An 82-year-old farmer, Hitler Nwabudein from Akumazi Umuocha, Ika North East Local Government Area of Delta State, has cried out over the alleged destruction of his cassava farm land and yam barn by cows belonging to suspected Fulani herdsmen.
Speaking to Ika Newspaper in Akumazi Umuocha on Monday January 11, Nwabude...
A selfie a man took after he reportedly caught his wife sleeping with his friend in their home, has gone viral after being shared online.
Twitter user, @oluwatayorhoda who shared the photos alleged that the man took the selfie for his in-laws after he caught his wife in the act.
She tweeted;
Lol...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has welcomed efforts by a team of Nigerian professors and scientists investigating the effectiveness of Ivermectin, a drug used in treating river blindness, in the prevention and treatment of the Coronavirus disease.
The team, which is composed of Nigerian scholars at home and abroad, has also...
There was a fire outbreak at the Nigeria Immigration Service headquarters in Abuja today January 10.
The Service disclosed this in a statement on its official Twitter handle this morning. According to the service, the fire affected some of the offices in the headquarters.
The tweet reads
''A fire incident occurred in our Service...
One of the Pastors of Lagos-based church, House on the Rock, Pastor Yinka Akinbami, has died after contracting the novel Coronavirus. Pastor Akinbami died on Friday, January 8.
Senior Pastor of the church, Paul Adefarasin, announced his passing on social media and paid glowing tribute to the late clergyman who he described...
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, today January 8, presented a 5 million Naira cheque to the best graduating student of the Lagos State University (LASU).
Governor Sanwo-Olu at the LASU 24th Convocation ceremony which held on Wednesday, Dec 16, promised to give Shotunde the cash prize as well as a scholarship.
Oladimeji Shotunde, a student...
A court in east Zhejiang Province on Tuesday sentenced 17 people to prison for smuggling more than 23 tons of pangolin scales into the country from Nigeria.
The scales, worth more than 180 million yuan (US$27.9 million), were smuggled by the gang from Nigeria in three batches in 2018 and...
The Nigeria Customs Service generated the sum of 1.5 trillion Naira (?1,562,115,419,216) for the year 2020.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, Dec 6, the Public Relations Officer of the service, Joseph Attah, said that despite the Coronavirus pandemic, the generated revenue was over the target of ?1,380,765,353,462 and over the...
The First City Monument Bank (FCMB) has announced the appointment of Yemisi Edun as its acting managing director.
Edun takes over the running of the bank from the Managing Director, Adam Nuru, who on Tuesday, January 5, proceeded on leave amid allegations of marital infidelity involving him and a former staff...
Justice Lateefa A. Okunnu of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, on Tuesday, January 5, 2021, convicted and sentenced Okey Nwosu, a former Managing Director, Finbank Plc, to three years imprisonment over 10m fraud.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, had arraigned Nwosu alongside Dayo Famuroti, Agnes...
12-year-old Blessing Ineh, who reportedly went missing in Abraka, Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta, has been found alive inside a soakaway.
It was gathered the the young girl was last seen on New Year Day after she was sent on an errand by her parents.
She was found inside a...
There is palpable fear after two elderly people slumped and died in strange circumstances at the Refinery Junction, Eleme, Rivers State on Wednesday morning, January 6.
It was gathered that one of the deceased, a woman in her 60s was said to have dropped dead after disembarking from a commercial motorcycle...
Nigerian doctors say there has been a surge in the request for DNA tests in their hospitals in recent times.
The doctors in an interview with Sahara Reporters say the increase in the requests for DNA tests began even before the ongoing paternity scandal involving the Managing Director of First...
Suspected South African drug lord, Yaganathan Pillay, popularly known as Teddy Mafia, has been shot dead. He was 59.
Reports said Pilay was shot twice in the head at his home in Shallcross, south of Durban on Monday afternoon. He died shortly after arriving at Chatsmed hospital in Chatsworth.
After the...
The Lagos State Government has announced January 18, 2021, as the approved date for resumption of academic activities in private and public schools in the state for the second term of 2020/21 academic session.
The state's Commissioner for Education, Folasade Adefisayo, announced this in a statement released today January 4.
In the...
President Buhari has once again instructed the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) not to provide foreign exchange for the importation of food items.
The President gave the directive at the fifth regular meeting with the presidential economic advisory council that held at the statehouse in Abuja today December 29.
A statement released...
President Buhari has signed the 2021 Appropriation Bill of N13,588,027,886,175 into law. The president signed the budget at the Council Chambers of the State House, Abuja on Thursday morning, December 31.
The National Assembly had on December 21, 2020, passed the 2021 Appropriation Bill with an aggregate expenditure of N13, 588,...
The Defence Headquarters has said that many insurgents were killed after the Nigerian Air Force conducted airstrikes on Sambisa Forest in Borno State.
DHQ spokesman, Maj. Gen. John Enenche in a statement titled ‘Air Task Force destroys hideout, neutralises several terrorists in Sambisa Forest, Borno State', said the NAF jets bombed “the...
Local hunters and vigilante groups in Hawul Local Government Area of Borno state where Boko Haram insurgents looted four communities on Boxing Day, have been equipped by the state government to fight the insurgents.
The Borno state government on Tuesday December 29, donated eight Toyota Hilux vehicles to local hunters and vigilante...
A worker at the Living Faith Church presided over by Pastor David Oyedepo, is allegedly currently battling with COVID19.
Journalist, Fisayo Soyombo, who shared this on Twitter handle, said the worker in question believes he contracted the virus while attending the yearly Shiloh programme of the church that took place between December...
The Federal Government has declared Friday, December 25, Monday, December 28, and Friday, January 1, 2021, as public holidays to mark the Christmas, Boxing Day and New Year Celebrations respectively.
The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, announced this in a statement released today December 23. He felicitated with Christians and all...
Customs officers in Mali have seized gold estimated to be worth seven million euros ($8.5 million) hidden in a car.
According to the Mali government, the 143 kilograms (315 pounds), 88 bars of gold was en route to neighbouring Guinea and was discovered on Saturday night, December 19.
The 88 bars...
As the two-week deadline for the deactivation of sim cards not linked to their National Identification numbers draw near, residents in Lagos state this morning stormed the Alausa office of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) in Lagos.
The federal government, through the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy, this...
Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye has disclosed that Nigeria will start manufacturing vaccines soon.
Adeyeye who said this at NAFDAC’s Staff Recognition Award Ceremony for 2019 and 2020 on Friday December 18, said the upgrading of existing laboratories across the country...
23-year-old Suleiman Isah and his American lover, Janine Anne Reimann had their court wedding at the Federal Marriage Registry, Kano state on Thursday, December 17.
Their wedding Fatiha was held last Sunday in Gasau Panshekara area of Kano State.
See more photos below...
By Hajia R.
The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has given telecommunications operators in the country two weeks to block SIM Cards that are not registered with the National Identity Numbers, NIN.
A statement released today Tuesday, December 15 by the NCC Director of Public Affairs of the NCC, Dr Ikechukwu Adinde, stresed that...
A Facebook user, Bello Inua Anka on Friday, December 11, posted photos of Nigerian soldiers guarding and assisting the people of Zabarmari farming community in Jere Local Government Area of Borno while harvesting their farms produce at Koshebe village.
This is coming weeks after Boko Haram terrorists slaughtered over 43...
A High Court in Kenya on Wednesday, December 9, ordered over N454million confiscated from a Nigerian man at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) to be deposited at Central Bank of Kenya pending money laundering investigations.
Mauzu Bala was arrested on Friday, December 4, with USD 880,000, 60,000 euros and N63,000 (N454,303,000 all together),...
The United States has removed the reciprocity fee imposed on visa applications from Nigeria.
The fee was imposed in August 2019 on applicants whose non-immigrant visa applications are granted. The US Consulate at the time said it was “reciprocating” the extra visa fee the Nigerian government charges American citizens. The US consulate argued...
Some of the alleged victims of the October 20 gunshot incident at the Lekki tollgate appeared before the Lagos state government judicial panel today December 4.
The said victims who appeared before the panel were 15 in number. 14 of them said they were shot at Lekki Toll Gate on the...
The embattled Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina has been extradited to Nigeria to face his ongoing money laundering trial after he was rearrested in Niger Republic on Monday, November 30.
He was received by men of the Nigeria Police Force at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International...
Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu presented a cheque of N10 million each to families of the six police officers killed in Lagos State in the violence that followed the End SARS protests.
Sanwo-Olu presented the cheques on Thursday, Dec 3, in fulfilment of his administration’s pledge made during an earlier meeting with...
10 pregnant girl and some kids have been rescued by the Ogun state police command from a baby factory at Ofada, Mowe, Obafemi-Owode LGA.
While the operator of the factory, Mrs Florence Ogbonna reportedly fled during the raid on Tuesday December 1, her daughter and a physically challenged man were arrested.
The physically challenged man...
Following the arrest of a former chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrashid Abdullahi Maina in Niamey, Niger Republic, the Nigeria Police Force says it is perfecting his extradition processes to Nigeria to enable him face trial in pending criminal proceedings against him.
Abdulrashid Maina, who was declared wanted by...
The Abubakar Shekau’s faction of Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the killing the over 43 farmers in Zabarmari area of Borno state last weekend.
In a new three minutes 37-second video released online, the sect members said they carried out the attack because the farmers arrested one of its members and handed him...
An excited South African man has shared photos from his wedding to his partner in which they wore traditional outfits.
According to @SandileFuba, his wedding ceremony to his "best friend" was held on Friday November 27.
He tweeted;
I married my best friend last Friday.
By Lucky B.
A Nigerian journalist, David Hundeyin has revealed how Boko Haram was allegedly born in Nigeria.
Hundeyin who accused the north of incubating a monster that is beyond being tamed now, said he lost his sympathy when he worked on origins of violence in the north in 2019.
He tweeted;
When I worked on...
A video making rounds online captured moment some Turkish police officials stormed a Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) building in Istanbul, to arrest members for allegedly flouting COVID-19 social distancing rules.
The Turkish police officers were seen effecting arrests in the viral video as those present questioned why such action will be taken in...
Suspected Boko Haram members have reportedly beheaded 43 farmers in Borno state.
According to HumaAngle, the attack happened on Saturday evening, November 28 in Zambarmari, a community that is less than 20km from Maiduguri, the state capital.
''Boko Haram beheads 43 farmers in one of the most horrific mass murders in...
Four members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) who attacked former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, have been convicted by a German court.
Recall that Ekweremadu was beaten up by the secessionist group members in Nuremberg at an event organised by “Ndigbo Germany” in 2019.
The four IPOB members were prosecuted for physical assault...
Isreal Adeusi, the Olufon of Ifon in Ose local government area of Ondo state, has been shot dead.
The first class traditional ruler was returning to Ifon from Akure after a meeting, Thursday, Nov 26, when he ran into a barricade set up by the kidnappers along Elegbeka area.
It was gathered that his...
The wedding Fatiha of Bashir, one of the sons of Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufai, to his bride, Halima Nwakego Kazaure, daughter of former Senator from Jigawa State, Ibrahim Kazaure, took place on Saturday, November 21.
The wedding ceremony was attended by Senate President, Ahmad Lawan; former Emir of Kano,...
Nigeria has slid into its worst economic recession in over three decades.
Gross domestic product (GDP) numbers released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Saturday, November 21, indicates the nation recorded a contraction of 3.62 percent in the third quarter of 2020.
This is the second consecutive quarterly GDP decline since the...
Cable News Network, CNN has reacted to the threat of sanctions from the Federal Government over its investigative report on the October 20 shooting incident at the Lekki tollgate.
The international media house carried out an investigation into the incident and shared its findings on Wednesday, November 18.
At a...
A set of identical twin brothers are engaged to be married to a set of identical twin sisters in Kano.
Their pre-wedding photos and video are going viral after they were shared by their official photographer, Villa Studio.
The twins are so identical, it's hard to tell each one apart and...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has declared an end to its 11th Ebola outbreak, nearly six months after cases were reported.
The DRC’s minister of health, Dr. Eteni Longondo, made the official declaration along with the World Health Organization on Wednesday after no new cases were registered in more...
Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, has reacted to the Nigerian Army declaring him wanted for various terrorist attacks carried out by him and members of his terrorist group.
The Nigeria Army on Wednesday, November 11, launched the fourth batches of the wanted Boko Haram terrorists. Some of the names which appeared...
CNN has released its findings from an independent investigation carried out on the October 20 shooting incident at the Lekki tollgate.
CNN shared footage of what appears to be soldiers shooting at the #EndSARS protesters who had gathered at the tollgate to press home their demands to end SARS as well as...
The Commissioner of Police in the Federal Capital Territory has been ordered by a Chief Magistrate Court in Abuja, to launch an investigation into 50 notable persons accused of promoting the #EndSARS protest.
Magistrate Omolola Akindele who ruled on the criminal complaint filed by an activist Kenechukwu Okeke, gave the police two weeks to investigate...
The Kogi State government imposed levy on every loaf of bread sold in the state.
Kogi State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Kingsley Fanwo, has now explained that the levy was imposed in order to protect indigenous bakers from those “who bring bread to the state without paying any form...
The Nigeria Army on Wednesday November 11, launched the fourth batches of the wanted Boko Haram terrorists.
Some of the names which appeared on the list include Abubakar Shekua, Abu Mus’an Al- Barnawwi, Modu Sulum, Umaru Tela, Iman Balge, Abu Umma, Mallam Bako(Hisbah), Abu Dardda, Ibrahim Abu Maryam amongst many others.
Theatre...
As the trial of former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, continued on Tuesday, November 10, an investigation officer of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, Adariko Michael, told the court that investigations have shown that N2.2 billion was allegedly spent on prayers in Nigeria and Saudi Arabia to win the...
A Ghanaian couple, elder Kenneth and Mrs. Vera Amoateng welcomed a set of quintuplets, a boy and four girls, after 8 years of marriage.
Mr Amoateng is currently the Presiding elder of The Church of Pentecost at Community 1 Assembly, Tema, in the Greater Accra Region.Ghana.
The naming ceremony of the children was held...
Amid the controversy over police brutality in Nigeria, especially by the now disbanded unit of the security agency called Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Lagos and Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, have emerged tops on the list of states with ‘brutal policemen’, according to the Presidential Panel on Reform of...
Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle has said that dialogue with bandits is still relevant just as he secured the release of 26 Katsina girls from bandits.
A statement issued on Sunday, November 8, by Zailani Bappa, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Public Enlightenment, Media and Communications, said the girls, aged...
Obianuju Catherine Udeh a.k.a DJ Switch who captured the Lekki toll gate shooting in an Instalive session a few weeks ago, has narrated how their encounter with soldiers played out while appearing before the Sub-committee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development of...
