A family court in Brazil has sentenced former Manchester United midfielder, Anderson to prison over his reported failure to pay child maintenance. The 36-year-old has been told he will have to serve time in a jail in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre unless he hands over the £45,000 he owes. The decision was made last week by a family court judge in the retired footballer’s home city, but only became public overnight. The lock-up where ex-Brazil international Anderson, who won the Premier League four times with Man United after signing for the club from Porto in July 2007, could spend his time has…
Author: Abimbola Ogunaike
A UK-based Nigerian nurse who left her ten-week-old baby to die while she went to work at a hospital has been jailed for three years. Mother, Ruth Auta, 28, abandoned Joshua Akerele in her nurse’s accommodation for eight hours so she could work her shift on December 20, 2022, Mail Online reports. When she returned from work, she found her son lifeless in his cot and dialled 999, telling operators her son was not breathing. The infant was pronounced dead an hour later with tests showing he may have ‘overheated’ due to the layers of clothing and bedding he was…
Clubs in the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) has been reminded that all rights contract must be vetted by the league before they become operational. In apparent reaction to observed breaches of the NPFL Marketing codes through unauthorized Man-of-the-Match awards the Chief Operating Officer, Davidson Owumi drew the attention of the Clubs to Rule A7.6 of the NPFL Framework and Rules. “All rights contracts to be entered into by any Club shall first be subject to the vetting and approval of NPFL, before execution. This rule serves as a safeguard to help prevent such abuses, and we expect strict adherence…
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu has said that the Commission has complied with court orders which created some changes in the candidates list. He said that the running mate for the Labour Party’s candidate has been replaced while the National Rescue Movement, NRM, has been added to the list. Yakubu spoke on Wednesday, 11 September, 2024 during a meeting with stakeholders at the Victor Uwaifo Creative Hub ahead of the governorship election slated for 21 September, 2024. In attendance were the Inspector-General of Police, the Chairman of the Inter-Party Advisory Council in Edo State,…
A 44-year-old man, named Sunday Lukas has been remanded in custody on Wednesday, 11 September, 2024 by the order of a Badagry Chief MagistrateCourt sitting in Lagos presided over by Mr Patrick Adekomaiya, for allegedly defiling a nine-year-old girl. The Chief Magistre Adekomaiya, ordered that Lukas be remanded at the Awarjigoh Correctional Centre, Badagry after he pleaded not guilty to a count charge of assault. He ordered that the case file be duplicated and sent to the office of the Director for Public Prosecution, DPP for legal advice. Adekomaiya, however, adjourned the case until 28 October, 2024 for a ruling on the…
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, has said that terrorism has provided cover for other crimes such as political assassination, kidnapping, armed robbery and other violent acts to thrive. Lagbaja stated this at the 3rd Counter-terrorism and Counter-insurgency Seminar organised by the Nigerian Army Resource Centre (NARC), in collaboration with the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA0, on Wednesday, 11 September, 2024 in Abuja. Represented by the Deputy Chief of Operations (Army), Maj.-Gen. Emmanuel Emekah, Lagbaja delivered a paper titled, ‘Over a Decade of Terrorism, Insurgency, Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Insurgency in Nigeria: An Appraisal’. He said that…
The Federal High Court in Abuja presided over Justice Emeka Nwite on Wednesday, 11 September, 2024 slammed N10 million bail each on the ten members of the #endbadgovernance# protesters who were charged with attempting to overthrow President Bola Ahmed Tinubu between July 1 and August 4 this year. Justice Nwite admitted them to bail while delivering a ruling on their bail applications. Among others, the protesters are to produce one surety each in the same amount while the sureties must be residents in Abuja. Besides, the sureties must be property owners in Abuja and must deposit documents of the properties to…
Four hundred Nigerians including 90 females and 310 males have been deported from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Nigerian Television Authority(NTA)reports. They were received at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, by the office of the National Security Adviser alongside the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and other stakeholders. Recall that a total of 103 Nigerians deported from the Republic of Turkiye, recently, were received by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and other stakeholders. The deportees who arrived…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government is focused on long-term measures to boost food production and reduce inflation. The Minister of Finance, Wale Edun stated this in a statement on the Ministry’s X account after the Nigeria Customs Service Board meeting held on Tuesday, 10 September, 2024 in Abuja. At the meeting, the Minister and the Customs Service board members discussed the implementation of the zero percent duty on selected food imports. According to Edun, the tax waiver will tackle the ongoing food shortage and curb rising food prices.
American rapper and hip –hop legend Curtis James Jackson III, popularly addressed as 50 Cent, has revealed his favourite song at the moment which comes from Nigerian singer. The hip-hop legend disclosed in a clip of an interview that went viral on Tuesday that ‘Me & U’ by Grammy-winning Nigerian singer, Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems, is his current favourite song. “My current song on repeat is ‘Me & U’ by Tems,” he said. ‘Me & U’ is the lead single of Tems’ critically acclaimed debut studio album ‘Born In The Wild.’ The song sparked controversy after it won the…