Popular socialite, Cubana Chief Priest, has engaged in heated altercation with singer Burna Boy. The drama started when Burna Boy made a post which many think was meant for Chief Priest who is a good friend of singer Davido. In a now controversial post on his Instagram page, Burna allegedly referred to the socialite as Owerri Rick Ross. “No forget say you be Azaman o And dem don gbe your plug wey him name na ‘Omo Igbo’ for ATL and na u be next #OwerriRickyrozay.” Responding to him on his Instagram story, Cubana Chief Priest likened Burna’s Grammy to the…
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A bride and another female suspect over have been arrested by the operatives of the Jigawa State Police Command over an alleged food poisoning incident at a wedding reception in Jahun Local Government Area of the state. The incident left one guest dead and the groom critically ill. The Jigawa State Police Command Public Relations Officer, Shi’isu Adam, confirmed the incident in a statement issued to newsmen on Friday,3 January, 2025. According to Shiisu, the command received a report that food served at the wedding reception had been tainted, leading to the unfortunate outcomes. “We received a report that the…
Operatives of the JIgawa State Police Command have arrested a 15-year-old girl, Zahra’u Dauda for allegedly conspiring with her ex-lover to kill her husband, Kamisu Haruna. Jigawas State Police Command Public Relations Officer, DSP Lawan Shiisu Adam confirmed the incident in a statement issued to newsmen. “The police received report that a 15-year-old girl, Zahra’u Dauda, from Bagata Gabas village, Kiyawa LGA, has been accused of conspiring with her ex-lover, Lawan Musa, 22, to poison her husband, Kamisu Haruna, 29, ”Shiisu said , adding that police investigation revealed that Zahra’u poisoned her husband’s food, which he shared with two friends.
Jigawa State Police Command has disclosed that no fewer than nine people lost their lives and four others injured following a violent clash between villagers and Fulani herders in Miga and Jahun Local Government Areas of the state. The command, which made this disclosure in a statement, the incident began in Gululu village, Miga LGA, when suspected miscreants allegedly broke into a shop and stole hibiscus and other provisions. Villagers traced the suspects’ footprints to a Fulani settlement in Yankunama village, Jahun LGA. According to the statement, the confrontation escalated when the herders allegedly attacked the villagers with bows and…
Trading in the Nigerian Exchange market maintained bullish run as investors ranked in N248 billion gain on Friday, 3 January, 2024 to close the week. This comes as the market capitalisation, which opened at N62.918 trillion, added N248 billion or 0.39 per cent to close at N63.166 trillion. The All-Share Index also advanced by 0.39 percent, or 406.2 points, to close at 103,586.33, against 103,180.14 recorded on Thursday. Accordingly, sustained investor interest in Tier-1 banks, namely Zenith Bank, United Bank for Africa, UBA, and Access Corporation, alongside other advanced equities, drove the market up. As a result, the year-to-date return…
A Japanese woman, Tomiko Itooka, globally recognised as world oldest person, has died, aged 116. Ashiya, the city where she lived, announced her death on Saturday, 4 January, 2025. The southern city’s Mayor, Ryosuke Takashima, in a statement said Itooka, who had four children and five grandchildren died on Sunday, 29 December, 2024 at a nursing home where she resided since 2019. The deceased was born on 23 May, 1908, in the commercial hub of Osaka, near Ashiya, four months before the Ford Model T was launched in the United States. She was recognised as the oldest person in the…
The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, Abia Sector Command, has disclosed that at least two people died in a road accident which occurred on the Umuahia-Enugu Expressway. The Sector Commander, Mrs Ngozi Ezeoma, who made the disclosure in a statement issued on Friday, 3 January, 2025 in Umuahia, said that the accident, which occurred at 3.50 p.m at Ohiya, also left 12 people injured. Ezeoma said: “The crash involved a blue Toyota commercial bus and resulted in the loss of two lives while 12 others sustained injuries. “The crash involved 10 male adults and four female adults, with one male…
The Oyo Sector Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps ( FRSC) on Friday, 3 January, 2025 has disclosed 222 people lost their lives in various road traffic crashes (RTCs) in the state in 2024.The corps disclosed this in Ibadan in its end-of-the-year statistics signed by the Sector Commander, Mrs Rosemary Alo.Alo said the figure indicated a reduction compared to the 270 deaths recorded in 2023. According to her, the figures emanated from 304 road crashes recorded in 2024 and 495 crashes in 2023 respectively. The sector commander noted that the statistics indicated that 779 people were injured in crashes in…
The Forward Operating Base, FOB, of the Nigerian Navy in Badagry, Lagos State, has handed over six suspected smugglers and 126 bags of foreign parboiled rice to the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS. The Commanding Officer of FOB, Linus Osuman, who handed over the suspects and the seized bags of rice on Thursday,2 January, 2025, said they were intercepted on December 27 with three fibre boats at the Akere Creek in Badagry. According to Osuman, the command acted on an intelligence report about some bags of rice being smuggled into the community, just as he also added that upon receiving the information,…
Global oil prices started the first trading day in 2025 on a positive note as Brent and WTI prices surged. According to GlobalOil.com, Brent Crude and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) went up by 0.13 and 0.14 percent, respectively, at $76.03 and $73.25, at the time of filing this report. The market sentiment turned positive on expectations of stronger economic and oil demand growth in 2025. Thursday’s Brent Crude price is above the $75 per barrel oil price benchmark for Nigeria in its proposed 2025 budget. Recall that for 2024, oil saw a second consecutive year of annual declines, falling by about…