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Police operatives in Ogun State have arrested a 34-year-old suspected c¥ltist, Adekunle Adebajo aka Kunle Polly, over his alleged involvement in the k+lling of a member of a suspected rival c¥lt group in Ijebu Ode.
The deceased, known as Mosquito, was reportedly h@ck€d to d€ath recently with his left hand c¥t off and taken away.
The command’s spokesperson, SP Omolola Odutola, in a statement on Saturday said that on August 12, a concerned citizen made a distress call to the Divisional Police Officer in Igbeba that rival cult members engaged one another where Mosquito was sh#t, mach€ted and his left hand sev€red and taken away by his k+llers.
According to the statement, “Upon receiving this information, a team of detectives promptly mobilised and took action by moving to the location, where one suspect, Adekunle Adebajo aka Kunle Polly, 34, was apprehended.
During interrogations, Kunle Polly admitted to being a member of the Eiye confraternity.
This prompted a search to be conducted at his residence which led to the recovery of a Beretta pistol with six live rounds, two UTC axes, and charms.
Investigation is ongoing to unravel the pattern of severing the left hand of their victims, and to arrest other criminals that fled the hideout.”
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Starting Saturday, many home buyers and sellers will have to grapple with an issue they may not have given much thought to before: What exactly should the buyer’s agent do, and how much should they be paid for it?
Those issues are coming to the forefront thanks to a lawsuit settlement reached earlier this year between the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and a group of home sellers. The sellers sued NAR accusing the association of colluding to keep buyers’ agent fees high.
Saturday is the deadline for several changes required by the settlement to go into effect. The settlement requires buyer’s agents to sign an agreement with their clients before showing them a house—as many agents already do—and stops sellers from making commission offers to buyers’ agents on the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) database that real estate agents use to share details about properties for sale.
The settlement could shake up a longstanding industry practice: the 5%-6% commission real estate agents typically charge for selling a house, which is usually split evenly between the agents of the buyer and the seller.
Some buyers and sellers have already been rethinking compensation ahead of the deadline, said Phil Crescenzo Jr., vice president of the southeast division at Nation One Mortgage Corporation.
“It's forcing the conversation to be had a lot more often than it was before,” he said in an interview with Investopedia. “And that's probably the point.”
Some buyer’s agents he works with who used to typically get a 3% commission have renegotiated and settled for 2.5% instead, he said.
Some experts have predicted removing the offers from MLS will make commissions less automatic, and ultimately reduce the amount that buyers and sellers pay. The U.S. could end up looking more like other countries, where agent commissions are below 2%, Ben Harris and Liam Marshall, researchers at the Brookings Institution think tank, speculated in an analysis in March.That would represent significant savings for homebuyers and sellers, and make the business much less lucrative for agents. For example, 6% commission on a median-priced home selling for $426,900 would be $25,614, compared to $8,538 if it was just 2%.
Although the association noted that the 5%-6% commission split wasn’t officially required, sellers had a strong incentive to split commissions with buyer’s agents under the old system. While sellers could offer less than the standard commission, buyers' agents could steer their clients toward properties that offered higher rates.
It’s possible that many agents will simply negotiate the standard deal outside of the MLS, but the shakeup leaves room for other models of compensation, such as buyers' agents being paid by the hour or a flat rate, Harris and Marshall wrote.
Some veteran real estate agents took the changes in stride. They reason the process of buying and selling a house is complicated—most people will continue to want someone to help them through the hassle and get the best possible price.
“The professionals will survive,” said Jeff Scislow, an RE/MAX agent in Apple Valley, Minnesota, who has been in the business for 38 years. “They always have and they always will. And our services will always be needed.”
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Singer Paul Okoye’s wife, Ifeoma, has shared her thoughts on social media trolls who claim they drop hateful comments on people’s post just for fun, recognition or because they seek financial gains from them.
In a post shared on Instastories, Ifeoma said the act of trolling is stupid. She mentioned that not everyone is like singer Chike who gifted a troll N1 million after the troll left a disrespectful comment on his X handle.
Instablog9ja
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President Bola Tinubu will depart Abuja, the nation’s capital, on Monday, August 19, for a trip to Paris, France.
The president’s spokesperson, Ajuri Ngelale, in a statement on Sunday night said the President will return to the country after his brief work stay in France.
The President will travel on the newly acquired luxury Airbus A330 aircraft, which landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja at 8.29 pm on Sunday, PremiumTimes reports.
The aircraft was received by officials of Nigeria’s Presidential Air Fleet, led by their commander, Olayinka Olusola, an air vice marshal.
According to the news outlet, the Airbus 330 aircraft is a repossessed one recovered from an indebted oil sheikh who used the aeroplane as collateral for a loan he obtained from an unidentified German bank to buy it.
L & L International LLC, an American aviation firm based in Miami, Florida, brokered the deal, which saw Nigeria buy the aircraft for over $100 million. A presidency official described the acquisition as an excellent deal for Nigeria, putting the aircraft’s real market value in the region of $600 million.
The multi-engine prestige jet, which has an elaborate VIP configuration, is now Nigeria’s Airforce One, with registration number 5N-NGA.
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Shares of Bavarian Nordic surged in Danish trading Friday as investors bought into the company with the only approved mpox vaccine in the U.S. and Europe, after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the fast-breaking outbreak a global health emergency.
The WHO on Wednesday said the surge in mpox in African countries constituted a global pubic health emergency, its second such declaration about the disease in two years. The health organization had declared the virus, then called monkeypox, a global emergency in July 2022 but ended the call 10 months later.
The Danish firm has the only mpox vaccine approved by American, European, Canadian, and British regulators. It said Friday that it had submitted clinical data to Europe's regulators so the vaccine could be extended for use by adolescents between 12 and 17 years of age. It is currently only approved for adults 18 and over.
Sweden became the first country outside the African continent to confirm mpox in an individual who has traveled to central Africa, the WHO said. The United Nations agency said it had declared the disease a public health emergency after a surge in recent cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo and some neighboring countries and as a new, more severe strain, called clade 1b, emerged.
Bavarian Nordic stock closed up 18% in Danish trading Friday at 283.50 Danish kroner ($41.84). They surged about 48% this week.
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Instablog9ja
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A lady has counseled her gender
She said don’t let civilisation br3ak your lovely home, there is nothing like 50/50 in marriage, Your husband is your boss don’t let social media brainwash you Our people are practicing selective feminism.
