The Police have re-arrested a kidnap kingpin, Hamisu Wadume, two weeks after he escaped from the custody of the Intelligence Response Team. The IRT operatives they came under attack from soldiers attached to Battalion 93, Takum, Taraba State, as they…
A police officer faces criminal charges after she was caught texting while driving her patrol car with no seat belt on. The unidentified cop was filmed by Marcus Evans, of Killeen in Texas, with the clip uploaded to Facebook last…
Senate President Ahmad Lawan on Monday paid a solidarity visit to Senator Ike Ekweremadu, who was assaulted by members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra in Nuremberg, Germany on Saturday. Lawan visited the former Deputy Senate President, at his…
Military police say they have “neutralised” a man who took a number of passengers hostage on a commuter bus in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. In a tweet, police said all hostages had been freed after a sharp…
Billie Eilish has criticised the way she is praised for wearing baggy clothes. The 17-year-old says people think she’s “saying no to being sexualized” but for her, that’s not true. Billie spoke about her fashion choices to Pharrell Williams in…
The US has tested a medium-range cruise missile weeks after pulling out of a key treaty with Russia that banned such nuclear-capable weapons. The Pentagon said it successfully launched the missile off the coast of California on Sunday. Moscow accused…
Arsenal director Josh Kroenke has revealed conceding four goals in the second half of the Europa League final transformed the Gunners’ approach to recruitment this summer and praised club staff for “working their magic” in the transfer market. The Gunners…
A 21-year-old woman in El Salvador whose baby was found dead in the toilet where she gave birth has been cleared of murder during a retrial. Evelyn Hernández had always maintained she was innocent, saying that she did not know…
Boris Johnson has told the EU the Irish border backstop must be scrapped as it is “unviable” and “anti-democratic”. In a letter to European Council President Donald Tusk, the PM also said the backstop risked undermining the Northern Irish peace process.…
A leader of Cameroon’s separatist movement, Sisiku Ayuk Tabe, and nine of his followers have been given life sentences by a military court in the capital, Yaoundé. They were convicted of rebellion, among other charges. Their lawyers accused the judge…
