A combined security team has found the decomposing body of Hon. Justice Azuka, a member of the Anambra State House of Assembly, at the 2nd Niger Bridge. On Tuesday, December 24, 2024, gunmen abducted Azuka, the representative of Onitsha 1 North Constituency in the Anambra State House of Assembly. Azuka was reportedly kidnapped while returning…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that the Federal Government has approved N4bn for conditional cash transfers to vulnerable households in Nigeria. During the launch of the 2025 Nigeria Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan at the United Nations House in Abuja on Thursday, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, Professor Nentawe Yilwada, announced the interventions aimed…
Outrage trailed the action of a monarch in Osun State, the Timi of Ede, Munirudeen Lawal, who was recorded kneeling to greet the Emir of Ilorin, Sulu Gambari, at a social function recently. In the video which had gone viral on social media, Lawal had walked into a hall alongside a woman, where the Emir…
A suspected serial killer, Ogunnaike Philip, who made young ladies his victims, has confessed to how he got three females killed to get their phones to sell and get some money as ransom from their families while pretending they were still alive. Not only that, he spoke on how he raped two victims before killing…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that the Akwa Ibom State Police Command has exhumed bodies of marine hunters of the Ministry of Internal Security and Inland Waterways who were kidnapped, murdered, and buried by notorious criminals in Unyenghe, in the Mbo Local Government Area of the state. It also disclosed that those suspected to be behind the…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that the Nollywood has lost Shina Sanyaolu, a Nigerian producer and director famous in the Yoruba film industry, is dead. Bolaji Amusan, the president of the Theatre Arts and Motion Pictures Practitioners Association of Nigeria (TAMPAN), confirmed Sanyaolu’s demise via an Instagram post on Wednesday. “Sleep well uncle Shina Sanyaolu,” he wrote….
Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone 2 Command, Onikan, Lagos, AIG Adegoke Fayoade, has charged newly promoted officers to the ranks of Assistant Commissioner of Police, Chief Superintendent of Police, and Superintendents of Police, not to use their new status to collect money forcefully from members of the public. Rather, he reminded…
The Catholic Diocese of Awka in Anambra State has launched an investigation into an alleged altercation involving one of its priests, Rev. Fr. Jude Muokwe, and a 50-year-old widow, Mrs. Ikeorah Maureen. The incident, which took place on Wednesday, reportedly left the woman traumatised and in severe pain, leading to mixed reactions across the state….
President Bola Tinubu and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar met on Friday during a Jummah prayer at the National Mosque in Abuja. GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that this is their first meeting since the conclusion of the 2023 presidential election. Atiku, presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) was one of Tinubu’s key opponents in…
The United Kingdom has donated non-lethal military equipment valued at approximately N1 billion (£450,000) to the Nigerian Armed Forces. The support is aimed at enhancing Nigeria’s fight against violent extremist organizations in the North East and signifies a strengthened partnership between the British Military and the Nigerian Armed Forces. At a formal handover ceremony in…