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…
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,…
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 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,…
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 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…
Rishi Sunak has said he accepts responsibility for the Conservative Party’s historic general election defeat. Sir Keir Starmer has led the Labour Party to a landslide victory and will take over from Mr Sunak as the UK’s prime minister. Mr Sunak told supporters: “The British people have delivered a sobering verdict tonight, there is much…
