Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano state on Friday, January 26, said he has no plans to dump the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) on whose platform he won the governorship polls.Yusuf was responding to an invite by the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, to join the APC. Governor…
An Ikeja sexual offences and domestic violence court has sentenced Feyi Daniels, founder of “I Reign Christian Ministry”, to life imprisonment for “raping a church member.”The trial judge, Rahman Oshodi, on Friday, January 26, found the cleric guilty of rape and sexual assault of a female worshipper. Daniels was arraigned by the Lagos state government…
The accident occurred around 2 a.m. On Wednesday, from Yamoussoukro to Abidjan, Ivory Coast’s largest city and commercial centre, where most media are staying to cover the soccer tournament. The bus driver and his assistant were the most seriously injured from the impact to the front of the bus. They were taken to a hospital…
Qatar has rebuked Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after he allegedly criticised the Gulf country’s role as a mediator in the Gaza war as “problematic” in a leaked recording. At a meeting this week with the families of captives being held in Gaza, Netanyahu blamed Qatar for financing Hamas and said he was upset at…
110 days into the Israeli military offensive in Gaza, hunger grips communities. By late December, more than one in four households in the enclave faced extreme hunger. Some 1.9 million residents, men, women and children or approximately 85% of the population have been forced to flee their homes. Marking Police Day in Cairo on Wednesday…
Led in evidence by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Dr Babajide Martins, the witness, Blessing Adeniran told the court that she got to the Agege stadium on Feb. 9th, 2023, when Chrisland School, Opebi was holding its inter-house sports competition, but she did not see her daughter, Whitney, participate in any of the match…
The Minister of State for Environment, Iziaq Salako, made this known in a statement on Tuesday. He said the decision of the Lagos State Government to ban Styrofoam and other single use plastics is “a strong signal to businesses and the general public that the menace of single use plastics needs to be comprehensively addressed,…
Alcohol “will be sold to non-Muslim diplomats” who previously had to import alcohol via a diplomatic pouch, one of the sources said. Prohibition has been the law of the land in Saudi Arabia since 1952, shortly after one of King Abdulaziz’s sons got drunk and, in a rage, shot dead a British diplomat. Rumours have…
Affirming Fubara as the duly elected governor of Rivers State, the court held that the appellant did not prove the allegations of non compliance with the Electoral Act among others. The court held that the appeal was incompetent and dismissed it. Cole, who was the APC candidate in the March 18, 2023 election, was challenging…
