Hushpuppi Pleads Guilty, Risks 20 Years’ Imprisonment
Suspected Nigerian international fraudster, Ramon Abbas aka Hushpuppi, has agreed to plead guilty to charges including money laundering, wire fraud, felony amongst others brought against him by the United States District Court for the Central District Of California. In a plea agreement document sighted Africa Today News, New York yesterday, Hushpuppi agreed to plead guilty as […]
Zimbabwe Approves J&J Vaccine As Third Virus Wave Rages
Zimbabwe has approved the US-made Johnson and Johnson Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use becoming the first Western-manufactured jab to be administered in the country following a spiralling third wave of infections. Africa Today News, New York gathered that the only vaccines so far approved in the southern African country — which has a horrible relationship […]
Igboho, Kanu: Nigeria’ll Be In Trouble If… — Babangida Aliyu
A former Governor of Niger State, Babangida Aliyu, yesterday asserted that with the intractable agitation for secession in Nigeria, some aspects of the 1999 Constitution were fast becoming a dangerous ground for activities that could plunge the nation into crisis and destroy the unity of the country. According to him, it was now obvious that […]
COVID-19: Nigeria Records Highest Daily Cases In Four Months
Nigeria recorded its highest daily count of COVID-19 infections in the last four months yesterday. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) who made this disclosure in its latest update on the outbreak revealed that a total of 404 new cases were recorded. This makes it the biggest daily increase in the country since March […]
Bandits Assassinate Kaduna APC Candidate In Nasarawa
Suspected Bandits have assassinated an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain in Kaduna State, Africa Today News, New York reports. The late Alamkah Dominic Usman was the party’s chairmanship candidate for Kachia Local Government. The APC stalwart was shot dead along Keffi-Akwanga road in Nasarawa State. Read Also: APC Congress: Umahi, Onu Open Up On Consensus […]
Court Frees Zakzaky, Wife Of Culpable Homicide, Other Charges
A Kaduna State High Court has freed the incarcerated leader of the outlawed Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife, Zeena after dismissing all the charges brought against the religious leader by the Kaduna State government. In a ruling that lasted over eight hours yesterday, the presiding judge, Justice Gideon Kurada, […]
479 Killed As Cholera Spreads To 18 States
No fewer than 479 people have been killed in the current outbreak of Cholera in different parts of Nigeria, Africa Today News, New York reports. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) disclosed this in it latest situation report. It said since the beginning of this year, a total of 19,305 suspected cases have been […]
Bandits Are Terrorists – Nigerian Lawmaker, Namdas
A Nigerian lawmaker, Abdulrazak Namdas has explained why he wants bandits to be addressed as terrorists. The House of Representatives member said criminals who kill, kidnap and carry out other forms of atrocities were perpetrating terror. Namdas represents Jada/Ganye/Mayo-Belwa/Tounga federal constituency of Adamawa State. The Chairman, House Committee on Army, spoke at the sideline of […]
UK Offering Consular Assistance To Kanu – High Commissioner
British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing, yesterday disclosed that the Commission has offered consular assistance to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. Speaking on a television program monitored in Lagos on the trail of Kanu, Laing said: ‘On Nnamdi Kanu, all I would say is that we are on record of […]
CBN Bans Sale Of Foreign Exchange To BDC Operators
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has announced an end to the weekly allocation and sale of foreign exchange to Bureau De Change (BDC) operators in the country. CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, made the announcement on Tuesday while briefing reporters on the outcomes of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting in Abuja, the Federal Capital […]
Kaduna Monarch’s Kidnappers Demand ₦100m Ransom
Barely 24 hours after the abduction of the paramount ruler of Jaba chiefdom, Kpop Ham Gyet Maude, in Jaba Local Government Area of Kaduna State, his abductors have contacted the family demanding ₦100 million as ransom. A close family source who spoke to Africa Today News, New York revealed that the kidnappers made the demand […]
PDP Blasts Buhari For Travelling To London For Virtual Meeting
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asserted that it is appalling that President Muhammadu Buhari could deploy the nation’s resources to travel to London for the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021-2025 when the meeting is scheduled to be held virtually. The PDP also lampooned the Buhari Presidency for ‘trying […]