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Babatunde Omidina, popularly known as Baba Suwe by his admirers, is dead.

The veteran Actor gave up the ghost on Monday after a long battle with an illness.

Details of his death are sketchy but a source said that the actor, who has been in and out of the hospital over the years, died on Monday.

In a terse statement, Adesola, Omidina, the deceased’s son, confirmed the death of the comic actor.

This is to announce the sudden death of my father Mr Babatunde Omiidina. “The legend and rare gem “ Babasuwe “ 11/22/21 Other details will follow shortly! May your soul rest in perfect peace Dad,” he said.

Born on August 22, 1958, in Inabere Street in Lagos Island, Baba Suwe hailed from Ikorodu local government area of Lagos State.

Omidina had his primary education at Jamaitul Islamial Primary School in Lagos and Children Boarding School, Osogbo before he proceeded to Adekanbi Commercial High School in Mile 12, Lagos state but obtained the West African School Certificate from Ifeoluwa Grammar School in Osogbo, the capital of Osun State,

He began acting in 1971 but came into limelight after he featured in a movie titled, Omolasan, a film produced by Obalende.

He became more popular after he featured in Iru Esin, produced by Olaiya Igwe in 1997.He had featured and produced several Nigerian movies such as Baba Jaiye jaiye, a movie that featured Funke Akindele and Femi Adebayo, the son of the veteran actor Adebayo Salami.

Nigerian media personality, Ifedayo Olarinde, popularly known as Daddy Freeze, has compared Nigerian Pastors with Nigerian Nigerian singer, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, who gave out his birthday monetary gift meant for a Rolls Royce.

According to him, Pastors who are regarded as spiritual father receive money through offering meant for the needy and use it to buy Rolls Royce.

“ENLIGHTENMENT gathers that, they gave Davido money for Rolls Royce, he gave it to the needy.

“While pastors receive money through offering meant for the needy (Acts 4:32-35), and use it to buy Rolls Royce.

Yet Davido is worldly and your pastors are spiritual,” he wrote on his Instagram page.

Recall that the singer received the sun of 200 million naira from his friends as a birthday gift after posting his account details on social media.

However, Davido surprised his fans and friends by giving out the raised amount to orphanage home around Nigeria, adding the sum of 50 million extra.

Enlightenment gathers that, armed bandits blocked the Abuja-Kaduna Road on Sunday, kidnapping travellers in the process.

According to one of the travellers who escaped the abduction, he said the armed bandits blocked the road at Katari village at about 2 pm and operated for more than an hour.

Another traveller told PRNigeria that “We had to turn back when we heard the shooting of guns and parked some kilometres away from the scene. After two hours when we saw other vehicles coming from the other side, we continued our journey.

Many travellers must have been kidnapped or escaped into the bush as we saw at least fifteen cars parked and empty when we passed the scene of the attack,”

The spokesperson of Police in Kaduna State, Mohammed Jalige could not be reached by PRNigeria as calls and text messages could not deliver.

The activities of kidnapping on the highway had reduced in recent times since after the attack and abduction of the Emir Hassan Atto of Bungudu in Zamfara State on September 14, 2021 where a police officer was killed and other peopled sustained injury.

Mr Atto who was a former Secretary to the Government of Zamfara State regained freedom in October after spending 32 days in the kidnapper’s den.

Alhaji Sagir Hamidu, an ex-governorship aspirant in Zamfara State, has been shot dead by bandits.

He was killed when bandits blocked the Kaduna-Abuja Highway and opened fire on travellers, on Sunday.

It was learnt that the incident occurred around 3:30pm close to Rijana along the busy highway.

Eyewitnesses confirmed that Rijana, a former FCT Director of Protocol who was also a Zamfara State Governorship aspirant, lost his life in the incident.

A Facebook user, Kabeer Gambo Rigasa, wrote: “ALHAMDULILLAH, ALHAMDULILLAH, Escaped Being Kidnapped Along Abuja To Kaduna Road Around 3:30pm Today.”

Other eyewitnesses said the bandits had operated unchallenged for over an hour.

A video released online on Sunday evening showed two empty vehicles which appeared to have been abandoned in the middle of the Highway.

An eyewitness travelling along the route had released the short video showing two abandoned vehicles while insinuating that the occupants had been abducted.

In the 31 second video, the person behind the camera could be heard shouting, “Oh my God, they have carried our friends, we are just coming from Kaduna. Today is 21st November 2021, oh my God, the Lord is faithful, thank you for saving our lives.”

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Nigeria Music superstar David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has donated N250,000,000 to orphanages across Nigeria

The musician, who raised N200 million, within two days, announced the donation to orphanages in a statement on Saturday.

Davido had earlier hinted that he would give away all the money he raised through public donation.

In his statement, the musician said he added N50 million to the donations he got within 48 hours.

He also announced that he has raised a 5-man committee that will take charge of distributing the funds to various foundations and motherless homes.

“I wish to express my sincere gratitude to my friends, colleagues, fans, and the public for the generous expressions of love in recent days. In my usual playful manner, I requested a few days ago that my friends and colleagues send money in celebration of my birthday.”

“The response and outcome exceeded my expectations, as I received about NGN 200,000,000.00 in less than two days. I truly appreciate everyone who donated hard earned funds and I am very thankful for your generosity.”