The senator representing Osun Central, Ajibola Basiru, said some of his aides entered his bedroom and stole an undisclosed amount of money when he was on vacation. While responding to in statement shared on Facebook pages of some of his followers on Wednesday, Basiru said two of his aides were arrested by security agents in…
Nigeria has overtaken South Africa as the biggest economy in Africa as the latter enters its second recession in two years. South Africa’s Gross Domestic Product shrank by 1.4 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2019, following a revised 0.8 per cent contraction in the third quarter, data from Statistics South Africa showed on…
Coronavirus: NCDC official screens ministers at FEC It was not business as usual during the federal executive meeting held at the presidential villa, Abuja as ministers were subjected to test as a preventive measure against the deadly coronavirus. This became necessary after Nigeria confirmed its first case of the dreaded disease through an Italian man…
47-year-old Chinedu Ihukwumere has been remanded in prison after being arraigned before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, March 4, for defiling his 15-year-old niece. The suspect was accused of committing the offense sometime in November 2019 at his apartment at No. 37, Lawani Street, Olodi Apapa, Lagos. Ihukwumere’s niece was reportedly residing with him at the time of…
Boko Haram members and men of the Nigerian Army engaged in a fierce gunbattle in Damboa, headquarters of a local government area in Borno state today. According to reports, the sect members stormed the village around 6:30 am Wednesday morning, March 4th, shooting sporadically into the air. “They came in plenty of Hilux trucks. We saw about…
“I caught my cleric husband red-handed making love with a married woman,” a 44-year-old tailor, Rebecca Adeniyi, told an Igando Customary Court in Lagos on Wednesday. The petitioner said her husband, Yusuf, with whom she had four children in their 15 years marriage, built a mosque and started sleeping with his female members both single…
Policemen in four pick-up patrol vehicles have taken over the National Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress, following a court judgment suspending the party’s National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, on Wednesday. GIO TV had earlier reported that Adams Oshiomhole has been suspended as the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress by an FCT High Court…
The Acting National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Victor Giadom, has said the All Progressives Congress as a law-abiding political party will respect the decision of the court suspending the National Chairman of the Party, Adams Oshiomhole. He spoke to reporters at the party’s National Secretariat amidst heavy security presence. Our correspondent counted 13 police…
Founder and Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry, Enugu, Nigeria, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, said he spends over $2 million monthly for various charity works he embarks on. Mbaka disclosed this shortly after presenting N18.8 million to the management of Annunciation Specialist Hospital, Emene, Enugu, on behalf of Multi-Life Savers for the Less Privileged, a non-governmental…
A Gospel singer, identified as Patience Akpabio has shared her thoughts about having sex in the dark. Patience took to her Facebook page to say that having sex in the dark must stop. According to her, children produced in the dark have a different view about the world than those produced in light. The gospel…