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Facebook Partners With Funke Akindele To Promote Nigerian Storytelling

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Social media platform, Facebook has partnered with Nollywood filmmaker and actress, Funke Akindele to promote Nigerian storytelling at the London and Lagos premieres of her new film, The Four. The partnership will support the film’s world premiere in London and its homecoming premiere in Lagos, bringing creators, celebrities and audiences together. Meta’s Head of Communications for Sub-Saharan Africa, Oluwasola Obagbemi, said the collaboration would highlight how Facebook helps creators connect with fans and build communities around shared interests. “Facebook has always been about connecting people, and our partnership with Funke Akindele brings that to life through film,” Obagbemi said. He said creators on Facebook could reach global audiences, build relationships with fans and earn money from original content. “Through our partnership around The Four premieres in London and Lagos, we’re celebrating the creators shaping culture, and helping more creators who share original and en...
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Court Sentences FCDA Employee, Kingsley Eselebor To 25 Years Imprisonment For Land Fraud

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A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) sitting in Abuja has sentenced Kingsley Eselebor, an employee of the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA), to 25 years in prison for land fraud and document forgery. Justice A.O.  Musa delivered the verdict on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, finding Eselebor guilty on all five counts brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The judge sentenced Eselebor to seven years’ imprisonment on counts one, two, and three, and two years each on counts four and five, without an option of a fine. The sentence will run concurrently. The court  documents showed that Eselebor, attached to the FCDA’s Department of Urban and Regional Planning, defrauded his neighbour and fellow church member, Moses Osinachi, over the sale of two plots of land in Kubwa District of Abuja. Relying on his  position at the FCDA and presenting forged conveyance documents under the names Yusuf Lawan and Adegoke Asiwaju, Ese...
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Rochas Okorocha Hails Court Judgement In His Dispute With Governor Hope Uzodinma Over APC Senatorial Primary In Imo West

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Former Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha has hailed a court judgment in his dispute with Governor Hope Uzodinma over the All Progressives Congress (APC) Senatorial primary in Imo West, saying the ruling has vindicated him. Speaking to  journalists after the judgment, Okorocha said the court had upheld his claims and challenged any party dissatisfied with the decision to appeal. “All the court agreed with me,” he said. “But if they want to appeal, let them appeal. I’ll tackle them on it.” Okorocha alleged that irregularities in the Senatorial primary results formed part of the dispute, claiming that entries across the 12 Local Government Areas were made by one person. He also questioned discrepancies between ward-level results and figures recorded at the Local Government collation stage, alleging that some ward result sheets contained no scores despite figures appearing in the collation results. The former G overnor said he had remained silent while allegations of forgery circulat...
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“Governor Hope Uzodinma Remains Our Imo West Senatorial Candidate” – APC Insists Despite Court Judgement

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The Imo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has insisted that Governor Hope Uzodinma remains its candidate for Imo West Senatorial District in the 2027 general elections, despite a Federal High Court judgement declaring former Governor, Rochas Okorocha the winner of the party's senatorial primary. The court, sitting in Abuja, had on Thursday, October 29, 2026, declared Okorocha the winner of the primary and ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to recognize him as the APC candidate for the district. However, the party’s state Publicity Secretary, Onwuasoanya FCC Jones, maintained in a statement that Uzodinma won the primary with the majority of votes cast. He said the party’s legal department would study the outcome of the court proceedings and take appropriate action. “The party wishes to state without any confusion that His Excellency, Distinguished Senator Hope Uzodinma, remains the candidate of our party for Imo West Senatorial Distr...
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Court Sacks Governor Hope Uzodinma As APC Senatorial Candidate For Imo West

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The Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday, October 29, 2026, nullified the emergence of Governor Hope Uzodinma as candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Imo West Senatorial election slated to hold on Saturday, January 16, 2027. The court, in a judgment delivered by Justice Obiora Egwuatu, held the evidence before it established that Governor Uzodinma was not the valid winner of the primary election the APC conducted in the senatorial zone on Monday, May 18, 2026, which was monitored by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). According to the court, it was a former Governor of the state, Senator Rochas Okorocha, who garnered the highest number of votes cast at the primary election and therefore ought to have been nominated by the party. Consequently, Justice Egwuatu ordered INEC to forthwith recognise Senator Okorocha and publish his name as the authentic candidate of the APC for the senatorial poll. It further issued an order barring Governor Hope ...
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Nollywood Actress, Doris Ogala Accuses Pastors Jerry Eze And Johnson Suleman Of Having A Hand In Her Remand In Prison

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Nollywood actress and the governorship candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in Abia State, Doris Ogala, has accused Pastors Jerry Eze and Johnson Suleman of having a hand in her remand. It was gathered that Doris Ogala  was remanded in Ikoyi Prison on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, by the Lagos State High Court following her ongoing legal battle with Pastor Chris Okafor of Grace Nation Bible Ministry. The actress is facing a four-count charge bordering on harassment and cyberbullying, publication of the clergyman’s personal materials, attempted extortion  and dissemination of false information to incriminate the cleric. However, speaking from prison, Doris, in a post on her page, called out Chris Okafor and two other prominent Nigerian pastors, Jerry Eze and Johnson Suleman, accusing them of being responsible for her remand because of the alleged secrets she has about them. While urging the general public to hold the clergymen responsible should anything happen to her,...
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At Least 64 People Killed In Two Trains Collision In Spain

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At least 64 people have died on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, when two trains collided near Toledo, in central Spain, a representative of the regional government of  Castilla-La Mancha said. A train operated by state-owned Renfe and another by Iryo, Spain's first private high-speed rail operator, crashed shortly after 9 AM local time, causing at least two of the Iryo carriages to derail.  The incident also injured 80 people out of the more than 540 passengers. Videos broadcast on the regional Castilla-La Mancha TV showed ​a derailed train with at least one carriage ‌remaining on an elevated section ⁠of track while twisted metal, ​broken panels and wreckage could be seen strewn across an ​embankment beneath the line. The collision comes nine months after an accident between high-speed trains belonging to the same operators on the same line that killed 46 people. Both accidents  occurred on the line running south from Madrid and involved state-owned train operator Renfe and ...
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