Sunday, 24 November, 2024

Month: November 2020


Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued a stark warning over growing religious violence in Europe, suggesting that “smouldering conflicts” over faith can linger for years, becoming a powder keg which can eventually explode. Speaking in Moscow on Wednesday, as Russia Read more…


For alleged torture and other dehumanizing treatment while in police detention which led to the death of two of his friends, one Abduwahab Bello has instituted three separate suits of N150 million each against the Nigeria Police Force at the Read more…


The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo has called out Governor Hope Uzodimma  to stop what the it described as blame game, charging him to face his challenges in the state. This was contained in a statement by the state chairman, Charles Read more…


In line with the State Government initiative to decongest all roads for easy flow of traffic in the State, the State Commissioner for Transport Honorable Afam Mbanefo has commissioned a private park for Vehicles at Kilometres 3 Enugu-onitsha Expressway Onitsha. Read more…


Police IG Adamu visits Lagos, laments destruction of property The police chief visits the governor and commiserates with residents. The Inspector-General of Police, Muhammed Adamu, on Tuesday lamented the extent of damage caused by hoodlums who attacked police officers and Read more…


Austria’s interior minister says police carried out 18 raids and made 14 arrests after searching the home of the deceased assailant of Monday’s terrorist attack in Vienna, although footage suggests that he acted alone. Following a raid on the terrorist’s Read more…


More than 6ft (183cm) tall and well-built, Anthony Unuode, 28, dreamed of serving in the Nigerian army, but was killed by thugs breaking up protests against police brutality in the capital Abuja, writes the BBC’s Nduka Orjinmo after attending his Read more…


The calls by the northern governors for the censorship of the social media in the country, has continued to generate controversy with many, including political activists and Civil Society Organizations condemning position of the governors.  Recall that the call by Read more…


Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike has redeemed his pledge of N20million to each family of the 10 security operatives – six soldiers and four policemen – killed by members of proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in Oyigbo Local Government. Wike, Read more…


The Rivers State Security Council has relaxed the 24-hour curfew imposed on Oyigbo Local Government Area following the killing of 10 security operatives by suspected members of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB). Commissioner of Information and Communications, Paulinus Read more…


Hearing by the Lagos State Panel of Judicial Inquiry into complaints of human rights violations by men of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad continued on Tuesday with a trader, Ndukwe Ekwekwe, narrating how he ended up in a wheelchair after Read more…


The Judicial Panel of Inquiry probing the alleged shootings of #EndSARS protesters by soldiers on October 20, 2020 at the Lekki tollgate in Lagos has declined the request by the operators of the tollgate, Lekki Concession Company, to “take back Read more…