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American-based Nigerian star actress, Georgina Onuoha has mocked former Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, following their imprisonment in the United Kingdom, UK, under the Modern Slavery Act,. Last Friday, the UK Court had sentenced Ekweremadu to 9 years and eight months, while his wife Beatrice and Obinna Obetta got four years and […]
Continue ReadingMrs. Jane Nnamani, wife of former Nigerian Senate President, Chief Ken Nnamani, has passed away. Jane, said to be in her 60s, died after a minor surgery in Enugu, according to reports. News of her demise spread in the State on Monday, a development that has thrown her entire Amaechi country home into mourning. The […]
Continue ReadingAs the hearings of presidential election petitions started on Monday, DEBORAH TOLU-KOLAWOLE examines the profiles of five justices who are members of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal The Presidential Election Petition Court on Monday began hearing the election petitions filed by five candidates in the last presidential poll. The candidates are challenging the victory of the President-elect, […]
Continue ReadingNigerian businessman from Imo State, Nigeria, Mr Ikechukwu Ebelebe, has been found dead two weeks after he was reportedly kidnapped by gunmen in his hometown in Owerre-Akokwa in Ideato-North Local Government Area of Imo State. It was gathered that his corpse was found by villagers where it was dumped in a locality in Orumba South […]
Continue ReadingAction Alliance (AA) and its Presidential candidate, Solomon David Okanigbuan, on Monday, withdrew their Petition challenging the declaration of Bola Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 presidential election. At the commencement of the pre-hearing session of the Presidential Election Petition Court sitting in Abuja, counsel to the petitioners, Oba Maduabuchi SAN moved a […]
Continue ReadingA 13-year-old boy has committed suicide after he was accused of stealing a mobile phone in Ntantalla, Cameroon. According to a Cameroonian journalist, Tata Benard Gibip, the boy had earlier attempted to stab himself over the false accusation but was cautioned. The boy sneaked out of the house on Sunday morning, May 7, 2023, and […]
Continue ReadingFive political parties and their candidates are respectively challenging the outcome of Nigeria’s February 25 presidential election on grounds of non-compliance with the electoral laws as well as the guidelines of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Names of the Justices who will be presiding over the various presidential election petitions that will arise are: […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, visited the Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka on Sunday. Sharing photos of the visit on his Twitter page on Sunday, Obi said he visited Soyinka to clear the air concerning the relationship between the literary icon and the OBIdient Movement. Obi wrote: “Today, I visited […]
Continue ReadingTori Bowie, the sprinter who won three Olympic medals at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, has died. She was 32. Bowie’s death was announced Wednesday by her management company and USA Track and Field. No cause of death was given. “USATF is deeply saddened by the passing of Tori Bowie, a three-time Olympic medalist and two-time […]
Continue ReadingTransmission Company of Nigeria and the Market Operator have begun a massive disconnection of debtor electricity Distribution Companies (Discos) from the national grid over debt. This came after notices of disconnection from the grid served on some of the Discos by the Market Operator. Punch reported that the MO, a division of the Transmission Company of […]
Continue ReadingNollywood actress, Mercy Johnson Okojie has mourned the death of her father, Ametuo Daniel Johnson. Grieving over the loss, the popular thespian took to her Instagram page to share a video of her father and herself on his 74th birthday. She shared the sad news on her Instagram page writing; “For the rest of my life […]
Continue ReadingCharles III on Saturday finally met his date with destiny after a lifetime as heir to his late mother Queen Elizabeth II, as he was officially crowned king in the first coronation in Britain since 1953. At 12:02 pm, the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby placed the solid gold St Edward’s Crown on Charles’s head […]
Continue ReadingOfficers of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command have arrested a 16-year-old boy, Emmanuel John, over the killing of his father, Monday John. It was gathered that Emmanuel, around 10pm on Tuesday, May 2, used a pestle to kill his father during a fisticuff between the deceased and his mother, Mrs Mercy John. A […]
Continue ReadingA court in United Kingdom (UK) has sentenced former Nigerian Deputy Senate President, Mr. Ike Ekweremadu, to nine years and eight months in prison for an organ trafficking plot, in a conviction that was the first verdict of its kind under the Modern Slavery Act (MSA). The court also sentenced his wife, Beatrice, to four […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s president-elect, Bola Tinubu, whose victory in February is being challenged in court, has been keeping part of his wealth in the United Kingdom, where he and his close associates own at least 20 properties that were mostly acquired when Tinubu was the governor of Lagos State. Following the 2023 presidential election, Tinubu is scheduled to […]
Continue ReadingEgyptian authorities have sent over 500 students back to Sudan following the failure of two of them to provide either a passport or Emergency Travel Certificate (ETC). According to a voice note of a Nigerian official obtained by Punch on Friday morning, students without passports or ETC had been instructed to stay back. The official […]
Continue ReadingEmbattled and suspended Adamawa State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) Hudu Yunusa-Ari has been granted bail after coming under a police investigation for declaring Ayisetu Dahiru Binani of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as winner of the governorship election of the state before the conclusion of the collation of results. Yunusa-Ari was allowed to go home […]
Continue ReadingBishop Emeritus of the Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja, Nigeria, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, has said that it does not make sense to swear in people into office when their electoral victories are being challenged in court. Onaiyekan shared this thought during an interview with Channels TV on Thursday, April 4. Onaiyekan said: “There are cases in […]
Continue ReadingBritain’s first coronation in 70 years takes place on Saturday, with Charles III crowned king in an elaborate Christian ceremony steeped in solemn ritual and more than a millennium of history. The coronation, the first of a British king since 1937, is the religious confirmation of his accession after the death of his mother, Queen […]
Continue ReadingGunmen have killed an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) in Ndiegoro, in Aba South Local Government Area of Abia State, Nigeria. The ASP identified simply as “Agbalagba”, said to be attached to the Ndiegoro Police Division, was gruesomely murdered with his head cut off along East Road at about 5:am on Tuesday, May 2, 2023. […]
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