President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday set out his vision for a better Nigeria, imagining an incorruptible paradise where drivers don’t run red lights and internet scams are a thing of the past. In Buhari’s Nigeria, police turn down bribes from rich men driving SUVs, militants in the oil-rich Niger delta …

About 80 percent of Nigerian women and girls, who arrive Italy, are sex trafficking victims, according to Vatican news agency, Agenzia Fides. “Hundreds of thousands of people fall victim to human trafficking every year in Africa alone,” said Monsignor Ignatius Ayau Kaigama at an international conference against human trafficking organised …

The National Youth Service Corps has called for adequate security measures to be put in place for the protection of corps members who will participate in the Edo governorship election, scheduled for Saturday. The Director-General, NYSC, Brig.-Gen. Sule Kazaure, made the call when he paid courtesy visits to various security …

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested one Tanko Abdulateef, a 22-year old House guard who allegedly killed his employer, Mrs Mabel Mba Okafor in Ajah area of the State on August 17, 2016. The suspect, who was arrested from his hiding in Bali, Taraba State, was said to have …

The Federal Government has secured the imprisonments of 269 persons who trafficked humans in Nigeria since 2003, the acting Director-General of National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, Abdulrasak Dangiri, said on Monday. He also hinted that cases of human trafficking from Nigeria across overseas, especially Europe have …

Mr Anselm Ojezua, Chairman, All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo, said President Muhammadu Buhari would lead the party members to Benin on Tuesday for the governorship campaigns finale.  Ojezua disclosed this while speaking with journalists in Benin on Monday and said  Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and all APC governors …

A group, the GET INVOLVED CAMPAIGN,  has raised an alarm over plans by the security agencies to scuttle the upcoming Ego State gubernatorial elections coming up this weekend. In a statement released, it said: “We wish to alert the nation of a very dangerous dimension in the impending Edo state …

A 38-year-old guard, Micheal Aniefie, who allegedly stole seven cans of drinks valued at N700 was on Tuesday in Lagos remanded in prison pending the fulfillment of his bail conditions. An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court, which gave the ruling, directed that the accused should be kept in Kirikiri Prisons. The Magistrate, …

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Chairman in Ondo State, Chief Isaac Kekemeke, says the party will not manipulate the process of the Aug. 27 governorship primary in the state. Kekemeke said in Akure on Tuesday that the electoral process would be “free and fair.’’ 23 governorship aspirants will participate in …

A 36-year-old man, Izuchukwu Ugwuzor, appeared in an Apapa Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, on Tuesday for allegedly beating his wife, Anuli, to a pulp. Ugwuzor, a resident of Sango-Tedo, Ajah on Lekki-Epe expressway, is standing trial on a charge of assault. The Prosecutor, Insp. Tony Elibeh, said that the accused …