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Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, Nigeria, on Thursday, set aside its order of interim forfeiture on the properties of Senator Olubukola Saraki, located on 17 and 17A MacDonald Road, Ikoyi, Lagos State. The judgment came after counsel for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Nnaemeka Omewa, and counsel for Saraki, Mr Kehinde […]
Continue ReadingAn alleged kidnap syndicate made up of members of the same family (father and his children) have been busted by the Ogun state police command. Oweniwe Okpara from Delta State and three of his children, Samson Okpara, Bright Okpara and Eze Okpara were arrested after Ogun state commissioner of police, Edward Ajogun gave an order to […]
Continue ReadingNigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, on Friday March 5, decorated the new Service Chiefs at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. In their new ranks, the service chiefs are General Lucky Irabor, Chief of Defense Staff; Lieutenant-General Ibrahim Attahiru, Chief of Army Staff; Vice Admiral Awwal Zubairu, Chief of Naval Staff; and Air Marshal […]
Continue ReadingA witness, Ngozika Ihuoma, on Thursday, told a Federal High Court in Abuja, that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), under its former acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, mismanaged 222 assets worth N1.63tn. The money was recovered by the defunct Pension Reform Taskforce Team. Ihuoma appeared as the first defence witness in the ongoing trial […]
Continue ReadingCOVID-19 vaccination commenced in Nigeria on Friday. A medical doctor, Dr. Cyprian Ngong, of the National Hospital, Abuja, received a jab of the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine. The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, flagged off the exercise on behalf of President Muhammadu Buhari. […]
Continue ReadingOfficers from the Police Command in Ekiti State have confirmed the killing of a 45-year-old woman, Mrs Motunrayo Olajide, inside her house in Ado Ekiti, the state capital by yet to be identified persons. Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) for the Ekiti State Police Command, Sunday Abutu, said on Friday that the law enforcement agencies […]
Continue ReadingFriends and colleagues have taken to Facebook to mourn a young lady identified as Onyinye Odo, who was reportedly died after a fire incident. Details surrounding her death are still sketchy, however, it was gathered that Onyinye succumbed to severe burns she sustained following a gas explosion. One Edah Mmesoma, who confirmed the story on Wednesday, March […]
Continue ReadingA member representing Gwaram Federal Constituency of Jigawa State at the Nigerian House of Representatives, Yuguda Hassan Kila, has died. He was aged 65. Kila, who was chairman of the House Committee on Customs, died on Thursday afternoon , March 4, at the National Hospital, Abuja after brief illness. The retired customs comptroller was elected […]
Continue ReadingA First-class Mathematics graduate from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria, Emmanuel Nworie, has bagged a fully-funded scholarship at a University in the United States. Nworie bagged the scholarship after a photo of him tilling the soil in Ebonyi state, Nigeria owing to poverty and a lack of a platform to utilize his knowledge went […]
Continue ReadingThe police in Anambra state, Nigeria have arrested a 35-year-old man identified as Kingsley Igwe, for allegedly stabbing his wife, Oyinye Obi, 31, to death with a Kitchen knife in the early hours of today March 4, at their home on Dueze street Otigba in the 3-3 Area of the state. The state Police Public […]
Continue ReadingA court in the southern Tay Ninh Province, Vietnam on Tuesday, March 2, sentenced a 45-year-old Nigerian man to death for trafficking nearly four kilograms of methamphetamine from Cambodia. Ekwegbalu James Nzube said he got acquainted with another Nigerian, Jone, in China in 2014, and the latter had hired him to transport drugs from Cambodia […]
Continue ReadingEmbattled Deputy Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Hon Dare Kadiri, has been impeached for alleged gross misconduct. Kadiri, who represents Ijebu North State Constituency 2, was impeached on Thursday, March 4, following a report presented by the committee set up to investigate him. The Speaker of the State Assembly, Olakunle Oluomo, had […]
Continue ReadingProphetess Rose Kelvin aka the Voice Of Solution has revealed how her inability to execute her passion of giving to the needy for financial constraints could not stop her from executing the feeding of the poor. A very close associate of the Prophetess who spoke in anonymity said that Prophetess Rose spent about sixty million […]
Continue ReadingThe reunion ceremony of the 279 abducted students of Government Girls Junior Secondary School in Jangebe, Zamfara state and their parents on Wednesday March 3, turned bloody after military officers allegedly fired shots at the agitated parents, killing one person while two other persons sustained serious gunshot injuries and have been rushed to the hospital. Arise News reports […]
Continue ReadingVeteran actor Sadiq Daba, born Sadiq Abubakar Daba, is dead. Late Daba who became a household name in Nigeria for his role as Bitrus in the now rested NTA drama series Cock Crow at Dawn, died on Wednesday evening, March 3, after a long battle with Leukemia and prostate cancer. He reportedly died at his Marwa Garden residence in […]
Continue ReadingThree men who kidnapped a house wife and her one-year-old son at Yolde Pate in Yola South Local Government Area, Adamawa State have been convicted and sentenced to a total of 71 years imprisonment each. The convicts; Layi Musa, Buba Siddiki and Shanu Kori, will however serve 50 years each behind bars without option of […]
Continue ReadingHRM Rilwan Akiolu, the Oba of Lagos, has said that during #EndSARS protests, $2 million and N17 million were stolen when youths attacked his palace on October 21, 2020. Many buildings were attacked by the youths in Lagos State a day after soldiers opened fire on #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki toll plaza on October […]
Continue ReadingIt is very sad as the young Nigerian man identified as Ango Adamu has died a day after his wedding. It was gathered that the deceased got married on Friday, February 26 in Matumbi, Niger State and died the following Saturday, February 27. According to one of his friends, Usman Mohd Chiroma, it was a […]
Continue ReadingA High Court sitting in Abeokuta, Ogun state, presided over by Justice Ayokunle Rotimi-Balogun, has sentenced a 39-year old labourer, Mohammed Ibrahim, to death by hanging for killing a two-year-old baby and also found him guilty of attempting to kill the mother, Rabi Yakubu. The Prosecuting counsel, Oluwabumi Akinola, had told the court that Mohammed […]
Continue ReadingA civilian, Emmanuel Odaudu, has allegedly spent no fewer than eight months in the Nigerian Military Special Investigation Bureau underground cell in Abuja over an old Facebook video. Emmanuel’s ordeal reportedly started when he posted online shot videos of himself rapping in his uniform while he was in the army. It was learnt that the […]
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