One of the women in the Equatorial Guinea sex scandal has allegedly committed suicide after seeing her trending videos with Baltasar Ebang Engonga on social media. In a video sighted by our correspondent, the lifeless body of the woman was surrounded by sympathizers. GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that serving the Director General of the National Financial…
Mojisola Adeyeye, director-general of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has urged manufacturers and distributors to comply with the ban on alcohol in sachets and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles. Speaking during a session at the NAN Forum in Abuja on Sunday, Adeyeye reiterated the ban and the agreement signed by…
President Bola Tinubu has directed the withdrawal of police officers attached to ministers and other top government officials, saying the security personnel were needed for core policing duties across the country. The President gave the directive on Wednesday during the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Tinubu said he would…
Rwanda has made aviation history by conducting Africa’s first-ever public flight of a self-flying passenger drone, placing the country at the forefront of advanced air mobility on the continent. The demonstration, held in Kigali during the Africa Aviation Summit 2025, featured the EHang EH216-S, a pilotless electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft. The two-seat,…
The Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, July 14, 2025, secured the conviction and sentence of two Chinese for cyber-terrorism and internet fraud before Justice Dehinde Dipeolu of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos. The suspects are: Huang Xiao Liang (a.k.a Liu Xiao Liang) and…
Iranian authorities arrested a female student on Saturday after she staged a solo protest against harassment by stripping to her underwear outside her university, reports said. The woman, who has not been identified, had been harassed inside Tehran’s prestigious Islamic Azad University by members of the Basij paramilitary force who ripped her headscarf and clothes,…
Professor Fatima Alkali, a nominee for the position of commissioner at the Nigerian Law Reform Commission (NLRC), has rejected her appointment by President Bola Tinubu. The disclosure was made on Tuesday by Senator Adeniyi Adegbonmire, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights, and Legal Matters, during the presentation of the committee’s report at…
Israel has carried out an attack on the Qatari capital, Doha, in what officials said was targeted at Hamas leaders in the country. Loud explosions were heard in what is believed to be an air attack on a building in Doha. The Doha-based Al Jazeera reports that the targeted building is in a residential neighbourhood,…
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Niger state says fifty students abducted from St Mary’s Private Catholic Primary and Secondary Schools in Papiri, Agwara LGA, have escaped from captivity. In a statement on Sunday, Bulus Dauwa Yohanna, chairman of the Niger state chapter of CAN and Catholic bishop of Kontagora diocese, said the pupils…
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has declared a lockdown on May 30, 2025, to remember Biafran heroes and heroines who paid the ultimate sacrifice for the defunct Republic of Biafra. The group stated that the lockdown is an annual memorial and remembrance day for Biafra heroes and heroines. It disclosed that it has contacted…
