Month: August 2021

The US Department of Justice has agreed to hand FIFA $201 million (171m euros) confiscated from corrupt football administrators, the governing body of world football announced on Tuesday. Most of…

Glory Okolie, a 21-year-old young woman arrested and enslaved by operatives of the Inspector-General of Police’s Intelligence Response Team (IRT) in Imo State, has sued Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police,…

The Speaker of Kebbi State House of Assembly, Honourable Sama’Ilah Abdulmuminu Kamba; and his Deputy, Muhammad Buhari-Alieru, were impeached by a two-thirds majority on Tuesday. Clerk to the Assembly, Usman…

Nigerians have been advised to shun buying drugs from vendors who are going about selling drugs at motor parks, markets and other public places because such drugs are expired and…

*Calls for her unconditional release The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has said that the illegal detention of citizens by some law enforcement agencies beyond the constitutionally stipulated “reasonable” time…

CIA chief, William Burns, was flown into Kabul on Tuesday for a one-to-one meeting with the powerful deputy head of the Taliban, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar. The Washington Post reported…

Osun Governor Adegboyega Oyetola has directed the caretaker chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) Prince Gboyega Famodun to discontinue the suit instituted against the loyalists of his predecessor, Rauf Aregbesola.…

By Onikepo Brathwaite “First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out – Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and…

The Department of State Services (DSS) on Tuesday, told the Federal High Court, Abuja that it has appealed the bail granted four of the 12 detained associates of Yoruba nation…

The House of Representatives has threatened to withhold budgetary allocation to Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) after the commission failed to render financial statements going back four years. Chairman, House Committee…