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The federal government has directed the full implementation of a new visa reciprocity policy for U.S. citizens with effect from March 1.This is contained in a statement by the Media Adviser to the Minister of Interior, Sola Fasure, in Abuja on Friday. According to Mr Fasure, the Minister of Interior, …

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has suspended the election in Enugu East Senatorial District following the assassination of Oyibo Chukwu, the Labour Party candidate, in the exercise that was previously scheduled to hold on February 25. Electoral chief Mahmood Yakubu said during a press briefing in Abuja on Friday afternoon that …

Amid his health challenge, a British Consul, Ms. Heather Wilkie met with Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, in the custody of the Department of State Services, DSS. Kanu’s Special Counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, said the IPOB leader discussed issues bothering on his health and extrajudicial detention with …

A massive operation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to deter vote trading and other financial malfeasance ahead of tomorrow’s presidential and national assembly elections may have begun paying dividends with the interception in Lagos of the sum of N32, 400,000 (Thirty-two Million, Four Hundred Thousand Naira) allegedly suspected …

R. Kelly was sentenced on Thursday to 20 years in prison for child pornography and enticement of minors for sex but will serve all but one of those simultaneously with a separate 30-year sentence on racketeering and sex trafficking convictions. The sentence means Kelly could leave prison alive, when he’s about 80. …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday arraigned one Usman Abubakar alongside his foundation, Young Alhaji Foundation, before a Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, over alleged N950m fraud.Abubakar, who was brought before Justice Mojisola Dada, is facing five counts bordering on conspiracy, stealing and attempt to steal …

Ahead of the commencement of the 2023 general elections on Saturday 25th February, operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have stormed the Ujiogba Forest Reserve in Esan West LGA, Edo State where they destroyed 7,286 kilograms (72.86 tons) of warehoused skunk and five hectares of its plantation. …

 Shock and grief engulfed Simat village in Kapsaret sub-county, Uasin Gishu County, Kenya after a police officer hanged himself over domestic squabbles and infidelity. The deceased, constable Kiplagat Koskei, attached to Eldoret central police station is said to have committed suicide after finding out that his estranged wife was allegedly …

A Nigerian woman struggling to enter a bank during the rush for naira notes channeled her inner spider-woman which helped her gain an advantage. In a video which has gone viral on social media, she could be seen climbing the iron bars that protects the entrance. She did it to …

Kebbi state police Command, Birnin Kebbi, has arrested one Yunusa Adamu of Tungar Tawaye in Koko town for r3ping one 5-year-old Fatima Musa. The suspect was alleged to have been using N20 to N30 naira to lure her into his mother’s room and forcefully had s3xual intercourse with her. The …