John Tafara Madzikatire a business manallegedly k!IIed himself outside his girlfriend’s home in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. The married father-of-two and owner of a butchery was found d£ad with a gunsh0t wound to the head on Saturday, January 18, 2025. Police were called to Cowdray Park suburb at around 9PM after residents reported finding the body…
Taiwo Oyedele, the Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Tax Policy and Fiscal Reforms, has announced that the tax reform bills are expected to be passed into law by the end of the first quarter (Q1) of 2025. Oyedele shared this update on Saturday, January 18, during his speech at The Platform, an event organized…
Canadian businessman and investor Kevin O’Leary has made a $20 billion cash offer to purchase TikTok from its owners. This comes in the wake of a bipartisan bill signed by President Biden that classified TikTok as a national security threat. The law mandates that ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, must sell or divest…
David Umahi, Nigeria’s Minister of Works, expressed frustration over the country’s road repair challenges, citing insufficient funding as a major obstacle. Appearing before the Senate Committee on Works, Umahi acknowledged the difficulties in addressing the country’s vast infrastructure needs, emphasizing that the available budget does not adequately address the scope of repairs needed. …
President-elect Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he will soon make a decision regarding TikTok’s operations following the Supreme Court’s ruling. The court upheld a law mandating the platform’s ban unless its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, sells it to an American firm. On Friday, January 17, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene in…
In response to the recent outbreak of communal violence between the Ifon and Ilobu communities, Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has ordered an immediate curfew in the affected areas. The decision was communicated by the Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Oluomo Kolapo Alimi, in a press statement issued to journalists in Osogbo, the…
The wife of retired Assistant Inspector General of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has been kidnapped from their home in the Arepo area of Ogun State. The Ogun State Police Command responded quickly to the abduction, deploying officers to secure her release. Reports indicate that Mrs. Odumosu was taken in the early hours of Friday, January 17,…
Timilehin Olatunji a 35-year-old Nigerian man, who raped a woman in a ‘violent, degrading and sustained’ attack at a home in Nottingham, United Kingdom has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. Nottinghamshire Police said Olatunji launched a sustained attack on the woman at a property in Nottingham in the early hours of 29 September 2024.…
On Friday, January 17, President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of nearly 2,500 individuals convicted of non-violent drug offenses, marking what the White House described as the largest single-day act of clemency in U.S. history. The individuals whose sentences were commuted had been serving what Biden referred to as “disproportionately long sentences” compared to what…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State announced on Thursday, January 16, that it would withdraw from the local government council elections scheduled for January 18. The party made this decision following extensive consultations with stakeholders, as revealed in a statement by the PDP’s Director of Media and Publicity in the state, Leye Igbabo.…
