Popular Nollywood actor, Saint Obi, has passed on at the age of 57 after a protracted illness.
It was reported that he died early in the week after battling an undisclosed illness for several months with no successful treatment.
The Actors Guild of Nigeria is however yet to make a statement as the family reportedly have a little disagreement hence the delay to make a formal announcement.
Premier League club, Southampton on Saturday became the first team to be relegated in the 2022/23 season as Fulham ended their 11-year stay in the top flight after a home defeat.
Aleksandar Mitrovic, making his return from an eight-game ban for pushing referee Chris Kavanagh, sealed Saints’ fate with a stooping header after Carlos Vinicius’ opener.
The hosts could have few complaints about the outcome after producing a muted performance despite knowing they had to win to have any chance of pulling off an unlikely survival mission.
They did have a Carlos Alcaraz strike disallowed for a marginal offside just before Vinicius broke the deadlock but the confident Cottagers were comfortably the better side.
Willian’s first-half volley was cleared off the line by fellow Brazilian Lyanco, who had earlier been fortunate to escape a video assistant referee’s penalty check for handball.
But Vinicius tucked home after Lyanco’s clearance ricocheted to him kindly off Harrison Reed and Mitrovic nodded in his 12th league goal of the season from Harry Wilson’s cross.
Southampton, lethargic throughout, had no response after falling behind and will be playing Championship football next season for the first time since 2012.
Fire explosion on Saturday rocked the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) office in Alausa, Ikeja by ShopRite.
The fire incident, which started around 4:30am, engulfed the whole office area, forcing officers on night duty scamper for their lives.
An officer who spoke to Nigerian Anchor on condition of anonymity, said the fire broke out while they were asleep and that it must have been caused by some gallons of fuel stored at the office.
“We were on duty when the fire started so we had to wake some of our other colleagues who were asleep.
“I think the inferno started from where we store fuel because there was an explosion from that area which spread the fire to all parts of the office.
“We all first ran for our lives before we tried saving some of our personal stuff. Unfortunately, we lost everything in the fire. We thank God that no life was lost,” the officer said.
As at the time of filing this report, there has been no official statement from the NSCDC.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed an appeal filed by Adegboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress (APC) disputing the election of Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as Governor of Osun State.
In its decision, read by Justice Emmanuel Agim, the Supreme Court confirmed the Appeal Court’s decision, which upheld Adeleke’s election as state governor.
The Supreme Court ruled that the appellant failed to present sufficient evidence to establish his claim of over-voting in the July 16, 2022 governorship election.
The judgment was affirmed and adopted by the entire five members of the panel.
According to all the members of the panel, the appeal lacked merit.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Adeleke the winner of the poll, saying he scored 403,371 votes to sack Oyetola who was the then incumbent with 375,027.
However, Oyetola and his party had alleged irregularities in the polls and challenged Adeleke’s victory at the Tribunal.
Respite came for the former governor on January 27, 2023 as Justice Tertse Kume who gave the majority judgement upturned Adeleke’s victory and declared Oyetola the winner of the poll.
Justice Kume held that Oyetola scored the majority lawful votes of 314,931 against Adeleke’s 290,266.