In what will come across as a really tragic development, Srikant Satre, a 23-year-old man has been trampled to d£ath after he tried to take a selfie with an elephant. Srikant Satre and two of his friends ventured into the Abapur forest close to the city of Gadchiroli in central India following reports that an…
United States’ law enforcement agencies have insisted Nigerians “have no right” to unfiltered access to past records of President Bola Tinubu. The position was stated in a memorandum filed by the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Drug Enforcement Administration before the United States District Court for the District of Columbia,…
Dr. Ahmed Aliyu Mustapha, who served as Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) between 1999 and 2003, has died. Adamawa State Governor, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, confirmed his passing in a statement on Thursday via his social media pages. “Deeply saddened by the passing of Alhaji Ahmed Aliyu Mustapha, former CG of Customs. A man…
Three aggrieved members of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, have approached the Federal High Court in Abuja, asking it to sack the Senator David Mark-led interim leadership of the party. The plaintiffs- Adeyemi Emmanuel, Ayodeji Victor Tolu and Haruna Ismaila- further challenged the membership of Senator Mark and others who were appointed as interim leaders…
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has claimed he saw the mass revocation of visas and green cards by the President Donald Trump administration coming. He stated this in an interview published by BBC News Pidgin on Facebook on Wednesday. Recall that Soyinka’s visa was recently revoked by the US. But the respected writer and author…
The family of popular Nigerian singer, Innocent Idibia, popularly known as 2face, has petitioned the Department of State Services over his whereabouts, declaring him missing. In a petition signed by their lawyer, Wilson Anuge, dated February 7, the Idibia family stated that the singer, also known as 2Baba, had been missing since 10 February 2025…
A distressing two-minute video showing a teacher repeatedly hitting a three-year-old pupil at Christ-Mitots School, Isawo Road, Ikorodu, Lagos surfaced on Wednesday, sparking outrage. In the video, the teacher struck the toddler, who remains unnamed for child protection reasons, five times during a lesson on writing numbers in the 60s. The teacher instructed the child…
Justice Yellim Bogoro of the Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday ordered the final forfeiture of $4.7m, N830m, and multiple properties linked to the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria Godwin Emefiele. The judge who had earlier dismissed an application brought by an interested party seeking to stop the judgment, from being…
Former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan said on Friday that Boko Haram insurgents once nominated former President Muhammadu Buhari to represent them in negotiations with the federal government when his administration explored dialogue as a non-combatant approach to ending the group’s activities. Jonathan made the disclosure at the public presentation of SCARS: Nigeria’s Journey and The…
Less than seven days to the ninth “Adult Harvest Thanksgiving Service” of the Celestial Church of Christ, Testimony Parish, Elerumoke, Egbeda, Iyana Ajia in Egbeda Local Government Area of Oyo State, suspected thieves desecrated the temple of God and made away with two large cows meant for the celebration of the thanksgiving. The animals were…