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The Rivers State Police Command has refuted claims that its personnel attempted to break into the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC) office on Aba Road, Port Harcourt.   In a statement issued by Grace Iringe-Koko, the spokesperson for the command, the police clarified that officers were deployed to the RSIEC facility based on intelligence reports about a planned arson …

Lagos Police officers attached to the Area C command, who were accused of extorting over N1 million from National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members, have refunded the money.    The update was given by X user, Oluyemi Fasipe, who initially reported the incident.   He expressed gratitude for the swift response of Lagos Police spokesperson Benjamin Hundeyin and the Lagos …

Filmmaker and evangelist Mike Bamiloye has come to the defence of Pastor E.A. Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, following recent controversy surrounding Adeboye’s comments on tithing.    Bamiloye took to social media to address the reactions that followed Pastor Adeboye’s apology about an earlier statement he made regarding the practice.   Adeboye had issued …

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has disclosed that it sold a total of $543.5 million to authorized dealer banks in the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market (NFEM) from September 6 to 30, 2024.    The bank stated that this intervention aimed to mitigate market volatility caused by rising demand for foreign exchange (FX), particularly driven by commodity imports and seasonal …

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has not endorsed former President Donald Trump, the financial giant clarified on Friday, following a false claim by Trump on social media.    The denial came after Trump posted on Truth Social, inaccurately stating that Dimon had endorsed him for the 2024 presidential election.     “Jamie Dimon has not endorsed anyone. He has not …

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has conferred the nation’s second highest national honour, the Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON), on the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, following a protest by members of the House of Representatives.   In his 64th Independence Anniversary speech on October 1, President Tinubu initially awarded Abbas and the Deputy …

Two teenage schoolgirls were almost crushed by a minibus in Colombia and the harrowing near-miss was caught on camera.   The girls, both 14 years old, were sitting on a sidewalk on Tuesday afternoon, October 1,  after they closed from school in Ciudad Bolivar, a neighborhood in the capital city of Bogotá, when the public transportation vehicle came rumbling down …

  A 2011 video of Justin Bieber and Sean “Diddy” Combs on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” has resurfaced in the wake of the music executive‘s arrest for alleged s3x trafficking and racketeering.    The video starts with host Jimmy Kimmel asking the pair what their friendship is like and if they are working on music together.   “I think that we …

A high-profile New York attorney has confirmed that he has been hired by the family of late rapper Tupac Shakur to investigate a possible link between his murder and Sean “Diddy” Combs.   Combs is currently facing accusations of s£xual assault, r@pe and human trafficking from a number of lawsuits as well as federal charges after a three-count indictment alleges he kidnapped and trafficked women “to …

Aman has admitted to helping a woman have s3x with a dog and causing unnecessary suffering to the animal. Graham Marshall, 38, and his partner are said to have caused unnecessary suffering to a dog called Charlie by ‘regularly subjecting him to habitual sexual activity’. On Thursday, October 3, he pleaded guilty to one count of aiding and abetting a …