France’s National Assembly voted Friday to sanction a far-right MP with a rare 15-day suspension and pay cut after he yelled “back to Africa” at a black colleague, a clash that drew outrage across the political spectrum. Gregoire de Fournas,…
A total of 446 people have lost their lives in Kaduna State as a results of banditry, terrorism and communal clashes from April to September, 2022, an official said in Kaduna on Friday. The figure comprised of 285 killed in…
Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has stated that banditry and insurgency are more serious in the NorthWest than in the North-East, saying the situation presented a clear danger to the 2023 elections and census if not nipped in the…
The Director General of the Labour Party (LP) Presidential Campaign Council Doyin Okupe says the party is still in talks with the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) Rabiu Kwankwaso and others with a view to forming…
Fear of ethnic and religious prejudices, inadequate equipment to prosecute assignments and hoarding of vacancies have been blamed for the inability of the South-East geo-political zone to meet its quota in the ongoing recruitment exercise in the Nigerian Army. The…
The Enugu State Police Command has arrested six suspects who allegedly stripped a woman naked in Agunese, Afam-Mmaku Agwu Local Government Area of the state. It was reported that the woman was stripped naked by youths numbering about 20 in…
Backed by locals, elite Somali forces have killed more than 100 members of the al Qaeda-affiliated terror group al-Shabaab, the country’s Defense Ministry said on Friday. Ministry spokesman Abdullahi Ali Anod told reporters that two units of the elite Danab,…
Alhaja Falilat “Ero Arike” has reacted to a video making waves where Oba Abdulrasheed Olabomi, the Aragbiji of Iragbiji, accuses her of planning to kill him, the monarch, and other people in the town. Alhaja Falilat who said she was…
The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), has arrested 21-year-old Dominic Joshua Ngene, a student of the University of Calabar as an accomplice in the fraudulent transfer and stealing of N326m and $610,500 cash. The student was arrested alongside Ismaila…
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, Alhaji Sahabi Bojo-Bodinga, one of the prominent elders in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Sokoto State, had defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Bojo-Bodinga was received by the APC leader in the…
