Welcome to Geophilworld's blog: 02/18/16

Thursday 18 February 2016

Finally, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome divorces wife, Anita

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, the Senior Pastor of Christ Embassy has concluded the divorce proceedings between himself and his wife, Anita. Anita's UK based solicitors, Attwatters Jameson Hill, confirmed the dissolution of their marriage on their website. Anita says she is no longer part of Christ Embassy. Anita and Chris Oyakhilome got married in 1991 and have two daughters. Checkout a screenshot of the confirmation below:

ISIS: 15-year old boy beheaded in Iraq for listening to Western Music

Ayham Hussein has been beheaded by the dreaded ISIS militants in central Mosul for listening to “western music”, according to local sources. He was arrested by militants after allegedly being caught enjoying pop tunes on a portable CD player in the group's Iraqi capital Mosul.

The young lad was dragged before a Islamist kangaroo court which sentenced him to death by public execution.
This is the first time someone will be beheaded for listening to Western Music in Iraq as there's no Sharia law prohibiting such and the incident has sparked outrage among locals.

“Ayham Hussein was captured by the jihadis while listening to Pop music at the grocery store of his father in the Nabi Younis marketplace in western Mosul. He was referred to the Sharia Court, which issued a decision to execute him,” a spokesman for the Nineveh media center told ARA News. “ISIS jihadis publicly beheaded the boy,” the source said to ARA news, speaking on condition of anonymity.

President Buhari leaves for Egypt on Friday

Buhari will depart Abuja on Friday February 19 for Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt to participate in the Business for Africa, Egypt and the World Forum.

According to the Special Adviser to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, the forum, which opens in the Egyptian resort town on Saturday, February 20, 2016, is being organized by the Egyptian government under the auspices of the African Union Commission..

According to the statement,

"the forum's objective is to accelerate private sector engagement and investment within Africa and promote the development of African ties and partnerships". President Buhari, President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi of Egypt and the Presidents of Togo, Sudan, Kenya, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and the Prime Minister of Ethiopia are among confirmed speakers at the forum. Other confirmed speakers include the President of the African Development Bank, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina and the President/CEO of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote. President Buhari will be accompanied on the trip by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama and the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr Okechukwu Enelama. He will return to Abuja at the conclusion of the forum.

Senator Ngige denies collapsing at the National Assembly

Minister of Labor and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige has denied rumours that he collapsed while defending his ministry's budget at the National Assembly today February 18th. Ngige who spoke to the Nation, said he is not even in Nigeria.

“I am not in Nigeria, I attended special morning session function in Zambia and am airborne to South Africa where I will be coming into the country tomorrow.
The rumours in social media and other quarters shows how petty people can be, I don’t see it as anything but I wish to tell those who still play this outdated and obsolete politics of bitterness to embrace change and know that it is no longer business as usual” he said

President Buhari appoints Nigerian blogger as his SA on Digital/New Media

President Buhari has appointed Journalist and Blogger, Tolu Ogunlesi, as his Special Assistant on Digital and New Media. This was made known by the Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Shehu Garba, in a statement released this evening. Read the statement below:

President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday appointed Mr. Tolu Ogunlesi as his Special Assistant on Digital/New Media. Ogunlesi, who is a renowned blogger and journalist, graduated from the University of Ibadan in 2004, and obtained an MA in Creative Writing from University of East Anglia, UK, in 2011. Before his appointment, Ogunlesi had worked as a Features Editor and Editorial Board member of NEXT Newspaper.

He also worked as a West Africa Editor for The Africa Report magazine from 2014 to 2015. Ogunlesi is a two-time winner of the CNN Multichoice African Journalism Awards, and a 2015 New Media Fellow of the U.S. State Department's International Visitor Leadership Programme (IVLP). Ogunlesi will be assisted by Bashir Ahmad, who is a Personal Assistant to the President on New Media.