A video of Alfas dressed in white garments continuously raining a supplication on popular Nigerian singer Asake has surfaced online, eliciting a wide range of reactions from netizens.
Asake
In the video, YBNL signee Asake, born Ahmed Ololade, was completely submissive, bowing his head while one of the Alfas placed his right hand on the singer’s head.
Remember that Asake surprises many music fans in the year 2022 by demonstrating his talent for delivering Afrobeats tracks.
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In 2022, the singer releases his debut album “Mr Money With The Vibe,” which contains 12 songs that are all nostalgic bops. Also, Asake easily shut down shows in Europe and America, and many people wondered who cut soap for Asake because they never saw him coming in 2022.
Asake however has always shows attribute of being a Muslim in his songs as he portrays it more in his hit song “PBUY” (Peace Be Unto You (PBUY).
The video shows the moment the Alfas were seen uttering the arabic supplication “A’udhu bi kalimat Allaah al-taammaat min sharri ma khalaq meaning “I seek refuge in the Perfect Words of Allah from the evil of what He has created.”
The prayer is meant to make Asake secured and aid is progress in the music industry.
In a clear shade at the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has advised Nigerians not to entrust the leadership of a sick country like Nigeria to a sick man.
Bola Ahmed Tinubu of APC and Peter Obi of LP
Peter Obi stated this on Thursday, January 12, 2023, at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), as part of his nationwide campaign ahead of the February 25 presidential election.
“This country is sick and should not be handed over to a sick person. I am not saying that anyone is sick. We have been here for over two hours, we don’t want people who can’t stand for 30 minutes,” Obi said in an interactive session with the varsity’s Business School.
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He identified character and trust as two cardinal attributes to look out for in the recruitment of leaders to pilot the affairs of the nation for the next four years.
“In the United States during elections, they go for debates. Somebody once asked Barack Obama questions that were personal and he answered. But here in Nigeria, somebody wants to contest elections, we don’t know his real age, we don’t know his name, we don’t know the schools he attended. Nobody knows his real identity and he is pushing to lead everybody.
“My name is Peter Obi. I can say I went to Christ The King College, went to University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Both the VC today, the DVC today, were my schoolmates. We came to university the same year and left the same year. The people I went to school with, I can see them here today, my seniors and my juniors. How come we now have people who do not have classmates? This is very important”
The former Anambra State governor, however, admitted that everybody can’t be educated equally or formally, but everybody’s records must be straight.
Afe Babalola once told me he never had the opportunity of going to a formal school. There is nothing wrong with that. There are so many people who have done well in life and never went to formal school.
On corruption, he said, “If you say you will fight corruption, let’s go to the road you have passed and see what is remaining there after you left,” stressing that “this year’s election must be based on competence as it requires physical and mental energy. It is not a retirement job.”
More than 50 artists have been nominated for the 2023 Brit Awards, including global stars Stormzy and Taylor Swift, as well as newcomers like Central Cee and Mimi Webb.
With four nominations each, Harry Styles and Wet Leg lead the pack, while Cat Burns, The 1975, Fred Again, and The 1975 each have three.
The winners will be announced at a star-studded ceremony on Saturday, February 11 at London’s O2 Arena.
All of the nominees are listed below.
Album of the Year
The 1975 – Being Funny In A Foreign Language
Fred Again – Actual Life 3 (Jan 1 – September 9 2022)
Harry Styles – Harry’s House
Stormzy – This Is What I Mean
Wet Leg – Wet Leg
Artist of the Year
Central Cee
Fred Again
George Ezra
Harry Styles
Stormzy
Best group
The 1975
Arctic Monkeys
Bad Boy Chiller Crew
Nova Twins
Wet Leg
Song of the Year
Aitch and Ashanti – Baby
Cat Burns – Go
Dave – Starlight
Ed Sheeran and Elton John – Merry Christmas
Eliza Rose and Interplanetary Criminal – B.O.T.A. (Baddest Of Them All)
George Ezra – Green Green Grass
Harry Styles – As It Was
Lewis Capaldi – Forget Me
LF System – Make Me Feel
Sam Smith & Kim Petras – Unholy
Best international artist
Beyoncé
Burna Boy
Kendrick Lamar
Lizzo
Taylor Swift
Best international group
Blackpink
Drake & 21 Savage
First Aid Kit
Fontaines DC
Gabriels
International song of the Year
Beyoncé – Break My Soul
David Guetta & Bebe Rexha – I’m Good (Blue)
Fireboy DML & Ed Sheeran – Peru
Encanto cast – We Don’t Talk About Bruno
Gayle – ABCDEFU
Jack Harlow – First Class
Lizzo – About Damn Time
Lost Frequencies & Calum Scott – Where Are You Now?
OneRepublic – I Ain’t Worried
Taylor Swift – Anti-Hero
Best new artist
Kojey Radical
Rina Sawayama
Sam Ryder
Mimi Webb
Wet Leg
Rising Star
Flo – winners
Cat Burns
Nia Archives
Best alternative / rock
The 1975
Arctic Monkeys
Nova Twins
Tom Grennan
Wet Leg
Best dance
Becky Hill
Bonobo
Calvin Harris
Eliza Rose
Fred Again
Best hip-hop / rap / grime
Aitch
Central Cee
Dave
Loyle Carner
Stormzy
Pop / R&B
Cat Burns
Charli XCX
Dua Lipa
Harry Styles
Sam Smith
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Chiamaka Agim, a Lagos State resident and former Zenith Bank employee, has complained that over N4 million mysteriously vanished from her Zenith Bank account.
On Tuesday, January 10, 2023, the lady narrated her ordeal in a video posted to her Twitter page.
She claimed she was relaxing in her apartment on the evening of January 9, 2023, when she received three debit alerts totaling N4.039 million.
The Lagos resident also stated that she opened the bank account, which was empty of all her savings, while working at Zenith Bank.
“When I received the first alert around 8.25, I actually thought it was a WhatsApp message. I checked it and was shocked to see that it was an alert of N3.715 million,” she said.
“I was confused because I did not authorise any transaction, so I logged in to my bank app to check what was happening. That was when I got another debit alert of N222,000 and then I got the third one of N102,000.
Agim further said that Zenith Bank officials did not take her complaint seriously when she reported the incident at two branches of the bank in the Yaba area of the state on Tuesday.
She said was asked to write a letter of complaint, which she did and submitted at each Zenith Bank branch.
Meanwhile, Zenith Bank responding to the lady’s plight has written a two-page letter to one of its customers who watched over N4 million vanish from her account in 20 minutes.
In a response letter signed by Anyar Ikwor, Internal Control Unit, Zenith Bank noted it can only recover a sum of N800,500 out of the missing sum.
Ayim had earlier narrated that was called around 6 pm on Tuesday, 10 January 2023 by a bank official who notified her during the phone conversation that the transaction was done via her e-token.
The bank official further enquired that she must have given out the token pin. However, Ayim said she has never applied for a token or has one linked to her account.
However, Ayim said she has never applied for a token or has one linked to her account.
The Zenith bank customer explain that the bank official informed her that the 4 million transactions were sent to two accounts.
N3.71 million was sent to one Isah on Monday, 9, January 2022 at 8.28 pm, the same account received another N222,900 three minutes later. While another Abdulraham Sani received N102,000 15 minutes late at 8.48 pm.
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This is not the first time this incident will be occurring in the Nigerian banking sector.
In December 2021, Punch reports that only four top banks recorded a total of 477,405 unresolved customer complaints and most are related to fraud.
The banks are Zenith, Guaranty Trust Bank, United Bank for Africa, and Access Bank.
The reports also revealed that the number of unresolved complaints carried forward by the banks in 2021 grew by 172,399 from 305,791 recorded in December 2020.
For Zenith bank, a total of 166,314 complaints remained unresolved as of December 2021. This figure is almost double the amount recorded in 2021 (83,899).
A woman has revealed why she warms up her underwear in the microwave before putting it on.
On Twitter, one netizen with the handle @jzux asked people should disclose an unsettling fact about themselves.
“A lady has opened up on the reason she microwaves her underwear before putting it on,” @juzx wrote.
In her response, the woman revealed that she frequently microwaves her panties before wearing them.
She stated that she does this so that her underwear feels “warm” and “crisp” when she puts it on.
She provided videos of herself explaining how she accomplishes this as well as a photograph of her panties in a microwave to illustrate that she wasn’t joking.
Doyin Okupe, a former director general of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), was freed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) a few hours after being detained at the Lagos airport.
It was previously stated that Okupe was detained by the Department of State Services (DSS) on January 12, 2023, in the morning at Lagos’ Muritala Mohammed International Airport.
After the former presidential adviser was found guilty of money laundering by the Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja, the DSS requested documentation of the court proceedings in which he chose to pay a fine.
Subsequently, he was handed over to the EFCC.
Confirming the report of Okupe’s arrest, Dr Peter Afunanya, DSS Public Relations Officer confirmed that the former Director-General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council was intercepted by the DSS at Terminal 1 of Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos.
The politician, who was born in Ogun, was furious about it. He claims that EFCC representatives then expressed regret for embarrassing him.
“Doyin Okupe was intercepted by the DSS at Terminal 1 of Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos this morning at the instance of the EFCC. “He has long been handed over to the Commisson which requested for the action. “Okupe was billed to fly to London via Virgin Atlantic” He said.
Al Hilal, Ronaldo’s direct rivals, are set to make an irresistible salary offer to Lionel Messi in order to lure him to Saudi Arabia.
Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo
As direct rivals of Al Nassr, who recently completed the signing of Cristiano Ronaldo, Saudi Arabia clubs appear to have their sights set on making their league one of the largest in the world. Al Hilal is set to make an irresistible salary offer to PSG star and World Cup winner Lionel Messi.
According to Spanish news outlet Mundo Deportivo, Messi, who is currently the ambassador of the Visit Saudi campaign, is set to be offered a salary bid worth up to 300 million euros per year, which is twice the amount Ronaldo is paid at Al Nassr.
The Saudi government is expected to provide Al Hilal with the necessary financial support to make the bid possible, believing that having two of the greatest players in football history would improve the quality and structure of the Saudi League.
With Messi’s contract at PSG expiring in June 2023, there has been speculation about where the Argentine legend will play next, as many clubs have expressed interest in the world cup winner.
Doyin Okupe, a former director-general of Peter Obi’s Labour Party (LP), has been arrested by Department of State Service operatives (DSS).
One of the lawyers, of Doyin Okupe, Tolu Babaleye disclosed that he was arrested at the Muritala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos on Thursday.
Doyin Okupe was arrested by the Department of State Service while on his way to London for medical treatment, according to his lawyer, Tolu Babaleye.
According to a statement issued by Lawyer Tolu Babaleye, the politician was asked to provide evidence demonstrating that the Federal High Court in Abuja cleared him of all charges in the money laundering case for which he was recently convicted and given the option of paying a fine.
He wrote: “The information reaching me now is that Dr. Doyin Okupe has been arrested at Lagos Airport by the DSS on his way to London.
“The reason according to the source is that he was asked to produce evidence that the Federal High Court Abuja has freed him from the case in which he was convicted and paid a fine to the knowledge of the whole world and was allowed to go home.
“When will this harassment stop? Who is after Dr. Doyin Okupe? As of today, the man has no case to answer anywhere, I hereby demand that the DSS should release my Client immediately as it is a violation of his freedom of movement, right to liberty, and dignity as a human person.
“This is unfair as the man’s health is fast failing!”
Students at Godfrey Okoye University in Enugu have been ordered to wear their faculty uniforms from now on.
Christian Anieke, the university’s vice-chancellor, issued the order on Tuesday, January 10. According to him, the move became critical in order to prevent students from dressing inappropriately.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria, Annie said this while addressing the institution’s staff and students as they returned from the Christmas and New Year holidays.
“No student is expected to wear slippers, rugged jeans, coloured hair, long fingers, fez caps, or artificial eyelashes,” he directed.
Mr. Anieke regretted that most students and staff wear t-shirts with unauthorized inscriptions, contrary to the school’s dress code, and ordered male students to comb their hair properly or shave it.
