Lagos High court has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of the former Super Eagles Captain Austin Jay Jay Okocha for snubbing the court over why he failed to pay his income taxes.
More than 72 million Nigerians have been cleared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to vote in tomorrow’s presidential and National Assembly elections.
They represent 86.63 per cent of the 84 million registered would-be voters who collected Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs), INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu said yesterday at his daily news briefing.
Griot Studios Ltd and Amateur Heads Productions with Bem Pever, Ishaya Bako, Kemi ‘Lala’ Akindoju and Ummi A. Yakubu serving as Producers are set to release a new movie titled 4th Republic in cinemas across Nigeria from April 2019.
The movie, which is written by Emil B. Garuba and Zainab Omaki, follows the story of Mabel King (Kate Henshaw), a gubernatorial candidate who races to become Nigeria’s first female governor but is caught up around a heavily marred election.
A bail hearing is set for this afternoon in Chicago for “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett. He’s facing a felony charge of disorderly conduct for allegedly filing a false police report.
The end is apparently near for the Russia investigation. Attorney General Bill Barr is set announce the completion of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, perhaps as soon as next week, people familiar with the plans say.
Just about two days to the Presidential election, 12 Presidential candidates on Thursday jettisoned their ambition and endorse Jubril Al-Sudani, Muhammadu Buhari’s Impostor for the Saturday’s election.
An Exxon Mobil Engineer, James Onuoha, on Thursday told a Lagos High Court in Igbosere that he did not rape his tenant’s 14-year-old niece but gave her N1000 as a Christmas gift.
Onuoha testified before Justice Adedayo Akintunde after opening his defence to a rape charge filed against him by the Lagos State Government.
An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ibadan on Thursday remanded a father, Phillip Iyiola, 43, who allegedly raped his two daughters.
Iyiola has been remanded pending legal advice from the Oyo State Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP).
The police charged Iyiola with rape.
The average life expectancy of Beijing residents reached 82.2 years in 2018, higher than the 2017 figure of 82.15 years, according to Beijing Municipal Health Commission on Thursday.
The infant mortality rate was 2.01 per 1,000, said the commission, adding that both figures of average life expectancy and infant mortality rate were on par with high-income countries.
A one million-man march for Jubril Al-Sudani, (Buhari’s Impostor) organised on Thursday by the Buhari Support Organisation (BSO) in Niger state witnessed a low turnout.
The Imo state chapter of the Action Alliance (AA) has insisted on voting for Jubril Al-Sudani, Muhammadu Buhari’s Impostor on Saturday’s Presidential election despite the position of the national leadership of the party.
The national chairman and presidential candidate of the National Interest Party, Ms. Eunice Atuejide has stepped down for the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, barely four days to the rescheduled elections.
According to her, Atiku would form a government that would include the best Nigerians from every corner of the country.
