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Nigeria recorded 685 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, bringing the total confirmed cases to 131,242, NCDC confirmed. On the other hand, Nigeria recorded eight new deaths from the pandemic bringing the total number of deaths to 1,586 in the country. The new cases came from 16 states with Lagos having 355, Kaduna (58), Nasarawa (46), and Kano (40). Others were Akwa Ibom (33), Katsina (26), Ogun (25), Osun (21), Rivers (16), Edo (15), Oyo (13), Ondo (12), Borno (11), Ekiti (9), Kebbi (3), and Plateau (2).’’ Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on its official Twitter handle on Sunday wrote ‘’Till…

The Dutch court ordered the Nigerian arm of the British-Dutch company The benefitting Nigerian farmers who waited 13 years for judgment are still apprehensive of collecting their compensation from Shell Nigeria despite the Dutch Court’s ruling. It has taken 13 years for Fidelis Oguru to get the victory that he and a group of other farmers in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta region so badly wanted. On Friday, the Court of Appeal in The Hague ruled that Shell’s Nigerian subsidiary, the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC), was at fault for environmental degradation caused by pipeline leaks in the villages…

The Eastern Security Network reportedly invaded the camp of Fulani herdsmen in Isiukwuato Local Government Area in Abia State, chasing them away and killing dozens of their cows. The Eastern Security Network, a security agency primarily made up of male and female volunteers from the region, is tasked with safeguarding and fishing for robbers, rapists, kidnappers and killers who terrorize rural areas, mainly farmers, women and their daughters. Over the years, Fulani herdsmen have been accused of killing local people in South-East Region, raping women and slitting farmers’ throats in their farmland, acts which led to the formation of Eastern…

Police in Kano have arrested a 28-year-old man for allegedly stabbing his ex-wife, and her brother, minutes after a Sharia Court in Rano had terminated their marriage. During police interrogation, Biliyaminu Abdullahi said his action was informed by displeasure with the court’s judgment because no offence was established that warranted the ruling. In a WhatsApp voice note shared with our reporter in Kano, the suspect owned up to the offence, claiming that he was living peaceably with his wife, Shafa’atu Sule, when her brother, Adamu Saleh took her away from her matrimonial home on no account. He said he had…

Two Kano-based suspects have been nabbed by operatives of the Nigeria Police INTERPOL National Central Bureau (NCB) Abuja, for engaging in international child pornography. Force spokesperson, CP Frank Mba, who stated this in a statement on Sunday, said investigations revealed that the suspects- Ibrahim Muazzam Mohammad Aminu and Mohammad Tahir Umar- are members of a trans-border/international child porn syndicate. The syndicate, according to Mba, 3exually abuses and takes undue advantage of underage girls and disseminates the video recordings of the illicit sexual act on an international social media Whatsapp group chat known as “Pervertidos,” owned and managed by a Brazilian called…

Ten days after robbery suspects shot dead a Point of Sale (POS) operator in Aba, Abia State, another operator was killed at Ukaegbu Road in Ogbor Hill, Aba on Saturday, January 30. It was learned that the gunmen numbering three stormed the shop of Ezinne Grace Iroh in a tricycle and shot her on the chest as she struggled to protect a bag believed to be containing cash for the day’s business. The gunmen finally overpowered Ezinne, collected the bag as well as her POS machine, causing people around the area to have scampered for safety leaving her in a…

A 20-year-old secondary school leaver was jailed by Imo Magistrate Court for leaking the 3ex video of Imo State Public Complaints Commissioner, Chief Willie Amadi. The 12-second video suggested that the appointee of President Muhammadu Buhari had a threesome, but the convict, Peter Nwoke, admitted that he superimposed Amadi’s picture on a background with a 3ex scene. The court that sat at Umundugba, Isu local government area of the state, convicted the 20-year old for being the mastermind of a simulated group 3ex video that recently went viral in the social media, allegedly involving state Public Complaints Commissioner, Chief Willie Amadi. However, Hilda in…

The Senate President Dr Ahmad Lawan, and Speaker of House of Representatives Mr Femi Gbajabiamila are urged to ”probe allegations that N4.4 billion of public money budgeted for the National Assembly is missing, misappropriated, diverted or stolen, as documented in three audited reports by the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation.” In the open letter dated January 30, 2021 and signed by SERAP deputy director Kolawole Oluwadare, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) said: “By exercising strong and effective leadership in this matter, the National Assembly can show Nigerians that the legislative body is a proper and accountable watchdog…

The Cross River Government has destroyed a brothel allegedly used by underage persons for prostitution. The government also demolished a building belonging to a suspected kidnapper. The buildings were demolished by the state security outfit, Operation Akpakwu, comprising the Navy, Air Force, police, Army, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and the special adviser to the state government on security. Henry Okokon, the state Security Adviser to Governor Ben Ayade, said the exercise was one of the ways employed by the government to chase criminals out of the State. He said that the demolition was executed after the security outfit…

Grammy-nominated producer and pop artist, Sophie, is dead. Aged 34, the Los-Angeles-based artiste died on Saturday after she slipped and fell off while watching the full moon. In a statement, Sophie’s management said the musician had died at around 04:00 on Saturday in the Greek capital, where she had been living. Part of the statement reads “Sophie was a pioneer of a new sound, one of the most influential artists in the last decade,” they said. A further statement from Sophie’s record label Transgressive, explained how the “terrible accident,” had occurred. “True to her spirituality she had climbed up to…