IN a recent US Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, Michael Langley, the head of US Africa Command (AFRICOM) and US Marine Corps General, accused Burkina Faso’s Transitional President Ibrahim Traoré of pervasive corruption, saying: ‘All the proceeds from Burkina Faso’s gold reserves are…
THE 16th Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has appointed a new Galadima of Kano, alongside four other senior traditional councillors to hold various positions in the Emirate. Those appointed are: Galadiman Kano, Alhaji Munir Sanusi-Bayero, District Head of Bichi,…
A UGANDAN High Court judge who also served on the United Nations judicial roster has been sentenced to more than six years in a British prison for exploiting a young woman as an unpaid domestic worker while studying law at…
A COALITION of lawyers in Ghana and the United Kingdom has launched an investigation into what they describe as ‘dire’ working conditions for content moderators employed to review harmful content for social media giant Meta in Accra, Ghana. The probe…
A SOUTH African woman has been found guilty of human trafficking and kidnapping after allegedly selling her six-year-old daughter, who has been missing for over a year. The verdict, delivered on Friday in the coastal town of Saldanha Bay, has…
A Large group of women in Rivers State staged a walkout on Thursday during a women empowerment event at the EUI Centre in Port Harcourt, after Theresa, wife of the Sole Administrator of the state, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas…
POPULAR Nigerian social media personality and influencer, Martins Vincent Otse, widely known as VeryDarkMan, has been arrested by the Nigerian police in Abuja on the orders of Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank), following his public complaints about alleged unauthorised debits from…
THE Lagos State Government has inaugurated 34 units of three-bedroom flats for Magistrates and senior legal officers in the Ministry of Justice. Also inaugurated is the newly constructed Deputy Sheriff Warehouse to securely store confiscated goods pending the resolution…
THE Rector of Federal Polytechnic, Ede in Osun, Dr Man Yahaya Sani has warned 11,108 newly-admitted students against sexual misbehaviour, indecent dressing and other social.vices. Sani gave the warning on Friday in Ede during the 31st matriculation ceremony of the…
MEMBERS of the ECOWAS Parliament have appealed to Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger (Sahel States) to rescind their decision to quit the subregional bloc, and return to its fold. Sen. Edwin Snowe, Chairman of the parliament’s Joint Committee Delocalised Meeting,…
