Alfie Nunn, a British former footballer has died while playing in Dubai aged 35 with tributes paid to the talented striker. The athlete reportedly died after suffering a heart attack while playing football in the United Arab Emirates yesterday afternoon. The Londoner, who played for a number of clubs in southeast London and Kent, including…
Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala, a former governor of Oyo State, will be buried on Friday February 18, 2022 in Ibadan. SaharaReporters had reported the death of the former governor in the early hours of January 12, 2022 at the age of 71. Burial activities will commence on February 14, 2022 with a day of tributes by…
Some fresh revelations have been made about Abdulmalik Tanko, the notorious proprietor of Noble Kids Academy Nursery and Primary School, Kwanar Dakata in Nasarawa Local Government of Kano State. Tanko made the headlines after he was arrested for abducting and killing Hanifa Abubakar, a pupil of his school. The news of the abduction and murder…
In the wake of an application by the Nigerian government, the ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja has adjourned judgment for a suit instituted by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) on the Twitter ban to February 16, 2022. The suit was earlier fixed for Monday January 31, 2022 but had now been rescheduled…
Babangida Ahmad, a final year student in the Department of Library and Information Science of the Bayero University Kano, has slumped and died. The student who hails from Bauchi State, was said to have collapsed in his hostel in the early hours of Friday, January 28, while preparing to go to the mosque for morning…
The West African bloc ECOWAS on Friday suspended Burkina Faso following a coup, but will not impose other sanctions, for the time being, a participant at a virtual summit said. ECOWAS is also calling for the new junta to release ousted president Roch Marc Christian Kabore and other officials detained during Monday’s coup, the source…
Operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service attached to the Seme Area Command have seized cocaine worth N3.9billion. A statement released by the spokesperson for the command, Hussain Abdullahi, says the hard drugs weighing 11.913 kilograms were discovered in a bus conveying religious books. According to the statement, a sizeable amount of petroleum products packaged in sacks…
Starving families in Afghanistan are not only selling children but have now been pushed to sell their organs to survive. Thousands of US and UK troops pulled out of the South Asian country in August after a 20-year-long military mission, paving the way for a violent takeover from the Taliban. Six months into the new regime, the economy…
The Remains of Timothy Adegoke, whose death occurred at Hilton Hotel, Ile-Ife, in November 2021 left the morgue of Osun State University Teaching Hospital, Osogbo. The corpse was received by the late Adegoke’s brother, Gbade, some clerics and a few other relatives of the deceased around 12:45 on Friday for the homeward journey to Eruwa,…
As many as six people have been reportedly buried alive after an illegal mine collapsed in the Umai community, Biase Local Government Area of Cross River State, according to The PUNCH. The gold stone mine, which is said to be some feet deep, collapsed on Wednesday killing six while other miners escaped. On a visit…