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President Bola Tinubu has established a Presidential Committee on Climate Action and Green Economic Solutions to coordinate and oversee all policies and programmes on climate action and green economic development. The President also appointed his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale as the Special Presidential Envoy on Climate Action. The Committee is to…
The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero, has said the congress was not aware of merger talks involving the Labour Party with some political parties in the country. The LP, which is a socio-democratic political party, was founded by the organised labour. There have been speculations about the possibility of a merger between…
Sean “Diddy” Combs has broken his silence after a video of him punching and kicking his former girlfriend, Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, in a hotel hallway in 2016, surfaced online last Friday, May 17. The footage, captured from multiple angles and obtained by CNN, showed the music mogul chasing Ms Ventura down the hallway in a…
The Akwa Ibom State Governor, Umo Eno has approved the recruitment of 200 health workers to complement the ongoing government’s intervention in the state’s primary healthcare sector. Eno gave his approval at Ikot Nkwo in Ibesikpo Asutan Local Government Area of the state while commissioning the new Primary Health Centre. This is according to…
A helicopter in the convoy of Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi is said to be involved in “an accident” on Sunday, state media reported, without specifying if the president was on board. “Some unconfirmed reports say that the helicopter carrying President Raisi has had an accident in East Azerbaijan province,” state television said, adding that…
A stepmother, Rachel Geoffrey, 23, has been arrested by the Adamawa State Police Command for setting the hands of her two stepchildren on fire. The suspect who resides in Federal Housing Estate, Girei Local Government Area was arrested for setting fire to the hands of her stepchildren, Genesis Geoffrey, 7, and Idadai, 3. …
Cassie’s husband, Alex Fine, is speaking out after a video of Sean “Diddy” Combs physically assaulting his ex-girlfriend surfaced online. “I want my kids and every kid to live in a world that’s safe for women and girls, protects them and treats them as equals,” Fine, 31, wrote via Instagram on Friday, May 17. “To the women and…
A chaotic situation unfolded at the renowned Banex Plaza phone market in the Wuse 2 area of Abuja on Saturday, leading to clashes between soldiers and traders following a dispute over the sale of a faulty phone. According to reports from Daily Trust, a trader disclosed that the soldiers were targeted after an altercation with…
A tragic accident on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway involved a Volvo truck transporting cows, a blue luxury bus, and a white Mazda bus, resulting in seven individuals sustaining injuries. The incident occurred at the Ibafo area of the expressway on Saturday morning. The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) spokesperson in Ogun State, Mrs. Florence Okpe, confirmed…
Gunmen have fatally shot two individuals in the community of Ogbe, located in Yagba West Local Government Area of Kogi State. The tragic incident occurred on Friday, with reports indicating that the gunmen, armed with sophisticated weaponry, carried out the attack without encountering any resistance from security forces in the vicinity. A confidential source revealed…
The police have arrested 23-year-old Rachel Geoffrey for burning the hands of her co-wife’s two children in Adamawa State. Rachel, a resident of Federal Housing Estate in Girei local government area, inflicted severe injuries on 7-year-old Genesis Geoffrey and 3-year-old Ijadai Geoffrey. The children’s mother had separated from their father, who is also Rachel’s husband….
At least 50 people have died due to severe rain and flooding in central Afghanistan, an official reported on Saturday. Mawlawi Abdul Hai Zaeem, head of the information department for Ghor province, told Reuters that there is no information on the number of injured from the rainstorm that began on Friday, which also disrupted many…
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, says he is not distracted by the ongoing crisis in Rivers State but rather he is focused on his duties as a minister. Wike stated this while inspecting projects to be inaugurated in the nation’s capital on Friday, May 17. The former Governor of Rivers…
Elsie Okpocha, the estranged wife of Nigerian comedian Bright Okpocha, popularly called Basketmouth, has criticized people interfering in her private life. Basketmouth, who was married to Elsie for 12 years, broke the news of their separation in an Instagram post in December 2022. In a video posted on her Instagram page on Friday,…
Several people have been trapped as a one-storey building collapsed in Minna, the Niger State capital. The building which is located at in Sabon Gari area of Minna collapsed on Friday, May 17, 2024. Emergency officials who raced to the scene succeeded in rescuing seven persons who are receiving treatment at the Minna…
An aide to the governor of Delta state, Ossai Ovie Success, has berated actor Zubby Michael, for wearing a red t-shirt to the funeral of his late colleague Jnr Pope, which held in Enugu state on Friday May 17. In a post shared on his X handle, Ovie argued that it is disrespectful and…
Dr Anuoluwapo Adepoju, the founder of MedContour Services Ltd, has been convicted on all 5 charges following several botched surgeries at her clinic. The cosmetic surgeon conducted a failed plastic surgery that resulted in the death of one Nneka Onwuzuligbo in 2020. She was tried alongside her clinic, MedContour Services Ltd., on a…
Shocking footage shows Sean “Diddy” Combs punching and kicking his former girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, in a hotel hallway in 2016. The footage, captured from multiple angles and obtained by CNN, shows the music mogul chasing Ms Ventura down the hallway in a towel, before attacking her near the elevators. He then attempts…
Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court Abuja, has dismissed the bail application of an Executive of Binance Holdings Limited, Tigran Gambaryan. Justice Nwite held that Gambaryan is likely to jump bail if bail is granted to him. The company and its executive were arraigned on a five-count charge bordering on…
The Kano State Police Command has confirmed the death of 15 persons in a mosque attack in Gadan village in Gezawa Local Government Area of the state. The suspect, Shafi’u Abubakar, on Wednesday, May 15, sprayed the mosque with petrol, locked its doors and set it on fire, trapping about 40 worshippers. The motive…
The man who denied using the money his wife gave him to pay for her cesarean section to buy a phone and dog is being called out over a post he shared just days after his wife gave birth to their first child. Facebook user Chu Dy and his wife welcomed their daughter on…
President Bola Tinubu has approved May 27 to June 6 as Federal Capital Territory Week for the inauguration of various projects executed under his administration. The Minister of FCT, Mr Nyesom Wike, stated this while inspecting some of the projects in preparation for inauguration to celebrate Tinubu’s one year in office. “By the approval of…
Former Ibadan transport union leader, Mukaila Lamidi, also known as Auxiliary, has been remanded in prison by an Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan, Oyo State, on allegations of murder. Chief Magistrate Olabisi Ogunkanmi ordered his remand at the Agodi Correctional Centre due to the court lacking jurisdiction. Lamidi, who was previously declared wanted by…
Adamawa State high court has issued an arrest warrant against the embattled State Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Hudu Yunusa Ari. Justice Benjamin Manji Lawan issued the warrant on Wednesday, ordering the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, to arrest and produce the embattled REC in court with…
The managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Mohammed Bello-Koko, has held an high-level engagements with China Harbour Engineering Company Ltd (CHEC) top executives, and the China Development Bank (CBD) to concretise decisions on the next development horizons for Lekki Port. NPA boss recently represented the Federal Government at the Board Meeting of the…
A new mum has cried out for help after her husband allegedly abandoned her at the Alimoshso General Hospital in Igando, Lagos State. The newlywed explained that she got pregnant shortly after their wedding and as her due date approached, she developed severe pain and breathlessness and was taken to the hospital where doctors…
A teen who started college at the age of 10 earned a doctorate degree at 17 Dorothy Jean Tillman II’s participated in Arizona State University’s commencement on May 6. It was the latest step on a higher-education journey the Chicago teen started when she took her first college course at age 10. In…
Niger state imams have called for the immediate sack of Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy Ohanenye for petitioning the Inspector General of Police and filing a lawsuit against the speaker of Niger state house of Assembly, Abdulmalik Sarkindaji who proposed a plan to sponsor the weddings of 100 orphan girls. Speaking after an emergency…
A 10-year-old boy with “big plans for the future” has taken his own life. Sammy Teusch, from Greenfield, Indiana, died by suicide on May 5 and, according to his family, he was being bullied up until the night he passed away. The boy had been bullied again and again at school over his teeth…
Ilerioluwa Aloba died under controversial circumstances on September 12, 2023. He was buried the following day but after Nigerians demanded justice, his body was exhumed on September 21 for an autopsy to determine the cause of his death. On Wednesday, May 15, at a coroner’s inquest, the pathologist stated that the cause of death of…
On Wednesday, May 15, the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) Organized labour and its Trade Union Counterpart (TUC) stormed out of the minimum wage committee meeting with the federal government over the latter’s offer of N48,000 new minimum wage. Recall that the organized labour presented a proposal of N615,000 minimum wage to the federal government. The…
