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Rumours of the United States authorities freeing Olalekan Jacob Ponle, also known as Mr. Woodbery or Mark Kain, who was imprisoned for fraud in 2023, have been circulating on social media since Wednesday. Ponle’s alias has remained among the top trending words on X. Mini-influencers and some private accounts have made claims about Ponle’s presence […]

Stray bullets fired by a police officer have killed two residents of Ado-Ekiti, the capital of Ekiti State. EQToday learned that a car hit a motorcycle around 8:32 pm in the Omisanjana area of the city on Tuesday, causing the rider and his two passengers serious injuries. “However, instead of showing concern and care for […]

Rukayat Thompson (not real name), an Oyo State resident, has narrated how Cashlawn, an online money-lending outfit, continues to harass her for interest on a loan she never requested. Thompson told EQToday that the incident happened minutes after she deleted Cashlawn’s application from her phone on May 22. “On May 10, an unknown contact reached […]

His name was Suleiman Aliyu. On paper, his crime did not exist, and when this reporter encountered him, it was clear no judge worth his salt could ever find him guilty of the excuse of a charge an investigating police officer (IPO) had relied on to detain him. Aliyu was this lanky, dark and very […]

A year after undergoing training by the National Population Commission (NPC), some of the facilitators trained by the commission in Benin are yet to receive payment. The NPC had planned to conduct a national population census in 2023, 17 years after the last one, which was conducted in 2006. In preparation for the 2023 census, […]

A deadly clash involving the police and some motorcyclists in the Ipaja area of Lagos State occurred on Monday. The police divisional headquarters along Ayobo road in the area was almost overrun by motorcyclists, some of whom pelted stones at the station. EQToday learned that the clash broke out in Baruwa Inside, a popular neighbourhood […]

A coalition of over 300 women’s groups has called on all Nigerian women to boycott all products sold by Erisco Foods Limited. In a statement issued on Friday morning and signed under the aegis of Womanifesto, the groups condemned the police’s continuous detention and prosecution of Chioma Okoli, a Lagos resident who gave a negative […]

A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted bail to Chioma Okoli, the Lagos resident standing trial for conspiracy and cyberstalking over her review of a tomato mix produced by Erisco Foods Limited. The conditions, EQToday gathered, include a bail bond of N5 million, two sureties in like sum, one of which must be a […]

Air Peace has credited Damilola, a Lagos-based journalist, with N153,400 withheld for seven months. This is barely 48 hours after an EQToday story about Air Peace and Fidelity Bank withholding the journalist’s funds for months. Damilola’s ordeal started on October 7, when he paid via an ATM from his Access Bank to Air Peace’s Fidelity […]

Rose Agwu, a Nigerian medical doctor, has narrated how some soldiers entered her home in Abia State and arrested her teenage brother and her sister. Agwu made a short X post on Friday morning, raising the alarm that her siblings were taken away from their house without information on their whereabouts or reason for the […]

Remember Sam Afolabi, the Chief Executive Officer of Eatrich Farms, who fled Nigeria following the collapse of his agritech company that flung Nigerian investors and former staff into a financial mess in 2021? Afolabi, who also made his business partners wallow in multi-million naira debts, is back with another business. This time, it’s a hardware […]

It took the presidency and the National Assembly only six days to introduce, debate, pass and sign the National Anthem Bill. The bill, which summarily takes Nigeria back to its old anthem, passed first and second readings in quick succession on May 23. By May 28, the Senate had passed ‘Nigeria we hail thee’ as […]