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Nigeria’s court of Appeal sitting in Akure, Ondo state has set aside the judgment of the Ondo State High Court that sentenced the founder of the Sotitobire Praising Chapel, Prophet Alfa Babatunde, to life imprisonment over a missing child. Recall that the Ondo State High court had on October 6, 2020, sentenced the Prophet to […]
Continue ReadingGovernor Sam Ortom is angry with the people of Benue State. And last Saturday, he publicly expressed his feelings at the commissioning of a Pentecostal Church in Makurdi, the state capital. Before we get to what he said about his people, let’s begin with the issue. Ortom accuses Benue people of peddling unfounded allegations about […]
Continue ReadingA 41-year-old South African woman, Ntomboxolo Xhobane, was viciously stabbed to death allegedly by her estranged husband who refused to accept their separation. Her family said Ntomboxolo left her husband Simbongile in October after she caught him cheating on her with a neighbour. The mother of three moved out and rented a flat in Delft, on […]
Continue ReadingPersons believed to be hoodlums, in their hundreds on Thursday set ablaze the Gubernatorial Campaign Office of one of the political opponents of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, Sen. Barau Jibrin representing Kano north senatorial district. Some of the suspected attackers were said to have gone with dangerous weapons to the Senator’s office located along Maiduguri Road […]
Continue ReadingGroup Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, Malam Mele Kyari, said on November 23 that the Buhari regime will inflict yet another pain at the pump by jacking up petrol prices to N340 per liter in February 2022. If this materializes, it would be the fourth time the regime has increased […]
Continue ReadingA community leader in Ikorodu, Salami Oluwaseun, has narrated how stray bullet hit his sister- in-law after a policemen allegedly fired gunshots during an argument with some commercial tricycle operators. Oluwaseun said that the incident happened around the Parafa-Lucky Fibre axis of Ikorodu-Itoikin Road at about 8 pm on Sunday, November 28. According Salami, his brother […]
Continue ReadingUK-based Yoruba nationalist, Adeyinka Grandson has been convicted on charges of terrorism, inciting genocide and conspiracy to commit terrorism, according to Ben TV. The President of the Young Yorubas for Freedom (YYF) secessionist group was arrested in August 2019 by the Scotland Yard Counter Terrorism Command London and the Metropolitan Police, following an approval granted by Westminster […]
Continue ReadingSuper pretty actress and model, film producer, interior decorator, singer, entrepreneur and fashion designer, Lilian Bach shared some lovely new photos of herself on her Instagram page today December 1. And she wrote: “We thank our God who has made it possible for us to see December. May the remaining days of this year bring us […]
Continue ReadingLagos State Government has rejected the resolution of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and Other Matters that no fewer than nine persons lost their lives when armed soldiers stormed the Lekki toll gate to disperse #EndSARS protesters on October 20, 2020. This claim, which was contained in […]
Continue ReadingLast week, as Minister of Information and Orientation, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, was engrossed in his theatrics over the Lagos EndSARS panel report; I was wrapped in sobriety as I listened to Manchester-based UK pop group of artists called the Hollies. Renowned for being one of Britain’s leading musical groups of the 1960s and into the […]
Continue ReadingFuneral ceremony of late Pastor Nomthi Odukoya, wife of the senior pastor of the Fountain of Life Bible Church. Lagos, Pastor Taiwo Odukoya, took place in Lagos, Nigeria. South African-born Pastor Nomthi Odukoya died in the UK on November 9, after a two-year battle with cancer. She is survived by her husband and two boys, […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Tuesday November 30 took former Nigerian Minister of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode into custody over allegations of fraud. Mr. Fani-Kayode was taken to the EFCC office shortly after his trial at the Federal high court in Lagos on alleged money laundering was adjourned till January 2022. The […]
Continue ReadingA month from now, it will be over for the year 2021, and a new year will be born. The Bantu people say the road does not tell the traveller what lies ahead. Is that also true here? I do not think so. We have trodden this crooked road long enough to know its offerings. […]
Continue ReadingSuspected armed robbers have killed a policeman and a Special Marshall of the Federal Road Safety Corps on Monday evening in Aramoko-Ekiti when they raided an old generation bank. A source who requested anonymity told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that armed robbers stormed the bank through Igede-Ado-Ekiti Road after work had closed. According […]
Continue ReadingIn a statement, Ilana Omo Oodua, the Yoruba bloc of the south and middle belt secessionist alliance known as Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination (NINAS) said it has pulled out of the alliance reached months ago. In the statement released on Tuesday November 30 and signed by 45 leaders of the Ilana Omo Oodua […]
Continue ReadingChiemeka Arinze, a co-defendant with alleged billionaire kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike also known as Evans, has died in prison custody. Vanguard reports that a source who pleaded anonymity said Arinze died on Friday, November 26, 2021. The source said the counsel to the late defendant had filed a bail application before the court last week, […]
Continue ReadingMrs. Adisa Afusat Olayinka, businesswoman heading to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia for Umrah (Lesser Hajj) has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja, Nigeria, for ingesting 80 pellets of cocaine. A statement released by NDLEA spokesperson, Babafemi Femi, says the 46-year-old Mrs. Adisa […]
Continue ReadingA 29-year-old man, Pastor Oghale Ighele, and his bride, Dr. Clementina Agbate, 28, got married recently as virgins. The couple exchanged vows at the Holy Spirit Mission at Marcillina’s Place, GRA Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria, where the officiating Minister and Presiding Bishop, Charles Ighele, revealed to the guests that both the bride and groom were virgins at […]
Continue ReadingA Nigerian lady, Hannatu Yahaya, has died on her wedding day. Hannatu got married to Isyaka Yusuf, in Kawon Maigari, Kano, Nigeria, on Saturday, November 27. According to family members, Hannatu began to act in a berserk manner when she was about to be taken to her husband’s house, as she started destroying properties. Family members […]
Continue ReadingAs a sequel to the #EndSARS protests last year, the National Economic Council advised all State Governments to institute judicial commissions of Enquiry to probe allegations of police brutality in the country. Based on the advice the Federal Government and 28 State Governors set up judicial commissions of inquiry to probe sundry allegations of police […]
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