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A 43-year-old British-Nigerian businessman and social media influencer, Igho Ubiribo, affectionately known as Tiny, has died after undergoing a penis enlargement procedure during a holiday in Thailand with his wife. Ubiribo died in March after receiving 40 millilitres of hyaluronic acid and lidocaine at a clinic in Bangkok, an inquest at Inner West London Coroners’ Court heard last month. It was gathered that Igho Ubiribo began experiencing chest pain and twice lost consciousness while having a massage with his wife Danielle Simba Allen, after the procedure. He was taken by ambulance to Sukhumvit Hospital, where doctors identified a pulmonary embolism, a blood clot blocking a blood vessel in the lungs. He later lost consciousness before a recommended CT scan could be carried out. Doctors attempted to resuscitate him for more than 100 minutes, but he died in the early hours of March 6. A postmortem conducted in the UK found that cellular material in Ubiribo’s lungs matched the hyaluroni...

A Delta State High Court has ordered the remand of content creator, Ifeanyi Ogbonna, popularly known as Odogwu Asaba, at the Ogwashi-Uku Maximum Correctional Centre over allegations surrounding the death of 20-year-old Favour Agbro. The remand order was granted after the court heard an application filed following the conclusion of police investigations into the circumstances surrounding Agbro’s death. Counsel to the deceased’s family, Awele Ideal, said the autopsy and toxicology reports had been made available to the police investigation team and incorporated into the case file. Awele Ideal said in a statement yesterday: “Today, 4/9/2026, the application to remand Mr Ifeanyi Ogbonna (Odogwu Asaba) was heard and granted by the court. “He has now been remanded at the Ogwashi-Uku Maximum Correctional Centre. From there, he shall be brought to court until the completion of his trial, which now lies with the Ministry of Justice, through the Attorney-General and Director of Pub...

Nigeria has evacuated 1,695 of its citizens from South Africa this year amid renewed threats against foreign nationals, the Acting High Commissioner to South Africa, Ambassador Ajayi Alexander, has said. Alexander disclosed this on Friday, September 4, 2026, during a visit by fellows of the MTN Media Innovation Programme in Pretoria, South Africa. He said the figure comprises 1,490 Nigerians repatriated through government-sponsored arrangements and another 205 who returned with support from private individuals. According to the envoy, the Federal Government funded five repatriation flights, each carrying at least 200 Nigerians, while the Nigerian mission also arranged two or three batches of one-way tickets for citizens who wanted to leave the country. He explained that the evacuations were voluntary, noting that some Nigerians who registered to return eventually did not show up for the flights. Alexander also revealed that some of those repatriated owned property in South Africa, whil...

Priscilla Ojo, the daughter of Nollywood actress, Iyabo Ojo, scored a legal victory over Nollywood actress, Lizzy Anjorin. ‎Priscilla and her Tanzanian husband who is a musician named Juma Mussa Mkambala, popularly known as Juma Jux, along with their one-year-old son, Rakeem Mkambala filed an application against Lizzy Anjorin following a series of attacks on their family. ‎On Wednesday, September 2, 2026, the High Court of Lagos State granted an interim order restraining the controversial actress from publishing, posting, circulating, uploading or broadcasting pictures of Priscilla and Juma Jux’s son, Rakeem Mkambala, on her social media platforms. The presiding judge, Justice Y.A Adesanya, also barred Lizzy and any of her representatives from broadcasting, publishing and posting editorials concerning Priscilla and her family on their social media accounts listed in the court order. ‎Priscilla, via her social media page, shared screenshots of the court order. See The Court Order Below;...

Panic has gripped Okrika Local Government Area of Rivers State following an incident in which several persons suspected of illegally siphoning petroleum products reportedly died after inhaling toxic fumes. While the community sources put the death toll at 43, the Rivers State Police Command said it could not confirm the actual number of casualties, stressing that investigation into the incident is ongoing. The incident reportedly occurred around midnight on Thursday, September 3, 2026, at Okari Jetty in the Okrika Mainland area. It was gathered that a vessel had anchored at a jetty along the river to load petroleum products for export when more than 200 people, mostly youths from neighbouring communities, allegedly arrived in locally made boats to siphon the product from an illegal tapping point. A community source said that while the loading operation was underway, the pungent fumes from the petroleum product reportedly saturated the area, causing several of the persons at th...

A United States-based political advisory and lobbying firm, Von Batten-Montague-York, says the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), has Nigeria’s President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu on wiretap in the ongoing alleged drug trafficking case against him. Von Batten-Montague-York  made this disclosure in a statement posted on its verified X handle on Thursday, September 3, 2026. The firm added that In the FBI filing before the court, the FBI asked the court not to allow the disclosure of highly sensitive wiretap recordings responsive to the Nigerian President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. According to the firm,  the FBI admitted that the Tinubu-responsive records contain wiretap material, noting that afterward, the FBI stated that the wiretap-responsive records were compiled in furtherance of its investigation of multiple individuals for heroin-trafficking crimes. “In our plain-English  reading of the document, the FBI has Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on tape connected to heroin-traf...