Month: January 2022

Kwara State High Court, Thursday, sentenced a 24-year-old undergraduate of Kwara state University, KWASU, Malete, Alonge Toyyib, to one-year imprisonment over offences bordering on cybercrime and possession of fraudulent funds. Justice Adenike Akinpelu of the state High Court sitting in Ilorin sentenced Alonge to prison after the court found him guilty of the two-count charge…

In a bid to appreciate the unbeaten Super Eagles players and officials of the National team, some well meaning Nigerians have promised the team enviable amount of money and other heart warming gifts. The Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele, at the Eagles camp in Garoua, in a video released by the Nigeria Football Federation on…

The Super Eagles of Nigeria will face the Carthage Eagles of Tunisia in the ongoing African Cup of Nations (AFCON) round of 16 fixtures. The mouth-watering clash was announced on Thursday night following Tunisia’s 1-0 loss to the Gambia — which consigned the North Africans to qualify as one of four best third-placed teams in…

Operatives of Kano State Police Command have arrested one Abdulmalik Tanko, a proprietor of private school in Kano, Noble Kids School, for abducting and killing a 5-year-old pupil of the school, Hanifa Abubakar. Sources from the family of deceased said the suspect was among the first set of people who came to console her parents…

No fewer than 151 energetic and committed Nigerian youths seeking for the election of Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki organized a town-hall meeting at the NUJ Correspondent Chapel, Osogbo, the capital city of Osun State. The details of the maiden edition of the gathering was contained in a release by theDirector of Publicity, Grow Nigeria Youth…

The Ivory Coast crushed an abject Algeria 4-1 on Thursday with Nicolas Pepe among the scorers as the reigning champions crashed out of the Africa Cup of Nations in the group stage. Franck Kessie and Ibrahim Sangare scored in the first half for the Elephants in Douala, while Pepe and Sebastien Haller added further goals…

The Nation Ekuma Jeremiah, the young hawker, who was caught on camera in Ajah area of Lagos giving money to inmates in the Correctional Service van, has met with businessman and popular socialite Obi Cubana. The Nation reports Jeremiah was caught on camera in the Ajah area of Lagos last week giving money to inmates…

Researchers at the University of Alabama-Birmingham have successfully transplanted two kidneys from a genetically modified pig into a human who was brain dead. It marks the second successful transplant of pig kidneys into a human in the United States, following a similar achievement by surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City last October…

Days after donating N50 millions to victims of banditry in Zamfara, National leader of the All Progressives Congress, and presidential hopeful, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has donated N50 million to the Niger State government to mitigate and address the insecurity ravaging some parts of the state. Jagaban as fondly called by his political admirers made…