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VIDEO: GHANAIAN CHEF ARRESTED FOR FORGING GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS AWARD BREAKS SILENCE
Ebenezer Smith, the Ghanaian chef who claimed to have broken the Guinness World Records(GWR) for the longest cooking marathon by an individual, was arrested on Tuesday. The cook, fondly called Millennium Chef Smith, was detained at the La police station in Accra for faking the GWR award. Smith had publicly announced himself as the new world record…
‘RESPONDING TO MY INSTAGRAM POST SHOWS YOU’RE JOBLESS’ – MOMPHA HITS BACK AT EFCC
Ismaila Mustapha, the Nigerian socialite better known as Mompha, has fired back at the EFCC for asking him to prove his corruption claims. Last week, a witness revealed that the anti-graft agency discovered up to N35 billion in bank accounts traced back to Mompha. Mompha, who is facing trial for alleged money laundering to the tune of N6…
PROVIDE EVIDENCE OF CORRUPTION AGAINST US, EFCC DARES MOMPHA
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has asked Ismaila Mustapha, the socialite better known as Mompha, to provide evidence of corruption against its operatives. Mompha is facing trial for an alleged N6 billion fraud. In 2022, the EFCC arraigned the socialite and his company Ismalob Global Investment Limited on an eight-count money laundering charge. The…
VIDEO: NAFDAC CRACKS DOWN ON COUNTERFEIT WATER OPERATION IN PORT COURT
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has made a significant breakthrough in its fight against counterfeit products in Nigeria. Recently, the agency uncovered a clandestine operation in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, where fake bottles of water were being produced and packaged for distribution. The raid, carried out by NAFDAC officials,…
COURT TO DECIDE GANDUJE’S FATE AS APC NATIONAL CHAIRMAN ON SEPTEMBER 18
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…
BURNA BOY ASKS DAMMY KRANE TO DELETE POST CALLING DAVIDO A ‘MURDERER’
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 BREAKS SILENCE ON DAVIDO, SOPHIA CUSTODY BATTLE
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…
NEW UNITED KINGDOM PRIME MINISTER STARMER SAYS CONTROVERSIAL RWANDA DEPORTATION PLAN IS ‘DEAD AND BURIED’
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…
NEW UNITED KINGDOM PRIME MINISTER MAKES 10 CABINET APPOINTMENTS
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 HANDED 15TH WHOLE-LIFE JAIL SENTENCE
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,…