Steven Blesi Anne Gieske Kennesaw State University confirmed in a statement Sunday night that Steven Blesi, an international business major at the university, was killed in the stampede in downtown Seoul on Saturday. “On behalf of the entire Kennesaw State community, our thoughts and prayers go out to Steven’s family and friends as they mourn this incomprehensible loss,” Kennesaw State University President Kathy Schwaig said. “We have been in contact with Steven’s family and have offered all available resources of the University to them. Also, Gieske, a 20-year-old University of Kentucky nursing student was killed. She was studying abroad, along with two other students and a faculty member. They were said to be safe, according to a statement by the university president, Eli Capilouto. “The University of Kentucky community is grieving the tragic loss of one of our students, Anne Gieske, who was studying abroad in Seoul, South K...

  The IGP has affirmed the police commitment to collaborate with other security agencies across the country to ensure the safety of citizens.   This was disclosed in a statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi.   The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, psc(+), NPM, fdc, CFR, has reiterated the commitment of the Nigeria Police Force, in concert with other security agencies, to ensure the safety of all residents within the country. The IGP emphasized this while charging all Strategic Police Managers in charge of Commands and tactical formations within the country to beef up security in their respective jurisdictions, especially in the FCT. The IGP similarly directed that all emergency numbers across the country should be activated to full capacity for a 24/7 prompt response with combatant officers and men on standby to respond in case of emergency situations and distress calls. Residents within the FCT are urged to remain vi...

  Senior pastor and general overseer of Omega Fire Ministries International, Apostle Johnson Suleman has spoken after he was attacked by unknown gunmen in Auchi area of Edo state.  He described the attack as an ‘assassination attempt’  on his life and urged those wishing to take his life to have a rethink. The Apostle said , although he escaped with his wife and children, seven people who were in the convoy lost their lives. ”I just escaped an assassination attempt, where seven people were killed,” he said in a video he shared online few hours after the attack. What he has to say in the video:  ”People who did this are expecting me to come out and mention their names so that they will come out and deny. I won’t do that. But the truth of the matter is this: You can’t kill me. My life is in the hand of God; I’m a man of God. And those who are among those attacking me, you are building on what you don’t understand. You may have joined into the fora because you want to c...

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has  expressed in own words the reason why the Northerners need to support and vote for him in the 2023 Elections. The former Vice President said Northerners need to vote for him rather than a Yoruba or Igbo candidate because he’s a Pan-Nigerian with a northern extraction that has built bridges across the country. Atiku made the remarks while responding to a question posed to him by the spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, during an Interactive Session With Arewa Joint Committee held on Saturday in Kaduna State.The event was transmitted live on Arise TV. When Baba-Ahmed asked Atiku why Northerners should vote for him, the PDP presidential candidate replied, “What the average Northerner needs somebody who’s from the north and also understands that part of the country and has been able to build bridges across the country.  This is what the Northerner needs, it doesn’...

  The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, says the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has only been discharged and not acquitted by the Court of Appeal. The Appeal Court sitting in Abuja on Thursday discharged and freed Nnamdi Kanu. A three-member panel of the Appeal Court led by Justice Oludotun Adebola discredited the terrorism charges brought against Kanu. Reacting to the court ruling, Malami in a statement signed by his spokesperson, Dr. Umar Jibril Gwandu, said the appeal court only discharged Kanu and did not acquit him. The statement reads “The Office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice has received the news of the decision of the Court of Appeal concerning the trial of Nnamdi Kanu,” the statement said. “For the avoidance of doubt and by the verdict of the Court, Kanu was only discharged and not acquitted. Consequently, the appropriate legal options before the authorities ...

  Former contestant Willie Spence, who was the runner-up on season 19 of the competition series in 2021, died on Oct. 11.  His death was reported by the local news outlet DouglasNow.com  Details on the accident were not immediately available, but according to TMZ, Spence was driving from Tennessee to his home in Atlanta when he collided with a parked truck. Singer Katharine McPhee, who performed a duet with Spence of the song “The Prayer,” written by McPhee’s husband David Foster during a Season 19 appearance, tweeted her condolences, noting “Sweet @williespenceofficial passed away in a car accident. Only 23 years old. Life is so unfair and nothing is ever promised.”

  The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) put a stop to attempts by suspected members of a drug cartel to smuggle over 2.4 million tramadol tablets into Nigeria. This is contained in a statement signed by the Director, Media & Advocacy NDLEA Femi Babafemi. The seizure of the drug, came barely a week after about 13.5million pills of the same opioid worth over N8.8billion were recovered by NDLEA operatives from one of the mansions of a billionaire drug baron in the highbrow residential estate, Victoria Garden City, VGC, Lekki Lagos. "Following credible intelligence, the Agency had shown interest in the consignment of 52 cartons that came into Nigeria from Karachi, Pakistan with six different airway bills via Ethiopian Airline flight, comprising seven cartons of 250mg of a brand called tamral and 45 cartons of 225mg, branded as tramaking. Soon after its arrival at the Lagos airport, the NDLEA called for a joint examination of the consignment with other stakeholders and ...