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Kim Kardashian, the Reality Television star, has filed to be ‘legally single’ in her divorce from Kanye West, her estranged husband. The businesswoman, 41, filed the documents on Friday which, if signed off by a judge, will make her a single woman in the eyes of the law. She is also asking the court to revert to her maiden name, dropping ‘West,’ which will essentially separate matters of child custody and property from marital status. The reality star’s lawyer is Laura Wasser, whom TMZ reports has frequently pursued these cases for other big celebrity clients, including Dr. Dre and Kelly Clarkson. Since legal proceedings are likely to…

The Managing Editor, Next Edition Newspaper, Lagos, Ibanga Isine has called for the arrest and prosecution of suspected cultists responsible for the brutal killing of Barr. Sunday Akpan. In a petition dated December 8 and sent to Akwa Ibom State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice Ministry of Justice, Akwa Ibom State, Isine also called on the government to intervene and stop the ongoing siege by suspected cultists in Nung Ukana Ikot Efre in Ibesikpo Asutan Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. The Professor Wole Soyinka award-winning investigative journalist wrote ”I wish to bring to your notice and to request…

The Chairman of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF),  Audu Ogbeh has come out blunt: That political parties in Nigeria are not functioning compared to their counterparts in other countries. Ogbeh who spoke with journalists in Kaduna on Wednesday said that political parties in the country should have public platforms for assessing elected officials. The former Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture recalled how he held such conference as chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) when President Olusegun Obasanjo was in power. Read also I Belong To All The Political Parties In Nigeria– Prelate Uche  Gov Election: Candidates Of Political Parties Sign Peace Accord…

Despite warnings against jungle justice, three robbery suspects have been lynched in Uyo, Nigeria’s Akwa Ibom State  capital in the past one week, Akwa Ibom Police Command has revealed.   A robbery suspect along Ebong Essien off Ikpa Road in Uyo was arrested by irate mob on the suspicion that he wanted to steal, hung tyre and burnt to death on November 28, 2021. On December 8, 2021, two young men who were accused of attempting to rob a POS attendant at Ikot Oku Ikono, Uyo close to the Timber market, after the flyover were caught, set ablaze and burnt…

The Consensus Chairman-elect of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Benue State, Omale Omale has declared that under his leadership, the party will not defend any individual, or group of persons indicted by the anti-corruption agencies. Omale, a legal practitioner, was reacting to a statement by the factional Chairman of the Party, Mr Austin Agada over mounting calls on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to probe Senator George Akume, Minister of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs. Akume is linked with weighty allegations of misappropriation of Benue State public funds to the tune of N4.56 billion when he served…

Jigawa State High Court in Kazaure sentenced a 70-year-old man to life imprisonment on Thursday, December 9, for defiling three girls. Alto Ado was arrested on October 14, 2020 for allegedly luring two minors aged seven and nine into an uncompleted building in Kazaure town and forcefully having unlawful sexual intercourse with them. The watchman was later arrested and charged to court with rape. During the trial, the prosecution presented five witnesses to testify against the suspect. Read also Nigerian clergyman bags life imprisonment for defiling a minor  Man Bags Life Imprisonment For Raping Minor In Akwa Ibom Popular Nigerian Pastor, 6…

Femi Fani-Kayode’s lawyer and his estranged wife, Precious Chikwendu are not in good terms as both have resorted to accusing one another of having ‘bipolar’ problem. Fani-Kayode, Nigeria’s former Minister of Aviation and ex-wife who have gone their separate ways are locked up in a court case over the custody of their four children. Precious who didn’t mention any name in an Instagram post she shared, wrote that “his lawyer just casually threw it that one of my sons has covid whilst having an argument in court as reasons why I won’t be allowed access to my kids.” In anger,…

In a move to protest China’s human rights record, Britain and Canada Wednesday join their allies Australia and the United States in a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics. “There will be effectively a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing,” British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told parliament, saying there were no plans to send any government ministers to attend the February games. Beijing responded by accusing Britain of trying to smear the winter Olympics. “The Chinese government has not invited government ministers or officials from the UK to attend the Beijing Winter Olympics,” a spokesman for the Chinese…

Bishop David Oyedepo, President of Living Faith Church Worldwide, said he was not worried over the insecurity and economic challenges facing Nigeria. Oyedepo, who spoke during the ongoing programme, Shiloh, stated that he is less bothered about the current state of the nation. He said he already warned Nigerians against the government. According to the richest pastor in Africa, the current government remains the worst thing that has happened to the entire nation. The clergyman said, “I have never suffered one sleepless night on the issues of this nation but what God tells me to say I say it clearly,…

Twenty university students in Bangladesh were Wednesday sentenced to death for the 2019 murder of a young man who criticised the government on social media. The battered body of Abrar Fahad, 21, was found in his dormitory hours after he wrote a Facebook post criticising Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for signing a water-sharing deal with India. Fahad was beaten with a cricket bat and other blunt objects for six hours by 25 fellow students who were members of the ruling Awami League’s student wing, the Bangladesh Chhatra League. “I am happy with the verdict,” Fahad’s father Barkat Ullah told reporters…