18-year-old Elikor Ehud, pictured above, has been arrested by men of the Ejigbo police station in Lagos state for allegedly storming a church in the area and carting away the church’s tithes and offering. A statement released by the state police command’s spokesperson, Bala Elkana, says on October 1st, one […]
Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu has announced the death of his mother. According to Kanu, she died on August 30, 2019 in Germany after doctors battled unsuccessfully over a protracted illness she suffered. He kept mum on reasons behind the belated announcement and also on […]
A train carrying hundreds of football fans caught fire at the Bellevue train station in Berlin, Germany, on Saturday night (Oct.19). The special train service was taking supporters of SC Freiburg from the far south-west of the country back home after the Bundesliga game with the capital’s FC Union Berlin. […]
Minister of Mines and Solid Minerals Development, Olamilekan Adegbite on Friday October 18, disclosed that some Governors are behind theft of national resources through illegal mining. The Minister was backed on the allegation by Senator Tanko Almakura, the Chairman of the senate committee on Solid Minerals, Mines, Steel Development and […]
Kanye West’s move to trademark “Sunday Service” has been shut down as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejected his application to register the name because someone else has already claimed its ownership. The American rapper applied for the exclusive ownership of the name “Sunday Service” so it can get […]
Nigerian parents who still indulge in the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) can now be prosecuted in the UK. In a fresh guideline, the Crown Prosecution Service said suspects accused of allowing Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) to be carried out can face prosecution in the UK, regardless of where […]
President Buhari on Friday October 18, received the Presidential Advisory Committee on the Elimination of Drug Abuse (PACEDA) report at the Council Chamber of the State House, Abuja. The committee was constituted in January to research on ways drug abuse in the country can be eliminated. Speaking at the meeting, […]
Nine suspected cyber fraudsters, along with a woman, were arrested afresh in Enugu on Friday by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Enugu Zonal Office. The cybercrime suspects were arrested at Mexmemphis Properties and Apartments, Maryland District, Enugu. The suspects were named as Precious Ibegbulem, Michael Odishi,Ebuka […]
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested and paraded a 30-year-old man identified as Mohammed Babangida for raping a 9-year-old girl. The arrested suspect committed the offence on October 10 at Damare community in Yola South Local Government Area of Adamawa State. He was nabbed after being […]
Small-sized Ghanaian actor, Samuel Dabo a.k.a Yaw Dabo has narrated how his father abandoned him and his two siblings with their mother who single-handedly raised them. According to him, his father came back to beg him and also seek his support after he became successful in his movie career. Yaw […]
Five more Bulgarian football fans have been arrested for racially abusing black England players during their Euro 2020 qualifying match on Monday night (Oct. 14). The country’s interior ministry on Friday, October 18. announced the arrest of more suspects after five persons were initially detained on Wednesday. ‘Five more men […]
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has said that some Nigerians can’t recite the national anthem. Lai Mohammed who was represented at the public presentation of the “Mindshift Advocacy for Development Initiative” by Samuel Soughul, a director in the Ministry he heads on Thursday October 17, stated that […]
