Police operatives in Anambra state have rescued 35 teenage girls trapped in a forced prostitution and baby factory ring in a hotel located at Umusiome, Nkpor, Idemili North local government area. Also arrested during the raid were seven other female Read more…
Gunmen have killed another man in Nkwelle-Ezunaka community in Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State, Nigeria’s South-east. The incident happened in the early hours of Monday at a popular junction in the area. A resident of the area, Arinze Ajaezu, Read more…
Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi has said the federal government can reduce crime and criminality in the country by pulling the citizens out of poverty. This is as he said it was ironical that Nigeria Read more…
Southeast based civil rights group, International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) has disclosed that the organisation has no petition whatsoever against former Anambra Governor and now Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, pending Read more…
Pope Francis on Tuesday again denounced Russia’s bloody war in Ukraine — and again suggested that perhaps Moscow was baited into invading the former Soviet republic. In an interview with Jesuit magazine La Civiltà Cattolica, the pontiff called for an immediate end Read more…
Taking up positions in cities is the Ukrainian military’s calculated tactic to minimize their own losses and maximize those of Russian forces, a top adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has revealed. In an interview with the New York Times Read more…
As many as 3,000 British nationals are fighting alongside Ukrainian troops against Russian forces, Britain’s The Independent newspaper reported on Tuesday, citing a foreign volunteer unit commander. Mamuka Mamulashvili, who leads the so-called Georgian Legion, told journalists that a total Read more…
A military official in the Russian-backed separatist region of Donetsk issued a stark warning to the remaining Ukrainian fighters in the besieged city of Severodonetsk: “Surrender or die.” Eduard Basurin, the deputy leader of the Donetsk People’s Republic, or the Read more…
Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andrey Melnik has called into question Germany’s ‘welcoming culture’ toward Ukrainian refugees. The diplomat told journalists that many had left the country after not getting the reception they had hoped for. Taking part in a talk Read more…
No fewer than 11 people were killed in the early hours of Sunday in a renewed attack by suspected herders at Igama communty in the Okpokwu Local Government Area of Benue State. Sources around the area said that no building Read more…
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Sunday that the US-led alliance aims to strengthen Ukraine’s position at the negotiating table, but added that any peace deal would involve compromises, including of territory. Stoltenberg spoke at the Kultaranta Talks in Read more…
A war in Ukraine that began with a Russian debacle as its forces tried and failed to take Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, has seemingly begun to turn, with Russia now picking off regional targets, Ukraine lacking the weaponry it needs, and Read more…