The Nigeria national football team, Super Eagles, departed Lagos on Wednesday to take part in the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations holding in Cote d’Ivoire. Members of the team were dressed in native attires, putting on a white kaftan with green caps, showcasing Nigeria’s national colours. Recall that Morocco football team, Atlas Lions, on Saturday,…
French President Emmanuel Marcon, on Tuesday, named Gabriel Attal, 34, the country’s new prime minister. According to a report published by Associated Press, Attal will become the youngest person to occupy France’s second-highest office at 34 years old. He is also France’s first openly gay prime minister. Attal was named prime minister, as President Macron…
The Synagogue Church of all Nations (SCOAN) has countered the BBC documentary on the late Temitope Babatunde Joshua, known as TB Joshua, founder of SCOAN. SCOAN described the documentary as unfounded, noting that the characters interviewed in the report were unknown to the church. The church, in a statement signed by its Public Affairs Director,…
A two-year-old girl (identity undisclosed) has been electrocuted after touching an exposed wire connected to her neighbour’s house in the Langbasa area of Lagos State. SAHEL STANDARD gathered that the tragedy occurred on January 2, at about 11:30 am. Speaking with our correspondent on Monday, the deceased’s father, Mudashiru, said his daughter was electrocuted after…
A Nigerian man has been arrested in the Kufra District of Libya for the murder of another Nigerian. This was made known in a post by the Migrant Rescue Watch on their X account on Monday. The post disclosed that the accused, who was arrested following an investigation into an unidentified deceased person delivered to…
Nigeria’s Aliko Dangote has reclaimed his post as the richest person in Africa, according to Forbes Real-Time Billionaires. Last week, South African business tycoon, Johann Ruper, took over the position from Dangote. According to the ranking as of January 8, Dangote’s net worth improved by $10 million to $10.1 billion while Rupert’s net worth as…
The Governing Council Panel of the Osun State College of Education, Ila Orangun has recommended the suspension of the Institution provost, Professor Jimoh Afolabi with facts to back their decision, to Governor Ademola Adeleke, pending the conclusion of the investigation in the allegations levied against him. The Panel who stated that their justification followed due…
The Pastor of Celestial Church, Ona Iye Parish, Ijeda Ijesa, Osun State, identified as Omiri Kayode has been arrested by the state police command for allegedly raping his client identified as Yemisi. Findings revealed that the pastor whose church is located along Ijebu-Jesa road in Oriade local government area of Osun State, asked the parents…
TB Joshua, a charismatic Nigerian leader of one of the world’s biggest evangelical churches, secretly committed sexual crimes on a mass scale, a BBC investigation spanning three continents has found. Testimony from dozens of survivors suggests Joshua was abusing and raping young women from around the world several times a week for nearly 20 years….
Before his death in 2021 at the age of 57, TB Joshua was one of Africa’s most influential televangelists. The Christian preacher attracted followers from all over the world by claiming to perform miracles, like curing blindness and HIV. However, an investigation by the BBC has uncovered more than a decade of allegations of rape…
