From ADETUTU FOLASADE-KOYI, Abuja Switzerland is set to expose public officers who stashed away looted funds in the country’s banks, just as it announced yesterday that the country new laws did not allow anonymous bank accounts in Swiss banks. The Swiss Government also announced that $700 million, out of the reported $1 billion loot stashed […]
Egyptian police battled thousands of protesters outside President Mohamed Mursi’s palace in Cairo on Tuesday, prompting the Islamist leader to leave the building, presidency sources said. Officers fired teargas at up to 10,000 demonstrators angered by Mursi’s drive to hold a referendum on a new constitution on December 15. Some broke through police lines around […]
DECEMBER 3, 2012 BY ADE ADESOMOJU 55 COMMENTS Dr. Wale Babalakin, owner of Bi-Courtney Nig Ltd | credits: OPERATIVES from the London Metropolitan Police are to give evidence when the trial of the Chairman, Bi-Courtney Highway Services, Dr. Wale Babalakin, finally begins at a Lagos High Court, Ikeja. A senior lawyer privy to the goings-on […]
CAIRO: Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi on Sunday tried to reach out to a concerned citizenry, insisting that the sweeping powers he had assumed were temporary and aimed at ensuring a smooth transition to an elected parliament, as mounting unrest claimed the life of a Brotherhood member. In a statement issued on Sunday, Mursi’s office also […]
President Goodluck Jonathan has congratulated President Ernest Bai Koroma on his re-election and swearing-in yesterday for another five-year term at the helm of his country’s affairs. President Jonathan and Nigeria welcome President Koroma’s victory with close to 60 per cent of the votes cast in the November 17 presidential elections which was keenly contested by […]
BUT for President Goodluck Jonathan’s last minute diplomatic manoeuvres, Nigeria would have suffered irreparable damage in its relationship with the European Union (EU) and the West. This is not unconnected with what diplomatic sources say was a move by an infuriated Germany to swing a coalition of support against what it thought was a fundamental […]
NOVEMBER 24, 2012 BY COMFORT OSEGHALE The detention of a Nigerian information technology expert, Matthew Ikechukwu, in France for allegedly trafficking in hard drugs is currently giving members of his family and the Network on Police Reform in Nigeria a cause for concern. CRIME DIGEST gathered that Ikechukwu was arrested at the Lyon Airport in […]
-Punch Ajmal Kasab India has executed the sole surviving Pakistani gunman who participated in the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, VOA reports. The execution came days before the fourth anniversary of the attack, which killed 166 people and has been described as India’s worst-ever terror strike. The execution of Pakistani militant Mohammad Ajmal Kasab was […]
GAZA CITY, (AFP) – Life in Gaza began returning to normal on Thursday with a public holiday to mark a ceasefire that ended a violent eight-day confrontation with the Israeli military. After days and nights cooped up at home, their buildings rocked by an unrelenting Israeli bombing campaign and the sound of outgoing Palestinian rocket […]
A NIGERIAN gospel singer, Oluwamayowa Ajayi, who fleeced four American women he met on the internet dating site, Match.com, of over £120,000 was jailed for six and a half years on Friday evening at Snakesbrook Crown Court in East London. Ajayi, 31, who is an overstayer in Britain, looked blank and and showed no outward […]
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