Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who spent years in hiding after Iran urged Muslims to kill him because of his writing, was stabbed in the neck and torso onstage at a lecture in New York state on Friday and airlifted to a hospital, police said.

The Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has pledged to work with government and lecturers to end incessant strike in Nigeria universities.

The Founder, One Love Family, Satguru Maharaj ji, has called for adequate funding of judiciary in Nigeria to avoid luring them into corruption.

A Business woman, Mrs Mary Paul, on Friday, dragged her husband, Anthony Paul before a Jikwoyi Customary Court, Abuja, for not providing for the family.

Nigerians in South Africa under the aegis of Nigeria Union South Africa (NUSA), marked the 2022 Mandela and Women’s Day with a humanitarian outing in Edenvale Hospital in Johannesburg. 

The dismissal of an assaulting police constable from the Cross River Police Command was to serve as a deterrent to errant others.