By, bisola Adedeji Afrobeats star Davido says he told promoters of a show in Warri, Delta State, that he won’t be around. A former president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Amaju Pinnick had accused the singer, whose real name is David Adeleke, of failure to attend the show after being paid $94,600 and a private jet of $18,000 arranged ...
Crime
November, 2023
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1 November
Davido dragged to Court Pinnick demands #2.3bn & 4-days apology
The organisers of the annual ‘Warri Again Concert’, Brownhill Investments Company Limited, have instituted a N2.3bn suit against hip-hop artiste, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, over an alleged breach of agreement/contract entered into between them. Brownhill Investments Company Limited, owned by a former President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Mr Amaju Pinnick, filed the suit marked EHC/183/2023 before the ...
October, 2023
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31 October
70 corpses, skeletons uncovered in Abia cattle market
The Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, says 50 decomposing corpses, including 20 headless ones, as well as countless skeletons were discovered by security operatives during a raid of the forest around the Lokpanta Cattle Market in the Umunneochi axis of the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway. According to the governor, it was also discovered that the cattle market was being used by ...
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31 October
Ex-Benue LG Chairman,80,Dies In Kidnappers den ..Ransome paid !
A former chairman of Ukum Local Government Area in Benue State, Elder Raymond Washima Erukaa, has died in captivity. Erukaa, an octogenarian was abducted from his home at Tse-Erukaa, in Zaki Biam on September 23, 2023. He was the pioneer chairman of Ukum LGA founded in 1981 and father of former Channels Television correspondent, Charles Erukaa. His eldest surviving son, ...
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30 October
Who’s Dominic Martin, the man behind bomb @ Witnesses Convention
Dominic Martin, a resident of Khader Lane in Kerala’s Ernakulam, has confessed to being responsible for the serial blasts that struck a convention centre of Jehovah’s Witnesses. It happened, on Sunday, killing three and injuring 50. The man said that he took the action as the ideology of the group was ‘seditious’ Shortly after the tragedy struck, a man surrendered ...
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30 October
Arrest made over bomb blasts @ Jehovah’s Witnesses Convention
A man claiming to be a former member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses was detained for questioning about his alleged involvement in setting off homemade bombs at a meeting of the group in the southern Indian state of Kerala on Sunday, killing two women and injuring dozens of other people, police said. A second woman had died, chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan ...
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30 October
BREAKING: Terrorists bomb Jehovah’s Witnesses Convention, 2 die, 55 critically injure
Suspected terrorists have bombed a regional convention of Jehovah’s Witnesses in India, leaving tears and blood at the religious gathering. Reporting on the tragic incident, a breaking news on JW.org, the official website of Jehovah’s Witnesses, said: “On Sunday, October 29, 2023, at least two bombs exploded at the regional convention held in Kerala, India. The incident occurred just after ...
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26 October
Seven justices who’ll decide Tinubu, Atiku, Obi’s fate Today
lPolitical parties including the PDP, LP, Action Peoples Party (APP), Allied Peoples Movement (APM), and the Action Alliance (AA) had lodged separate petitions before the tribunal, seeking to annul Tinubu’s victory, but only three made it to the Supreme Court. A seven-member panel of the court, headed by Justice John Okoro, heard the appeals on Monday, October 23, and reserved ...
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26 October
Tinubu Appoints 10 RECs For INEC
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the appointment of 10 new Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for a term of five years each, subject to the confirmation of the Nigerian Senate. Presidential spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, in a statement on Wednesday, said the appointment was done based on powers vested in him by Section 154 ...
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26 October
Soun of Ogbomosho appeals Court dethronement
This is not the best of times for recently enthroned Soun of Ogbomoso. Court has removed him hours ago, but he is going to appeal, sources in the palace mentioned. An Oyo State High Court sitting in Ogbomoso, on Wednesday, nullified the selection of Oba Ghandi Olaoye as the new Soun of Ogbomoso. Ghandi was installed as the new Soun ...