The Department of State Services (DSS) on Wednesday, June 24, distanced itself from the remand of activist and publisher Omoyele Sowore in Kuje Custodial Centre, insisting that his remand resulted entirely from court proceedings and not from any action taken by the agency. The statement comes amid questions over how Sowore ended up in Kuje…
Former Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Alhaji Bukar Goni, says the Federal Government was ready and had the money to pay civil servants a N150,000 minimum wage. But the plan failed because state governments, local councils, and the private sector pushed back. Goni is now calling for an urgent change…
France on Wednesday, June 24, announced its first confirmed case of Ebola identified on its territory, a doctor back from the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is fighting a major outbreak. The case is the first of the deadly haemorrhagic fever identified outside the African continent during the current outbreak, which has also affected…
France head coach, Didier Deschamps will miss his side’s final World Cup group game following the death of his mother. The French Football Federation (FFF) confirmed the news. Deschamps learned of his mother’s passing on Tuesday morning and has been given permission by FFF president Philippe Diallo to fly back to France to attend the…
An Australian man who blew $1.6million after discovering a banking glitch has opened up about the wild lifestyle he enjoyed In 2011, bartender Dan Saunders, from Wangaratta in country Victoria, stumbled across a technical fault in National Australia Bank’s ATM system. He discovered the loophole after transferring $200 from his credit card to his…
The South East Progressives Forum, SEPF, has criticized the presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, Peter Obi, for initiating a N5 billion defamation lawsuit against his former spokesman and ally, Kenneth Okonkwo. The Forum, in a statement signed by head of its media unit, Paul Anigbogu, on Monday, accused the former Anambra…
US Billionaire, Bill Gates testified that he never interacted with victims of Jeffrey Epstein but acknowledged that he may have been in their presence, according to a transcript of his closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee released Tuesday. The Microsoft co-founder maintained in the voluntary interview, which took place on Capitol Hill earlier this…
Justice Mohammed Umar of the Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed June 30 for ruling on a bail application filed by activist and presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore. The Department of State Services is prosecuting Sowore over alleged criminal defamation arising from claims that he referred to President Bola Tinubu as a “criminal” in…
There is a rumour crawling through the political underbelly of Nigeria that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, after his second term in office, is seriously considering the unthinkable: the formal division of the country. Could it be that the man from the South-West who never believed in one Nigeria has grown tired of the endless drain…
A chaotic standoff erupted outside the Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday morning, June 24, 2026, after security operatives from the Department of State Services (DSS) were accused of blocking legal representatives and key associates of activist Omoyele Sowore from accessing the courtroom. The confrontation escalated when the National Secretary of the African…
