The military authorities in Guinea have lifted restrictions on internet access, which were imposed three months ago and sparked protests, residents observed overnight on Thursday. The move came a day after trades unions in the West African country announced an unlimited general strike from Monday to pressure the ruling junta to release a prominent […]
In an intercontinental operation against Nigerian criminal networks in Europe, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, Europol, has arrested 15 Nigerians. This operation, which took place in December last year, was influenced by criminal activities including fraud, money laundering, human trafficking for sexual exploitation and other crimes perpetuated by Nigerian criminal syndicates in countries […]
A high court in Ghana has sentenced six people to death, including three soldiers, after finding them guilty of plotting to carry out a coup against the country’s government in 2019. The case which has been in court since 2021 has drawn significant attention due to the severity of the charges and the involvement […]
The Supreme Court of Cassation in Rome, Italy, has upheld the life sentence for Innocent Oseghale, a Nigerian man convicted of killing and dismembering 18-year-old Pamela Mastropietro. The court’s decision marks the end of a legal battle that began in 2018. The Crime and Initial Sentencing In January 2018, Oseghale killed Mastropietro in the […]
Russia said Wednesday that an IL-76 military transport plane carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war had crashed in the western Belgorod region, bordering Ukraine. Unverified videos on social media showed a large plane, purportedly in the Belgorod region, falling from the sky on its side before crashing in a fireball. “At around 11 […]
Popular actor and former US politician Arnold Schwarzenegger was detained by German customs officers at Munich Airport on Wednesday for failing to declare a valuable luxury watch. “He is sitting with us, that’s right,” a spokesman for the main customs office in Munich told dpa on Wednesday afternoon. Criminal tax proceedings had been initiated […]
American-based Nigerian singer Osazuwa Agbonayinma popularly known as Zuwa and as one part of the duo known as Roze has been shot and killed in the United States of America. Although details about the circumstances around his death are still sketchy, his father and former Nigerian lawmaker Ehiozuwa Agbonayinma confirmed to Entertainment News on […]
A Nigerian man has been arrested in the Kufra District of Libya for the murder of another Nigerian. This was made known in a post by the Migrant Rescue Watch on their X account on Monday. The post disclosed that the accused, who was arrested following an investigation into an unidentified deceased person delivered […]
Twenty-seven soldiers in Sierra Leone on Monday appeared before a court-martial which charged them with mutiny over their alleged role in what authorities say was an attempted coup in November. Security was stepped up around the courthouse in the capital Freetown where the proceedings were later adjourned to Wednesday. The 27 accused struggled to […]
Rescuers and residents sifted through rubble Saturday as focus turned to recovering bodies and cleaning up rather than finding survivors, five days after a huge earthquake struck central Japan killing at least 110 people. The death toll from the New Year’s Day 7.5-magnitude quake in the Ishikawa region of Japan’s main Honshu island was […]
