FAMILY DISPUTE HALTS BURIAL PLANS FOR LATE GOSPEL SINGER OMIJE OJUMI
By Aishat Momoh. O. Burial arrangements for late gospel singer Bunmi Akinnaanu, popularly known as Omije Ojumi, have been suspended following unresolved issues within her...
KANO KILLINGS: SLAIN WOMAN’S YOUNGER BROTHER, TWO OTHER MEN ARRESTED BY POLICE
By 'Leke Yusuf Force Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Police Force, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, has announced the arrest of three suspects over the...
LAGOS POLICE ACTIVATE CCTV SURVEILLANCE CENTRE TO BOOST SECURITY ON LAGOS ISLAND
By Aishat Momoh. O. In a significant step towards technology-driven policing, the Lagos State Police Command has activated a state-of-the-art Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) Surveillance Centre...
WANTED DRUG LORD; KANMO-KANMO ARRESTED 12 YEARS AFTER MURDER OF 3 NDLEA OFFICERS
By 'Leke Yusuf . As Agency recovers illicit drugs from his hideout, nabs ex-convict, female online vendor, others in Jigawa, Lagos, Ogun, Edo, Delta, Oyo,...
NIDCOM CONDEMNS KILLING OF A NIGERIAN IN INDIA OVER ROMANTIC DISPUTE
By 'Leke Yusuf The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) has expressed sadness over the death of Emeka Christian, a Nigerian national in Pune, India. ...
QATAR AIRWAYS PLANE MAKES EMERGENCY LANDING IN LAGOS
By 'Leke Yusuf A Qatar Airways plane with at least 248 passengers on board was forced to make an emergency landing at the...
NOLLYWOOD TRAGEDY: SPECIAL EFFECTS ARTIST DIES IN GAS CYLINDER EXPLOSION ON SET
By 'Leke Yusuf James Akaie, A Nollywood special effects and pyrotechnics artist, James Akaie; has lost his life following a gas cylinder explosion on a...
RIVERS COURT HALTS FUBARA’S IMPEACHMENT
HOTJIST NEWS The Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Martin Amaewhule, and two others, including the House Clerk, are prohibited from sending any correspondence to the state's Chief Judge by an interim injunction issued by a Rivers State High Court on Friday in Oyigbo Local Government Area, Port Harcourt. In order to form a panel to look into the alleged misconduct against the state governor and his deputy, the court also prohibited Rivers State Chief Judge Justice Simeon Amadi from receiving, forwarding, considering, or taking any action on any request, resolution, articles of impeachment, or other document from the first to the 27th defendants for a period of seven days. In a decision on a motion ex parte in two distinct suits filed by Governor Siminalayi Fubara and Deputy Governor Prof. Ngozi Odu, the presiding judge, Justice F.A. Fiberesima, also allowed the claimants/applicants to serve the interim order and the originating processes in Suit Nos. OYHC/7CS/2026 and OYHC/6/CS/2026, as well as all subsequent processes intended for the first through 31st defendants at the Rivers State Assembly quarters. The court further ordered that the Chief Judge of the state, the 32nd defendant, be served with the interim order and the originating procedures in the lawsuits by any member of the judiciary at the Chief Judge's chambers on the High Court grounds. After then, Justice Fiberesima postponed hearing the motion until January 23, 2026. According to our source, the Assembly decided...
ODOKEKERE HIGH SCHOOL COLLAPSE: GOVERNMENT GIVES LATEST UPDATE
Lagos State Government, Special Committee on Rehabilitation of Public Schools (SCRPS) received with shock, the sad news of the bungalow classroom block which collapsed yesterday...
LAGOS CPWB PLEDGES EANCED PILGRIMAGE SERVICES
The Lagos State Christian Pilgrims Welfare Board has promised improved welfare services for the 2025 pilgrimage exercise, scheduled to commence at the end of...
