Some Civil Society Organisations, as well as a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr. Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), on Wednesday asked President Muhammadu Buhari to state his role in the controversy surrounding the reinstatement of the Chairman of the defunct Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina. They added that the revelations Read more
Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, on Thursday, accused U.S. President Trump of betraying the “special relationship” between Britain and the U.S. by re-tweeting anti-Muslim videos posted by the far-right group Britain First. Khan joined a growing number of British politicians calling for a planned visit by Trump to be cancelled. Opposition Liberal Democrat party Read more
Nigerians stranded in Libya and other parts of the world would be brought home and rehabilitated, President Muhammadu Buhari has stated. He spoke against the backdrop of recent reports that hundreds of African refugees and migrants in Libya were being sold into slavery. The reports indicated merchants were preying on vulnerable individuals attempting to reach Read more
The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, Tuesday accused anti-graft agencies of looting funds and property recovered from corrupt persons and said this untoward act was the major reason why foreign countries harbouring monies stolen from Nigeria had refused to return them to the country. “The National Assembly has been strident about the opacity shrouding the Read more
Sterling Bank, the “one-customer bank”, has one customer giving it sleepless nights over a loan that not only went bad but has now snowballed into a major scandal in the banking industry, TheCable can report. Grant Properties Limited, a property development company, has accused Sterling Bank of excising 10 hectares — which land it values Read more
GOVERNOR of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike has declared that the Amayanabo of Abonnema, King Disrael Bob-Manuel remains a duly recognised First Class Traditional Ruler in the state and Amayababo of Abonema. He declared that nobody has the authority to depose a First Class Traditional Ruler in the state without the approval of the Rivers State Read more
The Senate has begun the investigation of the alleged sale of illegal African migrants “mostly Nigerians” as slaves in Libya, which it described as a slap in the face of Nigeria. The probe was based on a motion moved by Senator Baba Kaka Garbai (Borno-Central) at the plenary on Wednesday, entitled, ‘Urgent Need to Protect Read more
Nakisha Newell, a female corrections officer in Ohio, U.S., will face criminal charges for allegedly having sex with a male inmate as well as bringing illegal imports into the county jail, authorities said. Newell who had been on the job just 18 months has been charged with two counts of felony sexual battery and two Read more
Bitcoin broke through the $10,000 barrier for the first time on Wednesday as it extends a stratospheric rise that has delighted investors but sparked fears of a bubble. The virtual currency hit a high of $10,903 in Asia, according to Bloomberg News, about 14 times its value at the start of the year. The breakthrough Read more
France’s ambassador to the UN has urged the Security Council to impose sanctions on the people involved in Libya’s slave trade of African refugees and migrants. Francois Delattre’s comments come as human trafficking in Libya has become a burning topic since a CNN investigation produced footage of West Africans being sold at slave markets in November. “France will propose Read more
