A group, Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF), ASF France, also known as Lawyers without Borders, yesterday condemned the execution of a Nigerian woman in Saudi Arabia for drug related offences. The woman was executed on April 1, 2019, reportedly alongside two ...

The Jamaa’tu Nasril Islam (JNI) and the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) yesterday differ over death penalty for drug dealers. While the Islamic body advocated death penalty for drug dealers as one of the means by which the menace of ...

A Federal High Court Abuja yesterday sacked representative of Delta North Senatorial district, Peter Nwaoboshi as senator-elect, saying available evidence from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primaries showed that Ned Nwoko won. The court, therefore, ruled that Nwoko was the authentic ...

The Area II Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Onne, Rivers State, has seized 64 containers loaded with military wears, Tramadol, foreign rice and other contraband goods. It disclosed that the impounded 40foot containers also had Hyergra, Diclofenac and ...

Latest report of the African Development Bank (AfDB) for 2018, the African Economic Outlook 2019, has revealed that Africa recorded the second highest growth rate globally after East Asia. Launched in Abuja yesterday, the report stated that the continent recorded ...

Beneficiaries of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) deployed to Admiralty University, Ibusa, Delta State, for educational programmes have been urged to accept the scholarship terms as applicable to the institution or quit its premises. This followed rejection of sponsorship letters ...

The Conference of All Progressives Congress (APC) State Publicity Secretaries (CAPS) in the Southeast zone yesterday dismissed insinuations that the zone voted Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar in the general elections. It also endorsed the Speakership aspiration ...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has stressed the need for its members in the Senate and House of Representatives to stand by its decision on zoning of principal offices in the incoming Ninth National Assembly. APC’s Deputy National Publicity Secretary, ...

President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has advanced reasons why the North remains poor in spite of its huge agricultural potential, saying over 60 per cent of people in the Northeast and Northwest live in extreme poverty. Dangote stated this ...

Third witness for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Kayode Olanrewaju, yesterday told a Federal High Court in Lagos that duty receipts of an alleged N5.8 billion fraud were missing in the bank. The money laundering case involves a ...