The UK Government has deported 23 Nigerians for committing immigration-related offences in the country.
The deportees arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos at about 6AM on Friday.
The deportees,who are all males, were brought back in a chartered aircraft.
DSP Joseph Alabi, the Spokesman of the Lagos Airport Police Command, confirmed the development to NAN.
The deportees were received by officers of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), and the Police.
Also on ground to receive them were officials of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN).
The deportees were profiled by immigration authorities and given stipends to facilitate their transportation to their respective states.
The Italian Government on March 8, deported 37 Nigerians from the country for similar reasons.
Forbes, a website renowned for ranking of richest people in the world, has made available the list of richest people in Nigeria in 2017. In the latest release, 9 Nigerians made the billionaires club cut with some, just few million dollars away from reaching the benchmark.
Below are top 10 richest men in Nigeria according to Forbes ranking 2017, ranging from the least to the top. 10. Oba Otudeke: Oba Otudeke is the Chairman and founder of the honey well group. He is also the chairman of FBN Holdings Plc. His operations spread across oil and gas, flour minning, real estate, and marine transportation. Net Worth: $650 million. 9. Jim Oviah: Jim Oviah is the founder of Zenith Bank. He is the chairman and the largest shareholder with a stake of almost 10%.
He also manages a mobile telecom Visafone which has over 3 million subscribers. Net Worth: $1 billion. 8. Orji Uzor Kalu: The former governor of Abia State. He is the founder and chairman of Slok Holding. A conglomerate with interest in shipping, banking, oil, trading, manufacturing and the media. He became a real business man at the age of 19 after being expelled from a Nigerian University for allegedly spearheading a series of student riots. Net Worth: $1.1 billion. 7. Tony Elumelu: A philanthropist and founder of the Transcorp and Heirs Holdings. He was the chairman of United Bank for Africa and was estimated to worth $1.4 billion. 6. Abdusalam Rabiu: Abdusalam is the founder of the famous BUA Group. A conglomerate active in sugar refining, cement production, real estate and port operations. In September 2015, his Group signed a $600 million deal with a chinease cement equipment service provider Sinoma Internation Engineering to construct a second production line located in Edo State Niger Delta, Nigeria. Net Worth: $1.5 billion.
5. Theophilus Danjuma: Former Nigerian Chief of Army staff between 1975 to 1979. He is the current chairman of Athlantic Petroleum. Net Worth: $1.7 billion. 4. Folorunsho Alakija: Folorunsho is a business tycoon who has interest in fashion,oil and printing industries. She is the richest Woman in Nigeria and the richest woman of the African descent in the world. Net Worth: $2.1 billion. 3. Femi Otedola: He is the CEO of Zenon Oil and Gas and Forte Oil Plc. He has interest in real estates amongst other sectors. Net Worth: $2.3 billion. 2. Mike Adenuga: Mike Adenuga is the second richest man in Nigeria with interest in Oil and Gas and telecoms. He is the owner of Globacom, Nigeria’s second biggest telecom operators and the chairman of Conoil. Net Worth: $10.5 billion. 1. Aliko Dangote: Aliko Dangote is the richest man in Nigeria, Africa and of course the richest black man in the world. In 2014, he ranked as the 24th richest man in the world but has since then fallen to positions below 100 due to Nigeria’s poor Naira. Net Worth: $12.5 billion.
A young lady and an Uber driver took to her Twitter handle on Tuesday, March 28, to reveal how she caught her boyfriend cheating on her. The Uber driver posted several comments describing how she picked up the lady and what happened afterwards. She said: “So I drive for uber why I just pick this girl up and drop her off to a d**k appointment and the d**k appointment was my man’s house.” She went on saying: “The person I’ve been asking to stand up for me for years had a chance to stand up for me but defended someone else. You start noticing little things you should’ve picked up on earlier after an incident occurs.”
Empire star, Terrence Howard, 48, has revealed that marrying his third wife has made him a better man and better father. He thinks he will be with his new wife for the rest of their lives. In an exclusive interview with People magazine, the private actor said: “See what we have, two strapping young men,” he tells PEOPLE while watching his sons Quirin, 22 months, and Hero, 7 months, play poolside in a Southern California backyard. Becoming a dad to Quirin and Hero — his sons with third wife, Mira, whom he married in 2013.
Laura Ikeji Kanu is expecting her first child with her husband, Ogbonna Kanu. The expecting couple had their court wedding at the Ikoyi registry, Lagos on January 19, 2017. Ogbonna is the brother to famous footballer Kanu Nwankwo and a retired footballer himself. Like his brother, he previously played for football teams such as Inter Milan and Ajax as well as for Nigeria's national teams.
Below are the first photos of her baby bump. Congrats Laura!
Oladunni Churchill, estranged husband of actress Tonto Dikeh has said 95 per cent of all the actress has been saying against him were lies.
He disclosed this in a recent interview, where he revealed that she acts extremely temperamental anytime she’s under the influence of alcohol and marijuana.
Here are eighteen things we learnt from the interview:
1. He met Tonto Dikeh two and a half years ago at Club Escape in Lagos
Churchill revealed that his first encounter with the actress was two and a half years ago at his brother’s birthday party at Escape night club in Lagos.
2. Churchill has been into real estate since he was 22
He dismissed reports credited to Tonto that she watched him make his money after they met.
He said that was impossible as he met her barely two and a half years ago, and he has been on real estate since he was 22 years old.
3. She got pregnant for him six months into the relationship
Churchill revealed that he went to pay the actress’ bride price after she got pregnant for him six months after they met.
4. He had four companies before he met Tonto Dikeh
The philanthropist said he was already running four companies of his own before he and Tonto’s path crossed. He added that the companies increased to six after they met.
5. Tonto Dikeh gets extremely temperamental for up to two hours at a stretch whenever she’s under the influence of ‘negative intakes’
He revealed that she is uncontrollable when she takes drugs, alcohol and marijuana and not even six men can hold her down during such spells.
6. He denied sponsoring Ghanaian police to speak against Tonto
Speaking on the incident that happened in Ghana, Churchill dismissed reports that he sponsored the Ghanaian police.
He said the police officer merely read from the statement of the incident.
He said in her fits of rage, Tonto spat on one of the officers at the police station.
7. He bailed her after she was locked up for destroying his properties
Still speaking on the Ghana incident, Churchill said the police locked her up for destroying his properties.
He said he had to draft a withdrawal letter to the police to secure her bail even though he wanted her to replace his properties.
8. She destroyed his properties worth N66 million
He alleged that Tonto Dikeh has damaged his properties worth over N66m till date. He said he has evidence about some of the properties she has destroyed.
9. He has someone monitoring Tonto Dikeh
He revealed that he has someone around Tonto who monitors her and gives him update on everything she does.
He said he is updated even when Tonto decides to write bloggers to publish false stories about him.
10. Tonto said he was an angel if he forgived her
He said after securing her bail, Tonto promised never to return to drugs and other negative intakes, saying he was an angel if he forgived her.
11. He has never hit his son, King
On the allegation by Tonto that he hit their son, King, Churchill, who expressed shock said how could he hit a boy who is barely one and couldn’t speak.
12. He has never raised his hand against any woman
Churchill revealed that he had never beating any woman, saying he was against domestic violence. He showed a video clip of properties destroyed by Tonto in his mother’s house.
13. Tonto made up all the scars on her body
Churchill revealed that all the scars on Tonto’s body were made up by her. He said this was disclosed to him by the person he has who monitors her.
14. 95% of what Tonto said in her interview were lies
Churchill said everything he watched during Tonto’s interview were 95 per cent lies.
He stated that Tonto had planned everything as an actresses.
15. The last time he had STD was in Secondary school
On the allegations by Tonto that he infected a with a Sexually Transmitted Disease, Churchill dismissed it as false, saying he last had STD in secondary school.
16. He has no idea where Tonto Dikeh lives
He said Tonto planned her exit from his house perfectly. He revealed he was away when she moved everything she owned from the house.
He added that he doesn’t know her current whereabouts and has been repeatedly denied access to his son.
17. Both families have tried to reconcile them nine times
He revealed that both families had made nine attempts to reconcile them, the last one was made just ten days ago prior to the interview.
He said anytime the efforts were made Tonto acts all cool, but immediately blocks him afterwards.
18. I don’t have kids outside wedlock
On Tonto’s allegation that she recently found out that he was married, Churchill said the actress lied.
He said the news about his previous marriage and him having kids were lies.
He queried why those spreading the information were contacting Tonto and not him or his mother.
Recently a woman’s headphones exploded while on her way flight from Beijing to Melbourne. The woman who wished to remain anonymous was listening to music on her headphones on her plane. Two hours later she was fast asleep and was woken up by a literally deafening explosion and a sudden burning sensation on her face.
“I continued to feel burning so I grabbed them off and threw them on the floor. They were sparking and had small amounts of fire,” she added. The woman recalled: “As I went to stamp my foot on them the flight attendants were already there with a bucket of water to pour on them. They put them into the bucket at the rear of the plane.”
