Author: topnews

Namibia swears in first female president

topnews

Namibia, Southern Africa’s desert nation today swears in its first woman president after Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah won elections last year that extended the ruling party’s 35-year grip on power. Nandi-Ndaitwah, 72, will become one of the few women leaders in the region when she is inaugurated at a ceremony to be attended by heads of states of neighbouring countries including Angola and South Africa. Previously the vice president, she is a stalwart of the South West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO) that led the sparsely populated and uranium-rich country to independence from…

Read More

Lawyer arrested for shooting 16-yr-old boy to death in Imo

topnews

64-year-old Barrister Donald Mbamah, has been arrested by the Imo State Police Command on Friday over the alleged shooting to death of a 16-year-old student of Urban Development Secondary School, Owerri, Paul Victor. The Imo Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Henry Okoye, disclosed this in a statement in Owerri. An eyewitness stated that the diseased had jumped over the fence into the suspect’s compound on Monday to retrieve a football when he was shot at the buttocks. He was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. However, the…

Read More

Abuja explosions caused by truck’s brake failure — Fire Service

topnews

The multiple explosions which rocked Abuja on Wednesday has been attributed to a brake failure by a truck conveying Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) canisters. The FCT Fire Service (FFS) Public Relations Officer, Ibrahim Mohammad said this in an interview on Wednesday in Abuja. Mohammad said that the truck which was headed towards Nyanya axis from AYA, lost control and in the process rammed into several vehicles along the route. “And as a result of the impact on the vehicles and the impact of its own CNG-loaded containers, they started flying…

Read More

Tinubu declares state of emergency in Rivers

topnews

President Bola Tinubu, yesterday, declared a state of emergency in Rivers state following the two-year political crisis ravaging the state. In a 1003-word nationwide broadcast, the President suspended the governor, Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy, Professor Ngozi Odu, and members of the State House of Assembly for six months. He appointed former Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibokette Ibas, retd, as administrator, and the appointment is subject to the confirmation of the National Assembly. With the development, Rivers has become the sixth state, after Plateau, Ekiti, Borno, Yobe and Adamawa,…

Read More

Farmers protest in Ondo as herdsmen kill five farmers

topnews

Farmers took to the streets of Akure in Ondo state on Wednesday to protest the alleged killing of five people by suspected herdsmen at Aba Oyinbo community in Akure North Local Government Area. It was gathered that the assailants invaded the community in the early hours of Wednesday, opening fire on the victims. The fresh killings come barely two weeks after no fewer than 14 people were reportedly murdered by gunmen in four communities—Ademekun, Aba Pastor, Aba Sunday, and Alajido—all in the same local government area. Angry protesters stormed the…

Read More

El-Rufai accuses Gov. Uba Sani of diverting funds to purchase property in UK, South Africa

topnews

Former Kaduna State governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, who has consistently been in the news for controversial reasons, has again launched another salvo. This time, the former governor accused his successor and current governor of his state, Senator Uba Sani of diverting local government (LG) funds to purchase properties in Seychelles, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. El-Rufai, who recently defected to the Social Democratic Party (SDP) from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), made the allegations in an interview with Freedom Radio Kaduna, yesterday. He claimed that Sani converted local…

Read More

Rivers State Assembly begins impeachment process against Fubara, deputy

topnews

The raging battle between Governor Siminalayi Fubara and Martin Amaewhule-led Rivers State House of Assembly members took a new dimension as the assembly members have commenced impeachment process against the governor and his deputy, Prof. Ngozi Odu, over alleged gross misconduct. The 26 members of the assembly in the document signed and dated March 14, 2025, and addressed to the Speaker through the Clerk of the House indicated that they have found Governor Fubara and his Deputy, Prof. Ngozi Odu, guilty of gross misconduct. The lawmakers, in a notice titled,…

Read More

Inspector shoots self dead in Ogun

topnews

Ajele Oloyede, an operative of the Nigeria Police Force, has reportedly died on Thursday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the Igbesa area of Ogun State. While it remains uncertain whether the deceased’s actions were intentional or accidental, the command said that an investigation had been launched to determine the circumstances surrounding the incident. It was learnt that the incident occurred on Thursday at a ceramics company in Igbesa, where the officer had been assigned as part of the company’s security details. According to the command’s spokesperson, Omolola Odutola, the…

Read More

Asake ready to buy me house, says father, baby mama alleges neglect

topnews

Father of top Nigerian singer, Ahmed Ololade, popularly known as Asake, Fatai Odunsi, has said his son has agreed to buy him a house, settle his medical bills and take care of his daughter. Odunsi aka Malo who is left paralysed in some parts of his body after suffering from a stroke and being unable to pay his medical bills called out Asake in a viral video on Thursday asking Nigerians to beg the artiste to assist him. This is as Asake’s alleged Babymama, identified as Adijat, also accused the…

Read More

TikTok: TUC supports Lagos corper for criticizing Tinubu’s government

topnews

The Trade Union Congress (TUC) has says it supports a Lagos-based National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, Ushie Uguamaye, popularly known as Raye, who alleged she received threats after criticising President Bola Tinubu’s administration on social media. President of TUC, Festus Osifo, who spoke on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, acknowledged the frustration behind Raye’s remarks. He urged the government to show tolerance toward critics rather than targeting individuals for expressing their views. “They (the government) have to develop this resilience to understand that people are frustrated, people are hungry, people…

Read More