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The Obama administration accused Iranian government agents Tuesday of plotting to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in the United States and immediately used the thwarted plot to ratchet up sanctions and recruit international allies to (more…)

Malam Sanusi Lamido, the CBN Governor, has urged ECOWAS member-states to reform the banking sector in their countries. Sanusi said this at a Regional Conference jointly organised by the West African Institute for (more…)

There are strong indications that former Governor Peter Odili of Rivers State and the immediate past Governor of Imo State, Ikedi Ohakim, are next in line on the list of prospective leaders that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, may (more…)

…Displays Recovered Weapons, Set to Arraign Suspects The State Security Service (SSS) said yesterday that the unnamed banker currently in its custody, facilitated the transfer of funds for the October 1, 2010 bombings near the Abuja Eagle Square that claimed several lives. The (more…)

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan pledged Tuesday in Abuja that his Administration will continue to ensure that Nigeria’s Armed Forces are adequately equipped to carry out their internal security duties and the (more…)

It seems too fast and too soon for it to hit terra firma but that is just the way it appears headed. Simply put, the pristine image of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan prior to his taking office a mere 137 days ago appears to (more…)

The trial of a man accused of trying to blow up a commercial airliner with a bomb sewed into his underwear ended Wednesday, just a day after it had begun, (more…)

The police in Nigeria may be planning to charge one of the country’s most hardworking investigative news reporters, Yussuf Alli, with the colonial sedition law and its modifications Decree 4 of 1984, a legacy of the Muhammadu Buhari draconian years and the Decree 2 of 1992, foisted on the nation by the military President Ibrahim Babangida. Alli is expected to be charged in an Abuja Magistrate Court this Thursday, and the country’s human right community has raised an alarm that the government is acting in deceit because procedurally, the bail application for the holden offense should have begun from a High Court, not a Magistrate Court. The police in Abuja released the bureau editor of The Nation, Mr. Yomi Odunuga and the publication’s Deputy Editor, Mr. Lawal Ogienagbon to the Chairman of ...

• Police arrest suspect in traffic stop half-mile from scene; domestic dispute suspected A gunman opened fire Wednesday in a busy Southern California hair salon, killing eight people and critically wounding another. Seal (more…)

- Editors of The Nation Arrested- Recent Experience of sharpedgenews.com Editor The administration of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria made a shocking u-turn in its promise to encourage free speech and vibrant media on Tuesday as it arrested three editors of the critical Lagos-based newspaper, The Nation. A late-night (more…)

An Ibadan High Court on Thursday granted bail to the former Oyo State Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala and two other accused persons – Senator Hosea Agboola and a contractor, Mr. Femi Babalola. (more…)

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has said it has no plan to build three off-shore oil refineries in Indonesia as reported by Jakarta Post and reproduced by several local news outlets in (more…)

Scott Dekraai's neighbors considered him one of the friendliest guys on the block, a man who invited them over for pool parties and played catch with his son in his yard. Friends of his ex-wife, though, say she (more…)

A Nigerian woman convicted of enslaving two young women from Nigeria, who worked with her as servants and nannies at her Atlanta home has been sentenced to more than 11 years in United States federal prison. (more…)

The fallen hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam received the longest prison sentence ever for insider trading on Thursday, capping an aggressive government campaign that has ensnared dozens and may help deter the (more…)

The Managing Editor of The Nation newspapers (Northern Operations), Mr. Yusuf Alli, detained illegally the Nigerian Police Force has been freed after 48 hours in custody. (more…)