The Leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, has warned President Bola Ahmed Tinubu again regarding the vice president, Kashim Shettima, and his 2027 second-term ambition, while also stating that America is “desperate to remove” the president. Primate Ayodele, in a statement signed by his media aide, Osho Oluwatosin, warned Tinubu not to…
Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has confirmed the arrest of social media activist, Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan (VDM), over multiple petitions. The EFCC, speaking through its spokesperson Dele Oyewale, told BBC News Pidgin on Monday that the activist was taken into custody following complaints from several petitioners….
Apostle Johnson Suleman, Senior Pastor and General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministries International, has responded to Nollywood actress Halima Abubakar’s public apology for her defamatory comments, asserting that forgiveness does not equate to memory loss. In a terse statement on X.com on Wednesday, Suleman said, “You all stop calling my phone. Forgiveness is not memory…
Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has alerted the public to a fraudulent scheme claiming to offer a N50,000 New Year cash grant to Nigerians. The governor described the scheme as a scam and urged citizens to avoid engaging with the fraudulent link. A statement issued by the governor’s social media aide, Godwin Rimi, and…
Veteran actress Ngozi Nwosu has revealed why she married her late husband despite ‘red flags’ of physical violence. In an interview with Ayo Adesanya, Nwosu said despite her initial decision to call off the wedding, her elder sister begged her not to discontinue the marriage plans, urging her to endure the abuse, assuring that it’d…
The Senior Special Assistants to the President on Students’ Engagements, Hon. Sunday Asefon, has commended the federal government and Nigerian Police Force, for swiftly securing the release of 20 medical students abducted by kidnappers in Benue State last Thursday. The Presidential aide stated that the seriousness exhibited by the Federal Government to secure the release,…
A hippopotamus on Sunday attacked and killed a fisherman at Yauri river, in Yauri local government area of Kebbi. The deceased Malam Usman Mai Gadi was at the river bank fishing when the vicious animal attacked and killed him. Locals who witnessed the incident said that the hippo had a new-born baby so it may…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed the ruling of a Federal Court of Canada that classified the party with the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) as terrorist organisations. Justice Phuong Ngo was reported to have ruled on June 17, 2025, that the two major parties in Nigeria are terror organisations while denying asylum to…
A stray bullet from a yet-to-be identified source has reportedly killed a 20-month-old child at Umuoba-Uratta in Owerri North Local Government Area of Imo. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the incident occurred at about 10 pm on Monday. The child, identified as Emmanuel Eleweke, was the third of his parents, Mr and Mrs…
Rev. Fr. Polycarp Lubo, the chairman of the Plateau chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), is dead. Mr Lubo, a priest of the Catholic Archdiocese of Jos, died in the early hours of Sunday at the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH). Two weeks ago, Mr Lubo was involved in an accident, where he…
