No fewer than 33 Nigerian students have received full scholarships totaling $2.92m to attend American universities and colleges for the 2024/2025 academic session. The scholarships were received through the Opportunity Funds Programme of the United States Consulate General in Lagos. The programme is designed to increase access to US higher institutions for highly qualified international students who have limited resources …

Two drug kingpins — Uwaezuoke Christian and Agbo Chidike Prince — have been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Federal High Court in Abuja for “their years of criminal enterprise of exporting cocaine across continents”. In a statement on Sunday, the Director of Media and Advocacy of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Mr. Femi Babafemi said that Uwaezuoke …