A sitting US senator is facing a weeklong trial on charges of bribery which include gold bars, cash, and a luxury car among other things. These bribes were allegedly in exchange for influencing US aid and weapon deals with a foreign government and halting a federal case against a co-defendant, CNN reports. A Democratic […]
Kenya has deported a Nigerian man caught on CCTV camera assaulting a Kenyan woman. This was contained in a Saturday Joint Press Release by the Republic of Kenya’s Ministry of Gender, Culture, The Arts and Heritage State Department for Gender and Affirmative Action. The release, tagged for immediate press release, was titled: “Deportation of […]
A Nigerian couple based in the United States has been convicted of forced labour by a federal jury in New Jersey and faces 20 years imprisonment. Isiaka Bolarinwa, 67, and Bolaji Bolarinwa, 50 — who are both US citizens were also found guilty of operating a coercive scheme to compel two victims to perform […]
At least 19 people have been confirmed dead after a section of a highway collapsed in southern China’s Guangdong province early Wednesday. Xinhua, state media, reported that the accident caused 18 vehicles to fall off and involved 49 people. About 30 people are receiving treatment in the hospital and there are no life-threatening injuries […]
The Human Rights Watch has said that Burkina Faso’s military massacred more than 220 civilians, including at least 56 children, in a single day this year. According to a report by BBC, in the attacks on 25 February, Burkina Faso’s army killed 179 people in Soro village and 44 others in the nearby Nondin […]
An court in Iran has sentenced to death a popular rapper jailed for more than a year and a half for supporting nationwide protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death, local media reported Wednesday. Toomaj Salehi, 33, was arrested in October 2022 after publicly backing the wave of demonstrations which erupted a month earlier, triggered […]
German police said Wednesday they had arrested 11 suspected members of a Nigerian mafia group behind a large-scale dating scam. The Black Axe gang was involved internationally in “multiple areas of criminal activity”, with a focus in Germany on dating scams and money-laundering, Bavarian police said in a statement. The dating trick was a […]
Two mayoral candidates were reported killed in Mexico on Friday, one in the country’s northeast and another in the south, authorities said — part of a wave of political violence ahead of June elections. In Tamaulipas, a state plagued by organized crime situated on the US border, a manhunt was launched for the person […]
Around 70 people have been killed by heavy rains lashing Afghanistan over the past five days, the government’s disaster management department said Wednesday. Afghanistan was parched by an unusually dry winter which desiccated the earth, exacerbating flash-flooding caused by spring downpours in most provinces. Disaster management spokesman Janan Sayeq said “approximately 70 people lost […]
A US-based Nigerian bodybuilder, Michael Chidozie, 26, has died 18 days after he was shot multiple times by his wife, Keaiirra Shavoiyae, in the middle of an argument on March 21. Chidozie lingered on life support, but he suffered a devastating spinal injury and died of complications on April 8, Daily Mail reports. Chidozie […]
