Basketball legend Michael Jordan and three-time Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin have formed a single-car Nascar Cup Series team, with Bubba Wallace as their driver. Wallace is Nascar’s sole black full-time driver while Jordan is the second black team owner…
*Alleged ‘Yahoo-boy’ wanted by FBI for $6m scam turns himself over to EFCC (Vanguard) *Lagos court jails Internet fraudster for six months (Punch)
Alleged ‘Yahoo-boy’ wanted by FBI for $6m scam turns himself over to EFCC (Vanguard) One of the suspects wanted by the American Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, Felix Osilama Okpoh, has voluntarily turned himself in to the Economic and Financial…
Bubba Wallace: Nascar president said it was right to fear hate crime
Nascar said it was right to fear a hate crime had been committed against driver Bubba Wallace, which was later dismissed after an FBI investigation. It concluded that the noose found in the team garage of Wallace last Sunday was…
Bubba Wallace: Nascar driver emotional as drivers push car to start-line
Bubba Wallace’s fellow Nascar drivers pushed his car to the start-line for the Geico 500 at Talladega, Alabama, to show their support for him a day after a noose was found in his team garage. The 26-year-old, who is the…
*EFCC arrests 16 suspected fraudsters in Lagos, Ogun (DailyTrust) *Man stabs lover to death in Lagos, commits suicide (Punch)
EFCC arrests 16 suspected fraudsters in Lagos, Ogun (DailyTrust) Lagos zonal office operatives’ of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested 16 suspects for allegedly defrauding foreign and local businessmen. The suspected internet fraudsters, otherwise known as ‘yahoo-yahoo…
NASCAR’s Bubba Wallace finds noose in team garage
Bubba Wallace and NASCAR have confirmed the noose was found in Wallace’s team garage Sunday afternoon at Talladega. Wallace — the only Black driver in NASCAR’s top series — immediately condemned the situation … but says he will continue to…
*Chief Imam’s son kills friend over phone in Lagos (Punch) *Fire razes 4 petrol tankers on Lagos-Ibadan expressway (DailyTrust)
Chief Imam’s son kills friend over phone in Lagos (Punch) Pandemonium recently broke out in the Isale Oja area of Agege, Lagos State after the son of the Chief Imam of the community, Abdulrahman Olayiwola, allegedly stabbed his friend, identified…
NASCAR’s Bubba Wallace races in Black Lives Matter car after Confederate flag ban
On the same day NASCAR banned the confederate flag, Bubba Wallace, NASCAR’s only black driver, raced his No. 43 car with a Black Lives Matter paint scheme. The hood featured a black hand and white hand gripping in solidarity with…
*Rapist get 21 years imprisonment as court sentences robbers to death (Guardian) *Lagos mechanic burnt in gas explosion, NOHIL detains corpse (Punch)
Rapist get 21 years imprisonment as court sentences robbers to death (Guardian) Lagos State High Court, Igbosere on Wednesday sentenced two men, Williams Umoh Udoh and Ubong Lazarus Isaiah, to death for armed robbery in Lagos. The court sentenced Ubong…
