The Senate Committee on Capital Market on Thursday rejected the Investments and Securities Tribunal’s 2025 budget proposal due to errors in the figures and items presented. This followed a motion moved by the Senator representing Bayelsa West, Seriake Dickson and seconded by Senator Aliyu Wadada from Nasarawa West during the agency’s budget defence in Abuja….
New England Patriots safety Jabrill Peppers appeared in a Massachusetts courtroom on Thursday and pled guilty to one charge of possessing cocaine. The 29-year-old, wearing a blue suit and white shirt, admitted to a judge that the powdery substance found in his wallet following his arrest for domestic violence in October was an illegal…
The Ekiti State Government announced on Thursday, January 23, that the existing legal framework in the state does not recognize a Sharia Court or an Independent Sharia Arbitration Panel. The statement was made by the state Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General, Dayo Apata, in response to news reports about the first public sitting…
The decomposed remains of a 45-year-old pastor, Esere Okilo, have been discovered in his home in Ekeki, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, more than a year after he was reported missing. Okilo, a native of Nembe-Bassambiri, had not been seen for 15 months before his sister stumbled upon his skeletal remains on Wednesday, January 22. …
At least 15 people died in an auto crash along Olooru/Oko-olowo Road in Kwara on Wednesday. The Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in the state, Mr. Muftau Irekeola, confirmed the accident to journalists on Thursday in Ilorin. He said two commercial vehicles were involved in the accident. According to him, three…
In a case sparking significant debate in eSwatini, Dumsile Dludlu is facing up to three years in prison for allegedly snooping on her husband’s WhatsApp messages. Dludlu, accused of accessing her husband’s account without permission, has become the latest individual to be caught under the country’s strict Computer Crime and Cybercrime Act of 2022….
A woman in Kwekwe, Zimbabwe is receiving medical attention at Kwekwe Hospital after attempting to take her own life by consuming poison upon discovering that her husband had secretly married another woman. The husband, Forbes Degwa, a senior manager at a local company, reportedly paid Lobola for his second wife without informing his first…
An outbreak of the Marburg virus in Tanzania has claimed the lives of nine people, according to the African Union’s Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), which reported the latest figures on Thursday, January 23. This marks an increase from the eight suspected deaths reported by the World Health Organization (WHO) last week….
Meta has responded to complaints from some users who claim they were forced to follow the social media accounts of the new US administration under President Donald Trump. T The accounts of Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, and Vice President JD Vance are managed by the White House, and with the change in administration,…
An analysis of data released by the Debt Management Office, reviewed by SaharaReporters, reveals that President Bola Tinubu’s administration spent N3.5 trillion on debt servicing between July and September 2024. The data also indicates that $1.338 billion was allocated to external debt servicing during the same period. The government, in the DMO data announcing the…
