Author: Michael Right

US actor Ryan Grantham has been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to murdering his mother, Barbara Waite, in 2020. The 24-year-old, who played Todd in fantasy drama Supernatural, was sentenced at British Columbia Supreme Court in Vancouver on Wednesday. He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, after having initially been charged with first-degree murder. Prosecutors said he had also plotted to kill Canadian PM Justin Trudeau. Grantham admitted to shooting his mother in the back of the head as she played piano in their home, north of Vancouver, the court heard. Alibaba inquires about actors’ income In a…

Labour Party South West Leader and political adviser to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Akin Osuntokun has disclosed that the former president may support the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi for the 2023 presidential election. Osuntokun made this known on Friday while appearing on Arise TV’s The Morning Show. Asked if Obasanjo was supporting Obi, he simply said, “I think so.” He likened the support base of Obi to that that ushered former United States President Barack Obama into office. On his decision to leave the Peoples Democratic Party for Labour Party, he said, “Where I am (Labour Party) is consistent with…

Tragedy has occurred again amid heavy rainfall, as three storey building on Sonuga Street, Palm Avenue, Mushin Local Government Area of Lagos State, suddenly collapsed on Friday. The incident, according to an eyewitness, happened at 12 noon amid rainstorm. It could not be ascertained as of press time if there are occupants trapped in the rubble. The Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyinyolu, confirmed the development. Lagos commissioner resigns over collapsed 7-storey building He said, “A building has collapsed in Mushin few minutes ago. The rescue operation is ongoing.” However men of the Lagos State Emergency…

The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has accused the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Iyorchia Ayu, of manipulating delegates at the party’s convention to favour Atiku Abubakar’s bid to clinch the PDP presidential ticket. The governor revealed this on Friday in an ongoing media parley in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. Wike alleged that Ayu played a vital role that was detrimental to other aspirants in the emergence of Atiku as PDP flagbearer. He said if not for the love he and others in his camp had for the main opposition party, they could have prevented the PDP convention…

The University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) and Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) both failed the integrity test that was conducted by the National Information Technology Development Agency. This was revealed by Usman Abdulahi, a director at NITDA, on Thursday at a meeting called by the House of Representatives leadership to discuss the ongoing Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike. Folashade Esan, the head of service, the federation’s comptroller general, and the director general of the National Income Salaries and Wages Commission were present at the meeting. Mr Abdulahi stated that UTAS failed three integrity tests, while IPPIS failed the…

Gunmen have kidnapped three officers attached to Ogun State police Command in broad daylight. PUNCH correspondents gathered that the police officers were abducted on Thursday at Wasinmi, in Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State. Findings showed that the kidnapped officers arrived in Ogun State from Zone 2, Onikan, Lagos State, for an investigation. They were said to have been duly booked at the police division in Wasinmi before they left for their place of primary assignment. Fresh trainings for pot-bellied Tanzanian officers A police source told correspondents that the officers, led by Inspector Oladipo Olayemi, were kidnapped on the…

The presiding cleric of the Power of the Holy Ghost Evangelical Ministry in Lagos, Prophet Cletus Ilongwo, has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment for defrauding his church member of N59.7 million. Recall that in 2018, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, arrested and arraigned Ilongwo, for defrauding a member of his church after the member had reported a case of fraud against him to the tune of N85 million. According to the church member, Ilongwo’s action cost him his job in one of the first-generation banks in the country. An Ikeja Special Offences Court in Lagos on Thursday Sept…

The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Friday, revealed that the All Progressive Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, wooed him to join the ruling party with a senatorial ticket. He said the former Lagos State governor offered him the ticket after the Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, failed to fulfil his promise to him after he emerged as the PDP’s presidential flag bearer. Wike, however, said he turned down the offer and insisted that he would remain in the main opposition party despite his grievances, adding that he never contested the primary to settle for a vice-presidential or…

Russian males are attempting to leave the country to avoid being drafted into the military for the war in Ukraine. Since President Vladimir Putin announced a partial military mobilisation on Wednesday, which could see 300,000 people called to battle, lines have built up at border crossings. Reports of males of combat age running away, according to the Kremlin, are overstated. However, miles-long lines of vehicles, including men trying to flee the fighting, have formed along the Georgian border. First shipment of Iranian military drones arrive Russia Some people travelling into the neighbouring nation have gotten around traffic jams and a…

A Closed-circuit television (CCTV) captured a physically-challenged man, simply identified as Okeoma, stealing an iPhone 12 Pro-Max valued at N670,000, belonging to an actress, Genevieve Anaele, at the Proof Hotel and Lounge, Oniru, in the Eti Osa Local Government Area of Lagos State. Anaele accompanied her friend, Sophia Brown, to attend a salsa dance class in the hotel when the incident happened on Wednesday. According to PUNCH, the actress said, “I went with a friend for a salsa dance class at the Proof Hotel and Lounge. Around 9.47pm, I was charging my phone with a power bank when I dropped…