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Nicolás Maduro, the former far-left leader of Venezuela captured in a U.S. special forces operation over the weekend along with his wife, Cilia Flores, appeared in court Monday on federal narco-terrorism, drug trafficking and firearms charges. The case has drawn comparisons to the similar downfall of Panama dictator Manuel Noriega in the 1980s and appears to illustrate a reorganization of …

enin, Edo Nigeria – Kidnappers who recently abducted two brothers have reportedly killed the younger one, while the elder, a medical doctor, remains in captivity. The deceased, Tahir Abu, was found dead by a riverbank during a bush-combing operation conducted at the weekend by a joint team of police officers, soldiers, local vigilantes and hunters. Sources said the family was …

Every Jan. 5 the Church celebrates the feast of St. John Neumann, Redemptorist missionary, fourth bishop of the city of Philadelphia, and organizer of the first Catholic education network in the U.S. John Nepomucene Neumann was born in Bohemia, now the Czech Republic, in 1811. He attended school in Budweis and years later, in 1831, entered the seminary in that …

NEW YORK (AP) — A defiant Nicolás Maduro declared himself the “president of my country” as he protested his capture and pleaded not guilty on Monday to the federal drug trafficking charges that the Trump administration used to justify removing him from power. “I was captured,” Maduro said in Spanish as translated by a courtroom reporter before being cut off …

ucas Durojaiye, the former General Manager of Sovereign Trust Insurance Plc has been appointed as the company’s new Managing Director. Durojaiye’s appointment followed the retirement of the company’s immediate past Managing Director, Mr. Olaotan Soyinka. The company disclosed the appointment in a notice to the Nigerian Exchange Ltd., stating that it takes immediate effect after receiving the approvals of the …

53-year-old mother and her 28 year-old son have been arrested in connection with attempted ritual activities in Ile-Oluji, Ile-Oluji/Okeigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State, the State Police Command has disclosed. DSP Abayomi Jimoh, the command’s Spokesperson, who made this known in a statement on Saturday in Akure, said the breakthrough followed actionable and credible intelligence leveraged by operatives of …

The relationship between Messrs Fubara and Wike appears to have broken down after the FCT minister accused the governor of reneging on the terms of the peace deal brokered between them by President Bola Tinubu in June last year. The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has said that his political career would come to an end …

Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has claimed that he was allegedly listed for elimination as a Boko Haram figure on the same day the United States conducted an air strike in Nigeria. The revelation came while Gumi addressed his congregation in a video that has since gone viral, posted on X by user #General_Somto on Sunday. According to the …

Over 30 people were killed by the terrorists during the Saturday attack on the Niger community. President Bola Tinubu has condemned the fatal attack on the Kasuwan Daji community in Niger State. The president also ordered security chiefs to hunt down the attackers and ensure the kidnapped residents are freed. PREMIUM TIMES reported that the attack occurred on the evening …

Terrorists suspected to be members of the Sadiku-led Boko Haram faction have raided Kasuwan Daji, a Niger State village roughly 23kilometres from Papiri, where schoolchildren were abducted last year. The attack occurred on the evening of 3 January. Multiple sources told our reporter that the terrorists killed at least 35 people and kidnapped an unspecified number of others, mostly women …