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Murder: Military Court Sentences Soldier To Death, Others To Jail Terms For Killing 5 Civilians

By Amos Dunia, Persecond News Abuja – The General Court Martial (GOC), sitting in Maiduguri, Borno State has sentenced an Army personnel, Lance Corporal...

Horror as train cuts school bus in two, killing four children in France

At least four children were killed and 19 people injured, seven seriously, on Thursday when a train crashed into a school bus at...

Address health challenges that women face – Aisha Buhari urges stakeholders, privileged Nigerians

Wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Muhammadu Buhari, has called on stakeholders and well-to-do Nigerians to put in their best to help resolve serious...

Saraki to face trial on three charges, says Appeal Court

A three-man panel of the Court of Appeal led by Justice Tinuade Akomolafe-Wilson Tuesday unanimously ordered  the Senate President to return to the...

After decades of back and forth, FG hands over State house in Marina to Lagos government

The Federal Government has completed the handing over of the State House, Marina to the Lagos State Government on Tuesday after over 20...

Plane With 92 Deported Somalis Returns to U.S After Anti-Trump Protest Erupted in Mogadishu

Ninety-two undocumented immigrants who were en route to Somalia after being deported on Thursday from the U.S were rerouted back to America after their...

Appeal Court Issues Landmark Decision: EFCC lacks powers to prosecute serving judges

The Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal Monday issued a landmark decision that serves to curtail the excesses of the Economic and Financial...

Okorocha says he is ‘considering’ running for president

Imo governor Rochas Okorocha is pondering a 2023 presidential campaign, the controversial politician said Saturday. “If you recall, I said but for Buhari,...

A frolic on the Red Sea By Femi Adesina

It was a gust of chilly wind that said Akwaaba (welcome, in Ghanaian language) to me in the Jordanian city of Aqaba, that...

Britain, EU reach Brexit divorce terms

Britain and the EU reached a historic deal on Friday on the terms of the Brexit divorce after Prime Minister Theresa May rushed...

Ndoma-Egba: NDDC to clear all foreign scholarship backlog

The Governing Board of the NDDC Wednesday disclosed that the Board had agreed to clear the backlog and all issues surrounding the foreign scholarship...

15,000 internally displaced daily in Africa

Conflicts, violence and disaster across Africa forced some 15,000 people to flee their homes every day in the first half of the year,...

Husband, wife and two children killed in raging Lagos fire

Fire investigators  in Lagos were looking into the cause of a pre-dawn fire Tuesday which killed four members of at No. 13, Buraimoh street,...

#EndSARS: SERAP drags FG, Police to UN over detention of Moses Motoni of BudgIT

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an urgent appeal to four UN special rapporteurs drawing their attention to “the arbitrary arrest...

Senate set to probe SARS brutality allegations

The senate voted on Tuesday to launch an investigation into alleged acts of brutality by  Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). The move follows a...

SERAP to Buhari: refer corruption in the privatisation process to EFCC, ICPC

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP) has sent an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari requesting him to use his “good offices and...