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A Nigerian footballer, Kelvin Ifeanyi Igweani, has reportedly been shot dead by the police in the United Kingdom. According to The Mirror, Igweani was killed after officers were called to an address in Denmead, Milton Kenes, on Saturday. A sick child, who was found in the apartment, was said to have been immediately taken to hospital. It is unclear if the deceased...

A Constitutional Court in South Africa has sentenced former President Jacob Zuma to 15 months in prison for contempt of court. Zuma was found guilty by the country’s highest court after he defied its order to appear at a corruption inquiry centered on his tenure between 2009 and 2018. “The only appropriate sanction is a direct, unsuspended order of imprisonment” lasting...

Members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the House of Representatives have kicked against the defection of two members of the party to the ruling party, All Progressives Congress, APC, on Tuesday. The Deputy Minority Leader of the House, Toby Okechukwu, and others opposed the defection of two Cross Rivers State lawmakers, Lego Idagbo and Michael Etiaba, which was...

Abductors of Lukman Ibrahim whose pregnant wife was killed on Saturday during a kidnap operation by suspected gunmen have reached out to the family, demanding N30m ransom. A very close family source who confirmed the development on Monday in Ilorin said the family had only been able to raise N2m since the demand was made. “They insisted that it must be...

Tension is brewing in Lagos State over the planned July 3 Yoruba nation rally being championed by the secessionist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho. Igboho had held a similar rally in Ogun, Oyo, Ekiti, Osun and Ondo States. Following the last year’s #EndSARS protest which led to the destruction of public facilities in Lagos, authorities are cautious of any...

The Federal Government has explained why it was yet resume flight to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, on Monday in Abuja at the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19, said that flights were yet to resume to the UAE because of the discriminatory nature of the protocol introduced by Emirates. According to him, the protocol...

The Federal Government has extended the ban on travellers from Brazil, India and Turkey due to the rising COVID-19 cases in those countries by one month. It has also added travellers from South Africa to the list. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and Chairman of the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, said this on...

A report by the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has revealed that a total of 2,233 Nigerians lost their lives in multiple road accidents across the country in the first four months of 2021. The Corps Marshal of the FRSC, Boboye Oyeyemi, in a virtual event to mark the fifth edition of the Babatunde Raji Fashola ‘GabFest’, with the theme ‘Arrive...

THE Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC, has revealed that a new Revenue Allocation Formula among the three tiers of government (federal, states and local governments) would be ready before the end of the year. Chairman of the commission, Engr. Elias Mbam, revealed this while receiving members of the National Assembly Service Commission, led by Engr. Ahmed Khadi Amshi,...

THE Senate said, on Monday, that about N84 billion was mismanaged by the management of Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF, within four years. The revelation arose from 12 of the 50 queries investigated so far by the Upper Chamber. The Senate Committee on Public Accounts, led by Senator Matthew Urhoghide(PDP, Edo South), is carrying out the investigation, relying on the...