Renowned Senior Advocate of Nigeria and founder of Afe Babalola University, Aare Afe Babalola, has disclosed the circumstances surrounding the arrest of the human rights Lawyer, Dele Farotimi. Babalola said that Farotimi defamed him in a recently published book. The…
It’s time to release Nnamdi Kanu, Igbo group appeals to Tinubu
An Igbo pan-global cultural organisation, Ogbako Ndi Igbo Na Uwaniile, has expressed deep concern over the continued detention of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, while appealing to President Bola Tinubu to review his case and…
Borno residents beg FG to release DCP Kyari
Some residents of Borno State have pleaded with the Federal Government to release DCP Abba Kyari, following the death of his mother. Kyari has been in detention for over one year for alleged corruption. An indigene, Baba Gana Kyari, in…
Delta bloodbath: Families, chiefs demand detained monarch’s whereabouts
Families and friends of the traditional ruler Ewu Kingdom in Delta State, Clement Ikolo, are said to be in the dark about his whereabouts for about a month since he was detained by the Nigerian military. A statement by the…
Bobrisky jailed without option of a fine
Justice Abimbola Awogboro of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, Friday sentenced controversial cross-dresser, Idris Olanrewaju Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky, to six months imprisonment without an option of fine for abusing the Naira. The judge while sentencing the…
Bobrisky may spend Eid-il-fitri holiday in custody
Controversial crossdresser, Okuneye Idris, aka Bobrisky, may spend the Eid-il-Fitri break in detention. Bobrisky was arrested on April 3 and convicted by a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Friday, April 5, 2024, after pleading guilty to the charges…
German Magistrate detains man for alleging stabbing 4-year-old girl
A German Magistrate has issued a detention order for a man suspected of stabbing a 4-year-old girl in a supermarket, police and the public prosecutor said on Friday. The 34-year-old was ordered to be taken to a psychiatric hospital for…
Children of embattled terrorists negotiator appeal to Tinubu, Ribadu over his ill health
Following a health challenge which needed urgent attention for which he flew to Cairo last year before he was arrested by DSS and brought back to Nigeria, family members of Kaduna based publisher of Desert Herald weekly Newspaper, Tukur Mamu…
Court orders preventative detention for horror house abuser
A man accused of repeatedly abusing women, in his house in western Germany is to be placed in preventative detention after serving his prison sentence. Two of the women have dead as a result of the abuse. The man, named…
China announces detention of Japanese national on suspicion of espionage activities
China has said it was detaining a Japanese national on suspicion of espionage, after Tokyo urged Beijing to release one of its citizens. “Relevant Chinese authorities took criminal coercive measures this month against a Japanese citizen, in accordance with the…