The United States has said it is placing six Nigerians on its terror list for their involvement in sponsoring terrorism. The Nigerians are Abdurrahman Ado Musa. Salihu Yusuf Adamu, Bashir Ali Yusuf, Muhammed Ibrahim Isa, Ibrahim Ali Alhassan, and Surajo Abubakar Muhammad. This is coming six months after the United Arab Emirates (UAE) placed the six Nigerians on its terror list. In a statement on Friday, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said it has added the names of the six Nigerians to “the List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons, pursuant to…
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On Thursday, a Magistrate Court sitting in Oshodi area of Lagos presided over by Magistat Kehinde Ogundare convicted the Lagos socialite, Ms. Ogbulu Chindinma Pearl who distributed fuel as souvenir. The convict was arraigned at the Special Offences (Mobile) Court sitting at Oshodi on the 14th of March, 2022 for the offence of distributing Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, as souvenir during her installation party on the 5th of March, 2022 at Havillah Event Centre, Lagos. She was ordered to pay a fine of N15,000 (fifteen thousand naira) or three months imprisonment on the first count, a fine of N500,000 (five hundred…
Pope Francis presided Friday over a special prayer for Ukraine that harked back to a century-old apocalyptic prophecy about peace and Russia that was sparked by purported visions of the Virgin Mary to three peasant children in Fatima, Portugal, in 1917. Francis invited bishops, priests and ordinary faithful around the world to join him in the consecration prayer, which opened with Francis entering St. Peter’s Basilica before an estimated 3,500 people. During the event, the pope confessed his sins and absolved others in one of the basilica’s confession booths. The service was Francis’ latest effort to rally prayers for an…
Operatives of the Lagos State Taskforce have arrested three members of a fraud syndicate who operate in Ikeja, Egbeda, and Igando parts of Lagos. The three members of the gang, two males and one female, Bola Tony, 38, Eddie Okoro, 48, and Tochi Ikeji, 40, were arrested on Friday at Ikeja UnderBridge when the trio was identified by one of their victims who saw them driving in traffic, and drew the attention of Taskforce officers stationed around the Bridge to them. The victim who declined to have her name on print was accosted by the gang the previous day and…
Even if I have the call of God, it doesn’t mean I can’t have a career. I shouldn’t have to rely on church offerings to survive. Here’s where people have a problem with pastors: they believe that most pastors wait for tithes or offerings. But that’s not me.” When Jay*, a pastor-turned-data-scientist, was in his final year as a computer engineering student at the Oduduwa University in Osun state, Nigeria, he decided his final year project would focus on e-voting in Nigeria. “But that topic wasn’t approved,” he says. The reason, Jay says, was that the lecturers in charge, at…
Mrs. Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu, the wife of Ondo State Governor, has indicated her intentions to represent Imo East Senatorial District in the Senate. The Ondo first lady disclosed this while kicking off consultation with stakeholders in the Senatorial zone on Thursday at Igolo Abiam Plaza, Wetheral Road, Owerri, the Imo State capital. Anyanwu-Akeredolu expressed pained at the rate the country has deteriorated, adding that she cannot sit by to watch the country continue on her descent to the precipice. She lamented the lack of attention to the youths which, according to her, has forced many of them take into hard drugs…
Our breakfast was roasted cocoyam, red oil and a lot of onions and tomatoes. For a long time, I have not had such a sumptuous and indigenous meal. Before we set on our different ways, we had had discussions for about an hour at the restaurant located in the basement of the small but cute hotel. That was some months ago. He was set for East Africa.I was set for Accra, Ghana, but somehow, we met at the airport again and continued the discussion for another half an hour. My friend is a member of the National Assembly and confessed…
A 28-year-old Nigerian man, Kenneth Ajilore, has been sentenced to six and half years in prison for r#ping a woman in a car in Hackney area of London, U.K. Hackney Gazette reports that detectives began an investigation after they were called by a woman, aged in her 20s, who’d been r#ped in a car after a night out in Stoke Newington in the early hours of September 17, 2021. He was sentenced at a Nightingale Court based at Hendon Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, March 24, 10 days after he was found guilty of the charges leveled against him. She reported…
The news of the passing and funeral arrangements of the late broadcast doyen has been made. With heavy hearts but gratitude to God for a life beautifully lived, we announce the passing of our wife, mother, grandmother, sister, aunt.GOLD BRIDGET ORUH M.Sc.Nov 26th 1946-March 16th 2022.Funeral Arrangements:Service of Songs- Thursday 31st March at 5pm.Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, Musa Yaradua Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.Funeral Mass: Friday 1st April at 10am.Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church, Falomo, Lagos.May her gentle soul rest in perfect peace.
Justice A.R. Muhammad of Federal High Court, Abuja, Monday, granted an order for interim forfeiture of N116 million alleged proceeds of crime linked to the non- execution of constituency projects awarded to Hamza Barau and Hamshakin Ventures Ltd and funded by the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) on behalf of some federal law makers. A press statement by EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, Monday in Abuja, said: “The constituency projects involved the provision of Strategic Empowerment Programme in Akko, Gombe state; conduct of Pilot Seasonal Intervention Programme in Vandeikya/Konshisha, Benue state; provision of Strategic Empowerment Programme in…
