Barrister Abdullahi Zakari, director-general of the Public Defender and Citizens Rights Commission (PDCRC), has commended Kogi state governor Yahaya Bello for prioritising justice sector reforms to ensure indigent and vulnerable citizens have free access to justice. Zakari made the remark during a two-day capacity building workshop for PDCRC stakeholders in Lokoja on Friday. He stated that the Commission’s workshop aimed …
Boko Haram terrorists are said to have killed an unknown number of soldiers on Thursday night when they stormed an Army checkpoint near Zuma Rock, the border between the FCT and Niger State. According to sources, the terrorists arrived Zuma Rock around 8.30 p.m. on the axis of Madalla and Suleija along the Abuja-Kaduna highway and caught the soldiers off …
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has expressed concern about the theft and vandalism of telecommunications infrastructure across the country. This was revealed at the third edition of Village Square Dialogue, a telecom consumer outreach programme organised for telecom consumers and stakeholders in Ibadan, Oyo State’s capital. The Commission stated that security agencies alone cannot provide all of the necessary security …
The Bauchi State Police Commissioner, CP Umar Mamman Sanda, has ordered a thorough investigation into the barbaric and dehumanising act of jungle justice meted out on Ambima John, 22, by some irate youths in Yelwa, Bauchi. Speaking on Friday around 2100hrs, an anonymous person reported that one Ambima John’m’, 22yrs of Doka, an alleged notorious motorcycle snatcher, was beaten up …
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the designation of Lekki Deep Seaport as a Customs Port and Approved Wharf. In a statement posted on the Nigerian Ports Authority’s (NPA) official social media handles on Friday, the President approved the new port for commercial vessel berthing via the Ministry of Transportation to the NPA’s managing director, Mohammed Bello-Koko. The NPA also stated …
According to the National Population Commission (NPC), some Nigerians are hesitant to be counted for the 2023 census. The NPC listed this as one of the challenges it was facing on Friday in Ebonyi. Darlington Okereke, Federal Commissioner, provided an update on the trial population and housing census. The official assured that the commission would get it right during the …
Cynthia Okereke and Clemson Cornell, veteran film stars, were kidnapped after leaving a filming location in Enugu. Monalisa Chinda, spokesman for the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), announced this in a post on her verified Instagram page. Chinda stated that her senior colleagues had gone missing after their families confirmed they had not returned from a film location in Ozalla …
Mohammad Abacha, the son of former military ruler General Sani Abacha, has taken the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to court over the Peoples Democratic Party’s last gubernatorial primary (PDP). Sadiq Aminu Wali, son of former Foreign Affairs Minister Aminu Wali, PDP, and Kano State PDP Chairman Shehu Sagagi, has also joined the suit. Abacha asked the court to declare …
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has warned all members of its staff and the general public in Nigeria about terrorists and bandits infiltrating the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and surrounding areas with the intent of kidnapping people for ransom. The West African regional bloc announced this in an Urgent Security Advisory dated July 27, 2022, as part …
Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), visited Ilorin, Kwara State, on Friday to seek the blessing of the Emir of Ilorin, Alh Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, for the realisation of his presidential bid. Kwankwaso was accompanied to the Emir’s palace by the NNPP’s gubernatorial candidate in the state, Prof. Shuaib AbdulRaheem, Alh Buba Galadima, and …
A FORMER Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, Minister of State for Education, has petitioned an Abuja Federal High Court to disqualify All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidates Bola Tinubu and Abubakar Atiku from the 2023 general election. Nwajiuba, who resigned from his ministerial position to run in the APC presidential primary, also asked the court to declare him …
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has downplayed the possibility of leaving the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the aftermath of the party’s presidential primaries. Wike stated that he would soon inform Nigerians of the truth about the PDP’s situation. He spoke to journalists on Friday at the Port Harcourt International Airport in Rivers State’s capital, shortly after returning from a …
Thugs disrupted the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise at St. Bridget Catholic Church in Ijesha, Surulere, Lagos State, on Friday. The thugs took the Continuous Voter Registration machines from the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. The incident occurred less than 72 hours before INEC closed the CVR. Following the incident, the Parish Priest locked the church and fled for …
