Author: Naija Daily News

The management of Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State, has canceled all final year papers of the Department of Arts written on Wednesday, January 29, 2025, over loud celebrations. In a statement by the Acting registrar of the institution Ephraim Isiraojie, on Wednesday, the Management frowned at graduating students from the Faculty of Arts (Department of Mass Communication, English, and History and International Studies) who violated the directive of the university management. The students were reportedly involved in car displays, use of sirens, spraying of money, shouting, hooting, and blocking access roads leading in and out of the university. The…

By Deborah Nnamdi The National Population Commission has distanced itself from a fake employment website making the rounds on social media. This was disclosed in a press release issued by the commission’s Director of Public Affairs, Taibat Oloruntoba, on Thursday. The statement read, “The attention of the commission was drawn to a fake website created by some mischief makers concerning the purported recruitment for the 2025 Population and Housing Census to defraud unsuspecting citizens. “The commission wishes to inform the public that it is not undergoing any census Ad-hoc Staff recruitment exercise at the moment as President Bola Ahmed Tinubu,…

By Deborah Nnamdi Five persons have been reportedly killed during an attack by gunmen at Ajegunle-Powerline community in Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State. An eyewitness, Mr Akin Olowolafe, a farmer in the community, told newsmen on Thursday in Akure that five people were allegedly killed during the attack, which happened on Tuesday at about 3pm. Olowolafe said the gunmen entered the farmlands while people were working and started shooting sporadically in the air, which resulted in the death of five farmers. According to him, the gunmen usually attack the farmlands daily around the community, and it has…

By Deborah Nnamdi Operatives of the “Agunechemba” security outfit, Anambra State, on Thursday, raided a notorious criminal hideout at Enugwu-Agidi in the Njikoka Local Government Area of the state.During the operation, no fewer than 14 guns of different brands were recovered by the operatives. A post on one of its social media handles said the “Agunechemba” security troops invaded the area with other security outfits like the police, Department of State Services, military, and vigilantes. The post further revealed that the items, which were recovered during the operation include two AK-47 rifles, eight pump action gụns, four locally-made pistols, three…

By Deborah Nnamdi A Gwagwalada Magistrates’ Court sitting in Abuja on Thursday sentenced two lovers, Mohammed Nazifi, 30, and Bilkisu Ibrahim, 25, to three months imprisonment each for adultery. The police charged the lovers with a one-count charge of adultery by man and woman, to which they pleaded guilty. Nazifi pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy, saying he was a married man with little children to take care of. Ibrahim also begged the court for mercy, saying she had a 3-year-old child and an aged mother, who depended on her. Earlier, the prosecutor, Dabo Yakubu, told the…

By Deborah Nnamdi A father in Pakistan has killed his teenage daughter after she uploaded what he considered to be inappropriate videos on the social media app TikTok, police said on Thursday. The man, said to be in his 50s, recently brought his family back from the U.S. to settle in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, local police chief Babar Baloch, said. The father, now in custody, confessed to having shot his daughter earlier this week after she refused to dress more modestly and stop uploading what the family considered to be “indecent” videos on TikTok, Baloch said. Police…

The Otor-Owhe community in Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta State was on Tuesday thrown into chaos as furious youths set a man ablaze for allegedly beheading a woman. The suspect, identified as Oghenero, reportedly killed the woman in the bush after she slapped his mother. According to a community source who witnessed the incident, the slain woman, said to be from Emevor and Orogun, had allegedly slapped Oghenero’s mother during an argument. Upon returning home, Oghenero’s mother informed him about the altercation. “Immediately, Oghenero went straight to the bush and saw the woman farming and beheaded her and…

By Deborah Nnamdi Operatives of the Rivers State Police Command have arrested two suspects, Ugochukwu Onyebuchi and Ogechi Nmezi, for their alleged involvement in child trafficking in the state. The suspects are alleged to have collaborated with members of a local vigilante group, OSPAC, to perpetrate the crime.  A statement by the State’s Police spokesperson, SP Grace Iringe-Koko, on Wednesday, said the suspects were arrested on January 24, 2025, for conspiring to defraud victims under the guise of facilitating baby adoptions. The suspects had reportedly lured one Gift Chimanu, the mother of a two-month-old baby girl, Evidence Olomachukwu Chimanu, and…

The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), has announced the suspension of operations by Max Air following Tuesday’s night incident involving the airline’s aircraft in Kano. A Max Air B734 aircraft with registration marks 5N-MBD experienced a tire burst on landing at Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano, on Tuesday, January 28, 2025, at about 2251 hours. This would be the third incident in the space of three months involving a Max Airplane. Though the 53 passengers on board were evacuated unhurt, the aircraft was temporarily shut before the runway was reopened by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) by…

Microsoft and OpenAI are investigating claims that the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek may have stolen data from OpenAI’s technology. The issue surfaced last fall when Microsoft’s security team noticed suspicious activity, suspecting that individuals linked to DeepSeek were using OpenAI’s API to extract large amounts of data illegally. Microsoft, OpenAI’s biggest investor, promptly informed OpenAI about the suspicious behaviour, but the exact data taken and the extent of the theft remain unclear. DeepSeek, a rapidly growing Chinese AI startup, offers a cheaper alternative to U.S. tech giants like OpenAI, gained attention this week when its free AI assistant briefly surpassed…