Another 17- year-old pupil of Oyemekun Grammar School Akure, Ondo State, Philip Solomon, has been declared the Guinness World Record holder for most skips on one foot in 30 seconds. On January 24, Solomon officially recorded 153 skips on one foot in 30 seconds to outdo former record holder Rasel Islam of Bangladesh whose record […]

Liverpool’s new sporting director Jorg Schmadtke has admitted he regrets selling Napoli striker Victor Osimhen during his developing stage at Wolfsburg. Both Osimhen and Schmadtke were together with Bundesliga giants Wolfsburg. The Nigerian was not quite the ruthless striker that he has developed into currently and after going 16 games without a goal with the […]

Shareholders of the manufacturer of paints and allied products, Berger Paints of Nigeria Plc, have approved the payment of N202,876,413 as dividends for the 2022 financial year. The approval was given at the 63rd Annual General Meeting of the company in Lagos on Wednesday. The shareholders approved the payment of N202,876,413 as dividends at the […]

The ESPS “Audaz”, a Spanish warship, has docked in Lagos to reinforce military ties between Nigeria and Spain and deliver defence diplomacy. A statement on Wednesday said the ESPS “Audaz” moored in Lagos port on May 13 to demonstrate the Spanish government’s commitment to the security of the Gulf of Guinea. See the photos below: […]

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has written to the National Assembly to seek approval for payment of judgment debts owed by the Federal Government to the tune of $566.7 million, £98.5m and N226.2 billion. The debt when converted to naira using the official dollar rate of N460.78 and N574.3 for pounds amounted to […]

The Senate, on  Wednesday, passed for second reading, a bill seeking to compensate victims of the 2020 #EndSARS protest. The #EndSARS movement started in October 2020, when thousands of mainly young Nigerians took to the streets to protest against police brutality, particularly by the now-disbanded brutal Special Anti-Robbery Squad police unit. The peaceful protest went […]

A Federal High Court sitting in Akure, Ondo State, on Tuesday remanded four persons for impersonation and examination malpractices in the examination conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board.  The defendants include Timilehin Akinwale, Olayinka Mustapha, Peter Okereke, and Feranmi Adesuyi. According to the prosecution, Moses Osimhen, the first three defendants; Akinwale, Mustapha and […]

The Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday sentenced three men Kasumu Ademola, Salau Mikailu, and Ganiyu Ishola to 20 years imprisonment for defrauding a stock firm of N45.6m. Justice Chukwuejekwu Aneke handed down the jail term after he found them guilty of the offence. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had arraigned the convicts […]

Bisi Oluwatayo, the grandmother of a four-year-old pupil of Greater Scholars International School, Ajah, Lagos State, who was reportedly defiled by the school’s security guard recently, has demanded justice for her grandchild. Her grandchild was allegedly defiled by the school guard identified simply as David under the guise of cleaning her up. Oluwatayo, in a […]

The Enugu State Police Command on Wednesday said it had arrested four suspected fraudsters who specialise in swapping Automated Teller Machine cards for defrauding a 63-year-old man of N495,000.  The suspects, three males and one female between the ages of 18 and 36 were said to have been arrested on May 6, 2023, around 4.30pm […]