Mafikizolo's Theo Kgosinkwe and wife are expecting their first child together (photos)

 

Mafikizolo singer, Theo Kgosinkwe and his wife, Vourne are expecting their first child together. 

 

The South African singer who recently tied the knot in a private ceremony, took to Instagram to share the good news with his fans after the couple hosted a baby-reveal gender party. 

 

Sharing photos of he and his wife posing together with Vourne's baby bump on display, the singer wrote: '1 Samuel 1:27. I (we) prayed for this child and the Lord has granted me (us)

What I (we) asked of him .We had a great day with few friends and family at the gender reveal - You can take a guess is it a boy or girl?'

 

See full photos below.

 

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Granting amnesty to Boko Haram members cannot bring peace - Senator Ndume

 

Senator Ali Ndume, the lawmaker representing Borno South in the red chamber and the Chairman of the senate committee on Army has again kicked against the amnesty granted to Boko Haram members 

 

The lawmaker who urged the federal government to change its tactics in granting amnesty to repentant insurgents after undergoing a six-month De-radicalization, Rehabilitation and Re-integration training via the Operation Safe Corridor programme, maintained that it is wrong to grant amnesty to terrorists when the war is still far from over. 

 

Ndume called for more resources to be channelled to resettling the victims of insurgents, while also pointing out that granting amnesty to Boko Haram insurgents without apologizing to the victims and the state cannot bring about the required peace. 

 

He told newsmen on Sunday September 13; 

 

“The war must be over before we start doing that.

“The military could open up the corridor, allow everybody to enter and start profiling them and keep them somewhere as prisoners of war and train them.

“The current arrangement where the repentant insurgents are granted amnesty without apologizing to the victims and the state cannot bring about the required peace. 

“Despite the difficult challenges confronting the military operation in my area, the soldiers deployed to fight the insurgents have been very wonderful.

“At Ngoshe for instance, the military personnel there, apart from repelling the attacks from the insurgents, have mobilized resources to start rebuilding, through direct labour, houses that were destroyed by the Boko Haram fighters. The soldiers did not know the owners of the  houses they are rebuilding.”

It is mostly females that launch troll attacks and it is hard being the bigger person - Tboss

 

Tboss has lashed out at trolls who she accused of always wanting to make someone feel bad. 

 

The BBNaija star who wondered why women will always be the ones to launch troll attacks when they should be supporting their fellow women, also stated that the ''percentage of men who join in troll attacks are those who have lost their manhood.''

 

Tboss admitted that it is hard being the bigger person during troll attacks. See her posts below.

 

Ugandan businessman to pay 10 cows, 3 goats reparation to family, after publicly confessing to killing their son (video)

 

Ugandan businessman, Mathew Kanyamunyu, on Saturday afternoon, September 12, 2020, admitted to killing a child rights activist, Kenneth Akena Watson and agreed to pay 10 cows and three goats reparation for the offence.

 

 

Born on November 29, 1983 in Gandyang town, Kitgum district, late Akena, pictured above was working with ACODEV as a child protection specialist under a USAID project at the time of his death in 2016.

 

It was gathered that Akena accidentally knocked Kanyamunyu's car in a parking lot in Lugogo, Kampala, and had reportedly gone to apologise to Kanyamunyu after the accident, when Kanyamunyu lowered the window of his car and shot him in the stomach with a pistol at close range. According to the family, a postmortem report revealed two bullets inside Akena's body.

 

Akena died a few hours later at Norvic hospital, where he had been taken by the accused.

 

Kanyamunyu has since then been on trial together with his Burundian girlfriend Cynthia Munwangari and sibling Joseph Kanyamunyu who allegedly hid the killer gun. But throughout the trial, Kanyamunyu and his girlfriend insisted that they only took Akena to hospital as good Samaritans.

 

 

However, in an alleged dying declaration, Akena reportedly told his relatives that he was shot by the same people who took him to hospital.

 

Last month, Kanyamunyu’s family sought the intervention of Acholi Religious Leaders Peace Initiative (ARLPI) and Acholi Cultural Institution to broker a reconciliation agreement between them and Akena’s family to find a closure to the case.

 

Dr John Baptist Odama, the Gulu Archbishop backed by Rwot David Onena Acana II, the paramount chief of Acholi persuaded Akena’s family who in turn opened up to the negotiations. The reconcilers summoned the two families for the first meeting that was held on Saturday,  in Gulu.

 

The meeting that was held under tents at Ker Kwaro Acholi compound, was presided over by Rwot Acana II as a chief witness. A council of six elders cross-examined Kanyamunyu as a requisite step of prior to Mato Oput - a clan or family-centred reconciliation practice.

 

 

A family source privy to the negotiations says that Kanyamunyu, pictured above, made a step by step recount of what happened between him and Akena on November 12, 2016, at Forest shopping mall in Lugogo before he pleaded for clemency from Ogom chiefs, Akena’s clan leaders.

 

“He admitted that he will make the same confession before the High court in Kampala where he is being prosecuted to allow him to enter a plea bargain,” a source said.

 

The same source added that after the confession, the elders on the protocol of Mato Oput made an assessment of 10 cows and three goats to be paid by Kanyamunyu’s family to which they agreed.

 

Asked what drove him to pull a trigger on an innocent man, Kanyamunyu said up to this day, he has never comprehended the level of "stupidity", "foolishness" or "evil" that he even did not know he had in him on that fateful day when he pulled the trigger.

 

"To be honest I would be lying to you if I told you that I have fully comprehended the tragedy of that day to date. The stupidity, the foolishness, the evil that I exhibited on that day is not something I knew was in. But now I recognize, now I recognize within me, deep within me, there is evil that I did not know about." Kanyamunyu said.

 

"I can never comprehend ever the magnitude of what is inside me and that is the reason that I’m remorseful, that I’m sorry and that is the reason I ask for your forgiveness, I ask for your understanding and for time for this healing process to begin and for time for me to comprehend the magnitude of the tragedy," Kanyamunyu added.

 

Under the ultimate Acholi tradition justice system of Mato Oput , the accused person must admit his/her mistake through a meaningful confession and must also accept to pay reparations for the damages caused.

 

Ambrose Olaa, the prime minister of Acholi Cultural Institution confirmed the reconciliation meeting. He said the exercise was conducted at Ker Kwaro Acholi by the Ogom clan under the Payira chiefdom of Acholi ethnic group.

 

The trial of Kanyamunyu and his co-accused was earlier this year adjourned indefinitely by presiding judge Stephen Mubiru, the Gulu resident judge.

 

However, Akena’s family members remain optimistic about the pursuit of traditional justice by Kanyamunyu’s family will not derail them from continuing with criminal proceedings already before the court.

 

See photos and video of Kanyamunu confessing below...

 

 

Trader crushed to death in Lagos by 16-year-old trying to move his mum's car which was obstructing traffic (photo)

 

A 50-year-old trader, Mrs. Tuale Iwejim, has died after she was hit by a 16-year-old boy who was using his mother’s SUV to test his driving skills at the Arena Shopping Mall, Oshodi, Lagos State.

 

According to a report by Punch, Tuale was in the shopping complex to purchase some items for her shop when she was knocked down by the SUV. The teenager and his mum were in the shopping complex to pick up some times. His mum went back to pick their remaining items and asked him to wait in their vehicle. While waiting, some persons began to complain that the SUV was obstructing the free flow of traffic in the complex. Instead of informing them that he couldn't drive, the teenager took the keys from his mother's bag and hopped on the driver's seat. He was said to have put it in reverse and hit the 50-year-old two times.

 

Mrs Iwejim was rushed to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi Araba, Surulere, where she had surgery before her death on Thursday, September 4, 2020.

 

Her husband, Christopher Iwejim, who recounted the unfortunate incident said

 

''We were told that the boy and his mother went to the market to buy some things. After they did, the woman asked the son to wait for her in the car so that she could go and pack the remaining items.

“While the boy was inside the car, somebody shouted that the vehicle was obstructing traffic and asked the occupant to park well. Instead of him to say he was not the driver, he took the key from the mother’s bag and started driving.

“He managed to engage the gear on drive, but forgot to use the brake. That was how he hit Tuale. While struggling to put it on reverse, he hit her again. She sustained what I will call first degree injuries on both legs from her waist down. The boy also damaged some billboards and structures in the market.”Iwejim said

 

The N400,000, which the Delta State indigene borrowed to buy goods in the market, was stolen while she was being extricated from the wreckage.

 

The son of the deceased, Amos, said his mother spent about three weeks at the hospital, where doctors battled to save her life.

“When the accident happened, she was stuck in a gas cylinder, and when they tried to remove her, some parts of her flesh got torn. Her hip bone was divided from her body. It also appeared like there were iron rods in her leg and there was a hole in the leg” he said

 

The family of the deceased said they reached an agreement with the family of the teenager to share the medical bills 50-50. However, the teenager’s mother identified as Victoria Ogunleye, was said to have showed up at the hospital twice with N100,000 on each occasion while the family of the deceased spent as much as N1.5m.

 

The son of the deceased frowned at the military's decision to release the confiscated SUV of the Ogunleye's to them despite the fact that his mum was still in the hospital.

“The military police called my dad and said the woman wanted to pick her vehicle, and he told them not to release it. But to our surprise, they released the vehicle to the family.

LUTH later said they wanted to perform a surgery on her. A day after the surgery, she became unstable and they called my dad to ask if he could afford the ICU, because her breathing was not good. He agreed. They put her there, but she passed away the third day.”

 

After her death, both families had a meeting where the Iwejims demanded that the teenager's family bear the cost of burial and fulfill the agreement to share the medical cost by 50 percent.

 

The Military is yet to comment on the incident.

Wathoni trends as Nigerians mock her for failing all the questions asked during an interview (video)

 

Nigerian are mocking Wathoni, making her the number one trending topic among Nigerians on Twitter.

 

The Big Brother Naija reality star granted an interview where she was asked certain questions but she couldn't answer any.

 

 

 

Nigerians reacted to the interview by mocking her.

 

Below is the video and also some reactions to it.

 

 

 

 

 

Patience Ozokwor celebrates her 62nd birthday with lovely photos

 

Veteran Nollywood actress, Patience Ozokwor is celebrating her 62nd birthday today, September 14, and to mark the day, she shared these beautiful photos of herself on her Instagram page.

 

She wrote in one post: 'But the godly will flourish like palm trees and grow strong like the cedars of Lebanon. For they are transplanted to the LORD’s own house. They flourish in the courts of our God. Even in old age they will still produce fruit; they will remain vital and green. They will declare, “The LORD is just! He is my rock! There is no evil in him!” Psalm 92:12-14 #BirthdayThanksgiving#MamaGLovers#PatienceOzokwo.'

 

Happy birthday to her! See more photos below.