Superstar footballer, Lionel Messi, has ventured into football ownership. The Inter Miami star, 38, has purchased 100 per cent of UE Cornella, a club located on the outskirts of Barcelona. Messi will have full control of the Spanish football club in the fifth tier, based just five miles from Camp Nou. It…
Over 700 repentant terrorists are set to be reintegrated into their communities after they were deradicalised and rehabilitated. The African Independent Television reports that the Coordinator of Operation Safe Corridor, Brigadier-General Yusuf Ali, disclosed this during a media tour of facilities at the Deradicalisation, Rehabilitation and Reintegration Centre in Gombe, North-East Nigeria. Brigadier-General Ali stated…
Music group Nkyinkyim Band has officially announced the departure of its drummer, George Kaiser, popularly known as Kind Dee. In a statement released on Wednesday, April 15, the band confirmed that the decision for Kind Dee to step down was reached amicably and with mutual respect. Kind Dee, who has been a key member of…
The Rivers State Government has suspended Wisdom Gate International School, in Eligbolo, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area, over the d3ath of a two-year-old girl. The toddler identified as Wynne Akekue, allegedly d!ed after a poorly mounted bookshelf fell on her while she was asleep in her classroom on March 17, 2026. Her parents, Dr…
Reckitt Nigeria has announced the commissioning of a new public sanitation facility in Abule Egba, Lagos, built by MN Environmental Services, one of four health and hygiene enterprises in Nigeria from the 2025 cohort of the Reckitt Catalyst programme. The facility will serve over 30,000 commuters monthly, bringing critical Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) infrastructure…
A High Court of Bayelsa State sitting in Yenagoa on Thursday, April 16, 2026, sentenced two men to d3ath by hanging for the abduction of Mrs. Grace Omietimi, mother of the Chief Medical Director of the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Yenagoa, Dr. James Omietimi. The convicts, Mr. Felix Oburu, a native of Omoku…
A 27-year-old Nigerian man identified as Stanley, d!ed after a part of a four-storey building collapsed in Limassol, Cyprus. The incident occurred around 1:30pm on Easter Saturday, April 11, 2026 on Aeschylou Street in Germasogeia, shortly after Stanley returned home from a morning run. The building was home to residents of African and…
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Justice Jude Onwuegbuzie of a Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, issued a warrant of arrest against a former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Faruoq. The court also directed that the former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Bashir Nura Alkali be arrested alongside Sadiya over their…
U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a temporary ceasefire after weeks of Israeli strikes targeting the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah that have killed more than 2,000 people in Lebanon. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said that he had spoken with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and…
