“The global supply of cocaine is on the rise should put all of us on high alert“said UNODC Executive Director Ghada Waly. “Power for the cocaine market to Expanding in Africa and Asia is a dangerous reality.” Sky high supply and demand Criminal networks are now changing with dramatic results along with record levels of...
Canadian authorities have taken permanent control of the assets of the only branch of Silicon Valley Bank or SVB in the country. That branch is in Toronto. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions or OSFI announced the measure, after taking temporary control of the Santa Clara bank,...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, have withdrawn a fresh application they filed to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to allow their agents to participate in the process of sorting out ballot papers that were used for the presidential election that held on February 25. Both PDP and...
North Korea test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile in a show of military power on Thursday just hours before the leaders of South Korea and Japan are due to meet at a Tokyo summit expected to be overshadowed by North Korea’s nuclear threats. The launch, the North’s first ICBM test in a month and third missile...
After a report published in the British Medical Journal, led by researchers at McGill University in Canada, went viral for saying that the mental health crisis during the Covid-19 pandemic may not have been ‘ like’ as thought, people have continued since then. Conflict, sharing their most “inhibited shutdown behavior” during the pandemic as they...
For the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, this is an opportunity to remember the countless lives lost, and remember the abuses and suffering of the millions, including those who have been displaced, or are in arbitrary detention, who lost and missing. War cannot be stopped “The situation in Syria cannot stand and to...
A State High Court sitting in Owerri, the Imo State capital, has sentenced a former Commissioner for Transport under the Rochas Okorocha administration, Laz Okoroafor-Anyanwu, to three years imprisonment having been found guilty of a three-count charge bothering on fraud, looting public funds and stealing. Delivering the judgment in Court 14, the presiding Judge, Justice...
Justice Tijani Ringim of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Tuesday, March 14, 2023, admitted in evidence several documents tendered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, against a former acting Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Haruna Baba Jauro, and two others. Jauro alongside Dr. Dauda...
A Federal High Court, sitting in Maiduguri, Borno State on Tuesday, March 14, 2023 heard how a former minister of power, Mohammed Wakil and others shared a sum of N450million meant to influence the outcome of the 2015 presidential election in Borno State. The Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,...
The United States recognizes the McMahon Line as the international border between China and Arunachal Pradesh, according to a Senate resolution of a division that sees Arunachal Pradesh as an integral part of India. “At a time when China continues to pose grave and cumulative threats to a Free and Open Indo-Pacific, it is important...
