Nollywood comic actor, Olarenwaju James, popularly known as Baba Ijesha, has reportedly been released from prison after the Court of Appeal granted him bail on his conviction for the sexual assault of a minor. Baba Ijesha was arrested in 2021…
United States Representative, Nancy Mace, has slammed the ex-President Joe Biden for removing Nigeria from international religious freedom watchlist. In an X post on Thursday, Mace stated that “Nigeria has become one of the deadliest countries in the world for…
An ongoing crackdown on undocumented migrants and efforts to ease congestion in detention centres across Libya has led to the deportation of 80 Nigerians. According to authorities, the deported were detained in different holding facilities across the country. The repatriation…
An explosion from a faulty transformer located near the Akwa Ibom State Custodial Centre has reportedly killed two inmates who were awaiting trial and injured two others. Confirming the incident on Thursday, the Akwa Ibom State Controller of Corrections, Frank…
The Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), the apex socio-political body of the South-South geo-political zone, has said that the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, deserves national apology for being prevented from performing his duties by a…
Barring any last minute changes, a detained journalists, Friday James Alefia, may spend the forthcoming Christmas and New Year, in the custody of the Kuje Correctional Center, over alleged Cybercrime against a federal lawmaker from Ebonyi State. This is following…
President Bola Tinubu has sent a high-level delegation to London to discuss the case of a former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, who has been serving a prison sentence in the United Kingdom since March 2023. It was gathered that…
Four Nigerians have been handed lengthy prison sentences in the United Kingdom for their roles in a violent phone robbery syndicate that terrorised mobile phone outlets across London. The group, convicted alongside six other accomplices, received a combined jail term…
US President Donald Trump has threatened the BBC with a $1 billion lawsuit over the “defamatory, malicious” editing of a speech he gave just before the 2021 US Capitol riots, according to a letter obtained by AFP. Trump’s lawyers gave…
Troops of Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK), Joint Task Force North East, says it rescued 86 kidnapped victims and arrested 29 suspected terrorist logistics suppliers during coordinated operations in Borno State. In a statement shared on X on Monday by the…
