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The  Supreme Court has dismissed the trial of Major Hamza Al-Mustapha (rtd), the former Chief Security Officer (CSO), to the late Military Head of State, General Sani Abacha in the murder of late politician, Alhaja Kudirat Abiola. K udirat Abiola was the wife of the late businessman cum politician, Chief MKO Abiola, the presumed winner of the June 12, 1993 Presidential Election that was annulled by former President Ibrahim Babangida. Mrs Kudirat Abiola was, however, murdered in Lagos in the nationwide crisis that followed the annulment and in the course of her persistent struggle to get the annulment reversed by the military. The  trial of Al-Mustapha on the murder charges brought against him by the Lagos State government was, however, put to rest on Thursday by a 5-man panel of Justices of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Uwani Aba-Aji. At the proceedings where the Lagos State was slated to re-open the trial, no legal representation was made while no process was filed...

American streamer, Darren Jason Watkins Jr., popularly known as IShowSpeed, has applauded Nigerian cuisine, declaring Nigerian jollof rice the best in the world. Speed joined the debate over which African country has the best jollof rice during his livestream in Lagos on Wednesday. The American content creator, who flew in to Nigeria from Senegal where he streamed the country’s AFCON trophy parade, stated that Nigerian jollof taste better than Senegalese jollof. “Nigerian jollof rice is good. It taste better than Senegal jollof rice. "I think I would have to go with Nigeria in terms of which country has the best jollof rice,”  he said.

  Dr. Adedeji Adeleke, the father of Nigerian music superstar, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has spoken about how the family organized multiple DNA tests to confirm whether 12-year-old Anuoluwapo is the singer’s daughter. Recall that the paternity controversy involving Davido and the alleged daughter surfaced mid-January. In an Instagram post shared on January 15, Anuoluwapo alleged that she had been subjected to bullying and mockery over claims that Davido, is her father. She said the situation had affected her mental health and subsequently demanded that the singer undergo a DNA test to confirm her paternity. Reacting, however, Adeleke told the newsmen that before the matter reached them, social media personality, Kemi Olunloyo had alleged that the child might be B-Red’s, Davido’s cousin. He said: “Because B-Red’s name is Adebayo, but his middle name is also David Adeleke, when the aunty of the little girl came, I said, ‘Look, this is what we are going to do.’ “You go...

  A  24-year-old girl, Jessica Anthony, has confessed that she, alongside her friend identified as Ada, contacted armed robbers to rob and steal her boyfriend’s gold. Jessica is cooling her heels in the custody of the Delta State Police Command with her friend in Asaba. She said if the armed robbers had succeeded in robbing and selling the gold, they would have given the money to her. “I  asked the bad guys to go there to collect his gold. They would have sold it and given the money to me,” Jessica said. She said she asked the armed robbers to rob her boyfriend’s house because she needed money to offset her sister’s bills. Jessica, a secondary school dropout, also said she will feel bad if it was her boyfriend that did same act to her. Delta State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Bright Edafe, who narrated the incident while parading the suspects, said Jessica and her boyfriend had been dating before they broke up and after a while, they came back together in December ...

  The United States  President, Donald Trump on Wednesday said he would not use force to take control of Greenland, an autonomous territory of Washington’s ally Denmark, but insisted the United States must still have “ownership” of it. “We probably won’t get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force where we would be, frankly, unstoppable, but I won’t do that. Okay. Now everyone’s saying, Oh, good. That’s probably the biggest statement I made, because people thought I would use force,” he told world leaders at a summit in Davos. “I don’t have to use force. I don’t want to use force. I won’t use force.” The U.S. President Donald Trump descends on Davos for a showdown with European leaders on Wednesday as his bid to seize Greenland threatens to tear the transatlantic alliance apart. Tr ump — whose arrival in Davos was delayed when a “minor electrical issue” forced his presidential jet to turn back shortly after takeoff — mocked the Europeans a day before headi...

The Federal High Court in Abuja has reportedly upheld the removal of Julius Abure as the national chairman of the Labour Party (LP). The Court also ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to recognize the Senator Nenadi Usman-led National Caretaker Committee as the party’s lawful leadership. The development was disclosed by human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, in a post on X, where he said he was present at the Federal High Court when the judgment was delivered in a related case. Effiong stated that Justice Lifu delivering judgment on Wednesday, upheld the Nenadi Usman-led committee as the only valid and lawful leadership of the Labour Party (LP), reaffirming that Abure’s tenure had elapsed in line with an earlier Supreme Court judgment. The court consequently directed INEC to immediately recognize Nenadi Usman as the party’s leader. He wrote:  “I am currently before the Federal High Court in Abuja for a case. I listened to judgement delivered in an another c...