A 7-year-old boy has gone missing while running an errand in Mushin, Lagos State. Adam Afolabi and his siblings were at their parents’ home in Mushin on Tuesday, August 23, 2022, when his sister, Zainab, told him to buy biscuits at a shop nearby. However, after leaving home, Adam didn’t return. Zainab left home…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has extended its ongoing strike again. The decision was taken after the National Executive Council meeting at the union’s headquarters at the University of Abuja on Monday morning, August 29. The ASUU strike began on February 14, 2022, and was initially to last for 4 weeks. However, on…
A man has been killed by a lion at the Accra Zoo in Ghana. According to a statement by the Forest Commission, the man jumped the security fence of the zoo and entered the inner fencing of the lions’ enclosure on Sunday, August 28. One of the lions attacked and killed the man. The…
An application by the federal government seeking to extradite suspended deputy commissioner of police (DCP), Abba Kyari to the United States to face criminal charges, has been dismissed by a federal high court sitting in Abuja. Justice Inyang Eden Ekwo on Monday August 29, held that the extradition request filed by the Attorney General of the…
The Ondo State Government has stated that it is now an offence for public school teachers to enroll their children and wards in private schools. Victor Olabimtan, the Chairman of the Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, in the State claimed that the development had led to the declining enrollment in State-run primary schools. In…
Premier League club, Nottingham Forest have rekindled interest in Super Eagles and Watford striker Emmanuel Dennis. The newly promoted Premier League side have already spent in excess of £85million on new players this summer but they are still looking to add more to their rank. Forest have identified both Dennis and Estupinan as potential targets they would…
A 4-year-old girl died after she was attacked by a leopard inside a private tea estate at Arakadu near in Nilgiris district, Tamil Nadu, India. According to local media, the girl identified as Saritha, daughter of migrant workers from Assam, was attacked on Wednesday afternoon, August 10, 2022, when she went to relieve herself…
A lawyer in India has won 22-year court battle involving 100 hearings after he was overcharged for a train ticket in 1999. Passenger Tungnath Chaturvedi paid 20 rupees (21p) more than he should have for two tickets on a North East Railway service from Mathura to Moradabad in 1999, but was handed over 100 rupees…
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) have signed a peace pact to de-escalate religious tensions in the 2023 general elections in Nigeria. The peace accord was signed in Washington D.C., United States at the International Religious Freedom Summit 2022 organised by the Global Peace Foundation and…
Kwara State Magistrate Court sitting in Ilorin on Thursday, August 11, remanded a farm worker and his accomplices in prison custody for allegedly killing his boss, Jamiu Ibrahim, during an armed robbery operation. The suspects, Isiaka Sabi, Hassan Bature and Ardo Umaru on June 29 allegedly conspired and killed the 45-year-old farm owner in Idofin Odo-Ashe,…
