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A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Tuesday convicted and sentenced a 35-year-old man, Deji Adesanya, to six months’ imprisonment for unlawful dealing in cannabis sativa, popularly known as marijuana. Justice Akintayo Aluko handed down the sentence after Adesanya pleaded guilty to a one-count charge filed against him by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. At the arraignment, the NDLEA prosecution counsel, Peter Ekuri, told the court that Adesanya was arrested on November 22, 2025, at Safecourt Apartment, Ikate–Elegushi, Lagos State, with five kilograms of cannabis sativa, a prohibited substance. The prosecutor said the convict dealt in the drug…
The Nigeria Customs Service, Port Harcourt II Command, said it collected N731bn as revenue and intercepted 75 containers in 2025. In a statement on Tuesday, the Command’s Public Relations Officer, Theophilus Duniya, a Chief Superintendent of Customs, described the feat as a remarkable milestone in the command’s revenue collection. Duniya explained that in 2025, a target of N700.01bn was set based on commendable performance, “but a total of N731.2bn was collected, exceeding its 2025 revenue target by 4.46 per cent.” He added that the outstanding performance is attributed to the leadership and commitment of Comptroller Aliyu Alkali, who effectively implemented…
Stanley Nwabali has credited growing experience at the Africa cup of nations for Nigeria’s improved defensive solidity after the Super Eagles recorded their first clean sheet of the tournament in a 4-0 victory over Mozambique, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. Nigeria had conceded in their previous five AFCON matches, with their last shutout coming in a 1-0 quarterfinal win against Angola in 2023, after which a run of defensive lapses followed despite having earlier kept four consecutive clean sheets in the competition. Monday’s dominant round of 16 win over Mozambique ended that sequence and marked a turning point in the ongoing…
If you prefer to have your notifications on silent but don’t want to miss anything, Lenovo’s new All-in-One (AIO) PC might have a solution. The Yoga AIO i Aura Edition unveiled today at CES features a major design overhaul with a transparent light bar at the bottom of the display. The customizable ambient lighting can sync to video content on the display and change when you get notifications.It also boasts a 32-inch 4K OLED display with a 165Hz refresh rate. The Yoga AIO i Aura Edition can be configured with up to an Intel Core Ultra X7 Series 3 processor.…
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the worldHedge funds are seeking out billions of dollars’ worth of financial claims tied to Venezuela, as investors bet that Donald Trump’s bid to reshape the country could prompt it to repay old debts. Investors seeking exposure to a potential turnaround in the embattled nation have this week begun hunting for instruments that would profit if Venezuela and its state oil company make good on years of unpaid bills. The clamour for these claims has come amid a rally in the…
Ethereum scalability was boosted on Wednesday with the second Blob Parameter-Only hard fork, raising the blob limit from 15 to 21, the first of many improvements aimed at scaling the Ethereum ecosystem in 2026.The second BPO hard fork, which took effect on Wednesday at 1:01:11 UTC, further increases Ethereum’s data throughput by allowing more transactions to be batched via rollups.The BPO hard fork also raised the blob target from 10 to 14, which is widely seen as the more important metric to watch, as consistently approaching the 21-blob limit could overload node bandwidth and storage.One blob unit fits 128 kilobytes of…
Ben Affleck opened up about his son Samuel’s interest in sports betting and how the activity runs in the family’s DNA. “My son asked me like a month ago, [he] was like, ‘Hey, um, can I get like 100 bucks to bet on sports?’” Affleck shared during a Monday, January 5, appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! “It’s like, what? [He’s like,] ‘My friends get $100, but if they lose it, then that’s it.’ I’m like, ‘Oh, that’s a real standard, what discipline! Like, so that you don’t come twitching back going, ‘I know that Green Bay is going to cover…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has challenged the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court in Abuja to hear a suit filed by Aso Savings and Loans Plc and Union Homes Savings and Loans Plc over the revocation of their operating licences. CBN’s lawyer, Onyeka Ezeah, and NDIC’s lawyer, Abubakar Shehu, raised an objection before Judge Emeka Nwite, during Monday’s hearing. Aso Savings and Loans Plc and Union Homes Savings and Loans Plc are both Nigerian primary mortgage institutions licensed to provide mortgage financing and related banking services. The filed the suit along…
The leadership of De Norsemen Kclub International (DNKI) has broken its silence over a viral video allegedly showing ritualistic practices involving blood, firmly dismissing the claims as false, misleading and alien to the organization’s values. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the International President and Skull Executioner of DNKI, Alban Aniekanabasi Paulinus, said the brotherhood does not drink blood, suck blood or engage in any form of cult-related or barbaric practices. “My attention has been drawn to a video currently circulating on various media platforms where the immediate past Skull Executioner, Chief Chidi Anokwu, was seen handing over a skull-like…
A 20-year-old Nigerian has been arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, over alleged involvement in large-scale fraud targeting victims in the United States, with losses estimated at over one billion naira. The suspect was apprehended by operatives of the Anti-Fraud Unit of the Airport Police Command while attempting to travel out of Lagos. The arrest was confirmed in a statement issued on Tuesday by the command’s spokesperson, ASP Mohammed Adeola. Adeola said the arrest followed months of intelligence-led surveillance based on credible information linking the suspect to several transnational fraud operations. According to the police, the suspect, who…
