A Nigerian teenager, who scored straight As in WASSCE, has received 19 full-ride scholarship offers from universities across the United States and Canada. Victory Yinka-Banjo, a 17-year-old secondary school graduate, was offered more than $5 million dollars’ worth of scholarship money for an undergraduate program of study, according to admission documents and estimates of…
Chelsea have banned an individual for 10 years for sending antisemitic and offensive messages on social media. Sam Mole, 20, from Kettering, was charged with sending racially or religiously aggravated malicious communications relating to a series of abusive tweets to freelance journalist Dan Levene in October 2019. He was handed a three-year restraining…
Former American reality TV star, Joshua Duggar has pleaded not guilty to receipt and possession of child pornography one day following his arrest. The hearing was held virtually over Zoom in the Western District of Arkansas on Friday, April 30. Duggar, who wore a black and white jumpsuit, appeared from jail and was seen smiling…
The Kaduna state government has announced that 323 people were killed by bandits in the State between January and March 2021. Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs in Kaduna, Samuel Aruwan disclosed this while presenting the first quarter security report at the State Security Council meeting on Friday April 30. He added that a total…
The Bellville Commercial Crimes Court Cape Town, has sentenced a Nigerian fraudster Chinonso Pascal Eze, who ran an online dating scam in which he duped unsuspecting women out of over R1 035 030 (N26m) Spokesperson for the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) Eric Ntabazalila said in a statement that Eze, 36, was on Thursday, April 29,…
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state has condemned the killing of seven IDPs in the state. According to him, the killings were carried out by suspected Fulani herdsmen. He opined that the incessant killings of Nigerians in many parts of the country point to the fact that there is no government at the Federal level…
Channels TV has apologized to the management of the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission NBC for its recent breach of broadcasting code. The broadcasting regulatory body recently sent a letter to the television house, cautioning it for interviewing the spokesperson of the Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB, Emmanuel Powerful. NBC’s Director of Public Affairs, Franca Aiyetan,…
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state has raised an alarm of the country being in a deplorable state. The Rivers state Governor who spoke on Tuesday April 27 during an interactive session with some traditional rulers, political leaders, and other stakeholders at the government house in Port Harcourt, said Governors are running to Abuja to…
The National President of the Nigerian Medical Association, Prof. Innocent Ujah, has said that insecurity in Borno state is forcing many doctors and other health workers to flee from the state. Ujah said this when he led other national officials of the association on a courtesy call to the Governor of Plateau State, Simon…
A lone gunman suspected to be a cultist shot dead a young man identified as Kelvin Uzoma Efule in Port Harcourt, Rivers state. It was gathered that the deceased also known as ‘Mc Federal Govt’ was killed when he came to buy something from a nearby supermarket on Ojike Street, Mile One area of Diobu at…
