The youth shows their utmost displeasure over the pledge made by senator YAYI to support the Ogun state Youth Summit & empowerment program , which the pledge has disappear into thin air. The Senator representing Ogun West, Adeola Olamilekan, has refused to keep to his promise of ₦50 million donation announced during the…
A Bayelsa State High Court in Yenagoa has sentenced four men to death by hanging for conspiracy and kidnapping. The convicts—Manager Etonzor, Daniel Derietiedei, Inimotimi Rufus, and Tari Firstman—were found guilty by Justice Patience Diri on Wednesday, January 29, under Section 2(1) of the Bayelsa State Law 2013, in case number YHC/43c/2021. According to the…
Global health officials have raised alarms after a new outbreak of the ‘eye-bleeding’ Marburg virus has claimed the lives of nine people in Tanzania. The highly lethal virus, which is similar to Ebola, has infected ten individuals in the Kagera region of Tanzania since the outbreak was officially announced last week. The death toll reflects…
President Donald Trump has issued an order to deport foreign students who participated in pro-Hamas protests on U.S. college campuses. The new executive order targets resident aliens, including students with visas, who broke laws during demonstrations after the October 7, 2023, attacks in Israel. Trump directed the Justice Department to “aggressively prosecute terroristic threats, arson,…
The police in Akwa Ibom State have arrested Christiana Ibanga and her boyfriend, Inyene Akpan, for allegedly trafficking their child and selling the baby for N450,000. At a press briefing on Wednesday, January 29, at the command headquarters in Ikot-Akpanabia, Uyo, the state capital, the police spokesperson, DSP Timfon John, said the pair were apprehended…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has officially expelled former Interior Minister, Rauf Aregbesola, over accusations of anti-party activities. Aregbesola, who served as Governor of Osun State for eight years, had led a faction within the party known as The Osun Progressives (TOP), now rebranded as the Omoluabi Caucus. This faction was blamed for the APC’s…
