A grand jury in Manhattan voted Thursday to indict Donald Trump — the first time a former U.S. president has faced criminal charges. The indictment comes in a case centered on a $130,000 payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels during the closing days of the 2016 presidential campaign. Daniels claimed she slept with the married Trump in…
Nigerian actress, Etinosa Ogbemudia has said that some touts popularly referred to as Agberos are so skilled and useful to the society, IGBERETV reports. In a post she shared on her Instastories, the mum of one said that until a person’s car develops a fault on the road, he or she can never value Agberos…
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has warned that it will resist any attempt to stop the inauguration of President-Elect Bola Tinubu as Nigeria’s president on 29, May 2023. NAN said this in reaction to claims of ongoing plot to stop the inauguration of Tinubu, with installation of an interim government. A statement by…
Governor of Abia State, Okezie Ikpeazu, has accused Professor Nnenna Oti, the Returning Officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at the just-concluded March 18 governorship election in the state of being unfair to all parties that participated in the poll, IGBERETV reports. Speaking in an interview with Channels TV on Monday March 30, Ikpeazu said Nnenna…
Former Foreign Affairs Minister Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi has said he was not responsible for a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari calling for the arrest of President-elect Bola Tinubu.He said the seditious letter was embarrassing to him and his associates. The retired university don had received calls from home and abroad about the fake news, which has…
Musiliu Akinsaya (Mc Oluomo), chairman of the Lagos State Parks and Garages Association, has waded into the feud between commercial drivers and agberos (highway tax collectors who target commercial drivers) in the state. One of the drivers told FIJ that Mc Oluomo had placed a ban on the illegal taxes levied by agberos. “Mc Oluomo…
A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has sentenced one Praise Gelson and Usman Garba to seven years imprisonment for breaking into the home of the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, to steal valuables worth millions of naira, IGBERETV reports. Another defendant, Tamunoala Alatoru was convicted and sentenced to six months imprisonment for…
A group of Bola Tinubu supporters led by Alhaji Asari Mujahid Dokubo staged a solidarity walk in Rivers State to celebrate his election victory. The supporters of Tinubu were in their thousands. The crowd swelled as they are joined by more supporters at every junction in Port Harcourt. They hoisted signs with a variety of…
Timipre Sylva has resigned as the minister of state for petroleum to seek the ruling All Progressives Congress ticket in the upcoming governorship election in Bayelsa. Mr Sylva tendered his resignation letter to President Muhammadu Buhari last week, but the details of the resignation were kept private until now, Reuters said on Thursday night. Mr…
FG used military to rig election in favour of PDP to punish me for challenging its new naira policy – Zamfara governor He said at least fifty soldiers were sent to every polling unit to rig the election in favour of PDP. The Governor of Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle, has accused the federal government of…