A high court in Yola, the Adamawa state capital, has dismissed an application by Hudu Yunusa-Ari, the suspended Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to halt the case against him. The presiding judge, Benjamin Manji, rejected Yunusa-Ari’s request to stay proceedings indefinitely, pending the judgment of an appeal filed at…
Three women who have accused Russell Simmons of sexual assault say the hip-hop mogul has failed to pay them nearly $8 million to settle confidential agreements, according to recent court filings. Tina Klein-Baker, Toni Sallie and Alexia Norton Jones stated in filings this month with New York County Supreme Court that Simmons had reneged on payments agreed upon as part of confidential settlements…
Former Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, has described critics of the establishment of Independent Shariah Panels of Arbitration in the South-West region as ignorant. The purported establishment of the panels in the region has been a topic of hot debate with many condemning it, believing it to be a ruse to introduce Shariah laws in…
At least 46 soldiers of the Nigerien Defense and Security Forces (SDF) were reported k!lled in an attack by militants of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (EIGS) on Saturday. The attack, described as a large-scale and highly intense coordinated operation, targeted an SDF position in Iknewane, Tilia department, near the Mali border…
A United States-based Nigerian cardiologist, Ikenna Erinne, has reportedly committed su!cide after losing a $15,000 child support case to his ex-wife. According to a Nigerian-American, Clayton Udo, who posted the tragic news on X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday, Erinne, a 36-year-old Anambra State native, shot himself on Sunday, January 26, after a prolonged divorce battle…
