The Nigeria Police Force has concluded the 15th Biennial Police Games, BIPOGA Asaba 2026, after a week of sporting activities at the Stephen Keshi Stadium in Asaba, Delta State, southern Nigeria. The event brought together police commands and formations from across Nigeria for competitive sporting activities aimed at strengthening unity and improving physical fitness among officers. The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, who heads the Nigeria Police Force, described the Games as an important institutional moment. He said what began as a gathering of various commands had grown into a clear display of unity, resilience, and shared purpose…
Author: Oluwadara Akingbohungbe
Nigerian singer Simi has reacted after social media users revived posts she wrote 14 years ago, sparking heated debate online. The renewed criticism comes at a time of intense public discussion in Nigeria over rape culture and a separate rape allegation involving Mirabel. Within that broader conversation, some of Simi’s past tweets were reposted and widely circulated, drawing strong reactions. In a statement shared on Sunday, February 22, 2026, the singer explained that the posts were written in 2012 when she was 23 years old. At the time, she said, she was living at home and helping at her mother’s…
Popular Nigerian singer Simisola Kosoko, known professionally as Simi, is facing widespread backlash after old tweets from 2012 resurfaced on social media, sparking outrage among netizens who described the posts as “creepy” and inappropriate. The controversy began when screenshots of Simi’s decade-old posts about a four-year-old boy named David went viral on X (formerly Twitter). In one tweet dated March 14, 2012, Simi wrote: “David has a crush on me. He kips comm close; actin lik he wana lock lips n den he puts his head on my lap.Shd I giv him a chance? P.s: Hes 4.” A reply to…
A popular Nigerian political analyst and PDP influencer, Ayobami Dondekojo, known on X as @dondekojo, has been accused of sexual assault and financial misconduct by an X user in a series of posts that have garnered significant attention online. The allegations surfaced in a thread started by user @The6_2sharkkk, whose display name is “Obsessedwithmytitties🍒”, on February 22, 2026. In her initial post, she wrote: “Every time money hits my GT and I can’t withdraw it, I swear I’ll keep cursing you, Ayobami Dondekojo!” She elaborated in follow-up posts, claiming that Dondekojo “locked my bank accounts after I demanded the money…
United States President Donald Trump has raised the country’s global import tariff rate to 15 per cent, intensifying a trade confrontation just a day after the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that much of his tariff programme was unlawful. On Friday, February 20, 2026, the Supreme Court delivered a 6–3 judgment rejecting the president’s use of a 1977 economic emergency law to impose sweeping global tariffs. The ruling marked a major legal setback for Mr Trump, who returned to office 13 months ago and has made aggressive trade policy a central part of his economic agenda. Responding on…
A State High Court sitting in Uyo, the capital of Akwa Ibom State in southern Nigeria, has sentenced a 29-year-old pastor of Living Faith Church, widely known as Winners Chapel, to death by hanging for the murder of his landlord, Gabriel Edward. Justice Gabriel Ette delivered the ruling on Thursday, February 20, 2026, after finding Emmanuel Umoh guilty of killing the 23-year-old student on Monday, December 21, 2020. The victim was a final-year civil engineering student at the University of Uyo, a public institution located in Akwa Ibom State. Academic results released after his death confirmed that he graduated with…
The criminal proceedings involving former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, and his son, Abdulaziz Malami, were on Friday, February 20, 2026, postponed by the Federal High Court in Nigeria’s capital city. The adjournment followed a public holiday declared in Abuja by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, ahead of area council elections scheduled for Saturday. Justice Joyce Abdulmalik shifted the case to Friday, February 27, 2026. When journalists visited Court 6 of the Federal High Court complex at about 9:00 am West African Time, only a few court officials were seen. The…
Nigeria’s secret police have set Wednesday, February 25, 2026, to bring former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai before the Federal High Court in Abuja over allegations that he was involved in intercepting the phone communications of the country’s National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu. The Department of State Services filed a three-count charge against the former governor, accusing him of breaching Nigeria’s cybercrime and telecommunications laws. The case has been assigned to Justice Joyce Abdulmalik after being listed by the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho. According to the charge sheet, the allegations stem from comments El-Rufai…
A High Court in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, has temporarily stopped activist Omoyele Sowore and the online news outlet Sahara Reporters from publishing further reports about the country’s Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun. The court issued an interim injunction restraining Sowore and the media platform from releasing additional content considered defamatory against Egbetokun, his office, members of his family, and related associates. The order specifically prohibits the publication of material concerning Victor Egbetokun, including allegations that he received ₦100 million, about $66,667 at an estimated exchange rate of ₦1,500 to $1, from security votes in Anambra State in southeastern Nigeria.…
The disappearance of Abubakar Idris, widely known as Dadiyata, has returned to national attention after Nigeria’s Department of State Services reopened its investigation into the 2019 incident. Idris, a university lecturer at the Federal University Dutsinma in Katsina State, northern Nigeria, was reported missing in early August 2019 after armed men allegedly took him from his residence in Kaduna, a major city in northwestern Nigeria. Nearly seven years later, his location remains unknown. Security sources confirmed that the Department of State Services has resumed inquiries into the case and is preparing to invite suspects for questioning. The renewed probe follows…