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Dangote Explains Why He Walked Away From Dream Arsenal Takeover

African business magnate Aliko Dangote has revealed why he ultimately abandoned his long-running ambition to buy English football club Arsenal FC, saying that rising...

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‘My young wife absconded few days after we got married’ – Middle-aged man tells court

A Kubwa Grade I Area Court, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), recently ordered a 17-year-old housewife, Khadija Akarami, to return to her matrimonial home. According to the News Agency of Ngeria (NAN), delivering judgment, the judge, Muhammad Adamu held that Khadija, in her testimony admitted to introducing her 51- year- old husband, Abubakar Aliyu, to her parents as her fiancé before they eventually got married. Adamu, however, made his ruling based on the petition brought before him by Abubakar, adding that any party that is not satisfied can file fresh processes in court. Earlier, Khadija’s father, Mohammed Musa told the court that his daughter stayed in her matrimonial home for three weeks before leaving. “The day she ran away, Abubakar...

2 students from UNIZIK found dead in a private hostel

Two students of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, have been found dead in a room at a private hostel.  It was gathered that bodies of the students were discovered on Sunday, February 20, after Room One of the hostel, located at the William’s Lodge, was forced open following a report to the police by parents of the deceased. According to a source, who spoke to Punch , the two students, a male, and a female, might have died some days ago, due to the level of decay on their corpses.  The parents of the dead female, identified as Adaeze, had been calling her phone line for some days without any response. The source said when several calls were not responded...

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