The Federal Government has launched a free-to-use 112 emergency number for Nigerians to call in the event of kidnappings and other security-related incidents. The National Coordinator of the National Counter Terrorism Centre, Major General Adamu Laka, disclosed this during a press briefing on the activities of the Multi-Agency Anti-Kidnap Fusion Cell under the Office of the National Security Adviser in Abuja on Thursday, 6 February, 2025. “The Nigerian Communications Commission has facilitated an emergency response number, 112. The NCTC calls on all Nigerians to report suspicious activities, crimes, and kidnappings by calling the toll-free number 112, including the Multi-Agency Anti-Kidnap…
Author: Adetutu Audu
Co-director of ‘Everybody Loves Jenifa’, Tunde Olaoye, has revealed that Funke Akindele’s production company, Funke Ayotunde Akindele Network (FAAN), will receive only 35% of the film’s impressive box office earnings. In a recent interview with publisher Olumide Iyanda, Olaoye explained that a significant portion of the revenue is distributed among other stakeholders, reducing the percentage that goes directly to FAAN. Olaoye explained that while the gross earnings of the film are often touted, the actual amount the producer gets is far less. “Even Funke, who is the executive producer of the film, cannot boast of being a super multi-billionaire because…
One of Igbo’s most respected poets and Professor of English and Literature, Dubem Okafor is dead. He died last Sunday, 2 February, 2025, in the United States after shooting his wife, Cheryl. Reports and calls from the US say Okafor, 64, a cousin to the late poet, Christopher Okigbo apparently in pain his wife had left him a few days earlier, arranged to meet her at his sister’s Reading Home, Pennsylvania, where he shot her several times and himself once in the head at 3:45 p.m. Sunday, 2 February, 2025, police said. A small-caliber handgun was found near the bodies,…
A tragic fire incident occurred in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, on Monday, when a five-year-old boy reportedly set a duplex on fire while playing with matchsticks. The fire broke out at Abiodun Adebiyi Close, off Yidi Road, in the Irewole area of Ilorin West Local Government Area. One of the rooms in the building was completely destroyed before firefighters arrived to contain the blaze and prevent it from spreading further. The swift intervention of the Kwara State Fire Service helped avert a more devastating outcome. An eyewitness, Lanre Abdulrazaq, who was working nearby, recounted the moment the fire broke…
By Funsho Arogundade It’s an established fact that good guys are contagious. Get a group of good men together, and they will change their community and the world. A good guy has integrity and character. Simply put, a good guy is less talk and more action. The Latin origin of ‘integrity’ means whole, and when it comes to being a good guy, wholesome is sexy. Everywhere he goes, he leaves a mark. One of such figures is Oluwaseyi Afolabi Tinubu. Every man is a work in progress. As a successful entrepreneur, vibrant socialite, sports enthusiast, humanist and now the son…
The suspended monarch of Orile Ifo Ogun State, Oba Adewale Semiu Ogunjobi, was on Tuesday, 4 February, 2025, arraigned by the Nigeria Police before an Ifo Magistrate Court on a three-count charge of assault, conspiracy, and conduct likely to cause a breach of peace. The arraignment in court was the response of the police authorities to the Oba’s public assault and battery on a member of his community, 73 year old Elder Abraham Areola. He was granted bail with two sureties in ₦5 million each in like sum, who must be residents within the court’s jurisdiction. Thursday, 6 March, 2025…
An Ogun State High Court sitting in Abeokuta, on Monday, 3 February, 2025, convicted and sentenced three persons to death by hanging for killing a couple, Kehinde and Bukola Fatinoye and their son, Oreoluwa, on New Year Day in 2023. Justice Basirat Adebowale sentenced the trio of Adekambi Lekan, who was driver of the deceased; Odetola Ahmed and Adeniyi Waheed, after delivering a judgement which lasted for more than three hours. The trio were arraigned alongside Fadairo Temitope, wife of the first defendant; Adekambi Adenike, his mother; Owolaja Aanuoluwapo; Usman Azeez; Abass Odetola; and Adewusi Lukman. They were arraigned for…
A high court in Lokoja, Kogi state judiciary has sacked the Ohinoyi of Ebira land, His Majesty Alhaji Ahmed Muhammed Tijani Anaje from office. Hon Justice Salisu Umar, Presiding Judge of High Court 6 Lokoja in his ruling on Monday, 3 February, 2025, made an order directing the defender to stop parading himself as the paramount traditional ruler of Ebira land. Though the court is yet to make available details of the judgement, it pertains to a case filed under suit number HCO/05C/2024, brought before the court by Dr. Barnabas Adeku Ojiah and two others, challenging the legality of Anaje’s…
A high court in Lokoja, Kogi state judiciary has sacked the Ohinoyi of Ebira land, His Majesty Alhaji Ahmed Muhammed Tijani Anaje from office. Hon Justice Salisu Umar, Presiding Judge of High Court 6 Lokoja in his ruling on Monday, 3 February, 2025, made an order directing the defender to stop parading himself as the paramount traditional ruler of Ebira land. Though the court is yet to make available details of the judgement, it pertains to a case filed under suit number HCO/05C/2024, brought before the court by Dr. Barnabas Adeku Ojiah and two others, challenging the legality of Anaje’s…
A high court in Lokoja, Kogi state judiciary has sacked the Ohinoyi of Ebira land, His Majesty Alhaji Ahmed Muhammed Tijani Anaje from office. Hon Justice Salisu Umar, Presiding Judge of High Court 6 Lokoja in his ruling on Monday, 3 February, 2025, made an order directing the defender to stop parading himself as the paramount traditional ruler of Ebira land. Though the court is yet to make available details of the judgement, it pertains to a case filed under suit number HCO/05C/2024, brought before the court by Dr. Barnabas Adeku Ojiah and two others, challenging the legality of Anaje’s…