Author: Damilare Okunola
Damilare Okunola
Damilare is a renowned content creator, having worked with some of Nigeria's biggest news organizations like PM News/The NEWS, Legit.ng, among others. He has a huge flair for writing and is also very inquisitive. He is more popular for his videos which are an internet sensation.
LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The Benin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission , EFCC, has secured the conviction and sentencing of three internet fraudsters. The convicts: Osama Abraham Obasohan, Okunnuwa Moses and Osalenlen Celestine, were jailed by Justice M. Itsueli of the Edo State High Court, Benin City, on Monday, August 29, 2022 after pleading guilty to one-count separate charge bordering on possession of documents containing false pretence and retention of illegal proceeds of crime. The charge against Osama Abraham Obasohan reads: “That you Osama Abraham Obasohan sometime between 29 June, 2022 in Edo State within…
ABUJA, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – Management of Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc has resolved to significantly reduce the importation of sugar into the country by 40 percent, thus paving the way for the employment of over 30,000 youths. President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote explained recently in a chat with newsmen that it was embarking on Phase II of its Sugar project, which will then cover over 100,000ha to make the sugar plant the largest in Africa. Dangote said that the integrated sugar complex to be located in Tunga, Awe Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, comprises 60,000ha sugar plantation…
LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – Scott Parker has just been sacked as the Manager of Bournemouth Football Club, voiceofnaija.ng can authoritatively report. This was confirmed by popular football journalist, Fabrizio Romano, via a tweet on Tuesday morning, where he shared the news about the English man’s sack. In the opening four matches of the new season, Parker had lost to Manchester City and Arsenal but the 0-9 whitewash against Liverpool may have convinced the club’s hierarchy to wield the big stick against the former Tottenham Hotspurs player. Here’s the tweet by Romano on Tuesday morning: Thus, Scott Parker became…
Washington, DC (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -The United States Mint (Mint) is pleased to announce the designs for the second year of the American Women Quarters Program. Authorized by Public Law 116-330, this four-year program features coins with reverse (tails) designs emblematic of the accomplishments and contributions of trailblazing American women. Beginning in 2022 and continuing through 2025, the Mint is issuing five quarters in each of these years. The ethnically, racially, and geographically diverse group of individuals honored through this program reflects a wide range of accomplishments and fields, including suffrage, civil rights, abolition, government, humanities, science, space, and the arts. The 2023 coins recognize…
LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Three persons died while four others sustained varying degrees of injuries when a Toyota Matrix rammed into a truck on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The incident reportedly occurred at 5:50 pm around Oniworo area of the highway on Sunday. It was further gathered that the Toyota Matrix marked WWD621AE had suffered a tyre burst and rammed into the Howo Sino truck. The Spokesman for the Federal Road Safety Corps in Ogun State, Florence Okpe, confirmed the incident to journalists in Abeokuta. Okpe said, “Nine persons were involved in the crash, three died while four others sustained injuries.…
LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – Nigeria’s former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has reportedly met with Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of Labour Party and Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State in London. Pictures seen on the social media suggest the parties were all excited about the meeting, even though the details of the meeting could not be ascertained as at press time. Feelers have it that the meeting may have been part of negotiations by all parties ahead of the 2023 presidential elections. Governors Samuel Ortom, Seyi Makinde, Okezie Ikpeazu of Benue, Oyo and Abia States respectively and Donald…
By Bayo Onanuga If someone had landed in Nigeria from Mars on Monday and read treads on Twitter Nigeria, he would have thought Senator Kashim Shettima was one tasteless, uneducated Nigerian. But the man so derisively targeted by a section of Twittersphere was nothing of such. He was a victim of the Twitter herd, people who behave like the herdsman’s cows, without any reflection and tweet what others in their group are tweeting, tweets dripping with hate and insults, that ought not to be on the social media platform were the Twitter police alive to their responsibility. Shettima, two term…
LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – Bandits who kidnapped Reverend Peter Toro, a Minister with the Evangelical Church Winning (ECWA) in Kaduna State, have demanded N20m ransom. The Senior Pastor who was abducted on the night of Sunday, 21 August, 2022, is one of the Pastors of ECWA Kaduna Central District Church Council KDCC. While giving an account of the incident, Reverend Emmanuel Jonathan, the KDCC Secretary informed voiceofnaija.ng that the bandits apparently planned to take the entire family, but others ran away in the heat of the incident. He explained that the bandits reached out after the abduction and…
LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – Former World Heavyweight Champion, Anthony Joshua, has revealed the real reasons he lost his rematch against Oleksandr Usyk last weekend. The British-Nigerian had lost his first fight against the Ukrainian in September, 2021 inside the Tottenham Hotspurs Stadium in London, a situation which led to the rematch which was staged in Saudi Arabia. And, like the first fight, the Olympic gold medalist lost to the fiery former undisputed cruiserweight champion, in his third loss as aa professional boxer. The disappointed Watford born pugilist has since been emotional about the loss and was visibly shaken…
LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Followings the intervention of the Nigerian chapter of the International Press Institute, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has suspended the revocation of the operating licenses of 53 broadcast stations owing various sums in licensing fees. The NBC has now given the affected stations up to 6PM on Tuesday, August 23, to pay up their debts. In revoking the licenses on Friday, the commission had ordered the stations off air beginning this Saturday, citing Section 10(a) of the 3rd Schedule of the National Broadcasting Commission Act CAP N11, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004. The…