A woman has been arrested for allegedly selling her daughter and niece, both aged 14, to two men, aged 59 and 69, in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
She allegedly sold the teens, who are from Lusikisiki Village in the Eastern Cape, to the men in Matsheketshe Village, Umkhomazi, outside Durban.
Authorities were...
Zimbabwe's central bank said it would start selling gold coins this month as a store of value to stop runaway inflation, which has weakened the local currency against the dollar .
The country's central bank governor John Mangudya said in a statement on Monday that the coins will be available...
President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof Emmanuel Osodeke has said they are ready to call off its nationwide industrial action immediately if the Federal Government signs the negotiated agreement.
In an interview with Channels Television on Tuesday July 5, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke said the union is waiting...
Judge Otis Wright of a United States Central District Court in California has postponed the sentencing of Nigerian fraudster Ramon Abass known as Hushpuppi to September 21.
“At the request of counsel, the Sentencing is CONTINUED to 9/21/2022 at 1:30 PM before Judge Otis D. Wright II, as to Defendant...
Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture has said that removal of petrol subsidy in the country may lead to instability.
Mohammed who said this in an interview with Reuters on Monday July 4, also said that many countries have introduced measures to help citizens cope with high oil energy...
A couple has died of burns in Abule Oturi, Akute, Ogun state, following a domestic dispute.
Reports of the couple began circulating on social media after a journalist narrated the incident.
His tweet read: "At Ajuwon Police Station: Wife separates from abusive husband. Months later (this morning) husband goes to wife's...
Three men including a 70-year-old have been sentenced to death by stoning by an Islamic Sharia Court in Ningi, Ningi Local Government Area of Bauchi State, which found them guilty of homosexuality.
Trail of the convicts identified as Abdullahi Beti (30), Kamilu Ya’u (20) and Mal. Haruna (70), began on June 14, 2022 after being...
The Nigerian Army has confirmed the attack in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State by bandits who killed scores of security operatives, including soldiers and police.
According to reports, at least 43 people, including 30 soldiers and seven mobile police personnel and civilians were killed when the armed men...
The appeal filed in 2018 by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, seeking the reversal of IPOB proscription as a terrorist group by the Federal Government could be revisited.
This was made known, yesterday, to The Guardian by the Special Counsel for the Appellants,...
Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd (SPDC), yesterday, said it had suspended plans to sell its onshore oil assets in Nigeria, in compliance with a Supreme Court ruling, which said it had to wait for the outcome of an appeal over a 2019 oil spill. Managing Director of...
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) says it will commence the marking of answer scripts of over 1.6million candidates, who sat for the just concluded May/June 2022 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
A statement signed by WAEC acting Head, Public Affairs, Mrs. Moyosola Adeyegbe, said coordination and marking...
Sultan of Sokoto and President of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III has declared Thursday 30 June as Dhul Hijjah 1, 1443AH.
With the declaration, it means Saturday 9 July is Eidul Adha or sallah day, just after Friday 8 July, which is Arafat Day.
The National...
A Nigerian pilgrim has died in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, following an undisclosed illness.
Aisha Ahmed, from Keffi Local Government Area of Nasarawa state, died on Wednesday, June 29, after a brief illness according to Idris Al-Makura, Executive Secretary, Nasarawa State Muslim Pilgrim Welfare Board.
The deceased reportedly showed no sign of sickness before leaving Nigeria.
When...
President Vladimir Putin has threatened that Russia would respond in kind if NATO deployed troops and infrastructure in Finland and Sweden after they join the U.S.-led military alliance.
Putin made his comment a day after NATO member Turkey lifted its veto over the bid by Finland and Sweden to join...
The immediate past Chief Justice of Nigeria, Ibrahim Tanko Muhammed , is expected to get a N2.5bn severance package from the Federal Government.
On Sunday, June 26, Muhammed tendered his resignation on health grounds. Following his resignation, President Buhari swore in Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, the next most senior Justice as the acting CJN on Monday,...
Bandits have issued quit notice to residents of Sabon Zama, Gindin Dutse, Anguwan Tsohon Soldier, Anguwan Yuhana and Anguwan Mangu villages in Wase Local Government Area of Plateau State.
According to Daily Trust, residents said masked gunmen stormed the communities and asked them to either leave within five days or risk...
An application for bail filed by Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has been dismissed by a federal high court in Abuja.
Ruling on the bail application on Tuesday June 28, Justice Binta Nyako described the application as an abuse of court process having being previously...
The Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters received a fresh order to probe former Chief Justice, Tanko Muhammed.
Tanko, who resigned on Monday, June 27, is facing corruption allegations raised against him by some justices of the Supreme Court.
At plenary on Tuesday, June 28, the President of...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has warned that landlords who rent houses to Internet fraudsters popularly known as 'Yahoo boys,' stand the risk of bagging 15-year jail term.
The antigraft agency mentioned this on its Instagram page.
''Okay now! What a juicy topic! E go sweet wella! Landlord way yaho-boy...
South African authorities are investigating the death of 22 teenagers, some as young as 14, after their bodies were found on Sunday morning, June 26, in a township tavern near the coastal city of East London.
Many are said to be students who were celebrating the end of their high-school exams...
Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice, have filed a lawsuit against the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and others over the controversy surrounding the real age of the kidney donor of their ailing daughter, David Nwamini Ukpo.
The Ekweremadus were arrested on June 21 and arraigned...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that fresh registration in the ongoing nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) has hit 10,487,972 as at 7 a.m. on Monday, June 27.
The was disclosed in the commission's CVR weekly update, released in Abuja on Monday June 27.
According to the document, the number...
The United States District Court for the Central District of California has again postponed the sentencing of Ramon “Hushpuppi” Abbas till September.
Court documents seen by Peoples Gazette said Judge Otis D. Wright in Los Angeles granted the order after Hushpuppi’s lawyers entered a request for postponement.
“AT THE REQUEST OF...
The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, has resigned from office.
Channels TV reports that Justice Muhammad resigned on Sunday night, June 26, citing ill-health as the reason for his decision.
Information also has it that arrangements are ongoing to swear in the next most senior justice of the Supreme...
Jonathan Ukpo Nwanmini, younger brother of David Ukpo Nwanmini, an alleged victim of organ trafficking involving Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife in the United Kingdom, has reacted to the controversy surrounding his brother's age.
While David's passport shared online revealed he is 22-years-old in contrast to him allegedly telling Metropolitan police...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has awarded N60 million in punitive and general damages to Glory Okolie against the Nigeria Police.
The fundamental rights enforcement case filed by Okolie and supported by more than 51 civil society groups was fixed for judgement on Thursday, June 23, 2022.
Okolie in the...
Top British publication, Daily Mail has revealed more details surrounding the alleged organ trafficking case involving Nigerian Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, who are currently detained in the UK.
Ike, 60, and Beatrice Ekweremadu, 55, are accused of taking the homeless boy to the UK from Nigeria to...
Nigeria’s commercial capital city, Lagos, has been ranked as the world’s second least liveable urban area due to social unrest, terrorism and conflict.
According to the latest 2022 Global Liveability Index, Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) ranked Lagos 171 out of 172 countries in the list of most liveable cities in the world for the...
The Uxbridge Magistrate Court in London has denied bail to former Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife Beatrice over claims that they trafficked a 15-year-old boy from Lagos to the UK with the intent to harvest his organ.
According to Arise TV, the prosecutors at the court this afternoon said the...
Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, on Wednesday, June 22, 2022, revoked the N200m bail earlier granted to suspected internet fraudster, Ismaila Mustapha, popularly known as Mompha, and also issued a bench warrant for his arrest.
Mompha, alongside his company, Ismalob Global Investment Limited, are...
President Muhammadu Buhari has called on western allies to designate the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as a terrorist group “over involvement” in pipeline and infrastructure vandalism.
The president said this in an interview with Bloomberg.
Buhari said the country has stepped up its efforts in combating oil theft and vandalism,...
President Muhammadu Buhari has explained why he ignored advice from International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and other leading economists to remove the fuel subsidy.
In an interview he granted Bloomberg, Buhari said western allies are now learning that what looks good on paper and the human consequences are two different things.
He said;
“Most western countries...
A baby boy was sadly killed by a gang of monkeys who snatched him from his mum while she was breastfeeding him.
The one-month-old was with his mum outside the family home in a village in Tanzania when the unfortunate incident occurred, police said. The child was injured on his head and...
Members of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), have said that it has become unrealistic for the pump price of petrol to remain at N165 per litre.
The chairman of the Lagos chapter of the union, Akin Akinrinade, stated this while reacting to the recent fuel scarcity being...
President Muhammadu Buhari has initiated a new plan in a revised policy to eliminate the use of kerosene in the country by 2030.
Buhari who announced this during a virtual meeting hosted by the US President, Joe Biden on Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate Change (MEF), said it...
The director of adoration ministry, Reverend Ejike Mbaka has retracted the statement he made against the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi.
Recall that the controversial priest while addressing his congregants at his adoration ground, described the former governor of Anambra State as a stingy man who will...
Rights of Muslims Female Students in Lagos state to wear Hijab to school without harassment or discrimination has been affirmed by the Supreme Court.
The case marked CA/L/135/15, is between the Lagos State Government, Miss Asiyat AbdulKareem (through her father), Miss Moriam Oyeniyi and the Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria.
The...
Apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has reacted to comments the Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry, Enugu, Fr. Ejike Mbaka made about presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi.
Recall Mbaka triggered outrage after calling Peter Obi a "stingy man" and also saying that he won't become President until he kneels...
The Catholic Diocese of Enugu has condemned and dissociated the diocese from the inflammatory political utterances of Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka against Peter Obi, the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general elections.
The Director of Catholic Adoration Ministry Chaplaincy, had said that Obi would never become the next President...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has lamented that Nigerians are losing interest in the whistleblowing policy of the federal government despite the huge financial reward attached to it.
Speaking during a one-day town hall meeting on strengthening the capacity of stakeholders on the whistleblowing policy held in Ilorin, the...
Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) has raised an alarm of airlines in the country closing down due to the continuous rise in the price of Jet A1, otherwise known as aviation fuel.
AON’s Vice Chairman, Mr. Allen Onyema who spoke at the maiden edition of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN)...
The Federal Government has directed social media interactive platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and TikTok to remove, disable or block access to any non-consensual content, which parades partial or full nudity, sexual acts, deep fake or revenge porn within 24 hours of users posting.
The order was contained in...
The acting accountant-general of the federation (AGF) Anamekwe Nwabuoku, says Nigeria is borrowing money to pay salaries.
Nwabuoku said this on Tuesday, June 14, at a retreat organised by the office of the AGF for members of the technical sub-committee on cash management (TSCM) in Abuja.
He explained that there is an...
The House of Representatives has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission to extend the June 30, 2022, deadline for voter registration by 60 days, to enable more eligible Nigerians to register and get their Permanent Voter Card and participate in the 2023 general elections.
The resolution was reached on Wednesday...
The Nigeria Police Force has said that it's been punishing officers who work with internet fraudsters popularly known as yahoo boys.
Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin who admitted that some officers connive with yahoo boys in a chat with Daily Trust on its Twitter Spaces on Wednesday June 15, disclosed that anytime...
The Natural Oil and Gas Suppliers Association has said that the price of diesel would keep increasing and might hit N1,500 per liter in the next two weeks if nothing drastic is done to curtail the current challenge faced by importers of the product.
Speaking to newsmen in Abuja, the National President...
JP Morgan Chase Bank has won a $1.7 billion court battle with the Nigerian government over the transfer of proceeds from the sale of OPL 245 in 2011.
The Federal government had sued JP Morgan on the ground of “Quincecare duty”, alleging that the bank “ought to have known” that...
Aisha Wakil, popularly known as ‘Mama Boko Haram’ has been to five years imprisonment by a Borno high court over fraud.
Mama Boko Haram was re-arraigned alongside Tahiru Daura and Prince Shoyode, in September 2020 by the Maiduguri zonal command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on a two-count charge of conspiracy...
The national electricity grid actually crashed from a peak of 3,703 megawatts to as low as 9MW on Sunday June 12, as confirmed by figures obtained from the Nigeria Electricity System Operator, an arm of the Federal Government’s power transmission company, on Monday June 13.
Sunday’s grid collapse was the fifth...
The National Information Technology Development Agency has outlined some of the conditions social media platforms operating in the country must abide by.
These conditions are stated in the recently released Code of Practice for Interactive Computer Service Platforms/Internet Intermediaries (online platforms) which was released on Monday June 13.
Some of the...
The National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, released a Code of Practice for Interactive Computer Service Platforms/Internet Intermediaries and Conditions for Operating in Nigeria.
A statement on Monday by the NITDA’s spokesperson, Hadiza Umar, said the Code is aimed at protecting fundamental human rights of Nigerians and non-Nigerians living in...
President Buhari, former President Goodluck Jonathan, and top government functionaries attended the 2022 Democracy Day celebration at the Eagle Square, Abuja today June 13.
See more photos below...
The Cybercrime Section of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Thursday, June, 9, submitted reports of forensic investigations in the case against singer Azeez Fashola a.k.a Naira Marley, charged with credit card fraud before the Ikoyi Federal High Court.
Whyte Dein, the Chief Detective Officer of the Section told the court...
President Muhammadu Buhari will address the nation via a live broadcast by 7:00 am on Sunday June 12.
Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed made the announcement during a briefing at a radio house in Abuja on Thursday June 9, where he detailed activities to mark this year’s celebration.
Channels Television reported...
The federal government has declared Monday, June 13, as a public holiday in commemoration of Nigeria’s Democracy Day which comes up on June 12.
The announcement was made by Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola in a statement signed on his behalf by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Dr M. L. Shuaib Belgore...
The Head of Nigeria National Office of West African Examination Council (WAEC), Patrick Areghan, disclosed that about 10 supervisors have been arrested for alleged involvement in examination malpractices in the ongoing Senior Secondary Certificate Examination.
Speaking on Thursday, June 9, during supervision of the examination in four centres in Abuja,...
