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How drug abuse messed my life – Tonto Dikeh reveals

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Controversial actress Tonto Dikeh has revealed how drug abuse negatively affected her life.

In a recent interview on BBC Pidgin, the actress revealed that she had once battled with hard drugs and that it brought about some setbacks in her life.

She also said she wants to use her foundation to help in the rehabilitation of drug addicts so that they can live a drug-free life.

“I recently went into drug rehabilitation because it’s something that has set me back a lot in life and I’ve not really talked about it in public.

“So, given the fact that I am who I am today and I’m clean, I want to take the ‘Say No To Drugs’ back to the streets through the Tonto Dike Foundation,” she said.

Candidate demolishes house built for the poor after losing assembly seat

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Cecilia Chazama

Former MP for Blantyre North East, Cecilia Chazama, who was also a Minister in APM cabinet has demolished a house she built for a poor villager at Maleule in Lunzu, Blantyre.

It is alleged that the poor woman voted for another MP candidate and celebrated when this candidate won which displeased Chazama. She hired boys who went and demolished the building

Age falsification: Accuser of Ag. CJN to pay N10M

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A certain Mr Tochi Michael who alleged that the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Mohammed, falsified his age, will have to pay N10million in the next three weeks.

This is according to the injunctions of a Federal High Court which sat in Jabi area of Abuja.

The plaintiff, Mr Tochi Michael alleged that the acting CJN, Justice Tanko Mohammed reduced his age by three years.

Mr Michael alleged that the acting CJN was born on December 31, 1950, and has instead been using December 31, 1953, as his date of birth.

However, the court dismissed the suit alleging that the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) falsified his age.

Justice Danlami Senchi while dismissing the suit on Friday said the plaintiff does not have a locus standi to file such a suit as he has not shown how the allegations of falsification of age will cause him any personal injury over and above the general public of Nigerians.

The court also held that the plaintiff did not disclose how he came about the fact that the acting CJN falsified his age as there is no document or evidence before the court to prove that the acting CJN falsified his age.

The trial judge Justice Danlami Senchi said the suit in its entity was meant to scandalize, destroy and malign the acting CJN.

Besides dismissing the suit and awarding a cost of N10million against the plaintiff which must be paid within the next three weeks, the trial judge, Justice Danlami Senchi, also ordered that the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court begin disciplinary actions against the plaintiff’s counsel, Melkizadeck Zaro for unprofessional conduct.

Justice Senchi said such act is capable of bringing the judiciary to disrepute and cannot be allowed to go unpunished.

12 killed in Virginia Beach shooting

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A municipal building in Virginia Beach, Va., was turned into a scene of carnage on Friday afternoon after a longtime public utilities employee began firing indiscriminately at his co-workers with a handgun, the authorities said, killing a dozen people and injuring several others before dying after an extended shootout with the police.

It had been nearing closing time in an office offering some of the most mundane functions of city government, such as paying water bills and applying for building permits, when the employee began stalking through several floors firing at his colleagues, the authorities said.

The loud bursts of gunfire sent workers scrambling and barricading their office doors.

Zand Bakhtiari, 28, who works on the first floor of the city building where the shooting happened, looked out his window about 4 p.m. and saw people screaming and running. “I thought they were running to the scene of a bad car accident,” he said in a telephone interview late Friday.

At that point, he had not heard any gunfire. But right after that, his boss, who had just left, called in an order to shelter in place: There was an active shooter. Mr. Bakhtiari and others in his office shut the door and got down.

He then heard 50 to 60 gunshots. “It was a lot of shots,” he said. Five or 10 minutes later, a police SWAT team came and led them out.

The identities of the victims were not immediately released nor was the motive of the attack. One of those injured was a police officer, who was saved by his bulletproof vest, said Chief James A. Cervera of the Virginia Beach Police Department, who said at an evening news conference that the scene could “best be described as a war zone.”

Bodies were found on all three floors of the building, the chief said. One of the deceased was discovered outside in a car.

He called the shooting a “devastating incident” that “none of us want to be here talking about,” adding that it was “going to change the lives of a number of families in our city.”

Chief Cervera said the gunman, whom he declined to name, was carrying a .45-caliber handgun, with several extended magazines. He had a suppressor on the weapon to muffle the sound, the chief said. The gunman was wounded after an exchange of fire with the police, who later issued first aid on him. But he succumbed to his injuries.

PASTOR THREATENS WORSHIPPERS FOR DISRESPECTING HIS WIFE

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Pastor James Maina Ng’ang’a, who is the head of the Neno Evangelism Centre, insulted and threatened members of his church.

In a mixture of English and Swahili he said:

Quote Message: If you continue to disrespect my wife I will kick you out of my ministry, I don’t care who you are!

Quote Message: I swear I will excommunicate you from this church… This time I will show you my power. If you don’t respect her, leave my church and go start your own. You are stupid and rubbish!”

It is not clear how his wife was disrespected.

This is not the first time Pastor Ng’ang’a has caused controversy.

In March, he was charged for allegedly threatening a journalist who had reported on the lack of transparency in the way that pastors deal with money.

He has not commented on the charges.

Sudan Shuts Down Al Jazeera Office

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Sudan has withdrawn the work permits for members of staff working for Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera and it has shut down its Khartoum office, the station said.

No reason was given for the decision, Al Jazeera added.

The station has regularly broadcast footage of demonstrations in Sudan.

The closure comes after the head of Sudan’s Transitional Military Council (TMC), Abdelfattah al-Burhan, traveled to Saudi Arabia on Thursday for a summit.

In 2017, Egypt, the UAE and Saudi Arabia broke off diplomatic ties with Qatar, accusing it of terrorism, which it denies.

Sudan has been run by the TMC since long-time President Omar al-Bashir was toppled last month, but it has struggled to return the country to normality.

Protesters, emboldened by Mr Bashir’s downfall, have continued to stage a huge sit-in outside military headquarters in the capital, demanding full civilian government.

On Thursday, a spokesman for the military council said in a televised statement that the protest encampment represented “a danger to the revolution”.

South African TEENAGERS BUILD THEIR OWN PLANE

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A group of teenagers has built an aeroplane in South Africa.

The 20 teenagers, from various backgrounds and across South Africa, plan to travel in their four-seater aircraft from Cape Town to Cairo in June.

They plan to cover over 10,000 km (6,213 miles) flying through Namibia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia and Eritrea before they reach Egypt.

The operation is part of a programme called U-Dream Global, an aviation outreach initiative that aims to inspire young South Africans.

Agnes Seemela, one of the teenagers building and flying the aircraft, spoke to the BBC’s Newsday about the experience. She was involved in building the wings of the plane and the horizontal and vertical stabilizer.

“I’m like a kid in a candy store. The plane takes off on the 15th June in Cape Town.”

Like most teenagers, Agnes had no previous experience in aviation.

“I learnt it all during this amazing journey,” she told Newsday.

Kim Jong-un executes his envoy to the U.S. and four others for ‘betraying’ him over failed Trump summit

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Kim Jong-un has executed his envoy to the U.S. and four others as part of a purge of officials after Jong-un’s failed summit with Donald Trump.

The North Korean dictator executed Kim Hyok Chol by firing squad for “betraying the supreme leader”. Chol was killed in March at Mirim Airport for being “won over to the US,” during nuclear negotiations with Trump.

Chol and the four other senior foreign ministry officials executed at the airfield were accused of becoming U.S. “spies” after the failed second negotiations between Trump and Kim Jong-un ended abruptly in February.

Kim Hyok Chol was the North’s counterpart of U.S. nuclear envoy Stephen Biegun in the run-up to the Hanoi summit in February.

“He was accused of spying for the United States for poorly reporting on the negotiations without properly grasping U.S. intentions,” a source told South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo.

South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo reports that Kim Jong Un’s interpreter Shin Hye Yong was sent to a prison camp for a botched translation to Trump at the summit. She failed to translate Kim’s new proposal when Trump declared ‘no deal’ and walked away from the table, the paper reported.

Shin was charged with making critical interpretation mistakes, including missing an unspecified “last-minute offer” Kim Jong-un supposedly made as Trump was about to walk out, Chosun reported.

Another senior official, Kim Yong Chol, who had been in nuclear discussions with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, was sent to a forced labour camp for ideological re-education. Kim Song Hye, a woman who worked with Hyok Chol in talks with Pompeo was reportedly sent to another prison camp.

News of the purge came as North Korea’s official Rodong Sinmun newspaper, mouthpiece of the ruling party, warned that officials who committed anti-party or anti-revolutionary acts would face the “stern judgement of the revolution”.

North Korea has previously executed citizens to atone for high-profile political flops but both South Korean media and the South Korean government have a history of reporting about the inner workings of North Korea that turn out to be wrong. Supposedly executed officials have been seen later walking alongside Kim on state TV after their reported demise.

SEYI MAKINDE PROSCRIBES NURTW IN OYO STATE

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Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde, has proscribed the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in the state until further notice.

This was made known in a press release personally signed by the governor and read to journalists by his Chief of Staff, Bisi Ilaka, at the Executive Council Chambers of the Governor’s Office, Agodi, Ibadan on Friday.

The prescription followed the reports of threats to public peace in the state as two groups within the union have been immersed in leadership tussle that returns the state to the era of brigandage.

Makinde said: “While appreciating the good people of Oyo State for your steadfastness overtime and support for our administration, I want to reiterate our stand on the need to maintain peace and tranquility in our state in order to engender commercial and human development.

“After today’s deliberation with security stakeholders meeting, involving security chiefs and the government, we have resolved to proscribe the Nigerian Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) until further notice.

“All activities of the union remain illegal henceforth and we urge the people of the state to go out about their lawful duties without fear of molestation, as combined security task force in every community of the state, have been charged to take care and maintain peace and order.”

Makinde said all parks in the state have been taken over by the state government with immediate effect.

KANYE WEST DETAILS STRUGGLES WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER

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Award-winning rapper, Kanye West has bared details on his struggles with bipolar disorder.

West, who has been campaigning against the stigmatisation of people with mental health issues, opened up in the new season of David Letterman’s Netflix show, “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction.”

In a clip of the episode, which is set to drop Friday, Letterman asks West, “What is the mechanism that is malfunctioning or is taking a break in your brain, do you know?”

West replied, “I wouldn’t be able to explain that as much just because, you know, I’m not a doctor.

“I can just tell you what I’m feeling at the time, and I feel a heightened connection with the universe when I’m ramping up. It is a health issue.

“This — it’s like a sprained brain, like having a sprained ankle. And if someone has a sprained ankle, you’re not going to push on him more.

“With us, once our brain gets to a point of spraining, people do everything to make it worse.

“You have this moment [where] you feel everyone wants to kill you. You pretty much don’t trust anyone.

“When you’re in this state, you’re hyper-paranoid about everything, everyone. This is my experience, other people have different experiences.

“Everyone now is an actor. Everything’s a conspiracy. You feel the government is putting chips in your head. You feel you’re being recorded. You feel all these things,” West said.

West recounted being diagnosed with bipolar disorder two years ago and described his experience with an involuntary psychiatric hold in 2016.

Further explaining his experience, he said, “They have this moment where they put you, they handcuff you, they drug you, they put you on the bed, and they separate you from everyone you know.

“That’s something that I am so happy that I experienced myself so I can start by changing that moment,” he said.

West first shared his bipolar disorder diagnosis in 2018 on his album, ‘Ye’. He referenced taking medication to treat his condition in his conversation with Letterman.

“If you don’t take medication every day to keep you at a certain state, you have a potential to ramp up and it can take you to a point where you can even end up in the hospital.

“And you start acting erratic, as TMZ would put it,” he said in reference to his impromptu visit to the celebrity gossip website’s headquarters, which sparked headlines.

West told Letterman he’s choosing to speak about his diagnosis because of a “strong stigma” around mental health.
“People are allowed to say anything about it and discriminate in any way,” West said.

He said he is under a doctor’s care, that he uses alternative treatment methods, but he thinks medication may work with others with bipolar disorder.

Fans had speculations about his condition for years, particularly after he was hospitalized for a “psychiatric emergency” in November 2016 just after cancelling his Saint Pablo tour.

West seemingly confirmed that he had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2018 with the release of ‘Ye’.

In April, his wife Kim Kardashian West also confirmed his diagnosis in an interview with Vogue, saying the couple had reached a “pretty good place” with his mental health.

“It is an emotional process, for sure,” the 38-year-old reality mogul told Vogue. “Right now everything is really calm.
“But we can definitely feel episodes coming, and we know how to handle them.”

The rapper took steps towards normalizing mental health issues with the release of his latest album cover which read, “I Hate Being Bipolar. It’s Awesome.

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