Not since 1993 when MKO Abiola chose Babagana Kingibe as his running mate has the religious complexion of a presidential ticket excited the passions of Nigerians as much as Bola Tinubu’s choice of Kashim Shettima as his running mate. It at once got some Christians enraged and some Muslims engaged. …

No fewer than 473,429 Nigerians have called on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to ban and criminalise child marriage in the country. The call was contained in a petition, which started on the global change website, change.org, by a civil society group, Never Your Fault, run by three …

The state Commissioner of Police, CP. Paul Odama, disclosed this while parading the suspect before reporters at the police headquarters, Ilorin, on Friday. He said the suspect presented himself to the victim as an American on TikTok, a social media platform with the name, Howard Adams, and defrauded her of …

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a mother, Busola Oyediran and her lover, Akebiara Emmanuel, for allegedly physically assaulting their two children aged five and two. It was reported that the couple was arrested on Friday in the Egbeda/Idimu area of Lagos, following reports by their neighbours. It was …

Famous Nigerian musician, David Adeleke, professionally known by his stage name Davido and his wife Chioma, have gotten customised matching tattoos on each other’s ring fingers. The couple, in a trending video on social media, was seen getting each other’s name tattooed on their ring fingers.This is coming barely a …

President Muhammadu Buhari Friday promised to consider the requests for assistance made by the new Governor of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke, who was at State House on a ‘thank you’ visit. The Governor, elected on platform of the People’s Democratic Party, said he had come to appreciate the President …

Zenith Bank Plc has said it is only able to recover a sum of N800,500 to Chiamaka Agim, the Lagos State resident whose N4.039 million mysteriously vanished from her account with the bank on Monday.FIJ had earlier reported how the money was deducted from Agim’s Zenith Bank account without her …

A 19-year-old lady, Cynthia Ikade, was arraigned before a Yaba Magistrates’ Court, Lagos State, for conspiring with a gang to rob her former employer, Esther Okanlawon, of N2.8 million, and other valuables . On Thursday, January 12, 2023, Ikade was arraigned along with her accomplises, Pius Sunday, 28, and Loveth Uloko, …

A former model, Kelsey Turner, 29, has been jailed for her role in the murder of a Californian psychiatrist, Dr Thomas Burchard, 71 and stuffing his body in the trunk of a car after he stopped paying her rent.Turner, who has posed for both Playboy and Maxim has been sentenced …

There was panic in Ilorin, Kwara State capital early hours of Friday over the rumoured abduction of an Ilorin-based Muslim Cleric, identified as Mohammadu Buhari Jamiu. A video clip with the inscription of ‘Buhari Omo Musa in the background, now viral reportedly claimed he was abducted at his residence in …