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China sentences Evergrande founder to life in prison

The founder of the collapsed Chinese real estate giant Evergrande, Hui Ka Yan, has been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to several financial crimes. Hui was found guilty of asset embezzlement and corporate bribery. The Shenzhen Intermediate...

Osun Elections: Olajengbesi withdraws his comments against Governor Okpebholo…

Spokesperson of the Imole Campaign Council, Pelumi Olajengbesi, has withdrawn his earlier statements about the Edo State Governor. Senator Monday Okpebholowhich he acknowledged might have seemed disrespectful to the governor. Olajengbesi, in a statement, said he personally withdrew any comments...

Passengers stuck for hours in traffic jam in Benin

Commuters and commuters, who have been stuck in a traffic jam at the Benin Bypass in Edo for about 12 hours, have bemoaned their fate and called for urgent government intervention. The cause of the traffic jam, according to some...

At least 13 dead in Kyiv as Ukraine faces air defense shortage

At least three people have been killed and 40 others injured after a wave of Russian missile and drone attacks hit kyiv, as Ukraine continues to face a shortage of air defense missiles. According to Ukraine's State Emergency Service, residential...

Geregu Power reconnects to the national grid after six months of closure

Geregu Power Plc has reconnected to the national power grid after completing the rehabilitation of one of its failed generator transformers, ending more than six months of shutdown caused by system turbulence, grid collapses and transformer bushing failures. The reconnection...

ICPC begins monitoring N1 billion FG projects in Osun

The INDEPENDENT Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offenses Commission (ICPC) says it has commenced monitoring of over N1 billion worth of federal government funded projects in Osun. The head of the agency's monitoring team, Mrs Mary Oke, disclosed this on...

About 250 women accuse a French official of drugging them

Nearly 250 women have accused a former senior French civil servant of drugging them during job interviews and subjecting them to humiliating situations, according to a BBC investigation. The women allege that Christian Nègre used drugs to make them lose...

Diaspora Ondo indigenous people rally support for Tunji-Ojo’s political future

Nigeria's Minister of Home Affairs, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, popularly known as BTO, has received praise from Ondo State indigenes living in Canada for his contributions to the development of Nigeria, asking him to consider contesting for the governorship of...

NBC warns against misinformation and hate speech ahead of 2027 election

He National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has warned broadcasters, online publishers, bloggers and other media players not to use their platforms to spread misinformation, hate speech and inflammatory content as campaigns for the 2027 elections begin. Political campaigns for the presidential...

Australian mushroom killer appeals convictions over ‘catastrophic’ hotel jury mix-up

Lawyers for AustralianMushroom murderer Erin Patterson has argued that her convictions should be overturned after jurors stayed in the same hotel as members of the prosecution team, a key police witness and journalists during their deliberations. Patterson, 51, is serving...

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Banks await CBN clearance as audit delays leave investors without key earnings data

Investors in some of Nigeria's largest listed banks are facing a growing information gap as delays in the completion...