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UN judge jailed for keeping housekeeper as slave

Posted by admin United Kingdom (UK), Africa & World Politics, Headlines Saturday, May 3rd, 2025

James Ingham Role,BBC News 2 May 2025 A United Nations judge has been jailed for six years and four months for forcing a woman to work as a domestic slave. Lydia Mugambe, 50, was studying for a PhD in law at the University of Oxford when police discovered she had a young Ugandan woman at […]

Uber, Bolt Drivers In Nigeria To Commence Strike May 1st

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, April 26th, 2025

Thousands of ride-hailing drivers in Lagos plan to begin a 24-hour strike on May 1, 2025, targeting major platforms like Uber, Bolt, Lagride, inDrive, and Rida as they protest low fares, high commissions, and poor working conditions. The Amalgamated Union of App-Based Transporters of Nigeria (AUATON) disclosed this during the planned walkout on Tuesday, April […]

Nigerian man faces charges over 5-yr fake marriage to secure Zimbabwe residency

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Saturday, April 26th, 2025

Nigerian man faces charges over 5-yr fake marriage to secure Zimbabwe residency A 52-year-old Nigerian national, Kelechi Godwin, is facing serious legal trouble in Zimbabwe after allegedly orchestrating a five-year fake marriage scheme to obtain residency permits. Prosecutors allege that between 2009 and 2014, Godwin submitted forged documents to the Department of Immigration, including spousal […]

Why I didn’t allow Peter Obi visit Benue IDP camp – Gov Alia opens up

Posted by admin Benue, General Politics, Headlines, State News Saturday, April 26th, 2025

Why I didn’t allow Peter Obi visit Benue IDP camp – Gov Alia opens up By Oladipo Abiola Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia, has opened up about the episode which resulted in the inability of the 2023 Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to visit the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in the state. […]

I’m honoured, excited over World Bank’s appointment – Dangote

Posted by admin General Politics, Headlines, National Politics, Top Stories Saturday, April 26th, 2025

Dangote President and CEO of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has expressed gratitude following his appointment to the World Bank’s Private Sector Investment Lab, a global initiative aimed at accelerating private investment and job creation in emerging economies. In a statement confirming the development, Dangote described the appointment as both an honour and a reflection of […]

Hotelier slumps, dies during wife’s 60th birthday celebration in Lagos

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, April 21st, 2025

Tragedy struck weekend during what was meant to be a joyous occasion, as a Lagos hotelier, Otunba Kunle Akinyele, suddenly slumped and died during his wife’s 60th birthday thanksgiving service. The thanksgiving ceremony, held in honour of Deaconess Catherine Adejoke Akinyele, it was gathered, took place at Christ Apostolic Church, Oke-Iyanu, Odemuyiwa District Headquarters, in […]

Head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, dies at 88

Posted by admin Religion, Africa & World Politics, Headlines Monday, April 21st, 2025

Pope Francis dies at 88 Pope Francis Pope Francis, an energetic reformer who inspired widespread devotion from Catholics but riled traditionalists, died on Monday aged 88. The Argentine pontiff, leader of the Catholic Church since March 2013, spent 38 days being treated for double pneumonia at Rome’s Gemelli hospital before seeming to recover and leaving […]

Nigerian Uber driver, Olatunji W. Bolaji, shot, killed while picking up passenger – Philadelphia police

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, American Politics, Headlines Monday, April 21st, 2025

Nigerian Uber driver, Olatunji W. Bolaji, shot, killed while picking up passenger – Philadelphia police A 77-year-old Nigerian Uber driver was fatally shot in an ambush while attempting to pick up a passenger outside a hookah lounge in Philadelphia The incident occurred shortly before 2 a.m. on Wednesday, April 15. According to CBS News, the […]

When Government Goes Rogue with Impunity – By Oseloka H. Obaze

Posted by admin Oseloka H. Obaze, Articles, Columnists, Headlines, NNP Columnists, Rivers, State News Sunday, April 20th, 2025

Oseloka H. Obaze | Awka, Anambra, Nigeria | April 20, 2025 – With the recent declaration of State of Emergency in Rivers States, Nigerians find themselves in the most discomfited circumstance. Their democracy is halting as its core tenets and pillars are continually eroded. The state of her democracy is now critical and tending discernibly towards […]

I Recommend the British Re-colonization of Nigeria – By Tochukwu Ezukanma

Posted by admin United Kingdom (UK), Articles, Columnists, Headlines, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma Sunday, April 20th, 2025

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | April 20, 2025 – The American wartime (Second World War) president, Franklin Roosevelt, insisted that at the end of the war, Britain will not re-constitute her colonial empire. He wanted more advanced colonial entities like India to become independent immediately. Others, like Indonesia, placed in a limited-duration transitional […]