OAP Lolo 1 reveals how a colleague r@ped her 6 years ago

Omotunde Adebowale-David, known as Lolo 1, is a Nollywood actress and media personality. She revealed that she was r@ped by a male colleague in the broadcast industry six years ago.

The media personality made the claim on her podcast, Say My Piece. While not naming her attacker, Lolo explained that doing so now will only make people criticise her for not speaking out when it happened six years ago and instead waited until the person became established in the industry.

The actress said she is still traumatised by the attack six years later, noting that she goes into a momentary panic whenever she sees her attacker; something she says happens ‘every other day’.

“I hardly ever say this, and I am not even ready to tell the full story. The stories of sexu@l assault. When I discussed it with my daughter yesterday, she held my hand and said, ‘Mummy, you’ve gone through so much.’ And I said I had.

I remember how many of those things I have to relive. I have been r@ped only once in my life, and a colleague r@ped me. I see him every other day. Do you know how traum@tised I am? When I see him, I just get into this momentary panic.

But if a woman of my calibre named him, he’s an established person in the broadcast industry, won’t people say, ‘How come I didn’t speak about it for all these six years until now that he’s taking a prominent TV position?’

Lolo added that women often respond to sexu@l ass@ult with denial and self-blaming, highlighting the complexities of trauma and recovery.

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Finally, autopsy shows cause of death of Nigerian boxer who slumped during a fight in Ghana

According to news reaching us, an autopsy performed on the remains of the Nigerian boxer, Segun ‘Success’ Olanrewaju,40,  who slumped during a boxing match at the Bukom Boxing Arena on Saturday, March 29, 2025, has shown that he d!ed from Cardiac arrest.

The former National and West African light-heavyweight champion, was facing Accra-born John Mbanugu, nicknamed “Power” in an undercard bout  when he suddenly fell to the canvas mid-fight, prompting the referee to immediately call for medical assistance. Medical professionals rushed to the scene but despite attempts to revive him, the 40-year-old boxer was pronounced d3ad. Read here.

Announcing the outcome of the autopsy to newsmen, the Secretary-General of Nigeria Boxing Board of Control and West African Boxing Union President, Remi Aboderin, said the preliminary post-mortem results indicated cardiac arrest as the cause of death, but further investigation is needed before the body can be released.

“The preliminary post-mortem results indicate that Segun died from sudden cardiac arrest. But further investigation into his heart condition is required, and as a result, his body will not be released to Nigeria for burial until approximately two weeks,” Aboderin said

The autopsy was conducted on Wednesday, April 2, following a court order into the death of the Nigerian boxer.

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Why fuel price may hit above N1,000 per litre – PETROAN President, Gillis-Harry says

 

Fuel prices could surpass N1,000 per liter, according to Billy Gillis-Harry, national president of the Petroleum Retailers Outlets Owners Association of Nigeria.

Based on the outcome of the Naira-for-crude deal discussion between Dangote Refinery and the Nigerian Government through Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, he claims that Nigerians will have to pay N1,000 per litre for petrol in the days ahead.

This comes after the recent hike in petrol prices to between N930 and N960 per litre from N860 and N880 in Dangote Refinery’s partners, MRS filling stations, and others. Explaining the recent petrol price increment he said;

You can’t blame anyone. It’s the deregulation of the downstream sector. It’s the economic and environmental factors. That’s what we really need.

Why are people blaming Dangote Refinery or the federal government? Has anybody confirmed that the government has stopped the Naira-for-crude deal? He told Daily Post.

So, that is why we feel that nobody should jump into conclusion to say the deal has been stopped. And therefore, based on that, after all, between that time and today, NNPC was still supplying crude in Nigeria and Sudan. So, for now, you can’t conclude that it is because of that deal that we are in this current quagmire of pricing. PETROAN took the matter frontally with the Honourable Minister of Petroleum.

And we were clearly explained that there are processes that are going on to review what has been done in the last 180 days, which ended today. And based on what we found out, the way forward was not in any way to stop. The way forward is not in any way to stop the Naira-for-crude deal.

So, until that decision is made and pronounced, we cannot say that that has been stopped. And so, that cannot be the reason.

And that is why we are careful that nobody should blackmail the system. And any information that’s coming out should have empirical evidence of reality. So, if I, as a businessman, determine that there are speculations for my enterprise and I want to take certain precautionary decisions, I’m free to do so because it’s my business.

And the Dangote Refinery business is primarily a private business that is operating in a free trade zone. So, they have a right to make decisions in the way that they like. Those decisions, in our opinion, should suit how the pricing of the market will be, being that it is the biggest refinery in Africa.

And then, like I said, there will be economic and environmental factors that will determine prices of products, goods, or services. So, if, for any reason, something has changed and that will respond to the price dynamics of demand and supply, so will it be. So, for me, I will blame it on the changes that are experienced in the economic price, I mean, the economic and environmental factors. That will be the reason for that. And I don’t think I want to hold anyone accountable specifically for that.

So, if other refineries are also anticipating selling their products in dollars, then we would have dollarized the Nigerian economy, which would be a defeat for us because the naira would be crushed.

When asked whether Nigerian will keep experiencing fluctuations in the price of oil whether they  like it or not, the PETROAN boss said

I have said it based on variable evidence that you laid out to me: the price will not be stable for a while. The stability of price will only come after a consistent average has been achieved. That is when we can say this price will be somewhat stable and the movement will not be too volatile. But as long as we are still in this situation where we are doing experiments, prices will continue to be flexible.

The same market prices will determine whether we are going to get N1,000 per litre. We are already selling N950 and above. So there is no way the price of petrol will not climb up. But from a physical perspective, we only work with empirical evidence.

I have just gone back to the drawing board, and we will ask our members to review. Let us see what the realities will be, and then they can come up with what I will authorise as the price released for the Nigerian public. So for now, this is where I will just stop and allow the juries of the market to determine how we are advancing the business.

But some refiners and stakeholders have been pushing the narrative that marketers, retailers, and depot owners are the reason the current price is going up, following the fact that they store some products, and at the end of the day, they sell to make huge profits. How would you react to that?

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