How financial pressure from Pastors keeps couples away from wedding in churches
The trend is a direct opposite of the days where churches sponsor weddings, encouraging young adults to embrace early marriage.
Terrorism: Bandit kingpin’s mum, sister bag 40-year jail terms
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday convicted and sentenced the mother and sister of late bandit kingpin Kachallah Ibrahim Battujo to forty years in prison each.
Beyond bullets, negotiations and ransom: Yorubaland in the grip of terrorists
The palace gates of Ife trembled with more than words. When the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, opened his mouth, he didn’t just speak, he summoned.
Ugborodo : Oil rich Itsekiri community deep in crisis
By Jimitota Onoyume , Assistant News Editor Fear hangs in the salty air of Ugborodo, in the oil-rich Itsekiri community, also known as Excravos, in Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State, like a stubborn cloud that refuses to clear. Anxiety has gradually replaced the once familiar rhythm of communal life. For more than […]
Police smash phone robbery syndicate, recover 34 stolen phones in A’Ibom
The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has dismantled a phone robbery syndicate and recovered 34 assorted phones in Uyo, while also securing the prosecution of a social media influencer for spreading false security information capable of causing panic.
UK-based Nigerian who tried to rape drunk woman jailed five years, to be deported
A Nigerian national who was studying in the United Kingdom has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison after being convicted of attempted rape and sexual assault following an attack on a woman in Hull.
