Executive Director of the Akwa Ibom State Internal Revenue Service (AKIRS), Leo Umana, has kicked against domestic violence, emphasizing the need for couples to go their separate ways if they can no longer live in peace. Mr. Umana stated this in reaction to the domestic violence allegations levelled against Uyo wedding journalist, Isaac Mefo,…
The brother of Parkland school shooter Nicholas Cruz has been arrested after allegedly trying to break into three schools in Virginia. Zachary Cruz, 24, was caught on surveillance footage attempting to access several buildings in Augusta County, police said. The disturbing incidents took place starting at around 11.30pm on January 25 and saw Cruz trying…
29 suspected oil thieves have been apprehended in the Niger Delta region by the troops of the 6 Division, Nigerian Army, in partnership with other security agencies. The troops recovered over 60,000 litres of stolen petroleum products. They also destroyed 24 illegal refineries and demobilized eleven boats used by oil thieves to evacuate their stolen products. …
A 42-year-old Nigerian man has been arrested for allegedly k!lling his Spanish wife, Catalina, 48, in Benalmádena, a town in Costa del Sol, Spain. The Nigerian identified as Augustine also set fire to the family home, where the victim lived with the couple’s three children – all minors – and another son from…
The International Olympic Committee are being sued for letting gender-row boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting compete in Paris 2024. Algerian Khelif and Yu-ting of Taiwan both won gold medals at last summers Olympics despite being disqualified from the 2023 World Championships for failing gender eligibility tests. Now the International Boxing Association the Russian-led body that administered those disputed 2023 tests, has launched…
The Minister of State for Health, Dr. Adekunle Salako, says medical workers remain among the highest-paid professionals in Nigeria. Salako said this during a working visit to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) on Monday, February 10. “The challenge of ‘Japa’ in the health sector is mostly an economic challenge, and we will…
A Ukrainian female powerlifting champion has been captured by Russia and accused of plotting to ass@ssinate one of Putin’s top military officials. Yulia Lemeshchenko, 41, was one of four women agents detained by the FSB security service, Russian media claims. She had a Russian passport and Kyiv used this to deploy her to get behind enemy lines and take…
Kiev, February 10, 2025 Photo: spzh.eu In May 2019, two months after Vladimir Zelensky was elected President of Ukraine, a group of Ukrainian individuals and organizations published a statement threatening political instability if the head of state were to cross any of their “red lines” in terms of security, foreign policy, economics, national identity,…
An American Airlines flight was reportedly evacuated and then delayed for nearly five hours in Texas because a passenger had a Wi-Fi hotspot titled, There is a bomb on the flightAmerican Airlines Flight 286 to Charlotte, North Carolina was returned to the gate at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport on Friday after a concerned passenger showed a…
Police operatives attached to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Command have arrested personnel of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) with assorted firearms and ammunition. The suspect, whose identity is yet to be revealed, was apprehended around the Zuma area of the state Monday afternoon, February 10, 2025. It was gathered that the officer…
