OGUN POLICE ARREST MAN FOR ALLEGEDLY SELLING DANGEROUS ‘FIBROID CURE’ DRUGS
By Aishat Momoh. O. The Ogun State Police Command has arrested one Williams Adetunji for allegedly producing and selling unapproved and unsafe drugs he claimed...
ISTANBUL COURT ORDERS DETENTION OF 11 FOOTBALLERS IN MAJOR BETTING, MATCH-FIXING SCANDAL
By Aishat Momoh. O. An Istanbul court on Monday ordered the detention of 11 footballers from Turkey’s first and second divisions over allegations of illegal...
COURT SENTENCES POLICEMAN TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR KILLING STUDENT
The Chief Justice of Plateau, David Mann, has given his decision in a case that everyone was waiting for, which involved the death of a...
UPDATED: SENATE APPROVES TINUBU’S REQUEST TO DEPLOY TROOPS TO REPUBLIC OF BENIN
[caption id="attachment_203456" align="alignnone" width="300"] HOTJIST NEWS[/caption] The Senate has agreed to let President Bola Tinubu send Nigerian soldiers to the Republic of Benin to help...
ARMY DENIES SHOOTING WOMEN PROTESTERS IN ADAMAWA
BY UTHMAN MOHAMMED The Nigerian Army's 23rd Brigade in Adamawa State has said that their soldiers did not shoot at women who were protesting after...
ECOWAS DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY IN WEST AFRICA
The Economic Community of West African States has declared a state of emergency throughout the region. The President of the ECOWAS Commission, Omar Touray, announced...
BAYELSA BANS ILLEGAL MINING TO CURB INSECURITY
BY JENN NOMAMIUKOR The Bayelsa State Government has stopped all illegal and unauthorized mining of minerals in communities within the eight local government areas of...
CHILDREN ABDUCTION IS LESSER EVIL THAN KILLING SOLDIERS
Islamic cleric Sheikh Gumi said that taking schoolchildren hostage is a "lesser evil" compared to killing soldiers. He told the BBC in an interview that...
CHRISTMAS: ENUGU REAFFIRMS BAN ON FIREWORKS
The police chief in Enugu State, Mr Mamman Giwa, has again said that selling and using fireworks, which are also called "knockouts" or "bangers," is...
CHINA EXECUTES FORMER SENIOR BANKER OVER BRIBE ALLEGATIONS
China executed a former executive of a top state-controlled asset management firm for corruption on Tuesday, state media reported. Bai Tianhui, the ex-general manager of...