Street hop star Portable has picked a new battle and this time, it is with Fuji music icon King Saheed Osupa whom he recently disparage in a video. In the clip shared on his Instagram page Portable called Osupa “Big for nothing” after the Fuji musician took down one of his songs from Apple Music…
The Oyo State Government has dropped all charges against Naomi Silekunola, a former wife of the Ooni of Ife; Oriyomi Hamzat, owner of Agidigbo FM; and Abdullahi Fasasi, principal of Islamic High School, Bashorun, Ibadan. The trio had initially faced legal action following the tragic stampede at a children’s event in December 2024, which claimed…
There were fears of deaths on Wednesday night around the Karu bridge area of the nation’s capital, Abuja, following the explosion of a fuel-laden truck. Witnesses said the truck lost control around the Karu bridge, an area between Kugbo and Nyanya on the Abuja-Keffi Expressway. They said some cars were trapped in the incident with…
A 31-year-old man, Rotimi Orowole, was on Wednesday sentenced to three years imprisonment with hard labour by an Osun State Magistrates Court sitting in Osogbo for false accusations. Orowole had claimed the former Registrar of the Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Osun State, Dr Alhassan Ogunleye, contracted him to assassinate the then Rector of the institution, Dr….
A 53-year-old farmer, Oloyede David, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly stealing three bags of pineapples from a fellow farmer’s plantation in Orile-Ilugun, Odeda Local Government Area. It was gathered on Wednesday that another farmer spotted the suspect harvesting pineapples from a fellow farmer’s plantation in the community. A community…
Two members of the House of Representatives, Marie Ebikake and Blessing Amadi, on Wednesday engaged in a heated argument over the declaration of emergency rule in Rivers State by President Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday. Ebikake and Amadi, who represent Brass/Nembe Federal Constituency of Bayelsa and Port Harcourt Two Federal Constituency of Rivers State respectively, started…
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara and his family were reportedly held hostage on Tuesday night at the Government House in Port Harcourt by heavily armed soldiers. The development followed President Bola Tinubu’s declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State under Section 180 of the Nigerian Constitution. Tinubu justified the move by citing the…
Police detectives in Ondo State, have arrested seven suspected kidnappers including a 19-year Umar Isyaku, in possession of N3.5 million believed to be ransom paid by families of their victims. Briefing newsmen in Akure, the state Commissioner of Police, Wilfred Afolabi, said the 19-year-old lsyaku was arrested alongside one Ridwan Salisu,45, at Ipele in connection…
Hours after President Bola Tinubu declared a state of emergency in Rivers State, soldiers have taken over the state Government House. An Armoured Personnel Carrier has also been stationed at the entrance of the Government House along Azikiwe Road in Port Harcourt. It is not clear if Governor Siminalayi Fubara was still in his official…
Fellow Nigerians, I feel greatly disturbed at the turn we have come to regarding the political crisis in Rivers State. Like many of you, I have watched with concern the development with the hope that the parties involved would allow good sense to prevail at the soonest, but all that hope burned out without any…
