Again, Inmate Escapes From Correctional Centre The Nigeria Correctional Service, NCoS, has threatened to unravel the circumstances leading to the mysterious escape of an inmate from the Sapele Correctional Centre, Delta State, and punish those implicated in the incident. Paul Michael is said to have escaped mysteriously during the weekend, a day after the new Controller of the State Corrections Service, Raymond Neagu, resumed office in the state. Michael was imprisoned after he was accused of killing a furniture apprentice, Kelly Onojaiyefe, in Oghara town, Ethiope West Local Government Area of the state. Confirming the escape, the command’s spokesperson, Ikechukwu…
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Nigerian Govt Awards N100m Grants To 200 Young Entrepreneurs The Federal Government on Saturday doled out N100 million grants to 200 Nigerian youths selected from across the country to boost their potential for economic development. The grants were disbursed by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Technical, Vocational and Entrepreneurship Education, Abiola Arogundade, at an ‘Unlock Training’ programme in Abuja. Arogundade explained that 120 were freshers while the remaining 80 were those already in business who needed financial support to boost their business. The presentation was the outcome of a six-week campaign initiated by the presidency where youths…
Anger: Governor In Big Trouble As He Names New Road After Seyi Tinubu Sokoto state governor, Ahmad Aliyu, has come under public criticism for naming a road in the state after Seyi Tinubu, son of President Bola Tinubu. The road formerly called “Pepsi Road” was supposed to be commissioned on Jun 3 by Katsina state governor, Umaru Dikko Radda, but was postponed. On Saturday, a photo of the renamed road, “Seyi Ahmed Bola Tinubu Road,” went viral on social media, ahead of its rescheduled commissioning which date is yet to be announced. A resident said the governor did not have…
Tension As Python Swallows Woman Whole A woman has been found dead inside the belly of a snake after it swallowed her whole in central Indonesia, a local official said Saturday. The husband of 45-year-old Farida and residents of Kalempang village in South Sulawesi province discovered her on Friday inside the reticulated python, which measured around five metres (16 feet). The mother-of-four had gone missing Thursday night and failed to return home, forcing a search effort, village head Suardi Rosi told AFP. Her husband “found her belongings… which made him suspicious. The villagers then searched the area. They soon spotted…
BREAKING: LG Chairmanship Aspirant Shot Dead Ejike Ugwueze, an aspirant for the position of local government Chairman in Enugu State has been shot dead. The victim was killed while driving along Neke Odenigbo, a community in Enugu East Local Government Area, in on Friday night. A member of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr Ugwueze was an aspirant for the position of chairperson of Isi-Uzo Local Government Area the council in the election billed to take place in October. The attackers were said to have blocked the politician’s vehicle and shot him multiple times before fleeing the scene. A video clip,…
University Strips American Rapper ‘Diddy’ Of Honorary Degree Over Assault Video Of Girlfriend The Howard University board, a historically-black university in Washington DC, on Friday moved to strip Sean “Diddy” Combs of his honourary degree after the video of him physically assaulting his former girlfriend, Cassie Ventura surfaced online. American rapper, Sean “Diddy” Combs, had apologised for physically assaulting his former girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, in 2016. Ibom Focus had reported that a surveillance video captured in 2016 which was obtained exclusively by CNN surfaced on the internet showing the moment the rapper physically assaulted his former girlfriend during an altercation…
How My Broken Marriage Revived My Career, I’m So Happy, Korra Obidi Korra Obidi, the US-based Nigerian dancer, says separating from Justin Dean, her estranged husband, has impacted her career positively. Speaking on a recent episode of the Heroes Diary podcast, Korra said marriage sometimes limits one’s opportunities in the entertainment industry. The entertainer added that since she split from Dean, she has been “getting booked back to back”. “One thing about we humans is that when somebody is married, I do not know you people do not like the person anymore,” she said. “You kind of like go happy…
We Warned You Against Voting Tinubu, Galadima Tells Nigerians Buba Galadima, a chieftain of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), has expressed his views on the current economic hardship in Nigeria, stating that those who voted for Bola Tinubu in the 2023 general election should not complain. He emphasised that Nigerians ignored his warnings about voting for the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, which led to Tinubu’s victory over other candidates like Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP). In an interview with Saturday Sun, Galadima pointed out that voters were…
Hisbah Police Arrest Musician For ‘Inaccurately Reciting Verse In The Quran’ Officials of the Hisbah Command in Kano have arrested a TikTok personality and musician, Abubakar Ibrahim, also known as G-Fresh Al’ameen for inaccurately reciting Al-Fatiha, the opening chapter of the Quran. Ibrahim had been alleged to have made the recitation during the last Sallah celebration on April 11. According to reports, Aliyu Usman, an official overseeing the board’s surveillance unit, said Ibrahim also known as G-Fresh had been hiding for long before he was arrested at his residence in the Badawa locality of the state. Usman also disclosed that…
VIDEO: Underaged Nigerian Girls Trafficked To Ghana For Pr0stitution At least 10 underaged Nigerian girls have been filmed narrating how they have been trafficked to Ghana for prostitution. A video clip uploaded on X on Friday, showed the girls inside a room being interrogated by an unidentified man. The girls were aged between 15 and 18 years old, they stated in the clip. Seven of the girls said they hail from Imo State, South-east Nigeria while three of them said they are from Jos in Plateau State, North-central Nigeria. The girls have spent between one and two months in the…