.Says: ‘Eight crashes recorded between 2015 and 2019’ Worried by the incessant air crashes experienced by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) since 2015, the House of Representatives has committed to finding “lasting solutions” to the dangerous trend, the Speaker, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, has said. Gbajabiamila spoke during a Investigative Hearing by the house Committee on the […]
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr Mohammed Adamu, and a Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT),Mr Abba Kyari, on Monday appealed against a court order directing them to produce an alleged dead suspect in court either “dead or alive”. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the duo also […]
Two officials of the Benue State Government, Mr. Stephen Amase, Principal Private Secretary to the Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom and Mr. Manger T Emmanuel, a former Commissioner of Works and presently, Special Adviser, Ministry of Energy, Science and Technology, Benue State have been arraigned by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences […]
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 […]
