Felix Duru Mbah

By our reporter A month to his 65th birthday, businessman,lawyer and alleged fraudster, Fred Ajudua, heads back to prison following a Supreme Court verdict today. The apex court overturned the decision of the Court of Appeal that granted bail to Ajudua, who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and standing trial for allegedly defrauding a German company of $1 million over 30 years ago, when the accused was still a young man. In a unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court held that the Appeal Court erred in granting Ajudua bail and ordered him returned to correctional…

By Ademola Adegoke, Abuja Head of Civil Service of Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), Mrs. Grace Adayilo, has saluted Minister of FCT, Barrister Nyesom Wike, who recently received the Quinquinnal Award for Governance and Infrastructure 2024. In a statement from her office, Mrs. Adayilo asserted that the Minister's leadership has indeed exploded in hugely phenomenal transformation of the nation's capital, the prioritization of staff welfare and restoration of the Abuja Masterplan. The Quinquinnal Award for Governance and Infrastructure, the statement noted, recognized the Minister's outstanding contributions to the development and transformation of Abuja’s infrastructural landscape. Congratulating the Minister on behalf…

A Nigerian woman, identified as Patience Gold, has tarnished the image of the country in Ghana following evidences produced in court showing her shocking degree of wickedness, raw greed and unconscionable avarice while running a prostitution ring --an illegality in the neighbouring West African country. The Tarkwa Circuit Court in Ghana sentenced the 32-year-old commercial sex worker to 20 years’ imprisonment for trafficking four young women from Nigeria to Ghana to engage in prostitution,reports Ghana Graphic in its May 8, 2025 edition. According to court documents filed by the state, the presiding judge, Hathia Ama Manu, heard that the convict,…

By our reporter Pope Leo XIV has a past link with Nigeria and Nigerians. In 2016, he, as Bishop Robert Francis Prevost, visited the Augustinians in Nigeria when he was serving as Prior General of the Order of St. Augustine. He even posed for a photograph (above) with some Nigerian Augustinians during the memorable visit. The Augustinian Order, or Order of St. Augustine (OSA), is a mendicant religious order in the Catholic Church founded in 1244 by Pope Innocent IV. It is an international order with friars living in community and inspired by the teachings and life of St. Augustine…

Leaders from around the globe have offered warm congratulations to Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first pope from the U.S. He has adopted the new name of Pope Leo XIV. The announcement that U.S Cardinal Robert Prevost has been named Pope Leo XIV has caused excitement tinged with hope around the world, with leaders from numerous countries offering their congratulations. The elevation of Prevost, the first person from the United States to ascend to the highest position in the Catholic Church, has also sparked discussion about what his tenure could mean for the church’s leadership on a host of issues, among…

Plumes of black smoke emanated from the roof of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican earlier today as the voting by the conclave of Cardinals to elect a successor to the late Pope Francis ended without electing a new pope. A muted roar went up from the faithful gathered at Rome's St. Peter's Square as soon as the black plume of smoke went up, with many consequently streaming out of the place to wait for the next voting round about 5.30pm Nigeria time. White smoke from the chimney signals a new Pope has been elected. The last conclave, which elected…

By John Ekah, Gusau It was a day of hot exchange of words as loyalists of Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State and his bitter political rival and predecessor, Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, feuded,on behalf of their principals, over who takes responsibility for the spiralling bloodshed in the North-West state. While the governor's camp is firmly convinced that Matawalle's strategic position in the Federal Government (FG) should be the no-brainer game changer against insecurity in the state, the Minister's camp see things differently: they said Gov. Lawal is the state's Chief Security Officer (CSO) and should duly…