Olalekan Jacob Ponle, known as Mr Woodberry, has pleaded guilty to wire fraud. He also agreed to forfeit $8 million in proceeds of wire fraud as well as luxury cars and watches to the foreign government. Woodberry, a known associate of the now-imprisoned internet fraudster, Ramon Abbas, better known as Hushpuppi, recently in a plea…
Amid Renewed Attacks: Villagers Mobilise, Kill 50 Bandits In Self-defence A local vigilante group at Ibbi town in Niger State has taken the battle to the invaders of the community, killing no fewer than 50 bandits who had been terrorising and kidnapping its residents for ransom. LEADERSHIP learned that the vigilantes launched the attack on the bandits…
You can’t drag Igbo into another war, Ohanaeze tells Ekpa By Nnamdi Akpa, Abakaliki12 April 2023 | 4:04 am Following Simon Ekpa’s self-declaration as Biafra’s Prime Minister, a faction of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, yesterday, criticised the leader of a breakaway Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) over the declaration, noting that Igbo will not be dragged…
The assailants stormed Sabon Layi town on Wednesday morning, shooting sporadically, a Birnin Gwari resident told BBC Hausa. The resident told the outlet that the gunmen had been seen the previous day moving freely around the community but nobody knew their mission until they struck at about 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday. According to the resident, nine…
Ariana Grande calls for fans to stop body shaming Singer Ariana Grande has called on fans to be “gentler and less comfortable” about remarking on her and other people’s bodies after recent scrutiny of her appearance on social media. In a TikTok video, she said she had a body that is “paid such close attention to”, so…
1. It’s sometimes called Face Me I slap you due to the incessant fights daily. E ma ja ju. If you don’t fight, someone will fight you. You must fight. “Ta lo gbe omi ti mo pon sibi?” (Ija de). 2. You can never go hungry unless you don’t know your way around. Enter the…
The president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has told the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, that he was not a party in the drug case that was said to have been filed against him by the United States Government in 1993. Tinubu, in his response to the petition by Labour Party…
LAGOS – Alhaja Sinatu Ojikutu, former Deputy Governor of Lagos State, and first elected female Deputy Governor in Nigeria, has said that she will renounce her citizenship of Nigeria once Aswijau Bola Tinubu is sworn in as President. She also said that she has already told her lawyers to start working on that ahead of May…
NEWS RELEASE11/04/2023 Osun Government Commences Construction Activities on Ife-Ede Road ● Ordered Closure of Road for Three Weeks Osun state government has ordered for the immediate closure of Ife-Ede Road in view of construction activities at Eleweran area of Ile Ife. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the directive followed the inspection of the area…
The President-elect, Bola Tinubu, has challenged the competence of a petition the Labour Party, LP, and its candidate, Peter Obi, filed to nullify his election. Tinubu, in a preliminary objection he filed alongside his Vice-President-elect, Senator Kashim Shettima, maintained that Obi was bereft of the locus standing to file a petition to challenge his election…