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David Nwamini, the boy at the centre of the arrest and prosecution of former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, said he wants to remain in United Kingdom. The would-be kidney donor in the organ trafficking case made the request in his impact statement read in court at the sentencing.In the …

A UK-based Nigerian student, John Nwadiaju has been sentenced to 11 months in prison sent for violently assaulting and abusing his wife, Kosisochukwu Echem. Nwadiaju who is a student at Bangor University in North Wales, United Kingdom, was on Friday handed the sentence, along with 250 hours of unpaid work …

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that Covid-19 no longer represents a “global health emergency”.The statement represents a major step towards ending the pandemic and comes three years after it first declared its highest level of alert over the virus. Officials said the virus’ death rate had dropped from …

Victor Osimhen made history on Thursday night powering Napoli to win a Serie A title after 33 years. The Nigerian forward scored the decisive goal in the second half as Napoli came back from trailing to Sandi Lovric’s opener at half-time.Osimhen’s title-deciding strike against Udine was his 22nd goal in …

United States President Joe Biden will not attend King Charles’ coronation in Westminster Abbey, London, England, on Saturday. Biden told King Charles in a phone call that he would not grace the coronation, but Washington confirmed the US First Lady, Jill Biden will attend with a delegation. Sky News said …

The Nigerian military says it has not seen any reasons why ‘President-elect’, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress should not be sworn in on May 29, as the next president of the country. It warned those planning to scuttle his inauguration against doing so, saying would forestall any threat. …

The United Kingdom court has sentenced former Deputy Senate President of Nigeria, Ike Ekweremadu, to nine years and eight months in prison for an organ trafficking plot. The court also sentenced his wife, Beatrice, to four years six months while the medical doctor who acted as a ‘middleman’ in the …

A 22-year-old man identified as Ibrahim Musa stabbed his biological mother to death in Kano . According to report, the incident happened around 6:pm on Wednesday, May 3, in Rimin Kebbe Quarters, Nassarawa Local Government Area of the state. Spokesperson of the command, DSP Abdullahi Kiyawa Haruna, who confirmed the incident …

Former Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, his wife, Beatrice and their middleman medical doctor, Obinna Obeta, will receive their sentence on Friday, May 5, 2023, following their their conviction for organ trafficking in March, in the first verdict of its kind under the Modern Slavery Act. Ekweremadu, …

Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has approved unified USSD codes for all mobile networks in Nigeria. The harmonized shortcodes (HSC) will work across all mobile networks in the country. This means all mobile network services will be using the same customer care number, the same code for checking data balances, the …