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Lagos fashion designer, Alade Vincent jailed in U.S. over $1.1 million Internet fraud

Oct 17, 2022 topnews

Celebrated fashion designer, Alade Vincent, popularly known as “Alvince”, has been sentenced to four years and two months in federal prison by the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland for wire fraud estimated at $1.1 million. Vincent who has clothed many top Nigerian celebrities like Tuface Idibia,D’banj, Don Jazzy and a host of other top rated celebrities, was among the most visible in Lagos fashion district at Adeniran Ogunsanya in Surulere. He was a major force in Lagos fashion circles and it remained unclear when he moved to…

Pregnant woman, 26 others arrested with drugs in FCT, 12 states

Oct 17, 2022 topnews

28 persons including a pregnant woman, a nursing mother and a 200-level university student have been arrested by operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, with 9,437.6 kilograms of cannabis and 138,053 tablets of pharmaceutical opioids. Director of Media and Advocacy of NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, said they were arrested during interdiction operations across 12 states of Yobe, Ondo, Edo, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Imo, Jigawa, Kogi, Adamawa, Kaduna, Kwara, Lagos and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja. “In the FCT, operatives on October 15 stormed a village known as Chukuku,…

Nigeria’s hunger level ranks 103 out of 121 countries -Global Hunger Index

Oct 17, 2022 topnews

The number of poor persons in Nigeria is racing towards the 95.1 million projected this year by the World Bank According to the World Bank, in its latest 2022 Poverty and Prosperity Report, Nigeria contributed three million people to global extreme poverty, while the country is “home to a large share of the global extreme poor.” Also, at the weekend, Nigeria was ranked 103 out of 121 countries in the 2022 Global Hunger Index (GHI), a position that signifies the nation has a level of hunger that is serious. The…

Poly student sentenced to six months imprisonment for $9,891 fraud

Oct 15, 2022 topnews

A 31-year-old student of the Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, Bashiru Azeez, has been sentenced by a Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Friday, to six months imprisonment over $9,891 fraud. Justice Adebayo Yusuf handed down the sentence while ruling on a fraud case instituted by the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Bashiru who is from Oyan in the Odo-Otin Local Government Area of Osun State is a student in the Marketing Department of Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin. The accused person was charged with…

Turkey mine explosion kills 28, many trapped

Oct 15, 2022 topnews

A coal pit in northern Turkey, where a methane blast occurred a day earlier, has killed at least 28 people. Rescuers worked on Saturday to free more than a dozen miners still thought to be trapped underground. “Fifty eight of our miners were able to come out unharmed. We estimate that 15 of our miners are (trapped) below and we are trying to rescue them,” Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said in the small coal mining town of Amasra on Turkey’s Black Sea coast. Soylu said earlier some 110 people had…

Man arrested for killing wife for not explaining N10m in her possession

Oct 15, 2022 topnews

Ondo state police detectives have arrested a 42-year-old businessman, Kelechukwu Onuka, for the murder of his wife, Nnenna, over dispute on “unexplained” N10 million. It was gathered that the ugly incident occurred at their residence in Aratunsi area, Oke Aro, Akure, Ondo State capital. The suspect reportedly accused his wife of hiding the money from him. A family source, said the disputed money was sent to the victim by one of her relations who resides abroad. The money was reportedly sent to her to assist the relation in a…

GUARANTY TRUST’S YOU READ INITIATIVE HOSTS DAMILARE KUKU AT ITS BOOK READING EVENT

Oct 14, 2022 topnews

Booklovers in Lagos were treated to an afternoon of uplifting creative interactions at a book reading event organized by Guaranty Trust Bank (Guaranty Trust) on Sunday, October 9, 2022, at the Herbert Macauley Library, Yaba. The event is an offshoot of Guaranty Trust’s You Read initiative which aims to champion continuous learning and promote a reading culture across Africa as part of its CSR policy. The selected literature for the book reading was, Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad by Damilare Kuku – a work of fiction that…

Nurses under probe for filming Rico Swavey’s last moments

Oct 14, 2022 topnews

Members of the public have condemned a 30-second video clip showing the final moments of a former reality TV star, Patrick Fakoya, aka Rico Swavey, at a hospital in Lagos State. In the clip recorded by one of the nurses attending to Rico Swavey, the deceased was placed on oxygen as he was unconscious on a chair. It was observed that the nurses were attempting to carry him on a bed when the nurse brought out a phone and started recording him. Another nurse was heard cautioning her colleague against…

Man arrested for strangling wife to death, burn corpse with iron

Oct 14, 2022 topnews

A 51-year-old man, Oluranti Badejo, has been arrested by Police for allegedly killing his 40-year-old wife, Folasade Badejo, at their house in Orimerunmu, Mowe, in the Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State. It was learnt that Folasade, a fashion designer, on Wednesday, got into an argument with her husband over the payment of their three children’s school fees. The argument was said to have degenerated into fisticuffs as 51-year-old Oluranti allegedly smashed Folasade’s head against the wall of their apartment. She was said to have fallen. Their eight-year-old daughter,…

Governor Ortom gives FG one-month ultimatum for approval of AK-47 for vigilantes

Oct 14, 2022 topnews

Samuel Ortom, Benue State governor, yesterday gave the federal government a month’s ultimatum to grant the state the approval to acquire AK-47 rifles for operatives of its vigilante group or the state would do the needful. Recall that the state government had asked for such approval from the federal government, following incessant killing of farmers in the state by herdsmen, but the Presidency had insisted that no state of the federation had the powers to acquire such weapons. Speaking at the passing out parade of batch B of the Benue…