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Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin has imposed one-year imprisonment on one of the players of Ibrafix Football Club, Ilorin, Baraye Bamidele Saoban, for offenses bordering on love scam. According to The Informant247 Newspaper, Baraye, 25, who hails from Ilorin, was jailed alongside one Adaraloye Ezekiel, a native of Osi, Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State, for a similar offense. The duo were prosecuted on separate charges by the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The defendants pleaded guilty when the charges were read to them. Following their…

African Football’s ruling body, Confederation of African Football (CAF) has reduced the twelve months ban on Enyimba midfielder and captain Austin Oladapo. Oladapo was initially banned for one year by CAF for testing positive for prednisolone in a test conducted in May. The initial ban meant he would stay away from all football-related activities until July 2022, but following an appeal, the midfielder has now been cleared to return on January 5 by the CAF Appeals Committee. In his defence, Oladapo maintained that any trace of the substances found in his blood sample would have been from the anti-Covid19 medications he was taking at the time.…

Grammy-winning artiste, Damini Ogulu, popularly known as Burna Boy has for the first time, given a sneak peek into his home in Lekki, Lagos. Burnaboy gave Architectural Digest – an American monthly magazine founded in 1920 whose principal subjects are interior design and landscaping – a tour around his Lagos home, revealing it was in the mansion he created his Grammy-winning album ‘Twice as Tall’. According to Architectural Digest, which has also done features on the homes of Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Diddy etc, Burna Boy’s home is a two-storey building located on a serene 13,000-square-foot land in Lekki.  It…

The Central Bank of Nigeria has explained the importance of e-naira, a digital currency it promised to launch in the country by the end of 2021. According to the CBN, the country’s adoption of digital currency would boost cross-border trade and enable the apex bank to formulate better macroeconomic policies. The Director, Information and Technology, CBN, Rakitya Muhammed opined this while speaking virtually at the Third Quarter Industry Forum of the Committee of E-business Industry Heads held in Abuja on Wednesday, September 22, 2021. She said, “If people adopt more of the usage of the e-naira, then we will be able to have…

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has backed the borrowings being done by the Buhari-led administration. Speaking at a town hall meeting in Maiduguri, Borno state today September 23, the Minister said the Buhari administration is not borrowing for recurrent expenditure or to pay salaries, but it is rather using the loans to build world-class infrastructure that will benefit generations of Nigerians. According to Mohammed, the Buhari administration has a lot to show for the loans taken, including the standard-gauge rail lines between Lagos and Ibadan as well as Abuja and Kaduna which he said are running well.…

A female Army officer identified as Lt. Chika Viola Anele, has been caught on camera punishing a member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC)  Ezeiruaku Ifeyinwa Fidelia in Cross River after having an argument. Nigerian journalist, Agba Jalingo, who shared the video on Thursday said the incident happened at the 13 Brigade headquarters in Calabar. In the video, the officer is seen pouring unknown white substance on the kneeling Corps member after which she hit her with the bowl. “JusticeForIfenyinwa. This is what a commissioned female Army officer, Lt. Chika Viola Anele, did to a youth corp member,…

BBNaija housemate, Saga couldn’t hide his excitement last night as he laid on the same bed with his ”love interest” in the house Nini, after she returned to the house.

Some members of the House of Representatives lost their cool at the Aminu Kano International Airport on Wednesday, September 22, after officials of Azman Airline rescheduled their flights four times. The spokesperson of the House, Ben Kalu (APC, Abia), Rotimi Agunsoye (APC, Lagos), Henry Achibong (PDP, Akwa-Ibom) and others were left stranded at the Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano while on a committee assignment. The lawmakers were to board the airline for an official assignment with the Committee on Petroleum Upstream and Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) but waited for hours for a flight that was earlier scheduled to take off at 12:30 p.m. thereafter shifted to 2:30 p.m., 6 p.m.,…

The federal government has again explained why it can’t name sponsors of terrorism until they are tried and convicted. Attorney-general of the federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami in a statement released by his spokesperson Umar Gwandu said the decision is a “product of constitutionalism and the law.” According to him, naming and shaming in the Nigerian context must be rooted in constitutionalism and there must be a balance between constitutional presumption of innocence and evidential proof of reasonable ground for suspicion in making disclosures associated with terrorism funding and financing. The statement read; “Naming and shaming of suspects is not embarked upon as a policy…

The Nigerian army has said that it is not pampering repentant terrorists who recently surrendered. Theatre commander of the north-east joint task force ‘Operation Hadin Kai’, Christopher Musa told newsmen that allowing repentant terrorists to surrender to troops without shooting them, is in line with international laws and best practices. Musa stated that providing food, shelter and other amenities for repentant terrorists is an act of humanity and to ensure that they are fit enough to go through the proper procedure. The Theatre commander also said they are sorting them out, and will be treating those who didn’t play any part in attacks and those who took part actively…