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Two persons have been confirmed dead while several others sustained different degrees of injuries following a brake failure accident involving an unregistered Land Rover. The SUV reportedly veered off the road and rammed into a building at Panada, Isolo area of Lagos State. According to eyewitnesses, who spoke to DAILY POST, the vehicle had hit […]
Continue ReadingA bereaved wife has begged the police to arrest her husband’s killers. Aderonke Balogun, 25, narrated how her husband, Sulaimon Ajayi, was rushed to a hospital following an attack on him. He was later discharged but was admitted again when he developed complications. He died days later in the hospital. Trouble began when members of Ijegemo-Omilende […]
Continue Reading55-year-old man said to have been chained by his father for 30 years at Rogo LG in Kano state of Nigeria was rescued by the police and human rights organizations on Thursday, August 20. This comes a few days after another man, Ibrahim Lawan who was also said to have been chained for 15 years by his […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Port Harcourt zonal office on Thursday secured the conviction of Chamseddine Waell Mohammed and Dina Jihad Khali who both pleaded guilty to separate one count charge of money laundering preferred against them. The offences run contrary to Section 2 (3) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act 2011 (as […]
Continue ReadingA man in Sapele, Delta state, Nigeria who denied raping an 11-year-old girl and threatened to take legal steps against her and her family members was exposed by CCTV footage. The 30-year-old man allegedly assaulted the 11-year-old girl last Wednesday, August 13, when she went to use a convenience room. She emerged minutes later crying […]
Continue ReadingThe Police in Ekiti State have arrested a lady, Mary Idris, for allegedly faking her own kidnap on August 9, 2020, with a view to extorting money from her parents. Mary was arrested alongside her accomplice Victor Olawuse in Akure, the Ondo State capital, shortly after her younger sister received a message conveying news of […]
Continue ReadingNigerians on social media have reacted to the leaked video of late Senator Kashamu Buruji seeking forgiveness from billionaire businessman, Chief Kessington Adebutu, shortly before his death. Senator Kashamu who died on August 8 of COVID-19, was reported to have called Adebutu from his sickbed to seek for forgiveness over the differences they might have […]
Continue ReadingThe Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Rahamaniyya Oil and Gas Limited, Abdulrahman Bashir, has been jailed in the United Kingdom (UK). Justice Butcher of England and Wales High Court sentenced the Nigerian oil mogul after he was found guilty of breaching multiple orders of the court in a pending suit instituted by Sahara Energy Resources Ltd. […]
Continue ReadingMalian President, Ibrahim Keita, on Wednesday, said he was resigning to avoid “bloodshed”, hours after his arrest by troops in a sudden coup that followed a months-long political crisis in the fragile West African nation. Rebel soldiers detained the president and Prime Minister Boubou Cisse on Tuesday afternoon and drove the pair to a military […]
Continue ReadingMutineering soldiers in Mali on Tuesday detained President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and Prime Minister Boubou Cisse, one of their leaders said. “We can tell you that the president and the prime minister are under our control,” the leader, who requested anonymity, told AFP. He added that the pair had been “arrested” at Keita’s residence in the […]
Continue ReadingA makeup artist in the Nollywood industry, Williams Anuoluwapo aka Kumbalee, is dead. Kumbalee died in a fatal motorcycle accident on Sunday, August 16, just two weeks after celebrating his birthday. An excited Kumbalee shared new photos of himself on his Instagram page to celebrate his birthday, not knowing that death was lurking around the corner. […]
Continue ReadingA 34-year-old man was sentenced to 50 years imprisonment by an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, for raping a 19-year-old student of UNILAG on campus. John Otema, a UNILAG graduate, was charged before Justice Abiola Soladoye with three counts of rape and assault occasioning harm on two female students. The quantity surveyor and facilities manager was found […]
Continue ReadingThe Supreme Council for Shari’ah in Nigeria has urged Kano State Government to execute the court judgement that found a singer guilty of blasphemy. In a statement signed by its Secretary General, Nafi’u Baba-Ahmad, on Tuesday in Kaduna, the Shari’ah Council said executing the judgement will serve as a deterrent to others. It berated those […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, says international flights will resume in the country on August 29, 2020. Sirika said this in a tweet on Monday. The Minister tweeted, “Glad to announce the resumption of international flights from the August 29, 2020 beginning with Lagos and Abuja as we did with the domestic flight resumption. […]
Continue ReadingA lawyer, Daniel Makolo, has been remanded in police custody for allegedly writing a petition to the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, faulting the tenure extension granted to the Comptroller-General of Immigration, Muhammad Babandede. A Karu Chief Magistrates’ Court presided over by Emmanuel Iyanna was said to have ordered Makolo’s remand for two weeks for […]
Continue ReadingAn Osun Magistrate Court, sitting in Ibokun, Osun State, Nigeria, has on Monday remanded an ex-Police Inspector, Ago Egharevba for unlawfully hitting a 20-year-old fashion designer with the butt of the gun. It was gathered that the dismissed officer allegedly hit Ayomide Taiwo with the butt of the gun over N50 bribe on Tuesday, August 4, […]
Continue ReadingMailafia’s lawyer, Yakubu Bawa, confirmed that his client had been re-invited by the secret police, Nigeria’s DSS. He said that Mailafia was expected to be at the DSS office in Jos, Plateau State capital, by 12:00pm on Monday (today). “I believe it wouldn’t be anything different from the last encounter with DSS, which was purely […]
Continue ReadingBayelsa Governorship Election Tribunal sitting in Abuja, on Monday, nullified the election that produced candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP), Senator Duoye Diri, as Governor. In a majority judgment delivered by Justice Yunusa Musa in the petition, the tribunal held that the Independent National Electoral Commission unlawfully excluded Action Democratic Party (ADP) from the November […]
Continue ReadingA Nigerian man who was arrested in Uganda after allegedly being in possession of 320grammes of cocaine valued at sh244.4m (N905m), has been charged and remanded in prison. 37-year-old Madu Chima was arrested alongside one Ibanda Abubakali, 31, a security guard attached to Pinnacle Security Limited. Appearing before Grade One Magistrate Abert Asiimwe, the duo pleaded […]
Continue ReadingA yet-to-be-identified man has been reported dead by the police, while another one was fatally injured in an accident that occurred at the celebration of Osun festival at Ido Osun town, Osun State. According to Punch, the death happened when some youths bearing dangerous weapons stormed Ido Osun from Osogbo on motorcycles, rode recklessly and […]
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