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Kano-born atheist, Mubarak Bala, has been sentenced to 24 years imprisonment after pleading guilty to all the 18-count charges leveled against him. Bala, who is the president of the Humanist Association of Nigeria, was arrested at his home in Kaduna on April 28, 2020 and taken to Kano, where complaints of blasphemy and incitement were lodged against […]
Continue ReadingAn Indonesian court on Monday sentenced a teacher, Herry Wirawan, to death for raping 13 girls at an Islamic school. The court upheld an appeal by prosecutors for the death penalty after he had initially received a sentence of life in prison. The case of teacher Wirawan had shocked Indonesia and shone a spotlight on […]
Continue ReadingOperatives of the Ogun State Police Command, Nigeria, have arrested a 50-year-old pastor, Isaac Akinbola, and two female members of his church for allegedly assaulting his wife, Dasola Akinbola, leading to the death of their eight-month-old baby, Obadiah Akinbola. The pastor and the two female members, identified as Esther Olowolayemo, 29, and Oluwakemi Oshinbajo, 30, […]
Continue ReadingFounder and Senior Pastor of the Household of God church, Rev Chris Okotie, has extolled the virtues and talents of music veteran and evangelist, Ebenezer Obey-Fabiyi, popularly known as Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey, who turned 80 on Sunday, April 3, 2022. Pastor Okotie in his tribute described Obey as a music legend. The cleric said […]
Continue ReadingA husband who ran away after allegedly setting his UK-based wife alongside her brother ablaze in Lagos, just hours after her return, has been arrested. Chinyere Ogudoro, a mother-of-four who lives in Scotland with her children, returned to Nigeria alone on Thursday, March 31, and her brother picked her up from the airport and took […]
Continue ReadingJustice D.E. Osiagor of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, Nigeria, has granted an Order of Interim Forfeiture of fourteen landed properties belonging to M.D/CEO of Brisk Capital Limited, Mr. Dominic Joshua Ngene. 21-year-old Joshua, who claims to be an ‘investment expert’ was arrested last year by the Special Fraud Unit, Lagos, for allegedly […]
Continue ReadingHis Royal Highness, the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Nnaemeka Alfred Achebe, revealed that he was to board the Abuja-Kaduna train that was attacked on Monday, March 28, but a phone call caused him to abort the journey. The attack left some of the passengers dead, others injured and many still unaccounted for. Speaking on Saturday, […]
Continue ReadingBody of a 21-year-old woman was found lying on a blood-soaked bedsheet in an Abuja hotel and her brother has now accused the hotel management and police of cover-up. Esther Isaac Asuquo lodged in Room 901 at Agete Hotel in the Gwarinpa area of the FCT, Abuja on February 25, 2022. She didn’t make it […]
Continue ReadingPlaywright and Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Saturday said the resumption of investigation into the murder of a former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige, was already hamstrung and disrobed of credibility with the emergence of a prime suspect in the case as the National Secretary of the […]
Continue ReadingYoruba Nationalist, Adeyinka Shoyemi, popularly known as Adeyinka Grandson, 45, president of the group Young Yorubas for Freedom (YYF), has been jailed for four and half years by a United Kingdom court for inciting violence against other Nigerian tribes via social media. Grandson, a UK-based Nigerian, is known for using his social media accounts to […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Court of Appeal of the Enugu Division, on Friday, affirmed the judgement of Ebonyi High Court, Abakaliki, which quashed a suit challenging the defection of Governor David Umahi and his deputy, Dr Kelechi Igwe, to the All Progressives Congress, (APC). Recall that governor Umahi and his Deputy had on November 2020 left the PDP, […]
Continue ReadingPopular comic actor, Kunle Adetokunbo, popularly called Dejo Tunfulu has died. Another star actor, Kunle Afod, shared the news on his Instagram page on Friday. The president of the Theatre Arts and Motion Pictures Practitioners Association of Nigeria, Bolaji Amusan, known as Mr Latin, also confirmed his death. “Yes, it is confirmed. He died in […]
Continue ReadingAhead of the scheduled resumption of tolling in Lekki area of Lagos state, Instagram comedian Mr Macaroni has given an update from the LCC and stakeholders meeting held today, March 30. The comedian revealed that Lekki Estate Residents and Stakeholders Association Chairman announced the decision of all residents which is “NO TO TOLLING”. Mr Macaroni […]
Continue ReadingA Nigerian man, Isaiah Olugosi, 38, was on Monday, March 28 discovered dead in his cell at HMP Wormwood Scrubs in West London, where he was awaiting sentence after being convicted for fraud. In May 2021, he pled guilty to masterminding a scam that defrauded over 100 shops in the UK in a two year […]
Continue ReadingOperatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have allegedly recovered 11,570 tablets of tramadol from a lawyer in Ekiti and arrested a professional methamphetamine (Mkpuru Mmiri) cook in Imo state. Director, Media & Advocacy of the agency, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Wednesday March 30, said the Mkpuru Mmiri cook, Reuben Bekweri, […]
Continue ReadingPoverty reduction in Nigeria stagnated since 2015, with more Nigerians falling below the poverty line over the years, the World Bank says. Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, was first elected into the office of president of Nigeria in 2015. According to the Washington-based bank, the number of poor Nigerians is projected to hit 95.1 million in […]
Continue ReadingAngry Nigerian football fans on Tuesday attacked Ghanaian players after they knocked out Nigeria’s Super Eagles from the 2022 World Cup finals. Reports say, “Two fans first jumped into the pitch and others followed. Before then, the fans attacked the Ghana players with bottles. They also threw planks and other objects at them.” The angry […]
Continue ReadingNational Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and a presidential aspirant, Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday, sympathised with the families of the victims of an Abuja-Kaduna train attack. The former Lagos State governor from 1999 t0 2007 said the attack on the Abuja-Kaduna train on Monday night by marauders on harmless passengers was a “national […]
Continue ReadingAn Uber driver and his three passengers have lost their lives in a fatal accident on Eko Bridge, Lagos state on Saturday, March 26. The victims, who were in a Toyota Camry, were plying the Eko Bridge to navigate to their destination when the driver of a Lexus 300, Yusuf Ambali, lost control of his vehicle […]
Continue ReadingNigerian medical doctor, Chinelo, was killed during the attack on the Abuja-Kaduna train on Monday night, Her photos have been shared online by friends who took to Twitter to mourn her.
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