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A video of nurses of the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Oyo state using their phones as source of light has gone viral.    The hospital has been battling power outage for over 17 days. The Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company had cut the electricity supply to the Hospital due to unpaid bills. The hospital is being billed under the “band …

The Federal Government has said it needs $10 billion in private investment in the power sector, over the next five to 10 years, to achieve 24-hour power supply.   The Minister of Power, Mr Adebayo Adelabu disclosed this when the Director-General of Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), Dr Jobson Ewalefoh paid him a courtesy visit.   The Acting Head of …

Politician Dino Melaye has revealed he is not concerned about leaving possessions for his next of kin.    In a post shared on social media today November 13, the Father of three said he is going to rock and take care of himself while alive.    He said if anything remains when he is gone, then ‘’congratulations” to his children. …

Justice Simo Amobeda of a Federal High Court sitting in Kano, has sentenced a 31-year old man, Lawan Salisu, to three years imprisonment for sexu@lly abusing a 10-year old boy.   Salisu, of Tishama Yan Awakai Farin Bene Transformer in Nassarawa Local Government, Kano State, was convicted on a one-count charge of procurement and s#xual exploitation after he pleaded guilty …

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has claimed that oil cabals in Nigeria are working alongside international oil companies (IOCs) to undermine the operations of private refineries like Dangote Petroleum Refinery.   During his address at the November 2024 Abuja Special Holy Ghost service, Adeboye called on Nigerians to pray for divine intervention …

Suspected kidnappers have k!lled a pastor, Rev. Thomas Danjuma Gaku in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State.    It was gathered that the gunmen invaded his pastoral house and whisked him away to an unknown destination.    It was learnt that he was k!lled by his abductors a few days ago.    Until his death, Rev. Gaku was the …

A young woman has d!ed on the operating table after undergoing a nose job procedure from a doctor she found on social media in Italy.   Margaret Spada, a 22-year-old from Lentini in Sicily, travelled to the unnamed clinic in Rome for a “touch-up” on November 4 after spotting an advert for the facility on TikTok.  But she became unwell shortly after being …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned two members of an alleged syndicate, Ojobo Joshua and Aliyu Hashim for attempted fraud and impersonating the Executive Chairman of the Commission, Ola Olukoyede.   They were arraigned on Wednesday, November 13, 2024 before Justice Jude Onwuebuzie of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court, sitting in Apo, Abuja.   The …

Wofai Fada is pregnant with her first child. The actress took to Instagram to share photos of her baby bump. Wofai and Taiwo Cole had their traditional wedding in May 2024 and their court wedding months later. See more photos below.      The post Actress Wofai Fada expecting first child with husband (photos) appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog.

  A lifestyle blogging father who starved his newborn son to death by demanding he should live on sunlight instead of food and milk has had his jail sentence increased.    Maxim Lyutyi, 44, and his partner Oxana Mironova, 34, failed to properly feed their baby Cosmos, who died from ‘pneumonia and emaciation’ when he was less than one month old. …