The Benue State Governor, Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia, has sacked all his commissioners and dissolved the State Executive Council. The announcement was made in a statement signed by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Tersoo Kula. According to Kula, the Governor informed the council of the dissolution at the end of the 12th SEC meeting for 2025. He said the Governor directed all commissioners to hand over to the permanent secretaries of their respective ministries without delay. Governor Alia expressed appreciation to the former commissioners for their service over the past two years. He urged those who may not be reappointed...
Katsina Court Sentence Guard and Cook to Death Over Former Commissioner’s 2021 Murder
Justice Ibrahim Mashi of Katsina High Court has sentenced two former domestic staff to death by hanging for the 2021 murder of Rabe Nasir, a former Katsina State Commissioner for Science and Technology. The court ruled that Shamsu Lawal, a security guard, and Tasi’u Rabi’u, a cook, were guilty of poisoning the commissioner after failing to rob him. The court heard that the duo conspired to commit the crime within the premises of Nasir’s private residence in Katsina. Autopsy reports presented during the trial confirmed the presence of poison in the late commissioner’s body, validating the prosecution’s case. A third...
President Trump Narrates His Mother’s Journey To US From The Isle Of Lewis, Where She Met His Father, Fred Trump
Donald Trump: “When she came to New York, she was a young girl of about 18-years-old, and she hadn’t seen the world — and she met my father… He came home that night, he said to my grandmother… ‘I just met my wife.'”
ESPN Cuts Ties With Shannon Sharpe Following Settlement Of Sexual Assault Lawsuit, AP Source Says
Hall of Fame tight end-turned-broadcaster Shannon Sharpe will not return to ESPN, a person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The decision comes less than two weeks after Sharpe resolved a lawsuit that accused him of sexually assaulting a woman during their relationship. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the decision has not been announced. Sharpe’s last appearance on ESPN was in late April, when the lawsuit was filed in Nevada. No details of the settlement were released. The lawsuit had sought $50 million. The 57-year-old Sharpe called the accusations...
Hospital Says It Never Agreed To Deactivate Inmate’s Heart Device Before Execution
A Tennessee hospital says it never agreed to a request by state officials who face a court order to turn off a death row inmate’s heart-regulating implant before his execution next week. After a Nashville judge ordered the deactivation of Byron Black’s device, a Tennessee Department of Correction official said in a court declaration that Nashville General Hospital said they could disable it the day before his Aug. 5 execution at 10 a.m., but wouldn’t come to the prison on execution day, as the judge had ordered. The judge ultimately allowed some leniency, saying Black could be moved to the...
Virginia City Councilman Set On Fire In Workplace Attack; Suspect Charged With Attempted Murder
A city councilman in Virginia was seriously injured Wednesday when a man stormed into his office at a local magazine, doused him in gasoline and set him on fire — an attack that authorities say was rooted in a personal dispute, not politics. Lee Vogler, 38, who has served on the Danville City Council for more than a decade, was taken by medical helicopter to a burn unit in North Carolina after the attack. Police said the assailant, 29-year-old Shotsie Michael Buck Hayes, forced his way into Vogler’s office at Showcase Magazine, confronted him, then chased him outside and set...
Educare CEO Alex Onyia Draws Government Attention To A Convalescent Clinic In Lagos, Accusing It Of Negligence And Murder
The CEO of Educare Alex Onyia in a post has called out a convalescent clinic identified as FELAK ALPHA in Lagos state while accusing it strongly of careless murder. Onyia claimed to be an eye witness to the death of a baby that was abandoned in a water sink and was left to die, while he called the attention of the state government to the negligence. The Educare CEO post read: “This hospital in Lagos is a death place. I just saw a mother and her child die here. “The baby was abandoned in a water sink until he gasped...
