Former Presidential Candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC, Omoyele Sowore has reacted to the merger between the Opposition Coalition led by Atiku Abubakar and the African Democratic Congress, ADC. In a statement on his Social Media on Wednesday, Sowore disclosed his reason for refusing to join the coalition adding that he will not join…
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says it has arrested 22 cyber fraudsters who sexually blackmailed and extorted US minors. The law enforcement agency said the arrests were made as part of “Operation Artemis,” an international operation launched in 2023 to fight the growing threat of sextortion among Nigerian-based sextortion rings. The agency said…
The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has stirred public reaction after a typographical error was spotted in its Independence Day message to President Bola Tinubu. In a flyer posted on X on Wednesday to mark Nigeria’s 65th independence anniversary, the agency, headed by Hussaini Magaji, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), wrote “indepndence” instead of “independence”…
Super Falcons captain, Rasheedat Ajibade, has revealed that before rising to football stardom, she sold olive oil, kunu, and zobo drinks during church programmes. The 25-year-old Atletico Madrid forward shared her inspiring story on Saturday at the August edition of the ‘Power Must Change Hands’ service, hosted by the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries…
A firm has placed a job advert for a “dedicated and spiritually grounded” prayer warrior to serve as a corporate intercessor for an executive leadership team and their business ventures. The ad was posted on Indeed, an employment website, by Betafans NG, a company registered on the website as working in the broadcast media industry….
The Niger state police command has arrested an 18-year-old student of the College of Health, Kwamba, Suleja, for allegedly staging his own kidnapping and demanding a N50 million ransom from his mother. The suspect, identified as Moses Amarks, reportedly conspired with friends to carry out the fake abduction in an attempt to extort money from…
Governor Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau State has described Nigeria’s lingering insecurity as a problem created and sustained by the country’s elite. Speaking at a stakeholder meeting themed ‘Dialogue on Community Policing as a Panacea for Insecurity in Nigeria: The Case of Plateau State’, Mutfwang said the elite have contributed to deepening communal divisions and must…
A 22-year-old fashion designer, Eniola Oduse and her two children, four-year-old Eri and two-year-old Onoara, have been burnt to death after suspected arsonists set their home ablaze at the Ita Marun community in the Ibeju Lekki area of Lagos State. The deceased’s husband, Kehinde, 25, who was also caught up in the fire, is currently…
President Bola Tinubu has nominated Bernard Doro from Plateau State as a Minister of the Federal Republic. Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, to the president, disclosed in a statement on Tuesday that the president has forwarded a letter to the Senate seeking Doro’s confirmation. Doro’s nomination followed the election of Nentawe Yilwatda…
Chairperson of the Nigerians in the Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has said that it is unfair to generalise and attribute a crime committed by a few Nigerians to the whole of the country. Abike, who was responding to questions on the ‘Nigeria must go’ protest going on in Ghana, called on the host nation to…
