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Niger’s foreign minister has summoned the charge d’affaires of Nigeria’s embassy, accusing the neighboring country of serving as a “rear base” for efforts to destabilize Niger, state television reported.   Relations between Niger and Nigeria have been strained since Niger’s 2023 military coup, which severed ties with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, …

Human rights lawyer and activist, Dele Farotimi has arrived at the Ekiti Magistrate Court over his alleged defamation case against Afe Babalola (SAN).   Farotimi arrived on Friday morning, December 20, amid a tight security presence with police officers and other law enforcement agents seen at the court premises.    He was arrested following a petition filed by Chief Afe Babalola …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has summoned all 18 suspended local government area (LGA) chairpersons in Edo state following allegations of financial misconduct.   According to sources within the EFCC, the probe was triggered by a petition from Monday Okpebholo, the governor of Edo state, accusing the chairpersons of failing to pay workers’ salaries for October and November. …

Offset has raised brows after he shared a cryptic post on Instagram. The rapper took to his Instagram stories to share the post after his estranged wife Cardi B shared alleged DMs from him begging her for sx.Offset posted a picture of him partying with a group and wrote: “Lies told to make me look bad.” He added: “I couldnt play how you do.”He …

DR Congo on Tuesday, December 17, filed a criminal case against European subsidiaries of tech giant Apple, accusing them of illegally using “blood minerals” in its supply chain.   The Democratic Republic of the Congo alleges that Apple has bought contraband supplies from the country’s conflict-racked east and Rwanda, zones in which the materials are alleged to be mined illegally …

The Enugu Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arraigned the duo of Ekpe Anayaoha Okoronkwo and Umeonuoha Onyinye, staff of one of the new generation banks, before Justice Mohammed Garba Umar of the Federal High Court sitting in Independence Layout, Enugu State for allegedly selling newly-minted N500, 000. 00 (Five Hundred Thousand Naira).     …

Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court Abuja has granted bail to the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello.    At the resumed trial of the former governor today, December 13, the presiding judge granted the former in the sum of N500 million, with two sureties in like sum.     He said the two sureties must …

The immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, has pleaded not guilty to the alleged N80 billion fraud case filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).   The anti-graft agency arraigned Bello before Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court Abuja on a 19-count charge, bordering on alleged money laundering.   At the resumed …

A Georgia middle school teacher was filmed throwing an 11-year-old student across the classroom and allegedly made s£xu@l remarks about the child’s mother.  DeRenne Middle School teacher BeTreylin Elder was reportedly talking crudely about the mother of a student identified as TJ.  The student then stood up from his desk and approached his teacher at the front of his classroom …

The Kano State High Court has postponed the hearing of preliminary objections in the bribery and misappropriation case involving the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, and seven other defendants to February 13, 2025.    The case, filed by the Kano State Government, centers on allegations of bribery, misappropriation, and diversion of public funds amounting …