The harrowing case of 10-year-old Sara Sharif came to a close as her father, Urfan Sharif, 43, and stepmother, Beinash Batool, 30, were sentenced to life imprisonment for her brutal murder. Sara endured over two years of horrific abuse, culminating in her death at the family home in Woking, Surrey, last year. According to BBC, Sara’s uncle, Faisal Malik, 29, was also found guilty of causing or allowing a child’s death and received a 16-year prison sentence. At the Old Bailey, Mr Justice Cavanagh described Sara’s treatment as “torture” and the cruelty inflicted on her as “almost inconceivable.” Sharif must…
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The Police said they have began manhunt for gunmen who shot a senior lecturer with the Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Dr. Fabian Osita Chinedu dead in Awka, Anambra state capital on Monday evening. The senior lecturer was reportedly shot dead around 8 pm by the gunmen who blocked his vehicle with their own vehicle around High Tension area of the city. Dr Chinedu, accroding to eyewitnesses was subsequently shot dead after he came out of his car to confront the gunmen. One of those in the car that blocked his own reportedly pulled out a gun, and fired twice, to…
The President-Elect of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama paid a courtesy visit to President Bola Tinubu at his residence, Presidential Villa, State House on Monday. Mahama won 56 percent of the votes in this month’s presidential election, compared to the ruling party candidate and Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, who secured 41 percent. The landslide comeback for former president Mahama ended eight years in power for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) under President Nana Akufo-Addo, whose last term was marked by Ghana’s worst economic turmoil in years, an IMF bailout and a debt default.
The Federal Government will commence a nationwide free train services from the 20th of December to 5th of January 2025. President Bola Tinubu has approved free transportation nationwide ahead of Christmas celebration. The Minister of Information, Mohammed Idris, announced this while briefing State House correspondents shortly after the Federal Executive Council meeting chaired by the President on Monday. He said the Federal Government will commence a nationwide free train services from the 20th of December to 5th of January 2025. He also announced that FG has renamed the University of Abuja to Yakubu Gowon University. On the 2025 budget, the…
The newly promoted officers were at the Commission on Monday, December 16, 2024 for written and oral exams. The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the promotion of 27 senior Police Officers comprising 11 Commissioners of Police to the next rank of Assistant Inspectors General of Police (AIG) and 16 Deputy Commissioners of Police to the substantive rank of Commissioners of Police. According to PSC spokesman Ikechukwu Ani, the Commission’s Chairman, Hashimu Argungu, said both written and oral examinations would henceforth be a pre-requisite for promotion in all the cadres of the Nigeria Police Force. The newly promoted Officers were in…
His win means the award remains in Nigeria after teammate Victor Osimhen won it last year. By Donatus Anichukwueze Ademola Lookman has been crowned the 2024 African Footballer of the Year in a historic event that confirms his status as one of the best players in the world in the current calendar year. The Super Eagles of Nigeria forward shook off competitions from South Africa’s Ronwen Williams, Cote d’Ivoire’s Simon Adingra, Achraf Hakimi of Morocco, and Guinea striker Serhou Guirassy to win the prize. His win means the award remains in Nigeria after teammate Victor Osimhen won it last year. The…
By Shadrach Okon Foreigners are taking advantage of the spike in unemployment in the country to to lure the teaming unemployed youths into Cyber crime. The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ola Olukoyede, disclosed this at the Commission during a press briefing on a landmark raid and arrest of 792 suspects for their alleged involvement in cryptocurrency investment fraud and romance scam. According to the EFCC’s boss, the young Nigerians who were selected based on typing proficiency by their foreign criminal syndicate were assigned Whatsapp accounts linked to foreign telephone numbers to engage victims in…
The Supreme Court on Monday in Abuja fined Ambrose Albert Owuru, a former presidential candidate, N5 million for harassing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu with a frivolous and vexatious suit. Owuru, who contested the 2019 presidential election against former President Muhammadu Buhari on the platform of the Hope Democratic Party (HDP), was ordered to pay N5 million to Tinubu. Justice Uwani Musa Aba-Aji issued the order against the former presidential candidate while dismissing his fresh suit, praying for the removal of Tinubu as Nigeria’s president. Apart from the N5 million fine, the apex court ordered its Registry not to accept any…
The Defence Headquarters, DHQ, has described report that the French military has established or is planning to establish a base in Nigeria as totally false and mischievous. The Defence Headquarters said this in a statement by its director of media operations, Major General Edward Buba on Monday. Buba said the clarification was in response to reports doing the rounds, that French soldiers had arrived in Nigeria. “The attention of Defence Headquarters has been drawn to online reports alleging the arrival of the first contingent of French soldiers in Maiduguri towards establishing a French Military base in North East Nigeria. “The…
A five-member panel of the Supreme Court has in a unanimous decision dismissed a suit seeking to remove President Bola Tinubu from office. The apex court also awarded a N5 million cost against Chief Ambrose Owuru, the presidential candidate of the Hope Democratic Party, HDP, in the 2019 general election, who filed the suit. Owuru had asked the Supreme Court to sack Tinubu over the claim that he was an active agent of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He argued that this made Tinubu unfit to continue to occupy the presidential seat. He also argued that Tinubu ought to be…