February 2019

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The crest of the Nigeria Police Force crest is on a police officer’s uniform. PHOTO: Sodiq Adelakun/Channels TV   Police have arrested a man identified as Azeez Agboola for allegedly parading himself as a legal practitioner in Ogun State. Mr Abimbola Oyeyemi, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, confirmed the arrest of the […]

Niger’s president-elect Mohamed Bazoum leaves the polling station after casting his ballot in Niamey on December 27, 2020 during Niger’s presidential and legislative elections. (Photo by Issouf SANOGO / AFP)   Niger’s newly-elected president Mohamed Bazoum is set to be sworn into office on Friday, a democratic watershed overshadowed by jihadist violence and alleged coup […]

A file photo combination of Biden and Suga.   Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will hold face-to-face talks with Joe Biden in Washington on April 16, as the first foreign leader hosted by the US president, the Japanese government said Friday. Local media had reported the trip would take place next week, but top government […]

This handout photo combination taken and released on April 2, 2021 by the New Taipei City Fire Department shows rescue team members at the site where a train derailed inside a tunnel in the mountains of Hualien, eastern Taiwan. Handout / New Taipei City Fire Department / AFP   Dozens of people were killed on […]

This photo taken and handout on March 21, 2021 by the Vatican Media shows Pope Francis holding a weekly live streamed Angelus prayer from the library of the apostolic palace in The Vatican, during new lockdown restrictions following a surge in Covid-19 coronavirus infections.Handout / VATICAN MEDIA / AFP   In a surprise move, Pope […]

Some of the Nigerian returnees from Saudi Arabia. Credit: NIDCOM   The latest badge of Nigerian returnees from Saudi Arabia has alleged that the country’s consulate in Saudi Arabia is returning more citizens of the neighboring Niger Republic than Nigerians, who are stuck in deportation camps in the Arabian country. The affected Nigerians who served […]

A map of Ogun, a state in south-west Nigeria.   Two students of the same parents were crushed to death in an accident involving a Bajaj motorcycle and a Man diesel truck along the Sagamu – Ikorodu road in Ogun State The Public Relations Officer of the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, Babatunde […]

In this file photo taken on October 23, 2018 Real Madrid’s Spanish defender Sergio Ramos reacts during the UEFA Champions League group G football match between Real Madrid CF and FC Viktoria Plzen at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid. GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP   Sergio Ramos has been ruled out of Real Madrid’s Champions […]

File photo: Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Justice Danladi Umar   The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) on Thursday said it would investigate the assault of a security guard by the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Danladi Yakubu Umar. Umar was on Tuesday caught on camera physically assaulting a security guard […]