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By SCM Foreign Desk A HORRIFIC Ukrainian bombing raid has wiped out a student dormitory in Russian-controlled Lugansk, leaving 21 dead and 42 wounded in a night of absolute carnage. Grim footage from the scene shows total destruction after the blitz smashed the five-story vocational school hostel to pieces, burying sleeping teenagers under tons of twisted metal and concrete. Russia’s emergency ministry, EMERCOM, confirmed today that grueling search and rescue operations are now complete. Brave dig teams spent hours pulling bodies from the smoking ruins after the death toll tragically jumped to 21. Most of the victims are feared…
By SCM STAFF WRITER WASHINGTON — The United States and Iran have in Islamabad largely negotiated the framework of a sweeping bilateral accord that would formally end the military conflict that has convulsed West Asia since February, according to senior diplomatic sources and an announcement by President Donald Trump. The breakthrough, brokered following weeks of high-stakes mediation by Pakistan, Qatar, and other regional allies, establishes an immediate pathway to defuse a global energy crisis and avert a secondary, more devastating round of American airstrikes. According to details first obtained by Al Jazeera and confirmed by officials familiar with…
By Ben Omoike I Saturday, May 23.26 LAGOS, Nigeria – President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Saturday won the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Primary in his Ward L2 in Eti-Osa Local Government Area of Lagos State, polling a total of 4,996 votes. President Tinubu and the First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, arrived at the polling centre at Ward E, Ikoyi, Lagos, on Saturday morning, to participate in the exercise amid tight security. Similarly, at Ward D3 on Lagos Island where Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu casted his vote, Tinubu polled 1,887 votes to emerge winner of the primary election. Sanwo-Olu, accompanied by…
A TERRACED highway ambush that saw a woman shot and thirteen passengers taken hostage in Edo State by a ruthless gang of jungle bandits has ended in a high-tech rescue mission. Armed hoodlums opened fire on a “Young Shall Grow” commercial bus travelling from Akwa Ibom State to Lagos, Nigeria. The vehicle was forced to a halt in the remote Ogua Community along the notorious Benin–Lagos expressway. A female passenger was shot during the chaotic ambush before the gunmen dragged thirteen terrified passengers—including young children—into the dense undergrowth. But the kidnappers were tracked down after police deployed high-tech aerial…
By SCM Foreign Desk THAILAND – Armed police have smashed a high-tech “heartbreak hotel” inside a luxury riverside condo where a gang, comprising Nigerians used advanced AI deepfakes to fleece lonely women. Six Nigerian men were dragged away in handcuffs after terrified residents watched cops force entry into three premium apartments in Nonthaburi, Thailand. The operation, dramatically codenamed “Dark Room Crackdown,” targeted a highly sophisticated cyber-crime ring operating right under the noses of holidaymakers. When Thai elite police knocked on the doors of the plush Bang Kraso complex, the gang, among them six Nigerians panicked. One desperate…
Admin I Saturday, May 23.26 ABIDJAN – Nigeria’s U17 girls, the Flamingos, put up a commanding performance with a resounding 5-0 victory over Guinea in the first leg of their 2026 FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup second round, first leg qualifier in Abidjan on Saturday. The encounter, played at the Stade Félix Houphouët-Boigny in the Ivorian capital, Abidjan, saw the Nigerian side assert dominance from the very first whistle, with captain Harmony Chidi leading by example in a remarkable individual display. Chidi opened the scoring in spectacular fashion, finding the net with the very first kick of the game…
By Emmanuel Ukudolo I Saturday 23.26 IKEJA, Lagos – Justice Mojisola Dada of the Lagos State Special Offences Court, sitting in Ikeja, has dismissed the preliminary objections and bail application filed by Ufoma Joseph Immanuel, the Managing Director of Intermediate Investment Holdings Limited, over his alleged involvement in a $1.5 million fraud. Immanuel and his company were arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on March 11, 2026, on a two-count charge bordering on obtaining money under false pretence and forgery. The defendants pleaded not guilty to both counts. According to the prosecution, the offences violate…
Titus Eleweke I Saturday, May 23. 2026 AWKA, Anambra – A popular newspaper vendor at Aroma Junction Awka in Anambra State, Mrs. Nancy Onyebuchi Okafor, has thanked God for sparing her life after she narrowly escaped electrocution at her business premises. Mrs. Okafor, while narrating her ordeal, said the incident occurred when an electricity facility belonging to First Power Distribution Company sparked violently, leaving her with burns on parts of her body. According to her, the experience was horrifying and nearly claimed her life. “Honestly, I was electrocuted. I thank God that I survived the fire spark. The spark…
By Emmanuel Thomas LAGOS – In the glitz and glamour of Nollywood, Jim Iyke has long been the ultimate alpha male archetype. For decades, he ruled our screens as the quintessential “bad boy”—confident, untouchable, and always in control. But in a stunningly candid new interview, the veteran actor stripped away the movie-star persona to reveal a deeply vulnerable, painfully human side that fans rarely get to see. Opening up about the collapse of his marriage, Iyke offered a raw, cautionary tale about grief, fatherhood, and the delicate balancing act of relationship survival. Every marriage has its breaking points, but…
By SCM Correspondent A COCKY hate monster who vowed to “blow up” Jewish schools just 73 minutes after being released by police has been jailed for five years. Vile Tavius Jean-Charles, 36, subjected six terrified victims to a relentless campaign of antisemitic abuse near London synagogues over a six-month period. The thug’s reign of terror came to a violent head in March when he targeted a driver in Stamford Hill, North London. Jean-Charles screamed “I will kill you Jews” before smashing the passenger window of the victim’s car as it drove down the street. Cops nabbed the brute on…