The Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, has suspended Okpravero Ufuoma, an assistant superintendent of immigration II (ASI II), for soliciting money from a traveller. A video with the caption: ‘This is how immigration officers treat tourists in Nigeria’, has been making the round on social media. In the clip, the officer was seen asking for money…
The Yoruba community in Enugu State has unanimously selected Alhaji Abdulazeez Adebayo as its new traditional ruler. Adebayo, who hails from Osun, became the first ever Oba of the community since the history of Yorubas living in Enugu. Speaking during the community’s meeting on Tuesday in Enugu, the new traditional ruler, said that seven…
The British Government is set to deport popular pastor, Tobi Adegboyega, to Nigeria after losing his case against deportation at the immigration tribunal. According to PUNCH, the UK government had shut down his church, SPAC Nation, after investigations exposed a misuse of funds by the church leadership. It was gathered that the UK authorities closed…
Nigerian students are known for their entrepreneurial spirit. And many are finding creative side hustles to make money while studying. With rising living expenses and tuition fees, side hustles have become more popular, allowing students to earn extra income and develop skills that will benefit them in the future. If you’re a Nigerian student looking…
Amidst his wife’s saga with a blackmailer, Lagos-based popular content creator Egungun is embroiled in a cheating scandal after a private video was leaked. The video emerged just hours after his wife, Pashotah, publicly addressed a blackmail attempt involving her husband’s private videos. In a leaked video circulating on social media, Egungun of Lagos is…
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has reported another sharp rise in kerosene prices. According to the latest report published on the bureau’s website, the per litre and per gallon costs of Household Kerosene (HHK) have increased significantly, both on a monthly and yearly basis. =NBS revealed that the average retail price per litre of…
A Nigerian who specialises in money laundering and other transnational crimes was over the weekend arrested for treason, subversive activities against government, Trans-border gun-running, heist, and other Transnational crimes. The man whose name was given as one Bashir Hadeja was arrested by the Nigeria police following intelligence reports on smuggling large catches of weapons along…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that a two-term former member of the House of Representatives and younger brother to the late former Chief of Defence Staff, Wole Duro Diya is dead. This Nigeria news platform gathered that Wole Duro Diya died in the early hours of Friday. Diya was a two-term representative of Somolu Federal Constituency in…
A 60-year-old White South African farmer identified as Zachariah Johannes Olivier, and his two workers, Adrian de Wet, 19, and William Musora, 50, have been accused of killing two Black women, Maria Makgato, 45, and Lucia Ndlovu, 34, and feeding their bodies to pigs. The alleged murder of the two Black women has sparked outrage…
Gov. Biodun Oyebanji of Ekiti, on Tuesday, asked workers in the state to thank President Bola Tinubu and not him for enabling the state to pay the new minimum wage to its workforce. Oyebanji stated this when hundreds of civil servants stormed his office in Ado-Ekiti, dancing and singing in appreciation of the payment of…