Former big brother Naija house mate, Cynthia Nwadiora popularly known as Ceece has dropped beautiful photos of herself posing with her Benz.

The Benz was given to her by royal hair when she sealed a deal as their brand ambassador in June 2019.

She was named the most successful housemate in the 2018 #BB Naija show.

This was a measure of her awards, endorsements, appearances in movies, etc after the show.

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has cancelled the unified tertiary matriculation examination (UTME) result of Kingsley Unekwe for altering his score.

The board said 18- year old Unekwe was caught inflating his original UTME score from 201 to 269.

He becomes the fifth person whose UTME result has been withdrawn and cancelled by the board.

JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, disclosed this to reporters when Unekwe and his mother appeared before some officials of the board in Abuja on Friday.

The registrar said Unekwe had edited the original score allocated to him by the board and presented it to his parents as the original result.

He said the boy’s parent had called the board, alleging irregularities in their son’s result, leading to their invitation to Abuja from Awka, Anambra state.

Unekwe, in the presence of his mother and officials of JAMB, confessed to have tampered with the original UTME result allocated to him by the board.

He said his original score of 201 didn’t meet the requirement to read medicine which his parents wanted him to study at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

He explained that to make his parents happy, and proud, he had to edit the original UTME result to meet their expectation of him becoming a doctor.

Unekwe appealed to the board for clemency, feigning ignorance of his crime.

But JAMB registrar said the boy would be handed over to security agencies for prosecution.

Prof. Oloyede said: “Anybody who does post-result infraction, will have their results withdrawn by the board.

“You are the fifth person. Two of them are already being prosecuted because we showed them clearly that they forged their results to deceive their parents who are desperate, like your parents are to study medicine.

The Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, in Bayelsa has sealed nine petrol stations and one illegal transfilling Liquefied Petroleum Gas, LPG, plant for various offences, including expired licences and the lack of basic operational equipment.

Long Queque at NNPC Fuel Station at Eleme along Aba Road in Port Harcourt weekend. Photo: Nwankpa Chijioke

The Head of Operations, Mr Ibinabo Jack, who led the team of other DPR officials on an unscheduled visit to various filling stations and gas refilling plants within the state capital, said the sealed stations had violated the operational regulations and standards of DPR.

According to him, “the DPR is a regulatory body and there are regulations binding the operations of retail outlets and this regulation, needs to be maintained by the operators some we are saying that retail outlets operators, should abide with the regulations for their retail outlets.”

He added: “The stations that were placed under seal, must have committed so many irregularities that are punishable. Some were under dispensing some were not having fire extinguishers.

“The penalty varies according to their offences as we go on when they report, we seal for them to report at the office and the appropriate penalties will be meted out to any one of them.

“We saw a retail outlet in which they were selling cooking gas they were trans filling, by that I mean transferring from one cylinder to another cylinder with a tube and valve which is not allowable. That is purely out of practice it’s not accepted that is why we close down that particular station for them to move out that activity in that filling station.

“This reseller is a business they do, they are resellers they are been licensed to some have no licences accordingly been taken care of putting impunity measures but most of them that you may see must have not had their license.”

The leadership of the Senate, led by the President of the Senate, Dr. Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan has arrived Katsina to pay Sallah homage on President Muhammadu Buhari in Daura.

In the entourage of the President of the Senate are Senate Leader Abdullahi Yahaya; the Deputy Senate Leader, Ajayi Borrofice; the Deputy Whip Sabi Abdullahi; the Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe; the Minority whip Sen. Philip Aduda; the Deputy Minority Whip, Sahabi Ya’u; and the three senators representing Katsina state, inluding Sen. Babba A Kaita, Sen. Abdullahi K Barkiya, and Sen. Bello Mandiya.

Liverpool goalkeeper Adrian is doubtful for Saturday’s Premier League trip to Southampton after sustaining a freak injury while celebrating their UEFA Super Cup victory over Chelsea, manager Juergen Klopp said on Friday.

Adrian, signed on a free transfer earlier this month, only came into the side to fill in for first-choice keeper Alisson who suffered a calf injury in the opening Premier League victory over Norwich City last week.

The Spaniard became a club hero only days after joining by blocking Tammy Abraham’s penalty to hand Klopp’s side a 5-4 shootout victory on Wednesday.

However, he was left with a swollen ankle after a supporter who invaded the pitch to join in their celebrations slipped and kicked his foot.

“When we were all together (celebrating after the match), a supporter jumped over something, was chased by some security guys, slipped and kicked his (Adrian’s) ankle,” Klopp told a news conference.

“So yesterday it was swollen — today it is better, but we have to see… it would help him a lot if it was 100% clear he can play tomorrow… it’s not funny.

“He will not go for a scan. We wait for the swelling to go down. It went down already.

“You can imagine, you have that and then you fly four hours back and that doesn’t help swelling.”
The setback leaves Liverpool short of their two main keepers, but Klopp said back-ups Andrew Lonergan and Caoimhin Kelleher were ready if needed.
“We need to think about Saturday to find a way to win the game. Andy Lonergan is in training with Kelleher and we have them if we have to make a decision,” Klopp said.
“Adrian was a week before, Lonergan has trained with us. Kelleher has potential but is not 100 per cent yet. We’ll see.”
Midfielder Naby Keita was also ruled out after picking up a muscle strain ahead of the clash with Chelsea.(NAN)

In a new development to combat Ebola Virus Disease, scientists and doctors in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been running a clinical trial of new drugs to try to combat a year-long Ebola outbreak.

Two new drugs have shown remarkable promise at treating Ebola in a clinical trial, increasing survival rates for people who recently contracted the disease.

The therapies saved roughly 90 percent of the patients who were newly infected, a turning point in the fight against the virus. A randomized trial comparing four different treatments in four towns began in November.

This trial was part of the international emergency response to the epidemic in Congo.

The trial enrolled roughly 700 patients to try four experimental drugs.

However, of the four, two treatments known as REGN-EB3 and mAb114 were considered effective

The two drugs work by intravenously infusing a combination of monoclonal antibodies into the patient’s blood.

While the other two drugs, Remdesivir and ZMapp, will no longer be administered because they resulted in death rates up to 3 times as high as the other two drugs in patients with low viral loads.

“From now on we will no longer say that Ebola is not curable. This advance will in the future help save thousands of lives that would have had a fatal outcome in the past.” Jean-Jacques Muyembe, director general of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Institut National de Recherche Biomedicale, announced during a press briefing.

Ebola first emerged more than 40 years ago, and it sparked global fear after massive outbreaks in West Africa between 2014 and 2016 killed more than 11,300 people.

Smaller outbreaks have continued, including an ongoing crisis in Congo where nearly 2,800 people have been diagnosed and more than 1,800 people have died.

The World Health Organization declared Ebola a public health emergency “of international concern” this July.

Dr. Muyembe said, news of a cure could change the course of the outbreak.

Dr. Muyembe, 77, who is referred to as a “true hero” has been fighting Ebola since it first appeared in what was then Zaire in 1976.

The virologist spent 43 years of his life finding a cure for the virus which has affected his country since 1976.

Decades ago, he pioneered the use of survivors’ blood serum — which contains antibodies — in order to save patients. The two experiment treatments that proved successful last week descend in part from his original research

Manchester City will seek revenge against Tottenham on Saturday for their dramatic Champions League exit last season as Liverpool and Manchester United also look to build on impressive Premier League starts this weekend.

Man City completed the first-ever domestic treble of trophies in England last season but fell short once more in the Champions League as Tottenham progressed from their quarter-final tie on away goals.

VAR disallowed Raheem Sterling’s strike deep into stoppage time of a thrilling second leg 4-3 win for the English champions in April, robbing Sterling of his hat-trick on the night and City a place in the last four.

Yet, Sterling has started the new campaign as he finished the last, scoring a hat-trick on the opening weekend as City thrashed West Ham 5-0 to already move to the top of the table.

Tottenham was also victorious against Aston Villa but needed to come from behind and two goals in the final five minutes from Harry Kane to secure a 3-1 win over promoted Aston Villa.

Kane has warned that Spurs cannot fall behind so early in the campaign if they want to maintain a title challenge.

“We have to make sure we get off to a good start,” said the England captain.

“It’s important that we stay in touch for as long as we can.

“We have full belief that we can go all the way but there’s a long road ahead.”

Liverpool will hope to have forged ahead by the time City and Spurs kick-off at the Etihad when they travel to a Southampton side reeling from a disappointing 3-0 defeat at Burnley to start the season.

Lampard comes home
Chelsea was the only member of the ‘big six’ to get off to a losing start as the Blues were humbled 4-0 by Manchester United in Frank Lampard’s first game in charge.

The former England midfielder fairly argued that the scoreline was very harsh on his side after they enjoyed the better of the opening hour.

And there was further encouragement for Lampard in his side’s performance despite losing the UEFA Super Cup to Liverpool on penalties after a 2-2 draw in Istanbul on Wednesday.

“To lose the game was disappointing but if it means Chelsea’s season can be something like how we played today, we’ll be OK,” he said.

After a summer in which Lampard could not sign new players and Chelsea lost Eden Hazard to Real Madrid, facing a refreshed United and relentless Liverpool was a baptism of fire for Lampard.

Chelsea’s all-time top goalscorer is still assured of a hero’s welcome for his first home game as manager against Leicester at Stamford Bridge on Sunday.

But he badly needs a win to quieten the doubters over Chelsea’s decision to hand a club legend with just one year’s managerial experience such a high-profile job.

The true test for new United
After the negativity that greeted Manchester United securing just three new signings in the transfer window, the comprehensive margin of victory over Chelsea was the perfect tonic for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

Harry Maguire, Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Daniel James all made a big impact as United registered just their second clean sheet at home in the Premier League under the Norwegian, while James came off the bench to score the final goal.

However, a Monday night trip to Wolves will be another tough test of United’s ambitions this season.

Solskjaer’s men lost on both visits to Molineux last season.

“When you start the season like this, the club, the supporters, everyone goes home bouncing and happy. Now it’s about levelling out,” said Solskjaer.

“We know the last two games went against them when I was there. We just have to make sure we do everything we can and there’s no repeat of that scoreline.”

OSUN POLY: SOME parents of Osun State Polytechnic, Iree students, yesterday, commended the management of the institution for charging the undergraduates the sum of 10 thousand naira (N10,000) as damages fees.

The students had on June 1, 2019 burnt the school health centre and a vehicle while protesting the death of one of their colleagues, Aminu Shehu, an HND I student, who died during the suspended second semester examination.

The deceased was said to have fallen ill while writing examination on Friday, May 31, 2019 and was not attended to at the school clinic, leading the irate students to vandalise and burn school properties.

A statement issued by the school’s Public Relations Officer, Mr Tope Abiola, disclosed that the parents under the auspices of Vanguard for Good parenting, VGP, led by Chief Michael Ogundaisi, who visited the Acting Rector, Dr. Olawoye Olaniran in his office, said that the decision of the authorities of the institution to charge such a meagre amount is highly commendable and compassionate, considering the extent of damage done to the institution on June 1, 2019.

“The VGP during a courtesy visit to the institution thanked the acting rector and other members of Management for their kind gesture, saying initially we were expecting a charge of about thirty-five thousand naira (N35,000.00) considering the huge damage done by the students and economic reality of the country.”

Alex Iwobi has disclosed that the desire to make a name for himself and to shake off the ‘youngster’ tag at Arsenal propelled him to join Everton.

The 23-year-old teamed up with the Toffees on transfer deadline day, becoming the seventh summer signing by Marco Silva.

Iwobi, a nephew to legendary Austin Jay Jay Okocha, started in the Gunners academy before breaking into the first team, where he went on to make 149 senior appearances for the side, scoring 15 goals.

“I spoke to the manager and Marcel Brands and they almost lured me in,” Iwobi told Everton TV.

“The offer was too attractive for me to turn down. The manager was telling me, ‘There is a spot for you, we will take care of you’. Basically, all the things you want to hear as a player.

A bus conductor, Qudri Mustapha, who allegedly punched a policeman in the mouth, on Wednesday, appeared in an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court.

Mustapha, 25, who resides in Jakande area of Lagos, is charged with breach of peace and assault, to which he pleaded not guilty.

The Prosecution Counsel, Sgt. Ishola Samuel, told the court that Mustapha committed the offence on July 17, at 4 p.m. at Oshodi Bus-stop, Inward Anthony Expressway, Lagos.

Samuel alleged that the defendant assaulted PCe Olumide Sonoiki, while performing his lawful duty He alleged that Mustapha, who was causing obstruction by dropping-off passengers on the highway, punched Sonoiki when he confronted him and asked him to move his vehicle. Samuel alleged that Sonoiki, sustained injury.

The offence, he said, contravened the provisions of sections 168 and 174 of Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Section 174 provides a three-year jail term for assault and Section 168 provides a two-year jail term for convicts.

Magistrate F.O. Hughes admitted the defendant to bail in the sum of N10,000 with one surety in like sum and adjourned the case until Sept. 9.