Dr Daniel Kalu, a Nigerian Clergyman living in the U.S., has said that it was very easy for people to get “lost’’ in; America if they entered the country without viable plans.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Tuesday invited former Gov. Martin Elechi of Ebonyi for interrogation.

Twenty seven policemen missing after terrorists attacked Gwoza in Borno in August, 2014, are yet to be declared dead, Inspector-General of Police, Mr Solomon Arase, said on Tuesday.

Billionaire and real estate mogul, Donald Trump has launched his presidential campaign on Tuesday.

A Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Tuesday remanded a man, David Praise-Diri, who impersonated a pastor of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministry (MFM) at Ikoyi Prisons.

ONE of the daughters of the late Chief MKO Abiola, Miss Habiba Abiola, has said that her father’s death paved way for democratic government in Nigeria. Abiola, the acclaimed winner of the June 1993 presidential elections died in detention.

“I certainly don’t stay out of the sun, you know. And I also don’t — as some of the critics have said, put on black face as a performance,” Dolezal said, calling the firestorm around her “viciously inhumane.” “The discussion is really about what it is to be human,” Dolezal said, adding that she hoped the incident “really can drive at the core of definitions of race, ethnicity, culture, self-determination, personal agency and, ultimately, empowerment.”

An Egyptian court on Tuesday upheld a death sentence against ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi for plotting jailbreaks and attacks on police during the country’s 2011 uprising.

The board of the Nobel Peace Centre said on Monday it wished to end its formal cooperation with football’s scandal-plagued ruling body FIFA over the “Handshake for Peace” programme. The symbolic fair play gesture has been promoted by FIFA since 2014 at various levels of the game, and includes a handshake between the captains and referees before and after the final whistle.

“The 10-year-old was caught having an extramarital affair with a lady from another tribe, which created bad blood between the two tribes,” a local police official requesting anonymity told newsmen. “The incident was later taken to a jirga (tribal court) which ordered the boy’s family to pay a fine of Rs700,000 ($7,000) to the aggrieved side.