A hospice nurse has been struck off after a misconduct panel found serious professional failings, including inappropriate comments about patients and medication errors. Naomi Butcher, 60, was removed from the nursing register following a hearing by the Nursing and Midwifery Council over her conduct while working at St Peter and St James Hospice between 2023…
Big Brother Naija reality star Venita Akpofure has threatened to take legal action against a social media user who accused her of moving “from one man to another”. The issue started when the X user made posts criticising the former BBNaija star, alleging that she goes from one man to another and making other insulting…
The murder conviction of Benjamin Field has been quashed by the Court of Appeal, with judges ordering a retrial in the high-profile case. Field, 28, was originally convicted in 2019 of killing Peter Farquhar, a 69-year-old retired university lecturer, in the village of Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire. Prosecutors had argued that Field drugged and manipulated…
BBNaija star, Venita Akpofure, and a troll had a back and forth on X some hours ago. It all started when the X user left a rather insulting comment about Venita. ‘’Venita is such a let down woman. Agbaya Oshi” the troll wrote The mum of two spotted the comment and in response, described…
The Bauchi State Government has dismissed a driver, Aminu Abdullahi, over a fatal road crash that claimed the lives of two journalists and left 11 others injured. The crash involving a vehicle conveying 13 journalists occurred on February 6, 2026. A cameraman with Channels Television, Kani Ben, d!ed from spinal cord…
A High Court in the Federal Capital Territory has ordered the arrest of former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq. Sadiya Farouq’s Arrest was ordered along with a former Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Bashir Nura Alkali. The order was given on Thursday by Justice Jude Onwuegbuzie after both…
A former church warden who was jailed for life for the murd£r of a university lecturer has had his conviction quashed at the Court of Appeal. Benjamin Field was jailed for at least 36 years in 2019 after being found guilty of murd£ring 69-year-old Peter Farquhar in Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire. Mr Farquhar had been an English…
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has extradited a Nigerian man, Matthew Chukwuemeka Adebiyi, to the United Kingdom to face trial over alleged murder and drug-related offences. A statement by police spokesperson Anthony Placid on Thursday, Adebiyi was arrested on January 23, 2025, by operatives of INTERPOL’s National Central Bureau in Abuja. The spokesperson explained that…
Pope Leo has claimed the world is ‘being ravaged by a handful of tyrants’ amid his feud with President Donald Trump. The Pope made the remarks during a trip to Cameroon on Thursday after the US President launched a tirade against him over his repeated criticism of the war in Iran. He also…
Residents of Gushegu and its environs are grappling with the aftermath of a destructive windstorm that displaced nearly 2,000 people and damaged more than 250 homes across several communities. According to the Member of Parliament (MP) for the area, Alhassan S. Tampuli, the storm struck on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, leaving a trail of destruction…
