At least one person has been killed and dozens injured during Jallikattu, India’s controversial bull-taming competition, officials said Monday. The deceased, in his 20s, was a contestant who died of injuries sustained during a pageant in Madurai district in the…
A journalist in Bayelsa State, South-South Nigeria, Nengi Owei-Ilagha, was on Monday arraigned at the Federal High Court in Yenagoa for allegedly making defamatory posts on Facebook against members of the Police Community Relations Committee in the state. A member…
According to Guardian Nigeria January 16, 2023 | 3:42 p.m Popular Nigerian singer, Olawale Olofooro, popularly known as Brymo, has apologized again after making controversial comments about the southeast, saying an Igbo presidency would be a “pipe dream,” meaning it…
The Bauchi State Government has resolved a brewing crisis between the Christian and Muslim communities in Yola Bayara, a suburb of Bauchi metropolis, over the ownership of a cemetery. The leader of the Yolan Bayara community, Sani Yakubu, has accused…
He has long been working on completing his promised biography of William Shakespeare, but now Boris Johnson is turning his life story closer to home: his own. Britain’s former prime minister is set to write a memoir “like no other”,…
At Federal High Court has announced that nine vacancies will be filled on its bench, even though it has a shortfall of 24 judges. The court had a full 100 judges but now has 76 in all parts of the…
The hanging of a statue of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that shows him dangling by the leg from a rope in Stockholm does not warrant a criminal investigation, prosecutors said on Friday. “The decision has been taken not to…
On Sunday, Multichoice, organizers of the popular TV reality show Big Brother, kicked off the inaugural season of Big Brother Titans. This year, the Big Brother franchise brought together contestants from two countries (Nigeria and South Africa), ten from each…
Ahead of the twelfth edition of the Daniel Ogechi Akujobi Memorial Foundation Charity Golf Tournament, corporate companies have shown interest in supporting the event. The event, noted for its exceptional standards, is slated for January 28, 2023, at the Ikoyi…
The Congress of Nigerian University Academics (CONUA) has confirmed the move by the Nigerian government to pay the withheld salaries of its members. The Nigerian government has confirmed that it will implement the No Work, No Pay policy on public…