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“She is also good for marriage” – Court orders man who slept with ‘mad woman’ to marry her or be jailed for 10 years

A Zambian court has sentenced a man to 10 years imprisonment for sleeping with a mentally challenged woman four years ago. Edwin Sakala, was arrested in March 2019 after residents exposed him for having carnal knowledge of a mentally ill ...

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Traditional Ruler Shot Dead In Ebonyi

  Gunmen, suspected to be political thugs, have shot dead the chairperson of Ezza North Traditional Rulers Council in Ebonyi State. The victim, Igbokwe Ewa, was attacked and killed in his residence on Monday evening. The Commissioner for Information in ...

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Obi Wins All 21 LGAs In Anambra State

  The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has declared the Labour Party, LP presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, the winner of Saturday’s Presidential election in Anambra State. Obi swept all the 21 local government areas in the state by a ...

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Datti, Okowa Hold JOINT Press Conference, Want Fresh Election

  Datti Baba-Ahmed and Ifeanyi Okowa, vice-presidential candidates of the Labour Party (LP) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to cancel the general election. Speaking on Tuesday at a media briefing held at ...

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Youths Warn Against Attempt To Arrest Dunamis Pastor, Paul Enenche

  Youths from the 36 states of the federation have warned against any attempt to arrest the senior Pastor of Dunamis International Gospel Centre, Paul Enenche, over his recent comments on the presidential election. The All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential ...

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Woman Mauled To Death By Dog She Took In

  The 67-year-old, who has not yet been named, had picked up the abandoned dog from a field near the city of Valencia on Spain’s southeastern coast. She had been in possession of the dog for just a few days ...

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Abuja Women Protest Election Results (Photos)

  A women group under the auspices of ‘Angry Nigerian Women’ on Tuesday stormed the main road leading to the International Conference Centre venue for the national collation of the presidential election results over alleged irregularities. The women numbering about ...

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Tinubu Wins Rivers, Sweeps Niger And Benue

  Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress in last Saturday’s general elections, has won the keenly contest polls in Rivers State. The APC flagbearer also swept Niger and Benue states, garnering massive votes in ...

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Jonathan & Ex- Ghanaian President, John Mahama Visit Tinubu

  Former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday led representatives of the ECOWAS Election Monitoring Team to visit Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the APC. Jonathan came with former President of Ghana, John Mahama during the visit in Abuja. ...

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Obi Defeats Tinubu, Atiku In Cross River

  Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate, has defeated other presidential candidates in Cross River State. Obi won the election with 179,917 votes. The state collation officer, Professor Akpofure Rim-Rukeh, declared the results at the state collation centre in Calabar Tuesday ...

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Obi Beats PDP, APC In Okowa’s Delta State

  Peter Obi of the Labour Party has won the presidential election conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Delta State last Saturday. In the result announced by INEC early Tuesday, Obi scored 341,866 to floor closest challengers. ...

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2023 Election: INEC Declares Yobe South Senatorial District Election Inconclusive

  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the Yobe South Senatorial District election inconclusive. The Returning Officer, Shettima Saidu of Federal University Gashua, Yobe, made the declaration in Potiskum. He said the leading candidates, Ibrahim Bomoi of the ...

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Tinubu Wins In Benue With Just 2000 Votes Ahead Of Obi

  The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, has been declared the winner of Saturday’s presidential election in Benue State. Tinubu polled 310,468 to outpace Peter Obi of the Labour Party who scored 308,372 votes. Also, Atiku ...

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Police Arrest 4 Suspects For Burning NNPP Office

  The Kano State Police Command on Monday confirmed the death of two persons when thugs set ablaze campaign office of New Nigeria Peoples Party in Tudun Wada Local Government Area of the state on Sunday. The command’s Public Relations ...

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2023 Election: Tinubu WINS In Zamfara

  The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, has won the presidential election in Zamfara State. Tinubu polled 298,396 votes to win the state. The collation officer for the Zamfara State presidential election, Prof. Kashim Shehu, announced ...

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Peter Obi WINS ALL 17 LGAs In Enugu

  The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, has been declared the winner of Saturday’s presidential election conducted in Enugu State. Obi polled a total 428,640 votes to defeat other contenders, with the candidate of the Peoples ...

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Tinubu WINS In Ondo State

  The results of the Saturday’s Presidential elections in the eighteen council areas of Ondo State have been announced by INEC. The State Returning Officer for the presidential election and the Vice Chancellor, Federal University , Oye-Ekiti, Professor Abayomi Fashina, ...

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Elon Musk Sacks 200 MORE Twitter Staff

  Twitter has laid off another 200 employees, around 10 percent of its remaining workforce, in the latest round of job cuts since Elon Musk took over last October. The layoffs, announced Saturday, bring Twitter’s workforce down to under 2,000 ...

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Dino Melaye Faults INEC’s Results Presentation

  The collation agent of the Peoples Democratic Party, Dino Melaye, has challenged the method of collation and result announcement by the Independent National Electoral Commission at the National Collation Centre in Abuja, on Monday.   During his protest at ...

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Orji Kalu WINS Senatorial Seat

  The Chief Whip of the Senate and the candidate of the All Progressives Congress for Abia North Senatorial district election, Senator Orji Uzor-Kalu, has been declared the winner of the election by the Independent National Electoral Commission.   According ...

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Atiku Floors Tinubu, Obi In Akwa Ibom

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar has won the presidential election in Akwa Ibom State. The former Vice President secured 214,012 votes to defeat Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, who polled 160,620 ...

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