Criminology Graduate Student Held In Idaho Student Murders
A criminology graduate has been arrested in the mysterious killings of four university students in the state of Idaho last month, police say. Bryan Christopher Kohberger, 28, was detained in Pennsylvania, over 2,500 miles (4,020km) from the crime scene. The University of Idaho students were found stabbed to death in their beds in a rental […]
Benedict XVI, First Pope To Resign In 600 Years, Dies At 95
Former Pope Benedict XVI has died, aged 95, almost a decade after he stood down because of ailing health. He led the Catholic Church for fewer than eight years until 2013, he became the first Pope to resign since Gregory XII in 1415. Benedict spent his final years at the Mater Ecclesiae monastery within the […]
Barbara Walters, Trailblazing TV News Broadcaster Dies At 93
Barbara Walters, the trailblazing television news broadcaster and longtime ABC News anchor and correspondent who shattered the glass ceiling and became a dominant force in an industry once dominated by men, has died. She was 93. Walters joined ABC News in 1976, becoming the first female anchor on an evening news program. Three years later, […]
Sen. Lawan: Buhari To Sign 2023 Budget On Tuesday
President Muhammadu Buhari will sign the 2023 appropriation bill on Tuesday, the President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, expressed this to State House correspondents yesterday after a closed-door meeting with the president at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Lawan also revealed that he discussed some national issues with the President, including the legislature’s support to […]
PMB Reappoints Adeyeye As NAFDAC DG
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the reappointment of Moji Adeyeye, a professor, as the Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC). A statement published by the agency yesterday reveals the President’s approval of Mrs. Adeyeye’s second tenure of five years took effect on 1 December. Mrs. Adeyeye, who was […]
2023: Gov. David Umahi Denies Backing PDP Guber Candidate
The current governor of Ebonyi, David Umahi, has refused reports that he will be supporting the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) nominee for governor in the state, Dr. Ifeanyi Chukwuma Odi, in the upcoming 2023 election. This is according to a statement released in Abakaliki by his Special Assistant on Media, Mr. Chooks Oko. According […]
Lagos Government Approves Release Of 104 Inmates From Prisons
Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has authorized the release of 104 inmates from various correctional facilities to mark the New Year celebration. Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN) stated yesterday saying Sanwo-Olu signed the release order on December 28 on the recommendation of the Advisory Council on the Prerogative of Mercy. The release […]
Republican George Santos Facing Investigations For Lying About Resume
A Republican congressman-elect is under investigation in New York after he admitted he lied about his education and work experience. The Republican district attorney for Nassau County said she will look into the “numerous fabrications and inconsistencies” on George Santos’s CV. Allegations about discrepancies in his backstory were first made in a New York Times […]
2023: Don’t Forget PDP, APC Mismanaged Nigeria, Kwankwaso Tells Voters
Presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has advised voters not to forget the maladministration of the country under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Congress (APC). Attending to journalists in Gusau, Zamfara State capital, Kwankwaso said APC and PDP presidential candidates were only promising to continue with […]
Tinubu Will Be President – Abdulmumini Aminu
Former Borno military governor, Abdulmumini Aminu has said Nigerians will vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu in 2023. The Grand Patron of Tinubu-Shettima Nigeria Front (TSNF) spoke yesterday when he welcomed members of the group in Abuja. Aminu noted that the electorate was looking away from the North has been […]
