The Nation learnt that over 15 people are suspected to have drowned in River Kaduna as they tried to escape from the bandits attack.
Sources said that the bandits were armed with sophisticated weapons and were shooting sporadically when they entered into thee community.
According to a Source who prefers to remain anonymous, the people had to run towards the river to escape attack adding that in the process, many of them drowned.
Justice Abiodun Akinyemi of an Ogun State High Court in Abeokuta has slammed N500 million damages against Badejo, for libellous publications against Pastor Olukoya, and the church.
The Court also granted “a perpetual injunction restraining the defendant by herself, her agents, servants, privies or other persons howsoever called or described from further making, publishing and/or disseminating defamatory stories and statements about the claimants or any one of them.”
The Judge described the report as the worst case of reckless defamation and evil use of the internet and social media.
The man in question also said he didn't park illegally but was charged and then made him pay using a POS. He said he later stood his ground that a receipt must be issued to him.
The receipt issued to him has the Local Government bank account numbers which is totally different from where he paid to.
This happened at Isolo yesterday, and now the man is asking the state government to look into the matter and help him.
He paid a total sum of N34,000. The question Nigerians are now asking is, who is Alabi Shakirat Omobolanle?
The schools, according to the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, include Cherubim and Seraphim (C&S) College, Sabo Oke; St. Anthony College, Offa Road; ECWA School, Oja Iya; Surulere Baptist Secondary School and Bishop Smith Secondary School, Agba Dam.
Also affected are CAC Secondary School, Asa Dam; St. Barnabas Secondary School, Sabo Oke; St. John’s School, Maraba; St. Williams Secondary School, Taiwo Isale and St. James Secondary School, Maraba.
The Permanent Secretary said a government committee comprising representatives of the Muslim and Christian communities would meet to iron out the differences between the two religious communities.
Highlife music legend and veteran producer, Pa Chris Ajilo is dead.
The musician died at Wesley Guild Hospital in Ilesha on Saturday morning after he was rushed there.
Confirming his death are Orlando Julius and Latoya Aduke who are friends to the veteran musician. They said they visited Pa Ajilo on Thursday and he was hale and hearty.
“It is a painful loss to us. I took Orlando to see him on Thursday at his house, Pa was so happy,” Aduke said.
The suspects are one Miss Rejoice Raymond, 39 and Mrs Chidi Nwafor, 80.
A viral video circulating in the state showed a huge outcry by members of the public, when men of the Anambra State police command raided the residence of the women.
The video also showed policemen, rescuing three children who were locked up in different rooms in the flat, apparently keeping them for rituals.
Sources in Adamawa State said on Saturday morning that the players were attacked at gunpoint on the Benin-Ore expressway.
Their phones, money and other valuables were taken away by the attackers who seized the team’s driver.
The sources said the incident occurred about 5.30 am as the players were travelling for their Week 11 NPFL fixture against the MFM FC in Lagos.
Destiny Etiko was part of a group of actors led by the President of the Actor’s Guild of Nigeria to see Yahaya Bello.
Destiny Etiko shared a picture from the visit to the governor on Instagram.
She captioned the photo; “HIS EXCELLENCY…YAHAYA ADOZA BELLO, God bless you more for the warm reception.”
Ezekwesili said this while condemning the abduction of 27 Kagara students from Niger State, adding that a strange incestuous relationship now exists between the government and abductors.
The ex-minister said the friendship has enabled the industry of abduction to flourish in Nigeria on basic market principles of demand and supply.
Taking a swipe at the government, Ezekwesili said she hoped the students remain safe until President Muhammadu Buhari ‘reaches out to the abductors’.
He gave her the house saying his grandmother deserves the best and congratulated her.
Sharing a photo of them together and also a picture of the house on social media, Churchill who is now married to Rosy Meurer wrote;
“Sending warmest wishes for your new home. You deserve the best grandma you are my everything congratulations 🙏🙏🥰”
Stevie Wonder made this revelation on Oprah Winfrey’s show, ‘The Oprah Conversation’.
He said he is tired of racial injustice in America and doesn’t want his descendants to beg for respect and value.
In his words, “I want to see the nation smile again, and I want to see it before I move to Ghana.”
“I’m going to do that. I’m going to move permanently to Ghana.”
Myriad animals including pangolins, primates and sea turtles are held -- both dead and alive -- in confined spaces while workers fail to sanitise surfaces or tools and do not wear appropriate PPE, including gloves.
It was also revealed animals are abused before they are slaughtered; photographic evidence reveals vendors boiling animals including pangolins, dogs and manatees while they are still alive.
The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan is believed to be the site of the first outbreak of SARS-CoV-2, the pathogen causing the Covid-19 pandemic.
Onyeama, who stated this shortly after a close door meeting with Beninoise Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Aurélien Agbenonci, said the Beninoise president gave the offer when he visited President Muhammadu Buhari, a few weeks back.
“The President of Benin said as far as they are concerned, they want (not just saying it like that) but in reality, Benin should be the 37th state of Nigeria,” he said.
“We should really be one. They charged us to come together at ministerial level, to work out a framework for a sustainable relationship.”
It was learnt on Friday that the group of bandits responsible for the abduction wanted their gang members in custody of security agencies released as a swap deal to free the abductees.
Bandits in military uniform had reportedly stormed the school around 2am on Wednesday, and seized their victims, killing a Senior Secondary School 3 pupil who raised the alarm in the process.
The suspects – Michael Eneji aka General, 30; Nwachukwu Emeka, 22; and Success Okeke, 27 – were rounded up following the killing of one of their victims, Michael Victor, who reportedly went missing on January 6.
City Round learnt that the IRT operatives led by DCP Abba Kyari began to track the gang after Victor’s family lodged a complaint at the police unit on January 12, leading to the arrest of the suspects.
The gang’s modus operandi was to parade themselves as ladies in search of lovers on the dating site and lure their victims to a lonely spot where they would rob them of their valuables.
On Friday, news broke that West’s wife, reality star Kim Kardashian, had filed for divorce after nearly seven years of marriage.
While previous reports indicated that there were a handful of factors that led to their split — property, lifestyle and more — politics was also mentioned.
West, 43, famously threw his name in the ring during the 2020 presidential election, only securing his name on the ballot in 12 states.
Asked if he agrees with the impression that he is a womaniser, Flavour said, “That’s people judging (me), you know. As long as you are in the public eye, you would get stuff like that. It was never planned, though I cannot deny that I love beautiful women. I am an African man, not a white man. I have taste too with women. I don’t just go with anything.”
The father of three noted that he had always known it would be difficult dealing with women because of his career. He said, “I knew that with my job at some point, it was going to be very difficult with women.
The man, Enoch Adamu, had inflicted knife cuts on his lover, Ashini Hosea, in the premises of the Criminal Area Court II, Yola, and left her in pain.
While Ashini Hosea was rushed to the Federal Medical Center (FMC) in Yola for medical attention, Enoch was apprehended and taken to the CID.
In his apparent bid to escape the CID investigators, Enoch was said to have jumped from the staircase of the building of the CID. With the impact of landing on the ground, he became unconscious.
The Punch gathered that the incident happened around 08.30 pm on Thursday.
Fashogbon said he had gone to inspect his family’s land located at Bamigbose Fashogbon Village, Ota, Ogun State, which he claimed a High Court had awarded in the family’s favour when he was arrested by police.
A copy of the judgement and a petition addressed to the Inspector General of Police and the Commissioner of Police in Ogun State were made available to Punch correspondent.
The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Friday.
Nigeria also recorded 10 COVID-19 deaths, raising the total fatality in the country to 1,813.
“On the 19th of February 2021, 662 new confirmed cases and 10 deaths were recorded in Nigeria.
While the girl said she belongs to Sky Queens Confraternity”, Effiong said he belongs to a local cult called “Mbiang.”
The duo were arrested arrested on Wednesday for unlawful possession of locally made pistol.
The teenager had gone to school on Tuesday with a gun to shoot her one of her school teacher who had told her to cut her hair.
In a statement titled, ‘A Call for Release of Leah Sharibu,’ which Adeboye signed and issued on Friday, he directed all pastors in the RCCG all over the world to intensify their prayers for Sharibu’s release.
The clergyman also urged parents to use their influence to ensure Sharibu and other children in captivity were released.
“I, hereby, again call and direct all pastors in the Redeemed Christian Church of God, all over the world, not to stop but to intensify their prayers for the release of Leah Sharibu. I also call on every parent, all over the world, to use whatever influence they have, to ensure that Leah Sharibu and other children in captivity, are released. We shall not relent in our prayers,” he said.
The new parents took to their respective Instagram pages to announce the birth of their newborn.
Gbemi shared the news with a short video, saying, “ordinary stay at home, three months, you are pregnant”.
She shared the video alongside a photo of her cradling her baby bump, and in another slide, a photo of her baby’s sippy cup, of which she captioned, “Little did I know.”
Martins, who passed on in 2002, is also the mother of popular actress, Mide, who is married to her colleague, Afeez Owo.
During the week, a blogger alleged that Mide and Peters had abandoned Damilare, who is now 19 years old.
But, in a video the juju musician, who was recently ordained a Bishop of the Cherubim and Seraphim Church, stated that he was in talks with Damilare and his guardian, Baba Deji. He, however, did not acknowledge whether he was the father of the boy in question or not.
The Justice Department in a detailed statement released Friday, said Abbas took part in a “North Korean-perpetrated cyber-enabled heist from a Maltese bank in February 2019.”
His role was as a collaborator with a North Korean money launderer, Ghaleb Alaumary, based in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
Bukunmi Oluwasina shared a photo of herself in a NYSC uniform and reckoned that haters will disbelief her new achievement.
She captioned her photos thus;
“AWA NA TI PASS OUT O…Haters would say it’s a lie naw that I did not pass out. As if they are the owner of the pass out. Is it your pass out?”
The divorce petition was filed at the downtown offices of the Los Angeles County Superior Court, with Kardashian represented by prominent divorce attorney Laura Wasser.
Kardashian disclosed over the summer that the couple had been struggling with West's bipolar disorder.
Kardashian, 40, and the multi-Grammy winner West, 43, tied the knot during an elaborate 2014 ceremony in Florence, Italy, about a year after her divorce from the former NBA star Kris Humphries was finalized.
Speaking at ‘Radio Now’s Urgent Conversation’ in Lagos on Friday, he called on youths, corporate professionals and religious leaders to join active politics to contribute their quota and make the country work.
El-Rufai also said protests or activism will not take anybody anywhere until good people surrender themselves for public service and endure the humiliation associated with serving fatherland.
Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, made the disclosure in a statement this evening.
He said: “As of February 14 2021, there are about 55 different lineages of SARS-CoV-2 known to be circulating in Nigeria and they are changing rapidly.
“The diversity of SARS-CoV-2 strains indicate multiple introductions of the virus into Nigeria from different parts of the world and adds to evidence of community transmission in different states of Nigeria.”
The mattresses, it was learned, were warehoused in an undisclosed location in Yenagoa the state capital when the suspect’s break-in and stole the mattresses.
Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) in the state had raised alarm over the stolen mattresses which prompted the police to react.
Confirming the incident, Spokesman of the command, Mr Asinim Bustwat said in a statement “Following a tip-off, Operatives of Bayelsa State Police Command have arrested one Shehu Yola ‘m’ 42 years and one Sunday Emmanuel ‘m’ 28 years, at Okaka, Yenagoa.
George called on the Lagos State Government to do this by honouring Freedom of Information requests and revealing the terms of agreement between the Lekki Concession Company and the state government.
The PDP chieftain said this in a statement on Friday titled, “We Must Withdraw from the Brink”.
He said the state government must address allegations that Tinubu’s son and his former Chief of Staff, Sunday Dare, who is now the Minister of Youth and Sports Development, control the tollgate.
This was disclosed in a statement to journalists in Lagos by Showmax’s Public Relations Officer in Nigeria, Onna Okafor.
It said the reality series, has the highest first-day views for any show ever on the streaming service in Nigeria, including other popular reality shows like Big Brother Naija and Mercy & Ike.
According to the statement, a week after its debut, it remains in the number one most-popular spot on Showmax in Nigeria.
A judge of an Eastern District court of Virginia, Rebecca Smith, ordered Mr Okeke to be incarcerated in a medical facility where he would be subjected to ”full medical and mental health evaluation and treatment”.
The evaluation cum treatment is part of the rehabilitation process to reform his conduct before he completes his jail term and is reintegrated into the society.
The witch doctor, named Idike Ezikanyi from Uwani-Amaogbo, Amabokwu village in Aku town, Igbo-Etiti Local Government Area of Enugu State, was allegedly recruited by the late woman’s husband, one Nnadi, and other members of his family.
Ezikanyi was to secretly dig up the body of Nnadi’s wife, Stella, who died five years ago and was buried in her husband’s compound.
An eyewitness told Vanguard that on the fateful night, the Nnadi family got more than they bargained for when the witch doctor suddenly shouted from the grave, begging the ghost of the dead woman to have mercy on him.
Announcing the huge seizure in a statement on Friday, the state Commander of the anti-drug agency, Mr. Haruna Gagara disclosed that out of the figure, 711.5kg of cannabis seeds was recovered from a forest in Ago Oyibo area of Ogbese, Akure North Local Government Area of the state.
According to him, “this seizure has thwarted the mass cultivation of an estimated 250 hectares of cannabis sativa farmland in Ondo State.
“This humongous cultivation, if allowed, would produce an estimated 443,000 kilograms of cannabis.” He said his men stormed the forest on Thursday, February 18, 2021 following intelligence.
Some petitioners who received compensation of N10 million are Adebayo Abayomi for the extra judicial kiling of his mother, and Hannah Olugbodi for being shot by a police officer among others.
Justice Doris Okuwobi (retrd) in her recommendation also noted that erring officers who have committed these abuses are sanctioned.
Maina, through his counsel, Sani Katu, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, told Justice Okon Abang at the resumed trial.
Katu said his client was taken to the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada, because of his worsening health condition and the medical report was exhibited in the bail application.
The lawyer, who said that Kuje Correctional Centre where Maina was kept did not have the facility to attend to his state of health, added that if not granted bail, his leg might be amputated.
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