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Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday arraigned the immediate past Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HoS), Winnifred Oyo-Ita, for alleged N3bn graft. The former HoS was sacked in September last year after about N600m was allegedly found in the bank account of her aide. EFCC investigations reportedly traced about […]
Continue ReadingNigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed the first coronavirus death in Nigeria. The NCDC via its Twitter handle, @NCDCgov, on Monday, said, “The first #COVID19 death in Nigeria has been recorded. The case was a 67-year-old male who returned home following medical treatment in the United Kingdom. “He had underlying medical conditions- multiple […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has refused the application of the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) to register its security outfit, ‘Operation Shege ka FASA’. The CNG are taking a cue from the South-West ‘Operation Amotekun’. Recall that the governors of the northern states and the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar lll, distanced themselves […]
Continue ReadingVeteran Yoruba filmmaker and actor, Gbenga Ajumoko has passed away. The actor reportedly died after battling with a chronic ailment. This is coming weeks after a popular Nollywood actor, Kayode Odumosu, also known as Pa Kasumu died. Gbenga Ajumoko was reported to be critically down with a chronic ailment since last year. For over 6 […]
Continue ReadingA 48-year-old farmer and petty trader, Theddius Audu reportedly impregnated his 15-year-old daughter Justina in Wuyeya, a village under Assakio, Lafia Local Government Area of Nasarawa State. Audu took up the sole responsibility of his daughter’s upbringing after his marriage to Talatu Ayi from Nasarawa Eggon Local Government Area of the state ended 13 years ago due to […]
Continue ReadingRangers FC striker, Ifeanyi George has been confirmed dead after he was killed in a car crash on Sunday morning. The 26-year-old former Enyimba star was travelling from Enugu to Lagos with two unidentified teammates when they ran into a heavy-duty truck along Benin-Ore road, with none of them surviving the ghastly accident. It was also revealed […]
Continue ReadingSome people are specially gifted and talented regardless of age and long experience. Whenever and wherever such people exhibit their special talent for the sake of humanity, the society must appreciate them. In view of that, the Nigerian doctor who suspected and reported the Italian man who became the index case of coronavirus in the […]
Continue ReadingA report published by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has revealed how Nigerian public officials and their proxies allegedly steal public funds and invest it in luxurious properties in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Carnegie Endowment puts its said report under the heading: “Dubai Property: An Oasis for Nigeria’s Corrupt Political Elites” According to the report, […]
Continue ReadingNigerian government, on Saturday, announced the shut down of international flights coming into Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, and Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. This was confirmed in a statement signed by the Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Capt. Musa Nuhu. It reads: “Further to our earlier letter on restriction of international […]
Continue ReadingA Nigerian man has been confirmed dead while preparing for his wedding today March 21 in Jos, Plateau State capital, Nigeria. Recounting how the incident occurred, an eyewitness said the deceased identified as Samuel Yarling had gone to pick his wedding suit at his sister’s house at about 12am but slumped and sustained a slight bruise […]
Continue ReadingGreat American and country music legend, Kenny Rogers, who dominated the pop and country charts in the 1970s and 1980s has died, aged 81. His family confirmed his death in a statement on Saturday. “The Rogers family is sad to announce that Kenny Rogers passed away last night at 10.25 pm at the age of […]
Continue ReadingThe intervention of the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi and the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, in the standoff between Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State and some obas under the aegis of the Alademerindinlogun (16 crowned Obas or the 16 Pelupelu Obas) when the matter reached a boiling point last week, is […]
Continue ReadingAs a result of months of allegedly running from the law, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has finally arrested the suspended Chairman of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SPIP), Mr. Ekoi Obono-Obla. Obono-Obla’s arrest by operatives of the Commission on Friday, in Abuja, comes […]
Continue ReadingFormer governorship aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State, Nigeria, Soalabo West, has been killed by suspected herdsmen after he was kidnapped at his poultry farm at Aluu back of OPM in Port Harcourt on March 12. It was gathered that two days into his abduction, the suspected herdsmen […]
Continue ReadingIndia has executed the four men who were convicted of the brutal gang rape and murder of a young woman on a bus in Delhi in 2012. The men, Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta, and Mukesh Singh had been found guilty in a 2013 trial and sentenced to death by hanging, but their execution […]
Continue ReadingChairman of Silverbird Group, Ben Murray-Bruce, has lost his wife Evelyn Murray-Bruce to cancer. The heartbroken former Senator representing Bayelsa East Senatorial District, described Evelyn as his best friend for 43 years and wife for 41 years. Ben Murray-Bruce who shared photos which captured beautiful memories he created with his wife, stated that she will […]
Continue ReadingIf you watched Newsline on NTA in the 1990s, you’d be conversant with the girl dubbed “Miracle Baby” after 3 women claimed they were her biological mothers. At the time, Abike Dabiri (now Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa) investigated the story to get to the root after a woman in her mid-60s (Mother 1), named Alhaja Wuraola Abayomi, […]
Continue ReadingOne of President Buhari’s daughters has gone into self-isolation after returning from the UK, which is one of the high risk countries with coronavirus. First Lady Aisha Buhari made the announcement via her Twitter handle. She revealed that her daughter went into self-isolation based on the advice of the Minister of Health Osagie Ehanire, the […]
Continue ReadingA member of the National Youths Service Corps deployed to Akwa Ibom State, Mrs Queen Eziuche, died on Sunday, March 15 morning at the NYSC Orientation Camp in Ikot Itie Udung in the Nsit Antai Local Government Area of the state. Mrs Queen Uba Eziuche, a Batch B member with call up number: NYSC/ISU/2020/0562, reportedly went […]
Continue ReadingA woman identified as Evelyn Chinwendu Ejike (nee Ogechukwu Osita) was killed when a cooking gas exploded in her house in Abuja last week. Details of the incident is still sketchy, however, it was alleged that the deceased who was pregnant was cooking and using her phone when the gas exploded. The woman suffered 90 […]
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