A 23-year-old woman, Firdausi Sulaiman on Monday dragged her husband, Haruna Haruna, before a Sharia Court sitting in Magajin Gari, Kaduna State, seeking divorce on grounds that he beats her and says she eats too much.
In her petition, Suleiman, who lives in Rigasa in Kaduna, also told the court...
Nigeria's ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has listed conditions former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, must meet to be fully accepted and integrated into the party.
According to the Director-General of the APC Progressive Governors Forum (PGF), Dr Salihu Moh Lukman, FFK will need to register from his...
Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami has said that the federal government will be appealing the judgment of an Oyo State High Court which awarded N20 billion in damages to Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo also known as Sunday Igboho following the invasion of his home by the DSS at about 1:30am...
Tears flowed like a river as the remains of four siblings who died from suspected food poisoning were laid to rest in Umukonu Umuagu Ohuhu in Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State.
The deceased comprising three males and one female, Kelechi, 12, Sunday, 10, Oluomachi, eight (female) and Kingsley...
Former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has reacted to the incessant borrowing by the Federal government.
Recall that only days ago, President Buhari requested the approval of the National Assembly to borrow $4,054,476,863 and €710 million.
Obasanjo, while speaking to Channels Television in South Africa, said it is criminal to accumulate debt for the...
A couple of months after he was extradited into Nigeria via questionable means, more information has been unearthed as to how the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, spent the infamous eight days in Kenya.
He was tortured by Nigerian security agents in Kenya.
This was made known...
10 dogs belonging to the proprietor of Global Growth Academy, Amokpo, Umuanunwa, Nteje in the Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State, have devoured a 2-year-old pupil.
The proprietor of the school, Chinedu Okaa, is said to be a UK returnee.
Despite knowing that rearing of dogs is prohibited in the...
An Oyo state High Court has ordered the Department of State Services (DSS) to pay N20 billion to Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho.
The payment is for damages done to his Soka home in Ibadan during the July 1 invasion by the DSS.
Justice Ladiran Akintola...
Two children have been killed by hyenas at Baisa village in Kinango, Kwale County, Kenya.
The siblings, Lugo Nyale,2, Mbodze Nyawa, 1, were attacked at about 9:30am on Tuesday, September 14, while they were sleeping in their house
Their mother, Mulongo Tsimba was burning charcoal few meters away from the house...
It has snowed in the western part of Cameroon, according to media reports.
According to the CRTV broadcaster, the hail and snow were registered in the settlements of Bana and Bakou.
The snow damaged several roofs and plantations, as well as disrupted the traffic.
According to the mayor of Bana, the snow,...
A married woman, Mrs. Adeola Moshood, 33, is critical ill at Gbagada General Hospital in Lagos after her husband’s mistress, Precious Ahanonu, attacked and poured hot water on her after the woman allegedly caught the mistress with the husband.
The incident reportedly happened at Okerube in Abaranje area of Ikotun,...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has warned hotel owners across the country to be wary of allowing internet fraudsters to congregate or hibernate around their facilities.
The Commission gave the warning on Tuesday, September 14, 2021 on the heels on an operation by the Ibadan Zonal Command of...
The Minister of Police Affairs, Muhammad Maigari Dingyadi says President Buhari will take the final decision on the suspended head of the Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari.
Dingyadi disclosed this while featuring as a guest on Channels Television program ‘Politics Today’ on Tuesday, September 14. According to him, the Federal government...
The Synagogue Church of All Nations, (SCOAN) has officially named the wife of its founder, late Prophet Temitope Balogun, aka T.B Joshua’s wife, Evelyn, as the new leader of the church.
In a statement on Church's official Facebook page on Sunday, September 12, SCOAN said the SCOAN's activities would be...
A deeper Life Church member, Awoh Liberty, was dragged after he went about posting a photo of a female Corps member wearing a skirt instead of the trousers stipulated and issued by the NYSC.
The photo which he posted on various Christian Facebook groups on Sunday, reads: No to Lucifer's Perception. No to Satan'd...
No fewer than two persons have been confirmed dead after a building belonging to the Holy Ghost Church in Abeda Pave Community, Chachanji Ward in Takum Local Council in Taraba state collapsed during an ongoing church service on Saturday, September 11.
According to reports, the building collapsed following a heavy downpour that...
The police in Imo state has killed a commander in the IPOB security outfit, Eastern Security Network, and two others during a gunbattle in Orlu local government area of Imo state.
A statement released by the spokesperson of the state police command, CSP Michael Abattam, said the police received technical intelligence that...
Governor Hope Uzodinma has said that the sit-at-home order issued by proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) against the visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to Imo state, was only obeyed on social media platforms.
Uzodinma in an interview on Channels Television, said that Imo residents were excited about Buhari's visit and came...
A Ghanaian man has reportedly collapsed and died after seeing a sex tape of his wife with another man.
A South Africa-based Ghanaian known as Paa Agya, said to have returned from South Africa was accused of being behind the sex tape. Local news platforms reported that Agya had sex tapes of about...
Tyson Fury has voved to annihilate Anthony Joshua while offering a withering assessment of his heavyweight rival.
Fury sat down with former Manchester United defender Gary Neville as part of his Overlap series.
Neville, who spoke to Joshua four weeks ago, showed Fury a clip of his interview with Joshua in which the Watford-born fighter claims it was his opposition...
Katsina state governor, Aminu Masari, has said that majority of the bandits who attack persons in the Northern region of the country are of Fulani extraction.
Masari whose state is one of the hotbeds of bandits attacks in the country, said this when he appeared on Channels TV on Monday, September...
The star prize of a Camry car was presented to the winner of Miss Ipem Ihihe 2021 Pageantry held in Bekwarra Local Government Council in Cross River state on Friday, September 3.
The Mr & Miss Ipem Ihihe 2021 Pageantry was one of the numerous programs held to mark the Bekwarra Cultural...
Three lecturers of Abia State University (ABSU), Uturu, died on the same day.
Prof. A. I. Nwabughuogu of History/International Relations Department, Dr D. S. Okoroigwe of Geography/Planning Department, and a third lecturer from the Department of Political Science, all died on Friday, September 3.
A source who spoke to Punch claimed lecturers of...
A Nigerian man identified as Afam and his causasian wife wore traditional outfits for their wedding.
A friend of the groom, Ogbonna Okoro posted the photos on Tuesday, September 7, congratulating the couple on their union.
The Church in Wales has voted unanimously that same-sex couples will be able to have their civil partnerships or marriages blessed after new legislation was passed by the Church’s governing body.
A bill to authorise blessing services for same-sex couples was approved at a three-day conference at the International Convention...
Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, has lambasted his Beninese lawyers for failing to stop his detention at a prison in Benin Republic.
Igboho, who has been detained for almost 2 months, revealed that some of the lawyers were paid up to five million Naira, yet none of...
Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige has said that the Federal Government will recover millions of naira wrongly paid to 588 medical doctors across the country.
Ngige said names of the doctors who wrongly benefitted from Medical Residency Training Fund meant for a particular category of doctors, were uncovered after a...
The wedding reception of Dr. Hauwa Mohammed, daughter of the Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed to her husband, Mohammed Lawal, held in Abuja on Friday night, September 3.
Dignitaries in attendance were former President Goodluck Jonathan; Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, Governor Seyi Makinde, among others.
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The Department of State Services, DSS, has been accused of preventing Nnamdi Kanu from having access to his lawyers.
Kanu’s lead counsel, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, said the DSS prevented him and IPOB’s Attorney in the United States, Bruce Fein, from having access to the detained IPOB leader on Thursday, September 2.
In a statement...
President Muhammadu Buhari has accused the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, of stockpiling weapons across Nigeria.
Buhari, who spoke through his mouthpiece, Garba Shehu, said IPOB members killed security agents and set government facilities in the Southeast ablaze.
He stated this in response to claims by the Amnesty International on human...
Senior Pastor of the Living Faith Church, Bishop David Oyedepo, has said that Fulani herdsmen have become a menace in Nigeria and that he knows that they are being sponsored.
His statement comes even as herders under the Miyetti Allah Kauta Hore have said they will not recognize the Southern...
Justice Lateefat Okunnu of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, has ordered the freezing of the assets and funds to the tune of N19, 178, 253,050 belonging to a convicted former Managing Director of the defunct Bank PHB Plc, Francis Atuche.
A statement released by Wilson Uwujaren, spokesperson...
The Nigerian Communications Commission has said the Twitter ban in Nigeria is still in effect as the commission is yet to recieve the green light from the Ministry of Information to lift the ban.
This was disclosed by the Director, Public Affairs, Nigerian Communications Commission, Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde.
The NCC had...
A pastor was forced to marry the corpse of his late fiancée who he is alleged to have killed by carrying out an abortion on her while she was unconscious.
Rev Dr. Sucess Emeka Sunday, who owns the church, Life Transformation Praying Ministry, in Akwakuma, Owerri, started dating Chioma Okoye...
Kano child bride, Rahma Hussein has been pardoned 7 years after she was convicted for killing her husband.
Hussein who was arrested at the age of 16 in 2014 and charged to a high court in Kano for stabbing her husband to death a day after their wedding, was convicted in 2018...
Senior Pastor of the Living Faith Church, Bishop David Oyedepo, has said the error Nigeria made in 2015 will never be repeated.
Speaking in his church recently, the clergyman who did not mention any name, said the choice of the wicked to be on the throne of Nigeria will never...
The Central Bank of Nigeria has instructed banks to publish the names and Bank Verification Numbers BVN of its customers who default on its Forex policy.
In a circulate to banks dated Monday, August 30th, the apex bank lamented that it has “received and noted with concern reports of sharp practices...
Unknown gunmen suspected to be bandits have attacked a branch of Living Faith Church Worldwide at Osara community, along Lokoja-Okene road in Adavi Local Government Council of Kogi State.
It was learnt that the kidnappers, who invaded the church premises when some of its members were rehearsing during the weekend, abducted...
The Kano Hisbah Board has explained why it treats the rich and the poor differently while enforcing some of its rules.
A director of the Islamic police, Aliyu Kibiya gave the explanation while featuring on a Freedom Radio programme.
Kibiya said it is against the tenets of Islam to publicly criticize a leader. He said;
“Although...
Following the evacuation of many nationals from Afghanistan due to the recent takeover of the government by the Taliban, the Federal government says there are no Nigerians in the country for evacuation.
Since the takeover by the Taliban, different world leaders have begun the evacuation of their citizens from the...
Lagos has ranked 56th safest city in the world in a research list published by The Economist
The research, which is published by The Economist every two years, ranked Copenhagen in Denmark as the safest city in the world, a position previously held by Tokyo.
The report ranked the safety ratings...
Seven members of a family have died after eating suya with juice in Umueze Umuakanu Umuahia North LGA, Abia State.
The suya was bought by the father, Mr. Jessey, ABN TV reports.
His family members, including extended family members who were visiting, joined to eat the suya.
They were said to have...
The Federal Government of Nigeria has said that the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, plan to form alliances with secessionist groups in Cameroon in order to destabilize both countries.
The National Security Adviser; Major General Babagana Monguno (rtd) made this known while speaking yesterday, August 24, at the opening ceremony...
Weather forecast agency Nigeria Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has told the governments in 34 states of the federation to brace for flash floods in the next three days.
It said moderate and heavy rainfall that could trigger flash floods, expected have started in some parts of the country would last till tomorrow.
This...
Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) lawyer, Barr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor has explained why the leader of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has not been able to send an audio or a video message to his supporters since he was detained by the DSS in June.
The counsel said this while reacting to questions...
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has stated that the state government is targeting having a capacity of 1000 oxygen cylinders daily as severe COVID-19 patients in the state currently utilise 400 oxygen cylinders per day since the outbreak of the third wave.
Sanwo-Olu made the revelation on Monday, August 23,...
The actress and producer, who has been in the Nollywood industry for nine years, revealed that she had no idea that the man of God was quite prominent at the time she had an intercourse with him.
A Nollywood actress and human rights’ activist, Chioma Ifemeludike, has disclosed that the...
Senior Pastor of Resurrection House for All Nations, Atlanta, Apostle Chika Nnamdi Onuzo, has acquired a Challenger Jet for the kingdom work, according to his colleague Bishop Humphrey Erumaka.
Bishop Humphrey Erumaka of WordBase Assembly, Okota, Lagos, revealed this on Thursday, August 19.
"Just flying into Atlanta to fellowship and pray on demand with...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has disclosed that he has been battling diabetes for the past 35 years.
Obasanjo made the disclosure at the closing ceremony of the Ogun State Diabetes Youth Development Camp, held in Abeokuta, Ogun state on Wednesday August 18.
The former President who reiterated that diabetes is not a killer...
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the controversial Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) 2021 into law.
This was announcened via a statement released by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, on Monday August 20.
The ceremonial part of the new legislation will be done on Wednesday August 22 after President Buhari...
“I was just thinking that Israel Goodnews Balogun will just tender an apology for calling me a Criminal but rather, he escalated everything and got too many people and lawyers involved.”
“Balogun is my brother and I don’t want to appear at the Court against my fellow Christian brother but...
A yet-to-be-ascertained number of passengers are feared dead after a shuttle bus they were commuting in, skidded off the road and plunged into a 32-feet deep excavation pit in Ebonyi on Saturday, August 14.
The accident occurred around 1:30pm, along Abakaliki-Ikwo expressway at Enyigba-Izzi community in Abakaliki local government area.
Officers from...
The Federal Government has commenced the implementation of new rates for vehicle number plates and driving licences across the country.
A statement from the Joint Tax Board states that drivers license of three years duration would now go for N10,000 as against its previous price of N6,000. This excludes bank charges. Drivers licence for...
Nigeria's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that the total unclaimed dividend in the Nigerian capital market stood at N170 billion as of December 2020.
The Director-General, SEC, Mr Lamido Yuguda, disclosed this on Friday, August 13 at the second post-Capital Market Committee (CMC) virtual news conference.
Yuguda said the figure...
Five children were killed when a disused grenade they were playing with exploded in Ngala, a community in Borno state on Friday, August 13.
According to militiamen in the community, the grenade exploded in the hands of the children while they were playing with it.
“The five children picked up the explosive...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today August 11, 2021, arraigned Sani Shehu Abdullahi and his company, First Class General Business and Investment Limited alongside Abubakar Mohammed (now at large) before Justice Sylvanus Chinedu Oriji of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Maitama, Abuja on eight count charges...
