Author: Elizabeth Jenrola Oso

President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Nwakuche Sylvester Ndidi as Acting Controller-General of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), following the retirement of Haliru Nababa from the service. Haliru Nababa served as Comptroller General for three years and seven months. He was appointed as Comptroller General by former President Muhammadu Buhari and his tenure would end on 15th of December. Haliru was pulled out of the Service in a colourful ceremony on Friday. According to a statement signed by Ahmed Ja’afaru, the Secretary of the Board of Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services, the appointment of Mr Nwakuche…

In a tragic incident that occurred in Lokoja on Friday morning, two female students from the Federal University Lokoja (FUL) and Kogi State Polytechnic lost their lives in a ghastly motor crash along the Felele axis of the state capital. According to reports, the accident involved a heavily loaded articulated vehicle heading toward Abuja, which lost control and rammed into a tricycle (commonly known as Keke NAPEP) carrying passengers toward the main town. Sources confirmed that the victims were among four passengers in the tricycle. While the other two passengers sustained severe injuries, the two students succumbed to the impact…

The leader of the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, has stated that she identifies more with her Yoruba heritage than with Nigeria as a whole. Badenoch spoke in an interview with The Spectator, where she expressed that she feels little connection to northern Nigeria, which she described as a “haven for Islamism and Boko Haram.” She said, “I find it interesting that everybody defines me as being Nigerian. I identify less with the country than with the specific ethnicity (Yoruba.) “I have nothing in common with the people from the north of the country, the Boko Haram where Islamism…

A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Kafanchan, Kaduna State, on Thursday ordered the remand of a 30-year-old woman, Mercy Michael in a correctional facility over allegations of killing her eight-month-old daughter with rat poison. The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) charged Michael with culpable homicide, an offence that contravenes Section 189 of the Kaduna State Penal Code Law. According to the NSCDC prosecutor, Marcus Audu, the case was reported on December 11 by a resident of Fadia Bakut, Zonkwa, identified as Godfrey Sunday. Audu stated that on December 10, Michael allegedly fed her baby with rat poison for reasons…

Operatives of the Benue State Police Command have arrested a lecturer at the Joseph Sarwuan Tarka University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Dr Ichor Tersagh, for allegedly masterminding the abduction of the wife of his colleague, Mrs Susan Anyagh. According to reports, the woman was ambushed and kidnapped by some men along Otukpo Road, Makurdi, last Saturday. It was learnt that the kidnappers reportedly collected the N1.3 million found in her car, beat her to a coma and abandoned her on a bush path. Confirming the incident on Friday, the state command spokesperson, Catherine Anene, said that the woman was later found…

A Lagos-based businesswoman, Oluremi Phillips, was on Thursday convicted and sentenced to 17 years imprisonment for defrauding a company, AYM Shafa Limited, of N57,690,000. A Lagos State High Court in Ikeja presided over by Justice Ijelu handed down the sentence in a trial that spanned over two years. Phillips initially stood trial before Justice Sherifat Solebo of the Special Offences Court, Ikeja, following her arraignment on January 27, 2022. However, the trial could not be concluded before Justice Solebo retired in November 2022, leading to the reassignment of the case to Justice Ijelu. The EFCC said Phillips and her company,…

Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky, on Friday, said Russia’s overnight aerial assault on Ukraine included 93 missiles and over 200 drones targeting its power grid. In a statement released on X, Zelensky said the Ukrainian air force was able to shoot down 81 missiles, adding that one of the missiles belonged to North Korea. Zelensky, who described it as “one of the largest strikes targeting our energy infrastructure,” called on the West to step in and stop Russian President, Vladimir Putin, by cutting down the country’s oil funds. “Another Russian missile strike against Ukraine. Cruise missiles, ballistic missiles. According to preliminary…

…Sparking debate over ‘British institution’ The leader of Britain’s Conservative Party called sandwiches “not a real food” and said she “will not touch bread if it’s moist” in an interview published Thursday — sparking a griddle-hot debate in a country obsessed with “toasties.” Kemi Badenoch, who was elected head of the UK opposition party last month, claimed the bread-and-filling staple doesn’t cut the mustard when asked by Spectator magazine what she usually eats for lunch. “What’s a lunch break? Lunch is for wimps,” she fired back. “I have food brought in and I work and eat at the same time.…

After being on the FBI’s Most Wanted Cyber Criminal List for years, Abiola Kayode, a 37-year-old Nigerian, has been extradited from Ghana to Nebraska, United States. His arrest and extradition followed a conspiracy to commit wire fraud indictment filed against him in August 2019. A statement from the United States Attorney’s Office, District of Nebraska on Thursday, stated that Kayode was arrested in April 2023 by Ghanaian authorities and after a formal U.S. request for extradition, he was handed over to FBI special agents who brought him to Nebraska. He appeared in court on December 11, 2024, before United States…

A Florida (US) man is accused of killing his estranged girlfriend by stabbing her up to 70 times during a break-in Friday – exactly one month after he was nabbed for assaulting the victim and ordered to stay away from her. James Christopher Lindsey, 42, allegedly killed 40-year-old Kristin Stevens after breaking into her Chuluota home around 1 a.m. when he learned she went on a date with another man, according to the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office. The knife-wielding maniac – who was expected to be arraigned on a domestic violence battery charge against Stevens the same day of the…