Two persons have died following the stampede that occurred during the show of Nigerian singer Ahmed Ololade popularly known as Asake at the Brixton O2 Academy London where he performed his debut album. The concert was however, canceled mid-way after a crowd of thousands breached the doors of the arena during the stampede. The incident left some of the concert-goers seriously injured, with at least eight of them hospitalised.
Reactions have trailed the Two Year prison sentence handed to the director-general of the Peter Obi presidential campaign council Doyin Okupe by a federal high court sitting in Abuja. On Monday social media was abuzz after the presiding judge, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu sentenced the Labour Party DG for breaching the money laundering act.
In another development, the minister of information and culture, Lai Mohammed on Monday countered a whistleblower’s claim that the Federal government did not negotiate with Twitter to lift the suspension of its operations in the country.
Finally, A video showing the newly redesigned naira notes that are already being counterfeited just about four days after they were rolled out to the public by the Central Bank of Nigeria is making the rounds on social media
