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FCT Minister Nyesom Wike has blasted human rights lawyer Femi Falana for commenting on the movement restrictions imposed during last weekend’s FCT Council elections. Speaking to reporters after a meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Wike urged Falana to […]
The Executive Director of Yiaga Africa, Samson Itodo, has faulted the assent to the amended electoral bill, saying that it contains provisions that are at variance with the aspirations of Nigerians. “I think that Nigerians need to know that, yes, […]
For decades, Nigeria’s oil theft crisis was largely associated with remote creeks, mangrove swamps and offshore vandalism in the Niger Delta. Increasingly, however, security agencies say the trade is migrating inland-embedding itself within civilian communities, markets and transport corridors where it […]
The Nigeria Police Force has filed an appeal challenging a Federal High Court judgment that held Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Olohundare Jimoh, responsible for violating activist Omoyele Sowore’s rights. Justice Musa Kakaki, over the weekend, ruled in Sowore’s favour, awarding him […]
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Muritala Oladimeji Abdul-Rasheed, has issued a 48-hour ultimatum to Abdulwasiu Alfa, Esq., demanding the withdrawal of a social media publication he described as defamatory and injurious to his professional reputation. The demand was conveyed […]
By Christian Njoku Magistrates in Cross River have insisted on the continuation of their 11-day-old strike following the failure of the state government to agree to their vehicle demand. The Chairman of the state chapter of the Magistrates Association of […]
Two aggrieved Nigerian firms and their staff have instituted a N1 billion suit against the Inspector General of Police and four others before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) over alleged rights violations and destruction of assets. […]
By Nkiruka Nnorom The Federal Government has extradited a 26-year-old Nigerian, Afeez Olatunji Adewale, to the United States to face charges related to the sexual extortion and death of a young man in Pennsylvania. Mr Adewale, the third Nigerian extradited […]
The British government has been urged to promptly comply with the February 5 judgment of the High Court of Enugu State, which orders it, among other things, to pay £420million in compensation to the families of 21 coal miners killed […]