The Nigeria Police Force says there is no going back on its decision to withdraw MOPOL operatives from VIPs. This is coming a week after the Force denied withdrawing Mobile Police Force operatives from top personalities in the country after a leaked memo stated so. In the aftermath of the …
Read More »Police go after journalist’s kidnappers in Rivers
Gunmen on Friday night abducted a senior journalist and staff of the Rivers State Broadcasting Corporation, Port Harcourt, Mrs Priestba Nwokocha. Mrs Nwokocha, who is the Director of News in the corporation, popularly called ‘Radio Rivers’, was allegedly whisked away by the gunmen on the Ogonigba/Elelenwo Bridge leading to the …
Read More »Senior South African says US cluster bomb decision will affect Africa
A senior figure in South Africa’s national assembly has condemned the decision by the United States to send cluster bombs to Ukraine. It follows confirmation by the White House that controversial cluster munitions provided by the United States to Ukraine have been deployed on the battlefield against Russian forces. But …
Read More »Take over Stella Odua, others’ N5bn fraud case, court tells AGF
A former Minister of Aviation, Senator Stella Oduah, was on Friday, arraigned before the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over allegations of graft. Oduah, who served as Aviation Minister from 2011 to 2014, is facing trial over an allegation that she laundered …
Read More »Egyptian researcher will ‘return to Italy’ following presidential pardon – Italian PM
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Wednesday (Jul. 19) pardoned an unspecified number of people, including researcher Patrick Zaki, official reports say. Mr Zaki was sentenced on Tuesday (Jul. 18) to three years in prison by the court in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura taken into custody from the courtroom directly …
Read More »UK medical tribunal clears Twitter influencer, Dr Olufunmilayo, of rape allegations by ex-girlfriend
A popular Twitter doctor based in the United Kingdom, Olufunmilayo Ogunsanya has been exonerated by UK’s Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service from rape allegations levelled against him by his former girlfriend friend, Dr Bolanle Aseyan. Human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, who is also Olufunmilayo’s lawyer in Nigeria, disclosed this in a …
Read More »Anthrax: FG plans nationwide animal vaccination, experts urge vigilance
The Federal Government, on Monday, said plans are underway to undertake a nationwide vaccination of cattle, sheep and goats, following a confirmed case of anthrax in Niger State. The Niger case comes weeks after the Federal Government alerted Nigerians to the outbreak of the deadly disease in some neighbouring countries …
Read More »Senegal’s opposition supporters bang pots and pans in protest
Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko led a peaceful protest banging pots and pans after authorities blocked a rally to publicly confirm he would run in next year’s presidential elections. Sonko, dressed in red in a sign of anger, appeared outside his home Saturday evening to kick off the protest, “symbolically” …
Read More »Buhari failed woefully, Tinubu cannot afford to disappoint Nigerians – Baba-Ahmed
The spokesman for the Northern Elders Forum, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, shares his thoughts with OLUWAFEMI JUWE about the high expectations of the North from President Bola Tinubu, among other things As one of the elders in the North, what’s your assessment of the state of the nation? In one word, expectant! …
Read More »Oyetola’s camp plan to suspend Aregbesola, APC youth leader alleges
A former factional Youth Leader of the All Progressives Congress in Osun State, Oluwaseun Abosede, has alleged a plot by the immediate past governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, and some of his supporters, to suspend, the ex-Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola from the APC. Abosede, the youth leader of the Aregbesola faction …
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