Regina Daniels has finally spoken up about knowing who her real father is. After one Barrister Jude Ojeogwu claimed to be her real father, there has been controversy about whether she gained the approval of her father or not.
However, in a recent Instagram post, Regina Daniels clarifies by telling the real truth. She knows who her real father is, and she mocks all those claiming to be her father by saying, “Every Dick and Harry claiming to be my father; that is if I have one”. It’s possible she means her father is God Almighty when she adds a praying emoji. Also, since she grew up with her mother and siblings, her father was never in the picture.
See the post below:
Meanwhile, these were Barrister Jude’s words:
“I invited Regina to my house where I live in Lagos; (I can’t disclose the location of my house right now for security reasons); she came to my house with her siblings (Lawrence and Samuel Ojeogwu) and I asked her if all I’ve been hearing is true because I wanted to know what was actually going on. She ‘Daddy, nothing is going on.’ I asked my first son, her brother, Lawrence Ojeogwu, the same question and he also said nothing was going on. I then asked my other son, Samuel, the same question, he too said the same thing, ‘Daddy nothing is going on’. I said okay, should we now say all that I’ve been hearing and seeing is more like a movie? And they said ‘Yes’.
However, I advised that if she wants to get married to an old man, she (Regina) should not forget that very soon she (Regina Daniels) would become a widow. But that if she is getting married to a man like her age mate, of the cause, becoming a widow would be far from her (Regina Daniels). That was where we finished the discussion about her marriage. I went further to ask what was happening about her education because I used to visit her in her school, Igbinedion University. She said she has plans of travelling to Dubai for her studies. I asked her what was in Dubai if not Arabic; that she should be thinking of going to Havard or Oxford University”
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the re-appointment of Mr. Boss Mustapha as Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), and Malam Abba Kyari as Chief of Staff (COS) to the President as well as 11 other personal staff.
A statement by the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Friday, said both appointments take effect from May 29, 2019.
The confirmation is coming more than a month after Buhari was sworn in for his second term with the opposition party threatening legal action over continued use of aides without sticking to the constitutional order.
The President also made other appointments contained in the statement:
STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE
PRESIDENT BUHARI MAKES APPOINTMENTS OF PERSONAL STAFF
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the following appointments of personal staff.
Mohammed Sarki Abba – Senior Special Assistant to the President (Household and Social Events)
Ya’u Shehu Darazo – Senior Special Assistant to the President (Special Duties)
Dr Suhayb Sanusi Rafindadi – Personal Physician to the President
Amb. Lawal A. Kazaure – State Chief of Protocol
Sabiu Yusuf – Special Assistant (Office of the President)
Saley Yuguda – Special Assistant (House Keeping)
Ahmed Muhammed Mayo – Special Assistant (Finance & Administration)
Mohammed Hamisu Sani – Special Assistant (Special Duties)
Friday Bethel – Personal Assistant (General Duties)
Sunday Aghaeze – Personal Assistant (State Photographer)
Bayo Omoboriowo – Personal Assistant (Presidential Photographer)
The above appointments take effect from May 29, 2019.
Nigeria had been on the receiving end of an upset in their previous game, a 2-0 defeat by Madagascar in their final group match.
Yet they produced their best performance of the tournament to end Cameroon’s hopes of retaining the title they won in Gabon in 2017.
Ighalo’s deflected shot gave Nigeria the lead before Bahoken side-footed the equaliser after Christian Bassogog’s cross.
In an enthralling tie, Cameroon took the lead through Njie’s composed finish.
Man-of-the-match Ighalo made it 2-2 with a volley after Ahmed Musa’s chest down before Ighalo turned provider for Arsenal’s Iwobi to slot in a dramatic decisive goal.
Analysis
BBC Sport’s Nick Cavell in Alexandria
For once, this was a big-name match-up that lived up to the billing, especially in terms of the goals scored and the ebb and flow of the match.
This was the best either side has played so far at the tournament and it still felt as if there was a lack of real quality from both teams. That was reflected in the first goals scored – Nigeria’s was a deflected effort and Cameroon’s quickfire strikes were both a result of defensive errors.
The second period was better and Nigeria looked hungrier. They also played better and their two goals both involved a lot more skill than luck.
Ighalo looked like he did in his best days at Watford, Iwobi showed the quality that Arsenal fans are crying out for and Leicester City fans may well be asking if this was the same Ahmed Musa that played for them.
For Cameroon, Andre Onana pulled off a few saves to show why he is currently the most-highly rated African keeper around, as he continued to show his form of the past season with Ajax.
Pierre Kunde did his best with his set-pieces but the quality was not there to make the most of them.
There is no letting up in the political fight between the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, and the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki.
Mr Obaseki, Wednesday, sacked eight commissioners from the state executive council.
The sacked commissioners are loyalists of Mr Oshiomhole, PREMIUM TIMES learnt.
They are Joseph Ugheoke, the commissioner for energy and water resources; Magdalene Ohenhen, women affairs and social development; and Osahon Amiolemen, infrastructure.
Others are David Osifo, the commissioner for health; Mika Amanokha, youth and special duties; Mariam Abubakar, budget; Emmanuel Usoh, wealth creation, cooperatives and employment; and Christopher Adesotu, science and technology.
Governor Obaseki has since nominated replacements for the sacked commissioners.
The Feud
Mr Oshiomhole, a former governor of Edo, helped Mr Obaseki to succeed him as the state governor in 2016, against all the odds.
Mr Obaseki is likely going to seek re-election next year, but it appears he does not enjoy the backing of Mr Oshiomhole.
The feud between the two APC leaders became public a few days ago when the Edo State House of Assembly was hurriedly ‘inaugurated’ and a speaker ‘elected’ at night with only nine lawmakers present.
The assembly has 24 members, and all of them are APC members.
The other lawmakers-elect were excluded ostensibly in order to prevent Mr Oshiomhole’s loyalists from taking control of the legislature, PREMIUM TIMES learnt.
Mr Oshiomhole and the national leadership of the APC have since rejected the ‘inauguration’ of the assembly, which they described as being “illegal”.
The assembly and the state government, Wednesday, secured an interim order from a federal high court in Benin City, restraining the APC from “interfering” in the affairs of the state legislature.
Mr Obaseki, as it is, appears to be in firm control of the APC at the state level, while Mr Oshiomhole thrives at the national level of the party.
Undercurrent
A local chapter of the party on June 21 issued a statement, saying it has suspended one of the lawmakers-elect who was excluded from the Edo assembly ‘inauguration’.
The ‘suspended’ lawmaker-elect, Washington Osifo, is from Uhunmwode Local Government Area of the state.
The party did not give reasons for its action, beyond accusing Mr Osifo of “violating” its constitution.
Meanwhile, Mr Osifo, in an interview PREMIUM TIMES, accused a chieftain of APC in the state, Charles Idahosa, of being behind the action.
Mr Osifo said his only offence was that he had called on the people to condemn the “unconstitutional inauguration” of the Edo State House of Assembly by nine out of the 24 members.
“I am not the one who said the right thing must be done, it is the constitution that says so,” he said.
The lawmaker-elect said those whose names appeared on the notice of his suspension “have called him to disassociate themselves from it”.
Traditional rulers and chiefs on Wednesday met with President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja and pleaded for his intervention in the rift between Governor Obaseki and Mr Oshiomhole.
The Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba N’ Edo, Ewuare II, who led the delegation to the presidential villa, reportedly told Mr Buhari, “If this crisis is not resolved now with immediate effect, it may jeopardise the progress of the state”.
It could be recalled that Mr Idahosa, a former political adviser to Mr Oshiomhole when the latter was Edo governor, recently demanded the resignation of the APC national chairman.
Mr Idahosa, who apparently enjoys the backing of Governor Obaseki, accused Mr Oshiomhole of instigating crisis within the APC in Edo.
“We are all not very happy with what is happening in Edo State today, especially with the political division and the confusion.
“This is a situation in which we ought to be very happy; it is so strange. It is like a tragi-comedy with what is happening. We have a governor who was brought up by a political party and the people out there are very happy and commending this governor for working so hard. He is very popular and you will attest to that but the problem is with the leadership of the party.
“While the voters are very excited, the people who brought him into power are not happy with him because, according to them, he is not carrying them along,” Mr Idahosa said.
Mr Obaseki himself helped to fuel the speculations about his rift with Mr Oshiomhole when he cried out some weeks ago that some “greedy” politicians were putting pressure on him to share state funds to them.
Mr Obaseki did not say who the “greedy” politicians were, but many thought he may have referred to the APC national chairman and his supporters.
The Nigerian police have paraded the suspected killers of Alex Badeh. Badeh was the former chief of defence staff before his untimely death.
The joint investigative panel set up to probe the death of Alex Badeh, former chief of defence staff, has paraded 15 suspects in connection to the killing of the late general.
Badeh was shot dead in December while returning from his farm along Abuja-Keffi road.
The panel comprised of the Nigerian army, airforce, police and Department of State Services (DSS) and was led by Bamidele Shafa, a major general.
Badeh served as Nigeria’s chief of defence staff between January 2014 and July 2015.
Below are photos of the suspects and investigative panel.
Popular musician, Timi Dakolo, whose wife is currently in a controversy over her alleged rape has reacted to the recent allegation by a former staff of Commonwealth of Zion Assembly, COZA, that Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo raped her.
Concourse News had reported that the former staff of the church who pleaded anonymity on Thursday said Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo raped her sometime in 2017 at the pastor’s house.
At the time, she said she was an employee of COZA who worked directly with the pastor and was also a member of the church.
According to her, Pastor Fatoyinbo asked her to come to his house outside Nigeria on the particular day (a Thursday morning) to take some instructions and go for an errand but the scenario changed after he stopped discussing the church and grabbed her towards him.
Reacting to the recent interview, Timi Dakolo took to his Instagram page, describing the interview as truth and not an attack on the church.
According to him, the revelations are not to attack the church but an ‘attack against an individual using the church as an avenue to ruin women.’
“Then another person found her voice and boldly steps forward. This time a former church member and staff is here to tell her truth. This isn’t about the church, it has never been, so don’t get it twisted.
“Nobody can fight the church of God. We are against individuals using the church as an avenue to ruin women. Let us not expect to do what God expects us to do! This truth is not going anywhere. Must we continue in evil so that grace may abound? God, forbid!
Aides of President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo whose appointments have not been renewed since the expiration of the last administration on May 29 are in a fix, PREMIUM TIMES reports.
Appointees of the president, who occupy various positions in the presidency, were expected to leave office at the end of Mr Buhari’s first tenure on May 28, 2019.
PREMIUM TIMES gathered that appointment letters issued to all the presidential aides had actually given May 29, 2019, as the termination date of their appointments.
Mr Buhari has not renewed the appointment of any of the aides since taking a fresh oath of office over a month ago.
Without asking them to leave their posts, the president has allowed the coterie of aides to continue serving the government, thereby generating confusion.
The status of the presidential aides has generated controversy with lawyers describing the aides’ staying on as illegal.
Over 100 aides serving Messrs Buhari and Osinbajo and their spouses are affected by the logjam, including Mr Buhari’s spokespersons, Femi Adesina and Garba Shehu.
A source at the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), said only three appointees in the presidency are not affected by the glitch.
Those not affected are the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha; Mr Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, and the deputy chief of staff who serves Mr Osinbajo, Adeola Ipaye.
No Pay
Checks by this newspaper indicate that civil servants in charge of finance have since May 29, 2019, written off presidential aides from the payroll, thereby depriving them of salaries, allowances and travel estacodes.
Presidential aides, who spoke with PREMIUM TIMES last week, confirmed that the last pay they got was for May, which is considered their last month in office.
A civil servant, who is not in a position to speak on record, also confirmed that none of the political appointees was paid in June.
A special assistant to the president who spoke to PREMIUM TIMES on Wednesday said the non-payment of salary was not expected, as appointees felt their mandates would have been renewed before the end of the month.
“Well, actually our letters said our position would be terminated by May 29, it is there. We are still operating but there is no pay of any kind,” he said.
Aside salaries and routine allowances, PREMIUM TIMES learnt that the affected aides are also no longer entitled to travel allowances and estacodes.
This manifested last week when Mr Osinbajo was preparing to travel for a meeting in the United States.
The vice president was reportedly taken aback when he was told that his personal aides could not be provided for by the government to join him on the trip.
Civil servants handling his office said they could not pay the aides estacodes as was the normal practice.
The piqued Mr Osinbajo had to device personal means to take care of the few aides he travelled with.
This constraint may also affect Mr Buhari’s scheduled trip to Niamey, Niger Republic, this newspaper learnt.
The president is expected to travel with a very small number of personal aides who are political appointees.
“Apart from the ADC and CSO, the personal physician and the chief of protocol, no other aide is sure of traveling with the president,” a source at the presidency said.
Other Privileges Affected
PREMIUM TIMES gathered that protocol officials in the presidential villa have also stopped filing notice of meetings and other memos to all the aides, rendering presidency activities, largely an informal affair.
While the aides still attend to official functions and meetings, their usual privileges are being cut down.
Notice of meetings and schedules of the president and his vice are no longer shared with most of the appointees who used to get those documents in the past.
Their inclusion in trips has also been cut down, except on the special request of the two leaders, and at non-official capacity.
‘Sorting out mess’
The spokesperson of the SGF’s Office, which is the office in charge of appointments of aides, Willy Bassey, declined comment on the matter insisting that the issue was not in the purview of the SGF’s office.
“It is the duty of the Revenue Mobilisation Commission. Reach out to them,” he directed, rebuffing all attempts to explain his office’s connection with the subject.
But a senior official in the office of the SGF, who is not authorised to speak with the media, said the logjam is being sorted out “as the government has commenced process of reappointing some of the aides”.
“It is only when their appointment(s) is renewed that they can continue to benefit from the pecks of office,” the senior official said on Wednesday.
One of Big Brother Naija 2019 housemates, Thelma, has come under attack over her accent in the reality show.
Thelma, among other housemates, brought into the house a different ‘American accent’.
However, Thelma’s case seems to be the worst as hers seems not to be genuine, which has generated reactions from Nigerians online.
Recall that some Nigerians described choice of housemates in the ongoing fourth season of the Big Brother Naija reality show as “more foreign than Nigerian.”
Respondents said that it was puzzling how Manchester-based Mike, London police officer, Khafi and Ike, who said this was his first one in Lagos, made the cut, while thousands of Nigerians flooded audition centres in February.
Viewers felt it was unfair to have people risk their lives to the audition and then pick Nigerians in the diaspora.
Here are comments of Nigerians gathered by DAILY POST from Twitter:
@DonJazzy “Thelma has a different haqccent for each question.”
@Dfitnessbeaut1 “Thelma’s fake accent just
Dropped to igbocent. Did you hear that!
@Salakoko “Thelma Please your english teacher died before he could teach youqueens English so just be yourself.But for today I’ll talk to him.”
@Christo7548 “Thelma is half ghanian, half ivorian but she grew up in imo. No wonder her english is as confused as where she is from.”
@Zaddy_Nomso “Thelma has to be the first human to have the Canadian-Aba accent. Like Drake that eats Okpa every morning.“
@Akanni “Very stupid thelma, Be forming accent she sounds like omo ibadan trying to form yankee.”
@T_Chisom “I swear I’m tired of this Thelma matter.. I think I’d just keep her in the house to see the kinda accents she’d be giving us daily. I’ve not gotten over “I did it on perpose”
@Thepamilerin “Thelma is making me laugh, this her abroad English is wonderful.”
@Faymorce “Thelma! First of Her name! Haqccent fluctator!Breaker of Queens English!
Low budget Waje! Haqccent queen!English constructor! Fine girl fine English! British English slayer! First Nigerian to speak pidgin on perpose !
@Zuribabel “Thelma speaking with United States of Nnewi accent? #BBNaija
Frank Lampard has been confirmed as Chelsea’s new manager.
The 41-year-old replaces Maurizio Sarri, who has since left to take over at Juventus, after spending only one season at Stamford Bridge.
Lampard has signed a three-year deal with the Blues worth £4million-a-year with hefty bonuses, especially for getting into the Champions League.
“It gives us great pleasure to welcome Frank back to Chelsea as head coach. Frank possesses fantastic knowledge and understanding of the club and last season, he demonstrated he is one of the most talented young coaches in the game.
“After 13 years with us as a player, where he became a club legend and our record goalscorer, we believe this is the perfect time for him to return and are delighted he has done so.
“We will do everything we can to ensure he has all the support required to be a huge successChelsea director, Marina Granovskaia, told the club’s official website.
Regina Daniels has finally spoken up about knowing who her real father is. After one Barrister Jude Ojeogwu claimed to be her real father, there has been controversy about whether she gained the approval of her father or not.
