Justice Patricia Ajoku of a Federal High Court in Ibadan, on Friday, sentenced an undergraduate at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Orimolade, to four months imprisonment for defrauding an American man of 150 dollars. Ajoku held that the court sentenced Orimolade, based on the evidence before her and the plea bargain agreement he had with the…
A girl detonated a bomb, killing three boys at an Islamic seminary in northeast Nigeria in an attack that bore the hallmarks of Boko Haram, a local militia and residents said Friday. The girl, aged around 12, detonated the device late Thursday when open-air classes were on in Muna Dalti, on the outskirts of Maiduguri,…
Thousands of motorcycle riders working for Gokada and Max, on Friday, protested at the Lagos State House of Assembly, our correspondent reports. The riders, who carried placards with different inscriptions, demanded the suspension of the planned ban on motorcycle and tricycle riders in 15 local council areas of the state. The riders lamented that the ban…
Four years ago, January 30, 2016, popular Danish Humanitatian aid worker Anja Ringgren Lovén was photographed giving water to a severely malnourished 2-year-old boy, who she rescued after he was branded a witch by his family and left to starve to death in Akwa Ibom. The child was left on the streets for months when…
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the meeting between Buhari and Jonathan, which was held behind closed door, lasted for about 10 minutes. NAN reports that Jonathan’s mission to the villa was unknown as he did not speak to newsmen. NAN, however, gathered that the former president was on a “thank you” visit…
A British man who went missing in December after the ‘inexperienced’ sailor set off for a solo adventure around the world has been found dead on a yacht off Jamaica. 42-year-old Mark Brennan from South Shields had been reported missing nearly two months ago before his 30ft Avrio sailing boat was seen drifting 71 miles…
A former lawmaker representing Kaduna central senatorial district in the National Assembly, Senator Shehu Sani, has been released from the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission after perfecting his bail conditions. Sani, who is facing trial for alleged name-dropping and extortion of $24,000, had spent four weeks in the EFCC custody before being…
Vanessa, the wife of Kobe Bryant, has broken her silence following the death of her husband their daughter, Gianna, saying she and her three daughters are “completely devastated” by the sudden loss of the duo. Bryant and Gianna were killed alongside seven others in a helicopter crash in the Calabasas area of California on Sunday….
Senators have asked the President, Major General Muhammadu (retd.), to sack Nigeria’s service chiefs over the growing security problems facing the country. This was contained in a statement detailing the resolution of the senators after the upper chamber’s plenary on Wednesday. Earlier, the House of Representatives had asked the service chiefs to resign or be…
The way it stands, it is like the Miyitti Allah’s Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria are not just above the Laws of Nigeria but much more powerful than the Federal government if their diverse utterances, threats, and orders to Nigerians are anything to go by. Daily Watch findings confirmed that no one association, body or…