SERAP Takes CBN to Court Over $6.23 Million Election Payment
ABUJA, Nigeria — The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has taken the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to court, seeking disclosure of how $6.23 million linked to a disputed...
View ArticleTo Atiku Abubakar: A Final Word for A Diminishing Star, By Femi Fani-Kayode...
I received a WhatsApp message from Waziri Atiku Abubakar on Sunday afternoon in response to my open letter to him which was published earlier that day titled ‘AND NOW YOU CALL HIM BOLA’ together with...
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Court Quashes Warrants Used in Police Raids on Former Prince Andrew’s Royal...
LONDON, United Kingdom — Search warrants used by police to raid properties linked to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor during an investigation connected to Jeffrey Epstein were unlawfully issued and must be...
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Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Merger Creates Global Media Giant Skydance
LOS ANGELES, United States — Paramount Skydance has completed its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, placing two of Hollywood’s biggest entertainment companies under a new corporate entity,...
View ArticleFinnish PM Says Foreign Power May Be Behind Pattern of Break-Ins at MPs’ Homes
HELSINKI, Finland — Police in Finland are investigating suspected intrusions at the homes of several members of parliament in the Helsinki area, as Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said a foreign state...
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Navi Pillay, Who Led U.N. Inquiry That Found Genocide in Gaza, Wins Nobel...
OSLO, Norway — Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, the South African jurist and former United Nations human rights chief whose career has spanned the fight against apartheid, international war-crimes tribunals,...
View ArticleAdvocacy Group SERAP Asks Tinubu to Probe ₦94.4 Billion in Alleged Oil...
ABUJA, Nigeria — The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has asked President Bola Tinubu to order an investigation into more than ₦94.4 billion in petroleum revenues, gas-flaring...
View ArticleWoman Accused of Witchcraft Paraded, Flogged, and Humiliated in Enugu...
ENUGU, Nigeria — A human rights organisation has called for the prosecution of villagers accused of assaulting and publicly humiliating an elderly woman in Enugu State following allegations of...
View Article‘I’m Not a Cheater’: Coco Gauff Condemns Racist Attacks After China Open...
BEIJING, China — Coco Gauff has condemned an “insane” wave of racist abuse directed at her on social media after a disputed point during her China Open victory over Chinese teenager Sun Xinran. The...
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Christa Pike ‘Angry and Confused’ After Failed Execution as Judge Orders All...
NASHVILLE, United States — Christa Pike is “angry and confused” and unable to move either arm after surviving Tennessee’s attempt to execute her, her lawyers said Wednesday, as a judge ordered the...
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BREAKING: 20 NYSC Members Kidnapped While Travelling to Orientation Camps...
OWERRI, Nigeria — Twenty prospective National Youth Service Corps members and another person abducted by gunmen in Imo State have regained their freedom after seven days in captivity. The victims were...
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Henri Kagan, 95, and Kenso Soai, 76, Win Chemistry Nobel for ‘Mirror Image’...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — French chemist Henri B. Kagan and Japanese scientist Kenso Soai have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discoveries that showed how chemical reactions can favour one of two...
View ArticlePassenger on Kenya Airways Flight to Lagos Dies After Being Restrained
LAGOS, Nigeria — A male passenger aboard a Kenya Airways flight from Nairobi to Lagos died after reportedly becoming agitated, attempting to enter the cockpit, and later being restrained by the crew,...
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EXPOSED: FIFA Files Show DR Congo Keeper Was Ineligible as Nigeria Protest...
ZURICH, Switzerland — FIFA lawyers found that Democratic Republic of Congo goalkeeper Lionel Mpasi had not completed the required process to represent the country, but Nigeria’s protest was rejected on...
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Christa Pike Regains Consciousness After 2 Lethal Injection Doses Failed to...
NASHVILLE, United States — Christa Pike, the Tennessee death-row inmate who survived an attempt to execute her by lethal injection, has regained consciousness and is speaking while receiving critical...
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18-Year-Old Transgender Sentenced to 50 Years for Killing Mother and Her...
PALM BAY, United States — A Florida teenager has been sentenced to 50 years in prison after pleading guilty to killing her mother and her mother’s boyfriend in their Palm Bay home when she was 16....
View ArticleCDC Monitors Russia After Plague Lab Worker Dies of Mystery Pneumonia
ATLANTA, United States — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it is monitoring a suspected case of pneumonic plague in Russia after a 28-year-old laboratory worker died, but says...
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Hayden Panettiere’s Ex-Partner Approaches Court to Protect Daughter’s...
LOS ANGELES, United States — Former heavyweight boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko has asked a California court for temporary authority over the estate interests of his 11-year-old daughter with Hayden...
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Murder Victim’s Mother Waited 31 Years for Christa Pike’s Execution, Only to...
NASHVILLE, United States — May Martinez travelled hundreds of miles to watch Christa Pike be executed for killing her 19-year-old daughter. Instead, she watched Tennessee administer two doses of a...
View ArticleHeartbreaking: Families Report Abducted NYSC Members are Being Tortured By...
IBADAN, Nigeria — Families of prospective National Youth Service Corps members abducted while travelling through Imo State say their relatives are being beaten in captivity as the kidnappers demand ₦5...
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