A 27-year-old man, Sule Otapo, was on Thursday sentenced to seven and half years imprisonment by a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, for unlawful confraternity and public terrorism.

The Inspector-General of Police (IG), Mr Solomon Arase, has said that the Nigeria Police Force had spent over N600 million on the procurement and maintenance of foreign dogs in the last few years.

(Xinhua/NAN) The Swiss State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) on Thursday said a total of 2,705 new asylum requests were submitted in February in Switzerland, almost a quarter fewer than in January.

The Federal High Court in Abuja has granted bail to the ‎former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh (retd),‎ to the tune of N2billion.

The ‎Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, urged the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to deny bail to the former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh (retd), ‎who it said looted over N3.9billion from accounts of the Nigerian Air Force.

The first Africa installation of  GE’s solar hybrid technology will go ahead later this year at the Northern  Noodles factory in Kaduna, northern Nigeria.

An Ilorin Magistrates’ Court on Thursday remanded a security guard, Habila Hayanchi, 25, for allegedly stabbing a motorcyclist, Mohammed Awwal to death over N200 fare.

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kacikwu, is to set up a committee to examine the demands of oil and gas unions over the new structure of the NNPC, according to a trade unionist.

Their biographies, to the lay-man, look like something akin to the work of a superhero, and they could just save the continent.

Ms Emily Enright, the Citizen Service Officer, U.S. Embassy, Abuja has urged the media to mobilise Nigerians with dual citizenship on their right to vote in the November U.S. Presidential election.