Month: August 2025

Justice Dehinde Dipeolu of the Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the initial forfeiture of a property located at 29 Oyindamola Shogbesan Street, Park View Estate, Ago Palace Way, Lagos, brought by some suspects allegedly involved in a N986 million fraud. Justice Dipeolu ordered the temporary seizure of the property after entertaining an ex […]

Motorists and commuters plying the Lokoja – Ajaokuta – Itobe Road in Kogi State have called on the Federal Government to take urgent steps to fix the failed portions of the road to ameliorate the sufferings of users. Expressing their frustrations on the condition of the road, they noted that the route is the only […]

The Benue State Police Command has rescued the Law students who were abducted in the state on the Saturday, 26th of July, 2025. Our correspondent gathered that the abducted Law students were traveling to the Adamawa State Campus of Nigerian Law School when they were kidnapped at the boundary between Benue and Taraba States. Police […]

The industrial action embarked upon by the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) has been suspended. Minister of Health, Professor Ali Pate, disclosed this to journalists after a closed-door meeting with the leadership of the striking medical workers on Friday. Pate said the decision followed agreements reached with the leadership of the nursing […]

Fans of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians should tighten their seatbelts as the new trailer for the second season scheduled to premiere December 10 has been released. The second season which adapts Rick Riordan’s second book of same title Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Sea of Monsters, sees Percy played by Walker Scobell, Annabeth […]

Pan-African Writers Association (PAWA) newly inaugurated regional executive council said it will priortise Africa’s heretofore marginalised literatures, intercontinental dialogue and the champion Africans reading works by African authors across the continent. The association disclosed this at the inauguration of the newly elected Executive Council, comprising the President, Cameroonian, Professor Bill Ndi, and his six Vice […]

Sokoto State House of Assembly has summoned the Commissioner for Energy and Petroleum Resources, Hon Sanusi Danfulani to appear before it on Tuesday, August 5, following his failure to honour an oversight visit by the House Committee on Science and Technology. The directive comes after Danfulani and other key ministry officials were absent during the […]

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in 19 Northern States and the FCT has decried the recent killings in Benue State, describing the tragedy as a national emergency requiring urgent intervention from the Nigerian state. The Northern CAN stated this when a high-powered delegation, led by its Chairman, Rev. (Dr).John Joseph Hayab, visited the state […]

South Korea’s jailed ex-President Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday took off his prison uniform and laid on the floor in his detention room to avoid questioning by investigators. Yoon, who was removed from office in April over his ill-fated imposition of martial law, was sent back to prison last month as he stands a high-stakes […]