It was agonizing wailing that enveloped the ambience housing the residence of the Yusufs 11 days after 17-year-old Toheeb Yusuf left home for work at the 21-storey building on Gerrard road, Ikoyi, Lagos State and didn’t return. The building collapsed on November 1, injuring some people and killing others including the owner, Mr Femi Osibona….
A group, on the auspices of the Middle-Belt United Assembly (MBUA), has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately sack Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, to be able to sanitize his government. In a statement issued by its President, Comrade Moses Mwarga Aji on Sunday in Kaduna, the group…
A woman has been laid to rest in a casket designed in a form of a man’s private part. Ghanaian media practitioner and lawyer, Gabby Otchere-Darko shared the video and further revealed that he was told the deceased had 10 children with different men hence the male organ-shaped casket. It was also learned that the burial ceremony took place…
According to a report by SaharaReporters, the Nigerian Embassy in Dublin, Ireland is collecting illegal €100 (approximately N47,000) postal orders from Nigerians applying for passports which are shared and monetised by staff members for personal gains, SaharaReporters has learnt. Sources told SaharaReporters on Sunday that workers at the Embassy resumed the fraudulent practice after…
Wilbur Smith, the internationally acclaimed author died at his home in South Africa on Saturday after a decades-long career in writing, his office said. He was 88. With 49 titles under his belt, Smith became a household name, his swashbuckling adventure stories taking readers from tropical islands to the jungles of Africa and even Ancient…
Some gunmen yesterday in Calabar kidnapped a minister serving with the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Sunday Adediran and a female public school teacher whose name could not be ascertained, according to Leadership. Adediran was whisked away by gunmen who stormed Ikot Eneobong community and abducted the two victims. An eye witness, Mrs….
Aisha Yesufu, a Nigerian activist, has shared her husband’s experience from attending a wedding where the couple insisted that they will not have a reception. The activist revealed that the couple’s family fought against the decision but they stood their ground. Aisha further revealed that after the wedding ceremony, the couple gave their guests a…
Mrs Zakariyyah, a female lecturer of the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Ilorin, was beaten to coma on Thursday by a 400 level student of the institution. However, she is now in stable condition and recuperating, according to Daily Post. The student, simply identified as Captain Walz, reportedly attacked the lecturer…
Bernard Baba Ananga, Northern Regional Crime Officer of the Ghana Police Service, told Xinhua that about 31 students were on the canoes, which they used to cross the Oti River to a farm drowned on Friday after two canoes capsized on a river in the Northern Region of Ghana. But two of the canoes capsized…
GIOTV reports that Socio-political activist, Deji Adeyanju, has raised an alarm over alleged plans to increase petrol pump price in Nigeria. Adeyanju alleged that they are planning to increase the price of fuel to ₦450 per litre. In a series of tweets, the activist accused the All Progressives Congress, APC-led Federal Government of plotting to…