A Magistrates’ Court sitting in Akure Ondo State has remanded a 32-year-old Sunday Abilewa, in Olokuta Correctional Centre, for allegedly k!lling his 68-year-old father. Abilewa was arrested by men of the Ondo State Police Command and charged to court for murder. The Prosecutor, Inspector Abdulateef Suleiman, told the court that Abilewa, on December 31, 2024, at …
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The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested two suspects in connection with a recent burglary in Eket Local Government Area of the state and recovered stolen items valued at millions of naira. The spokesperson of the command, DSP Timfon John, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday, January 23, 2025, in Uyo. According to the PPRO, the …
Read More »A Nigerian woman, Kagbaranee Imeah has cried out after she was allegedly brutally beaten up by her husband over her choice of clothes for school runs. In a Facebook post on Thursday, January 23, 2025, the woman posted photos of her bl00died and swollen face, saying that her husband assaulted her simply because she wore a singlet to take …
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A man has said that he would be depressed if he were a woman who is ed0ected to be servitude despite being more capable, simply because of gender. He shared the thread after a woman on X lamented that she built her career by not listening to people telling her what to do and now she does not know how …
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Meta has responded to complaints from some users who claim they were forced to follow the social media accounts of the new US administration under President Donald Trump. T The accounts of Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, and Vice President JD Vance are managed by the White House, and with the change in administration, the content on these pages …
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An outbreak of the Marburg virus in Tanzania has claimed the lives of nine people, according to the African Union’s Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), which reported the latest figures on Thursday, January 23. This marks an increase from the eight suspected deaths reported by the World Health Organization (WHO) last week. The east African nation …
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Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has requested that his case be transferred to a Federal High Court in the southeast if no judge in Abuja is willing to preside over it. This request was disclosed by Kanu’s special counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, in a statement. Kanu, facing terrorism charges at the Federal …
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A woman in Kwekwe, Zimbabwe is receiving medical attention at Kwekwe Hospital after attempting to take her own life by consuming poison upon discovering that her husband had secretly married another woman. The husband, Forbes Degwa, a senior manager at a local company, reportedly paid Lobola for his second wife without informing his first wife, Alice. Forbes formalized his …
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In a case sparking significant debate in eSwatini, Dumsile Dludlu is facing up to three years in prison for allegedly snooping on her husband’s WhatsApp messages. Dludlu, accused of accessing her husband’s account without permission, has become the latest individual to be caught under the country’s strict Computer Crime and Cybercrime Act of 2022. This law, which criminalizes …
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The decomposed remains of a 45-year-old pastor, Esere Okilo, have been discovered in his home in Ekeki, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, more than a year after he was reported missing. Okilo, a native of Nembe-Bassambiri, had not been seen for 15 months before his sister stumbled upon his skeletal remains on Wednesday, January 22. The discovery took place when …
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