Pastor with the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, has absconded with $8,000 church’s money, abandoned his wife, and married a new woman. Pastor Folu Adeboye, wife of the General Overseer of the RCCG worldwide, revealed this development when she ministered at a programme organised for men. She said in a video, monitored by Church Times, that the unnamed pastor was to have used the money given to him for missions in South Africa, where he abandoned his wife, and went on to marry another woman in the United States of America. Adeboye said the incident that led to the…
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Nurse, Karenjeet Warburton, has been banned for four years for paying a patient $3,000 to cut her ex-lover’s penis and tongue off and also burn his face with acid in Australia, Daily Mail reports. Warburton had dated her ex-lover, a senior Queensland Police Inspector, Don McKay, between March 2020 and early 2021. According to the Daily Mail, the decision was published last week after it was handed down to Karenjeet Kaur Warburton in March by the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal. Tribunal member Julie Dick heard Warburton had approached a patient she thought “might be up for” severely injuring her…
Nigerian doctor in the United States, Dr. Timileyin Oluseyi, has achieved a milestone that has stirred waves of pride across Nigeria and the global Black community. In a historic moment at his medical residency graduation, Oluseyi won all eight of the programme’s top awards; an unprecedented feat in the institution’s history. Not only is he the first Black resident to sweep the awards, it is reported he also outperformed every one of his peers across all key metrics. In a viral video, the programme’s Director and Department Chairman were seen honoring him with a traditional Yoruba gesture: prostrating flat on…
Former Presidential Candidate and Publisher of Ovation International magazine, Bashorun Dele Momodu, has formally resigned his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), reports thegazellenews.com. Not only that, Momodu has only announced his membership of the African Democratic Congress (ADC). In a letter dated Thursday, 17 July, 2025, Momodu cited the hijacking of the PDP by anti-democratic forces as the reason for his decision. In his resignation letter addressed to the PDP Ward 4 Chairman in Ihievbe, Owan East Local Government Area of Edo State, Momodu expressed his gratitude to the party leadership at the ward level for their support…
The Ondo State Police Command has unravelled a chilling plot involving the kidnap, rape, and murder of two students of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko (AAUA), masterminded by none other than their landlord. The shocking revelation was made public during a press briefing by the state Commissioner of Police, who outlined several recent breakthroughs recorded by the Command in its ongoing operations to combat crime across the State. According to the police, the case involving the murdered students: 25-year-old Abah John Friday and 19-year-old Okah Andrel Eloho—began as a missing persons report submitted by their family’s legal representatives, G.O. Omoedu &…
Last summer, a woman was arrested at Gatwick Airport after she arrived from Nigeria with a very young baby girl. The woman had been living in West Yorkshire with her husband and children, and before leaving the UK for Africa had told her GP she was pregnant. That was not true. When the woman returned about a month later with the baby, she was arrested on suspicion of trafficking. The case, the second the BBC has followed through the Family Court in recent months, reveals what experts say is a worrying trend of babies possibly being brought to the UK…
One of Nigeria’s most outstanding, foremost, and revered traditional rulers, His Royal Majesty, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, the Awujale of Ijebuland, has joined his ancestors after over 65 remarkable years on the throne. I received the news of this transition Saturday night with double pain in my heart as it coincided with the passing of my predecessor, President Muhammadu Buhari. The demise of Oba Adetona has left an enormous void within the traditional institutions in Yorubaland and Nigeria in general. Oba Adetona was a towering natural ruler who served his people with dignity, panache, class, and an unmistakable sense of…
Sikiru Kayode Adetona, Awujale of Ijebuland, has died at the age of 91. The monarch passed away on Sunday, 13 July, 2025, just hours after the announcement of the death of Muhammadu Buhari, his longtime friend and former President. The death of the reverred monarch was announced on Sunday, 13 July, 2025 by the Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun. Below is the statement by Prince Abiodun It is with profound sadness that I announce the passing of His Royal Majesty, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, the revered Awujale of Ijebuland. Oba Adetona joined his ancestors today, July 13, 2025 at…
Former Governor of Oyo State, Senator Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja, is set to become the next Olubadan of Ibadanland following the death of the 43rd Olubadan, His Royal Majesty Owolabi Olakulehin. Oba Olakulehin passed away in the early hours of Monday, 7 July, 2025, at the age of 90, less than 12 months after his installation as monarch. The late monarch, who was installed in July 2024 by Governor Seyi Makinde, succeeded Oba Dr. Moshood Lekan Balogun, Alli Okunmade II, who died in March 2024 after a brief illness. According to tradition, the Olubadan throne alternates between two ruling lines: Egbe…
A 48-year-old Kenyan woman, Irene Wanjiru Mbugua, a caregiver, was attacked and killed by a male patient whom she was caring for in the United Kingdom. Mbugua was found dead in a residence on Markby Road, Winson Green, Birmingham, at approximately 1 a.m. on Monday, 23 June, 2025. The mother of four, who hailed from Mataara in Gatundu North, Kiambu, Kenyan, worked in the UK for two years. She was employed by a caregiving agency. Her violent death has sent shockwaves through her family and the African caregiving community, as she was a devoted mother and a respected professional. Speaking…