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National Association Against Trafficking In Persons, Gambia has arrested two Nigerian women for alleged s.e.x trafficking of minors. The arrest came following an investigation launched by a new Gambian investigative outfit, The Guardian Intelligence Investigative Platform. The investigation, focusing on s.e.x ...

Remi Lucidi, a well-known extreme sports expert from France, perished when he fell from the 68th level of the Tregunter Tower complex. The 30-year-old, also known online as Remi Enigman, was found dead following a tragic fall from the skyscraper, according ...

  Niger’s ousted president has been seen for the first time since the military detained him in a coup last week. Mohamed Bazoum met Chad’s leader, Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, in Niger’s capital, Niamey. Mr Déby, who also met the coup leaders, ...

  Senegal opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has been formally charged with fomenting insurrection and has been placed in custody, his lawyer is quoted by the AFP news agency as saying. He had also been accused of stealing the mobile phone of a ...

  The military junta currently in charge of Niger has detained a leading official in the ousted president’s party as well as two more government ministers, the party has said. Five ministers are now being held among a total of ...

  Says any intervention to restore deposed President will be considered a ‘declaration of war’ • Expects Russian support Mali and Burkina have threatened to withdraw their ECOWAS membership and rise up in support of Niger’s military government should the ...

  The Niger military junta that seized power last week and ousted democratically elected president Mohamed Bazoum said on Monday the toppled government had authorised France to carry out strikes at the presidency to try to free Bazoum. The military junta, which has confined Bazoum to ...

  The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has imposed a no flight zone on Niger following the coup that toppled the elected government of Mohamed Bazoum. The decision was reached at an extraordinary session of the ECOWAS authority of ...

  The Gombe government has reduced transport fares for Gombe Line Transport Company to cushion the effects of the petrol subsidy removal. Ismaila Uba-Misilli, the spokesman for the Gombe governor, said this while responding to a survey on state-owned transport companies’ status. ...

  The former Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has been cleared by the Nigeria Senate for a ministerial role. Wike on Monday arrived at the National Assembly to appear before the lawmakers for his ministerial screening. It is not ...

  Magistrate arrested for disguising as a lady to write a law exam for his girlfriend.   A newly appointed Magistrate, Musa Semwogerere, has been nabbed for posing as a woman to sit for exams for his girlfriend at the ...

  The immediate past governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike has promised that President Bola Tinubu will not regret nominating him to be one of his ministers. He said this during the screening of ministerial nominees before the Senate on Monday. During the screening ...

  Bishop David Oyedepo of Living Faith Church has cautioned Christians to refrain from criticizing their prophets, claiming that such an attitude invites God’s wrath. Speaking against men of God can draw leprosy, according to the renowned cleric who made ...

  To ensure the security of lives and properties in schools across the nation, the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has announced the establishment of the Schools Protection Squad (SPS). Force Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, said the initiative ...

  A Federal High Court (FHC) Judge, Justice Peter Mallong, is dead. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Mallong died on Sunday after a brief illness in Abuja. The Chief Registar of FHC, Hassan Amida Sulaiman, announced ...

  A two-month-old baby was at the weekend stolen from his mother at a school graduation ceremony in Il?rin, Kwara State. It was gathered that the incident occurred at about 3pm on Saturday at the school’s premises in the metropolis. ...

  The House of Representatives Committee on Public Assets has announced its decision to investigate the alleged sale of two training helicopters by the Nigeria College of Aviation Technology, Zaria. The Committee in a press statement signed by the Chairman, Hon. Ademorin Kuye, ...

  President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will make a broadcast to the nation, today, Monday. Dele Alake, Special Adviser to the President on Special Duties, Communications & Strategy, disclosed this on Monday in a terse statement. According to him, the broadcast ...

  The senator representing Ebonyi South Senatorial district, His Excellency Senator David Umahi has resigned from the 10th Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. An impeccable sources told reporters that Umahi who is the current deputy majority leader of ...

  The Federal Capital Territory Commissioner of Police, Haruna Garba, has lamented that some undisclosed persons drop the command’s emergency numbers with loan shark companies to obtain loans. He also said non-state actors had also been engaging the emergency lines. The ...

  Tchiani, the head of the Presidential Guard, has been named “president of the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland”, a statement said. Appearing on state television, the general said soldiers had seized power due to the deteriorating ...

  A man identified as Mohammed Faworaja has met his untimely death in Ilorin, Kwara State capital while running away from a dog. Punch Metro gathered on Thursday that the incident occurred around Asa Dam, the Warah-Osin area in the ...

  Hoodlums have reportedly beheaded a man in Aladja Community in Udu Local Government Area of Delta State. The hoodlums also went away with the head of the deceased, a commercial motorcycle operator in the community.   Daily Post gathered that the ...

  The Corporate Affairs Commission has said it will remove 100,000 registered companies from its database soon. During a training on ‘Use of the beneficial ownership register’, in Lagos, the Registrar-General and Chief Executive Officer, CAC, Alhaji Garba Abubakar, disclosed ...

  The United States government says Mohamed Bazoum is still the president of the Niger Republic and that it is in touch with the West African country’s former President Mahamadou Issoufou, amidst a putsch. “There are some important pieces in here. First, President Bazoum is ...