A Federal High Court in Abuja has set September 18 to deliver its judgment on a suit seeking to remove Abdullahi Ganduje as the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The plaintiffs, a group of aggrieved party members from the North Central APC Forum, argue that Ganduje’s appointment as chairman is illegal and…
Chinedu Ikedieze, the Nollywood actor better known as Aki, and his wife Nneoma Nwaijah have welcomed the arrival of a baby boy. The movie star took to his Instagram account on Saturday evening to announce the arrival of his bundle of joy. Aki shared a photo from his wife’s maternity shoot and another image of his newborn child’s feet….
Burna Boy has asked Dammy Krane to take down a social media post wherein he accused Davido of being involved in the death of his friend Tagbo Umeike. Umeike died from alleged alcohol poisoning in October 2017 after his birthday party at Shisha Lounge in Lekki, Lagos state. Davido previously dismissed claims that he had a hand in Tagbo’s death. Last month,…
Dele Momodu, publisher of Ovation magazine, has broken his silence on the custody battle between Sophia and Davido. The former lovers have been in the news in the past months over the custody of Imade, their 9-year-old daughter. In April, the Afrobeats star filed a motion through his lawyers Olaniyi Arije and Okey Barrah at the Lagos…
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Saturday on his first full day in office that he is scrapping a controversial Conservative policy to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda as he vowed to get change in motion, though he warned it will take time. “The Rwanda scheme was dead and buried before it started,” Starmer said in his first news conference. “It’s never acted as…
Newly-elected UK Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, has announced his first set of cabinet appointments, the BBC reported on Friday. This comes after his centre-left Labour Party achieved a landslide victory in the general election, ending 14 years of Conservative rule. Starmer, who is the first Labour Prime Minister since Gordon Brown in 2010, was invited…
Lucy Letby cried from the dock “I’m innocent” after she was sentenced to a whole-life order for attempting to kill a newborn girl in what the judge called a “shocking act of calculated, callous cruelty”. The former neonatal nurse made the remark as she was taken to the court cells after being sentenced. The judge,…
Jude Bellingham is clear to face Switzerland on Saturday after being fined €30,000 (£25,400) and given a suspended one-match ban by Uefa for his lewd gesture after scoring England’s dramatic equaliser against Slovakia. Bellingham was shown on TV to have kissed his right hand before making a crotch-grabbing action. He said it had been “an inside‑joke…
The Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA) says the assault case against Sir Jarus, entrepreneur and internet influencer, was struck out after his wife denied being a victim. On Thursday, Sir Jarus was charged with two counts of domestic violence at the Ogba Magistrate Court in Lagos. The first offence borders on “assault against his wife” while the…
The father of Hammed Ayinla Fabiyi, the final-year student of Tai Solarin University (TASUED) who was lynched, has denied the claim by law enforcement that his deceased son was a cult member. On July 4, a group of suspected cultists lynched Hammed, who was a 400-level student of history at the Ogun state-owned university. A witness account…
