A 21-year-old University of Lagos undergraduate arrested in connection with the murder of SuperTV boss Michael Usifo Ataga, 49, yesterday said she stabbed him to death following a disagreement over another round of sex. The suspect, Chidimma Adaora Ojukwu, a 300-level Mass Communications student, was paraded by the Commissioner of Police Hakeem Odumosu at the command headquarters Ikeja, nine days ... Read More »
Bread manufacturers and the Gurasa Bakers Association of Kano state have threatened to go on an indefinite strike if BUA GROUP owned by Abdul Samad Rabiu, IRS, Super, and Golden Confectionery do not reverse the price of flour within a week of calling off a three-day warning strike. Gurasa is a flour-based Kano indigenous local bread that is a popular ... Read More »
Baba Ijesha (in white hooded jacket) being pulled by a warder in Ikeja on Thursday Two Senior Advocates of Nigeria and 17 other lawyers, on Thursday, appeared at the Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja to argue the child molestation case involving embattled Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju Omiyinka, aka Baba Ijesha. Dada Awosika, SAN; and Babatunde Ogala, SAN, announced their ... Read More »
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested 21-year-old Chidinma for allegedly killing the Chief Executive Officer, Super TV, Usifo Ataga, in the Lekki area of the state. The state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, said Chidinma is an undergraduate of the University of Lagos, adding that she had confessed to committing the crime. Chidinma was paraded at the police command ... Read More »
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the composition of the Federal Government’s Team to engage with Twitter over the recent suspension of operations of the microblogging and social networking service in Nigeria. The approval was announced in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who would chair the team. The statement was ... Read More »
A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Apo, Abuja has convicted former member of House of Representatives from Kano State, Farouk Lawan for receiving $500,000 bribe from a businessman, Femi Otedola. Justice Angella Otaluka convicted Lawan on the three-count charge on which he was tried by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC). The ... Read More »
As the probe of the whereabouts of $43, 449, 947, 000 seized from Osborne Towers in Ikoyi deepens, there were indications on Sunday that the cash was deposited with the Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN). It was also learnt that the cash might have been transferred to the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) account of the Federal Government. But it was ... Read More »
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU), has threatened to go on strike again over the ‘blatant’ refusal of the Accountant General of the Federation, Mr Ahmed Idris to pay the salaries and remittance of check-off dues of over 1000 staff for 13 months. The ASUU chairman, University of Jos, Dr. Lazarus Maigoro, who raised the alarm in a press ... Read More »
Thirty-six-year-old Rahmon Azeez was full of life on Wednesday and nothing suggested that death loomed.Our correspondent learnt that he just got a visa to travel to the United States of America to see his wife and twins, who he had never carried physically since they were born abroad. He arranged for his wife to travel to the US where ... Read More »
It’s obviously celebration time for your soar-away celebrity and general interest magazine: NEWSTHUMB. We are proud to formally inform you our esteemed readers, subscribers and advertisers that the magazine will be 10 years old on the newsstands come Sunday, September 26, 2021; and we plan to celebrate it big time in a dual way. In commemoration of this dual event, ... Read More »
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