Author: Elizabeth Jenrola Oso

Street rapper, Habeeb Okikiola Olalomi, popularly known as Portable, has been granted a N2 million bail by the Isabo Magistrate Court in Abeokuta, Ogun State. The ‘Zeh Nation’ boss was arraigned by the police on a five-charge bordering on conspiracy, assault and restriction, armed with cutlasses and guns, conduct possible of causing harm to Ogun public officials on Thursday, February 20. He was charged alongside his nine associaltes as they pleaded not guilty to the charges levelled against them. According to the police (prosecutor), Portable and his allies – Nurudeen Warris, Adetola Alashe, Fatimo Muhammed, Oluwaseun Ayenuwa, Ifeoluwa Babatunde, Precious…

President Bola Tinubu has announced some appointments into the National Assembly Service Commission (NASC). Saviour Enyiekere was appointed as the chairman of the commission. Making the announcement in a statement on Thursday, Bayo Onanuga, the president’s special adviser on information and strategy said Enyiekere, an environmental specialist, previously served as the deputy chief of staff to Senate President Godswill Akpabio. The statement said he will hold the position for a five-year term, which may be renewed. Along with Enyiekere, Tinubu also appointed two members from each of Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones to serve on the commission. Like the chairman, they…

A member of the Sokoto State State House of Assembly, Aminu Boza has accused notorious bandit leader, Bello Turji of imposing a ₦25 million levy on villages in the eastern part of the state. The lawmaker is a member representing Sabon Birnin Gobir in the state legislative house. According to security analyst and counter-insurgency expert, Zagazola Makama, Boza made the accusation while speaking to journalists on Tuesday. The lawmaker, who raised the alarm over Turji’s presence in the Isa and Sabon Birni areas said, “Bello Turji is currently in the Isa and Sabon Birni axis of Sokoto. He has even…

A flight carrying primarily Asian undocumented migrants, 65 of whom are minors, is expected to land in San Jose, Costa Rica on Thursday afternoon. A deportation flight leaving the United States on Thursday carrying 135 mostly Asian undocumented migrants is expected to land in Costa Rica in the afternoon. Almost half of the migrants will be children. The migrants, heading from San Diego to San Jose, hail from China, Afghanistan, India and Pakistan, among other countries. Sixty-five minors and at least two pregnant women are among the deportees, Omer Badilla, Costa Rica’s deputy minister of the interior and police, told…

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…