The amount UK Prime Minister, Liz Truss was paid for the 44 days she governed UK has been revealed. It was gathered that she got £9,094 and also will get a severance payment of £18,860 despite being the shortest serving UK Prime Minister in history after ruling for just 44 days. According to reports by…
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), is attending an event to award former president Goodluck Jonathan and 43 other prominent Nigerians. The ongoing event is taking place in the Conference room of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The awards will also see 16 state governors, including Nyesom Wike of Rivers State; Senate President,…
A one-storey building which houses a popular supermarket in Asaba, Delta state’s capital, collapsed on Thursday, October 20. The building collapse left at least five persons injured. Victims of the incident have been taken to the hospital for treatment. Eyewitnesses confirmed that several bags of rice were offloaded into the top floor of the building earlier in…
Prof Okey Reuben Okechukwu, provost of the newly established Federal College of Education, Technical, Isu, in Onicha Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, narrowly escaped death when gunmen ambushed his convoy. The incident happened on Thursday, October 20, 2022, near the boundary of Isu Onicha Local Government Area and Agba in Ishielu LGA of the…
Two teenage boys identified as Farouk Mohammed, 16, and Kasali Jamiu, 19 have been remanded at the Special Correctional Centre for Boys, Oregun, and the Ikoyi Custodial Centre. Justice Sherifat Sonaike of a Lagos state High Court remanded the duo for allegedly killing a pastor with the Redeemed Christian Church of God pastor, Babatunde Dada,…
GIOTV reports that Emeka Ezenwanne, the fifth prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, has made some revelations. Ezenwanne, on Thursday narrated before the Federal High Court, Abuja how security agents at the Enugu International Airport took N10,000 bribe from him for clearance of hard drugs. Earlier,…
A former Senate President, David Mark has lost his first son, Tunde Mark. A report by Daily Sun, quoted a family source who said that Tunde died in the early hours of Friday in London, the United Kingdom. Tunde is said to have suffered from cancer and died at the age of 51 years. The…
The protesters who were arrested by the police while participating in the 2nd memorial of the EndSARS Lekki tollgate shootings on Thursday, October 20, have been released. Lagos Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin who described those arrested as “troublemakers”, said they were kept in police custody but were later released when normalcy returned. Hundeyin…
Fourteen lives have been lost after a passenger’s vessel capsized in the Shagari Local Government Area of Sokoto State. A local official told AFP that the victims, 11 men and three women, were travelling for an event marking the birth of Prophet Mohammed on Tuesday when the accident happened. He said 10 other passengers were…
The United States has promised to provide $1 million in humanitarian assistance for people affected by unprecedented flooding in Nigeria. The aid is being provided by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the agency says the $1 million will allow local partners on the ground to provide emergency shelter assistance, relief commodities, and…