A Kaduna federal judge shut down bail for this guy, Bashir Ibrahim Bello, who got hit with fraud charges in three different cases while the EFCC sits on over 400 complaints about him. Justice R. M. Aikawa said the dude would probably bounce if they let him out because the allegations are massive and he has multiple prosecutions running at once.
Bello runs Formal Act Legacy Limited and prosecutors say he was mixed up in a N30 billion scam involving fake promises, dirty money and keeping criminal proceeds. Between late October and early November, he got arraigned three separate times on different charges totaling 20 counts. The EFCC lawyer told the court that with hundreds of petitions stacked against him and all these active cases, the...
Bauchi State governor Bala Mohammed says those five cops who got killed in Darazo were caught up in farmer-herder drama and not some bandit ambush like everyone keeps saying. The governor told his council that the whole thing went down in Sabon Sara village when officers tried breaking up a communal beef between locals and herders, then things got lethal.
Police rep Ahmed Wakil said unidentified youth attacked the officers during the intervention. Mohammed backed that version and promised they would track down whoever did it. The governor also explained why schools got shut down temporarily across Bauchi by pointing to intelligence warnings about potential attacks, especially after what happened at other northern schools recently. He...
Nnamdi Kanu's lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor, says the IPOB leader is holding up fine in that Sokoto prison and compared the whole situation to Nelson Mandela's time locked up on Robben Island. Ejimakor posted after visiting Kanu alongside his wife, Uchechi, and his brother, Prince, that the guy stays tough and appreciates everyone backing him through this mess.
The Biafra agitator got shipped to Sokoto custodial center after Justice James Omotosho at Abuja Federal High Court hit him with life imprisonment on terrorism related charges. His lawyer keeps framing it like some heroic struggle but Kanu is basically doing time in northern Nigeria while his supporters rally behind him.
UBEC boss Aisha Garba wants to beef up partnerships between government agencies and private groups to get quality education out to Nigerian kids, regardless of how broke their families are. She told reporters the commission is revamping its public-private engagement framework to make these collaborations work better and give everyone clear rules for teaming up with stakeholders.
Garba said Nigeria has about 17 million kids not attending school, which is absolutely wild. The exec secretary pointed to garbage learning outcomes and terrible completion rates as major problems that need fixing through better access and safer learning spaces. She wants state governments, development partners and community leaders to help expand educational...
Tinubu dropped a nationwide security emergency and told the military plus police to bulk up their numbers because things are getting sketchy across Nigeria. The president wants cops to bring in 20,000 more officers on top of the 30,000 already planned, and he said they can use youth service camps as crash course training spots since regular facilities are getting upgraded.
The Department of State Services got orders to send out all their forest guards right away to clear out terrorists and bandits hiding in the bush, with more recruits coming to keep those areas locked down. Tinubu also wants cops who were stuck on VIP protection duty to get retrained and sent to hotspots where they are actually needed. He gave props to security forces...
The Nigeria National League pushed back a couple of matchday three games from Saturday to Sunday without explaining why. Godswill Akpabio FC versus Calabar Rovers got moved along with the Ranchers Bees against Bichi FC matchup.
Godswill Akpabio FC takes on Calabar Rovers at Uyo Township Stadium, while Ranchers Bees hosts Bichi FC over at Bako Kontagora Stadium in Minna. Everything else on the schedule stays where it was originally set.
CAF tapped Senegalese ref Issa Sy to handle the Champions League group stage clash between Rivers United and RS Berkane at Godswill Akpabio Stadium in Uyo. His fellow countrymen, Djibril Camara and Nouha Bangoura, are running the sidelines while El Hadji Amadou Sy takes fourth official duties and Gambian official Bakary K. Jammeh gets the VAR gig.
Rivers United got wrecked 3-0 by defending champs Pyramids FC in their opener last weekend. Zambian squad Power Dynamos also caught the same scoreline against three-time Confederation Cup winners RS Berkane, which means both teams need results badly.
Tems told fans on X that she probably would have ended up crunching numbers or teaching math if the whole music thing never popped off. The Grammy winner said an accountant or mathematics teacher would have been her backup options during a fan Q&A session.
She walked away from her digital marketing gig back in 2018 to chase the music career full-time. Her breakout happened after jumping on the Wizkid track Essence with Justin Bieber, which ended up cracking the top 10 on Billboard Hot 100.
Don Jazzy shut down someone on X who suggested he get back with his ex-wife, Michelle Jackson, by pointing out she is already married to somebody else. The Mavin Records boss first told people about his short marriage back in 2021 and said his obsession with music basically killed the relationship after two years.
He keeps saying he has zero plans to try marriage again because his career would wreck another relationship the same way. The producer seems pretty content just working with artists like Rema and Ayra Starr instead of dealing with relationship drama.
