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Remains of former Nigerian Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mustafa Adebayo Balogun, simply called Tafa Balogun, has been interred in his country home in Ila Oragun, Osun state, Nigeria on Friday August 5. The Chief Imam of Ila Orangun, Sheikh Abdulhameed Salahudeen led the prayer. The funeral was attended By the Inspector general of Police represented […]
Continue ReadingFormer Presidential media aide and a medical doctor, Doyin Okupe, has taken to social media, to testify of how God made the 7-year-old daughter of his nephew speak for the first time. In his post, Okupe said his grandniece had never spoken since she was born. He said sometime in April, she came to visit […]
Continue ReadingFour Nigerian Police Officers were killed on Friday night, August 5, when gunmen attacked the Agwa Divisional Police headquarters in Oguta Local Government Area, Imo State, Nigeria. The assailants invaded the area shooting sporadically before gaining access into the station. According to a police source, the incident has triggered tension in the entire local government. […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police, Mustapha Balogun, 74, died a few days to his 75th birthday, at a hospital in Lekki, Lagos at about 8:30 pm on Thursday during a brief illness, according to family sources. Born August 25, 1947, in Ila Orangun, Osun State, he was appointed the IGP in March 2002. He worked […]
Continue ReadingSuspected terrorists have attacked the convoy of the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 12 with Headquarters in Bauchi, Audu Madaki, injuring him and killing one of his police guards. Although the reports are still sketchy as of the time of filing this report, it was learnt that the AIG was on his way to […]
Continue ReadingArise TV anchorman, Rufai Oseni has apologised for the BRT lane incident or saga. He personally read his apology statement on the Arise TV. He wrote and read: “And I must er, have to read out a personal. . .a message I did write and I penned down. “As many of you know, in the […]
Continue ReadingPeter Obi is the man of the moment. The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) visited the Dunamis International Gospel Center, on Friday evening to attend “the Judgement Praise Night with Pastor Paul Enenche.” In a video clip posted on Twitter by @peterobipikin, Enenche’s wife, Becky introduced Obi during a prayer vigil of the […]
Continue ReadingFormer Presidential Aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in the 2019 presidential election, Dr. SKC Ogbonnia has disclosed his conclusion to dump his political party affiliation and its 2023 presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu to support the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi. Ogbonnia said that his endorsement of Obi was […]
Continue ReadingThe police have arrested a Nigerian woman, Peace Ofoego for breaking into multiple private mansions to sleep in Hamptons, New York. The 32-year-old woman has been labelled ‘Goldilocks of the Hamptons’ over her tricks in Westhampton, where she has been arrested three times for finding comfort at homeowners’ backyards, pool houses and rooms. Daily Mail […]
Continue ReadingThe United Nations, UN Human Rights Council Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, has indicted both Nigeria and Kenya Governments for the arrest and extraordinary rendition, torture and continued detention of the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, without due process. UN therefore, asked Nigerian Government to, “immediate release Kanu unconditionally” […]
Continue ReadingFiery Arise Television presenter, Oseni Rufai, who was accused of driving on BRT lane on Lagos highway and also resisting arrest by policemen, on Tuesday appeared in a Lagos mobile court and accused of contravening Lagos State Transport Law of 2018. The court found him guilty of driving on the BRT lane in contravention of […]
Continue ReadingUnited Kingdom’s General Medical Council (GMC) which licenses and maintains the official register of medical practitioners in the United Kingdom licensed at least 266 Nigerian doctors in June and July, 2022, according to The Punch. Implication of this is that at least three Nigerian doctors were licensed per day in June and July 2022 despite […]
Continue ReadingGovernor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano state and former Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II met at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, on Monday August 1. According to Daily Trust, this is the first time the Governor and the former Emir would be seen together since Sanusi got dethroned by Ganduje in 2020. In a […]
Continue ReadingAward-winning novelist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has said that she is not related to a 40-year-old lady, Nkiru Okoye, murdered in Ogbunike, Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State. This is coming after it was reported that the deceased who is the wife of a mechanical engineer, Emenike Okoye, was beaten to death by her brother-in-law, George Okoye, […]
Continue ReadingBody of a young woman identified simply as Kate was found buried in her boyfriend’s room at Okaka area of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria, on Friday, July 29 morning. It was gathered that the deceased had been missing for days and the boyfriend identified as Joseph denied knowledge of her whereabouts. According to reports, family […]
Continue ReadingA Nigerian man based in the United Kingdom (UK), George Imafidon, has won the Young Engineer Award in the United Kingdom. Imafidon, a UCL Mechanical Engineering alumnus currently working with Sir Lewis Hamilton’s Team X44 electric racing team was recognised with the award by the Royal Academy of Engineering. He was part of the five […]
Continue ReadingMusic legend, Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey Fabiyi, is bereaved as he recently lost one of his sons, Olayinka Olalekan Obey-Fabiyi. He was 48 years old. According to family sources, the late Olayinka died on Friday, July 29, 2022. He was buried on Saturday, July 30, 2022. The cause of his death is not known at this […]
Continue ReadingFor stabbing her boyfriend who just returned from Canada to death, a Ghanaian actress, model, musician, entrepreneur and beautician has been arrested and taken to Adenta Court Complex for arraignment. The lady, Safina Mohammed Adizatu popularly known as Safina Diamond, claimed that her action was driven by self-defence. She also insisted that the deceased, Frank, […]
Continue ReadingFormer Vice Chancellor (VC) of Lagos State University (LASU), Prof. Lateef Akanni Hussein, has passed away. Prof. Hussein died on Sunday, 31st July, 2022 after a brief illness. He was aged 75. The institution’s Vice Chancellor, Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, mni, on Monday confirmed the development in a statement titled, ‘Former LASU Vice Chancellor, Prof. Lateef […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Government-funded Phase 1 of the National Mass Metering Programme (NMMP), slated to commence in August appears to have been mired in uncertainty and had been put on hold as a result of allegations of fraud by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) against some of the Meter Asset Providers (MAPs). One source, who pleaded […]
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