A Kano man, Haruna Bashir has remarried six months after he lost his wife and six children in a brutal attack.

Bashir was among 1,500 couples that married on Friday and Saturday in a mass wedding organized by the Kano State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf.

For Bashir, the ceremony marks an opportunity to begin rebuilding his life after the tragic loss of his immediate family.

“Since the tragic incident, he hardly interacted with people. Today, he is gradually returning to normal life,” said Sheikh Aminu Ibrahim Daurawa, commander-general of the Kano State Hisbah Board, which coordinated the ceremony.

LIB reported that the incident occurred in Dorayi Chiranchi Quarters on Saturday, January 17, 2025.

The victims, Fatima Abubakar, 35, and her children, Maimuna, 17, Aisha, 16, Bashir, 13, Abubakar, 10, Faruk, 7, and Abdulsalam, barely one and half years old, were attacked with dangerous weapons after the assailants broke into their home.

The Kano State Police Command arrested three principal suspects, including a family member for the gruesome m8rder.

Nigeria’s Super Falcons have lost their chance to secure an automatic ticket to the 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup after suffering a 1-0 defeat to Cameroon in the quarter-finals of the 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON).

Myriam Maéva Nyadjou Wamen scored the decisive goal in the 19th minute at the Larbi Zaouli Stadium in Casablanca, sending the Indomitable Lionesses into the semi-finals.

The fiancé of late Nollywood actress Temitope Osoba, Prophet Itunu Onadeko, has claimed that the actress died at a police station in Ikorodu, Lagos.

Onadeko made the claim while speaking in an interview, insisting that Osoba’s previous battle with breast cancer was not responsible for her *****.

He also denied rumours that she was poisoned, maltreated or that money donated for her cancer treatment was diverted.

According to him, he received a midnight call from an unidentified person informing him that Osoba had died at a police station, although he said he did not know the exact station.

The actress, who died at 40, had previously spoken publicly about her battle with breast cancer and treatment.

Onadeko also denied allegations that she was prevented from driving, claiming she drove herself to Iperu shortly before her *****.

He further dismissed claims of mistreatment, including allegations that she was punished by having faeces or urine poured on her.

Singer Ne-Yo is facing a lawsuit after a woman who was delivering a package to his home allegedly suffered a dog bite.

According to the lawsuit, Dominique Bridgett was attacked by the singer’s dog while delivering a package to his Alpharetta, Georgia home in July 2025.

Bridgett claimed the dog was not restrained despite allegedly having a history of aggressive behaviour towards people.

She said the incident left her with injuries, pain and emotional distress, and that she has already spent more than $9,000 on medical bills.

The lawsuit, filed in Fulton County Court in June, accuses Ne-Yo of negligence and seeks an unspecified amount in damages.

Ne-Yo’s representative has not publicly commented on the lawsuit.

The case comes shortly after Chris Brown was ordered to pay nearly $13 million after a jury found him liable in a separate case involving an alleged dog attack on a housekeeper.

A former high school friend of Omolola Okoye, wife of Peter Okoye, has come out in her defence amid the ongoing drama surrounding the Okoye family.

The woman, who described Lola as her closest friend in secondary school, said the person being portrayed online is far from the woman she has known for years.

According to her, Lola was kind, neat, humble and welcoming, recalling how friends would gather around her in boarding school while she casually swept the room without ever complaining.

She also described Lola as someone who did not hold grudges and said she had never known her to deliberately create problems for anyone.

The friend further claimed that Lola had always supported Peter's relationship with his family and did not prevent him from reconciling with his siblings.

She recalled being with Lola a day before her wedding and said she only later learned from Peter that his absence was allegedly intentional.

The woman concluded by describing Lola as “the best thing that happened to Peter”, adding that her character and upbringing could not be properly understood from what was being said about her on social media.

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A 30-year-old Italy-based businessman Joseph Cyril has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport (AIIA) Enugu for ingesting 98 wraps of cocaine while heading to Italy via Addis Ababa and France.

The suspect who was nabbed at the departure hall of the airport on Sunday, August 2nd, during the outward clearance of passengers on Ethiopian Airlines flight ET930, was subsequently placed on excretion observation during which he excreted 98 wraps of cocaine weighing 1.510 kilograms.

‎Investigations revealed that Cyril had arrived Nigeria from Italy on July 13th and ingested the drug in a hotel in Awka, Anambra State before proceeding to Enugu to board his flight to Europe on Sunday, August 2nd. In his statement, he claimed he has been doing business in Italy for years before agreeing to traffic the drug consignment for a fee of 3,500 Euros in order to raise money to relocate to Germany where his family is based.

Attempts by some drug trafficking syndicates to export 1.2 kilograms of cocaine concealed in

In a related development, 25 pieces of phone chargers going to Saudi Arabia were thwarted by NDLEA operatives at a courier firm in Lagos. A similar bid to send 500 grams of the same class A drug hidden in the false bottom of a backpack to Italy was equally aborted in another logistics company by NDLEA officers on Monday, August 3rd, while a consignment of 2.3kg Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis, coming from the United States was intercepted in another shipping company in Lagos on Tuesday, August 4th.

The Internet sensations, who had their traditional wedding last Saturday, had their white wedding today August 8.

Congrats to them!

Popular comedian, Anita Asuoha, popularly known as Real Warri Pikin, has cancelled her forthcoming show in Warri, Delta State, citing what she described as “unfortunate divisions” within society.

The comedian announced the cancellation in a statement shared on Instagram, expressing disappointment over what she described as continued divisions in a society where unity should prevail.

In the heartfelt video she shared, RealWarriPikin said being an entertainer from Delta state is ‘very exhausting’ because of the tribal divisions.

‘’ The disunity in my state is very tiring, especially amongst the Ijaws, the Urhobos, the Itsekiris..I am not saying don’t fight for what is right but does it have to always be v!olent? Does it have to be oppression? I have been a victim of b#llying and oppress!on in Delta state for the past eight years. I don;t know it all. Growing up, everywhere was called Warri. Now things are changing, people are reclaiming their lands..Its okay…but why do you have to bring me down because I made a mistake’’

She mentioned that the indigene of the event center she had scheduled to host her show vowed to disrupt the event because she included Warri in the publicity he had for the show. They insisted that her show should have been tagged ‘’Real Warri Pikin live in Uvwie’’ and not ‘’real Warri Kinin live in Warri’’ because Uvwie is different from Warri.

‘’They said I should take down the billboards, social media posts, the radio gingles, take down the rollup banners, they wrote a petition. They said the show will never hold and that the day of the show they will come and scatter everything. Some other set are saying, “ Even the Warri in my name I should remove it.’’

She said the whole thing has been so tiring.