EFCC files fresh N110bn fraud charges against ex-gov Yahaya Bello

Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has filed fresh charges against the wanted former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, accusing him of N110bn fraud. The commission originally filed 19-count charge against the former Kogi governor, along with his nephew Ali Bello, Dauda Suliman, and Abdulsalam Hudu, for money laundering offences amounting to N80,246,470,088.88 […]

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Singer Falz demands immediate retraction, apology from VeryDarkMan over defamatory allegations

Chambers of Lagos lawyer and human rights activist, Femi Falana SAN, have issued a formal letter demanding a retraction of defamatory statements made against his son, Folarin Falana, popularly known as Falz. The demand was made in response to allegations linking Falz to a conversation involving Idris Olanrewaju Okuneye, also known as Bobrisky, regarding financial […]

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Nigerian singer, Banky W relocates to US with family

Nigerian star singer, actor, celebrity, motivational speaker, and politician, Bankole Wellington, popularly known as Banky W, has relocated to the United States with his family. The boss of Empire Mates Entertainment (EME) revealed the move on his Instagram page, sharing that he will be pursuing a Master’s degree at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Alongside […]

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Justice Nyako steps down from Nnamdi Kanu’s criminal trial

Nigeria’s Federal High Court Judge, Justice Binta Nyako has indicated stepping down from presiding over the criminal trial of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. The judge made this known today at the Federal High Court in Abuja, Nigeria, at the resumed hearing in the trial of Kanu. Justice Nyako’s […]

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Some of the people in Nigerian govt today should be permanently behind bars ―Obasanjo

Former Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has called for the imprisonment of corrupt politicians in Nigeria, stating that “thieves cannot provide just governance.” The Nigerian statesman made this demand while speaking virtually at the memorial lecture for Denis Joseph Slattery, a late cleric, in Lagos. In his speech, titled: “The Imperative for Moral Rectitude in […]

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APC’s candidate Okpebholo wins Edo guber election

Nigerian ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Senator Monday Okpebholo, has emerged victorious in the recently concluded Edo State governorship election. Okpebholo emerged victorious over his main challengers, Asue Ighodalo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Olumide Akpata of the Labour Party (LP). The gubernatorial election Returning Officer for the state, Prof. Faruk Adamu […]

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Popular gospel singer, Dele Gold laid to rest (Photos)

Popular Nigerian gospel singer, Jacob Oladele Agbeyo, professionally known as Dele Gold, has been laid to rest. The Ekiti-born singer died after a brief illness on September 11, 2024. His burial ceremony which took place at his residence in Abule Egba, Lagos on Thursday, September 19 2024, was attended by prominent figures. Among the prominent […]

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Tinubu’s Minister allegedly linked with terrorism, bandits

Nigerian Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, is under fire after allegedly being linked with terrorism and banditry in the country. Matawalle is alleged to have procured vehicles for bandit leaders, including a notorious kingpin, Bello Turji, and others while serving as Zamfara State Governor. Current state governor, Dauda Lawal, who appeared on a […]

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Seyi Tinubu donates N500m, medications, materials to Borno flood victims

Seyi Tinubu, son of president Bola Tinubu, has donated the sum of 500 million Naira to victims of the Maiduguri flood which ravaged 70 per cent of the city and displaced millions of residents. The president’s son, who was accompanied by his brother, friends, and associates while donating on their behalf said they were in […]

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Staff rushed into Nigerian hotel room to rescue screaming naked woman tied up for ‘ritual’ by a male guest (Photo 18+)

Nigerian man’s alleged plot to use a woman for ritual was disrupted after the woman’s screams alerted staff to what was going on inside one hotel room at Wuse Zone 5, Abuja, Nigeria. Hotel employees, who heard screams coming from one of the rooms, rushed inside to find a woman completely naked and tied up […]

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Hardship in Nigeria getting out of control ―General Abdulsalami Abubakar laments

Former Nigerian military Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, on Tuesday, took a critical look at the living condition of most Nigerians and concluded that “the hardship in the land is getting out of control.” Gen. Abdulsalami spoke in Minna, the Niger State capital, when he received the leadership of the Campaign for Democracy (CD), […]

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Flying Nigerian actress, Eniola Badmus discovers she was the only person in the business class

Nigerian award winning actress, movie producer, MC, brand ambassador and anchor person, Eniola Badmus has expressed her shock after discovering she was the only passenger in the business class during a flight. Flying to somewhere, the star actress discovered she was the only passenger in the business class. She documented her experience with a video, showcasing the […]

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Another Nigerian veteran actor dies

Ghanaian-born veteran Nigerian actor, Emmanuel France has passed away. Nigerian film maker, actor, producer, and director, Olufemi Omokafe Ogedengbe, simply called Femi Ogedengbe, announced the passing of the actor on social media. Ogedengbe wrote: “Rest in peace to one of Nollywood legends Uncle Emmanuel France, One of the actors I took to Tanzania in 2006 […]

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Gunmen assassinate woman in Nigeria after disclosing they were paid N200,000 to kill her

Gunmen believed to be hired assassins have allegedly killed a woman, Mrs. Rose Eneojoh in Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi State, Nigeria. The mother of five was brutally murdered last week Tuesday night, September 10, 2024 at Etikpolo Anyigba. A man who claimed to be a family member, Charles Ile Umoru, confirmed the incident […]

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Another assassination attempt on Donald Trump

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was safe on Sunday after the Secret Service foiled what the FBI called an apparent assassination attempt while he was golfing on his course in West Palm Beach, Florida. Secret Service agents spotted and fired on a gunman in bushes near the property line of the golf course, a few hundred yards from where […]

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Omoyele Sowore arrested at Lagos airport on arrival in Nigeria

Sahara Reporters publisher and Presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2023 election, Omoyele Sowore, has been arrested as he arrived Murtala Muhammad International Airport in Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria, around 9.43 am on Sunday. On Thursday, 12 September 2024, a DSS memo ordering the arrest of Sowore upon his arrival in […]

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Owa Obokun of Ijesaland has joined his ancestors

The Owa-Obokun of Ijesaland, Oba Gabriel Adekunle Aromolaran, has joined his ancestors. He passed on at the age of 86. His death was announced in a statement, signed by Asiwaju of Ijesaland, Chief Yinka Fasuyi, on Thursday in Osogbo, the state capital. Confirming the monarch’s passing, Fasuyi, in a tribute that he personally sent to […]

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Lagos court sentences American businessman to 74 years imprisonment

Lagos State Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Nigeria, has sentenced an American businessman, Marco Ramirez to 74 years in prison over $1.6m fraud. Ramirez was sentenced on Tuesday following the charges preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The EFCC had arraigned the convict on a 12-count charge but later […]

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Nigerian nurse sentenced to prison in UK for leaving her 10-week-old baby to die

A Nigerian working as a nurse in the United Kingdom (UK), Ruth Auta, has been sentenced to three years in prison for neglecting her ten-week-old baby, Joshua Akerele, who died while she was at work. According to Daily Mail, the single mother who is in her late twenties, had reportedly left Joshua alone in her […]

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