The suspected billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and kidnapping before a judge of the Ikeja High Court. Evans and five others were arraigned on a two-count charge of conspiracy and kidnapping.
The judge ordered that all the male defendants be remanded at …
read morePresident Muhammadu Buhari has received the victorious D’Tigress in Abuja. He met with the Basketball Team at the council chambers on Wednesday morning, a few days after they won the Afrobasket Championship title for the first time in 12 years in Mali.
President Buhari also disclosed that each player …
read moreThe former Queen of Ife, Olori Wuraola has finally confirmed the end of her marriage to the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi. The Olori has also reverted to her maiden name Zaynab Otiti Obanor. Her post partly read, “What I can confirm is that the Ooni and I …
read moreEvidence has emerged to further back up the, story that Kano law professor Mamman Lawan, who was nominated to the board of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) by President Muhammadu Buhari, is embroiled in corruption, abuse of privilege and professional misconduct issues.
Available court documents now categorically identify …
read morePrices of rams have jerked up in some markets in the Federal Capital Territory in spite of low patronage few days to the Eid-el-Kabir celebration, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. A check at the livestock market in Kuje, Abaji, and Kwali showed that in spite of the availability of …
read moreCameroon has banned people from watching a popular television station that says it represents the interests of the English-speaking population. Cable TV providers have been told they will be sanctioned if they do not stop broadcasting the South Africa-based channel, SCBC.
But content can still be viewed online. There have …
read moreThe Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry are to pay tribute to their mother on the eve of the 20th anniversary of her death, amid scented roses and other favourite flowers in a new memorial White Garden at Kensington Palace.
A Kensington Palace spokeswoman said the garden visit would “allow …
read moreNigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday chaired his first cabinet meeting since returning from sick leave in Britain this month. Buhari returned to Nigeria on Aug. 19 after more than three months in London for treatment for an undisclosed ailment.
Last week he cancelled a cabinet meeting, raising concerns …
read moreProminent nuclear disarmament campaigner Sumiteru Taniguchi, who was delivering mail in Nagasaki when the United States dropped an atomic bomb in 1945, died on Wednesday at the age of 88. Taniguchi, once considered a front-runner for the Nobel Peace Prize, died of cancer at a hospital in the southwestern Japanese …
read moreArchaeologists in London have uncovered the remains of Greenwich Palace, the birthplace of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. The Palace, which once stood on the site now occupied by the Old Royal Naval College, has been revealing some of its secrets. Two rooms from the Tudor-era palace were found when …
read moreResearchers have shown that crystals can be so flexible they can be bent repeatedly and even tied up in knots, overhauling our current understanding of the structures, and challenging the very definition of a crystal.
Crystals are brittle because of the way their molecules are arranged - they're highly organised structures …
read moreThe engine giant Cummins has unveiled a concept semi truck, the AEOS, that runs entirely on the power of an electric motor and a 140kWh battery pack. It's roughly as powerful as a 12-liter fossil fuel engine and could haul 44,000 pounds of cargo, just without the emissions or …
read moreIn a couple of weeks, Apple will release ARKit with iOS 11 and, overnight, hundreds of millions of Apple devices will become augmented reality-capable machines, giving developers a sort of new mobile gold rush to find their niche and capitalize on the platform Apple CEO Tim Cook has called “big …
read moreColdplay 🎸 paid tribute to Texas and victims of Hurricane Harvey 🌪️ with a one-hit wonder. The group was performing Monday night in Miami when frontman Chris Martin announced 🔊 that the band was going to play a song in honor of the flood victims in Houston 🌪️.
Martin said the band's never played …
read moreKim Kardashian says she will “treasure forever” a new magazine cover photo shoot 📷, in which she’s dressed up like Jackie Kennedy while posing with daughter North West.
But not all her followers on Twitter 🐦 are so crazy about her look for the cover of Interview, which proclaims her to …
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