Senegal’s parliament on Wednesday passed legislation doubling the maximum penalty for same-sex relations, making them punishable by up to 10 years in prison amid a crackdown on the country’s gay community. The text, which must now be signed into law […]
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Australian designer Katie Perry has won the right to sell clothes under her name, claiming victory Wednesday in a years-long trademark spat with US pop megastar Katy Perry. Designer Katie Perry accused her far more famous namesake of trademark infringement, […]
By Nkiruka Nnorom The Federal Government has extradited a 26-year-old Nigerian, Afeez Olatunji Adewale, to the United States to face charges related to the sexual extortion and death of a young man in Pennsylvania. Mr Adewale, the third Nigerian extradited […]
The three suspects accused of the murder of 22-year-old Nigerian student and e-hailing driver, Isaac Satlat, appeared in court for the first time on Monday. Dikeledi Mphela, Goitsione Machidi, and McClaren Mushwana, facing charges of murder and robbery with aggravating […]
A UK-based Nigerian man, Adedapo Adegbola has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering a woman he worked with after she ended their brief ‘controlling relationship’. Adegbola fatally stabbed 23-year-old Stephanie Irons in the neck at her home in […]
The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced plans to deport at least 79 Nigerians listed among what it described as the “worst of the worst” criminal aliens in the country. Checks on the DHS website on Monday […]
Ousted Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking and other charges at a defiant appearance in a New York court Monday, two days after being snatched by US forces in a stunning raid on his home in […]
The Trump administration has appealed a court order that largely restored funding it had cut from Harvard University for allegedly tolerating antisemitism and harboring liberal bias. Harvard has been at the forefront of Donald Trump’s campaign against top US universities […]
The United States Congress is returning to the issue of rising violence in Nigeria following its initial round of hearings recently. Lawmakers are set to review fresh evidence and hear further testimony on the escalating attacks and alleged persecution of […]
By Temitope Abe A French court on Monday sentenced a mayor to four years in jail for blackmailing a political rival with a secretly filmed sex tape involving a male sex worker. Gael Perdriau, who has been mayor of the […]