A 56-year-old Nigerian, Anthony Akinyemi, has died in a detention facility where he is awaiting deportation from the US. Akinyemi, believed to have committed suicide on December 21 in the…
Read More Nigerian awaiting deportation in the US ‘commits suicide’
Chidi Samuel| Gunmen on Tuesday morning attacked the hometown of former President, Goodluck Jonathan in Bayelsa State in a bid to steal a gunboat belonging to the military stationed at…
Read More One soldier killed as gunmen attack Jonathan’s country home
A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced five people to death and jailed three others over the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi last year. Khashoggi, a prominent critic of…
Read More Jamal Khashoggi: Saudis sentence five to death for journalist’s murder
Yusuf Bello| A former military head of state, Abdulsalami Abubakar, was on Monday appointed the head of a committee to intervene in the crisis between Kano State governor and Emir…
Read More Abdulsalami, Fayemi, Masari, named in committee to intervene in Ganduje, Sanusi face off
Ebun Francis| Alfa Babatunde, The general overseer of Sotitobire Miracle Center, Akure, Alfa Babatunde was on Monday remanded at Olokuta Correctional Centre over the missing one-year-old boy, Gold Kolawole. Baby…
Read More Court remands Akure pastor over missing baby in his church