More than 250,000 people have been warned that they could have their benefits ‘removed entirely’ under a new welfare crackdown announced by the Prime Minister. In a speech on Friday morning, Rishi Sunak said benefit claimants who are unemployed for more than 12 months despite being deemed fit to work could have their benefits stopped…
At least five persons have been confirmed dead in an accident involving a Coaster bus of the Lord’s Chosen Charismatic Renewal Movement and a tipper truck in Imo State. The incident occurred on Friday morning, causing gridlock on the busy Owerri-Onitsha Road. The bus and the tipper truck which were coming from the same direction…
Big Brother Naija Season 7 winner Josephina Otabor, aka Phyna, has rejected N13 million offered her by one of the sponsors of the reality show, Quidax. Phyna, who won Season 7 of the reality show in 2022, has been calling out the organisers and their sponsors over incomplete prizes. Quidax had pledged to give Phyna…
Popular social critic, Aisha Yesufu, has mocked Nasir El-Rufai and Yahaya Bello, both former governors of Kaduna and Kogi States, over their current travails. Yesufu in a post on her X handle said Nigerian politicians think eight years in power would last forever. She wrote: “To Nigerian Politicians, 8 years is FOREVER!Little do they know!I…
Scores of people have been killed most of them women by suspected herdsmen in Tilengpat village of Pushit District, Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State. According to reports fourteen females and one male were brutally murdered during the attack on Thursday night, with houses and property destroyed in the community. Although the Transition Committee…
The Nigerian Army has released the traditional ruler, Clement Ikolo, earlier declared wanted and arrested over the gruesome murder of 17 soldiers in Delta State on 14 March 2024. The monarch was declared wanted by the Defence Headquarters alongside seven others for alleged involvement in the act. He was released to Senator Ede Dafianone who…
Italian side Roma progressed to the Europa League semi-finals by beating Serie A rivals AC Milan at Stadio Olimpico. Gianluca Mancini opened the scoring for the hosts after 12 minutes before Paulo Dybala doubled Roma’s lead 10 minutes later to cement a 3-1 aggregate victory. Defender Mancini was quickest to react to tap home Lorenzo…
The Inspector General of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun, has withdrawn all police officers attached to the embattled former Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello. The order for the withdrawal was contained in a police wireless message on Friday. The document with reference number: “CB:4001/DOPS/PMF/FHQ/ABJ/VOL.48/ 34 read in part, “IG has ordered the withdrawal of all policemen…
All is now set for the All Progressives Congress to conduct it’s primary to elect its candidate in the Ondo State governorship election, scheduled for November 16, 2024. For the exercise, 171,922 validated members of the party drawn from the 203 wards of the 18 local government areas in the state will determine the fate…
For only the third time in the 21st century, England has no teams in the semi-finals of the Champions League or Europa League Manchester City and Arsenal both exited the Champions League quarter-finals on Wednesday, going out to Real Madrid and Bayern Munich respectively. And on Thursday, as expected, Liverpool and West Ham crashed out…
