The officials of the British High Commission in Nigeria will be meeting with Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra in DSS custody. There is an arrangement being facilitated by the IPOB leader’s lawyers that some of his family members would see him in detention of the DSS […]
A federal high court has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to unfreeze the account of Raymond Dokpesi, former chairman of Daar Communications PLC. Dokpesi and his company, DAAR Investment and Holdings Ltd, were arraigned on a seven-count charge bordering on alleged procurement fraud and breach of public […]
A 15 year-old girl has died while having intercourse with a 26-year-old man. The teenager identified as Gabrielly Dickson from Sao Paolo died of a heart attack during the act inside the man’s car, according to police. Gabrielly Dickson died Sunday night after they was admitted to the UPA Jardim […]
Usman Alkali Baba, inspector-general of police (IGP), has named Tunji Disu as head of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) — a unit once led by Abba Kyari, a deputy commissioner of police (DCP). The Police Service Commission (PSC) had suspended Kyari on the recommendation of the IGP over his alleged […]
The newly appointed Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Justice Salisu Garba, has resigned from office. Media aide to the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Mr. Ahuraka Isah, in a statement today, disclosed that Justice Garba voluntarily retired to enable him to take over as the Administrator of the […]
Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) today at the Federal High Court, Abuja assaulted journalists covering the case involving 12 detained associates of Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho. A photojournalist with Vanguard, Gbenga Olamikan was manhandled on the court premises while covering the arrival of […]
Lauren Maxwell, daughter of Fetty Wap, the American rapper, has died at the age of four. Turquoise Miami, the deceased’s mother, broke the news in a touching tribute via her Instagram page yesterday. Miami also accompanied the post with a short video of her late daughter inside a swimming pool […]
Nigeria has received four million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine from the United States as it steps up efforts to battle a third wave of infections. The doses, which arrived on two planes yesterday, were received by UNICEF officials on behalf of Nigeria at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, […]
About 21 batch B stream I prospective corps members posted to Taraba state for their orientation course have reportedly tested positive for COVID-19. An official of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) told the Punch that the cases were detected during the scheme’s compulsory COVID-19 test carried out on prospective […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has released Bukola Saraki, former senate president, hours after he was invited for questioning over allegations of money laundering and corruption. The development comes days after the EFCC asked the federal high court in Abuja to vacate an order restraining the commission from […]
