The Ukrainian legislature, the Verkhovna Rada, approved on Thursday a new request from President Vladimir Zelensky to extend the state of martial law and the total mobilization in the country. The emergency measures, first introduced on February 24, 2022, after Read more…
Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), yesterday, condemned what it called disrespect for judicial process and sanctity of court premises by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS). Former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele, had been granted N20 Read more…
A former senator representing Bauchi North senatorial district, Sen. Adamu Bulkachuwa, has accused the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, the Department of State Services and others of colluding with his political enemies to harass him. Bulkachuwa said Read more…
Members of the dreaded Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) have beheaded 27 herders for trespassing in the banned axis of the Kukawa area of Borno State. A counter-insurgency expert in the Lake Chad region, Zagazola Makama, told newsmen on Read more…
Abia State Governor, Alex Otti has pledged to pay adequate compensation to families of two policemen who were killed by gunmen at Samek area, near the Ariaria International market, Faulks road, Aba. The gunmen had shot dead the two policemen Read more…
A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting at Maitama, on Thursday, rejected a fresh application the Department of State Services, DSS, filed for an order to further detain the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Read more…
Russian troops have stopped an “intensive” effort by the Ukrainian military to break their defensive lines near the village of Orekhov in Russia’s Zaporozhye Region. The village and its surroundings have been the scene of fierce fighting for weeks, as Ukraine’s floundering Read more…
Abia State Police command has reacted to the killing of two policemen on Tuesday in Aba, the commercial hub of the state. Two policemen, an Inspector and a Corporal ,were allegedly killed by hoodlums which resulted to police reprisal attack with its confusion Read more…
The Senate has urged the federal government to collaborate with the Finish government to extradite Simon Ekpa for prosecution, given his alleged roles in persistent sit-at-home orders and killings in the South-east. The senate resolution was a sequel to the Read more…
Niger President Mohamed Bazoum is being detained by members of the Presidential Guard, who have been given an “ultimatum” by the army, a source close to Bazoum said on Wednesday. Disgruntled members of the guard sealed off access to the Read more…
STATE HOUSE PRESS STATEMENT Information filtering in from the Republic of Niger indicates some unpleasant developments around the country’s highest political leadership. It should be quite clear to all players in the Republic of Niger that the leadership of the Read more…
A lawyer Dele Farotimi has accused the Lagos State Government of suppressing the evidence of killings that occurred during the EndSARS protest in October 2020. Farotimi said this while reacting to a leaked memo that the Lagos government has approved Read more…