A Russian anti-war activist has been sentenced to seven years in a penal colony for replacing supermarket pricing labels with anti-war messages. Sasha Skochilenko, 33, an artist from St Petersburg, has been in detention since April last year. She was convicted of spreading “false information” about the Russian army. Her lawyers pleaded for her acquittal,…
Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu is expected back in the country today after attending the 50th Independence Day Anniversary and Armed Forces Day celebrations of Guinea-Bissau. President Bola Tinubu was in Bissau to participate in the country’s Independence Day anniversary. Alongside other heads of state and government, he joined in the festivities in Bissau, the country’s…
The leadership of the Biafra Independence Movement and the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra has accused former governors of Anambra and Imo state, Peter Obi, and Rochas Okorocha of Imo State of betrayed the late Biafran leader, Chukwuemeka Ojukwu. In a statement by its Senior Special Assistant on Media and…
A list of 22 Justices of the Court of Appeal nominated by the Federal Judicial Service Commission, FJSC, for elevation to the Supreme Court has been sent to the National Judicial Council, NJC. The names of the nominees, who hail from various regions in the country, were revealed on Thursday. The North-Central region has six…
The Imo State Commissioner for Information, Declan Emelumba, has said that no government official was among suspects arrested in connection with an assault on the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero. The NLC leadership had embarked on strike on Tuesday and accused the Imo State Government of sending some of its officials…
The horror incident happened at Shuware neighborhood, Mubi in the Mubi North Local Government Area of Adamawa state. The 20years old bride, Amina Hassan, was arrested by the police force for supposedly burning down her husband’s house after five weeks of marriage in Adamawa State, Nigeria. Hassan was reported to have burned her matrimonial home…
The judgment in Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf’s appeal against his removal by the Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal in Kano State has been scheduled for Friday by the Court of Appeal in Abuja. On September 20, 2023, a three-man panel, led by Justice Oluyemi Akintan Osadebay, invalidated 165,663 of Yusuf’s votes as they were not signed or stamped by…
Lagos big boy and night light crooner, Yhemolee, and his new girlfriend, Bisola have unfollowed each other on Instagram barely 4 months after they got matching tattoos to strengthen their relationship. Recall that the singer found love again in the arms of another woman barely one week after his long term ex-girlfriend, Thayour B accused…
The Miss Nigeria 1957 official organizer celebrates Chief Grace Atinuke Oyelude, the first Miss Nigeria, ahead of her 93rd birthday on Thursday, November 16, 2023. In a statement endorsed by Rita Dominic, the Chairman of Miss Nigeria 1957, the organization joined family members, friends, and professional colleagues in celebrating the nonagenarian. The statement reads in…
The Enugu State Government has introduced Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccination into routine immunisation in Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) in the state. The Executive Secretary of the Enugu State Primary Health Care Development Agency (ENS-PHCDA), Dr Ifeyinwa Ani-Osheku, told newsmen in Enugu that the introduction of routine immunisation followed the successful conclusion of a comprehensive…
