Beyond the Headlines
The Niger State Council of Imams has given the Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy- Ohannaya, a one-week ultimatum to withdraw her comments condemning the plan by the Speaker of the Niger State House of Assembly, Abdulmalik Sarkindaji, to sponsor the mass weddings of 100 girls of marriage age in his constituency, who are […]
In bid to prohibit the mixing of males and females during events, the Kano State Hisbah Board has banned male Disc Jockeys (DJs) from officiating at female-dominated events across the state. The Commander General of the board, Sheikh Aminu Ibrahim Daurawa, disclosed this at a recent meeting with representatives of DJs in the state. […]
A compliance office with Zenith Bank, Clement Mgbolu has told a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos how Mr Abiodun Agbele, an aide to the former governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose collected the sum of N1.2bn from Musiliu Obanikoro at the Akure airport. While being led in evidence by the prosecution counsel, Senior […]
A Forensic Scientist and Pathologist from the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Prof. Sunday Osiyemi has told the coroner inquiring into the cause of death of late Nigerian singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba popularly known as Mohbad that the results of an autopsy conducted on the deceased body has failed to ascertain the cause of […]
The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Wednesday in Abuja arrested five persons for selling counterfeit cosmetics. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the arrest was made at the Garki and Wuse axis, during an enforcement to curb substandard goods. Speaking with newsmen after the enforcement, Mr […]
The senate has approved a $500 million loan request by President Bola Tinubu to finance the mass metering programme of the federal government. The president’s request was approved by the upper legislative chamber on Wednesday after Haruna Manu, vice-chair of the committee on local and foreign debt, presented a report on it. The request […]
The death toll in the Gezawa Mosque attack in Kano has risen to eight after seven more victims died while receiving treatment at the Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital in Kano. The Police Public Relations Officer of the Kano State Police Command, SP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, who confirmed this to our reporter, said they died […]
France deployed troops to New Caledonia’s ports and international airport, banned TikTok and imposed a state of emergency Thursday after three nights of clashes that have left four dead and hundreds wounded. Pro-independence, largely Indigenous protests against a French plan to impose new voting rules on its Pacific archipelago have spiralled into the deadliest […]
A former deacon in Umuahia has confessed to strangling to death a 45-year old housewife in Umuahia. In a confessional video played in an Umuahia High Court, presided over by Justice Uchechi Enwereji, the suspect, Mr Salem Chukwunyere, who described himself as a plumber, confessed to killing the woman, by using a sponge to […]
By Pascal Ibe @Possible001, an X user and supporter’ of ex governor Nyesom Wile of Rivers State, on Tuesday claimed that the Economy And Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) recently declared the current Rivers State governor, Siminayi Fubara wanted over N435 billion fraud. This is coming after the political feud between governor Fubara and Wike escalated […]
