Human Rights group, Amnesty International (AI) says one year after the #EndSARS protests no security operative has been made to face justice for the “brutal crackdown” on peaceful protesters. According to the group, eports of human rights violations by the police still continues one year after youths across the country took to the streets to…
The Osun State Police Command has warned residents of the state against holding any street protest in commemoration of the one year anniversary of ENDSARS today October 20. In a press statement released by the command’s spokesperson SP Opalola Yemisi Olawoyin, the command stated that “The intelligence that availed the police command revealed clandestine plans by some…
Northern youth leaders have suggested that the 2022 Appropriation Bill currently before the National Assembly might not work out should the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) devalue the naira. This comes after Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday, October 11, advised the apex financial body to devalue the Naira. A joint statement by Middle Belt Youth…
A student of the Taraba State University, said he found some fetish items tied around corn cobs in a farm at ATC area of Jalingo on Monday, October 11. “So they’ve started using juju in corn farms here in ATC …was just passing by soweto and I saw these” he wrote.
A 29-year-old man, Samuel Jacob, has been charged to court for allegedly biting off the finger of a policeman. The accused was on Tuesday, October 12, docked in a Badagry Magistrates’ Court for allegedly biting off the index finger of Sgt Musa Hassan. The police charged Jacob with assault and inflicting wound. The Prosecution Counsel,…
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said the Yorubas, Igbos and Hausas are not better off on their own and that Nigerians would fare better living together as one in spite of ethnic differences. A statement released by Laolu Akande, spokesperson of the Vice President, said Osinbajo said this when he spoke at an interactive session…
Just like our model, Oyo state governor Engr. Seyi Makinde, as a movement, we believe that the girl-child is as important as the boy-child. And it is our belief that we must tolerate no form of discrimination against either of the two sexes. And, it is based on the foregoing that we as a movement…
A 28-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly raping his male housemate in Kawale, Lilongwe District, Malawi. Kawale Police Station Public Relations Officer, Mabvuto Phiri, who confirmed the incident said the suspect, Vincent Lewis, was arrested in the early hours of Tuesday, October 5, 2021. Phiri said the man has been charged with sodomy contrary…
Nigerians below 18 have been disqualified from registering and owning a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) by the Nigerian Communications Commission. In a draft copy of the modified Registration of Telephone Subscribers Regulations published on the commission’s website, the NCC said the regulations were made in line with the powers conferred upon the commission by section 70 of the…
The Nigerian senate on Tuesday October 5, confirmed the nomination of Yahaya Muhammad (Yobe State) by President Muhammadu Buhari, as a board member of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The Nation reported that while a senator representing Jigawa North East, Hassan Hadejia, said there was a discrepancy in the sequence of Muhammad’s educational experience because…
