Some residents in Oke-Ako, Ikole Local Government Area of Ekiti State have been rendered homeless following Friday’s evening two hours downpour, which destroyed over 105 buildings in the community. Also destroyed in its wake, were some electricity facilities across the town, thereby subjecting the residents to total blackout. While on a visit…
Abdullahi, the son of late former head of state, Sani Abacha, has died. The announcement was made by his sister, Gumsu Abacha, via a tweet on Saturday. According to the post, Abdullahi died in the early hours of the day. “Innalillahi wa inna ilaihi raji’un. I lost my younger brother Abdullahi Sani Abacha,” she wrote….
The Lagos State Ministry of Justice has opposed exhuming the remains of the late Whitney Adeniran after confirming the result of her death as asphyxia and electrocution in a proven autopsy conducted by Lagos State University Teaching Hospital. Recall that her death occurred amid the school’s inter-house sports activities on Thursday, February 9 at the Agege Stadium….
The Troops of Sector Four of Operation Whirl Punch, and Special Forces of the 167 Battalion have killed a bandit and rescued 14 kidnapped victims in Kaduna State. The troops who embarked on a long-range fighting patrol to the Tukurua general area of the Chikun Local Government Area of the state engaged and cleared a…
Belarusian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski was sentenced by a court in Minsk on Friday, March 3 to 10 years in a maximum-security prison, Russia state news agency TASS reports. He was found guilty on the charge of smuggling, according to TASS. Germany called the 10-year prison term an attack by the Minsk government…
Blessing, mother of the deceased 12-year-old student of Chrisland International school, Whitney Adediran, has alleged that the school wants another autopsy done on the remains of her daughter after she has been buried on Thursday. This comes after Lagos State Government said that the post-mortem report issued by the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital…
Scores of persons are feared dead after an explosion rocked the Rumuekpe community in Emouha Local Government Area of Rivers State. An eyewitness Fyeneface Dumeneme Fyeneface, the Executive Director of Advocate Centre For Good Environment, said the incident which occurred at a crude oil tapping point belonging to a multi-national oil company left many people…
The Lagos government has confirmed that Whitney Adeniran, the late student of Chrisland Schools in Opebi, Ikeja, died from electrocution. The school had said 12-year-old Whitney slumped and passed away during the school’s inter-house sports competition at Agege Stadium. But the parents punctured the claim, stressing that their daughter was in good health condition when…
The Supreme Court has ruled that the old N200, N500, and N1,000 notes remain valid and should be in circulation till December 31, 2023. In a ruling delivered today March 3, the apex court also nullified the Federal Government’s naira redesign policy, declaring it as an affront to the 1999 Constitution. Justice Emmanuel Agim who…
Muhammadu Buhari, the Nigerian President has apologised to Nigerians. He apologised over the naira redesign policy, saying that it was not introduced to cause hardship. In October 2022, Godwin Emefiele, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), announced the plan to redesign the N200, N500, and N1,000 notes. The apex bank fixed February…