American singer Lil Nas X was absent from a Los Angeles court hearing on September 15 after entering an inpatient treatment program. According to the Daily Mail, the 26-year-old rapper, born Montero Lamar Hill, was scheduled for a pre-trial hearing following his arrest last month related to a public nude incident. However, his lawyers…
Gunmen kidnapped six individuals in Kufana town, Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State, in the early hours of Monday, September 13. According to reports, the attackers stormed the community and took the victims to an unknown location. Among those abducted was Mr. Samuel Dangiwa, a prominent community leader and former Education Secretary, security analyst…
Omoyele Sowore, the 2023 African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate, has filed two fundamental rights actions at the Federal High Court in Abuja against the Department of State Services (DSS) and social media giants Meta (Facebook) and X Corp. A statement released by Sowore’s legal team on Tuesday, signed by Tope Temokun, said the lawsuits…
President Bola Tinubu returned to Abuja on Tuesday, September 16, following a two-week vacation in Paris, France. He arrived at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, where he was welcomed by Senate President Godswill Akpabio, Chief of Staff Femi Gbajabiamila, and Nasarawa State Governor Abdullahi Sule. Tinubu had departed Nigeria on September…
Robert Redford, the Oscar-winning actor, director, and pioneering advocate for independent film and environmental causes, has died at the age of 89. His publicist, Cindi Berger, confirmed that Redford passed away on September 16, 2025, at his home in the mountains of Sundance, Utah. “Robert Redford passed away at the place he loved, surrounded by…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged on Monday, September 15, that Israel is experiencing a “kind of isolation” on the world stage — a direct consequence of its ongoing military campaign in Gaza, now nearing its second year. Speaking at a Finance Ministry conference, Netanyahu warned that the international backlash could persist for years,…
Media personality Toke Makinwa has revealed that she became pregnant just a month after celebrating her 40th birthday. She made the disclosure in a post shared on her Instagram account on Monday, September 15. “I got pregnant a month after I turned 40,” she wrote. Makinwa welcomed her first child, a baby girl, on August…
The Presidency has strongly criticized former Vice President Atiku Abubakar following his recent remarks on the state of the nation, dismissing his claims about widespread hunger and looming unrest as misleading and disconnected from current realities in Nigeria. In a statement issued earlier today, Atiku likened Nigeria’s present challenges to conditions that led to the…
Minister of Works, Senator David Umahi, has praised President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for his unprecedented focus on infrastructure development in the Southeast, emphasizing that the region now has every reason to support the President. Speaking to journalists at Nine Mile Corner on Sunday, September 15, after inspecting the ongoing dual carriageway project linking Nassarawa, Makurdi,…
Suspected armed bandits ambushed operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) along the Yantumaki–Danmusa road in Katsina State. The attack took place in Dafa village around 5 p.m. on Friday, resulting in the death of one officer, CCA Adamu Abdullah, aged 37. Four other NSCDC personnel were injured during the assault: DSC…
