She started her journey on Tuesday, September 22, and wrapped it up on Friday, September 27, at the Pent View hotel in Ikorodu. Ojumola Bello, a Nigerian actress, has made history by breaking the Guinness World Record for the longest acting marathon. She started her journey on Tuesday, September 22, …
Read More »Man Who Offered Tinubu N100m to Buy APC Forms Gets Two Federal Appointments
THE Director General of the Tinubu Support Organisation for the 2023 polls, Hon. Aminu Suleiman, has been given two federal appointments by President Bola Tinubu. The appointments were confirmed in a congratulatory poster that was shared on social media over the weekend by the appointee. The Eagle Online recalls that …
Read More »EFCC Arrests 13 Sokoto Students for Internet Fraud
THE operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have apprehended 13 students of Usmanu Danfodio University, Sokoto in Sokoto State, for alleged internet fraud. https://newsextra24.com/president-joe-biden-reacts-to-the-killing-of-hassan-nasrallah/ The EFCC disclosed this in a statement issued by its spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, on Saturday, September 28, 2024. Oyewale noted that the arrests …
Read More »Court Frees 36 Pro-Biafra Activists after Four years in Detention
AN Ebonyi State High Court, sitting in Abakaliki, has discharged and acquitted 36 Pro-Biafra activists who had been detained for over four years. This is according to Ifeanyi Ejiofor, the lead counsel for the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. Ejiofor made the announcement on Friday in Owerri, where he recounted …
Read More »Nigerian Man Pleads Guilty to Defrauding 15 Americans of Over $1m, Faces Five-year Jail Term
Isaiah Okere, a 42-year-old Nigerian man, has pleaded guilty to charges of internet fraud. In the course of h8s fraudulent transactions, he defrauded over 15 Americans and organizations of more than $1 million. Okere appeared before the U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Liman in New York last Tuesday. He …
Read More »President Joe Biden Reacts to The Killing of Hassan Nasrallah
HASSAN Nasrallah and the terrorist group he led, Hezbollah, were responsible for killing hundreds of Americans over a four-decade reign of terror. His death from an Israeli airstrike is a measure of justice for his many victims, including thousands of Americans, Israelis, and Lebanese civilians. The strike that killed Nasrallah …
Read More »AFC, Itana to Develop Africa’s First Digital Economic Zone
THE Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) and Itana, Nigeria’s first licensed digital economic zone management company, have partnered to develop Africa’s inaugural digital economic zone. This landmark project aims to create an environment where global and Pan-African technology, finance, and service-based businesses can operate seamlessly across Africa, thus unlocking the potential of …
Read More »US Pledges $480m to Boost Sierra Leone’s Power Access
THE Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a US government development fund, has granted $480 million to Sierra Leone over five years to provide reliable and affordable electricity to 4.6 million people. This significant investment aims to address the nation’s limited electricity access, which currently reaches only 30 percent of the population, …
Read More »Tanzania Mandates 20% Gold sales To Central Bank to Boost Reserves
Tanzania mining regulator has directed all mining firms and gold traders to allocate at least 20 percent of their gold exports to the central bank. The move aims to diversify and bolster the foreign reserves of the Bank of Tanzania (BoT), as the country seeks to address depreciation pressures …
Read More »Africa Must Not be Sucked into Other People’s Wars
AS the adage goes, there is no smoke without fire. Thus, when a spokesman in Ukraine was quoted as suggesting that his country’s military intelligence agency (GUR) had passed on sensitive information to Tuareg separatists and jihadist insurgents in the Sahel that led to the deaths of 84 Russian Wagner …
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