Author: Elizabeth Jenrola Oso

The donation of N5 million by the church authority has thrown the Celestial Church of Christ (CCC), Acts of Apostle Parish, Ketu, Alapere, Lagos, into turmoil. According to Punch, the crisis erupted during a Sunday service last week when an acclaimed son of the church founder, Muyiwa Oluponna, stormed the church and disrupted service in an attempt to install himself as the shepherd of the church. Oluponna allegedly seized the microphone from the acting shepherd of the church, Adetayo Adetola, during the sermon and claimed to have the right to deliver sermons every second Sunday of the month. A viral…

Italy, the Netherlands, and Canada have announced that they would comply with the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. The ICC issued the warrants on Thursday, accusing Netanyahu and Gallant of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the war in Gaza. A warrant was also issued for Mohammed Deif, the military chief of the Palestinian resistance group, Hamas. According to Turkish Newspaper, Daily Sabah, Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto stated that Italy would be obliged to arrest Netanyahu if he visited. Speaking on RAI’s Porta a Porta…

A Nigerian man has left many people in shock after marrying about 97 wives who have now given him over 180 children. He insists that he is healthy and can satisfy his wives. Bello Abubakar Masaba is an exceptional Nigerian man from Niger State. Masaba is popular because he has 97 wives and about 185 children. In an interview with a foreign newspaper, Masaba disclosed how he continues to write his name into the Guinness Book of Records, as Nigeria’s most prolific man, by marrying even more wives. How does Masaba satisfy his women sexually?The octogenarian ascribed his sexual power…

As part of its 76th Foundation Day Anniversary, the University of Ibadan has established the Wole Soyinka Institute in honour of one of its distinguished alumni, Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka. Renowned as a poet, dramatist, essayist, and human and civil rights activist, Soyinka is often referred to as the Global Humanist. The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Kayode Adebowale, announced the university council’s decision on Tuesday, 19th November, after a special command performance of Soyinka’s latest play, “Canticles: A Pyre Foretold,” staged at the Wole Soyinka Theatre (formerly the Arts Theatre). The production, featuring a 50-man cast and directed by Dr Tunde Awosanmi,…

Nollywood actress Wumi Toriola has made history with her latest film ‘Queen Lateefah’, which has quickly become one of the highest-grossing Nollywood films of all time. Since its release in September, the film has grossed an impressive N350 million in just two months, surpassing Toyin Abraham’s ‘Malaika’, which earned N302 million. This remarkable achievement places Queen Lateefah among the top 7 highest-grossing Nollywood films, making Toriola a standout figure in the industry. The film is now poised to challenge the records set by Funke Akindele with her blockbuster films: A Tribe Called Judah, Battle On Buka Street, and Omo Ghetto:…

In what appears a legal win for the President-elect Donald Trump as he prepares to return to the White House, the judge in his criminal hush money case ordered on Friday that sentencing be delayed indefinitely. The incoming president was convicted of 34 felony counts in May after a jury found he had fraudulently manipulated business records to cover up an alleged sexual encounter with a porn star ahead of the 2016 election. Prosecutors argued that concealing the alleged tryst was intended to help him win his first run for the White House. Trump, who had been scheduled to be…

Authorities are urging a Wisconsin man accused of faking his death and fleeing to Europe to come home to spend the Christmas holidays with his wife and three children. Ryan Borgwardt, 45, went missing on Aug. 12 while kayaking in Green Lake, about 50 miles northeast of Wisconsin Dells. Crews spent 54 days searching the lake, which is more than 200 feet deep at points, to no avail. The entire search effort cost nearly $40,000, according to Green Lake County Sheriff Mark Podoll. “Great news, we know that he’s alive and well,” Podoll said in a press conference on Thursday.…

The Enugu State Police Command has arrested a 33-year-old man, Ikechukwu Okoye, and his 39-year-old girlfriend, Juliet Ogbodo, for allegedly kidnapping and murdering a 70-year-old woman, Mrs. Mary Nwatu. The command’s spokesperson, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, In a statement issued Thursday night, disclosed that the arrest was carried out by the command’s Anti-Kidnapping Tactical Squad following credible intelligence. Ndukwe said the suspects, both from Onuorie-Obuno in Akpugo Community, Nkanu West Local Government Area of the state, killed the victim and buried her in a shallow grave before demanding a ransom of N6 million from her children. They were apprehended after receiving…

The Police, on Thursday, shed light on the circumstances surrounding the death of the United States returnee, who was found dead in a hotel room in Ogun State. The visiting US-based 51-year-old Sunday Abidoye’s lifeless body was discovered at the Creestar Hotel room, GRA, Sagamu, on Wednesday. In a statement by its spokesperson, SP Omolola Odutola on Thursday, the Ogun State command said it found nine different drugs and medications in the hotel room of the deceased, indicating he could be battling some kinds of ailments. Odutola explained that the Chief Security Officer of the hotel, one Mr Oluwole, reported…

Sixty-eight pro-Iran militants were killed in Israeli air strikes on the Syrian city of Palmyra, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said on Thursday. Those killed in Wednesday’s strikes included 42 fighters from pro-Iran Syrian groups, 26 foreign fighters, most of them from the Iraqi Al-Nujaba movement, and four from Lebanon’s Hezbollah armed group, the monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said “Israeli strikes targeted two positions of pro-Iran groups in the Homs region,” including “a Hezbollah site in the Qusair area” near the border where “six Iran-backed fighters were killed.” It did not specify…