The Department of State Services (DSS), has filed terrorism charges against political activist, Muhammad Mahdi Shehu, for allegedly publishing and disseminating false information capable of inciting public disorder and causing panic. In the five count terrorism-related charges filed on Tuesday against the whistleblower, the DSS said Shehu had spread doctored videos claiming that the Nigerian…
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has shut down a warehouse in Kaduna for stocking expired food and cosmetic products worth over N75 million. The agency shared this development on its official X handle on Tuesday, January 22. It revealed that the warehouse is located at PP2A Bayajidda Street…
Nigerian singer Oludipe Oluwasanmi David, popularly known as Spyro, has taken to social media to shade music executive Ubi Franklin for allegedly withholding 10% for a car deal he helped him seal. Recall that the pair were at loggerheads recently when Spyro asserted in a post online that Ubi owed him $5,000 for a performance in…
Seun Kuti, scion of late Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti, has declared that many Africans living abroad often conceal the true challenges of their day-to-day lives. The musician who made the remarks while kicking against the ‘Japa syndrome’ during an Instagram live session condemned what he called an unwritten rule whereby Africans in the diaspora do not disclose the…
An anti-corruption group known as the Network Against Corruption and Trafficking Initiative (NACAT), has dragged former Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel, to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), over an alleged misappropriation of state funds running into N1.5 trillion. In a petition sent to the anti-graft agency in Abuja on Tuesday jointly signed…
Bobrisky has opined that the newly inaugurated US President, Donald Trump, has no power to stop same-sex marriage. On Monday, January 20, Trump was inaugurated as the 47th US President. In his inauguration speech, Trump announced that only two genders would henceforth be recognised in the U.S. Some Nigerians had claimed that his decree…
Attorneys General from 22 states in the United States of America have filed a joint lawsuit aiming to block President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship. The lawsuit which is being spearheaded by the Attorney General of Colorado and supported by 21 other states, is predicted on what they describe as Trump’s trampling…
A Magistrate Court, sitting in Akure, Ondo State has sentenced a 38-year-old bricklayer, Olushola Olatunde, to 21 years imprisonment for stealing items in some churches. Olatunde was arrested by the men of the state police command on December 8 and 24, 2024 for stealing some money, a public address system and an iron rod…
A teenager has been arrested after Arsenal forward Kai Havertz’s pregnant wife was sent sickening abuse on Instagram following the club’s FA defeat. The German striker, 25, missed a penalty in Arsenal’s shootout defeat at the Emirates on January 12 before his partner, Sophia Weber, who is expecting her first child with Havertz, said she received abusive messages…
The son of a landlord simply identified as Junior is on the run after he attempted to r3pe the 15-year-old daughter of his tenant in Elele community in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State. A source who spoke to Punch on the condition of anonymity said the suspect had approached the siblings of…
