29 suspected oil thieves have been apprehended in the Niger Delta region by the troops of the 6 Division, Nigerian Army, in partnership with other security agencies. The troops recovered over 60,000 litres of stolen petroleum products. They also destroyed 24 illegal refineries and demobilized eleven boats used by oil thieves to evacuate their stolen products. …
A 42-year-old Nigerian man has been arrested for allegedly k!lling his Spanish wife, Catalina, 48, in Benalmádena, a town in Costa del Sol, Spain. The Nigerian identified as Augustine also set fire to the family home, where the victim lived with the couple’s three children – all minors – and another son from…
The International Olympic Committee are being sued for letting gender-row boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting compete in Paris 2024. Algerian Khelif and Yu-ting of Taiwan both won gold medals at last summers Olympics despite being disqualified from the 2023 World Championships for failing gender eligibility tests. Now the International Boxing Association the Russian-led body that administered those disputed 2023 tests, has launched…
The Minister of State for Health, Dr. Adekunle Salako, says medical workers remain among the highest-paid professionals in Nigeria. Salako said this during a working visit to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) on Monday, February 10. “The challenge of ‘Japa’ in the health sector is mostly an economic challenge, and we will…
A Ukrainian female powerlifting champion has been captured by Russia and accused of plotting to ass@ssinate one of Putin’s top military officials. Yulia Lemeshchenko, 41, was one of four women agents detained by the FSB security service, Russian media claims. She had a Russian passport and Kyiv used this to deploy her to get behind enemy lines and take…
