Trump gets a win in court on travel ban
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday quashed an appeal that had blocked a now-expired version of Donald Trump’s anti-immigration decree. The decision was mostly symbolic victory to the Republican president...
View ArticleKenyan politician stabs wife to death over divorce suit
A 55-year-old Kenyan politician, simply known as James Ololo, living in Belgium has been apprehended for allegedly killing his estranged wife. According to a Belgium newspaper, HLN, it was reported...
View ArticleAmnesty voices doubts over secret Boko Haram trials
Amnesty International on Wednesday said it had “huge concerns” about the mass trials of Boko Haram suspects, with the press and the public banned from the hearings on security grounds. Proceedings...
View ArticleUPDATED: Triple suicide attack near Damascus police HQ
Three suicide bombers blew themselves up near the main police headquarters building in Syria’s capital Damascus on Wednesday, killing at least one person, the interior ministry said. Two of the...
View ArticleSenate moves to criminalise secret recruitment in MDAs
Leke Baiyewu, Abuja The Senate has condemned illegal recruitments by Federal Government ministries, departments and agencies, warning that it is a threat to Nigeria’s unity. The legislative chamber is...
View ArticleSpain’s Rajoy rejects mediation over Catalonia crisis
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Wednesday rejected any mediation to resolve the crisis over Catalonia’s independence push. “There is no mediation possible between democratic law and...
View ArticleAngry protests as Kenya election officials mull next move
Kenyan police fired teargas at rowdy opposition protesters a day after their leader Raila Odinga announced his withdrawal from the presidential race, plunging the country into uncharted waters....
View ArticleNDLEA seizes 14.03kg drugs at Lagos Airport, arrests 19 suspects
The spokesperson of the command, Mr Jonah Achema, on Wednesday in a statement in Lagos, noted that 19 suspects The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Murtala Muhammed International Airport Command,...
View ArticleI went into robbery to pay my wife’s bride price – Robbery suspect
Peter Dada, Akure A robbery suspect, Chukwuma Okoro, has confessed that he was involved in robbery to enable him pay N300,000 bride price. Okoro was among four robbery suspects arrested and paraded on...
View ArticleArmy kills 40 Boko Haram members in one month
The Nigerian Army said it had killed a total of 40 Boko Haram insurgents, arrested 18 and rescued about 230 victims during combat in Sambisa forest in the last one month. The Theatre Commander of...
View ArticleNigeria, South Africa, Angola underperforming – World Bank
Everest Amaefule, Abuja Although the three leading economies in Africa – Nigeria, South Africa and Angola, have buoyed the continent to some economic recovery, the economies are underperforming when...
View ArticleHutu militia kills seven in eastern DR Congo attack
Seven people, including a police officer, were killed Wednesday in an attack, attributed to a Rwandan Hutu militia, on a village in Democratic Republic of Congo’s restive east, local officials said....
View Article$5.5b loan: Buhari mortgaging our future, says PDP
Olusola Fabiyi, Abuja The Peoples Democratic Party has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of mortgaging the future of Nigerians with his desire to borrow $5.5bn foreign loan. It said the plan would...
View ArticleIndia’s top court says sex with child is always rape
Sex with a minor amounts to rape even if the couple are married, India’s top court ruled on Wednesday, closing a legal loophole that had allowed some perpetrators to escape punishment. The age of...
View ArticleReckless driver kills FRSC official
An official of the Federal Road Safety Corps has been killed on duty, the News Agency of Nigeria has reported. According to the Corps Marshal of the FRSC, Boboye Oyeyemi, the officer was knocked down...
View ArticleEdo security: Obaseki to meet NSA as police intensify patrols
Alexander Okere, Benin Amidst growing concerns over the level of insecurity in Edo State, Governor Godwin Obaseki on Wednesday announced plans to hold a meeting with the National Security Adviser,...
View ArticleSpain PM gives Catalan leader five days to clarify independence stance
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Wednesday gave Catalonia’s separatist leader five days to clarify his position on whether or not he was declaring independence, a government source said. The...
View ArticleNigeria needs new school curriculum, says Omole
Oladimeji Ramon A former Vice-Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Prof. ‘Wale Omole, has blamed poor industrialisation in Nigeria on the curriculum bequeathed to the country by the...
View ArticleJudge returns Evans fundamental rights case file to CJ for re-assignment
Justice Abdulazeez Anka of the Federal High Court, Lagos on Wednesday declined to hear a fundamental rights suit filed by the suspected kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans. Evans is...
View ArticleGreek anarchists break into Spanish embassy over Catalan crisis
Greek anarchists on Wednesday broke into the Spanish embassy in Athens in a brief show of support for Catalonia’s independence bid, police said. Around 20 members of the Rouvikonas group entered the...
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