More than 200 former militants from the Niger Delta on Wednesday protested the non payment of their allowances in front of the National Assembly in Abuja.
The protesting militants who carried placards and sang various solidarity songs called on the National Assembly to intervene in the non payment of their allowances by the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Coordinator of the Programme, retired Brig.-Gen. Paul Boroh.
A mild drama played out at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Wednesday before the commencement of the meeting of the Federal Executive Council.
A heated argument took place between the Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari; and the Head of the Civil Service Service of the Federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita.
Nollywood movie director, Niyi Akinmolayan, has veered into controversies surrounding payment of tithes in churches.
The filmmaker spoke support of not paying tithes called the bible an ‘old Jewish book’ which humans love analyzing.
Watford Captain, Troy Deeney has been handed a three match ban for violent conduct during last Saturday’s clash with Stoke, as announed by the Football Association announced on Tuesday.
The 29-year-old — whose club and Stoke were charged by the FA on Tuesday for failing to control their players — admitted to the offence which saw him press his thumbs into the face of Joe Allen.
A 56-year-old woman and mother of four, Modinat Owolabi, was on Tuesday convicted and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for cocaine trafficking.
Owolabi was convicted by Justice Rilwan Aikawa sitting at the Federal High Court in Lagos.
She was arraigned on one count by the National Drug Laws Enforcement Agency.
This small drama started last week when Triple MG boss, Ubi Franklin took to his Instagram to say tithing is for matured believers, obviously a shade at Freeze’ teachings.
Ubi Franklin has now made a statement on LITV’s The Report Card show that his opinion on tithing was rubbish.
Five sex workers were involved in a serious fight over missing N32,000, being the amount one of them realised from various clients.
The incident happened at a hotel located at Banjoko Street at Ilasamaja area of Lagos where the workers ply their trade.
The House of God is one of the unlikely places you expect to find a thief but today, it is this unlikely place that thieves visit to steal from people who have come to seek God’s divine favour.
High on the target of these thieves are the visitors’ phones, bags and other valuables.
Following the news of actress Yvonne Nelson giving birth to her first child over the weekend in Accra, some information about who the mysterious father of the baby is, has emerged.
Recall, reports emerged that the screen goddess had her baby at an unknown hospital in Accra, with the father of her baby by her side.
Group of 5 reportedly abducted and sold a five-year-old boy, Francis Nwachukwu and his two-year-old sibling, Chinaza Nwachukwu, for N1.1m.
A syndicate that specialize in stealing and selling children and operating in Imo and Enugu states , have been paraded by the Imo State Police Command.
A brave Cosmopolitan decided to wear her own vaginal fluid as a perfume and she reckons it worked.
Allison Ramirez headed to a bookstore to conduct some research into how and why she could attract men using her own pheromones.
Society for Family Health (SFH) has disclosed that Nigerians consume over 400 million condoms annually.
Spain’s Constitutional Court today ordered the suspension of last week’s declaration of independence by the Catalan parliament, a court source said.
A 35-year-old bookseller has been arrested for allegedly sodomizing an 11-year-old Nigerian boy inside the school premises for the last three-four years. He was arrested from Sigma Sector 2 late night on Tuesday. The accused has been sent to judicial custody for 14 days.
"We have sent him to judicial custody for 14 days. The child was sent for medical examination on Tuesday. We have initiated the proceedings. We will also talk to other students with the help of child counsellors," said a senior police official.
A 43-year-old father, Musa Mohammed, has been arrested by the Rights Protection Agency in Niger for setting his 15-year-old son, Bello Musa, ablaze.
Mariam Kolo, the Director-General of the agency, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Minna.
US forces have captured a man accused of involvement in the 2012 attack on an American compound in the Libyan city of Benghazi, President Donald Trump said.
Mustafa al-Imam was seized in Libya, the president said in a statement.
The Flag Officer Commanding Central Naval Command, Rear Admiral Bello Al-hassan, on Tuesday said the Navy had deployed seven ships and 37 patrol boats for martime security drill in the Niger Delta.
Al-hassan told the News Agency of Nigeria at the Federal Ocean Terminal, Onne that the command had commenced a sea/backwater exercise code named: ‘Octopusgrip’ in Onne, Rivers State.
Twenty-seven-year-old Nkosilathi Sibanda has landed in a Zimbabwean Magistrates’ court for allegedly sleeping with his neighbour’s wife after disguising as her husband.
When he was arraigned before Magistrate Hosiah Mujaya, Sibanda was charged with rape.
The prosecutor, Timothy Makoni told the court, “On October 22 at around 3am, Sibanda who knew that the victim’s husband had not returned home, tip-toed into her bedroom while naked.
A second Hollywood figure has come forward Tuesday with sexual assault allegations against actor Kevin Spacey.
Tony Montana, a documentary filmmaker, says that the House of Cards star groped him in the Coronet Pub in Los Angeles in 2003.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has resumed the probe into the $43.4million cash recovered at Osborne Towers in Ikoyi, Lagos which led to Monday’s sacking of National Intelligence Agency (NIA) Director-General Ayo Oke by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Presidency said it is in order for anti-graft agencies to probe the former NIA boss and the sacked Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Babachir Lawal.
Earlier this year, Nigerian singer, Ycee, in a series of tweets, called out Sony Music West Africa and also mentioned its general manger, Michael Ugwu over his music contract.
This morning, Ycee took to his Twitter page to warn upcoming artistes about dubious record labels.
He wrote;
Nigerian singer, Wizkid who visited his childhood neighbourhood in Surulere area of Lagos State yesterday, reportedly gave 100k each to many physically challenged people he met there.
A Texas mother was arrested after police say she confessed to having sex with her daughter’s teenage boyfriend.
The boy’s mother called the Pharr Police Department in August to report that her son had sex with his girlfriend’s mother, 44-year-old Claudia Yaneth Lopez, according to KGBT.
Asuquo Amba, the Commissioner of Police Bayelsa state today paraded 36 males and 30 females between the ages of 14 to 17 years at the command for being in possession of illegal substances suspected to Indian hemp.
He said they were not going to press any charges against them but said they will be counselled and handed over back to their parents.
Three suspected armed robbers were yesterday reportedly beaten to death aggrieved resident in Akure, the Ondo state capital.
The deceased were accused of snatching two motorcycles from their owners along the popular Hospital Road.They were said to have been arrested and beaten by passers-by following an alarm raised by one of the victims.
