Eighteen Senegalese football fans detained in Morocco on allegations of hooliganism during last month’s Africa Cup of Nations final have begun a hunger strike, their lawyer announced on Friday, February 6. The group is protesting their continued detention without formal charges since their arrest on January 18. The arrests occurred after a tense AFCON final…
Operatives of the Police Special Fraud Unit (PSFU), Lagos, have arrested three suspects alleged to be behind a cyber blackmail and extortion scheme operating in the state. The unit’s spokesperson, DSP Ovie Ewhubare, said the suspects obtained explicit photographs of their victims and threatened to make them public unless ransom payments were made. He explained…
An NHS doctor has been arrested on suspicion of s£x offences involving an underage girl in Wales, UK. The consultant, a 52-year-old man, was taken into custody on Tuesday, Feb. 3, after police were alerted to a property. South Wales Police were called to a property in Sketty, Swansea, at around 8pm. The call reportedly came…
The Tanimu Turaki–led National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reiterated that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) lacks the constitutional authority to appoint leadership for the party. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Ini Ememobong, made this known while reacting to INEC’s quarterly consultative meeting with political parties, which was attended…
