More than a week after suspected soldiers fired shots at a crowd of protesters at the Lekki Tollgate plaza in Lagos on October 20, 2020, it is unfortunate truth has remained the victim of buck-passing, deliberate distortions and contradictions. As Read more…
The Nigeria Police Force and Nigerian Army killed protesters at the Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos last Tuesday, Amnesty International has said. The human rights group stated this in a new investigative timeline it released on its website on Tuesday, a week Read more…
A Magistrates’ Court in Port Harcourt has remanded 21 suspected members of the Indigenous People of Biafra at the Port Harcourt Correctional Centre over alleged acts of terrorism. The state police command, while arraigning the suspects in court, said they Read more…
However, the judge said it would grant the anti-graft agency time to make effective changes to the case. Nigeria’s former petroleum minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, who has been named in several corruption scandals, got a temporary relief on Wednesday as a Read more…
…throws weight behind IGP Adamu A Civil Society Organisation, Citizens Action for Good Governance (CAGG), Wednesday, declared that Nigeria is not descending into lawlessness and anarchy as reported in some quarters. Refuting the claim, the National Coordinator, CAGG, Nazir Galadanchi, Read more…
The United States has opposed Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the consensus candidate to lead the World Trade Organisation. The PUNCH reports that key WTO ambassadors tapped Okonjo-Iweala on Wednesday as the best pick to lead the organisation. But the US said it supported Read more…
A disturbing new report blows the lid on the shameful conduct of Australian special forces soldiers in Afghanistan, accusing them of waging a campaign of torture and murder across the war-torn country, and hiding the evidence. When Australia’s elite SAS Read more…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for backing Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in emerging as the first female and African Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The party’s National Chairman, Mr Uche Secondus, gave the commendation in a statement issued by Read more…
GOVERNOR Nyesom Wike on Wednesday declared a N20Million compensation for each family of policemen and soldiers killed in Rivers state’s recent violent attacks linked to the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB). The Governor also assured on rebuilding all police stations Read more…
CALL FOR SUBMISSION OF PETITIONS, COMPLAINTS AND MEMORANDA 1. It is hereby announced for the information of the general public that the Executive Governor of Anambra State, His Excellency Chief Willy Obiano, has inaugurated the Judicial Panel of Inquiry to Read more…
Bayelsa State chapter of the Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) has inaugurated a five-man committee to investigate incidents of police brutality and human rights abuses by security personnel in the state. Nengi James, the state chairman of CLO, who inaugurated the Read more…
Awka- ANAMBRA State government Tuesday announced the lifting of curfew imposed on the state by Governor Willie Obiano in the wake of #endSARS protests by youths across the state. Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Mr. C Don Adinuba said Read more…