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Prelate of the Methodist Church of Nigeria, His Eminence, Samuel Kanu-Uche, who was kidnapped by hoodlums in Abia State, Nigeria, has said N100m was paid by the church to secure his freedom. Kanu-Uche, who spoke during a press briefing in Lagos on Tuesday, said the kidnappers showed him decomposing bodies of some past victims. He […]
Continue ReadingNigerian government has banned the sale and consumption of bush meat in the country in a bid to curb the spread of monkepox disease. Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Dr Mohammad Abubakar on Tuesday May 31, directed hunters and dealers of bush meat in the country to stop the business. Abubakar also urged Nigerians to avoid […]
Continue ReadingLagos Zonal Command of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has secured the conviction and sentencing of one Li Lei Lei, a Chinese national, to 24 months imprisonment for mutilating the Nigerian currency. He was convicted by Justice I. Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos on Tuesday, May 31, […]
Continue ReadingEkiti State Government has nullified the purported installation of one Stephen Ajayi as the Obanla of Ipao Ekiti in the Ikole Local Government Area of the state. Bisi Egbeyemi, the Deputy Governor, who said that the purported installation was done contrary to the laws governing the nomination, selection and installation of Obas in the state, […]
Continue Reading…Let Us Return Nigeria to Their Rightful Owners I thank Nigerians; especially members of the Labour Party who have gathered here since yesterday to partake in the primaries to choose the person that will fly Labour flag in the forthcoming National election to choose the President of Nigeria. History beckons. Nigerians remain hopeful for a […]
Continue ReadingKunle Adeyanju, also known as ‘The Lion Heart’, travelled 41 days from London to Lagos on a motorcycle. He tells Adebimpe Olajiga about the journey. Excerpt …… Kindly introduce yourself My name is Adekunle Adeyanju. I am from Kwara State, Offa to be precise. My marital status is complicated. I have children but the other […]
Continue ReadingReports coming in say gunmen on Monday stormed the premises of Anambra State Broadcasting Service (ASBS), Awada, Onitsha station, Nigeria. Even though, no life was lost in the attack but a building and buses used by the company for its operations were destroyed and burnt by the irate gunmen. There have been series of deadly […]
Continue ReadingExtent of the ongoing probe of the suspended Accountant General of the Federation (AGF), Ahmed Idris, by Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has reached N170billion. Idris, who was battling for bail Saturday night, has opened up on some top government officials allegedly involved in some transactions. The anti-graft agency has grilled a Permanent […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a former Governor of Zamfara State, Abdul’Aziz Yari, as part of investigations into the alleged N84bn fraud involving the suspended Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris. Sources in the EFCC told newsmen that Yari and the Chairman of a firm, Finex Professional Services, were arrested around […]
Continue ReadingAgain, the former Nigerian vice-president and serial presidential aspirant, Atiku Abubakar, has emerged as the presidential candidate of the opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Atiku emerged as a candidate at the end of the presidential primary after polling 371 votes, defeating the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, who scored 237 votes. Other aspirants […]
Continue ReadingNigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday, May 26, left Abuja to participate in the African Union Extra-ordinary Session of Assembly of Heads of State and Government in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea. Buhari was accompanied by his wife, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, who is the President of the African First Ladies’ Peace Mission, and their two daughters, Zahra […]
Continue ReadingThe husband of Irma Garcia, the fourth-grade teacher who died protecting students during a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School, Texas, this week, has also died, the Garcia family announced on Thursday, May 26. Ernie Zuniga of KAAB news in San Antonio, Texas first reported the death of Garcia’s husband, Joe, on Twitter. “Joe Garcia, […]
Continue ReadingAbia State governorship hopeful, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, who withdrew from the PDP governorship primaries on Tuesday, May 24, has dumped the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The Senator also resigned as the Minority Leader in the upper chamber of the National Assembly. He confirmed his defection in a letter to the ward chairman of the […]
Continue ReadingTunisia will hold a constitutional referendum for a “new republic” on July 25, President Kais Saied has announced, in defiance of critics who warn he wants to establish an autocracy. The vote will come exactly a year after Saied sacked the government and suspended parliament, moves his rivals called a coup, but which he argues […]
Continue ReadingA Nigerian man has landed in court for stalking a woman in the UK Oluwaseyi Elemide, 26, an accountant admitted stalking a beautician who he failed to impress after pestering her, banging on the windows of her London salon, and sending unwanted emails. According to Mail Online, he badgered Demi Witter at her Lavender Hill […]
Continue ReadingA Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria, presided over by Justice Muhammed Sani, on Monday May 23, 2022 convicted a certain fraudster, Ajewole Oluseyi David, based in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, for offences bordering on internet fraud. The judge also ordered the forfeiture of a duplex situated at Lekki, Eti-Osa Local Government Area […]
Continue ReadingReports coming in say some officers from Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have stormed the Abuja residence of the former Imo State Governor and All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential aspirant, Rochas Okorocha. Further reports say the EFCC finally arrested the former Governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha, after a long siege to […]
Continue ReadingThe gunmen who kidnapped Mr. Okey Okoye, a member of the Anambra State House of Assembly, have beheaded him. Reports say, after beheading him, his head was displayed at a motor park in Nnobi, Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra state. The incident, which happened on Saturday, created panic in the community, which had […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has said that Nigeria’s inability to meet its security challenges was a choice by the country’s leaders and not by God’s design. Obasanjo said this when he spoke at his penthouse residence within the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL) in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital on Thursday, May 19. […]
Continue ReadingNigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari will be travelling to Abu Dhabi, the capital of United Arab Emirates (UAE) on a two-day visit. While in Abu Dhabi, the President will meet the new President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, to convey his condolences on the passing of the […]
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