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“I dated my girl for three years without sex. For her, I decided to remain celibate because she wasn’t ready for it. After our Traditional marriage, she still refused and wouldn’t let me touch her at all. We however fixed our wedding date. On my bachelor’s eve, my friends were around with their girlfriends. I really wanted to have my woman to myself that night and I spoke to her about it but she turned me down as usual and begged me to wait a little longer. I agreed after all, we would be married soon. At last D-DAY finally came and I was waiting patiently for the wedding ceremony to be over. At 6pm, we were home relaxing. I called  my wife and asked that we  take a shower together, she said she was shy and cannot come. I didn’t force her. She however had her bath first and I had mine later. When I finished, I came out to meet my wife asleep. I joined her in bed, kissed her and she woke up. I’m not even sure she was really asleep. I started making advances bec...

The police in Lagos ha arrested a 38-year-old businessman, Williams Peter, for allegedly refusing to pay a debt of N600,000 he incurred in a gambling game. Peter is reported to be a chronic gambler. One Solomon Adetoro, who operated the game centre, was also apprehended by the police for conniving with Peter to allegedly defraud the management of the gambling firm. Our correspondent learnt that Peter approached Adetoro at the gambling outlet on Olowu Street, Ikeja, Lagos, on May 24, 2018, to play the game. He was said to have placed several bets without winning and promised to pay the following day.  The native of Rivers State reportedly returned to the outlet the next day, took another round of bets and lost until the money accumulated to N600,000. Saturday Punch gathered that the operator did not report the debt to the management until it was discovered by an official, who came to take a record of bets around 9:00pm. Adetoro and Peter were subsequently arrested by ...

“…I must say that I am morally outraged by the facts of this case; the people of Taraba State had elected the defendant, a clergyman, on three different occasions; their expectations must have been very high. “How would he begin to explain to the people of Taraba State his actions? How would he explain such a colossal loss to the people?…” The above quote was an extract from the concluding statements in the ruling of an Abuja Federal High court judge, Adebukola Banjoko, on the suit filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against former governor of Taraba State, Jolly Nyame, a reverend. The ex-governor was on Wednesday convicted of misappropriating N1.64 billion from the state’s treasury through shoddy stationery contracts which he awarded at the tail of his eight years administration that ended in 2007. It was one of the longest trials that eventually (started in 2007). The conviction earned the former governor the ill-repute of being the second governor...

Opeyemi Bamidele, the erstwhile federal lawmaker from Ekiti State who was shot on Friday, has undergone surgery and is now recuperating at a hospital in Ado Ekiti. Bamidele, a chieftain of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), was shot during a reception organised at the party’s secretariat for Dr. Kayode Fayemi, flagbearer of the party in the forthcoming Ekiti State governorship election. Taiwo Olatubosun, spokesman of the APC in Ekiti, revealed this to Sahara Reporters on the phone on Saturday. “He [Bamidele] is still at the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital, and he has gone through an operation yesterday night,” he said. “In fact, he was at the theatre and was also operated upon, while a bullet was removed from his body.” He noted that the attack was also an attempt to kill the candidate of the APC, Dr. Fayemi during the grand reception. “The attack is an orchestrated attempt by an unknown person to terminate the life of our candidate [Fayemi],” he said. ...

A private investigator, Victor Uwajeh, has claimed that he was disengaged from the Special Investigation Panel on the Recovery of Public Property, because he refused to probe Senate President, Bukola Saraki and members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Uwajeh was appointed to the panel to track stolen funds stashed in the UK in March, but was fired on April 23. The investigator was said to have been disengaged, for failing to disclose a criminal charge pending against him. In a statement on Tuesday, Uwajeh said though the mandate given to him was to track assets of politically exposed persons, he realised that the panel had its agenda. “This was also followed by a memorandum of understanding dated 3rd April 2018 and signed by the Chairman of the Panel Okoi Obono Obla. Subsequent upon these, I started working for the panel to trace assets of politically exposed persons in line with the mandate given to me in the documents executed. “It was the procedure of the P...

The Federal Government has faulted claims by the Lagos State Government that a Federal High Court had shut down the Ikoyi marriage registry, insisting that the report was false. The Ministry of Interior said that the court, presided over by Justice Chuka Obiozor, simply upheld the judgment of a Federal High Court delivered in 2002, which was not appealed. It explained that the case, Suit No: FHC/L/CS/1760/16, between Egor Local Government Area, Edo State and three others Vs. Ministry of Interior & others, cited by the Lagos State Government, was actually struck out by Justice Obiozor in his judgment delivered on April 30, 2018. The Director of Legal, Ministry of Interior, Bola Odugbesan, made the clarification in a statement in Abuja on Friday, in reaction to a press statement on Thursday by the Director, Public Affairs, Ministry of Local Government and Community Affairs, Bisi Olufuwa. Olufuwa had claimed that Lagos State had secured a court injunction restraining the...

Media personality turned politician, Dayo Adeneye aka D1, shared his grace-to-grace tale at Success Stories Africa, in Lagos this past weekend. At the gathering no question was out of bounds for the Ogun State Commissioner for Information and Strategy. He opened up about his rise from practically nothing to becoming a household name in Nigeria’s showbiz terrain and now politics. Adeneye, 58, has contributed in no small measure to changing the face of Nigeria’s thriving music industry. In 1998, he started the AIT Jamz music show alongside his close friend Kenny Ogungbe, and their platform went on to discover music superstars including 2Baba, Tony Tetuila, Paul Play Dairo, Eedris Abdulkareem and many others. In 2015, he ventured into politics and he is the currently the spokesman for Ogun State government. Here are excerpts from Mr. Adeneye’s session at the event as captured by our source. My time at Ray Power : My father was upset that I returned from America and chos...