Femi Falana, SAN. Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has lambasted Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde; and his Ondo State counterpart, Rotimi Akeredolu, for visiting President Muhammadu Buhari in a bid to find a lasting solution to the herdsmen ...

The Sultan of Sokoto, HRH Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III, has said seven to eight out of every ten kidnappers arrested in Nigeria are Fulani. According to the Nation, Abubakar disclosed this on Friday in Abuja at a meeting of the Miyetti All...

A parent of one of the abducted Chibok girls has confirmed that his daughter, identified as Halima, has escaped from her captors. Chairman of the Abducted Chibok girls' group, Ali Nkeki, confirmed this to Channels Television on Friday. ...

A new report published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) has revealed politicians in West Africa, mostly from Nigeria, contribute over £30 million annually to the United Kingdom's education sector. The report released...

Ibanga Isine An Abuja-based investigative journalist, Ibanga Isine, has been reportedly forced to go into hiding following death threats to his life over a series of his reports on conflicts in Southern Kaduna. Some of his friends on Friday t...

Indian police Two men, including a Nigerian national, have been detained in Rasayani in Maharashtra's Raigad district for allegedly possessing drugs worth over Rs one lakh, police said on Friday. The duo was nabbed on Thursday. Mephedrone and...

Bola Tinubu A former governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, has revealed how former President Olusegun Obasanjo truncated the ambition of the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to become the ru...

Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello. Emerge Women, a civil society organisation, has said the appointment of 21 female deputy chairpersons in Kogi State does not deserve commendation from the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Em...

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested 30 suspects for various internet-related offences in Enugu. The agency stated that the young men were arrested at Thinkers Corner Extension following a tip-off o...

Femi Falana (SAN) Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has warned the Nigeria Police Force not to arrest Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho. Falana, who gave this warning on Friday at a PUNCH Online intervie...