No fewer than 60 Nigerian clerics have called for tougher legislation against LGBTQ activities, including expanding the existing 14-year jail term to cover cross-dressing and content that promotes homosexuality. They also declared December 15, 2024, as a ‘National Day of Confession and Repentance’ against what they described as the moral degra...
•Pastor Tobi The British Government is set to deport popular pastor, Tobi Adegboyega, to Nigeria after losing his case against deportation at the immigration tribunal. An immigration tribunal has ruled that Adegboyega, 44, should be deported to Nigeria after investigations uncovered financial misconduct at his church, reports The Nation. He ho...
•The American woman An unidentified American woman has narrated how two Nigerian internet fraudsters popularly known as “Yahoo boys” duped her of a huge sum of money in romance scams. The not-so-little above 50-year-old woman also declared her love for Nigerian men, describing them as the “sexiest and most handsome men on this planet” despite ...
Nigeria’s Glory Edet has added another feather to her cap, becoming the first Nigerian to win the CAF Women’s Champions League. Despite being sidelined by a knee injury sustained during TP Mazembe’s first-round match against South Africa’s University of the Western Cape on November 9, Edet’s impact resonated as the Congolese side claimed thei...
Experts in management sciences in the country have identified multiple taxation as a major challenge bedeviling businesses and manufacturing industry in the country, especially, in the face of Nigeria’s current economic reforms. Speaking at the 2024 annual public lecture of the faculty of Management Sciences of the University of Ilorin, titled...
•US Marshall The United States of America has offered a $25,000 reward for anyone who could provide it with information that could facilitate the arrest of a Nigerian, Olalekan Abimbola Olawusi, who is reportedly facing trial for the alleged murder of his child. It was gathered from a statement credited to the Supervisory Deputy U.S. […...
University of Ilorin in Kwara State has announced the registration and release of its first drought-tolerant and striga-resistant hybrid, ILOMAZ 3 maize. In a statement culled from the university’s weekly bulletin today, it was stated that the hybrid maize is considered revolutionary. The statement said that the proposal for the registration a...
Emirates Airlines has offered a complimentary 48-hour or 96-hour United Arab Emirates, UAE, visa to Nigerians interested in transiting through Dubai during November. It was learnt that among others, the visa will be valid for 30 days from the date of issuance; ticket purchase must be between November 1 and November 3, 2024; visa application [&...
•Senator Elisha Abbo A former senator representing Adamawa North Senatorial District, Senator Ishaku Abbo has declared that Nigerian democracy cannot grow if the judiciary is not overhauled to deliver justice and not injustice. Abbo who was sacked this year by the Appeal Court sitting in Abuja after earlier winning his case at the Tribunal to ...
•Trafficked teenage Nigerians in Ghana Cajoled by fake promises of high-paying professional jobs in Ghana, teenage girls and young men from Nigeria have continuously fallen prey to traffickers disguising as ‘agents’. Once in Ghana, the young men find themselves trapped as criminal gang members involved in nefarious activities while teenage gir...

