A 54 year-old trader, Kike Adefeyinti and her daughter, Oke Adefeyinti, 29, were on Wednesday arraigned in an Okitipupa Chief Magistrates’ Court, Ondo State for allegedly beating up their landlord. The defendants of No. 58, Market Road, Okitipupa, are facing a three-count charge bordering on breach of peace, assault and felony. Police prosecutor Zedekiah Orogbemi told the court that the defendants and another accomplice, now at large on July 16, at about 11:00 a.m. at No. 58, Market Road, Okitipupa Magisterial District conspired to commit breach of peace. Mr Orogbemi alleged that the defendants assaulted and beat up their landlord,…
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Seven more kidnapped passengers of the March 28 train attack in Kaduna state have regained their freedom. The victims were released on Wednesday morning after spending 135 days in the custody of the terrorists. It is however not clear if any ransom was paid to the terrorists for their release. Although the police authorities are yet to confirm the development, a member of the negotiating team, Tukur Mamu told Channels Television that six of the released hostages are members of the same family, which include a couple and their four children. The father of the four kids, Abubakar, is the…
Nigeria cannot afford another civil war, President Muhammadu Buhari said yesterday. He urged the political class to preserve the country’s unity through patriotic acts. They must also prevent a repeat of the circumstances that took the nation through the 1967 to 1970 civil war, the president said. He spoke when he hosted former state chairmen of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The President expressed hope that Nigeria would remain one. The Forum of State Chairmen of the Defunct CPC assured the President that it would use its platform to support the All Progressives…
Oluwatobiloba Daniel, Nigerian singer better known as Kizz Daniel, has tendered apology to Tanzanian fans for failing to perform at a show in the country. The artiste was meant to perform at the Warehouse, Old Nextdoor Arena in Tanzania, on Sunday night, as part of his Afro Classic World Tour, but his absence had sparked a huge controversy. The police had arrested him over the incident while the show promoter, Stephen Uwa, had said he paid $60,000 to the music star and pleaded with him for over five hours to no avail. “He only said the airline didn’t bring his…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has denied the claim that it has recognised Ahmad Lawan and Godswill Akpabio as senatorial candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC). In June, INEC had excluded Lawan, senate president, and Akpabio, former minister of Niger Delta affairs, from the list of candidates contesting Yobe north and Akwa Ibom north-west senatorial districts, respectively. Meanwhile, APC had submitted the names of Lawan and Akpabio as senatorial candidates, despite the controversy that surrounded the primaries of the party. On Tuesday, an online report had claimed that INEC had “backdated” the certified true copies of its report on…
Ondo State governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has confirmed the arrest of the terrorists who attackd St Francis Catholic Church, Owo, killing scores of worshipers. The governor spoke on Tuesday shortly after the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Lucky Irabor, announced the arrest in Abuja. Governor Akeredolu further disclosed that the owner of the house where the attackers stayed before the June 5 attack in Owo has also been arrested. He noted that the government did not spare a moment in trailing the terrorists since the horrendous attack on innocent worshipers at the St Francis Catholic Church, Owaluwa, Owo town. Akeredolu…
On Tuesday, meta’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, said its messaging app, WhatsApp, would introduce new privacy features to protect its users. “New privacy features coming to WhatsApp: exit group chats without notifying everyone, control who can see when you’re online, and prevent screenshots on view once messages,” Mr Zuckerberg announced in a statement on his Facebook page on Tuesday. He further said the messaging app would continue “building new ways to protect your messages and keep them as private and secure as face-to-face conversations.” This feature will follow many other recent feature updates on the messaging app used by over two billion people…
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Timipre Sylva, has said that the country loses 400,000 barrels of crude daily via oil theft. He spoke yesterday when he visited Imo State Governor Hope Uzodimma in Owerri, the state capital. Sylva described the development as a “national emergency”. He regretted that the nation had fallen short of OPEC daily quota, from 1.8 million barrels to 1.4 million barrels, due to crude theft. He warned that such a huge economic loss was capable of crippling the nation’s economy, if not given the seriousness it deserved. He expressed concern that the menace had…
Singer 2Face Idibia took to Instagram on Monday, August 8, to pen down a public apology to his wife, kids, mum and management for being an embarrassment to them. In the lengthy post, the “African Queen” singer noted that he wasn’t writing to garner sympathy but rather to set the record straight. He wrote, “Las Las ??This is no stunt. I’m sorry for all the embarrassment I’ve caused my wife, my kids, my mother and all our families and my management team. I’m not looking for no sympathy I’m not trying to make myself look good. This is no reverse…
Nigerian nightlife promoter, Cubana Chief Priest, has dismissed claims that his convoy was attacked by gunmen in Imo state. A video had surfaced online on Sunday morning showing a vehicle riddled with bullets. In the background of the now-viral video were inaudible voices of unidentified individuals who filmed the incident. Shortly after the footage hit the internet, an online platform claimed the car was in the convoy belonging to the socialite. The report also alleged that the businessman “narrowly escaped death” during the incident. But in a post via his Instagram story, the socialite, whose real name is Pascal Chibuike…