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A final year student of Uganda Christian University (UCU) Lorita Blessy Asimwe was killed after a church collapsed in Kampala. Asimwe was due to graduate on July 2, 2021, with a Bachelor of Human Resource Management, having sat for her final exams in January. The deceased suffered injuries when a ceiling of an auditorium collapsed […]
Continue ReadingImmediate past Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen (rtd) on Friday broke silence on why the President Muhammad Buhari led APC government unceremoniously removed him from office in 2019. At a book launch he attended with his wife on Friday, Onnoghen, revealed that prior to his removal, there had been rumour […]
Continue ReadingThe Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL, has given a pat on the back to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for mandating operators in the Nigerian financial system, particularly bankers to declare their assets as from June 1, 2021. In a release, issued by CACOL on behalf of its Chairman, Mr. Debo Adeniran […]
Continue ReadingYoruba Youths Leader (YYL) and rights activist, Mr. Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has declared his support for the establishment of the Yoruba nation. Speaking in a viral video, Igboho, who gained prominence following an ultimatum he issued to criminal herdsmen in the Southwest, expressed the determination to defend Yoruba land. Igboho said: […]
Continue ReadingGovernor of Bauchi State Bala Mohammed, has alleged that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won the 2019 presidential election. In an interview on Channels Television, the Bauchi state Governor claimed that fraud on the part of either INEC or security operatives cost his party the election. Bala also added that the general impression within the party […]
Continue ReadingThe University of Ibadan (UI) has revealed it has no hands in the predicament of a medical student, Mr. Korna Anongo Terhemen who dropped out of school to become a cart pusher. UI’s Director of Public Communication, Olatunji Oladejo, while reacting, gave reasons why the medical student was not re-admitted in a statement made available […]
Continue ReadingDr. Samia Suluhu Hassan, the soft-spoken Vice President of Tanzania, was on Friday, March 19, sworn in as the East African country’s first female president after the sudden death of President John Magufuli from an illness shrouded in mystery. “I, Samia Suluhu Hassan, promise to be honest and obey and protect the constitution of Tanzania,” […]
Continue ReadingAn American lady, Kari Ann R’ouke, has filed a suit at the Federal High Court, Lagos, against the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Hakeem Odumosu, asking the court to order her release from police custody. In Suit No.FHC/L/CS/434/2021 filed at the Registry of the Court on Thursday, March 18, 2021, Kari Ann is asking […]
Continue ReadingThe certificate forgery suit filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and one of its members, Mr Williams Edobor against PDP’s Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, has been dismissed by a Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja. The three-man penal of justices of the court led by Justice Stephen Adah in a unanimous judgement, […]
Continue ReadingAn official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), Obasu Segun Godwin, has been killed by a commercial bus driver along Anthony road on Tuesday, March 16. A statement released by the General Manager of the agency, Olajide Oduoye, says Obasu and his colleague, Adeniyi Hakeen, were attacked by the commercial driver while on […]
Continue ReadingMrs. Aisha Buhari, wife of Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, has finally returned to the country after being away for about six months, according to reports. Mrs. Buhari was said to have returned to the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Wednesday evening. Although her return has not been confirmed officially as of the time of filing this […]
Continue ReadingTwin brothers, Taiye and Kehinde Adebayo have been handed a jail sentence after being convicted over offences bordering on internet fraud. The twin brothers who were prosecuted by the Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, were arraigned on a seven count charge to which they pleaded guilty. Following the ‘guilty plea’ entered by the defendants, […]
Continue ReadingEkiti in diaspora along with two indigenous groups, – the Ekitiparapo Lagos and Ekitipanupo Forum, have expressed shock over the adoption of the Federal Government’s Livestock Transformation Programme (LTP) by Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State. In a statement jointly issued by the President of Ekitiparapo Lagos, Dare Ojo; and the leader of Ekitipanupo Roundtable […]
Continue ReadingAuthorities have released mugshot of the suspected shooter involved in three Atlanta-Area shootings that have left eight people dead. Robert Aaron Long, 21, of Woodstock, Georgia, was arrested in southwest Georgia, around 150 miles south of Atlanta, and taken into custody in Crisp County, Cherokee County sheriff Captain Jay Baker said. The first shooting began around 5 […]
Continue ReadingSouth Africa’s Department of Correctional Services (SADCS) has said that it is embarrassed with viral videos of a female warder who was caught having sex with an inmate in one of the offices at the prison in KwaZulu-Natal. The video which has gone viral on social media showed the female warder passionately kissing the inmate in what […]
Continue ReadingFormer Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Dibu Ojerinde, has been arrested by the officials of the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) for allegedly misappropriating N900 million. Prof Ojerinde, according to the commission, was arrested on 15th March 2021, in Abuja, for allegedly committing multiple frauds while […]
Continue ReadingA farm supervisor caught her staff with stolen eggs expertly concealed in different parts of their bodies as they tried to leave the farm after work. One of the farm workers had eggs hidden in her hair, another had them around her midriff, beneath her dress. See the moment they were made to remove all […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s application before a Milan court for an order compelling Eni and Royal Dutch Shell to pay $1.092bn as an immediate advance payment for damages it is claiming in one of the oil industry’s biggest-ever corruption trials has failed. The decision is coming barely a year after a court in the United Kingdom dismissed Nigeria’s […]
Continue ReadingTanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli has died at the age of 61, after weeks of speculation that he was infected with COVID-19. Announcing the President’s death in a live television broadcast, the country’s Vice-President, Samia Suluhu Hassan, said the President died on Wednesday, March 17, from heart complications at a hospital in Dar es Salaam. […]
Continue ReadingTwo Nigerians who exploited the UK Government’s Coronavirus Bounce Back loan scheme by using the identities of eight innocent people to fraudulently obtain £489,000 have been jailed. Timilehin Yvette Olasemo, 39, of Bedale Road, Romford, appeared at Southwark Crown Court on Wednesday, March 17, and was sentenced to three years and two months’ imprisonment for conspiracy […]
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