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The University of Ibadan (UI) has been thrown into mourning after losing two of its students within 24 hours. The deceased students identified as Adegoke Adedayo, a final year student of the Department of History, Faculty of Arts, and Adeyemo Oluwaseun Ayomide, a 200 level student of the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, died over […]
Continue ReadingAn amended seven-count charge has been filed by the federal government against the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, before a Federal High Court in Abuja. The fresh charge bothers on treasonable felony and terrorism following the pending charges he was facing since 2016 and it was also learnt that the court […]
Continue ReadingAt least one police officer has been reported dead after unknown gunmen attacked Ohaukwu Police headquarters at 135, Ezzamgbo, Ohaukwu local government area, Ebonyi state at about 12 noon today October 18. The spokesperson of the state police command, Loveth Odah, who confirmed the attack, said the gunmen also set the station ablaze and burnt […]
Continue ReadingColin Powell, a US war hero and the first Black secretary of state who saw his legacy tarnished when he made the case for war in Iraq in 2003, has died of complications from Covid-19. He was 84. “We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American,” the family said […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s envoy to Chad, Babagana Kingibe has said that the country’s unity is negotiable. In his speech at The Sun Newspaper awards for 2020 in Lagos on Saturday October 16, the former secretary to the government of the federation (SGF) stated that in spite of what his colleagues say, every union is negotiable. According to […]
Continue ReadingImo State capital, Owerri, was a shadow of itself on Monday as residents continued to stay indoors in compliance with the sit-at-home order of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in the five South-East states of Nigeria. This has continued two months after the separatist group, IPOB, said it had cancelled its weekly sit-at-home order […]
Continue ReadingBig Brother Naija “Shine Ya Eye” housemate, Angel Smith, has revealed she’s been receiving calls from unknown numbers threatening to kill her because of her “relationship status.” In a thread posted on her Twitter handle, Angel said she’s very much single and she’s not in love with anyone, contrary to what people assume and think […]
Continue ReadingA Nigerian (man and woman) set of twins, Amos and Juliana Kunde, from Nasarawa state, are currently at loggerheads after the twin brother informed the twin sister he was about to get married to another woman. According to media personality, Bello Lukman, who shared the story online, the twins lost their parents to gunmen attack […]
Continue ReadingThe pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere has tackled the special adviser to President Buhari on media and publicity, Femi Adesina, for comparing his boss, President Buhari to former Nigerian leaders, Obafemi Awolowo and Nnamdi Azikiwe. In his article, Adesina wrote: “Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is an honest man. Whatever he tells you, please take it serious. […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has pledged to put an end to election rigging in Nigeria using new technology. According to the Head of ICT, INEC office, Awka, Chukwuemeka Nnaji, INEC has devised what it called Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) as a way of reducing human interference in the electoral process. Speaking during […]
Continue Reading71-year-old man identified as Ajibola Olufemi Adeniyi, has reportedly died during a sex romp with a commercial sex worker inside a hotel in Ogun State, Nigeria. It was gathered that the incident happened on Monday at 50/50 hotel Ogijo, Sagamu Local Government Area of the State. According to Punch ,the deceased, a resident of 22, Akilo Street, Bariga, […]
Continue ReadingOsaki Diri, a Media Aide to the member representing Degema state Constituency, Rivers State House of Assembly, has died. Osaki Diri was electrocuted on Thursday, October 14, in Port Harcourt, a friend of his told LIB. According to the source, Diri’s phone was charging when a call came in. “He picked the call while it […]
Continue ReadingNigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, has received the Founder and Serving Overseer of The Citadel Global Community Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare, at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, Nigeria on Friday. This was made known by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina who shared photos from the meeting on social media. […]
Continue ReadingA woman identified as Bazunu Michelle has been reportedly found dead inside her apartment in Warri, Delta State, Nigeria. Details of the incident are still sketchy at the time of this report but it was gathered that the deceased was found with multiple stab wounds and her throat slit in the early hours of Wednesday, […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibadan Zonal Command, Oyo State, Nigeria, on Tuesday October 12, arraigned one Toluwalade John Olateru Olagbegi before Justice Uche Agomoh of the Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan on one count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretense to the tune of Thirty-Five Million, Five Hundred Thousand […]
Continue ReadingThe World Health Organisation (WHO) has honoured Henrietta Lacks, recognising the world-changing legacy of the Black woman whose cancer cells were taken out without her consent, and has provided the basis for life-changing medical breakthroughs. In 1951, Henrietta Lacks, a Black mother of five who was dying of cervical cancer, went to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for treatment. […]
Continue ReadingThe Kollam Additional Sessions Court in Kerala, India on Wednesday, imposed a double life sentence on Sooraj S Kumar for killing his wife using a cobra. Sooraj had killed his 25-year-old wife, Uthra on May 7, 2020, by letting a cobra bite her in her sleep. The crime became known widely known as the ‘Uthra murder case’ and […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Kayode Oyebode Adebowale of the Department of Chemistry, University of Ibadan (UI), on Thursday, was named the 13th substantive Vice-Chancellor of the institution. Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, the Chairman Governing council, around 8:00 p.m. on Thursday announced that Adebowale defeated the incumbent acting vice-chancellor, Adebola Ekanola, and 14 others in a keenly contested process at […]
Continue ReadingNigerians are currently mourning event host, Evelyn Adewunmi, popularly known as MC Eve, who died untimely in a car crash. The host, famously called The Energy Goddess, was said to have been in a car with her boyfriend on October 12, when they were involved in an accident along Lekki-Epe Expressway, Lagos, Nigeria. The boyfriend, […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered a former Minister Of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, to pay a fine of N200,000 for being absent at his re-arraignment or stand the risk of having his bail revoked. Presiding judge, Justice Daniel Osaigor gave the order on Wednesday, saying that having gone through the court’s […]
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