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Gunmen on Friday, April 8, ambushed some soldiers at Osisioma, Tonimas junction, Aba in Abia State, and set their patrol van on fire. The gunmen who were said to be in a large number laid ambush for the soldiers at Tonimas junction axis of Enugu-Aba-Port Harcourt Expressway. The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) had declared Friday, […]
Continue ReadingNigerian gospel singer, Sister Osinachi Nwachukwu, has reportedly died. Osinachi was said to have breathed her last on Friday. The Imo State-born gospel singer died at the age of 42. Even though there is no official confirmation from family members and close associates at the moment, the mother of four was said to have died […]
Continue ReadingCanada is set to ban Nigerians and other foreigners from buying homes for two years as prices of real estate properties soar in the North American country. The measure will help the country provide billions of dollars to spur construction activity in an attempt to cool off a surging real-estate market, Bloomberg reported Thursday. According to the […]
Continue ReadingCentral Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has imposed an N800m fine on three Deposit Money Banks in the country for violating regulations barring customers from transacting in cryptocurrencies. Going by a Bloomberg report released on Wednesday, the three banks are Access Bank Plc, Stanbic IBTC, and the United Bank for Africa Plc. The report noted that […]
Continue ReadingThe full United States Senate voted 53-47 in favor of confirming Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s appointment to the Supreme Court on Thursday. Jackson, who makes history as the first Black woman and the first public defender to serve on the highest US court, will replace Justice Stephen Breyer when he officially retires this summer at […]
Continue ReadingA vehicle in the convoy of former Nigerian President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan was involved in ghastly accident on Wednesday. At least two persons were said to have died in the accident and two others who are police officers were said to be seriously injured. According to reports, one of the vehicles over sped and rammed […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) has dissolved its Lagos State council under Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya popularly known as MC Oluomo. In line with the union’s constitution, its National Administrative Council made this known in a statement titled: ‘Dissolution of Lagos State Administrative Council’, jointly signed by its national president, Alhaji Tajudeen Baruwa, […]
Continue ReadingMoronkeji Adesina, the new police commissioner for Ekiti State Command, has assumed duty with a promise to partner communities in the state in the pursuit of a more vigorous and effective community policing. Adesina, who was the Commissioner of Police, General Investigation, Force CID, Force Headquarters, Abuja before his deployment to Ekiti State, took over […]
Continue ReadingBaale of Onikoko, and a deacon at Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA), Onikoko, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria, Chief Francis Oluwole Ogunnusi, has been confirmed dead after he slumped while preaching during service. The incident occurred on Sunday April 3, while Ogunnusi was preaching against the ‘get-rich-quick’ syndrome. The church was thrown into confusion after the deacon […]
Continue ReadingMen of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of Lagos State Police Command, Nigeria, have rescued a 67-year-old man who attempted to commit suicide on his birthday. The elderly man was stopped from leaping into the lagoon by the officers on patrol of 3rd Mainland Bridge on Tuesday, April 5. The police in a statement said that the […]
Continue ReadingKano-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 […]
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