The United States and China on Monday each demanded that the other stop smearing its reputation over the novel coronavirus as the pandemic became the latest row between the powers. The clash came on the day that the World Health Organization said more cases and deaths had been reported in the rest of the world […]

The United Nations says one of its peacekeepers has been killed in the Central African Republic (CAR). In a statement on Monday, the U.N. Mission in the country said the victim, from Burundi, was killed while trying to stop an attack by armed militants. It stated that rebel fighters known as the anti-Balaka launched the […]

Eight men, were on Monday brought before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly belonging to an unlawful society and using dangerous weapons to rob people of their belongings. The defendants are; Devis Qudus, 25; Ismailia Jamiu, 23; Rafiu Shodipo, 33;  Wasiu Kareem, 33; Kabiru Oduloye, 39; Ademola Rasheed, 28; Adegboro Yusuf, 41 […]

A Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan on Monday dissolved the 10-year-old marriage between one Mujidat Odemoye and husband, Semiu, over alleged threat to life. In her petition before Chief Ademola Odunade, the President of the court, Mujidat, a resident of Isale-Ijebu area of  Ibadan, said that her husband had completely wrecked her business through his […]

—Calls for burial without further delay Widow of the founder of Moni Pulo Limited, High Chief Olu Benson Lulu-Briggs, Seinye, on Monday expressed shock at the manner in which her stepson allegedly repatriated his father’s body into Port-Harcourt, Rivers State unceremoniously. In a statement released by her spokesperson, Oraye St. Franklyn, she (Seinye) however urged […]