Beyond the Headlines
The Ondo State Police Command has narrated how a middle-aged man killed his estranged wife in the state two days ago. In a message on its X handle on Thursday, the Command recounted how the man (names withheld) invited his estranged wife (names withheld) to their home to collect her wardrobe but set her ablaze, […]
The BBC said on Friday it would continue to report on the Sahel region after the military junta in Niger suspended BBC radio for three months. It is the latest in a slew of Western media to be sanctioned by military juntas in the region of western and north-central Africa. BBC radio was to be […]
A lecturer at the Joseph Sarwan Tarka University, Makurdi, JoSTUM, former Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, FUAM, Dr. Smart Ichor has been arrested by the Benue State Police Command over the alleged kidnap of the wife of the JoSTM branch Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Susan Anyagh. Mrs. Anyagh was reportedly […]
President Bola Tinubu has appointed Nwakuche Ndidi as the Acting Controller-General of the Nigerian Correctional Service. His appointment follows the expiration of the tenure of the current CG, Haliru Nababa. Nababa was appointed by former President Muhammadu Buhari on February 18, 2021. In a statement on Friday, the Secretary of the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire, […]
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested a suspected online fraudster, Osang Usie Otukpa, for allegedly duping 139 Australians to the tune of $AUD8,000,000 (Eight Million Australian Dollars). He was picked up in a stake out at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos upon arrival from the United States of […]
President Emmanuel Macron on Friday named centrist leader Francois Bayrou as prime minister, handing him the daunting task of hauling France out of months of political crisis. Bayrou, the 73-year-old head of the MoDem group which is allied to Macron’s party, was appointed nine days after Michel Barnier’s government was ousted by parliament in a […]
Elon Musk, chief executive officer (CEO) of Tesla, an electric vehicle company, has reclaimed the world’s richest person title. According to the latest Bloomberg Billionaires Index, the South African-born American billionaire overtook Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO, to cross a threshold of over $400 billion — the first time ever. The net worth of Musk rose […]
The Federal High Court in Abuja has granted bail to the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello to the tune of ₦500 million. Justice Emeka Nwite who presided over the court session on Friday ordered that the former governor must produce two sureties in like sum. He said the two sureties must swear […]
A 37-year-old Nigerian, Abiola Kayode, who had been on the FBI’s Most Wanted Cyber Criminal List, has been extradited from Ghana to Nebraska, United States. This followed a conspiracy to commit wire fraud indictment filed against him in August 2019. According to a statement from the United States Attorney’s Office, District of Nebraska on Thursday, […]
The Law Firm of Afe Babalola has written a petition to the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee, (LPDC) asking it to strike out the name of Lagos-based legal practitioner, Dele Farotimi, from the roll of legal practitioners in Nigeria for allegedly violating certain provisions of the rules of professional conduct for lawyers, Channels Television reports. The […]
