Author: Elizabeth Jenrola Oso

A gang has been convicted over the theft of a £4.8m gold toilet from an art exhibition at Blenheim Palace. The artwork — dubbed “America” — was one of the star attractions of an exhibition by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan at the 18th-century stately home, the birthplace of wartime prime minister Winston Churchill. Thieves smashed their way in and ripped out the functional toilet, hours after a glamorous launch party at the Oxfordshire stately home in September 2019. Michael Jones was found guilty of planning the burglary. Fred Doe was convicted of conspiring to sell the gold, while Bora Guccuk…

Two NASA astronauts stuck onboard the International Space Station (ISS) since June 2024 finally arrived back on Earth on Tuesday evening, more than nine months after the failure of Boeing’s pioneering Starliner capsule scuppered their originally scheduled week-long mission. A SpaceX Dragon capsule containing four astronauts, including Starliner’s test pilots Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore, splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Tallahassee, at 5.57pm ET (9.57pm GMT) after a 17-hour descent. The spacecraft slowed from 17,000mph (27,359 km/h) as it entered Earth’s atmosphere and emerged into a clear blue Florida sky before coasting under…

In a distressing piece of news, Boko Haram-backed Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), formerly known as Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād, has released a video showing the execution of three Nigerian soldiers. According to SaharaReporters, in part of the video, the defenceless and hooded soldiers were shot in the head by the Boko Haram-backed insurgents. Reports have it that the incident occurred on March 15th, 2025 in Yobe State, North East Nigeria. The soldiers were said to have been captured in Kamuya and Azare area of the state. The video showed the three men kneeling in a field and…

United States President, Donald Trump has released materials related to the 1963 assassination of former President John F. Kennedy, seeking to honour his campaign promise to provide more transparency about the shock event in Texas. An initial tranche of electronic copies of papers flooded into the National Archives website on Tuesday evening with a total of more than 80,000 expected to be published after Justice Department lawyers spent hours scouring them. The digital documents, including PDFs of previously classified memos, offers a window into the climate of fear at the time surrounding U.S. relations with the Soviet Union shortly after…

US President Donald Trump has warned that American troops “could be” drawn into the conflict if Russia’s war on Ukraine escalates into “World War III.” The 78-year-old president made the remarks on Fox News on Tuesday, hours after a nearly two-hour phone conversation with Russian President, Vladimir Putin. Trump, in a chat with Laura Ingraham on The Ingraham Angle, admitted that “Russia has the advantage” in the war and said, “We want to get it over with.” The president described his call with Putin as “great” and said he had pushed for a 30-day ceasefire, though the Russian leader only…

President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday exercised his constitutional power by declaring a state of emergency in Rivers State. The president also suspended Governor Siminalaye Fubara, his deputy, Ngozi Odu, and members of the House of Assembly, appointing Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (retd) to oversee the affairs of the oil-rich state. The decision is as a result of lingering political turmoil in the state which has led to the destruction of national assets. The declaration of a state of emergency is one of the most extraordinary powers granted to the Nigerian president under the 1999 Constitution (as amended). It is designed…

More than 150 Nigerian women and children were deported by Libyan authorities on Tuesday under a UN-affiliated “voluntary return” scheme for irregular migrants, an immigration official and UN sources said. Libya is a key departure point on North Africa’s Mediterranean coast for migrants, mainly from other parts of Africa, risking dangerous sea voyages in the hope of reaching Europe. Speaking to AFP, Mohamad Baredaa of Libya’s migration agency said the migrants deported on Tuesday were all Nigerian “women accompanied by children.” Sources at the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the UN agency involved in the repatriation scheme, said the group…

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) likely violated the Constitution and blocked billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from further cuts to the agency. U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang in Maryland ordered the Trump administration to restore email and computer access to all employees of USAID, including those who were placed on administrative leave. The lawsuit singled out Musk as a defendant covered by the preliminary injunction, arguing that he was wielding power the Constitution reserves only for those who win elections or are confirmed by the Senate. Thousands…

Separated wife of famous musician, Innocent Idibia, popularly called 2Baba, Annie Idibia, has reportedly left the rehabilitation centre where she was receiving therapy, sources close to the actress has revealed. Her reason for leaving the rehab programme this time has left people wondering as she was originally anticipated to spend more time in recovery. The actress, who has struggled with mental and marital issues in the past, sought professional help during what many saw as a watershed moment in her life. Hence, her unexpected departure has been generating concerns and discussions, especially since she had been on a personal recovery…

Controversial crossdresser, Idris Okuneye, better recognised as Bobrisky, has disclosed that she has dated several high-profile individuals, called celebrities, in Nigeria. The (wo)man that had been in news for all the negative reasons ever since she broke into the people’s consciousness a decade ago, made this known while speaking about betrayals that drove him into exile. (S)he confessed to have had intimate relationships with seven Nigerian celebrities in a recent video shared on Snapchat. In the heated rant, Bobrisky announced plans to expose and name those celebrities, describing them as fake individuals in the Nigerian entertainment industry. Reflecting on the…