Saudi Arabia has admitted journalist Jamal Khashoggi is dead. The results of the country’s own investigation were revealed Friday evening and showed the 60-year-old died following an altercation at the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul, Turkey October 2. Saudi’s attorney general said in a statement: ‘Discussions between citizen Jamal Khashoggi and those who met him while […]
An Indian man identified as Deeraj Kharol, who buried himself alive to become God, was rescued by the police after spending 8 hours in the grave. The Indian man who was rushed to a health center, had been living in a temple in Karocho ka Kheda village, Rajasthan, for a few years and according to odditycentral.com, the man announced that he […]
A group of United Nations agencies has issued a joint statement calling for the ban of misleading and damaging tests meant to ‘assess the virginity’ of women and girls, a common practice in at least 20 countries. Virginity testing is a controversial practice that aims to determine whether a girl has had sexual intercourse or […]
The University of Lagos has announced plans to screen its newly-admitted students for hard drugs. The university’s Principal Assistant Registrar, Communication Unit, Taiwo Oloyede, warned that the university would not hesitate to withdraw admission of new students who test positive for hard drugs. Oloyede spoke in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria and […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has obtained a remand order from a Federal Capital Territory High Court to keep former Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State for two weeks, The PUNCH can confirm. The remand order, it was learnt, is subject to renewal which implies that Fayose could spend longer than two weeks in custody. A […]
The management of the federal university of technology owerri (Futo) has released an official memo to disband all the military student and man-O-war commands in the university. According to one of the statement it reads; The management of the federal university of technology owerri (FUTO) has disbanded futo man o’ war commands with immediate effect. […]
The former Special Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe, has predicted number of votes that would be delivered to the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Okupe in a post on Thursday said Atiku will poll 70% votes in Noth East and North Central states of Nigeria to defeat Buhari in 2019. […]
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has died. He died of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma Monday in Seattle. He was 65. He had tweeted two Mondays ago, announcing that the disease, which he battled in 2009 had returned. “Some personal news: Recently, I learned the non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma I battled in 2009 has returned. I’ve begun treatment & my doctors are optimistic […]
Operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, IRT, have apprehended four Commanders of the notorious Armed gangs which specialised in Killings, cattle rustling and kidnappings in Zamfara state and their overall arms supplier. The suspects, identified as Hamisu Sani, Shehu Sani, Yusuf Mande and Lawal Abubakar, were trailed to their hideouts […]
Ike Ekweremadu, deputy senate president, is rallying south-east leaders to back the choice of Peter Obi as the vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), TheCable understands. Both men were top favourites considered by Atiku Abubakar as running mate in the 2019 presidential election, with Obi getting the nod. However, south-east political leaders, comprising […]