A video of Oyo APC gubernatorial candidate, Sharafadeen Abiodun Alli, which went viral earlier today, has sparked backlash after the young man involved was revealed to be a student.

Initially, Nigerians reacted to the video with mild amusement. However, after it emerged that the young man is a representative of the Banking and Finance Students’ Association, from the Ibadan Polytechnic, viewers became outraged as they called the act an abuse of power.

The video was recorded when students met with the Oyo APC gubernatorial candidate, Sharafadeen Abiodun Alli to seek support for their program.

The student, seen sitting on the senator's lap for an unknown reason, seemed tense and folded his fingers to form a fist as he asked the Senator questions which he read from his phone.

Soon, the Senator is seen rubbing the young man's thigh with his hand.

Then, the student asked the Senator a question about unemployment and the approach he would take to ensure that it is resolved if he becomes governor.

Alli responded while rubbing the young man's thigh, "Well, you're going to use what you have to get what you want, to leverage on whatever we have in the state."

While many are blaming the Senator, some are also blaming the young man for not putting an end to the act.

However, many defended the student, stating that he was in an uncomfortable situation and was the powerless party.

A New York man survived being struck by lightning during a storm on Staten Island, with surveillance footage capturing the moment he was hit.

Thomas Fahmy, who reportedly works for Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis, was walking along a street on Staten Island on Thursday night when he was struck by lightning, according to NBC News.

Surveillance footage obtained by NBC showed Fahmy falling to the ground after being hit by a red flash of light. Despite the impact, he quickly got back on his feet and walked to a nearby house to seek help.

Fahmy said he experienced a “very intense burning sensation” as well as “tingling, numbness, pain, severe pain, in both my feet.” He also said he remained conscious throughout the incident.

Despite being struck by lightning, Fahmy suffered only minor injuries. He was treated overnight at a local hospital and later released.

Fahmy reportedly works in Malliotakis’ Staten Island office. The congresswoman has not yet issued a public statement about the incident.

Credit: @NBC

Part 3: The Wedding Dress That Wouldn't Let Go

Cordelia guided Serena through an old, whispered ritual words Serena didn't fully understand but repeated carefully regardless, desperate to free herself from the dress's stubborn grip. Slowly, reluctantly, the fastenings finally loosened, allowing Serena to step free.

"Thank you," she breathed, changing quickly into ordinary clothes, hands still trembling. "What do I do now? I can't simply confront him without proof."

"There's a way to find proof," Cordelia said, her translucent form still visible faintly within the mirror's reflective surface. "Your hidden compartment. If he discovered your letters, he likely photographed or copied them somehow, intending to use them eventually as leverage or justification. Check your shared computer, Serena. Search his recent activity carefully."

Serena moved quickly to her laptop, hands shaking as she searched through shared cloud storage she and Marcus had established early in their relationship. Buried deep within a folder labeled innocuously "Wedding Planning," she found exactly what Cordelia had predicted scanned copies of her private letters, alongside a document Serena hadn't authored at all.

It was a will. Her will, apparently, though she'd never actually created or signed such a document. Marcus's name appeared prominently as sole beneficiary, her signature forged convincingly enough that only careful scrutiny revealed subtle inconsistencies.

"He's planning something," Serena whispered, horror flooding through her chest. "This isn't simply about jealousy over old letters. He's planning to inherit everything."

"Exactly what I feared," Cordelia said grimly. "You need to leave immediately, Serena. Somewhere safe. Contact authorities properly, before he arrives for your scheduled rehearsal."

Serena's phone buzzed suddenly Marcus, texting to confirm he was already on his way, considerably earlier than originally planned.

Panic flooded through her. "He's coming now."

"Then we don't have much time," Cordelia said urgently. "Listen carefully, Serena. Take this evidence, leave through your back entrance immediately, and go directly to the nearest police station. Don't wait for him to arrive."

Serena gathered the incriminating evidence quickly, printing copies with shaking hands, grabbing her keys and essential belongings. Just as she reached her back door, she heard Marcus's car pulling into her driveway considerably earlier than his text had indicated.

"He's here already," she whispered, terror flooding through her.

"Stay calm," Cordelia urged. "Exit quietly through the back, exactly as planned. I'll do what I can to delay him."

Serena slipped out her back door just as she heard Marcus's key turning in her front lock, her heart hammering violently as she hurried toward her car, evidence clutched tightly against her chest.

Behind her, faintly, she heard Marcus's confused voice calling her name inside the empty house, followed by something considerably stranger the wedding dress, apparently still resting where she'd left it, somehow rustling audibly despite the room's stillness, Cordelia's spirit clearly working to delay his search however she properly could.

Serena drove directly to the police station, hands trembling on the steering wheel, evidence and impossible truth both weighing heavily as she prepared to expose Marcus's dangerous deception before her scheduled wedding could ever properly take place.

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Part 2: The Wedding Dress That Wouldn't Let Go

Serena stared at her aunt's translucent reflection, torn between overwhelming disbelief and creeping, undeniable dread. "What exactly did you see? About Marcus?"

Cordelia's spirit hesitated, old grief resurfacing visibly across her ghostly features. "The same restless eyes my own fiancé had, the night before our wedding. The same careless dismissal of things that clearly mattered deeply to me. I watched him three days ago, Serena, when you brought this dress into your bedroom to consider wearing it. He visited while you were at work, searching through your belongings rather more thoroughly than innocent curiosity would explain."

"That's not possible," Serena said, though uncertainty was already creeping into her voice. "Marcus wouldn't do that."

"Check your jewelry box," Cordelia urged. "The one your mother gave you, with the false bottom compartment. I watched him find it, Serena. Watched him examine something hidden there with considerable, troubling interest."

Serena's chest tightened with sudden, sick understanding. She did have a hidden compartment containing old letters from a previous relationship, ones she'd never properly disclosed to Marcus, embarrassed by how emotionally raw and vulnerable they revealed her to be.

"Even if that's true," she said slowly, "that doesn't prove he's genuinely dangerous. Simply curious, perhaps overly so."

Cordelia's expression grew desperately urgent. "My own fiancé searched my belongings too, the week before our wedding. Discovered old letters from a previous suitor I'd never properly disclosed. He confronted me that very night, Serena not with genuine hurt, but with calculated, controlled fury I'd never witnessed from him before. I died that same night, and the official report called it an accident. I promise you, it was not."

Serena felt genuine terror settling deep into her chest. "You're saying he killed you."

"I'm saying," Cordelia said carefully, "that I recognize dangerous patterns considerably more clearly now than I did while I was still naively, hopefully alive. Marcus discovered your hidden letters three days ago. Has he mentioned anything unusual since then? Any subtle shift in behavior you might have initially dismissed as simple wedding stress?"

Serena's mind raced backward, uncomfortable memory surfacing slowly. Marcus had been unusually attentive the past several days, insisting on handling nearly every wedding detail himself, growing oddly possessive about her schedule, her whereabouts, even suggesting she needn't bother inviting several close friends to the ceremony.

"He's been different," she admitted slowly, dread building steadily. "I told myself it was simply nervous excitement."

"Or," Cordelia said grimly, "calculated control, disguised carefully as romantic attentiveness. Please, Serena. Trust me on this, even though I understand how impossible everything I'm telling you must sound."

Serena glanced toward her bedroom door, suddenly, desperately aware that Marcus was scheduled to pick her up within the hour for their final wedding rehearsal.

"What do I do?" she asked, voice trembling.

Cordelia's expression softened slightly, though urgency remained evident. "First, we need to get this dress off you properly. Then, Serena, we need to discover exactly what Marcus intends before tomorrow's ceremony arrives."

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The Wedding Dress That Wouldn't Let Go

Serena found the dress in her late aunt's cedar chest ivory silk, impossibly preserved despite decades of storage, tags still attached from a wedding that, according to family records, never actually happened. Her aunt Cordelia had died unmarried, alone, the family always whispering vaguely about "a broken engagement" nobody discussed in detail.

Serena tried it on out of simple curiosity the night before her own wedding, admiring herself in her childhood bedroom mirror.

The dress wouldn't come off.

She tugged at the zipper, fingers fumbling with clasps that had unfastened easily minutes earlier, now seemingly fused shut. "This isn't funny," she muttered, tugging harder, panic beginning to edge into her voice.

The mirror's reflection flickered.

For just a moment barely a heartbeat Serena saw someone else standing where she should have been. A woman, translucent, wearing the exact same dress, her expression caught somewhere between desperate hope and profound grief.

"He's not the one," the reflection whispered, lips moving though Serena heard the words directly in her mind rather than through actual sound. "I need you to listen to me, before you make the same mistake I did."

Serena stumbled backward from the mirror, heart hammering. "Aunt Cordelia?"

The reflection's expression shifted, desperate relief flooding features that had been frozen in grief moments before. "You can hear me. Finally, someone can properly hear me."

"This isn't real," Serena whispered, though the dress remained stubbornly fastened around her, refusing every attempt to remove it.

"It's entirely real," Cordelia's spirit insisted, voice growing increasingly urgent. "I wore this dress the night my fiancé betrayed me completely, the very night before our own wedding. I died wearing it, Serena, waiting desperately for an apology that never properly came. I've been trapped in this dress ever since, unable to move on, watching helplessly as it passed through our family, waiting for the right person to finally, properly listen."

Serena felt icy dread spreading through her chest, glancing at her own wedding, scheduled for tomorrow morning, suddenly feeling considerably more ominous than she'd anticipated. "What do you need me to know?"

The reflection's expression grew deadly serious. "Your fiancé, Marcus. I've been watching him too, Serena, ever since this dress entered your possession. I recognize that particular look in his eyes I've seen it before, in someone else, on a night that ended considerably worse than either of us properly deserved."

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Weeks after First lady, Oluremi Tinubu, advised poor Nigerians to venture into low-capital businesses like Akara and KuliKuli making, Akwa Ibom state governor, Pastor Eno Uno, has revealed that many years ago, he sold Akara and made a fortune from it

While speaking at the state’s monthly covenant prayer service today September 2, the governor said

“We still have that shop there. I started selling Akara and bread. Back then, I was doing Akara Burger, we open the bread and put it inside for you. People going to Exxon Mobil will buy it in the monrning, take coffee..we started coffee shop.

Every month, that akara business used to give me nothing less than N10 million in a month.”

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has arrested two suspected child traffickers and rescued a four-year-old girl who was allegedly abducted in Kuje, Abuja.

The suspects, identified as Rose Daniel and Blessing John, were arrested on August 27, 2026, while allegedly attempting to flee with the child, identified as Ummi Mariam Abdullah.

Confirming the development to newsmen, the FCT Police Command's spokesperson, SP Josephine Adeh, said the suspects were apprehended after a concerned member of the community who witnessed the incident alerted the police. She said operatives responded swiftly, rescued the girl and arrested the two suspects.

She said preliminary investigations revealed that the suspects had previously been arrested in December 2025 and arraigned before a court in connection with a similar offence. They were subsequently convicted and released on bail after spending about five months in prison.

Adeh mentioned that further investigation revealed that since their release, the suspects have abducted and trafficked four children to different parts of the country. The most recent case involved two children who were taken to a regular accomplice in PortHarcourt, identified only as Madam Ijeoma, who purchased the children for the sum of N1.5 million each.

Adeh said the rescued four year old girl has since been reunited with her family, while the two suspects remain in Police custody as investigation continues. The suspects will be charged to court upon the conclusion of investigations.

She urged parents and guardians to remain vigilant and intentional about the safety and whereabouts of their children and wards at all times. Members of the public are equally encouraged to promptly report suspicious persons, movements or activities to the nearest Police station or through the Command’s emergency lines: 08032003913, 08028940883, Complaint Response Unit 08107314192, PPRO FCT 07038979348

Nyesom Wike, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, has said he would become the first target if President Bola Tinubu loses the 2027 presidential election to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar or Peter Obi.

Wike, who has been supporting Tinubu despite being a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said he was fully aware of the consequences of the position he had taken.

Speaking during a media chat, Wike said: “I will be the first politician that I think they will come after. I will be the first politician. I know they will come for my head.”

Wike said in spite of the possibility of political consequences, his resolve to campaign for and support Tunubu remains strong.

“Each day I sleep, I am thinking about the president’s reelection. When I am eating, I think about the president’s reelection. Everything I am doing now is about the president’s reelection,” he stated.

The former Rivers State governor said the criticism directed at him over his political position had been unusually intense.

But he maintained that he was not concerned about the names he had been called or the opinions expressed by his critics.

“I don’t see where anybody in this country today has been called names the way my name has been. I am not bothered about people who say their [own] thing. My business is, like I said, I am going to support Mr President,” he said.

A Nigerian bride has called out an event decorator after she allegedly failed to show up at her wedding despite being paid ₦300,000 in full.

In a video shared online, the bride, who was still dressed in her wedding gown, expressed her frustration over the situation.

According to her, she had paid the decorator in full to handle the decoration for her wedding, but the woman allegedly failed to show up, leaving her and her guests with an empty hall.

The visibly upset bride could be seen explaining what happened while still in her wedding dress.

Comedian Apama has broken his silence following the arrest of TMT over allegations of defrauding more than 200 Nigerians through visa-related transactions.

Apama, who has faced calls from some Nigerians to also be arrested because of his association with TMT, said he has never collected money from the visa agent and is not his ambassador.

“For those saying I should be arrested, I have never collected a dime from TMT. I’m not his ambassador, and he has never processed any visa for me,” he said.

The comedian also revealed that he had reached out to TMT earlier this year, asking him to settle people who were allegedly owed money.

According to Apama, he tried to intervene before the matter escalated and believes the situation could have been avoided if TMT had listened to him.

“I even messaged TMT earlier this year, asking them to settle the people he was owing. If he had listened to me, this case wouldn’t have gotten to VeryDarkMan,” he said.