President Bola Tinubu on Friday commended the Finish government over the arrest and detention of the factional leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Simon Ekpa. Tinubu spoke when he received the Letters of Credence from the Finnish Ambassador to Nigeria, Ms Sanna Selin, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The president said that the…
Nigerian entertainer Speed Darlington has alleged that an adversary reached out to his lawyer, Deji Adeyanju, to appeal for leniency amid ongoing tensions surrounding his legal troubles. Taking to social media, the singer claimed that despite using the police to detain him in defiance of a court order, his adversary has now sought to…
The Lagos State Government has ordered the closure of the pedestrian bridge located between Terminal 2 and Terminal 3 in Oshodi Bus Terminal due to concerns regarding the safety and structural integrity of the bridge. The Commissioner for Transportation, Oluwaseun Osiyemi, in a statement on Friday, Jan. 24, said the order to close down the…
A Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting at Mapo in Ibadan has sentenced a teacher, Adebayo Osayemi, to two years imprisonment with hard labour for stealing his employer’s phone and money, totaling N237,000. In her ruling, Magistrate Mrs. O.O. Latunji stated that the conviction was based on evidence presented by the police and the defendant’s guilty…
Detectives in Kenya have arrested a member of a crime cabal that defrauded a Nigerian national of N150m. The Directorate of Criminal Investigations, DCI, in a statement on Friday, January 21, 2025, said Stephen Mugambi Colbe and his co-conspirators had approached the victim, pretending that they were in a position to hire a…
