By Joe Udo ABUJA (CONVERSEER) – Over the weekend, January 16-17, images surfaced online of Sokoto Governor Ahmed Aliyu giving small containers of cooking oil and salt to widows as part of Armed Forces Remembrance Day relief. Another showed a northern politician’s wife with women lifting sugarcane bundles, labelled as empowerment. Converseer learned that the…
…appointed, captured, and reporting daily — yet no salaries By Our Reporter CALABAR (CONVERSEER) – Hundreds of newly recruited Local Government Area (LGA) workers across Cross River State say they have reached a breaking point after working for months without receiving a single salary, nor being captured in the payroll, despite reporting for duty daily….
By Our Reporter IBADAN (CONVERSEER) – A Grade A Customary Court sitting at Mapo, Ibadan, Oyo State, has formally dissolved the 30-year-old marriage between two senior police officers, Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) Gladys Faniyi and her husband, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Abayomi Faniyi, following allegations of persistent domestic violence, infidelity, and irreconcilable differences….
By Frank Ulom CALABAR (CONVERSEER) – A prophet of the Mount Zion Lighthouse Full Gospel Church in Calabar, Prince Asuquo, has been a trending topic on social media after being stripped and beaten for alleged homosexuality. Converseer gathered that Asuquo, popularly known as Prince Boo on social media, was apprehended by suspected vigilantes in Port…
By Our Reporter BENIN CITY (CONVERSEER) – The Edo State High Court has ordered the remand of some youths arrested over a protest that rocked Ekpoma, Esan West Local Government Area, at the Ubiaja Correctional Centre. The order followed an application by the prosecution seeking a 14-day remand period to enable further investigation of the…
By Joe Udo PORT HARCOURT (CONVERSEER) – Six family members have been found dead in their residence at Ogale Eleme community in Eleme Local Government Area (LGA) of Rivers State. The police have attributed the incident to a suspected case of generator fume poisoning. According to The Whistler, the incident was discovered on Sunday at…
By Our Reporter ABAKALIKI (CONVERSEER) – A Magistrate Court sitting in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State capital, on Monday, ordered the remand of a social media critic, Mr Polycap Obinna Alegu, over alleged defamation of the Secretary to the Ebonyi State Government (SSG), Prof. Grace Umezurike. According to The Whistler, Alegu, 36, was arraigned before Magistrate Court…
GRACELAND (CONVERSEER) – Two people have died after a collision early this morning between a Volkswagen Polo and a minibus taxi on Graceland Road near the Boom 3 area of Secunda, local authorities confirmed. The crash occurred at approximately 04h00, when the Polo is alleged to have lost control before colliding with the taxi. Emergency…
BRACKENHURST (CONVERSEER) – A 42-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the death of his wife after her body was discovered in the boot of her car at the Bracken Square Shopping Centre in Brackenhurst, on the East Rand. The woman had been reported missing on Friday, 9 January 2026, when a friend filed…
By Joe Udo BENIN CITY (CONVERSEER) – Netizens have taken to social media to accuse the Nigeria Police and Nigerian Army personnel of shooting at, killing and injuring students of Ambrose Alli University, who were protesting over worsening insecurity, including kidnappings in Ekpoma, Edo State. Some of the netizens who shared their stories on X…
