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A judge has allowed late General Hospital star Johnny Wactor’s mom to gain access to his laptop and iPhone, nearly two years after his murder, Us Weekly can exclusively report. During a January 21 hearing held in Los Angeles Superior Court, Scarlett Wactor’s petition was granted after the court instructed Apple to provide Scarlett with Johnny’s log-in information for his devices. Apple was also ordered to assist Scarlett in obtaining Johnny’s personal data. As Us first reported, Scarlett had been struggling to get a judge to sign off on the request for several months. In June 2025, Scarlett filed court…
The Abia State Police Command has maintained its earlier position that no bomb or other explosive was found in United Evangelical Church, Ehere/Umuola , Ogbo Hill Aba. The Abia State Police Command stated this on Wednesday in a reaction to the claims by Associate Pastor Eleazer Onyenweaku where the cleric accused the Police of making false statement about the incident. A statement by the Police Public Relations Officer of Abia Command, DSP Maureen Chinaka said that Associate Pastor Onyenweaku is not a trained specialist in bomb detection and can not educate the public about explosive devices. The statement read in…
The Organising Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Gombe State, Ibrahim Musa Fakas, has openly criticised former Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Pantami, accusing him of neglecting the party and its members while in office. Fakas made the remarks on Tuesday at the APC state secretariat in Gombe when Pantami visited the party office for the ongoing electronic registration and revalidation exercise. Addressing party stakeholders in Pantami’s presence, the APC chieftain said resentment against the former minister was widespread among party executives and supporters in the state. “Every APC executive here feels hurt by…
Suspected bandits have attacked Maraban Rido community in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State and abducted two daughters of a widow. The two girls abducted are identified as Deborah Edward, a corps member who completed her National Youth Service Corps programme in December 2025, and her younger sister, Rachael Edward. The bandits stormed the residence late Monday night and forcefully took the two sisters away. This is coming barely two weeks afterthe mass abduction of worshippers in Kurmin Wali community from ECWA and Cherubim and Seraphim churches. The distraught mother of the victims, Mrs. Alice Edward, while speaking to…
Super Eagles player Alex Iwobi has said that Manchester United’s Kobbie Mainoo caused him an injury during Fulham’s 3-2 loss at Old Trafford last weekend. Iwobi, a crucial player for Marco Silva’s team this season, played the entire 90 minutes as Fulham made a late comeback, but they were defeated by a last-minute goal from Benjamin Sesko. On his Alexander Yaa Digg podcast, Iwobi showed his injured finger and mentioned Mainoo’s strength, jokingly linking it to the midfielder’s Ghanaian background. “Shout-out to Kobbie Mainoo,” he said. “But Kobbie, you finished my hand. Kobbie, you absolutely finished my hand. This guy…
The detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has filed a notice of appeal challenging his conviction and multiple sentences imposed by the Federal High Court in Abuja, insisting that the trial was riddled with fundamental legal errors and amounted to a miscarriage of justice. In the notice of appeal dated February 4, 2026, Kanu said he was appealing against his conviction and sentences on seven counts, including terrorism-related offences, for which he received five life sentences and additional prison terms, after being found guilty on November 20, 2025 . “I, Nnamdi Kanu, the appellant, having been…
Operatives of the Edo State Police Command have arrested two suspected kidnappers during a routine patrol along the Auchi–Igarra Highway in Edo North, as part of ongoing efforts to curb kidnapping and other violent crimes in the area. The suspects, identified as Muhammed Muamadu Haru, 35, and Abubakar Muhammed Haruna, 25, were apprehended by operatives of the Igarra Area Command on January 28 at about 1:30 p.m. The command’s spokesperson, Eno Ikoedem, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, noting that the suspects were identified by a vigilante member as members of a kidnapping syndicate previously sighted during a joint…
The Managing Director of the Dangote Petroleum Refinery, David Bird, has said that the $20bn facility is not importing finished petroleum products, explaining that the refinery operates a merchant refining model that does not rely solely on crude oil. According to Bird, what some individuals called fuel was intermediate feedstock. Bird made the clarification while addressing newsmen at the refinery in Lekki, Lagos, on Wednesday. During a technical presentation on the refinery’s operations, he stressed that the Dangote refinery was deliberately designed to operate differently from conventional refineries in crude-producing countries. According to him, unlike refineries in countries such as…
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has been criticised by Jewish community leaders for repeatedly commenting on international affairs, with the group saying the club is being “let down” by his public remarks. The Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester & Region said it had “implored” Guardiola to be “more careful with his language” at a time when anti-Semitism is rising globally. As reported by BBC Sport on Wednesday, the organisation issued a statement after Guardiola said he wanted to use his platform to “speak up” about global conflicts and expressed the “hurt” he feels for victims of violence around the…
Beneath the outward calm of the All Progressives Congress in Kwara State, a complex struggle over who succeeds Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq in 2027 is gathering momentum, as zoning arguments collide with emerging ambitions from Kwara North and a resurgent Kwara South, writes DARE AKOGUN As the build up to the 2027 general elections, gains momentum in alignments are forming, loyalties are shifting, and ambitions are quietly being declared by bigwigs of the ruling All Progressive Congress. What appears on the surface as calm within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is, in reality, a delicate balancing act among competing interests…
