See First Muslim Mayor in UK After Saturday’s Election
A Labour Party leader, a former human rights lawyer and a son of a bus driver from Pakistan, Sadiq Khan has been declared the winner after a protracted count that extended into Saturday in London. He has emerged the first…
Shocker: Why I Won’t Endorse You, America’s Top-ranked Republican Tells Trump
The highest-ranking elected Republican in the United States, Speaker Paul D. Ryan has said he was “not ready” to endorse Donald J. Trump as Republican standard bearer in the country’s forthcoming presidential election. Ryan said on Thursday he was “not…
Western Union Fraud: Court Orders Skye Bank To Pay Writer N10m As Damages
An Igbosere High Court of Lagos state has ordered Skye bank Plc to pay N10 million as general damages to a Nigerian writer, Odafe Atogun over his missing €6,000 Western Union Money Transfer sent to him from Ireland. The court…
Illicit Drugs: Senegalese Woman Jailed 4yrs
A Lagos Federal High Court, on Monday, sentenced a 43 year old Senegalese woman, Sall Fatou the act four years-jail term over drug trafficking. The convict, who is from the Senegal capital, Dakar, according to the anti-drugs agency, the National…
Remembering African Butcheries Of The Past, A Case Of Rwandan Genocide: In Honour Of Late Agathe Uwilingiyamana and Victims Of Regime Atrocities In Africa
Witten By Emeka Umeagbalasi “The killings have stopped, not because of changing of heart, but because there are few people left to be killed” (Brig General Paul Kagame (as he then was), leader of the Rwandese Patriotic Front (RPF), responding to…
UK Telegraph: Buhari Using Britain’s Money to Fight Opposition Not Boko Haram
Hundreds of millions of pounds of British foreign aid given to Nigeria to help combat Boko Haram terrorists is instead allegedly being used to fund a witch-hunt against opposition politicians, UK Telegraph reports. In a publication on Tuesday, Con Coughlin,…
EgyptAir Flight Hijack Suspect Arrested, Passengers Freed
A man claiming to be wearing an explosive vest hijacked an EgyptAir plane on Tuesday, forcing it to land in Larnaca, on the southern coast of Cyprus, before he was arrested, according to the Cypriot government. “It’s over,” the Cypriot…
Suicide Bomber Detained In Cameroon Says She’s One Of Chibok Girls
A suspected suicide bomber intercepted in northern Cameroon on Friday before she could blow herself up claimed to be one of 219 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in the Nigerian town of Chibok in 2014, military and local government sources…
Two Brussels Suicide Bombers Were Brothers, Official Says
Two suspected suicide bombers who carried out the Brussels attacks were brothers, and a third man is being sought, a prosecutor said. The brothers who were part of the Tuesday bombing in Brussels were identified as brothers with criminal records….
Key Suspect In Brussels Airport Bombing Arrested
A key suspect in the attacks in Brussels has been arrested, Belgian media say, quoting judicial sources. Najim Laachraoui, thought to be the man on the right in a CCTV image taken before the Zaventem airport attack, was detained in…
Judge Lambasts EFCC For Intimidating Court Over Australian Contractor
An Abuja High Court Judge, Justice Peter Affen has berated the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for allegedly intimidating his court and for attempting to stall a case involving it and an Austrian Security contractor, Mr. Wolfgang Wolfgang Reinl…
