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Olaniyi Nasiru Ojikutu, a 39-year-old Nigerian, was convicted of participating in a multi-year romance scam and was given a sentence of nearly seven and a half years in a U.S. jail.Ojikutu, a permanent resident of the US, allegedly opened roughly 25 bank accounts under his own name, ....
Mohammed Abacha, the son of the late Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha, has been removed from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP(Kano) )'s list of candidates for governor by the Court of Appeal sitting in Kano.The court recognized Sadiq Wali, a co-petitioner with Mr. Abach ....
At the Investors and Exporters window on Friday, the Naira was traded for $461.50.The amount marked a 0.09 percent increase over the 461.10 it traded for on Thursday.On Friday, the open indicative rate reached N461.50 to the dollar.The highest rate recorded during Frid ....
No fewer than 7,000 relief workers from 61 nations have arrived in Turkey as a result of Monday's earthquake to assist with search and rescue operations, the Turkish Foreign Ministry announced on Friday.More than 22,000 people from both Turkey and Syria have already died as a result ....
The People's Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Council's director general in Rivers State, Dr. Abiye Sekibo, managed to flee a shooting attempt on Thursday.Sekibo's bulletproof jeep was reportedly fired upon by gunmen in police uniform in Rainbow Town in Port Harcourt, the stat ....
A fortnight after she vanished, Nicola Bulley's friend described the ongoing hunt for the mother-of-two without any closure as "almost like torture."Emma White claimed that Ms. Bulley's friends and family will never give up hope despite their "unimaginable frustration."Later, Ms. Wh ....
The PDP candidate for governor of Lagos has responded to Babatunde Fashola, the minister of works and housing, about his assertion that the candidate is only a cinematographer and lacks the expertise necessary to lead the state.In a string of tweets sent on Thursday, Abdulazeez "Jandor" Ad ....
Google on Wednesday introduced a bevy of AI-powered improvements, but a flaw in an advertisement prompted a massive drop in the value of its stock.Shares of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, plummeted by almost 8% after a Twitter advertisement for the service, which generates ....
As rescuers tried to help numerous individuals still buried under rubble on Thursday, freezing temperatures added to the suffering of survivors of a devastating earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria and killed more than 16,000 people.As rescue operations continue through the 72-h ....
A car accident claimed the life of 33-year-old Chinenye Okonkwo, a Nigerian student at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) in Scotland.Okonkwo, a master's candidate at the university, was reportedly strolling on St. Vincent Street in Glasgow's central business district on February 2 ....