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Persons believed to be gunmen and kidnappers have killed a Professor of law at the Babcock University, Dr. Yinka Olowojobi, and abducted two others in Iperu town, Ogun State. The gunmen dressed in black attires and said to be eight in number, attacked the Ajadeh Event Centre located on Sagamu Road in the Iperu area […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has sealed an Abuja-based Chinese supermarket located within the China General Chamber of Commerce (CGCC) in Abuja, Nigeria, following allegations of discriminatory practices against Nigerians. Officials of FCCPC shut the supermarket when they stormed the premises on Monday. The commission’s officials sealed up the place after interrogating […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Inspector General of Police (IGP), Olukayode Egbetokun, has opposed the establishment of State Police, saying the country was not ripe for it. He stated this during a one-day dialogue on state policing, themed, ‘Pathways to Peace: Reimagining Policing in Nigeria’ on Monday. Egbetokun stated that the establishment of state Police would exacerbate ethnic tension, […]
Continue ReadingKenyan Police Service has arrested fleeing Binance executive, Nadeem Anjarwalla, as the International Criminal Police Organisation moves to extradite him to Nigeria within the week. Government sources familiar with the case who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak on the matter confirmed the development to Punch on Sunday night. Punch […]
Continue ReadingNigerian actor, Ugezu Ugezu, has shared the story of a man who died during surgery, after his wife, who became tired of her husband’s snoring, “convinced and forced” him to undergo a medical surgery in India in order to stop him from the snoring. The actor said, despite friends advising against it, the wife and […]
Continue ReadingBBNaija season 6 housemate, fashion icon, ex-beauty queen, brand influencer, and philanthropist, Queen Mercy Atang has disclosed that she recently fired her nanny for not doing her job diligently. She said the nanny protested about not getting enough sleep, but it was strange because she sleeps before the baby she is supposed to look after. […]
Continue ReadingChairman of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa took to social media on Saturday, April 20, to share her experience about Naira spraying concern at a party in Lagos. In a video shared on her Instagram page, she said, “Just coming from a birthday party, and guess what? Everybody was afraid to spray. “But […]
Continue ReadingNigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) and the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) have assured Nigerians in the Diaspora that the diaspora mortgage scheme will be in operation within the next three months . A statement by Gabriel Odu of the Media, Public Relations and Protocols Unit, NiDCOM, the assurance was given during a strategic […]
Continue ReadingAnother faction of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ganduje Ward, Dawakin Tofa Local Government Area, Kano State, on Sunday announced the suspension of Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, its national chairman, from the party. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Malam Haladu Gwanjo, the Legal Adviser of another APC faction in Ganduje Ward, last week […]
Continue ReadingA Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate played chess nonstop for 60 hours in New York City’s Times Square, United States, to break the Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon. Tunde Onakoya, 29, hopes to raise $1 million for children’s education across Africa through the record attempt that began on Wednesday. He had […]
Continue ReadingNigeria Police Force (NPF) has detained a female police officer who was the aide-de-camp (ADC) to embattled former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, reports say. The ADC was arrested alongside other police officers attached to 48-year-old Bello, and is being detained at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. Their arrests […]
Continue ReadingA man set himself on fire Friday outside the court where Donald Trump is standing trial in Manhattan, with officers rushing to extinguish the flames. Burning clothes were strewn in the park, which was locked down by authorities, while ambulances lined up nearby on standby, an AFP correspondent at the scene saw, describing a strong […]
Continue ReadingIn a notice posted on the commission’s official Facebook page on Thursday, Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared a former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, wanted for offences relating to economic and financial crimes. The notice reads: “The public is hereby notified that Yahaya Adoza Bello (former Governor of Kogi State), […]
Continue ReadingDonald Trump becomes the first former U.S. president to face a criminal trial – a case involving alleged hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels that carries major political and legal ramifications as he runs to regain the White House. The trial began in Manhattan on April 15. It is the first of four potential […]
Continue ReadingNot less than 25 arrested Yoruba Nation agitators were, on Wednesday, arraigned before the Chief Magistrates Court in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, for their involvement and roles in the failed invasion of the Governor’s Office and the state House of Assembly. On Saturday, April 13, 2024, some masked persons suspected to be Yoruba Nation […]
Continue ReadingA High Court of Kano State has issued an ex-parte order affirming the suspension of ex-governor Abdullahi Ganduje as the National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC). Justice Usman Malam Na’abba, presiding over the court, granted the order in response to an ex-parte application filed by two executive members of the APC from the […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Federal High Court sitting in Lagos State, on Wednesday, granted businessman, socialite, and Instagram celebrity, Pascal Okechukwu, popularly known as Cubana Chief Priest, N10m bail with two sureties in like sum. The defendant was arraigned before Justice Kehinde Ogundare on three counts bordering on abuse of naira by allegedly spraying and tampering with the […]
Continue ReadingNigerian actress, producer and mum, Obey Etok Chima has sadly experienced the heartbreaking passing of her father, occurring just hours before the scheduled burial of her husband, Chima Iheke. Taking to her Facebook wall, obey revealed that her father departed in the early hours of Thursday morning, lamenting the timing as it coincided with the […]
Continue ReadingSuspected armed hoodlums from Obbo-Aiyegunle in Kwara State on Tuesday attacked Ilejemeje Local Government secretariat and some residents of the town over land dispute. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the alleged hoodlums were heavily armed and fired gunshot to scare residents. The traditional ruler of Eda Oniyo, the Eleda of Eda Oniyo, […]
Continue Reading55-year-old lecturer at the Federal College of Education (Special), in Oyo State, Alabi Ogundeji, who is one of the arrested Yoruba Nation agitators who invaded the Oyo State Governor’s Office and the state House of Assembly on Monday declared that he doesn’t regret his action. Corroborating his view, a 29-year-old phone repairer, Ademola Adeniyi, who […]
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