Beyond the Headlines
An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Wednesday reserved judgment until Sept. 10 in the case of an American, Marco Antonio-Ramirez, charged with $1.2 million fraud. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Justice Mojisola Dada will also, on Sept. 10, deliver judgment in another charge bordering on $368,698 fraud against the same Antonio-Ramirez. The […]
A group of Nigerian students have been thrown off university courses and ordered to leave the United Kingdom after they struggled to pay tuition fees on time, BBC reports. The Teesside University students have said the devaluation of the naira has made it difficult for them to pay their tuition fees, leading to a […]
The Anambra State police command says they’ve arrested one Anichede Akachukwu; a notorious and most wanted Cultist and Armed robber in Uruagu village, Oba, Idemili South Local government area of the state. A terse statement by the spokesperson of the command, Ikenga Tochukwu, said the breakthrough is as a result of the “policing plan […]
The Department of State Services (DSS) has refused to either release Piu Awoke, an Ebonyi-based lawyer who was indiscriminately arrested by the agency in 2021, or charge him in court. A source who is familiar with the matter but does not want to be named told FIJ that Awoke was arrested by the DSS […]
An unidentified septuagenarian has slumped and died inside an Ondo State High Court session in Oka, Ondo. The incident occurred before the court proceedings had begun. Witnesses reported that the deceased was present to testify as a witness in a case involving his friend. A court staff, speaking anonymously, said that the septuagenarian collapsed […]
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has advised African nations to re-examine the democracy inherited from the West. Obasanjo said Africa must build a model of democracy that is true to the African heritage and that caters for the welfare of the people. He said this at a Summit on the State of Democracy in Africa […]
Dr Shaibu Husseini, Executive Director/CEO of National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB), says the Federal Government has approved the prohibition of money rituals and glamourising of vices in Nigerian films. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Husseini disclosed this at a National Stakeholders Engagement on Smoke-Free Nollywood held in Enugu on […]
An Ekiti State High Court has sentenced 45-year-old Alabi Oluwafemi to 15 years imprisonment for raping an eight-year-old minor in 1999. According to the charge, Oluwafemi sometime in 1999 at Ikere Ekiti, did rape an eight-year-old girl. The victim, in his testimony, said: “The defendant was my teacher and our neighbour. He touched my […]
The leaders of Norway, Ireland, and Spain have announced that their countries will formally recognise Palestine as an independent state in the interest of “peace in the Middle East”. Jonas Store, Norway’s prime minister, said a two-state solution was also in Israel’s best interest. Store, who spoke on Wednesday, added that Norway’s formal recognition […]
The Divisional Police Officer of New Marte in Marte Local Government Area of Borno State has been killed by members of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP). It was gathered that the DPO, a Superintendent of Police, was killed on Monday night while defending the police station at the resettled community […]
