Day: May 22, 2025

‘Female Activist Hamdiyya Shariff Missing Amid Legal Battle With Sokoto Govt’

ADEOLA YUSUF

“She left home to buy foodstuffs and has not been seen since Tuesday,” Lawyer gives details, Police react + Backgrounds on Sokoto government’s legal battle with 18 year-old activist for ‘criticising Governor over insecurity’   Hamdiyya Shariff, a human rights activist in a legal tussle with the Sokoto State Government, has been reported missing. Platforms Africa reports that Shariff’s lawyer, Abba Hikima, declared this in a Facebook post. Hikima said Ms Shariff went missing around 10 a.m. on Tuesday, 20 May. An outspoken critic of the Sokoto State Government’s handling of…

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Music Teacher Bags Life Imprisonment For Defiling 9-Year-Old Pupil

Abibat Babalola

An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court sentenced a 35-year-old music teacher and counselor, Anthony Okeh, to life imprisonment for defiling a nine-year-old, JSS 1 pupil (name withheld) on Wednesday, May 21. The State Counsel, Miss Abimbola Abolade presented two witnesses; the survivor and an investigative police officer while the defence called four witnesses. Abolade told the court that the convict committed the offence on Sept. 6, 2022 at Lachez O International School, Agege, Lagos. Justice Abiola Soladoye in her judgment held that the prosecution had successfully discharged the…

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Tanzania Shuts Down X Over Falsely Announcement Of President’s Death By Hackers

Abibat Babalola

Tanzanians were blocked from social media platform X on Wednesday after a police account was hacked and used to falsely announce the president’s death, internet watchdog NetBlocks said. The social media shutdown comes amid the disappearance of activists Boniface Mwangi of Kenya and Agather Atuhaire of Uganda following their arrest by Tanzanian police earlier this week. They were in the country to attend the trial of opposition leader Tundu Lissu who is accused of treason ahead of elections in October. READ ALSO: Trump Plays Up ‘Genocide’ Accusation In Meeting With…

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Trump Plays Up ‘Genocide’ Accusation In Meeting With South Africa President

Abibat Babalola

President Donald Trump ambushed South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday by playing him a video that he claimed proved genocide is being committed against white people, driving farmers to flee to the United States. The unexpected stunt turned the usually staid diplomatic setting of the Oval Office into a stage for Trump’s contention that white South Africans are being persecuted. With the media standing by and Ramaphosa at times unable to get a word in, Trump had staff put the video on a large screen, saying it showed black…

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My First Ever Betrayal Came From My Mother – Bimbo Ademoye

ADEOLA YUSUF

Maybe, just maybe, someone out there needed to hear my truth today.” Nollywood star shares heart rending, pity evoking tale of childhood trauma   I don’t usually share things like this, but today my heart feels heavy… In an interview, I opened up about something very personal: My first ever betrayal came from my mother. She left me when I was just 2 years old. I was too young to understand what was happening, but the emptiness she left behind has followed me all my life. Watching other children grow…

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Platforms Africa Is NCDMB Media Organisation of The Year Nominee As Jonathan Wins Icon Award

ADEOLA YUSUF

    . ‘NLNG, Renaissance, BOI, Dangote, Others,’ Full list of who won what at the Champions of Nigerian Content Awards . ‘We didn’t see this honour coming,’ what Adeola Yusuf said on feat as he dedicated recognition to readers, team members   The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) on Wednesday presented Platforms Africa to the world as a nominee for the Nigerian Content Media Organisation of The Year Award. The Executive Secretary of the board, Engineer Felix Omatsola Ogbe, who led the presentation at the Champions of…

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