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Hours after confirming that she has been charged with anti-doping violation, Nigerian athlete, Tobi Amusan has been handed a provisional suspension for allegedly missing three drug tests. The announcement was made by Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) on Wednesday, July 19. AIU tweeted: “The AIU confirms that it has today charged and provisionally suspended Tobi Amusan (NGR) for […]
Continue ReadingInvestigative journalist, David Hundeyin, has taken to his Twitter handle to cry out for help after he was detained in Zimbabwe. In a series of tweets, Hundeyin said he has been detained inside a ‘smelly, locked up room’ for seven hours. He said he arrived the Southern African country on the strength that it has […]
Continue ReadingIn at least 70 recorded cases of police brutality in the United States, the victim cried out three words: I. Can’t. Breathe. From Eric Garner in 2014 to George Floyd in 2020, people hogtied or put in a chokehold cried out those words but were ignored by officers who thought they were lying or exaggerating […]
Continue ReadingCelebrated Nigerian writer and scholar, Prof. Kole Omotoso has passed away. He died on Wednesday at the age of 80. The South Africa-based gargantuan scholar-writer clocked 80 on April 21, with members of the Nigerian literary community, including ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, joining family, friends and professional colleagues to celebrate the occasion. One of the late […]
Continue ReadingDo I drop it in your venerable chambers Or carry the heavy booty to your immaculate mansion Shall I bury it in the capacious water tank In your well laundered backyard Or will it breathe better in the septic tank Since money can deodorize the smelliest crime Shall I haul it up the attic Between […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, Nigeria, on Monday adjourned proceedings until October 24 for adoption of written addresses in the trial of a surgeon Dr. Anuoluwapo Adepoju, who is charged with alleged evasion from investigation into a failed plastic surgery by the Federal Competition and Consumers Protection Commission (FCCPC). The case, which was […]
Continue ReadingA man has taken to Instagram to confess to killing his girlfriend, and then running away. The man, who was arrested for alleged fraud 3 years ago, made the shocking confession on his Instastory. He admitted the relationship with his ex-girlfriend, was toxic but he never left. He also admitted to stabbing her. He says […]
Continue ReadingOne of the major issues begging for consideration as Nigeria and other stakeholders review the aftermath of the country’s 2023 General elections would definitely be the health of Nigeria’s political party system. It is a matter of fact that by the 90s, in an attempt to stem the tide of communism, one party states, and […]
Continue ReadingProphet Segun Philip, 42, and Owolabi Adeeko, 23, have been sentenced to death by an Osun State High Court, sitting in Ikire, Nigeria, for the killing of Favour Daley-Oladele, a final year female student of Lagos State University (LASU) for ritual purposes. Delivering judgement on the case in Ikire on Monday, Justice Christiana Obadina also […]
Continue ReadingLawyer and Human Right Activist, Silas Joseph Onu, Esq., has carried out a full blown analysis of the petition of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) against APC, Tinubu, Shettima, and INEC, noting that the case is actually on invalid nomination and not double nomination. According to Mr. Onu’s point of view, forget about justice in […]
Continue ReadingAkure North local government Vice Chairman, Mr. Anthony Adebusola, has passed away. Adebusola died on Sunday, 72 hours after Chairman of the Council, Bankole Ogbesetore, died after battling an undisclosed ailment. The Acting Governor of Ondo State, Mr. Lucky Aiyedatiwa last week paid a condolence visit to the residence of the late Ogbesetore. Former Commissioner […]
Continue ReadingNational Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has announced the resignation of the National Chairman of the party, Senator Abdulahi Adamu, and the Secretary, Senator Iyiola Omisore. Senator Abubakar Kyari, the Deputy National Chairman, North, made the announcement after the meeting of the NWC held on Monday at the party’s secretariat in […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Tinubu has warned the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), that misinterpreting the law as provided for in the constitution on the 25% of lawful votes cast in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, could “lead to absurdity, chaos, anarchy and alteration of the very intention of the legislature.” Tinubu also told the PEPC […]
Continue ReadingOut of sheer insensitivity coupled with impunity, the members of the National Assembly, regardless of political affliation, conspired to breach the relevant provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 by padding the Supplementary Appropriation Bill, 2023 to provide the so called palliative of N70 billion for 306 newly elected members. While […]
Continue ReadingNigerian star actress, producer and entrepreneur, Bimbo Ogunnowo-Afolayan celebrated her first daughter, Aliyah on her 10th birthday on Saturday. The pretty actress took to her Instagram page to pen lovely note to her princess on her special day. She wrote: “My daughter is 10💃 Happy 10th birthday my amazing Aliyah You are a true blessing […]
Continue ReadingDoctors in Israel have re-attached a boy’s head after he was hit by a car while riding his bike. According to Mail Online, twelve-year-old Palestinian Suleiman Hassan, from the West Bank, suffered an internal decapitation where the base of the skull and the top of the spine become detached, but the skin is still intact. […]
Continue ReadingThe firestorm among some Christian leaders in Western Nigeria over the lyrics of a new song by Gospel artist, Tope Alabi, is in its fourth week. She had sang in Yoruba that she is “Aboru Aboye” which translates to “I am a sacrifice which God has accepted.” This caused an uproar with some Christian leaders accusing her […]
Continue ReadingA Lagos-based female Nigerian lawyer, Ebikpolade Helen, has been arrested by operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), in a follow-up operation in Awka, Anambra State, following an earlier seizure of 5kg cannabis and 12 bottles of prepared skuchies in her apartment at Lekki, Lagos State. In a statement by the agency’s spokesperson, Femi […]
Continue ReadingNigerian singer, Victory Gbakara has emerged winner of the season eight edition of the Nigerian Idol show which started off on Sunday, April 23, 2023. Gbakara closed off the season with a performance of Blessed by Wizkid, and his emergence as the winner was announced on the show on Sunday. He will receive a grand […]
Continue Reading50-year-old Nigerian woman, Ukamaka Udeugbo, has been arrested by the Anambra police for flogging and kicking her 75-year-old mother. This was seen in a viral video. The incident happened at Abagana, Njikoka Local Government Area, where the suspect was captured on video beating her mother, whom she accused of defecating in the house. The video, […]
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