Gunmen kill people, destroy houses in kogi

04 Apr 2023

An unspecified number of people have been reportedly killed and hundreds of houses burnt when gunmen in the early hours of Sunday attacked Aloko, a community in Oganenigu Ward of Dekina Local Government Area (LGA) of Kogi State. Daily Trust gathered that the militia in their hundreds launched their latest attack from a base in […]

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NDLEA declares prophetess and celebrity couple wanted for recruiting young girls into drugs trafficking

03 Apr 2023

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has declared a Port Harcourt, Rivers state based popular prophetess and founder of Christ Power Adoration Ministries, Faith Ugochi and a celebrity couple: Igho Ubiribo and Danielle Simba Allen wanted for recruiting teenage girls into drug trafficking while they serve as the arrowheads of an international syndicate operating […]

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“Singer Portable to face six counts of disorderly conduct” – CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, police spokesperson

02 Apr 2023

CSP Muyiwa Adejobi, the Police Force Public Relations Officer, has revealed that Nigerian singer Habeeb Okikiola aka Portable will be charged with at least six counts when he appears in court for his disorderly behavior and instigation of violence against police officers. Portable was apprehended by men from the Ogun State Police Command on Friday, […]

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Court sentence Blessing Okoro to prison for alleged cyberbullying

02 Apr 2023

Blessing Okoro, a self-proclaimed relationship expert, has been remanded in custody by the Lagos State Federal High Court for alleged cyber-bullying.  Blessing Okoro, who was arrested on Thursday morning, March 30, by men from the Nigeria Police Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID), was arraigned on a six-count charge of alleged cyber-bullying, libel, and exhibiting uncensored […]

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Eze Ndigbo arrested for threatening to bring IPOB to Lagos

02 Apr 2023

The Eze Ndigbo of Ajao Estate in Lagos State, Fredrick Nwajagu, has been arrested. Speaking in a video that went viral on Friday, Nwajagu threatened to invite members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra to secure the properties of Igbo people in the state. He said, “IPOB, we will invite them. They have no […]

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Court arraigns man for posting false information on WhatsApp

02 Apr 2023

A 49-year-old Lagos man, Timothy Chukwudi, has been arraigned in court for falsely describing one Chika Eze and Sunday Akpoyibo as ritualists on WhatsApp platforms. Chukwudi was docked before an Ejigbo Magistrates’ Court, Lagos State, for publishing false information against the two men on different WhatsApp platforms. He was arraigned on a three-count charge bordering […]

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Court freezes all the money of Abia state government in 27 banks

02 Apr 2023

A Federal High Court sitting in Apo, Abuja has granted an order freezing all the monies of the Abia State government domiciled in about 27 banks. Justice Bello Kawu in an exparte motion no: M/6686/2023 also barred all the banks from cooperating with the financial aides of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu pending the determination of the […]

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Army, police shoot 5 dead over protest in Aba

02 Apr 2023

There was pandemonium in Aba, the Abia State commercial nerve centre, as combined security agencies made up of army and police shot dead five members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, who were peacefully protesting against the release of their detained leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Kanu, who was renditioned to Nigeria from Kenya after his […]

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FG fines channels TV N5m over an interview with Datti

02 Apr 2023

Channels Television has been fined N5 million by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) over an interview with Datti Baba-Ahmed, Labour Party Vice Presidential candidate. In a March 27 letter addressed to Channels Chief Executive Officer and obtained on Friday in Abuja, the NBC said the television station violated broadcasting code. Titled “Broadcast of an Inciting […]

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