The Chairman of Danko-Wasagu Local Government Area, Hussaini Aliyu, on Wednesday dismissed a claim by United States lawmaker, Riley Moore, alleging that the abduction of schoolgirls in Maga occurred in a Christian community. As reported by Channels TV, Aliyu said all the abducted girls are Muslims and urged the lawmaker to refrain from making unverifiable…
Nigeria has officially joined Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS), an intergovernmental organisation that aims to promote economic and geopolitical cooperation among its member countries. This was confirmed by the Brazilian government in a statement issued on its website on Friday, which said that Nigeria becomes the ninth partner country of BRICS, alongside…
Pregnant woman seeks financial support from ex-husband for her Court dissolves 23-year-old marriage over lack A pregnant woman, Harira Aliyu, has asked a Shari’a court sitting in Rigasa, Kaduna State, to compel her former husband, Nasiru Al-Hassan to provide financial support for her upkeep. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the complainant also…
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been impeached by the country’s National Assembly over his short-lived attempt to impose martial law, a move that plunged the country in political turmoil halfway through his presidency. The unicameral National Assembly voted 204-85 on Saturday to impeach Yoon, the second such vote in eight days. Three…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that Nigerian music sensation, Davido, has made history on TikTok by breaking the record for the most-watched live stream in Africa. His livestream, co-hosted by popular content creators Peller, Jarvis, and Jo Blaq on October 30, attracted an astonishing 389,800 viewers, with over 164,000 people watching simultaneously. This impressive feat surpasses Peller’s…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that Monday Sinclair, former Super Eagles head coach, has died at the age of 88. According to family sources, the legendary football coach was pronounced dead around 3:15 pm on Wednesday. Sinclair had been in and out of the hospital for complications of diabetes in recent years. Before his much-celebrated coaching career,…
At least 32 people, including women and children, died when a boat with 40 passengers capsized in Gummi town, Gummi local government area of Zamfara state, on Saturday. A resident of Gummi, Safiyanu Dan Iya, told Daily Trust that the incident occurred after an overloaded boat collided with an empty boat on Mashayar Yan Tauri…
A major outage at internet-infrastructure firm Cloudflare on Tuesday morning paralysed access to large swathes of the web, knocking popular services offline and causing slow-downs and error pages for millions of users, including many in Nigeria. The disruption began in the early hours of the day and forced Cloudflare to flag an “internal service degradation”…
The Federal Government has confirmed that the COVID-19 variant XEC has not been detected in Nigeria, dispelling recent rumors and fears circulating on social media. In a statement released on Saturday, Mr. Alaba Balogun, Deputy Director of Information and Public Relations at the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, emphasized the importance of addressing misinformation…
A Canadian Federal Court has upheld a landmark immigration tribunal ruling that declared Nigeria’s major political parties — the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party — terrorist organisations, while refusing asylum to a former member, Douglas Egharevba, over his decade-long affiliation with both parties. In a judgment delivered on June 17, 2025, obtained…
