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Nigeria’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 […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Capital Territory (FCT) Command on Monday May 16, paraded three suspects arrested in connection with the murder of a female member of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC), Stephenie Terungwa. Stephanie was declared missing after leaving home for her Community Development Service (CDS) in April. She was later found dead two weeks after she disappeared with her body […]
Continue ReadingAccountant General of the Federation of Nigeria (AGF), Ahmed Idris, has been suspended indefinitely over alleged N80 billion fraud. He was suspended by Nigerian Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, on Wednesday. In a letter dated May 18, 2022, the minister said the suspension “without pay” was to allow for “proper and […]
Continue ReadingWorld’s richest man, Elon Musk said Tuesday that his purchase of Twitter would not go ahead unless he was assured that fewer than five percent of accounts on the platform were fake. “Yesterday, Twitter’s CEO publicly refused to show proof of <5%,” tweeted Musk, who has almost 94 million followers on the social network. “This deal […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Government has amended the charges against the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. One of the counsels for the IPOB leader who was said to have made this known also said the Nigerian government listed some lawyers representing Nnamdi Kanu as accomplices of the defendant. Among the lawyers said to […]
Continue ReadingA male student of The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, has reportedly died while his girlfriend remains unconscious after the two reportedly had a long duration of sexual intercourse. The deceased, a National Diploma 2 student identified only as Oromidayo, was from the Civil Engineering Department, while his girlfriend, Aramide, is also in ND 2 […]
Continue ReadingA sound engineer has been set ablaze allegedly by a group of commercial motorcyclists in Lagos The young man, simply identified as David Imoh, was lynched and burnt to death. David had allegedly gotten into a misunderstanding with a commercial motorcyclist because of N100 balance. This resulted in a fight between David and the motorcyclist. More commercial […]
Continue ReadingA blogger, Ahmed Olamilekan has been arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS) over a report he published about Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun state. There’s been calls for Governor Abiodun to be disqualified from contesting in 2023 governorship election over his alleged arrest in the US for a credit card fraud and forgery in […]
Continue ReadingSeveral people are feared killed with others injured in a huge explosion in the Sabon Gari area of Kano State. Details of the incident are still sketchy at the time of filing this report but it was gathered that the explosion occurred at about 9am, near a primary school along Court Road by Aba Road, with […]
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