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A 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 […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, restrained the Federal Government from taking fresh steps to extradite the former Senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District, Buruji Kashamu, to the United States of America on allegation of complicity in illicit drug deal. In a judgment, Justice Okon Abang held that no fresh application for […]
Continue ReadingBritish rapper, Ben Chijioke, better known as Ty, has died from Coronavirus ailment at the age of 47 Benedict Obioma Godwin Chijioke, who is of Nigerian descent, died after he was hospitalized and placed in a medically-induced coma following “complications” surrounding the virus. His team confirmed his death on Thursday, May 7. Ty was previously nominated for the […]
Continue ReadingThe fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old unarmed Black man out for a jog when he was chased and killed, was caught on video, prompting a call for a grand jury to review the case as the shooter has not been arrested or charged. The shooting occurred in February but the video was posted online Tuesday, May 5, by […]
Continue ReadingNigerian music video producer and director, Clarence Peters, who was detained by the Lagos State Police Command over the sudden death of dancer and video vixen, Kodak, has been granted bail, according to reports. Clarence, the son of Afro-Juju music maestro, Shina Peters and veteran actress, Clarion Chukwura was a few days ago arrested and […]
Continue ReadingA 79-year-old disabled woman who was allegedly buried alive by her son has miraculously survived after being trapped in the pit for nearly three days, authorities have said. Police in north-western China’s Shaanxi province rescued the paralyzed mother, known as Wang Mou, on Tuesday, May 5, after the woman’s daughter-in-law reported her missing. The 58-year-old son, known […]
Continue ReadingA member of a Turkish left-wing music band died on Thursday in an Istanbul hospital, just two days after he ended a nearly one-year hunger strike protesting government persecution, his lawyer told dpa. Bassist Ibrahim Gokcek died on Thursday at a hospital in Istanbul’s Beylikduzu district, lawyer Gorgun Danaci said. He said lawyers found out […]
Continue ReadingA former Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory, Justice Dahiru Saleh, has passed away. He was said to have died in Azare, Bauchi State, to suspected Coronavirus complications. A family source told SaharaReporters that the late Saleh died on Thursday in Bauchi and would be buried in Azare today. “Yes, he is dead. It’s […]
Continue ReadingSecurity operatives on Wednesday May 6, intercepted about 150 travelers including Almajiri children travelling in three vehicles along the Abuja-Kaduna road. The Commissioner for Human Resources and Social Development in the state, Hafsat Baba disclosed that the travelers were trying to enter the state from the Federal Capital Territory, (Abuja) and Nyanya in Nasarawa State. […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, has been named a member of the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD). This was contained in a statement signed by Jan Maarten Slagter, CEO of IBFD, on Wednesday. The statement reads: “IBFD is delighted that Dr. Oby Ezekwesili has joined our Board of Trustees and expects that […]
Continue ReadingThe Rivers state police command has paraded five suspected killers of three University students in the state. Some days ago, we published the story of how a unit of the Rivers State police command arrested members of a kidnapping gang who abducted and killed three University students – Nelson Nwafor and Fortune Obemba, both students […]
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