News as it breaks
The controversy surrounding the alleged forgery of a West African Examination Council (WAEC) certificate by former House of Representatives member, Hon. Rita Odichinma Orji, has resurfaced after the petitioner, Mr. Uche David Esomonu, accused the police of stalling the case. Hon. Orji, who represented Ajeromi–Ifelodun Federal Constituency of Lagos State…
The Citizens Awareness Against Corruption and Social Vices Initiative (CAACASVI) has raised concerns over what it describes as executive interference in an ongoing illegal mining case involving one Ali Tanko and his alleged collaborators. The group has formally petitioned the National Security Adviser (NSA) to intervene and uphold the integrity…
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday dismissed the no-case submission by the suspended Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Calabar, Prof. Cyril Ndifon, and his lawyer, Sunny Anyanwu. The professor is currently standing trial on four amended counts of alleged sexual harassment and gratification…
The UK’s first human case of swine flu strain H1N2, very similar to what has been circulating in pigs, has been detected, the UK Health Security Agency said on Monday. Routine surveillance in general practitioner surgeries picked up the case after the person suffered a mild illness. The UKHSA said…
Soyinka lamented the failure of security officials to prosecute the perpetrators of extrajudicial killings.
The death toll, according to the centre, has also risen to 80, with a case-fatality ratio of 10 per cent as of June 30, 2023.
“Given the contradictions and inconsistencies and what INEC has done; I’m sure they are not read to defend this case,” Uzoukwu asserted.
According to the FBI bureau office in Boston, in a statement released on its official Twitter handle (@FBIBoston), on Thursday, Teixeira was arrested at a residence in North Dighton, Massachusetts,
