Remember the Offa robbery attack of 2018? Five years after the incident, the suspects will now have their day in court A Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilọrin, the Kwara State capital, on Monday fixed August 2, 2024 for judgement in the bloody April 5, 2018 Offa robbery attack. The development is coming after…
The Federal Government has donated 20 trucks of rice to the 36 state governors and the federal capital territory for onward distribution to Nigerians. Addressing state House Reporters after the Federal Executive Council meeting on Monday, Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, said the rice is for the most vulnerable Nigerians. He also…
The North Central forum of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has warned against plans by some groups and individuals to organise a nationwide protest against the administration of President Bola Tinubu. The forum said such decision would be counterproductive and harmful to the progress of the country at this moment, calling on the organisers…
The Prime Minister of Estonia Kaja Kallas has resigned in order to become the European Union’s next foreign policy chief. Kallas – who has led the Baltic state since 2021 – handed her resignation letter to the president but will remain in office until a new government is formed and sworn in. “This was a…
A man has been taken arrested by police operatives for allegedly luring a 10-year-old girl with N2,000 and defiling her in Ogun State capital. According to report the incident happened on Saturday when the suspect allegedly booked a room in the hotel and informed the receptionist he was expecting his child. The receptionist however became…
Judiciary Workers in Anahra state South East Nigeria have begun an indefinite strike over the refusal by the state government to pay the Consolidated Judiciary Salary Structure. A visit to the High Courts at Ekwueme Square, Chief Magistrate’s Courts and Customary Courts in Amawbia, Awka, reveals that there were no court proceedings. There were no…
Switzerland’s Xherdan Shaqiri has called time on his international career on Monday The 32 year old former Liverpool player won 125 caps with the Swiss national team. Shaqiri who now plays with Chicago Fire in the United States, is Switzerland’s second most-capped player after team-mate Granit Xhaka on 130 caps. The former Bayern Munich player…
The number of those who lost their lives in a cafe bomb blast in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu packed with football fans watching the the Euro 2024 final has risen to nine. Witnesses described scenes of panic and chaos after the powerful blast late Sunday, with people scrambling for safety and the main entrance to the…
The police in Kenya say they had arrested a suspected serial killer who has confessed to murdering 42 women including his own wife before dumping their dismembered bodies in a Nairobi rubbish tip. A total of nine butchered bodies trussed up in plastic bags have been pulled from the garbage site in the Mukuru slum…
A High court in Kano state has permanently restrained the deposed Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado Bayero, and four other former Emirs from parading themselves as Emirs The Court presided over by Justice Amina Adamu Aliyu delivered the ruling on Monday. The judgement specifically prohibits the former Emirs of Bichi, Rano, Gaya, and Karaye, as…
