Fuji music legend Saheed Osupa has withdrawn his legal action against controversial singer Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable, following public appeals and on compassionate grounds. Portable, who was recently arrested by the Kwara State Police Command over allegations of criminal defamation, threat to life, incitement, and character assassination against Osupa, had been remanded in…
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Abbas Tajudeen, has revealed that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu supported his bid to become Speaker even without knowing him personally. Abbas, who made the disclosure while distributing empowerment materials to his constituents in Zaria, Kaduna State, said the President’s support was based solely on what he had read about…
A student of Bamidele Olumilua University of Education, Science, and Technology (BOUESTI) in Ikere Ekiti, Femi Bejide, has been accused of raping a fellow student, Ojufun Precious, and later threatening to expose a nude video of her. Sources told Zagazola Makama that the incident, occurred on April 11, 2025, at about 1205hrs when Bejide allegedly…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that a man in the Czech Republic has been accused of killing his wife just days after their wedding. A police spokeswoman confirmed on Tuesday that the 46-year-old is being held on suspicion of murder. According to local media reports, the couple had only been married for a few days. The alleged…
The Angwan Kari community in Keffi Local Government Area of Nasarawa State has been thrown into mourning following the gruesome murder of Mr Williams Wasiu Jimoh and his wife, Mrs Banke William Jimoh, by unknown assailants in their apartment. The couple reportedly met their untimely death when the assailants invaded their home at midnight on…
The Rivers State Judiciary has faulted the reasons given by retired Chief Magistrate Ejike King George for his exit from the Judiciary. George, in a letter widely circulated on social media, claimed that his voluntary retirement was largely due to discomfort with the recent appointment of what he described as a “quasi-military administration” to govern…
A night of prayers turned into a nightmare on Friday when armed men stormed a mountain-top vigil in the Egbola area, Lokoja Local Government Area, Kogi State, abducting an unknown number of worshippers. The attackers believed to be armed kidnappers, struck in the dead of night, firing indiscriminately to terrorize the congregation before dragging several…
Nigerians on several social media platforms have begun to count their losses as a digital asset trading platform popularly known as CBEX reportedly swept over N1.3 trillion from their investors’ accounts. The digital trading platform crashed on Monday after the money in their investors’ wallets vanished. CBEX also locked its telegram channels and postponed its…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday arraigned a Chinese national, Liu Beixiang, also known as Lao Liu, before Justice Ayokunle Faji of the Federal High Court in Lagos, over an allegation of providing false information to a government official. Liu is facing a one-count charge bordering on deliberately supplying false information to an…
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has warned the public that it is illegal to use unregistered digital investment platforms, as concerns mount over the rising popularity of such platforms This renewed stance by the Commission follows social media uproar surrounding the operations of CBEX, a digital asset platform currently under scrutiny for allegedly freezing…