Politics

A prominent liberal South Korean lawmaker embroiled in a corruption scandal was found dead on Monday, police said, in what appeared to be one of the country’s highest-profile suicides in recent years. Three-term lawmaker Roh Hoe-chan of the small opposition ...

According to reports, daredevil armed robbers attacked travellers on the busy road yesterday, killed several of them and allegedly abducted some. The attack occurred near Gidan Busa village, located between Jere and Kateri along the expressway.  

President Trump on Sunday night warned that if threats from Tehran persisted then Iran “would suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before.” In a tweet, written in all caps and directed explicitly at Iranian ...

The first  son of the late Permanent Secretary, Bureau of General Services, Office of the Governor of Osun State, Mrs Olufunke  Kolawole, Tolulope Kolawole, has committed suicide.   According to Punch, the 32-year-old married man ended his life in his ...

Mesut Ozil has confirmed that he is retiring from international football with immediate effect following the “treatment he received from the DFB.”   The Arsenal attacker claims that the way he has been treated by the German football association makes him “no longer ...

General Yakubu Gowon, a former Head of State has expressed serious concerns over the security situation in the country, saying that the situation if not immediately addressed, could lead to a religious war.   Gowon spoke on Saturday at the Benue ...

No fewer than eight commissioners, three members of the Adamawa State House of Assembly and some local government chairmen of the All Progressives Congress-led administration in the state have defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Vanguard reports. The newspaper ...

The Trump administration has reportedly ordered at least 70 children under the age of 1 to appear before immigration judges since last October, with some appearing without any legal representation. Department of Justice data revealed on Wednesday also showed that the number ...

The senator representing Osun west senatorial district at the Senate, Ademola Adeleke, has been declared the winner of the People Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial election held on Saturday, July 21, in the state. Report had it that Ademola who is ...

Some South African police officers in the coming weeks will be arraigned for allegedly killing a 25-year-old Nigerian, Ibrahim Olalekan-Badmus, in 2017.   The Nigerian Mission in South Africa in an interview today said that the officers were implicated in the ...

Adegboyega Oyetola has emerged as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), ahead of the Osun State governorship election slated to hold on September 22, 2018.   He was one of 17 aspirants who participated in the exercise which ...

Widespread violence in Nigeria could affect next year’s presidential election, two US pro-democracy groups said on Friday. Voters in Africa’s most populous nation go to the polls in February next year, with President Muhammadu Buhari looking to secure a second, ...

Police in Kenya rescued 21 young Nepalese women during a raid on two strip clubs in an upmarket suburb of the capital Nairobi, detectives said on Friday. “Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Protection ...

A Zimbabwe court on Friday handed a four-year jail term to a former energy minister who served in Robert Mugabe’s last cabinet after he was found guilty of corruption, state media reported. Samuel Undenge, 62, will serve just two-and-half years ...

Park Geun-hye, the South Korean former President who was jailed for 24 years for corruption, has been slammed with an additional eight-year jail term for receiving bribe from the country’s National Intelligence Service (NIS).   A Seoul Central District Court ...

At the center of what’s described as Britain’s most expensive divorce is a nearly $500 million yacht, named Luna. The ongoing battle between Russian oligarch Farkhad Akhmedov and his ex-wife Tatiana Akhmedova has spanned Russia and the U.K., and more ...

Kenya-based wing of Al-Shabaab, Al-Hijra, has been added to the US list of terrorist organisations. “Terrorism designations expose and isolate organisations and individuals, and deny them access to the US financial system,” the State Department said on Thursday. “Moreover, designations ...

The Ugandan government is to introduce biometric gadgets for the implementation of daily salary payment for civil servants. The gadgets are to be introduced following the resolve of the government to start paying civil servants according to the number of ...

Samuel Undenge, a former Energy Minister who served under Zimbabwe’s ex President Robert Mugabe was found guilty of corruption and sentenced to four years in jail today. His lawyer said that this is the first conviction of a Mugabe-era official since he ...

he Lagos State Government has called on the Federal Government to postpone the closure of the Third Mainland Bridge in order not to further paralyse traffic in the metropolis. A statement issued by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Kehinde ...

President Muhammadu Buhari’s Personal Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie has ridiculed Apostle Johnson Suleman of the Omega Fire Ministries on social media again. Apart from accusing him of spending church money on concubines, Onochie went to the extent of ...

The All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) has insisted that the fulani pastoralists were not responsible for the incessant and wanton attacks on farmers and communities by suspected fulani herdsmen. AFAN also said that they were willing to work with ...

Mayinta Modu, a suspected Boko Haram commander, has confessed that he received N30, 000 as payment for coordinating and participating in the abduction of Chibok schoolgirls. Modu said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on ...

The Imo state chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) on Thursday, July 19, rejected plans for the establishment of ranches in the state. The association reacting to reports of the state’s House of Assembly passing a bill t ...

Governor Darius Ishaku of Taraba state has raised the alarm over alleged plans by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to rig the 2019 elections so as to oust him and six other governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The ...