A Senior Advocate of Nigeria and constitutional lawyer, Chief Sabastine Hon, has condemned the efforts of both the Lagos State and Federal Governments to rubbish the report of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry on the bloody #EndSARS protests, saying it Read more…
Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi state, Wednesday placed on hold the construction work on the Effium axis of the Abakaliki ring road for one week in the State. He gave the directive after an expanded security council meeting at the Read more…
The Nigerian government on Tuesday dismissed a leaked judicial investigation that said 15 people were killed or missing after a crackdown on mass protests in Lagos last year. Submitted to state authorities on November 15, the leaked report contradicts the Read more…
Amid growing tensions in Europe, Russia’s most senior military general, Valery Gerasimov, has discussed “pressing issues of international security” with his direct American counterpart Mark Milley, during a phone call on Tuesday. The Pentagon confirmed that the two “military leaders discussed Read more…
Russia has demanded that 13 foreign and mostly U.S. technology companies be officially represented on Russian soil by the end of 2021 or face possible restrictions or outright bans. The demand, from state communications regulator Roskomnadzor late on Monday, gave Read more…
A former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Lagos. Fani-Kayode was said to be under investigation for alleged forgery and manipulation of documents. Our correspondent learnt that the ex-minister, who Read more…
Yet-to-be identified gunmen have gunned down a policeman attached to the Arondizuogu Police station in the Ideato North local government area of Imo State. This is even as the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) is receiving treatment for an injury he Read more…
Igbo youths have condemned the action of the military at Awo Mmamma community in Imo State where some properties belonging to the villagers were destroyed by soldiers on reprisal attack, after their colleague was killed by gunmen. South East Youths Read more…
A member of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry into Police Brutality, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN), has raised the alarm over alleged threats and attacks against his person by those he suspected to be agents of the government. Adegboruwa, who raised Read more…
The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has warned that any attempt by President Muhammadu Buhari to release the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, outside the court processes will reduce Nigeria to a lawless state where Read more…
The catastrophic sinking of the Russian nuclear-powered Kursk submarine more than two decades ago was the result of a collision with a stricken NATO vessel in the Barents Sea, a former high-ranking navy chief has insisted. The ‘Kursk’ sank on Read more…
As a professional journalist who has been reporting on the assassination of John F. Kennedy for almost 30 years, I have long been skeptical about the pursuit of a proverbial “smoking gun” that supposedly will blow open the case of Read more…