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A court in Argentina has sentenced two Roman Catholic priests to more than 40 years in prison for sexually abusing deaf children at a church school. Horacio Corbacho and Nicola Corradi, as well as a gardener, were found guilty of rape and abuse at the school in Mendoza province from 2004 to 2016. Several victims […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed the strong determination of his administration to forge a strong, united nation from the diverse religious and ethnic communities in the country. The president stated this when he received the Tijjaniyya Muslim Religious Movement at the State House, Abuja, on Monday. Buhari lauded mutual understanding among the followers of the […]

A plane carrying at least 17 passengers crashed into homes in a neighborhood in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday, authorities said. The aircraft, operated by private airline Busy Bee, plunged into houses in Mapendo district in Goma shortly after it took off from the airport on Sunday morning, said provincial governor Nzanzu Kasivita […]

Business mogul, Femi Otedola, has revealed why he donated N5 billion to a charity in Abuja. The billionaire, earlier this month, gave out N5 billion to the Save The Children charity in support of its intervention in the Northeast. The donation through his daughter at the ball organised by the Cuppy Foundation. Save The Children […]

The Presidency, through an aide, has given an informal response to the US indictment of Air Peace CEO Allen Onyema on criminal fraud charges, suggesting that the airline mogul answer for the crimes of which he has been formally accused. This was contained in a tweet storm by Lauretta Onochie, President Muhammadu Buhari’s aide on […]

A Nigerian couple have become new parents after they welcomed a set of quintuplets, three boys and two girls, 16 years after they got married. Mr and Mrs Egenti have been waiting for the fruit of the womb since they tied the knot in 2003. After many years of waiting, they tried several medical options including IVF, […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has said Nigeria has no reason to remain underdeveloped. He therefore identified technology as a catalyst for the country’s development. The President, who was represented on Saturday by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo at the graduation ceremony of Senior Executive Course 41 of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, Jos, said […]

The Chief Executive Officer of Air Peace, Mr. Allen Onyema, on Saturday, denied all the allegations of fraud levelled against him by the US. In his reactions to the indictment of bank fraud and money laundering for moving more than $20m from Nigeria through United States bank accounts in a scheme allegedly involving false documents based on […]

Frequent flier Rajan Mahbubani thought he had discovered the ultimate hack for getting preferential treatment at airports. Instead it got him arrested. In a case that’s been compared to the Leonardo DiCaprio conman movie “Catch Me If You Can,” the 48-year-old allegedly donned the uniform of a Lufthansa pilot in order to fool airport workers […]

President Muhammadu Buhari says he will not seek a third term in office at the end of his second term in 2023. The Nigerian Constitution sets a two-term limit for the president and state governors, but that has not stopped speculations that Mr Buhari may want to stay beyond 2023. Former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, was […]

The Nigerian Senate has passed the Finance Bill. The bill which was presented to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari in October, seeks to increase the value-added tax (VAT) from five per cent to 7.5 per cent. If signed into law, Nigerians will pay more for specific goods and services that attract VAT. The bill will also […]

Senate President Ahmad Lawan has expressed willingness to approve all requests that come to the Senate from President Muhammadu Buhari. Lawan said any request that comes from Buhari is “good for the nation” and the Senate will take immediate action on them. The Senate President said this when the Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, […]

The son of Germany’s ex-president Richard von Weizsäcker was stabbed to death while giving a lecture in Berlin on Tuesday night, local police have confirmed. Fritz von Weizsäcker, a 59-year-old medical doctor, was delivering a lecture at the Schlosspark-Klinik hospital in the west Berlin district of Charlottenburg, a Berlin police spokesman told CNN. At about […]

Super Eagles forward, Ahmed Musa, has shown his charitable side after he was unveiled as brand ambassador of Skyline University in Kano on Wednesday. The Al Nassr star, who returned to action after being sidelined by an injury for a month, starred in the Eagles’ AFCON 2021 campaign against Lesotho and Benin Republic respectively, helping the […]

The Church of England consecrated its first black female bishop on Tuesday in a ceremony at London’s St Paul’s Cathedral. Jamaican born Rose Hudson Wilkin, 58, the new Bishop of Dover, recently left her post as chaplain to the speaker of the British Parliament’s elected main house, the Commons, after nine years. “Rose has not […]