Italian police target Nigerian Mafia group, Black Axe; arrest 99 in other operations
Security forces in Italy on Monday detained dozens of people across the country in a crackdown on Mafia organisations in a new onslaught against crime, including suspected members of Nigerian…
How stolen phones from UK fuel Nigeria’s mobile phone market
Investigation has exposed how stolen phones in the United Kingdom have found their way to Nigeria to become a major part of the booming mobile phone market in Africa’s largest…
A mafia runs NNPC, I’ll dislodge it; boasts Atiku
Nigerian presidential hopeful Atiku Abubakar has branded the state-run oil company a “mafia organisation” and pledged to privatise it if he is elected in a presidential ballot next month. Abubakar,…
Pope Francis says Mafia members aren’t Christians during Sicily trip
The head of the Catholic Church told a crowd of 100,000 in the Sicilian city of Palermo on Saturday that he does not believe one can be a member of…