No fewer than 24 pharmacies, patent medicine shops and unlicensed premises have been shut down by the Lagos State Taskforce on Counterfeit, Fake Drugs and Unwholesome Processed Foods, in some parts of the state for offences bordering on illegal operations and operating beyond scope of practice. Most of the sealed facilities are located in Abule […]
SThe Imo Sate House of Assembly and correspondents in the state may be headed on a collision course, as the Assembly has commenced a restrictive policy that effectively bars correspondents from its activities within the chambers. About 33 correspondents comprising reporters for national newspapers, radio and television networks were barred by the new policy of […]
Like the case of the defunct Nigeria Security Organisation (NSO), preceding it a call has come for the immediate disbandment of the Department of State Services (DSS), for becoming a threat to democracy and human rights in Nigeria. The call is coming from Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, (CDHR), in the wake of […]
•15-20 % of rape victims are boys A damning statistics have revealed that over 60 percent of rape victims in Nigeria are children between 0-14 years, while a further 15-20 percent survivors are boys. This was the disclosed at the 5th Network Meeting of Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) in Nigeria that ended on Friday […]
The Department of State Services (DSS) has reacted to the palpable outrage among Nigerians who were treated to video clips that tended to the absurd, as men alleged to be operatives of the DSS invaded a Court house in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory. The Nigerian secret police has however called on Nigerians to discountenance […]
Esteban Giudici, Senior Analyst, Transnational Alliance has said that economic leakages from illicit trade creates an annual drain on the global economy of 2.2 trillion dollars, equivalent to three per cent of the world’s economy. Giudici said this during the 2019 Africa Security Forum (ASF) at Rabat, Morocco on Thursday. He said data on this […]
.By Prof. Wole Soyinka I have no hesitation in admitting that I have a personal, formative interest in the health of the Nigerian judiciary, deeper perhaps than the average Nigerian. At a critical junction in the life of this writer, a judge resolved to give primacy to the call of conscience, affirm his professional integrity […]
.By Franc Utoo, Esq We are witnessing, currently, a vicious dictatorship clothed in a democratic garb but we seem not to care. The events of the re-arrest of Sowore and Bakare by the DSS yesterday at the vicinity of the Federal High Court in Abuja are just a confirmation of little of what we are […]
Former Vice-President of Nigeria and Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the last general elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has joined many notable Nigerians to condemn the invasion of a Court in session by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) earlier today (Friday). In a press statement he signed himself, Atiku […]
…Says: Presidency behind the invasion of Court The Coalition of United Political parties (CUPP) says it is outraged over the attack Friday, on Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu and Mr. Omoyele Sowore inside the Federal High Court, Abuja while the Court was in session. This is also as the opposition coalition maintained that the presidency was behind […]
