularly known as 2baba as coach in the second season of M-net music reality show, `The Voice Nigeria.’ According to the M-net West Africa team, 2Baba has left the show to pursue other commitments which has prompted the need for a new coach. The second season which kicks off in a couple of weeks will have Alade join Patrick Okorie (Patoranking), Aituaje Iruobe (Waje) and Timi Dakolo who will reprise their roles as coaches. The coaches critique contestants’ performances and guide their teams of selected artistes through the remainder of the season whilst also competing to ensure that their act wins the competition. NAN reports that the winner from the 17 episode show this year would earn a recording contract with Universal Music Group, an SUV car worth N7 million and a trip to Abu Dhabi. Last season which was the first season of the franchise in Nigeria, 28-year-old Stage actress Agharese...

http://ift.tt/2nGVnQh Seventeen ships are discharging petroleum products and other commodities at Apapa and Tin-Can Island ports in Lagos, the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) said on Friday. The NPA said that the ships were also discharging bulk wheat, empty containers, general cargo, yellow maize, containers, container, soya beans and frozen fish. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that 31 other ships, laden with petroleum products, food items and other goods are expected to arrive in Lagos ports between May 5 and May 29. NPA said that the expected ships would bring base oil, general cargoes, containers, crude palmolein, frozen fish, bulk gypsum, bulk sugar, bulk corn and petrol. It said that seven ships, laden with bulk fertiliser, aviation fuel and petrol, were waiting to berth. Vía The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper http://ift.tt/2pgxUCa

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Northern Inter-Faith and Religious Organization says it has concluded plans to hold an intercessory night of prayers, supplication and thanksgiving for the nation and for President Muhammadu Buhari to mark his first two years in office. Addressing journalists in Abuja, National Co-ordinator of the group, Bishop Musa Fomson said there is need to pray for the President’s health and ask God to strengthen him so as to enable him continue to revive the country’s economy He also said Nigerians need to come together and pray to God to heal the land as well as free the country from the hands of “evil men whose aim is to hold back Nigeria’s progress”. Fomsom said prior to the 2015 elections, there were doubts and despair that overwhelmed the land, stressing that at that time, it was almost concluded that the election or its outcome will break up the country. He however said through prayers God intervened and Buhari was elected President According to Fomson, “We are...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Lagos – Nigerians searched frantically on Google last week for a new minimum wage, envisaged to be announced by the Federal Government on Workers’ Day. According to the Spokesman of Google, Mr Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade, hundreds of Nigerians took to Google to get information on a long-envisaged new minimum wage. Kola-Ogunlade, who is Google’s Communications and Public Affairs Manager for Anglophone West Africa, made the disclosure in Lagos on Thursday. He said that in the week under review, terms ranging from assurance on a new minimum wage, to a viral video of monarchies supposedly embarrassing each other and marriage troubles, trended on Google Nigeria search. The one-week search on the search engine started from April 27 and ended on May 3. Kola-Ogunlade recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari had assured Nigerian workers speedy passage of a new national minimum wage. “President Buhari, marking Workers Day on May 1, 2017, said that he is happy to announce that...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Sunday morning is usually the preserve of Christian pastors in the Nigerian megacity of Lagos but a new form of worship is emerging to challenge the monopoly. “Praise Allah!” shouts the imam of the Nasrul-lahi-li Fathi Society of Nigeria (NASFAT) before thousands of his faithful, gathered under tents on the outskirts of the city. Pacing up and down through the crowd, he punctuates his message with vigorous “Allahs” in the trademark bombastic style of Nigeria’s evangelical preachers. Entranced, men and women sitting on multi-coloured prayer mats, raise their hands to the heavens. NASFAT is one of a growing number of groups practising “charismatic Islam” in response to the massive success of pentecostal Christianity in Nigeria, said Ebenezer Obadare, a sociology professor at the University of Kansas. It has introduced “new modalities of prayer, modes of proselytising, and repertoires of devotion that closely approximate forms normally exclusively associated wit...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Abuja – Joy Udo, a teacher, on Wednesday told a Jikwoyi Customary Court, Abuja, that she left her matrimonial home because her husband asked her to choose between the marriage and her job. Joy, who filed a petition seeking dissolution of the marriage, said her husband Sammul Udo, asked her to resign from her job. “The major disagreement we had before I left his house was that he asked me to quit my job because his mother never worked, so his wife must not work. “I refused. I told him that I won’t quit my job because if I do, I will be in a tight corner. “He does not have enough money to cater for the family, even the capital that he used in starting his business, I gave it to him,” she said. Joy also told the court that her husband does not bear the entire responsibility of catering for the family, adding that her husband faked his identity to lure her to marry him. “Before our marriage, my husband claimed to be a pastor, but after the marriage, he stopped ...

http://ift.tt/2oLWvm0 (FILES) This file photo taken on January 10, 2016 shows British actor Damian Lewis arriving at the 73nd annual Golden Globe Awards, January 10, 2016, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. British star Damian Lewis on April 30, 2017 revealed that former US President Barack Obama had offered him advice in playing a charismatic hedge fund manager in hit television series "Billions". VALERIE MACON / AFP British acting star Damian Lewis on Sunday revealed that former US President Barack Obama had offered him advice in playing a charismatic hedge fund manager in hit television series “Billions”. When asked by the BBC’s Andrew Marr if his character Bobby “Axe” Axelrod glamorised Wall Street bosses, Lewis replied: “I’m going to drop a name here and I’m going to enjoy it enormously. “The (then) president of the United States Barack Obama did say to me a few months ago, ‘I’m loving Billions, I’m loving your character in it, I’m loving Bob...