Catholic priest remanded for raping, impregnating teenager
An Awka Chief Magistrates’ Court, otherwise known as the Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Court of Anambra State, has remanded a Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr. Nwaigwe Stephen at the Nigerian…
Foreign investors: Delusions and Illusions, by Ken Ugbechie
It has become a pattern. Each time a new leader emerges in Nigeria, he globe-trots in search of foreign investors. Whether at national or sub-nationals, Nigerian leaders have found a…
Shettima at Akesan Day Festival Says Says Our Culture, Tradition Unite Us
The Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima, on Saturday said the unity of the people of the country lies in their cultures and traditions. Senator Shettima made this…
At last, court grants Emefiele bail
Justice Hamza Muazu of the Federal Capital Territory High Court Abuja, has granted former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr Godwin Emefiele, bail in the sum of…
GIABA lists practical ways to stop illicit financial flows in West Africa
The Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA) has called on member states to give priority attention to the prosecution of illicit financial flows in order to…
Obasanjo proposes Afro Democracy, says Western democracy not working for Africa
After eight years of serving as a democratically elected president, former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday in Abeokuta said democracy has not been working as a system of government in…
Protest in Plateau over Appeal Court judgment sacking Gov. Mutfwang
Residents of Jos, the capital of Plateau, have rejected the judgment of the Court of Appeal that sacked Gov. Caleb Mutfwang. The residents called for the review of all the…
NDLEA arrests two jail-breakers for drug trafficking in raids across 8 states
Seven years after his escape from prison custody following his conviction for drug dealing, a notorious major distributor of illicit substances within the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Ibrahim Momoh, popularly…
Terrorists attack governor’s convoy, kill two policemen, injure others
For the first time in 12 years of insurgency in the north east, suspected Boko Haram terrorists attacked the convoy of Yobe State Governor Mai Mala Buni along Maiduguri-Dramaturg Road,…
10 doctors kidnapped in Enugu in lingering insecurity – NMA cries out
The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Enugu State branch, says more than 10 doctors were victims of kidnapping and other violent crimes in less than two months in Enugu State….