Kenyan cops grabbed the guy they think strangled Seth Nyakio Njeri after tracking him down to a cereal shop near the Uganda border, where he was hiding out. The 23-year-old daughter of a Kirinyaga politician turned up dead at a Thika estate back in October after her family lost contact with her following a swimming hangout with friends.
DCI homicide detectives worked with officers from Kisii South and Busia to arrest the suspect called Sultan, who bounced right after allegedly killing her. The autopsy showed she got assaulted and strangled, with bruises all over her neck, cheeks, and thighs, proving she had fought back hard.
Her mom made an emotional plea at the funeral, saying she could feel the killers sitting right there in the...
Kenya's Social Health Authority just hired 82 new principal officers to beef up operations while the country rolls out its social insurance program after running a competitive recruitment process that kicked off mid-year. The biggest chunk went to county-level registration, compliance, and claims management, with 26 people getting those spots, while fund management scored six appointments and internal audit picked up three officers.
The hirings came after the board already named 16 deputy directors and nine claims officers back in October, plus they threw up 212 job openings across driver positions, administrators, and senior management roles. Board chairman Abdi Mohamed keeps saying the management overhaul shows they're ready to...
WTO boss Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala hit Forbes' 100 Most Powerful Women list for the eighth time, landing at number 92 while repping as the first female and first African leading the organization since her appointment back in 2021. She posted about the recognition on X and said the role means pushing fairness in global trade while helping developing nations avoid more chaos in the system.
Forbes pointed out her three decades working as an economist, running Nigeria's finance ministry twice, briefly handling foreign affairs, and leading Gavi, where she got vaccines to over 760 million kids. She gave shoutouts to other African women who cut Namibia's president, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, DRC prime minister Judith Suminwa, Bidvest CEO Mpumi Madisa...
Heineken dropped its festive season lineup at the Nigerian Breweries press event, with three major activations hitting Abuja and Lagos. The beer brand locked in sponsorship deals for Detty Dec Fest running through the end of the month, Davido's 5ive Alive Tour at Eagle Square in Abuja, and Flytime Fest at Eko Convention Center in Lagos featuring Flavour, Olamide, Asake, and Davido across four consecutive nights.
Marketing head Sandra Amachree said the company wants to deliver premium experiences celebrating music and creativity while keeping that signature refreshing vibe Heineken pushes. The Flytime Fest shows wrap up on Christmas with Davido closing out the whole thing after Asake performs the night before.
Omoni Oboli snagged YouTube Nigeria's Content Creator of the Year award for 2025, and she posted about getting the call from the platform telling her the algorithms proved she captured hearts. The actress thanked her partner Tomi Adeoye, plus her team and fans she calls besties, for pushing her channel to number one.
Her movie Love In Every Word racked up over 30 million views after dropping nine months back, while the sequel about a wedding already hit 18 million views just a month after release. Oboli dedicated the recognition to everyone who watched, liked, commented, and shared her content throughout the year.
University of Benin Vice-Chancellor Edoba Omoregie announced that former VC Adamu Baikie died at 94, and the school sent condolences to his family while calling him a distinguished educator who shaped academic institutions across Africa. The guy ran UNIBEN from 1978 through 1986 and became the first education professor in Northern Nigeria before leading schools in Lesotho and Nasarawa State.
Omoregie basically said Baikie was a visionary administrator who strengthened institutional standards wherever he worked. The university told the family to find comfort in his decades of service to education and leadership, saying his legacy would keep influencing scholars and administrators down the line.
Atiku Abubakar and the African Democratic Congress went off on the EFCC for supposedly turning corruption investigations into political hit jobs after the agency yanked former Attorney General Abubakar Malami's bail. The ex-VP claims anti-graft operations abandoned their mission and morphed into straight-up witch hunts against political opponents.
ADC national publicity secretary Bolaji Abdullahi said Malami never broke any bail conditions, and the timing looked sketchy since it happened right after the guy showed up at a rally in Kebbi State. The party thinks the move was designed to kill his political activity instead of addressing actual legal violations.
Both Atiku and ADC argue the commission wrecked its credibility by...
Niger State Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago dropped a budget proposal worth over N1.031 trillion at the state House of Assembly through his press secretary, Bologi Ibrahim. The spending plan splits more than N270 billion toward recurrent costs while throwing over N761 billion at capital projects.
Bago says the money targets agricultural expansion, job creation, better healthcare and schools, road fixes, water and power improvements, plus security upgrades for the economy. Speaker AbdulMalik Sarkin Daji told everyone the lawmakers plan to comb through every detail before approving anything.
Riley Moore led a US delegation to Nigeria, checking out Christian genocide claims, and he went on Fox News saying America's about to lock in a strategic security deal to handle the chaos. The guy met women who watched their entire families get slaughtered by radical Fulani Muslims and Boko Haram fighters.
Moore thinks they had decent talks with Nigerian officials about tackling ISIS and Boko Haram up in the Northeast, plus the Christian killings happening across the Middle Belt. He's putting together a report for Trump that maps out how to partner with the government to stop the bloodshed.
The delegation visited areas where women lost husbands, kids, and unborn babies to violence. Moore plans to present his findings directly to the...
