Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency says it has arrested 23 people undergoing training in internet fraud scams in a remote village in the south of the country. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says the suspects – aged between 19 and 35 – were being trained on how to carry out romance and trading scams, as […]
No fewer than 100 fake professors have been uncovered in Nigerian universities by the National Universities Commission, NUC. Prof Abubakar Rasheed, the commission’s Executive Secretary, disclosed this in the NUC’s November bulletin. Rasheed said the NUC published the details of the fake professors on its website and also sent the names to the various universities […]
A clergyman identified as Pastor Benjamin Akinsanya of the Life House Ministry, Ojo, Lagos, has been arrested with two others, for allegedly sponsoring suspected assassins in an attempt to kill a competitor, a female pastor identified as Janet Ogunsola over alleged spiritual popularity tussle. Trouble started in October, 2019 when the suspects invaded the residence […]
A Nigerian man, identified as Comrade Mohammed, has suggested that President and Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces, Muhammadu Buhari, should provide his share of the 2020 budget in cash. According to the entrepreneur, he is not interested in the utilities outlined in the budget because he does not benefit directly from them. “I do […]
A young Nigerian lady in Umuahia, Abia State, is currently on the run after allegedly disfiguring her friend’s face after a dispute over N950 change. According to sources, on Friday, 28th November 2019, one miss Chikaodi Umeh, and her friend Onyinyechi Abaruo went out drinking with their mutual male friend, who was their host. After […]
A meeting of witchcraft practitioners as well as scholars in the disciplines of human behaviour and history is underway in the University of Nigeria-Nsukka (UNN) to deliberate on the phenomenon of witchcraft. The two-day conference, according to its host, Prof Egodi Uchendu, is supposed to help the Nigerian and African publics “determine amongst other things […]
The two-year-old lion was discovered at a property opposite a school by a task force on Friday following the receipt of a filed petition to the state’s ministry of environment by residents. The lion housed in a residential building at number 229, Muri Okunola Street, Victoria Island, VI, Lagos has been tranquilized and transferred to the zoo […]
Former President John Mahama has appealed to Nigeria to open its border at Seme. He also admonished the governments of Ghana and Nigeria to immediately resolve the crises that prevail within their domestic markets. While Nigeria closed its borders in a bid to check smuggling, Ghana has a raging conflict between local traders and foreigners […]
These are certainly beautiful times for top Nigerian gospel singer, Sinach, as she recently became a mother at 46. The sensational singer whose voice has been known to melt hearts recently welcomed her child after 5 years of marriage. The news was shared by Pastor Chris Oyakhilome at the just concluded LIMA awards which was […]
A middle-aged man suspected to be thief has been electrocuted while trying to steal a transformer in Abuja, Nigeria His lifeless body of the man in green shirts and black trousers was spotted dangling on a transformer along the Dawaki-Sokale road, Dutse. Reacting to his death, social media users have ironically applauded the suspected thief for […]
A young man in Nigeria made a good meal from a very huge snake that he found in his house. Twitter user @caesar_mayor counted himself very lucky when he discovered the reptile which by all standards is largely dangerous. He took advantage of the situation by rather preying on the snake, killing it instantly and […]
The 36-year-old lecturer, Ali Shehu, was granted N200,000 bail with two reliable sureties in like sum by Chief Magistrate Muhammad Idris. He said one of the sureties must be a Senior Lecturer of Kano State School of Technology and the second shall be the village head of where the accused person resides. “Both the accused […]
