A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has on Thursday 18th February, 2021 ordered that Mr Ifedayo Olarinde aka Daddy Freeze should pay N5m for committing adultery with his lover Benedicta Elechi with whom he bore a son Jason in 2015. Daddy Freeze is to pay the N5m to Benedicta’s husband, Mr Paul […]
Lawyer to the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, Mr Chukwuemeka Okoroafor, Friday, escaped an assassination attempt in Abuja, according to IPOB source. IPOB Leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu who disclosed this in a press statement he personally signed, condemned the attack, describing it as “war on Biafra”. The incident according to Kanu, occurred after the lawyer […]
A few days after celebrating her 50th birthday, Olapeju Okafor ended up in prison. Her journey to the female holding facility of the Nigerian Correctional Centre in Kirikiri, Lagos, began on the day she complained to a police station against a local beer retailer. It turned out, to her chagrin, that the retailer wields enormous […]
Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has relieved his Special Adviser on Media, Salihu Tanko Yakasai, of his appointment. The commissioner of Information, Malam Muhammad Garba, who communicated the governor’s directive through a statement on Saturday, said the dismissal was based on Yakasai’s “continued unguarded comments and utterances which are deemed contrary to the stand […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has threatened to clamp down on operators of parody accounts even as Twitter handles bearing the name of the new EFCC Chairman , Abdulrasheed Bawa , have flooded the social network. The EFCC said in a statement by its Spokesman, Mr . Wilson Uwujaren, on Saturday that the unauthorised […]
The over 300 schoolgirls abducted by bandits from Government Girls Junior Secondary School Jangebe , Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State , have been sighted in Dangulbi Forest. A school teacher who spoke to Daily Trust Saturday on the condition of anonymity said out of 600 students of Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe , […]
The federal government has reopened the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos state after rehabilitation works. Babatunde Fashola, minister of works and housing, announced this via his Twitter handle on Saturday. ”Third mainland bridge rehab completed. Fully opens to traffic at 12noon today. Thank you all for your patience. Drive safely,” he wrote. Third mainland bridge […]
Protests have started in Imo state, against Senator Rochas Okorocha representing Imo West Senatorial district, following the controversies that trailed the Okorocha unsealing the government sealed royal spring palm estate linked to his wife, Nkechi. It was observed that the protests have started with the people of Omuma and neighbouring communities in the Oru East […]
A Lagos State High Court has barred Folasade Tinubu -Ojo , the daughter of All Progressives Congress leader , Bola Tinubu , from imposing levies on traders at the Computer Village , Lagos . The development comes over a year after Tinubu – Ojo , who is also the Iyaloja- General of Lagos State reportedly […]
A Christian cleric, Bulus Yikura, has appealed to the Nigerian government and the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) to negotiate with Boko Haram for his release, to stop the terrorists from executing him in seven days. Mr Yikura made the appeal in a video clip recorded on Wednesday and released by the terrorist group. Kneeling […]
