The new evidence was brought to the United States District Court of California on March 16th, 2022, indicting him of fraud and money laundering at a U.S. Federal penitentiary institution.
According to documents, the Instagram celebrity while in U.S Federal correctional facility, engaged in the acquisition of Economic Impact Payment...
It was mild drama on Thursday during the inauguration of Prof Charles Soludo as Governor when Willie Obiano’s wife Ebelechukwu and Bianca Ojukwu engaged in a fight.
The fight started when Obiano’s wife confronted Bianca, accusing her of not wanting the husband to be Governor while calling her a...
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the reconstitution of the Governing Board of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), following the expiration of the tenure of the former board.
In a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the Hon. Bashir Omolaja Bolarinwa...
The United Kingdom Embassy in Nigeria has announced a momentary suspension of study, work, and family visa applications, as priority was now given on applications made under the Ukraine Family Scheme.
The UK embassy in a statement on Tuesday disclosed that Ukraine Family Scheme was launched in response to the...
As 2023 general election is gathering momentum, there are strong indications that Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, Stella Oduah, Lynda Ikpeazu and host of others are set to defect to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Though, sources familiar with political events in the state told Tori Media that the fear of being given...
The Appeal court in Owerri has ordered Shell oil company to deposit about $2 billion in an account controlled by the court within two working days.
This comes after Shell appealed an earlier Federal High Court ruling in November 2020 that ordered Shell to pay 800 billion naira ($1.95 billon)...
The Federal government has directed Google LLC (Play Store) and Apple Inc. (Apple Store) to deactivate illegal online banks and loan applications.
The Federal Government through its agency he Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission asked Google and Apple to delete the applications where evidence has established inappropriate conduct or...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) has announced that it would grant a license to the Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) to start importing aviation fuel, otherwise known as ATK.
Speaking at the end of the investigative hearing instituted by the house of representatives on Monday March 14 to resolve...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has reportedly informed President Muhammadu Buhari of his intention to run for President in 2023.
DailyTrust reports that the VP told the president of his desire to take over from him at the expiration of his tenure in 2023 to consolidate the achievements they recorded since...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has extended its warning strike for another two months.
The union reached the decision at its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting which started on Sunday night, March 13, and ended early Monday morning.
The NEC meeting was held at the union’s national secretariat at the University...
Suspended DCP Abba Kyari, Deputy Received ₦4.2bn On Drug Deals - NDLEAFresh facts have emerged on how suspended super cop and former Commander of the Intelligence Response Team, DCP Abba Kyari; as well as his deputy, ACP Sunday Ubua, allegedly received a combined N4.2bn from their separate bank accounts.
The...
The federal government of Nigeria has closed down the operations of online banks such as GoCash, Okash, EasyCredit, Kashkash, Speedy Choice and Easy Moni, noting that they are illegal.
The Federal Competition Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC), in conjunction with the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), National...
Aggrieved and frustrated investors who invested millions of naira into Chinmark Group investment scheme, have approached Due Process Advocates (DPA), a human rights organization for help after the company failed to keep to the terms of their contract.
Sources at the rights group told Tori Media that many people have...
Again, Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has reiterated that it would gladden his heart to see a Southeasterner emerge as president of Nigeria after President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023.
Obasanjo who has maintained that the time has come to bring total reconciliation to Nigeria by supporting a president of Southeast extraction...
A Nigerian MC identified as Bonus Emmanuel Chigozie has been accused of allegedly beating his pregnant wife to death.
The couple got married four years ago and it was gathered that the incident occurred at their residence in Okota area of Lagos state.
Chigozie is alleged to have repeatedly cheated and subjected his wife...
122 Nigerians and a baby have been successfully evacuated from Ukraine to Nigeria.
The Nigerians fled Ukraine to Poland where they were successfully evacuated and landed at the Abuja airport this morning March 11.
Abike Dabiri-Erewa, chairman of the Nigerians In Diaspora Commission NIDCOM who confirmed their return to Nigeria, shared...
Borno State government has announced that more than 35,000 Boko Haram insurgents and their families have surrendered.
Special adviser to the governor on security matters, Brigadier General AS Ishaq (rtd), confirmed this during a stakeholders’ dialogue on the reintegration of repentant Boko Haram hosted by the Peace Ambassadors Center for Humanitarian...
The Senate, on Wednesday, rejected the Executive request by President Muhammadu Buhari to amend the Electoral Act signed into law on the 25th February, 2022.
This followed the failure of the Electoral Act Amendment Bill to scale through second reading on the floor during plenary.
The move to reject the bill...
Nigerian music producer, Champagne Beatz has expressed shock after discovering that he is not the biological father of his three children.
Describing it as a "shocking discovery", he accused his wife Yemi Adebowale of having extra marital affair and also pretending he's the father of their children.
Champagne Beatz also warned...
The Bauchi State Government has pledged to marry off at least 100 repentant commercial sex workers who indicated interest and presented themselves to the state’s Hisbah Department.
The Permanent Secretary in charge of the department, Alhaji Aminu Balarabe-Isah, made this known on Tuesday at the formal inauguration of vocational training...
The Deputy Inspector General of Police in Charge Force Criminal Investigations Department, DIG Joseph Obiajulu Egbunike is reportedly dead.
According to multiple media reports, Egbunike was said to be feeling sick during the weekend and on Tuesday went to see the Doctor for a medical check-up after which he was...
Vladimir Putin’s alleged love child has deleted her Instagram account after suffering verbal abuse following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Luiza Krivonogikh, whose Instagram boasted 84,000 followers, became a target for trolls after her rumored father gave the orders for Russian troops to invade Ukraine last month.
Twitter users left hostile comments on her...
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, on Monday, threw his support for the remark made by former President Olusegun Obasanjo that many of those seeking to occupy political positions ought to be in jail.
The anti-graft agency boss, who spoke with newsmen in Lagos,...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that we might be saying goodbye to Nigeria as a nation following recent trends in the country.
Obasanjo said this on Saturday March 5, at the international symposium organised to mark his 85th birthday at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), Abeokuta, the Ogun State...
Three Zimbabwe Army Presidential soldiers have been arrested for robbery after a family was robbed at gunpoint at a farm in Beatrice, Mashonaland East.
Among those arrested is a soldier who retired from the unit. Local news platforms reported that Shadreck Kadira(33), Munyaradzi Munyuki (27) and Busani Moyo (29) were arrested by the police in...
Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Ighoho, has been released from custody by the Government of Republic of Benin.
The Yoruba Self-determination Groups known as Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide, disclosed this in a statement released by its spokesperson, Maxwell Adeleye, titled, ‘Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo Ighoho...
Anambra State governor elect, Professor Chukwuma Soludo has announced that his in-coming administration, as one of the ways of addressing the problem of poverty, will distribute over one million high yielding palm seedlings to 100,000 farmers in the state.
This was contained in a statement issued by his media aide,...
Suspended deputy commissioner of police, Abba Kyari, is currently at the Federal high court Abuja where he will be arraigned by the NDLEA on 8 count charge of conspiracy, obstruction, and dealing in hard drugs.
Recall that in February, he was arrested for his alleged involvement in drug trafficking.
Other suspects being...
Senegal has condemned a call by Ukraine’s embassy for Senegalese volunteers to join its fight against Russia.
The West African country said it learned of a Facebook post by the embassy of Ukraine in Dakar, appealing to foreign citizens for help.
Senegal’s foreign ministry said Yurii Pyvovarov, ambassador of Ukraine to...
Bruce Fein, the American lawyer of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, (IPOB) has asked Ifeanyi Ejiofor, a member of Kanu’s legal team, to immediately refrain from representing the agitator.
According to the letter obtained by SaharaReporter, Fein noted that Ejiofor was not eligible to...
The first batch of Nigerians evacuated from Ukraine amid the Russian invasion have arrived in Abuja on Friday morning.
They arrived at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja at 7:11am via Max Air.
The Federal Government on Friday March 4, gave all returnees from Ukraine $100 (about N48,000) to ameliorate their...
The Embassy of Ukraine in Nigeria says Nigerians who are willing to travel to Ukraine to fight Russian forces must be willing to provide $1,000 for ticket and visa.
The embassy stated this when scores of Nigerian men converged on its premises in Abuja on Thursday to express their readiness...
At least 370 Nigerian students have been trapped in a Ukrainian city that has been surrounded by Russian troops and possibly facing harm as Russian Forces intensify their assaults on Ukrainian cities in a war that has entered into its Seventh Day on Wednesday.
According to LEADERSHIP, Second Secretary of...
The Federal Government on Thursday March 3, approved the request by the United States of America, for suspended Commander of the Police Intelligence Response Team, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Abba Kyari, to be extradited over the $1.1million wire fraud perpetrated by Abass Ramon aka Hushpuppi and 4 others.
Vanguard...
Some scary pictures of Biafra National Guard soldiers armed with AK47 rifles have resurfaced online after the group last year redeclared the defunct republic of Biafra and went underground thereafter.
In some of the pictures which were exclusively obtained by Tori Media, some female combatants were seen posing with assault...
President Muhammadu Buhari says rising crude oil prices present a great opportunity for Nigeria, especially with the passage of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA).
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Buhari said this on Monday in Abuja while declaring open the 5th Nigeria International Energy Summit (NIES).
The summit...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has alerted Nigerians of a malicious app called ”Fast Cleaner” that steals the banking app login details on Android phone users.
Ikechukwu Adinde, NCC director of public affairs, issued the warning in a statement released this weekend.
Adinde said the NCC Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) discovered...
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the long-awaited Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2021 into law.
This was disclosed on Twitter by presidential aide, Bashir Ahmad, on Friday February 25.
He tweeted: "BREAKING: President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2021 into law."
The President signed the amendment bill into law...
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has disclosed that filmmakers in the country have been asked to avoid making money ritual contents.
Speaking during a media visit to Daily Trust office in Abuja on Monday February 21, the Minister said the Federal Government's decision to sanitise social media is hinged on confessions of some money ritual...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it has intercepted 120 tons of imported chemical-laden animal hides and skins popularly known as ‘Ponmo’.
In a statement released today February 20, the agency said the large quantities of dangerous ‘Ponmo’ were intercepted at six different locations in Lagos....
Police has rescued a 19-year-old man who was nailed to a tree on suspicion of stealing a radio in Kenya.
Collins Sambaya, from Chamasili village in Sabatia sub-county was injured by one Elvis Irime, who nailed both his palms to a tree on Friday, February 18.
North Izava location Chief Evans...
Two students of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, have been found dead in a room at a private hostel.
It was gathered that bodies of the students were discovered on Sunday, February 20, after Room One of the hostel, located at the William’s Lodge, was forced open following a report...
The Kenya Ambassador to Nigeria, Wilfred Machage, accused of masterminding the abduction of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has been confirmed dead in Abuja.
In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that after he collapsed at his home, he was pronounced...
I shall be presenting an analysis of the legal predicament of DCP Abba Kyari. I intend to demonstrate that the crimes of Abba Kyari are actually the crimes of the Nigerian police as a whole. You must understand that it would have been impossible for Abba Kyari to rise...
Emmanuel Ikechukwu Umeonyihirioha has become the first Igbo language lecturer at Oxford University.
Emmanuel made the announcement on his official Twitter handle on Thursday.
He said, “It is official that I am the first official Igbo Language lecturer at the number one university in the world, the University of Oxford.
“Our induction...
President Buhari donned a casual and trendy look on Wednesday, February 16, when he received in audience the President of Guinea-Bissau H.E Umaro Sissoco Embalo on the sideline of the EU-African Union Summit in Brussels, Belgium.
Minister of communications and digital economy, Isa Pantami has said that the federal government has outlawed the use of public email systems for official communication.
Addressing journalists at the end of the weekly federal executive council (FEC) meeting presided over by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday February 16, Pantami said the council approved...
A Kenya-based Belgian TikTok star, Frank De Tank a.k.a Frank Murugi has been exposed as a fugitive drug lord.
The 42-year-old TikTok star who has over 1 million followers on the platform, flew to Kenya in 2017 and rented a house in Nairobi's leafy suburbs of Milimani, where he lived with his 22-year-old girlfriend.
Frank...
The Kano State Hisbah Board has arrested 78 youths at a party over alleged acts of immorality and indecent dressing.
It was gathered that the youths, both male and female, were arrested during a raid at an event centre called ‘White House’ in the Nassarawa GRA area of Kano.
The Director-General, Kano...
The embattled Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, has claimed that members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Eastern Security Network (ESN) are behind his travails.
Abba Kyari is currently being investigated by the NDLEA over drug related charges and also has an impending extradition request to the...
The Indigenous People of Biafra has said that it will be avenging burning of houses belonging to suspected members or supporters of the proscribed group by soldiers and operatives of South-East security outfit, Ebube Agu.
The group’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, challenged the South-East governors to rise against the situation, if...
The Department of Security Services (DSS) on Wednesday February 16, explained why Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) who is accused of various offences including treasonable felony and terrorism, cannot wear clothes with an insignia of a lion’s head.
At resumption of trial at the Federal High Court in Abuja,...
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that self-registration outlets will be introduced in Abuja and Lagos for the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry (DE) examinations.
JAMB's Head of Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin made the announcement on Monday February 7.
Fabian said JAMB is...
Presidential sources have said that suspended super cop, Abba Kyari, who was taken into custody by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Monday, February 14, will be extradited to the United States after his probe for an illicit drug deal.
According to The Nation, the Federal Government has concluded plans...
The NDLEA has released a video evidence after declaring suspended police officer Abba Kyari wanted for drug trafficking.
Tori Media reported earlier that Kyari is accused of taking out 15kg from 25kg of cocaine which him and his team intercepted after arresting some traffickers that came into the country from Ethiopia....
Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly called Sunday Igboho, has filed a $1 million suit against the Republic of Benin before the Community Court of Justice, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) as cost of general damages for each day he has spent in incarceration in the...
