Players and officials of Ekiti United football club were involved in an auto accident in Ado-Ekiti on Tuesday evening, March 16. The club’s Media Officer, Quozeem Oladapo, in a statement disclosed that the accident occurred while the players were returning to Ado-Ekiti from their evening training session Ikere-Ekiti. According to the statement, there were…
An appeal filed by the Attorney General of Imo State and forty others challenging the ruling of an Owerri Federal High Court which granted Senator Rochas Okorocha the leave to amend processes filed before the Court, has been dismissed by a Court of Appeal. The three man panel led by Justice Dattijo Yahaya on Wednesday March 17, dismissed the…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arrested a former Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Dibu Ojerinde, for allegedly misappropriating N900 million. Professor Ojerinde, who was arrested on 15th March 2021, in Abuja, by operatives of ICPC, is alleged to have…
Justice Bennett Ilaumo of an Akwa Ibom state high court has sentenced a 40-year-old-man, Aniekan John Udom, to life in prison for raping an 8-year-old boy in Uyo in August 2020. While being arraigned in court, the state prosecutor, Maria Akpan told the Court that Aniekan was caught by the victim’s lesson teacher while committing the…
US President, Joe Biden has labelled Russian president Vladimir Putin, a ‘killer’ and promised that the Kremlim will “pay a price” for interfering in the 2020 U.S. elections. Since Biden took over the White House in January 2021, he has pledged to take a hard line against the Kremlin, which has a history of attempting…
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the sum of $1.5 billion for the rehabilitation of Port Harcourt Refinery in Rivers state. The approval came on Wednesday March 17, at the 38th virtual FEC meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja. Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva confirmed this while…
Three members of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) have been remanded in a correctional centre for alleged arson and murder while effecting the arrest of alleged Ibarapa kidnap kingpin, Iskilu Wakili. The OPC members identified as Awodele Adedigba, 45; Dauda Kazeem , 38, and Hassan Ramon, 33. were arraigned on three counts of conspiracy, murder and arson.…
Floyd Mayweather has confirmed he intends to link up with Anthony Joshua and give him advice before his mammoth world title fight with Tyson Fury. The British heavyweights will finally meet this year to decide who wins the four-belt undisputed heavyweight champion and Floyd Mayweather, who is undefeated as a professional boxer says he will…
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo state has approved the appointment of Princess Catherine Oludunni Odu as the Secretary to the State Government. Before her appointment, Odu who holds degrees in Law, Sociology and Industrial Sociology from the University of Lagos, University of Benin and the University of Calabar respectively, was the Chairman of the State Universal…
A 32-year-old physically disabled Ugandan woman is stranded after her wheelchair was stolen by suspected burglars on Tuesday night, March 16. Olivia Nakugudo, a resident of Namunsi, Afya suburb along Kabogoza Musoke road in Mbale, woke up on Wednesday morning to a burglary. The suspected burglars reportedly went with a dozen of Nakugudo’s…
