Fans react as singer Marques Houston, 39, marries 19-year-old girl (Photos)

 

American R&B singer, Marques Houston, 39, has married his 19-year-old girlfriend Miya Dickey. 

 

The pair exchanged vows at the Eagle Glen Golf Club in Corona, California on Monday, August 24. The wedding was attended by a small group of friends and family members of the couple. 

 

Houston shared the exciting news and photos from their wedding via his Instagram page. 

 

He wrote in one of his posts : 'We can’t believe the day has finally come! The day when the two of us were bonded together before Jehovah to become one. Jehovah has blessed us with a true happiness that is unmatched! Matthew 19: 5,6 “For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and will stick to his wife, and the two will be one flesh” 6 So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has yoked together, let no man put apart.'

 

However, some fans have expressed their dissatisfaction with the union due to the couple's 20-year age difference. 

One fan described the wedding as another 'R. Kelly and Aaliyah situation.'

 

The disgraced singer who is being held after pleading not guilty to dozens of state and federal sex crime charges married Aaliyah in 1994. He was 27 while she was 15 at that time.

 

Marques previously defended their 20-year age difference back in June on Instagram where he noted that his father and all the people closest to him 'love her.' 

 

Houston and Dickey got in engaged in March 2019 after five months of dating.

 

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Governor Sanwo-Olu orders reopening of tertiary institutions in the state on September 14

 

Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has ordered the reopening of tertiary institutions in the state effective Monday, September 14.

 

The governor disclosed this development during a regular briefing on the state’s COVID-19 status on Saturday, August 29.

 

During his address, the governor announced that primary and secondary schools are also tentatively scheduled to re-open from September 21.

 

He explained that the decision to re-open schools in the state was based on indications that the pandemic has peaked in the state as the number of new cases continues to steadily decline.

 

“This decision is not cast in stone and is subject to review of our ongoing modelling and what procedure comes out from the Ministry of Health,” he said.

 

He further reiterated that restaurants are now permitted to open for in-dining services in the state, although they must continue to ensure spaces are only filled up to 50 percent capacity at all times.

 

The governor said a review will be done in September to decide whether to allow a re-opening of event centers, bars, night clubs, beaches, cinemas, and other public spaces.

 

Lack of discipline in Nigerian churches has led to sexual immorality and financial impropriety-CAN president

 

As the Christian fold in Nigeria continues to argue over the relevance of the new CAMA law signed by President Buhari, the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN),  Rev. Samson Ayokunle, has come out to say that lack of indiscipline in many churches in Nigeria has led to acts of sexual immorality, financial impropriety, gluttony, laziness, and other vices.

 

Speaking at the ongoing Virtual Convention of the Baptist Church on Saturday, August 29, Ayokunle said there is no difference between an unbeliever and a Christian that lacks discipline in all spheres of life.

 

His address at the convention with the theme ‘Moving Forward: Becoming a More Disciplined Church’, reads in part:

 

“The church is now in a state where lack of discipline has led to many instances of sexual immorality, gluttony, financial impropriety, laziness, court cases, etc. The name of the Lord is being maligned in our society today because of the way Christians are behaving.

Obscene dressing and all forms of impurities are happening in our midst. Some Christians cannot be trusted for any noble assignment. There appears to be no difference between them and the unbelievers.

Money in particular has become the god of some (if not many) Christians, including church leaders! What a shame to the Church! The Lord of the Church is sad concerning the state of the Church. We are robbed of our powers and molested by the children of Satan because of our careless living.

We came into the year 2020 with high hopes and aspirations. As individuals, families and organisations, we made plans and set goals for the year. In the month of February, the Covid-19 virus, which started in Wuhan, China, has become a pandemic. One after the other, nations of the world were shutting down. Nigeria was not left out.

In the month of March, we experienced various lockdowns and different measures put in place by the Federal Government, among which is non-gathering of large numbers of people in the public place. This was why our Convention in Session scheduled for 24th to 29th of April was postponed.

You would agree with me that this year’s convention is a peculiar one in that it is the first virtual Convention in Session we are holding in the history of the convention. I appreciate all who have joined us from different parts of the country and various parts of the world. Blessed be the name of the Lord for His unfailing mercies over our lives.” he said

 

Speaking further, Ayokunle said

''The body of Christ has come a long way but if we would move from where we are present to where we ought to be if we would not be swept away by the wave of indiscipline and immorality that is daily tearing the fabric of our society and the world at large, we must continue to emphasize discipline in the House of God.

It is through discipline that we would remain holy and enter the kingdom of God! Hence this year’s convention is a call to self-examination as individuals, family, church, convention.”

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'Innocent man is raped and killed' by parents of two little girls who 'lied that he touched them'

 

A man has been raped and killed by parents after young girls "lied" that he touched them below the waist as a "joke", it has been alleged.

 

Truck driver Dmitry Chikvarkin gave the girls aged 3 and 10 a lift to a carer at the request of their parents in Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Sverdlovsk, Russia.

 

However, when Valeria Dunaeva, 25, the mother of the 3-year-old, came to pick the girls, they allegedly told her Chikvarkin "had touched them below the waist".

 

Furious, Dunaeva told her partner Sergey Chabin, 33, dad of the 10-year-old, and the parents allegedly tried to take the law into their own hands.

 

Dunaeva

 

Chikvarkin was attacked by three men, friends of the couple, and he later died from a head wound sustained during the attack, police in Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Sverdlovsk, Russia, have alleged.

 

A law enforcement source told Znak newspaper: "They found the man who previously gave a lift to the children.

 

"First, he was raped...

 

"Then they smashed his head with the same pipe, breaking his skull."

 

 

Police now claim the older girl, who said Chikvarkin, 48, had touched her and the other child was "lying" as a "joke".

 

A friend of Chikvarkin told Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper: "He just wanted to help by giving the kids a lift, but he was killed. He would never harm children."

 

Dunaeva and Chabin, and Mikhail Ivanov, 27, have now been arrested on murder charges.

 

Local media have reported the pair are charged with "murder with special cruelty by a group of persons by prior conspiracy".

 

Police are also searching for two others who are reportedly on the run.

FIFA suspends Ivorian federation election after the body disqualified Didier Drogba from presidential elections

 

                         

Chelsea legend, Didier Drogba's hopes of becoming the next president of the Ivory Coast Football Federation has been given a new lifeline after football's governing body, FIFA on Friday August 28th requested the suspension of the Ivory coast Football federation's election after the body disqualified the former Chelsea striker from the elections.

 

FIF's threw away Drogba's candidacy saying he had only received the official support of two of a required four Ivorian clubs.

Drogba's election team said on Thursday it expected FIF's decision which claimed he was ineligible to run for the position.

 

"Drogba's staff isn't surprised by this decision to reject the bid. But we remain unfazed. We will react to conform to the texts which surround this election," Mahamadou Sangare, a member of Drogba's team, told AFP.

Now FIFA has waded in.

"We request the suspension of all action in relation to the election process until further notice," a documen released by FIFA, dated August 27, 2020 and sent to FIF said.

Drogba is standing against FIF's former third vice-president Idriss Diallo, as well as the current vice-president of the national body and president of the League Sory Diabate.