Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted a shipment of cocaine concealed within 20 religious books bound for Saudi Arabia. The drugs, weighing a total of 500 grams, were discovered on April 15, 2025, during a routine inspection at a courier facility in Lagos. On the same day, NDLEA operatives at another courier…
A cross-party group of around 70 Japanese lawmakers on Tuesday attended the spring festival at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, regarded as a symbol of the country’s past militarism… © Japan Today
Political tensions are mounting in Osun State as the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) exchanged sharp criticisms over the performance of Governor Ademola Adeleke, with both parties setting their sights on the 2026 governorship election. The NNPP, through its state chairman Dr. Tosin Odeyemi, on Monday called for…
The United Kingdom Home Office received 22,619 asylum applications from Nigerian nationals from 2010 to 2024. Nigerians reportedly accounted for one in 30 UK asylum claims over the period, ranking 11th on the Home Office’s newly released year-end Asylum and Resettlement statistics. According to the Home Office, nearly twice as many Nigerians (2,841) applied for…
On April 18, 2024 the Truman Presidential Library held its premier fund-raising event, an awards dinner called “Wild About Harry,” at a downtown Kansas City hotel. It was the 25th anniversary of “Wild About Harry,” which a press release by the Truman Library Institute says is “now a Kansas City tradition … known for bringing…
