Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have arrested four Chinese nationals and 101 Nigerians in a business apartment in the Gudu area of Abuja over suspected internet fraud. The commission announced the arrests on Thursday, 9 January 2025, via a tweet on its X handle on Friday. “The suspects, comprising 67 males (including…
The Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has announced that individuals who forcibly encroach on land or property belonging to others in the state will now face the full wrath of the law under the Rule of Law Enforcement Authority and the Anti-Land Grabbing Agency established by the government. Makinde stated that land grabbers would be…
US president-elect, Donald Trump, has once again failed in his bid to delay his sentencing in his hush-money case.The US Supreme Court on Thursday declined to delay the upcoming sentencing of the president-elect. Donald Trump would be sworn in as US President on January 20th and had asked the US’s highest legal body to call…
The hearing into the suit challenging the conduct of the February 22 local government elections in Osun State has been adjourned to January 17, 2025. An Osun State High Court sitting in Ile-Ife on Thursday adjourned the suit for the hearing of pending applications or a settlement report. The suit was filed by the Osun…
Russian President, Vladimir Putin, on Thursday, faulted the clean-up of a major oil spill in the Black Sea and created a new task force to take over the operation, almost four weeks after the spill commenced. Scores of marine mammals have been found dead since the disaster, which began on December 15 when two ageing…
A Kaduna State High Court has granted bail to activist Mahdi Shehu, who was arrested for allegedly disseminating a misleading viral video. The court set bail conditions at ₦3 million, with two prominent clerics to serve as sureties. Justice Murtala J. Zubair, who presided over the case, stated that the decision to grant bail was…
Christopher Onuorah, a dedicated and much-loved Maths and science teacher at Staughton College in Melton, Victoria has tragically drowned at Rye Beach. Mr Onuorah, who was born in Nigeria, was found floating in the water by a jet ski rider last Friday, on 3 January 2025 off a beach on the Mornington Peninsula, 100km south…
Massive wildfires that engulfed whole neighborhoods and displaced thousands in Los Angeles have killed at least 10 people, authorities said, as California’s National Guard soldiers readied to hit the streets to help quell disorder.News of the growing toll, announced late Thursday by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner, came as swaths of the United States’…
Former Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung, has criticised the purported Abuja infrastructural development drive attributed to Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Dalung also dismissed the claim attributed to the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, that Abuja has started looking like London. Speaking on Arise TV’s The Morning…
The senator who represented Kaduna Central at the National Assembly, from 2015 to 2019, Shehu Sani, has said northerners have no moral right to vote out President Bola Ahmed Tinubu come the 2027 general elections over the controversial tax reform bills.Sani, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and human rights activist, said northerners…
