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A woman has been jailed for four years after she admitted forcing a man to have sex with her while he was asleep. Tanya Lord, 41, was told by the judge there ‘seems to be no distinction to be drawn between this and the rape of a female.’ Outlining how the victim has been left mentally scarred and […]
Continue ReadingThe state government in Berlin has announced that women will be allowed to go topless at the city’s public swimming pools. The move was taken after a discrimination complaint by a woman who was not allowed to go topless in a swimming pool in the capital. The Berlin senate for justice, diversity, and anti-discrimination said […]
Continue ReadingAlhaji Abdullahi Adamu, the traditional ruler of Yaba in Abaji area council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, Nigeria, is dead. A member of the deceased family, Shuaibu Abdullahi, told Daily Trust that the late Etsu of Yaba chiefdom died while on his way to observe Magrib prayers, within his palace. Shuaibu said the […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Supreme Court, Friday sacked Senator Ibrahim Shekarau as the candidate of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) and recognised Senator Rufa’i Hanga as the party’s candidate for the 2023 general election. Shekarau, a sitting senator was in the NNPP and was nominated to vie for the senatorial position under its platform. However, before the […]
Continue ReadingLabour Party (LP), has on Thursday knocked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), saying the electoral umpire deliberately came up with its idea of reconfiguring the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines after its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, sought to examine the election materials. This was as the party faulted the commission’s claim of backing […]
Continue ReadingPersonnel of the 9 Brigade of the Nigerian Army, have recovered 1,671 Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) from an apartment in Olodi-Apapa area of Lagos State, Nigeria. While three persons were arrested in the apartment, the prime suspect is reportedly on the run. The security operatives also recovered ballot papers, cutlasses and Indian hemp from the […]
Continue ReadingGoods worth millions of naira have been destroyed in a fire incident that occurred at Akere Spare Parts Market, Ajegunle in the Apapa area of Lagos State. The lifeless body of a 65-year-old security guard was also said to have been recovered near the scene of the incident. The Director of Lagos State Fire and […]
Continue ReadingSix people have been reported dead while an unspecified number of people got injured after a passenger train crushed a Lagos State Government staff bus at the PWD area of the state, while on its way from Ikotun enroute Alausa, the state secretariat. The accident happened around past 7:00 am on Thursday. The spokesperson for […]
Continue ReadingNigerian woman who has been declared wanted in Italy since 2010 has been flown from Abuja back to Rome, Italian police said in a statement on Wednesday, March 8, 2023. One of the few women on Italy’s most-wanted list and a prominent figure in the Nigerian mafia, Joy Jeff, 48, was tried in absentia in 2010 […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has reached a decision to postpone the governorship and state assembly elections. The elections, initially scheduled to hold on March 11, has now been postponed to March 18, 2023. The postponement is due to the inability of the commission to promptly commence reconfiguration of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System […]
Continue ReadingThe Pan Yoruba Socio-Political Group, Afenifere, has rejected the emergence of APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, as the president-elect, insisting that Labour party’s Peter Obi won the election. The group stated this in a statement signed and released by its National leader and Secretary General, Pa Ayo Adebanjo and Chief Sola Ebiseni, after its Special […]
Continue ReadingThe family of the Commissioner for Women Affairs in Cross River State, Professor Gertrude Nnanjar Njar, who was kidnapped over one month ago has appealed to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to help rescue her. Prof Gertrude was kidnapped by armed men dressed in military fatigue in the early hours of February 1, 2023, on […]
Continue ReadingPresidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Wednesday, granted the request of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) it used for the presidential election. In a unanimous decision by a three-member panel of justices, the court held that preventing the electoral […]
Continue ReadingIn a statement by the United Kingdom (UK) government on Tuesday, Richard Hugh Montgomery has been appointed as the new British High Commissioner to Nigeria. Montgomery is expected to begin his new role in Nigeria in April 2023. He will be taking over from Catriona Laing who has been the UK’s representative in Nigeria since […]
Continue ReadingVeteran and Nigerian star actor, Ojo Arowosafe popularly known as Fadeyi Oloro is dead. According to information reaching this platform, the veteran actor who hails from Igbara Odo-Ekiti died on Tuesday after a protracted illness. The news of his death is no doubt a big blow to the movie industry especially the Yoruba movie industry. […]
Continue ReadingPeoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Chief Olabode George, has raised the alarm that there is a grand design to secretly eliminate Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, the governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Lagos State. While speaking at a press conference in Lagos on Monday, George said if anything happens to Rhodes-Vivour, Nigerians “should know who […]
Continue ReadingChieftains and members of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) wearing black clothes staged a protest in Abuja over the outcome of the February 25, 2023 presidential election. The protesting PDP members were led by the party’s presidential candidate in the last election, Atiku Abubakar, the party’s chairman Iyiocha Ayu, Sokoto state governor Aminu Tambuwal and […]
Continue ReadingIn a statement, the Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has disassociated itself from the report claiming that Peter Obi’s presidency is not “destined” adding that the Labour Party presidential candidate actually won the February 25 presidential poll. One Ambassador Tony Obizoba, who in a report, claimed to be the Director-General, Implementation and Strategic Planning, […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Baba, has disclosed that police recorded and responded to 185 major incidents after it arrested 203 electoral offenders during the presidential and National Assembly elections held on Saturday, February 25, 2023. Baba also noted that the cases are currently at various stages of investigation at the Nigeria Police Electoral […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has urged the Presidential Election Petition Court to vary the orders that were granted to the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party and Labour Party, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi respectively, to inspect materials used for the last presidential election. INEC, in a motion on notice filed on March […]
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