A car bomb exploded on the outskirts of a northern Syrian city on Monday, February 3, killing at least 19 people, all but one of them women, and leaving more than a dozen wounded, hospital workers said. Another 15 women were wounded by the blast on the outskirts of the city of…
Former Governor of Oyo State, Senator Rasheed Ladoja, has denied the claim by former National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, that he has crucial information regarding the murd£r of Nigeria’s former Attorney General and Minister of Justice Chief Bola Ige. Bisi Akande, a former governor of Osun State, made the…
US President, Donald Trump has hailed Elon Musk, who serves as co-commissioner of the newly established Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) for his efforts in cutting the budget of government. Musk, the world’s richest man, emerged as a staunch supporter of Trump in the latter months of the election campaign. He was later appointed in…
An Ogun State High Court sitting in Abeokuta, on Monday, February 3, convicted and sentenced three persons to d3ath by hanging for k!lling a couple and their son. The couple, Kehinde Fatinoye, a former staff of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) his wife, Bukola Fatinoye and son, Oreoluwa, were gruesomely m8rdered on New…
US President Donald Trump has announced he is pausing U.S. tariffs targeting imports from Mexico for a month after the country’s president Claudia Sheinbaum agreed to send 10,000 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to combat the flow of fentanyl.Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday, January 3, that he and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum “agreed to…
A baby d!ed from burns after his intoxicated mum attempted to warm him up with a hair dryer then passed out with it still on, authorities claim. Morgan Alyson Creel, 32, from Georgia in the US, now faces an indictment for second degree murd£r. Creel called emergency services after waking up to find her son, reportedly…
The Lagos Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, February 3, 2025, arraigned 29 Chinese, 10 Filipinos, one Malaysian, one Indonesian and one Pakistani before separate Federal High Courts sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos. They were arraigned alongside a company, Genting International Co. Ltd., before Justices Ayokunle Faji; D.I. Dipeolu;…
The Police Service Commission (PSC) has clarified that it does not have the constitutional authority to determine the appointment or retirement of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun. This clarification follows inquiries regarding the PSC’s recent directive for officers who have served over 35 years or reached 60 years of age to retire,…
A tragic fire outbreak has claimed the lives of Aliyu Mohammed, Vice Principal of Dugja Bayan Tasha Junior Secondary School in Biu Local Government Area of Borno State, along with his wife and three children. The fire occurred on Sunday, February 3, with details about its cause still unclear. Neighbours recounted the family’s desperate…
Three siblings – a boy aged 5, and two girls aged 7 and 9 – were murd£red in their home and their bodies were stored in a deep freezer in Nnewichi, Nnewi, Anambra state, by yet-to-be-identified assailants. The eldest of the siblings, a girl, Ejezie Chikaima Daviana, with the second daughter, Ejezie Chimziterem Dominica and…
