A high-ranking Equatorial Guinea official has been fired after a slew of videos showing him having sex with women — including the wives of prominent officials — were shared online. Authorities have tried to curb the viral spread of the sex tapes involving Baltasar Ebang Engonga, who is related to the country’s long-serving president. But […]
Equatorial Guinea’s President, Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, has reportedly appointed Zenón Obiang Obiang Avomo as the new Director General of the National Agency for Financial Investigation. He replaced Baltasar Ebang Engonga following a shocking sex scandal involving public officials. This was disclosed in a news report on Thursday by a media outlet based in Equatorial Guinea, […]
The Government of Equatorial Guinea has imposed a restriction on its citizens, prohibiting the downloading and sharing of multimedia files via mobile data on WhatsApp. This move comes after the government issued directives to telecommunications companies, urging them to implement measures that would limit access to inappropriate content. Also, the government suspended all civil servants […]
The European Court on Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered the Spanish government to pay a €27,000 compensation fee to a yet-to-be-named Nigerian lady who was trafficked into the country as a teenager. The court, in its October 10 ruling, ordered the Spanish government to pay the sum to the Nigerian after it confirmed Spanish officials failed to carry […]
Kenya President William Ruto has nominated Kithure Kindiki, interior minister, as his new deputy. This comes a day after the senate voted to impeach Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, despite a plea from Paul Muite, Gachagua’s lawyer, to postpone the proceedings. According to Muite, Gachagua was hospitalised after falling very sick, hours before the vote was […]
By Pascal Ibe On Saturday, Allen Onyema, the Chairman, CEO, and founder of Air Peace, a Nigerian airline, was charged in a superseding indictment with obstruction of justice for submitting false documents to the government in an effort to end an investigation of him that resulted in earlier charges of bank fraud and money laundering. […]
Allen Onyema, chief executive officer (CEO) of Air Peace, has been charged by the US for alleged obstruction of justice. In a superseding indictment, the US attorney’s office, Northern District of Georgia, said Onyema and Ejiroghene Eghagha, the Air Peace’s chief of administration and finance, allegedly submitted false documents to end a federal investigation against […]
The South African Police Service has arrested four of its officers for robbing a Nigerian rapper of jewellery worth R20 million, approximately N1.9bn. The suspects, Jacobus Groenewald, Bradley Minnaar, Mthuthuzeli Mafanya, and Bathandwa Soldati allegedly invaded the Nigerian national’s residence in Llandudno, Cape Town, on September 14 and stole his jewellery. According to reports, the […]
A Nigerian, Oludayo Adeagbo, has been sentenced to seven years in prison in the United States over a multimillion-dollar business email compromise scheme. This was disclosed by the US Department of Justice in a release from Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole Argentieri. According to Argentieri, the defendant was involved in multiple cyber-enabled BEC schemes […]
Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said on Wednesday that Israel’s retaliation against Iran for last week’s missile barrage will be “deadly, precise and surprising”. “Our attack in Iran will be deadly, precise and surprising,” Gallant said in a statement posted on social media, adding: “Those who try to harm the State of Israel will pay a […]
