The Nigerian Table Tennis team has once again asserted its dominance at the ITTF Africa Youth Championship, with both the U-15 and U-19 boys’ teams claiming gold in the team events. Competing at the Molade Okoya-Thomas Hall, Teslim Balogun Stadium, the U-19 team, comprising Kuti Mathew, AbdulBasit AbdulFatai, Fabunmi Mathew, and Atunwon Quadri, mounted an…
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has expressed deep sorrow over the death of Hon. Victor Akande, a former member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, who passed away on Wednesday. Describing the loss as both shocking and painful, the Governor noted that Hon. Akande, a lawyer and former representative of Ojo Constituency I…
Afrobeat icon Innocent Idibia, widely known as 2Baba, has reportedly held a traditional wedding ceremony with Natasha Osawaru in a private event. Images from the ceremony surfaced on X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday. Earlier this year, on January 26, 2025, 2Baba revealed in a brief social media post that he and his wife of nearly…
The Federal Court of Appeal sitting in Akure, the capital of Ondo State, has upheld the election of Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the November 16, 2024, governorship poll. Aiyedatiwa, who ran on the APC platform, was declared winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) after polling 366,781 votes…
An Islamic cleric in Ilorin, Abdulrahman Bello, has been sentenced to death by hanging for the gruesome killing of Hafsoh Lawal, a final-year student at the College of Education, Ilorin. Justice Hannah Ajayi of the Kwara State High Court delivered the verdict. During the proceedings, the court found Bello guilty of murdering Lawal for ritual…
