How to pull Nigeria from the brink
.By Atiku Abubakar On Monday, April 27, 2020, British oil and gas giant, BP, became the latest in a growing number of energy firms to declare a massive quarterly loss.…
Varsity don replies Prof. Ayade: I pity your students
…Says, Ayade’s PhD may be fake A University lecturer, Dr. Nura Alkali has reacted to the recent viral video of the Governor of Crossriver state, Prof. Ben Ayade who was…
COVID-19: Civil Society groups petition SGF, demand ‘decisive federal action’ in Kano
.Say: “Lives of 13 million Nigerians in Kano at risk” “Reports making the rounds indicate that strategic meetings of the dysfunctional Kano State Task Force on COVID-19 as well as…
Sometimes, you tell the dead the truth, even when they can’t hear you
.By Wale Adedayo Wickedness is the worst virtue any man can have. I am putting this out here because I know lots of us don’t know this gist. Two year…
The truth about COVID-19 in Nigeria
.By Ebun Adegboruwa SAN Yesterday, a friend called me that he was having difficulty breathing, he’s been weak and has pains in the heart. I immediately told him to race…
COVID-19: Uzodimma signs into law, bill to enforce preventive measures
Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma has signed into law, a bill to introduce and enforce measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease and other dangerous infectious diseases and…
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- Sex Crimes
- April 25, 2020
- 604 views
SEXTORTION: Protecting oneself from the latest internet sex crime
What makes sextortion — the use of intimate images or videos that have been captured to then extort compliance from a victim — different from any other crime is the…
Imo: 100 days of corruption and abuse of public trust
.By Collins Opurozor Virtually all contractors in Imo State have just one story to tell: “Government functionaries are threatening to cancel our contracts if we cannot give them money”. Also,…
Imo: Abidjan returnee who set mother ablaze narrowly escapes lynching
Operatives of the Nigerian Police Friday rescued one Johnbosco Ejiogu, an Abidjan returnee who set his mother ablaze, from instant mob justice. Johnbosco Ejiogu is from Umudagu Mbieri community in…
Oil price apocalypse will bankrupt Nigeria, Africa’s richest nation
.William Ebbs @ebbs_william With oil prices falling below zero dollars per barrel, it’s only a matter of time before Nigeria’s debt-ridden government goes bankrupt. Nigeria is slipping toward economic collapse…
- Corruption
- April 23, 2020
- 406 views
“Under Okorocha, I signed contracts under compulsion, paid over N9bn for jobs not done”
A former Commissioner for Works under former Governor Rochas Okorocha’s administration, Ichie Best Mbanaso Thursday told the Judicial Commission of Inquiry on Contracts that some ‘shady’ companies were paid huge…
- Human Rights
- April 22, 2020
- 578 views
RULAAC wants NHRC to probe incarceration of young Fulani graduate in prison for one year without trial
…Taraba state Attorney-General has questions to answer Following the recent disclosure that a 27-year old Fulani graduate of Accounting, Abdulahi Aliyu has been held in the Jalingo Correctional Centre for…
COVID-19: A monumental disaster is unfolding in Kano
.By Prof. Usman Yusuf There is a disaster currently unfolding in Kano with rising death rates particularly among the elderly that is not getting the national attention it deserves. There…
- Human Rights , News
- April 22, 2020
- 499 views
Facebook Comment: Sad tale of young Fulani graduate languishing in prison without trial
The Fulani ethnic nationality is considered one of the academically disadvantaged segment of the Nigerian nation but Abdullahi Aliyu defied the odds to go to school and graduate with honours…
Rampant dying of fishes, a sentence of death on coastal dwellers – Group
…Suspects chemical poisoning of aquatic lives If recently you have been feasting on Croaker fish delicacies sourced from any of the coastal communities of the Niger Delta, there is a…