Month: March 2017

Last week, a 23-year-old boy identified as Tope Abiodun, was sentenced to death by hanging by a High Court in Abuja for stealing an android LG phone valued at N87, 000 after stabbing his victim with a knife in his head. A concerned Nigerian has appealed to authorities to...

A passenger plane caught fire before skidding off the runway while attempting an emergency landing in the Andes. The right wing of the Peruvian Airlines jet broke starting a fire, according to local media in South America. The Boeing 737-300, which was travelling from Lima, was forced to make...

A Nigerian journalist, Chidiebube Okeoma, paid a visit to a hospital in Orodo in the Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo State where two out of the three persons shot by the trigger-happy policeman, Wilson Ufere, are currently recuperating after coming out of coma (see story HERE if you...

A woman who was desperate to have a baby boy has finally given birth to her first son, after having 11 daughters. The mum, named as 40-year-old Bhagyamma, gave birth to her 12th child at home then called an ambulance who took the baby to a health centre where...

Kano state governor Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje OFR visited Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote in his home in Victoria Island neighborhood in Lagos state. Governor Ganduje was accompanied by chairman Alhaji Abdullahi Abbas and other government officials with him....

Tension has gripped residents of Alamutu and Akala in Mushin area of Lagos State as three persons were found dead and many shops looted as rival hoodlums clashed. Scores of the hoodlums and residents were also reportedly injured in the clash, which lasted for more than five hours before...

Nigerian football legend Jay Jay Okocha has shown that he’s still got the magic touch even with a golf ball -nine years after his retirement…In a viral footage filmed at the European Challenge Tour’s Barclays Kenya Open last week, the 43-year-old former Nigeria midfielder was seen juggling with a...

The Ibadan Zonal office of EFCC, Monday, 20th March, 2017 took over five suspected internet fraudsters arrested by men of the Oyo State Joint Security Task Force, ‘Operation Burst’ for further investigation. The suspects, which includes Oyewole Oyeleye Olatunji (28), Adeniran Adeyinka Yusuf (29), Samuel Olumide Adeola (29), Israel...

Brazil and Barcelona legend Ronaldinho has launched his music and singing career with new single ‘Sozinho’. The 37-year-old, who never officially retired, hasn’t played professionally since 2015 and was last month appointed as a club ambassador for Barcelona. However, it appears in his spare time the king of the...

Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade has locked out Secretary to the State Government, Barrister Tina Agbor and other staff of Government House, Calabar. According to George Odok, the governor is said to have arrived office before 7:30 AM this morning only to find his entrance locked and when...