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A 24-year-old Nigerian man, Mercy Ojedeji, has pleaded guilty to charges of wire fraud and unlawful use of fraudulent immigration documents in the United States.   According to a statement released by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri on Thursday, the plea was entered in a ...

The Nigeria Football Federation has expressed deep sorrow following the death of former Super Eagles captain and head coach, Christian Chukwu.   Chukwu, who captained Nigeria’s 1980 Africa Cup of Nations-winning squad, died in his hometown of Enugu on Saturday at the age of 74.   In a statement on ...

The Secretary to Rivers State Government, Prof. Ibibia Worika, has called on residents of the state to be wary of fake news peddlers.   Worika said the authors of such fake reports are not only intended to misinform the people but to heat the polity.   He also refuted reports ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Friday, inaugurated the 46.3-kilometres Umuahia-Uzuakoli-Akara-Alayi-Abiriba road reconstructed by Abia State Governor, Alex Otti.   Obasanjo described Otti as a performer and an exemplary leader who has affected the lives of his people positively.   Speaking during the ceremony held at Uzuakoli, Bende Local Government Area, ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that Nigerians have no business being poor with the country’s vast resources.   He said that the nation is abundantly blessed but is suffering from the mismanagement of its resources.   Obasanjo said this at a dinner organised in his honour by the Abia ...

Stakeholders from the health sector have called on Nigerian youth and women to join the fight against malaria in the country.   They made the call on Saturday at an engagement meeting in Abuja organised by the African Leaders Malaria Alliance in collaboration with The Global Fund and Malaria and ...

The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Abdullahi Ganduje, has dismissed talks of an opposition merger ahead of the 2027 general elections, describing the move as a futile alliance that is doomed to fail.   Ganduje made the remarks on Friday while speaking to journalists after leading the ...

  Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has awarded a cash gift of N10 million to Isioma Sybil Nwosu, the best graduating student of Lagos State University for the 2023/2024 academic session.   Nwosu, a graduate of Biochemistry from the Faculty of Science, finished with a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) ...

  The Ekiti State Police Command has taken into custody an officer accused of stabbing a civilian in Ise-Ekiti over an argument between his girlfriend and the man’s son.   This development followed the circulation of a viral video in which the victim’s daughter claimed that the officer—allegedly a chairman’s ...

  The UN condemned on Friday the widespread rape of children in conflict-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where thousands were reportedly subjected to sexual violence in the first two months of 2025.   Eastern DR Congo has been wracked by decades of conflict, but tensions have been heightened in ...