Delta State High Court in Effurun has slammed Linda Ikeji with N30 million in general damages over a defamatory publication against Africa’s Neo-Black Movement (NBM). According to reports on Monday, the presiding judge, Justice Roli Daibo-Harriman, also awarded N300,000 in litigation costs against the Nigerian blogger. The court also ordered Linda Ikeji to retract the…
No fewer than 100 people are feared to have been burned to death after a tanker carrying petroleum products burst into flames along the Eleme axis of the East-West road in Rivers State on Friday night, April 26. According to reports, the explosion occurred while the tanker, navigating the dilapidated road, was hit by another…
The chess master was thankful for the gift of his parents and the sacrifices they made for him. Celebrations and heart-felt appreciations continue to manifest for Nigeria’s chess master Tunde Onakoya, as an anonymous Good Samaritan just gifted an house to his parents. In a post on his official X account, Onakoya annouced the gesture…
A Kogi High Court in Lokoja on Friday, April 26, ordered the Chairman of the EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede, to appear before it on May 13, to show cause why an order of committal should not be made against him for allegedly disobeying a court order. Justice I.A. Jamil of High Court IV gave the…
A UK court has heard how a Nigerian man killed his wife, who worked as a care home assistant, just months after they relocated to the UK from Nigeria. In 2023, LIB reported that a man named Olubunmi Abodunde had killed his wife Taiwo Abodunde, 41, leaving their three kids motherless. A UK court has…
An eight-year-old girl has been left with swollen eyes and hands after she was assaulted by her aunt. Activist, Harrison Gwamnishu, shared a horrific video of the battered minor and stated that she is currently receiving treatment in a hospital in Lagos. He wrote ‘’8-year-old child has suffered severe assault by a supposed aunt who…
Two teachers who were stabbed in a school playground in a UK school have been named and pictured for the first time today, April 24. Fiona Elias and Liz Hopkin were identified as the two victims of the knife attack at Ysgol Dyffryn Aman in Ammanford, South Wales, at the end of the morning break…
Motorists in Abuja and five other states are lamenting as long queues resurface due to an alleged shortage in the supply of PMS to the nation’s capital and other states. Several filling stations were closed in Abuja, Nasarawa, Niger, Gombe, Sokoto and Anambra states on Wednesday, April 24, as the scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit,…
118 inmates have escaped from the Medium Security Custodial Centre in Suleja, Niger State, after a downpour on Wednesday night, April 24, caused extensive damage to the facility. This was disclosed in a statement signed by the spokesperson, Federal Capital Territory Command of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Adamu Duza, on Thursday, April 25. Duza noted…
Nigel Farage has slammed UK doctors who abandoned Britain to practice in other countries after being trained in the UK. The GB News host made this known on Live TV. He also took to his X account to make his stance clear. He said NHS-trained doctors should be required to work for the health service…
Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) in Nigeria, like Globacom, 9mobile, MTN, and Airtel, have asked the federal government to facilitate constructive dialogue in the industry. According to the telcos, the current price control mechanism is not in tandem with the economic realities, thus seeking the government’s intervention to address pricing challenges. The four telecommunications giants said…
The chess champion explained that he wanted to show the kids back home that great things could come from small places. New Guinness World Record holder for Longest Chess Marathon, Tunde Onakoya has shared his ordeals while attempting to break the world record he has just set. In a lengthy post on his official X…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has frozen over 300 accounts linked to illicit foreign exchange (FX) trading. Ola Olukoyede, EFCC’s chairman, made the revelation on Tuesday, April 23 saying the agency secured a court order to freeze the accounts. “We got an order to freeze those accounts imagine what would have happened if…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has filed a fresh charge against Godwin Emefiele, former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). In the four-count charge, the anti-graft agency accused Emefiele of approving the printing of N684,590,000 notes at the rate of N18.96 billion. In the fresh charge filed, the commission alleged that…
The chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has said that he will resign if former Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello is not prosecuted. Speaking to journalists on Tuesday, April 23, at the EFCC headquarters located in Jabi, Abuja, the anti-graft agency chairman vowed that all those who obstructed the arrest…
The value of the naira depreciated against the United States dollar to N1,234 at the official foreign exchange market on Monday, April 22, according to data obtained from the FMDQ securities exchange. The exchange rate means the naira fell by N65 or 5.26 percent, from N1,169.99/$1 recorded on Friday, April 19. The local currency had…
The Lead British School Abuja has reacted to the viral video of a student being bullied by her classmates in a press statement. The student was seen receiving several slaps from her classmates, while the boys around her were heard trolling and laughing in the background. The school has however reacted to the video as…
Videos of female students bullying a lone female student at Lead British School, Abuja, have sparked outrage online. In videos shared online, female students, dressed in school uniform, are seen slapping one female student identified as Namtira. “What’s the boy’s name?” they asked as they confronted her and slapped her across both cheeks. Another video…
The world’s first female transgender mosque has reportedly opened in Bangladesh. In the video shared by DW, some of the worshippers who transitioned from being males to females were seen observing the Muslim prayers. It was further gathered that the land where the mosque was built, was donated by the government. The transgender Muslims expressed…
The federal government has directed that candidates who are less than 18 years old should not be offered admission into tertiary institutions. The Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman, gave the directive on Monday, April 22, during a monitoring exercise of the ongoing 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in Bwari, Federal Capital Territory. The minister…
