April 03, 2023
Nigeria: Alleged Rights Violation - Panel Heard 50 Testimonies in N/East, Says Official
The Panel on Human Rights Violations in Counter-Insurgency Operations in North-East Nigeria (SIIP North East) has so far heard 50 testimonies in its facts finding mission,… Read more »
April 01, 2023
Nigeria: DSS Arrests Eze Igbo Over Alleged Threat to Invite Ipob to Lagos
The Eze Igbo of Ajao Estate, Lagos, Fredrick Nwajagu, has been arrested by the Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) over an alleged threat to invite members of the… Read more »
Nigeria: Secret Police Warning On Interim Govt Plot - Lessons From Germany
In better-organised societies, intelligence nay security agencies, behave differently when the cooperative existence of the state is being threatened. In September 2022, based on… Read more »
March 31, 2023
Nigeria: Court Nullifies Suspension of Ogun Assembly Ex-Deputy Speaker
An Ogun State High Court sitting in Abeokuta, on Friday, nullified the suspension of a former Deputy Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Dare Kadiri, describing it as… Read more »
March 30, 2023
Nigeria: NDLEA Trains 6 W/African Countries On Dismantling Secret Labs
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has conducted regional training for six West African countries on how to dismantle clandestine laboratories with a view to… Read more »
Nigeria: NDLEA Operatives Extra-Judicially Killed My 43-Yr-Old Son, Septuagenarian Alleges
A 79-year-old man, Pa Eyi Anderson, has raised the alarm over the extra-judicial killing of his 43-year-old son, Charles, by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency,… Read more »
Nigeria: Bandits Execute 5 of 60 Abducted Villagers in Niger
...Threaten to kill more if N100m ransom is not paid Read more »
Nigeria: Interim Government - Fani-Kayode Urges DSS to Arrest Atiku, Peter Obi
A chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Femi Fani-Kayode has urged the Department of State Services, DSS to arrest the presidential candidates of the Peoples… Read more »
March 29, 2023
Nigeria: Boko Haram Chief Bombmaker Killed By Own IED in Sambisa Forest
The chief bombmaker and a high ranking member of the Boko Haram Terrorist Group, Awana Gaidam, has been killed by his own Improvised Explosive Device, IED. Read more »
Nigeria: Absence of Metering System, Unworkable Security Arrangement, Cause of Oil Theft - Panel
The Special Investigative Panel on Oil Theft/Losses in Nigeria has attributed losses running into billions of US dollars being experienced in the oil industry to the absence of a… Read more »
Nigeria: Repentant Boko Haram Insurgents Exonerate Military of Rights Abuses
Repentant Boko Haram insurgents on Tuesday in Maiduguri dismissed Reuters news agency's reports of rights abuses by the military in the northeast. Read more »
March 28, 2023
Nigeria: U.S. Lawyer, Bruce Fein to Meet New British Envoy to Nigeria Over Kanu's Release
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu's international lawyer and Spokesman, Bruce Fein, is to meet with the new British envoy to Nigeria, Dr Richard Montgomery, over Kanu's continued illegal detention… Read more »
Nigeria: Lawyer Petitions ICC Over Tinubu's Spokesman, Onanuga's Inciting Remarks
A legal practitioner, Gideon Christian has filed a petition at the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Bayo Onanuga, the Director of Media, All Progressives Congress… Read more »
March 27, 2023
Nigeria: Ex-British PM, Boris Johnson Visits Nigeria, Says Banditry Will Be Defeated
...insists on credible polls, education, equality before the law, transportation Read more »
Nigeria: Presidential Poll - Allow RECs to Issue CTC of Form EC8A, PDP Tells INEC
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, weekend, told the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to allow Resident Electoral Commissioners, RECs, to issue Certify True Copies,… Read more »
Nigeria: The Value of a Good Education
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul -- Joseph Addison, 1711. Read more »
March 26, 2023
Nigeria: Election Violence - Investigate Governors, Deputies or Face Legal Action, Serap Tells INEC
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Professor Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to "urgently seek the… Read more »
March 24, 2023
Nigeria: Ex Senate President Ekweremadu, Wife Guilty of Organ Trafficking
A former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, with his wife, Beatrice, and their doctor have been convicted of organ trafficking, in the first verdict of its kind under the… Read more »
March 22, 2023
Nigeria: How I Curbed Vote-Buying - Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, narrated how he told the electorate to collect money from candidates that offered money to them to buy their votes in the February 25 and… Read more »
Nigeria: Govt Prosecuted Over 220 Vessels in Five Years - President Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday expressed delight that some key threats within Nigeria's maritime environment, such as crude oil theft, piracy, sea robbery, as well as illegal… Read more »
March 20, 2023
Nigeria: Breaking - One Feared Dead as Protest Rocks Major Streets in Lafia
Uneasy calm in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital, as protesters have taking to streets of the state capital protesting over outcome of the governorship election in the state. Read more »
March 17, 2023
Nigeria: Fresh Attack On Niger Communities - 4 Soldiers, 6 Others Killed By Bandits
Bandits have again launched a fresh attack on some communities in Niger State, killing 11 people, including a Major in the Nigerian Army and three other soldiers. Read more »
Nigeria: South Kaduna Killings - Killers Playing a Script to Suppress Votes - PDP Chair
The killings in Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State a few days before the election were a threat to democracy by the killers playing a script to suppress votes and… Read more »
March 16, 2023
Nigeria: Fuel Scarcity, Insecurity to Push 24.8m Nigerians Into Deep Poverty - Cadre Harmonise Report
....says 18,000 IDPs to face more crisis Read more »
Nigeria: Nigeria Dominates African Cocaine Smuggling Routes - Report
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC, has said that the Nigerian market tops the list of cocaine smuggling regions in Africa. Read more »