In a desperate plea for federal intervention, Zamfara State Governor Dauda Lawal has declared his state the “centre of banditry” in northern Nigeria. Lawal met with President Bola Tinubu in Abuja on Tuesday, urging approval for drastic measures to combat the rampant banditry plaguing the Northwest state. “Zamfara has become the centre of banditry as we speak today,” Governor Lawal lamented to State House correspondents after the meeting. “If nothing is done in Zamfara State,...

A Kano High Court judge sentenced a 47-year-old Chinese national, Frank Geng-Quangrong, to death by hanging on Tuesday. The court found Geng-Quangrong guilty of the murder of his Nigerian girlfriend, Ummukulsum Sani, aged 22. Justice Sanusi Ado-Ma’aji delivered the verdict, stating the prosecution had presented a strong case. “The defendant’s testimony is inconsistent. I hereby find him guilty,” the Judge said. Geng-Quangrong, a resident of Kano’s Railway Quarters, had pleaded not guilty to the charge...

In a shocking development, Nadeem Anjarwalla, a high-ranking executive with cryptocurrency giant Binance, has escaped from custody in Abuja. The news, confirmed by the Office of the National Security Adviser, ONSA, on Monday, adds a new twist to the ongoing saga between the Nigerian government and Binance. Anjarwalla, Binance’s Africa regional manager, along with another Binance executive, Tigran Gambaryan, were detained in February this year as the federal government tightened its grip on cryptocurrency activities....

The schoolchildren abducted from the Government Secondary School and LEA Primary School in Kuriga, Chikun LGA in Kaduna State, have been freed. The news, announced by Governor Uba Sani in the early hours of Sunday morning, brings an end to a harrowing ordeal that gripped the country for weeks. The children were taken hostage by gunmen on 7 March, immediately after their morning assembly session. The abduction sparked national outrage and a desperate search effort...

The Children, Sexual and Gender-based Violence Court sitting at the Anambra State High Court in Awka has sentenced a middle aged man to 10 years imprisonment for defiling his own only daughter who is aged nine. Delivering judgement in a three-count charge brought against the defendant, one Kenneth Nwangwu, by the state government, the court noted compelling evidence proving that the defendant is guilty as charged, and consequently sentenced him to seven years imprisonment on...