Author: Elizabeth Jenrola Oso

The Afenifere National Youths Council has announced the kidnap of its National President, Prince Eniola Joseph Ojajuni. Making the announcement of the abduction in a statement on Thursday, the group noted that Ojajuni was abducted on Monday, February 17, 2025 in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory. Abiodun Aderohunmu, the National Secretary of the Afenifere National Youths Council, disclosed that the kidnappers have demanded a ransom of N100 million. The statement reads, “The Afenifere National Youths Council is deeply saddened to announce the kidnapping of its National President, Prince Eniola Joseph Ojajuni, in Abuja, Nigeria. “The unfortunate incident occurred yesterday, and…

Just ousted Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, has described the allegation of a sudden discovery of a “cache of arms and ammunition” in his office as an attempt to tarnish his image. In a personally signed statement in Lagos on Thursday, the six-term lawmaker described the allegation as baseless and an afterthought. Some reports claimed the Assembly uncovered a significant cache of arms in the office of the Chief Security Officer (CSO) of the ousted Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, on Tuesday. According to several online media sources, the arms cache allegedly included about 47 pump-action rifles…

·US President Donald Trump, who is negotiating with Russia on ending the war in Ukraine slammed his Ukrainian counterpart for going into a war that couldn’t be won, in a social media post. Calling him a dictator, Trump wrote, ‘Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a country left.’ President Donald Trump on Wednesday called Volodymyr Zelenskyy a modestly successful comedian and ‘dictator’ after the Ukrainian president said that United States President was influenced by Russian disinformation. The remark came even as Trump administration is reaching out to Russia to pushing for a peace deal. Earlier…

A man hailed as the world’s first imam to say he was gay was shot dead in South Africa on Wednesday, local police said, in what rights groups fear could be a hate crime. Eastern Cape provincial police said in a statement it was investigating the death of Muhsin Hendricks, 58, in Bethelsdorp stating that the motive behind the killing was unclear. The statement said that at around 10 a.m. Wednesday, “Hendricks and a driver was inside a gold-colored VW TRoc in Haley Place, Extension 24, Bethelsdorp when a silver-colored Hilux double cab stopped in front and blocked them from…

A California jury has found A$AP Rocky not guilty of two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, stemming from a 2021 shooting incident with a former friend in Los Angeles. Attorneys for the hip-hop artist and actor, who is the longtime partner of the singer and businesswoman Rihanna, had argued the weapon was a prop gun that only fired blanks. A$AP Rocky did not testify in the trial. Rihanna was present in the courtroom on Tuesday when the verdict was read. After the verdict was announced, the rapper expressed his appreciation to the jury, saying, “Thank y’all for…

Divers in Poland discovered more than 220 pounds of cocaine on the bottom of the Baltic Sea, the nation’s border guard said on Tuesday, marking the latest unusual location that drugs have been found in Europe. Officers with the Border Guard Maritime Unit located the cocaine on the seabed in the Gulf of Gdansk in northern Poland, officials said in a news release. Seven people were detained and the border guard said it had “dismantled an organized crime group involved in smuggling significant amounts of drugs.” Authorities released several images of the operation and said the seized drugs had an…

Sudanese paramilitaries have killed more than 200 people in a three-day assault south of Khartoum, according to a lawyers’ network, while the army-backed government put the death toll at more than double that figure. The Emergency Lawyers network, which has documented human rights abuses during 22 months of fighting between the rival security forces, said hundreds more were wounded or missing and feared drowned after the paramilitaries opened fire on villagers as they attempted to flee across the White Nile. The foreign ministry of the army-backed government said 433 people, including children, had been killed in the attack by the…

Following the tragic death of seven students of the Federal University Lokoja (FUL), Kogi State, and a bus driver in a ghastly road accident involving a truck and a school shuttle bus on Tuesday, students of the university have staged a massive protest, blockading every entrances and exits in the school According to SaharaReporters, the protesting students began their public demonstration on Tuesday and continued on Wednesday morning to demand immediate actions from relevant authorities to avert future fatal accidents within the school environment. The tragic accident, which occurred around 2:30pm saw an articulated truck carrying wood and jerrycans of…

….Says ‘You shouldn’t have started it’ President Donald Trump has laid the blame squarely on Ukraine for “starting” the seemingly never-ending three-year-old war with Russia, saying, “You should have never started it. You could have made a deal.” The United States President spoke as talks between the US and Russia over the war in Ukraine kicked off in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. Representing the US at the meeting were Marco Rubio, US secretary of state; Steve Witkoff, Middle East special envoy; and Mike Waltz, national security adviser, while Yuri Ushakov, Russian presidential aide, and Sergey Larov, foreign minister, stood…

Two of the suspected killers of a member of the state house of assembly, Justice Azuka, have escaped from custody, the police command in Anambra State has said. The Labour Party (LP) member of the state House of Assembly was abducted and attacked by gunmen on Christmas eve as he made his way home for the festivities. Few weeks ago, the lifeless body of Azuka was found on the Second Niger Bridge after being killed by his abductors after allegedly withdrawing N100 million from his account. The police spokesperson in Anambra State, Tochukwu Ikenga, announced the escape of the suspects…