•Naira Marley, Mohbad and Sam Larry Singer Azeez Fashola popularly known as Naira Marley; and one of his allies, Samson Eletu, better known as Sam Larry have filed a fundamental rights suit to challenge their “continued detention” over the death of singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba, alias Mohbad. Naira Marley and Sam Larry are each demanding N20m [&hel...
Benue State University, BSU, Makurdi, yesterday, placed one month’s suspension of 200 to 600 level Medical Students of its College of Health Sciences. Recall that the affected category of students had, on October 25, 2023, protested against what they claimed was lack of water and adequate hostel accommodation in the institution that the manage...
•Lagos PPRO, SP Benjamin Hundeyin Motorists have accused some policemen of conspiring with hoodlums to extort them at the Berger and Oshodi areas in Lagos State. During a visit to Oshodi and Berger yesterday, our correspondent observed that hoodlums asked commercial drivers for N300 to be provided to the police, reports The PUNCH. Speaking in ...
•Protesters Protests broke out in Lagos and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja yesterday as youths decried the allocation of Sport Utility Vehicles for members of the National Assembly. The youths who gathered in their numbers in the Ikeja area of Lagos held placards and chanted ‘Fund education not SUVs, ‘Pay living wage not SUVs, ‘Return [&...
The Saudi Medeval plane, marked: HZ-MS4C, yesterday airlifted the Kano conjoined twins, Hassana and Husaina Hassan lsa, for surgical separation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Together with their mother and other family members, the conjoined babies departed through the Aminu Kano Airport, reports The Nation. The story of the conjoined twins h...
The United States (U.S.) Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has foreclosed the possibility of making public any documents or information relating to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The FBI stated its position on the issue in a suit it filed before the United States District Court of Columbia by one Aaron Greenspan, who is seeking to […]
•Victor Osimhen Nigeria’s Victor Osimhen was ranked number 8 in the 2023 Ballon d’Or award which was held in Paris, France last night. He thus becomes the first Nigerian to make the top ten of the Ballon d’Or, reports AFP. The Napoli forward became one of the few Nigerians to be nominated for the Ballon […]
Argentine superstar Lionel Messi has won the 2023 Ballon d’Or, making it a record-extending award for the 2022 World Cup winner. The Inter Miami star was named the winner of the prestigious prize last night in the French city of Paris in what many see as a fitting reward for leading the Abiscelete to a […]
Spain’s World Cup-winning star Aitana Bonmati won the Women’s Ballon d’Or at a ceremony in Paris yesterday. Bonmati succeeds her international teammate Alexia Putellas as a winner of the prize after inspiring Spain to glory at the Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand earlier this year, reports AFP. The 25-year-old midfielder was name...
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo has mourned the passing of a constitutional lawyer and one-time Secretary-General of the group, Prof. Ben Nwabueze. One of the children of the deceased, Nkechi Nwabueze, who spoke to our correspondent on the telephone today, confirmed that the legal icon died in his Lagos residence yesterday, shortly after complaining of “n...

