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Rapper Drake emerged for the
first since that fight with
Diddy outside a club in Miami
on Monday night. The fight
reportedly landed Drake in
hospital but he looked
unscathed as he unloaded
shopping bags from his SUV
following a shopping spree at
the high-end Webster mall in
Miami.
Injuries, mutinous supporters, a
scramble for fourth place and
unseeded in the Champions League
last 16. This season is turning out
much like most recent seasons for
Arsène Wenger who seems stuck in
his personal Groundhog Day.
Today brings the visit of Newcastle
United and Wenger would in this
case welcome a repeat of last year,
or the one before. The Magpies
have been beaten 3-0 and 7-3 in
their last two visits to the Emirates
but arrive this time off the back of
seven wins in nine games including
last week’s defeat of Chelsea, the
latter’s first of the season. They also
have the benefit of a week’s rest
whereas Arsenal have been to
Istanbul and back, losing Aaron
Ramsey to a hamstring injury in the
process.
The Welsh midfielder will be out for
at least three weeks, missing the
busy Christmas programme, and
Wenger recalled Francis Coquelin
from Charlton Athletic in response.
The Frenchman will be involved
today, though not necessarily from
the start. Injuries, notably the
ongoing Achilles problem afflicting
Laurent Koscielny, mean Wenger
does have some difficult selection
decisions, notably in defence, again.
Mathieu Debuchy is fit, after three
months out, but with Calum
Chambers suspended the right-back
may have to play his former club at
centre-half. “It will be a gamble, of
course, but [whatever] solution I
have to decide will not be ideal,”
said Wenger, adding, “there is not a
massive difference between right-
back and centre-back.”
Per Mertesacker is among many
defenders unlikely to agree with
such a view, and there are few
indications to date that Debuchy is
as versatile as his predecessor as
Arsenal’s right-back, Bacary Sagna.
Wenger’s critics would argue the
need to consider playing Debuchy
in the centre is a consequence of
the manager’s failure to sign
defensive cover during the summer,
but that is unlikely to concern
Wenger to judge from his dismissal
of the travelling fans who crudely
abused him at Stoke.
“It is not my problem. My problem
is to win football games,” he said.
“I am not a politician who makes a
poll every week to see if you
support me. My sense is to focus on
my job. My message to supporters?
What is in the word ‘support’?
Support. It says what it says.
“Do I hear it and feel it? Honestly
you don’t think I will find 20 people
who say that you are rubbish?
Every week. Do they represent the
majority of people? I don’t know
but you have to win your football
games, That’s all.”
As if to highlight Arsenal’s problems
Newcastle, who trail Arsenal only
on goal difference, have two key
defenders, Fabricio Coloccini and
Daryl Janmaat, fit to play.
Waje stepped out in this hot Dolce
& Gabbana for an event in Port
Harcourt last night..She was feeling
her look that she had to gush about
it ,saying a president needs to
propose because she is a fine
girl..lo,
...some president should come
and propose with island Biko
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una nor yab me o. But I'm a
fine gal sha"
Ofcourse she's a fine girl
The missing baby who went missing after his mother was
found dead in a refrigerator at their home in Houston,
Texas on Monday December 8th has been found in Mexico
in good health.
11 months old Achilles
Lambert was abducted by his
Nigerian father, Patrick
Lambert, who is a suspect in
his estranged wife’s murder.
Anastacia Lambert was
stabbed to death.
Houston police say the little
boy was found abandoned
yesterday Friday December
12th in Queretaro, central
Mexico. Patrick was located
somewhere else in Mexico and
has since been taken into
custody.
A 50-year-old suspect, Ramoni
Adeleke, arrested by operatives of
the Special Anti-Robbery Squad
(SARS), Lagos State Police Command
for allegedly duping many people
has said that he shaved his long
beard and moustache to avoid being
recognised by people who know him
as a cleric.
Also arrested are other members of
his gang, including 70- year-old
Alhaji Lekan Lanlegu a.k.a. Baba
Toyota and 60-year-old Kolawole
Odenide.
A police source, who revealed how
the three aged suspects were
arrested, said the Commissioner of
Police (CP), Mr. Kayode Aderanti,
had got a hint that they were
involved in robbery and receiving
of stolen cars. The CP promptly
directed the Superintendent of
Police in charge of SARS, Mr. Abba
Kyari, and his team to get the three
men and the stolen cars. SARS
operatives, therefore, disguised as
car snatchers who wanted to sell a
stolen car to the gang.
One of them came forward to
collect the car. He had entered into
negotiation with the SARS
operatives before he realised that
they were policemen. Meanwhile,
Kyari and his men had cordoned off
the spot and promptly arrested the
would-be receiver.
According to the Nation ,Lanlegu
said it was one Kolawole Odenide,
who supplied him with a stolen car.
His arrest also led to the arrest of
Adeleke at a private mosque he
used as an office to dupe people
and receive stolen cars. A cleric he
was said to have employed to teach
people in the mosque and lead
prayers was said to have scaled the
fence and ran away on sighting
policemen.
Adeleke, who described himself as a
native of Ade village, Ade South
Local Government Area, Osun State,
said he was a transporter. He said
he built a mosque and employed an
alfa (Islamic cleric) to manage it.He
said:
“I live in Iba Estate near Lagos
State University (LASU) along
Badagry Road, Lagos. I am
happily married with five
children. I built a storey
building at Iba and a mosque
which I built with N300,000. I
built the mosque to honour God
and pray to him five times a
day. That was 10 years ago.
“In the year 2000, I started
thinking of how to make quick
money by stealing cars. I was
jobless and had no money to
feed my family. The man who
lured me into car stealing died
four years ago. I went to his
house to seek advice on how to
survive hunger and he taught
me how to steal cars.
“He told me that he survived
by stealing cars and for 10
years, I stole cars and my
poverty disappeared. We would
go to a place where a car was
parked and used a screw driver
to open the door. We would
dismantle the wiring and use
the starter wire to start the
engine.
“While he drove the stolen car,
I would drive his own car
behind him to wherever he was
going to sell, usually a place
around Idimu, to an old man
called Fatai, who is now late.
After selling it for N100,000
then, he would give me N5,000
as my own share.
“The late Fatai had a mechanic
workshop, and it was there that
I went to meet him that I
needed money and he told me
about stealing cars.
“When Fatai died five years
later, one Shina brought Kola
Adeniji to me as a partner in
crime. We operated more than
five times before we were
arrested. There was no gang
leader between us. We were a
twoman gang and anyone could
bring a job.
“Our last operation was at
Oyigbo, Ebute Meta, Lagos
around July this year. We stole
one Pick-Up Hylux vehicle and
sold it to one Alhaji Lekan for
N700,000. I had to shave my
beard in the cell to avoid
people identifying me as a
cleric.
“I bought three commercial
buses which ply Ijora-Obalende
route, and each of them makes
N4,000 return every day except
Saturday and Sunday. I was
arrested at Atede in Osun State
while going to mosque.” The
second suspect, Kolawole, said:
“I am from Abeokuta, Ogun
State. I am a property dealer in
Ikorodu, a suburb of Lagos. I
have two wives and seven
children. I met Adeleke in Idi-
Iroko, Ogun State when I was
doing smuggling. I knew him
through a friend called Shina.
“I learnt about stealing cars
about seven years ago.
Whenever we opened a car
door, tore the starting wire and
it refused to start, we
abandoned it in the belief that
it had a security system. But at
times, once you start the
engine, the security system
becomes useless.“I was once
arrested and taken to the State
Criminal Investigation
Department (SCID) Panti. I was
charged to court and remanded
in prison for one week. I had
gone on nine operations and
stopped before I started again
in January because of the
economic situation in the
country.”
