Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been sentenced to more than 20 years in prison for violating George Floyd’s civil rights. Chauvin, 46, pleaded guilty to the separate federal civil rights charges in December. He is already serving a 22-year state prison sentence for the on-duty murder of Mr Floyd, a 46-year-old black […]
An NGO, Center For Innovative And Pragmatic Development Initiative (CiPDI), has urged the Nigerian Police to release an Abuja based journalist and publisher of 247 Reports, Ekenna Ezenekwe. Recall that Ezenekwe, the publisher of 247UREPORTS online media out was arrested by plain clothes policemen in Abuja on Tuesday, insisting that he must disclose the […]
… Commends lawyers, activists RIGHTS group, Rule Of Law And Advocacy Center (RULAAC) welcomes the judgment of a Federal High Court in Abuja awarding N60 million in punitive and general damages to Glory Okolie against the Nigeria Police for the gross violation of her fundamental human rights. The court presided over by Justice Y. Haliyu […]
A 22-year-old man, Osondu Ezemmaduchukwu, has been allegedly tortured to death by vigilantes at Ifite Nanka village, in the Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the victim was accused of theft. His elder brother, Ebere, while narrating the incident to our correspondent on Monday, said Osondu was arrested […]
The Appeal Court in Abuja on Tuesday affirmed the judgment of High Court of Federal Capital Territory in a fundamental human rights enforcement suit filed against the Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) and the Nigerian Police Force by Abuja based journalist and publisher of FreshNEWS Online Media, Desmond Utomwen. Utomwen, a former staff of TheNEWS Magazine, […]
…Presiding Judge goes underground for safety, as orderly is withdrawn …NBA kicks, condemns assault on Court officials …Court President shuts down NICN, Owerri division Following the recent Garnishee order made by the Owerri Judicial Division of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) to the tune of N1.9 billion being accruable benefit to the […]
The Nigeria Customs Service has said that it has withdrawn the officer and the team from the Federal Operations Unit, Zone C, of the service caught assaulting a civilian last week. The service also added that it had commenced an investigation into the matter. In a statement on Monday, the National Public Relations Officer, […]
The Anambra State Police Command have been urged not to allow those behind the killing of a 15 -year old beggar to go scot-free. The Human Rights, Liberty Access And Peace Defenders Foundation(HURIDE) in a statement in Onitsha condemned unequivocally the gruesome killing of 15 years old beggar on April 29,2022. They said the […]
*Confiscates her N1, 000 over purported traffic violation. A nursing mother, Esther Obiechina,has narrated how some Naval personnel at Uga junction, in Onitsha, Anambra State commercial nerve centre forced her to climb the pedestrian bridge at Uga Junction 30 times. Obiechina who spoke to newsmen at a hospital, where she is recuperating when she […]
Barely two weeks after a childless widow was assaulted and paraded stack naked in Anambra by those who accused her of killing her husband, another childless widow has been reportedly kicked out of her house in the state, just two days after burying her husband. According to a viral social media post, the […]
