A clash between the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) of the Nigeria Police Force and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) personnel has left a police officer dead in Ebonyi. The incident occurred on Wednesday at the disputed…
A court in Equatorial Guinea convicted a son of the country’s president for illegally selling off a plane belonging to the national airline, a court official said. The judge ruled on Tuesday that Ruslan Obiang Nsue, one of the sons…
The court has summoned a former Senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye over alleged failure to pay his mandatory Personal Income Tax for 2023 and 2024, as well as underpayment of taxes in 2020, 2021, and 2022. A Federal Capital…
The parents of a 16-year-old California boy who died by suicide have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging the company’s ChatGPT chatbot provided their son with detailed suicide instructions and encouraged his death. Matthew and Maria Raine argue in a…
Amnesty International has condemned what it calls the relentless harassment and persecution of Omoyele Sowore, a human rights activist and Sahara Reporters publisher by Nigerian authorities. In a statement posted on its X handle on Wednesday, the global human rights…
A United States District court under Judge Christopher Boyko, on Tuesday, sentenced the Apetu of Ipetumodu in Osun State, Oba Joseph Oloyede, to 56 months in prison over a $4.2m COVID-19 relief fund fraud. According to a statement of the…
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has warned the general public over fake batches of Postinor-2 (Levonorgestrel 0.75mg), an emergency contraceptive pill, circulating across Nigeria. Disclosing this in a monday statement, the agency said the…
The Police Command in Rivers has confirmed the alleged assault and robbery of a serving police officer by a group of youths in Nkpolu community in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state. A viral video showed a mob of…
A former Deputy governor of Edo state, Comrade Philip Shaibu has lost his WhatsApp account to internet fraudsters. In a public notice issued on his social media page on Tuesday, Shaibu urged the public to ignore messages coming from the…
Two men were publicly flogged 76 times each in Indonesia’s conservative province of Aceh on Tuesday after they were found guilty of sexual relations by a court operating under strict Islamic law. Gay sex is outlawed in Aceh, which imposes…
