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A Magistrates’ Family Court sitting in Akure, Ondo State has remanded one Adetunji Obatayo, 55, in the correctional centre, for allegedly d£filing a 14-year-old student and procuring ab%rtion for her.

The defendant, who’s a pastor of Deeper Life Bible Church and the principal of a school in Oka Akoko, was charged with three counts charge of defil£ment, unlawfully prescribing dr¥gs to procure ab%rtion and k+lling an unborn child of the victim in his custody.

He was said to have committed the offence sometime in February 2020 at Epinmi-Akoko, Akoko South-East local government area.

Police prosecutor, Folashade Adesuyi, informed the court that the defendant forcefully had carnal knowledge of the victim. The offences, according to the charge, contravened Sections 218, 230 and 328 of the Criminal Laws of Ondo State, 2006.

Adesuyi said that the victim’s confession led to the arrest of the defendant.

The victim, in her narration before the court, said she was placed under the guardian of Pastor Obatala by her parents when she was 10 years.

According to her, “Four years ago, my parents released me to live with a pastor due to his desire to train me. On my first day in his house, he forcefully had s+xual intercourse with me and told me not to tell anyone about it.

He had impregnated me thrice and he gave me N5,000 to buy some contraceptive dr¥gs to ab%rt the pregnancy after many preventive dr¥gs.

But during the third pregnancy, he refused to give me money for the dr¥g, and I st%le his money to buy the pills. Pastor later accused me of stealing his money for my boyfriend which led to the arrest of a boy in our school and I informed my parents about his ordeal.”

Presiding Magistrate, B.A. Alphonso, ordered the defendant remanded to the Olokuta Correctional Centre and directed the case file sent to the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for advice.

The victim was ordered to be taken in for rehabilitation till further notice and the case was adjourned to August 29, this year, for mentioning.

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Ohio senator J.D. Vance is running for vice president in the 2024 election.

Former President Donald Trump announced Vance as his running mate on July 15 at the Republican National Convention in Wisconsin. Vance is a Republican senator from Ohio, who was elected in 2022 and sworn into office in January 2023.

Born and raised in Middletown, Ohio, Vance joined the Marine Corps and served in the Iraq War before graduating from Ohio State University and Yale Law School. He is married to lawyer Usha Vance—the couple met in law school and have three children together.

Vance is an author, venture capitalist, and investor, with an estimated net worth of $10 million according to Here is how Vance made his millions.

Before he entered politics, Vance was known for his best-selling memoir, "Hillbilly Elegy" about his upbringing in a small town in Ohio.

The book became a Bestseller, hitting number one on the list a few months after its release in 2016. It has sold 1.6 million copies total as of early July, according to Following the announcement of Vance as Trump's VP pick, his memoir climbed to the top of Amazon's Best Sellers chart. Vance netted more than 121,000 in royalties in 2022, according to his most recent financial disclosure.

The book was also turned into a Netflix film in 2020, starring Glenn Close and Amy Adams. The film was on Netflix's list of top 10 movies in the U.S. for the week of July 15, according to

Vance's investments include cryptocurrency, stocks, and real estate.

Vance held Bitcoin worth between $100,001 and $250,000, according to his latest financial disclosure report which covers the 2022 calendar year.

Vance also has his own venture capital firm, Narya Capital Management, and another business, JD Vance Enterprises, which holds investments and promotes his speaking and writing engagements and media appearances.

Vance's investments include Walmart stock worth between $50,001 to $100,000, shares in Invesco QQQ ETF worth $500,001 to $1 million, and shares in video platform Rumble Inc., worth $100,001 to $250,000. Rumble Inc. is partnered with Trump's Truth Social Platform, according to

Vance also owns three homes—in D.C., Ohio, and Virginia—worth $4 million in total, according to

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A wanted 57-year-old dr¥g kingpin, Alhaji Sulaiman Jimoh (alias Olowoidiogede, populary known as Temo), has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Lagos State.

The suspect was arrested at his enclave after an initial resistance from him and his horde of hoodlums, NDLEA said in a statement on Wednesday, July 24.

According to the statement, “In the last two years, the NDLEA had intercepted large consignments of illicit drugs worth billions of naira owned by Temo but he has remained largely evasive while a few encounters with him and his armed gangs in his Mushin enclave had resulted in g¥nfight.

Some of the recent seizures of his shipments include: a 14, 524.8 kilograms of Ghana Loud, a strong strain of cannabis sativa, smuggled into Lagos from Ghana in two trucks and a J5 bus intercepted at Ojuelegba area of Lagos in the early hours of Sunday 28th January 2024; two truck-loads of the same substance weighing 8,852kg intercepted at Eleko beach, Lekki Lagos on 4th May 2023 and 252kg of Loud seized from his enclave in Mushin on Wednesday 26th July 2023.

The drug kingpin was very notorious for always being on the move to evade arrest but with persistence and determination of the Agency aided by modern tools and intelligence, the concerted effort to get him paid off at 10am on Monday 22nd July 2024 when NDLEA’s surveillance teams on his trail tracked and pinned him down at Igbarere street, Mushin.

A reinforcement of about 50 operatives was immediately mobilized to the area while he was attempting to escape in a Mercedes Benz SUV GLE 350 marked 01G-300G.

His attempt to escape by mobilizing hoodlums to engage and distract the operatives however failed after which he was overpowered and whisked away from the chaotic scene while his men surrendered to the superior firepower of the anti-narcotic agents who also succeeded in recovering the Mercedes Benz SUV the suspect was found in.“

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The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), George Akume, on Wednesday, July 23, met with ministers on the proposed nationwide protest against economic hardship by Nigerian youths.

The meeting was convened behind closed doors and has all the over 40 ministers in the President’s cabinet in attendance, according to Channel Television.

Some of the Minister spotted are Nyesom Wike (FCT), Yusuf Tuggar (Foreign Affairs), Zephaniah Jisalo (Special Duties), Tahir Mamman (Education), and Abubakar Bagudu (Budget and Planning).

Others are Wale Edun (Finance), Mohammed Idris (Information), Bello Matawalle (Defence), David Umahi (Works), and the National Security Adviser (NSA) Nuhu Ribadu, amongst others.

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With the days of Bidenomics now numbered, voters are waiting to see what exactly the president’s preferred replacement would do for their finances. 

President Joe Biden announced Sunday he is dropping out of the presidential race, putting the spotlight on the candidate he endorsed to take his place, Vice President Kamala Harris.

“It seems likely that a Harris administration, should it come to pass, would support many of the economic policies pursued by the Biden administration,”  Michael Pugliese and Aubrey George, economists at Wells Fargo Securities, wrote in a commentary Monday. “Should Vice President Harris win the nomination, we will be watching closely to see what economic policy breaks she has with the current president, if any.”

With the tax code, national debt, and numerous other financial matters at stake in the election, there are many unanswered questions about what, if anything, Harris would do differently than her predecessor. However, her record may hold clues.

Harris did propose several major tax and economic policies during her time as a senator from California and when she ran for president in 2020.For example, in 2018, Harris introduced a bill that would establish a tax credit of $3,000 a year for individuals and $6,000 for married couples, a move that would tilt the tax code more in favor of lower income earners. Biden’s temporary expansion of the Child Tax Credit in 2021, which he sought to make permanent, similarly boosted the incomes of working and middle-class households, but only for people with children.Notably, in 2019, Harris said if she were elected president she would repeal the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, the series of tax cuts passed by former president Donald Trump. Whoever wins the presidential election will have to deal with the TCJA one way or another since many of its provisions expire in 2025.The act cut taxes for corporations and high income earners, drawing criticism from Democrats, but also simplified the tax code and expanded the child tax credit. Biden, rather than calling to fully repeal the law, said he would not raise taxes for anyone making over $400,000, suggesting that the TCJA provisions benefitting lower and middle-income earners would stay in place.

Biden also proposed raising the corporate tax rate to 28% from its current level of 21%, whereas the full repeal that Harris proposed would make it revert to its pre-TCJA level of 35%.

For his part, Trump has said he would extend the entire TCJA. 

In 2019, Harris proposed a major healthcare reform, joining Bernie Sanders and other progressives in calling for medicare coverage to be extended to everyone regardless of age. Harris’s Medicare For All plan would have been paid for partly by a new tax on financial transactions, including 0.2% from every stock trade.

Whatever specific policies Harris favors, the broad outlines of the choice facing voters are unlikely to change, some analysts noted.

The Democratic side favors more social programs, tax breaks for low and middle-earners and higher taxes for the wealthy, while Republicans have argued for broader tax cuts, including for businesses and the wealthy. The two sides also differ on trade, with Trump having proposed across-the-board tariffs on imports, in contrast with Biden’s policy of narrow tariffs on certain products like Chinese electric cars. 

“We would not expect the Democrats’ fiscal and trade policy agenda to shift meaningfully in the event that Harris is the nominee,” Jan Hatzius, chief economist at Goldman Sachs wrote in a research note.

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