The apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, yesterday, expressed displeasure over the continued detention of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu by the Department of State Services, DSS, in the country. The Igbo organization raised concern over the Federal Government’s alleged disobedience of court orders, bordering on […]

  The Nigerian Prisons Service said yesterday that inmates on death row were as high as 3,298 in prisons across the country because of the increasing number of human rights groups. According to the Prisons, this has discouraged governors from signing the death warrants of prisoners on death row. The Public Relations Officer of the […]

  The House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating the sale of 48 million barrels of crude oil, amounting to over $2.4 billion and crude oil export to China from 2014 to date, said yesterday it has uncovered payment of $200 million allegedly made as consultancy fees in whistleblower recoveries by the Attorney General of […]

  The Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai, on Wednesday, warned that bandits could take advantage of the transition period to launch bloody attacks in the country. He, therefore, advised that security operations against bandits should be increased in the remaining days of the current administration and beyond. El-Rufai spoke during the presentation of a security […]

  A 35 year-old man in Ayamelum Local Government Area of Anambra State, Joseph Egwuatu, has denied raping a two-year old girl in his village. Egwuatu, who was remanded in prison after arraignment by an Awka Chief Magistrate Court for allegedly defiling the two-year-old child, said he was only babysitting the little child when she […]

  A 45-year-old woman, Karima Nuhu, on Tuesday dragged her husband, Musa Falalu, to a Shari’a Court sitting in Rigasa, Kaduna, for allegedly failing to take her to Saudi Arabia. The complainant, who resides in the Rigasa area of Kaduna, told the court that she had been married to Falalu for four years, during which […]

  Aisha ‘Binani’ Dahiru, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Adamawa, has denied bribing an official of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The Adamawa governorship supplementary election was conducted on Saturday following the declaration of the March 18 poll as inconclusive over alleged irregularities. The collation of election results was suspended […]

  The Chinese government has denied funding terrorist groups in parts of Nigeria to secure access to mineral reserves. In a recent report, the Times, a British newspaper, claimed that through bribes and illegal transactions, “Beijing could be indirectly funding terror in Africa’s largest economy”. The report alleged that some Chinese nationals who have worked […]

  THE presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, in the February 25 election, Mr Peter Obi has said that he is not afraid of what he called lies and propaganda against him, describing them as part of the journey to a new Nigeria. “I have always lived my life in the most law-abiding manner […]