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Former Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has welcomed a baby girl with his 4th wife Saadatu. Sanusi’s son, Ashraf who confirmed the birth of his step-sister on Instagram said the former Emir’s second wife’s plea made Sanusi name the baby girl after his first wife, who took care of Saadatu while she was pregnant. […]
Continue ReadingSurajo Gatawa, the Commissioner for Land and Housing in Sokoto state, has died. According to Family sources, Gatawa died today Sunday May 10 and has been buried at his residence at Sama Road, opposite “Babban Tanki” Sokoto according to Islamic rites. The late Sokoto Commissioner was among the 26 commissioners Aminu Tambuwal, the governor, appointed […]
Continue ReadingPolice in Lagos state have arrested four persons for allegedly killing a househelp in the Bariga area of the state. A statement released by the spokesperson of the state police command, Bala Elkana, says: “Men of the Bariga Police station received a tipoff on May 9 that one Shade Moke, 41, conspired with three others on […]
Continue ReadingThe first batch of stranded Nigerians in the United States due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is on their way back home. It is the third batch of Nigerians to have been evacuated as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The second batch of 253 Nigerians evacuated from the United Kingdom arrived the Murtala Muhammed […]
Continue ReadingA 30-year-old man identified as James Samuel, hanged himself in a classroom at Government Secondary School Gurku, Karu Local Government Area of Nasarawa. The body of the deceased was discovered on Friday, by one of the residents in the area, who is also a police officer serving in Abuja, who quickly reported the matter to […]
Continue ReadingA safari ranger had a lucky escape when the tent he was camping in was surrounded by a pride of hungry lions, who decided they fancied his boots for breakfast. Norman Chauke, 28, from Makuleke Limpopo, South Africa, works as a tracking instructor at an eco-training reserve. He was left stunned when the lions decided […]
Continue ReadingA Nigerian nurse has died from coronavirus in the United Kingdom (UK) after spending five weeks fighting for her life on a ventilator in the intensive care unit (ICU). 51-year-old Onyenachi Obasi, who worked as a health visitor and nurse reportedly died on May 6 at the Queen’s Hospital in Romford. Ms. Obasi who had […]
Continue ReadingShocking revelations emerged during the week, that the sum of N100 million found in the bank account of the wife of late billionaire kidnapper, Collins Ezenwa, popularly known as E-money, which was suspected to be proceed of crime and was ordered to be seized and forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria, by the Federal […]
Continue Reading33-year-old woman in Nasarawa state, Janet Ekpe, has killed her husband of eight years, Sunday Ekpe, after she discovered he was allegedly having an affair with her best friend, Hellen, in Zumbagwe community in Karu local government area of the state. The Nation reports that Janet and Sunday had two children and seemed to be […]
Continue ReadingJustice Isiaka Isola Oluwa, a retired Judge of the High Court of Lagos State is dead. He died at the age of 102. The late judge who is remembered as the one who sentenced the Lagos socialite, Alhaji Jimoh Isola a.k.a Ejigbadero to death for murder of a farmer, Raji Oba over land disputes in […]
Continue ReadingA 48-year-old pastor in Edo state has been arrested for defiling four minors aged between six and 11, three of them siblings who were placed in his care. The oldest sibling is nine years old, and the youngest six. The pastor who gave his name as Otobong Emerson of Believers’ Ministry Church Incorporated, was paraded at the […]
Continue ReadingAs soon as the Nigerian Supreme Court judgment was made public, the Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay, SAN, expressed his disapproval of the Supreme Court judgment. In the same vein, a human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana SAN, said the nullification of Kalu’s conviction was a demonstration of the […]
Continue ReadingThe governor of Cross River state, Benedict Bengioushuye Ayade, easily called Ben Ayade was in the farm on May 7. According to him, he was at the land preparation site for the state’s demonstration farm at the industrial park in Calabar, Nigeria. Governor Ayade was in that farm with his entourage and perhaps the farm […]
Continue ReadingThe Nasarawa State Command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC, arrested a 22-year-old pregnant woman, Veronica Boniface, for stabbing her husband to death over alleged phone call with his ‘girlfriend.’ The lady, Veronica Boniface, who claimed to be pregnant, used a kitchen knife she was using to peel yam to stab her […]
Continue ReadingNigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has lost his nephew, Alhaji Mutari Dauda Daura to the cold hands of death, days after he lost his Chief of Staff, Mallam Abba Kyari and his in-law Alhaji Modu Sheriff. Though the cause of death was not revealed in the statement released by the President’s media aide, Garba Shehu on […]
Continue ReadingA group of Nigerian lawyers have asked President Muhammadu Buhari to reject 33 candidates recommended to him by the National Judicial Council (NJC) for appointment as High Court judges of the Federal Capital Territory, based on nepotism. The lawyers, under the aegis of Open Bar Initiative, in a petition to Buhari said 17 of the […]
Continue ReadingWith shops and factories closed nationwide due to the coronavirus pandemic, nearly all of the jobs created in the US economy in the last decade were wiped out in a single month. An unprecedented 20.5 million jobs were destroyed in April in the world’s largest economy, driving the unemployment rate to 14.7 per cent compared […]
Continue ReadingFormer governor of Abia state and member of Nigerian Senate, Orji Uzor Kalu, has said his five months in jail afforded him the opportunity of learning “invaluable lessons” about Nigeria and the citizenry. Nigerian Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision by a seven-member panel voided Kalu’s conviction and held that the Federal High Court in […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Supreme Court on Friday nullified the trial of a former governor of Abia State, Orji Kalu, and others, who were in December convicted and sentenced for a N7.1bn fraud. Justice Mohammed Idris, who had been elevated to the Court of Appeal bench, had returned to the Federal High Court in Lagos to complete the […]
Continue ReadingNigeria has recorded 381 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 3526. This was announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday via its verified Twitter handle. The 381 new cases are the highest Nigeria has ever recorded in 24 hours since the outbreak […]
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