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A Phnom Penh court on Friday sentenced a woman to one year in jail for Facebook comments in which she accused Cambodian Prime Minster, Hun Sen, of masterminding the murder of government critic, Kem Ley. Hin Vansreypov was arrested in Banteay Meanchey province on July 10 after calling Hun Sen and his family “killers” in […]

Aminu Atiku, son of Atiku Abubakar, former Vice-President, allegedly took his son away from ex-wife, Fatima Bolori, after losing custody of his two children on Wednesday. Atiku was said to have snatched his son from the mother, locked him in his car and drove off. The Nation reports that the incident happened around 1:59pm at the […]

Mohammed Aminu Atiku, the son of former Vice President Abubakar Atiku, Wednesday in Lagos lost the struggle to have sole custody of his two children born to him by his estranged wife, Unmi Fatima Bolori. Chief Magistrate Kikelomo Ayeye had earlier granted Aminu Atiku, interim custody of the two children. At the resumed hearing on […]

Nigerian Nobel Prize winner, Professor Wole Soyinka has described the incessant attacks and killings by the killer herdsmen in many parts of Nigeria as a declaration of war on the country. Soyinka made the position known in a statement released on Wednesday. He also warned President Muhammadu Buhari against treating the case of the herdsmen […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission has announced the time table for the 2019 general elections. The presidential and National Assembly elections will hold on same day on February 16, 2019, INEC said while briefing journalists on Tuesday. Governorship and state assembly elections will also hold same day on March 2, two weeks after the presidential […]

The Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, is alive but “is in a terrible state of health,” the Nigerian Army said on Monday. The army has repeatedly made contradictory claims on Mr. Shekau. Statements like Shekau had been killed or does not really exist have been made by the army in the past putting doubts in […]

The Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, on Sunday restated a widely held stance by federal officials that the Boko Haram insurgents have been defeated. Mr. Buratai’s statement on Sunday follows similar ones by other officials of the Muhammadu Buhari administration. Earlier on New Year day, President Buhari had also said the Boko Haram had […]

An overly honest man reported himself to police for drink driving, in one of the most bizarre 911 calls ever. Michael Lester, of Polk County in Florida, called 911 on New Year’s Eve and told the operator he had been drink driving ‘all night’. He could not even tell the operator where he was when […]

Majority of Nigerians who participated in an opinion have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign as Minister of Petroleum Resources. The call follows the fuel scarcity that lingered across the country through the festive season and which is still on in some states. In the poll conducted by Premium Times, 66.9 per cent of […]

At 3.30 p.m. on Wednesday, a phone rang in a room in an uninhabited village in the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea. For the first time since February 2016, the North was calling the South. And South Korea answered. Little is known about the contents of the 20-minute call, which ended at 3:50 […]

There was blackout across the country on Tuesday as a result of the collapse of the national grid. The situation was caused by a fire incident on one of the pipeline systems in the country, the ministry of power said in a statement. It identified the pipeline system as Escravos Lagos Pipeline System near Okada, […]