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A Magistrate’s Court in Akure, Ondo State, has ordered the remand of a 21-year-old carpenter, Anthony Alabi, at the Olokuta Correctional Centre over the alleged k+lling of a 58-year-old woman, Veronica Olaseni.

Vi%lence erupted in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province after protests against the installation of a Nigerian traditional leader escalated into chaos. Demonstrators in East London set vehicles abl@ze and att@cked buildings believed to be linked to foreign nationals.

A U.S. grand jury has charged Nigerian-born engineer Banjo Popoola, a building inspector in St. Louis, Missouri, over an alleged $4.7 million contract fr@ud involving companies tied to his wife and sister.

Controversy over would-be governorship aspirants’ hesitation to declare deepened over the weekend in Rivers State with Boma Iyaye, NDDC Executive Director of Finance and Administration, denying any intention to succeed Siminalayi Fubara.

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has responded to the current legal conflicts involving political figures, cautioning that those who take their cases to the Supreme Court might forfeit political chances if the verdict is not in their favor.

The Tanimu Turaki-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said on Monday that the national convention of the Wike-backed faction was conducted in contempt of the Court of Appeal judgment, where parties had entered appearances and agreed with the court on how to proceed with the matter.