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…
Mrs Kukase Garba, Chairwoman of Vandekiya Local Government Council of Benue state has been suspended for three months by the state assembly over alleged gross misconduct, abuse of office and running of the local government as sole-administrator. The notice of suspension was conveyed in a letter sent to the assembly by the State Governor through the speaker…
Men of the Ogun State police command have arrested Suleiman Ganiyu, pictured above, an alleged serial killer and member of Eiye cult group who had been on the wanted list of the Command for a while. Abimbola Oyeyemi, the spokesperson of the state police command said the suspect was arrested following a distress call from Itamerin…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced that 205 new cases of Coronavirus were recorded in the country yesterday March 13. The health agency gave a breakdown of the new cases as follows; Ondo-33, Lagos-25, FCT-22, Bauchi-21, Akwa Ibom-15, Kaduna-14, Katsina-13, Ogun-13, Rivers-11, Edo-8, Ekiti-4, Imo-4, Kano-3, Nasarawa-2, Niger-2. There are now 160,537…
