Tag Archives: NIGERIA

Armed youth numbering about 100 have stormed a police station in the Sokoto, North-Western region of Nigeria. The on the Gidan Madi Divisional Police Station saw the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) killed with the District Superintendent of Police (DPO), Assistant Superintendent of Police (DSP, and many others severely injured. The …

27-year-old pornstar, Tobiloba Jolaoso popularly known as Kingtblakhoc has been remanded by the Osun State Magistrate’s Court for shooting a sex movie inside a shrine. The pornstar, Jolaoso in the company of five others were remanded on Monday after they were arrested by the police following reports from a member of …

In our series of letters from African journalists, Ghanaian writer Elizabeth Ohene looks at the fraught relationship between Ghana and Nigeria, which underlies the current tensions over the closure of some Nigerian-owned shops in Ghana. We see them as too loud, and abrasive and chaotic and we believe they think …

NIGERIA – Dubai-bound passenger with 2,886 Automated Teller Machine (ATM) card carefully concealed in a noodles has been intercepted by operatives of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) at Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) command and handed over to the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC).   The Kano passenger identified …

President of the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA), Dr. Joseph Obeng has raised concerns on the need for government to be circumspect with the proposed Friendship Act with Nigeria so Ghanaians are not disadvantaged. The GUTA boss is however, questioning the rationale behind Ghana relaxing its trade laws to …

The Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabialamila, is at the head of high powered Nigerian delegation in the country for a two-day visit to the Parliament of Ghana. He was met on arrival by his Ghanaian counterpart, Prof. Aaron Michael Oquaye. The two are expected …

Nigeria has criticised what it calls the “incessant harassment of its citizens in Ghana and the progressive acts of hostility towards the country by Ghanaian authorities”. The statement from Information Minister Lai Mohammed says Nigerians in Ghana are “being made… objects of ridicule”. Report He lists a number of issues …

A couple of suspected internet fraudsters (Yahoo Boys) reportedly clashed with some Policemen on Saturday morning, August 22, at Idiroko road in Ogun State. It was gathered that some Policemen had tried to stop the young men who were driving Benz at a checkpoint but the men ignored them and …

The army officers that seized control in Mali have announced that land and air borders will be reopened on Friday. The borders were closed after a coup this week. The coup leaders have also said they are in contact with opposition groups about starting the process of appointing a transitional …

A Nigerian oil mogul and the Chief Executive Officer of Rahamaniyya Oil and Gas Limited, Abdulrahman Bashir, has been sentenced to 10 months imprisonment in the United Kingdom. In February, Justice Butcher of England and Wales High Court ruled that Mr Bashir be imprisoned for breaching multiple orders of the …