A Coalition of human and pro-democracy groups have condemned the arrest and detention of right activist in Cross River State, Agba Jalingo, by Governor Ben Ayade, using the NIgerian Police. Crimefacts.news had on Sunday reported that Agba Jalingo was released on Saturday night in Abuja by the police. In a statement in FCT, Abuja on […]
An Ogun State publisher, Ahmed Olamilekan, who was arrested over a report on the Governor of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun, has spent 100 days in detention. Olamilekan, popularly known as Labash, was arrested mid-May, 2022 over a report said to be on Abiodun’s alleged criminal records in the United States. The lawyer who was […]
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has taken over a case involving the Nigeria Police Force and rights activist, Agba Jalingo, Channels Television has learnt. The senior lawyer, it was learnt, visited Jalingo at the Area F Police Station in Ikeja where Jalingo was detained on Friday night. The activist and publisher of Cross […]
Cross River activist and journalist, Agba Jalingo, who earlier announced in the afternoon that his Lagos residence was under siege by policemen, has been reportedly detained at Alapere Police Station, Lagos. The wife of the activist, Violet Agba, confirmed this to PUNCH on Friday evening. She noted that the police had planned to transfer the […]
A Federal Capital Territory High Court, presided over by Justice Adeyemi Ajayi, Thursday, granted some mandatory orders toward aiding Glory Okolie to get the sum of N60 million earlier awarded to her by the FCT High Court presided over by Justice Haliyu. Justice Haliyu had on June 23, 2022, granted every relief sought in […]
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, has condemned what he described as “brutal torture” being inflicted on Inibehe Effiong, a lawyer. Mr Effiong last month was sentenced to one month imprisonment for contempt of court by the Chief Judge of Akwa Ibom State, Justice Ekaette Ekaette Obot. In a statement on Thursday, Mr […]
The Campaign for Democracy and Human Rights Liberty Access and Peace Defenders’Foundation (HURIDE) have asked the National Judicial Council (NJC) to sanction Justice Ekaette Obot with immediate effect for displaying judicial recklessness in detaining a human rights lawyer, Mr Inibehe Effiong Inibehe Effiong. The rights groups gave Justice Obot seven days from the date […]
The Inspector-General of Police Usman Baba, on Wednesday, likened police officers extorting motorists to armed robbery, warning that the force under his control would not tolerate such demeaning actions. Baba made this disclosure at the Gombe State Police Command Headquarters as part of his two-day familiarisation visit to the state. The police force under […]
The Nigeria Police Force has dismissed an officer, Liyomo Okoi, for flogging a man with a machete. The dismissed officer was captured in a viral video on 31st July, 2022 where he was flogging a man with a machete. A statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi,on Monday revealed that the officer […]
Nearly three weeks after the killing of seven wedding guests from Otulu in Oru West Council Area of Imo state, the dust of the dastardly act is yet to settle. While Government insists that bandits were killed, a mountain of evidence seem to suggest to the contrary. This perhaps informed the alarm raised by […]
