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12-year-old Nigerian girl receives $11.5m in funding for air filter invention in US

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Nigerian girl, Eniola Shokunbi, a 12-year-old middle school student from Connecticut, United States, has launched an ambitious project to improve the air quality in U.S. schools. Her invention eliminates over 99% of airborne viruses! Eniola Shokunbi was in the fifth grade at Commodore MacDonough STEM Academy in Middletown, Connecticut, United States, when her teacher tasked the class with creating […]

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Nnamdi Azikiwe University lecturer shot, killed

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Some people suspected to be members of a car-snatching syndicate have shot and killed a lecturer, Dr. Fabian Osita, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria. The incident, it was gathered, occurred on Monday night near the high-tension area in Aroma in Awka, the state capital, as the deceased was driving home from […]

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Former gov Yahaya Bello granted N500m bail

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A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) sitting in Maitama, Abuja, Nigeria, on Thursday, granted N500m bail to the immediate-past Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, who is being tried for alleged N10.4bn fraud. Presiding judge, Justice MaryAnne Anenih ordered the ex-governor to deposit his passport, ruling that he cannot travel out of […]

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Finally, Ekiti magistrate court admits Dele Farotimi to N30m bail

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Eventually, a magistrate court sitting in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, has admitted the embattled lawyer and human rights activist, Dele Farotimi to N30 million bail. During the hearing of the bail application on Friday, Magistrate Abayomi Adeosun ruled in favour of Farotimi. In his ruling, the magistrate stated that the bail conditions included two […]

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Wike revokes Buhari, Onnoghen, Abbas, Akume, Uba Sani’s Abuja land titles

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Minister of Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has revoked lands belonging to former President, Muhammed Buhari; former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen; Speaker House of Reps, Tajudeen Abbas; the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume, and his wife, Regina Akume; and Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani.. 759 other prominent figures and […]

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35 under-age children confirmed dead in Nigerian funfair stampede, Ooni’s ex-wife arrested

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About 35 under-age children have been confirmed dead in a stampede at a funfair held at Islamic High School, Orita Bashorun, Ibadan, Nigeria. A sad incident which happened on Wednesday drew condemnation from many, including the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, who vowed to investigate the circumstances surrounding the tragedy. Makinde also said the state […]

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Nigeria’s IGP bans arbitrary arrests, phone searches and youth harassment by police officers

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Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, has issued a directive banning arbitrary arrests, harassment of youths, and the checking of mobile phones by police officers across the country. Rising concerns over police misconduct, particularly after recent comments by the United Kingdom opposition leader, Kemi Badenoch, on police abuses in Nigeria, caused the directive. […]

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Female National Youth Corps member slumps, dies

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A female member of Nigeria’s National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Miss Tayachibiyacha Ebal, serving in Dakingari, Kebbi State, has collapsed and died. Ebal was rushed to the camp clinic at Dakingari after she collapsed and later transferred to the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) in Birnin-Kebbi, where she passed away while receiving medical attention. The incident […]

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Tinubu’s speech at 2025 budget presentation to National Assembly (Full text)

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My Fellow Nigerians, In fulfilment of one of my constitutional duties and with an unyielding commitment to rebuilding Nigeria towards ensuring that we remain steadfast on the journey to a prosperous future, I hereby present the 2025 Budget to the Joint Session of the 10th National Assembly. On this day, before this hallowed chamber, I […]

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Gov Adeleke orders probe, clemency for young man sentenced to death for stealing a fowl

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Governor of Osun State, Ademola Adeleke, has expressed concern over a reported death sentence of a young man in the state for stealing a fowl. In a statement posted on X.com on Tuesday, governor Adeleke has directed the state’s Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice to launch a full investigation into the case and initiate […]

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Funke ‘Jenifa’ Akindele blocks Faithia Balogun on Instagram, Faithia responds to her (Video)

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Nigerian star actress, Faithia Williams-Balogun has taken to social media to respond to her colleague, another star actress, Funke ‘Jenifa’ Akindele who reportedly blocked her on Instagram. The drama unfolded after it was reported that the two actresses had unfollowed each other on the platform. Sources say, the rift between the two beautiful actresses began […]

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Nigerian Government renames University of Abuja

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Nigerian Government has announced the renaming of the University of Abuja (UniAbuja) to the name of former Nigerian Head of State, Yakubu Gowon University (YGU). Nigeria’s Minister of Information, Mohammed Idris, revealed the decision to State House correspondents on Monday, December 15, after the Federal Executive Council’s meeting presided over by President Bola Tinubu. The […]

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I did not send anybody to appeal to Afe Babalola ―Dele Farotimi asserts

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Nigerian lawyer and rights activist, Mr. Dele Farotimi, has maintained that he did not send anybody, on his own behalf, to beg or plead with Chief Afe Babalola SAN. Farotimi is currently standing trial in Ekiti State and federal courts for criminal defamation and cyber bulling in a complaint lodged against him by the legal […]

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Father cries out for justice over two sons wrongly sentenced to death

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“It is said that the judiciary is the last hope of a common man, but what happens when a common man cannot get justice? The purpose of seeking justice is forfeited.” An Oshogbo High Court judge sentenced two brothers from Cotonou to death for armed robbery and murder. The judge admitted the confessional statement as […]

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23-year-old Nigerian male model wins Mr. International Pageant 2024

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Nigerian man, Samuel Nwajaju, has become the first African to win the Mister International pageant at the 16th edition of the pageant in Bangkok, Thailand, yesterday. Mister International, established in 2006 by the late Alan Sim, the former president and founder, is one of the world’s largest male pageants, second only to Mister World in […]

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Nigeria’s judicial system loose, pampers corrupt leaders who should be imprisoned for life ―ICAN president

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President, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), Davidson Alaribe in a chat with Punch, bore his mind with Punch’s Johnson Idowu on the state of Nigerian judicial system among many issues affecting Nigeria at the moment. Alaribe said: “Our judicial system regarding punishment for fraud and corruption is very loose. What I need to […]

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Labour Party to drag its defected lawmakers to court

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Nigeria’s Labour Party (LP) has initiated legal action against its members in the National Assembly who defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The party is seeking a court declaration that the seats of the defecting lawmakers be declared vacant and is demanding the return of all salaries, allowances, and privileges received since their defection. […]

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Ex-gov Yahaya Bello admitted to N500m bail

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Nigeria’s Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted bail to the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, in the sum of ₦500 million. Presiding judge, Justice Emeka Nwite, on Friday, ordered that the former governor provide two sureties with similar financial responsibility. The sureties must submit affidavits of means and own properties […]

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Nigerian man wanted by FBI for alleged $6m fraud extradited to the US, appears in US court

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37-year-old Nigerian man, Abiola Ayorinde Kayode, has been extradited to the District of Nebraska in the United States on a charge of Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud filed in 2019. Kayode, who is accused of being part of a $6 million business email compromise (BEC) scheme between 2015 and 2016, was on the FBI’s Most […]

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Lagos businesswoman sentenced to 17 years in prison for N57.6m fraud

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Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja on Thursday, December 12, convicted and sentenced a businesswoman, Oluremi Ebun Phillips, to 17 years imprisonment for defrauding a company, AYM Shafa Limited, of N57,690,000. Nigeria’s EFCC said Phillips and her company, Omritas Energy Limited, sometime in 2016, in Lagos, fraudulently converted and stole the sum of N57,690,000, […]

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