The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Osun State has arrested a woman for pouring hot water on her 11-year-old daughter. The state Commandant of the corps, Emmanuel Ocheja, disclosed this on Friday while parading the woman and several other crime suspects at the headquarters in Osogbo, the state capital. The 11-year-old girl […]
..….Police say suspects have been arrested Ibe Pascal Arogorn Mrs Chidimma Jerry Anyaegbunam from Ozalla in Enugu state was attacked and shot on the burial of her husband in Obosi, Anambra State. According to MIRROR NEWS, the incident happened on Thursday, 13th of January 2022. MIRROR NEWS gathered that It all began late in the […]
The management of PUNCH Nigeria Limited, publishers of PUNCH Newspaper, has petitioned the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, on what it described as the barbaric attack on its correspondent, Toni Ufor, and seizure of his mobile phone and ID card, by police officers attached to the Special Fraud Unit, Ikoyi, Lagos, on Wednesday, December […]
The federal government and the family of the late Itunu Babalola, the Nigerian lady who died in Côte d’Ivoire after she was wrongly jailed, have rejected the autopsy on the cause of her death. The Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, and the father of the deceased, Mr Emmanuel Babalola, yesterday gave […]
Twenty years after the murder of the late first Executive Governor of Oyo State and former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Chief Bola Ige, the family and friends on Thursday demanded justice for their father and friend. Daily Trust reports that Chief Bola Ige was killed by unknown gunmen at his […]
There are currently 488 media professionals imprisoned around the world, the highest number since Reporters Without Borders began counting more than 25 years ago, the NGO announced Thursday. By contrast, the number killed this year — 46 — was the lowest since it began issuing annual tallies, due to the relative stabilisation of conflicts in […]
A young man, Christian Konor Ehime, has been allegedly killed by soldiers attached to the railway checkpoint in Igbanke, Edo State. Konor is said to have been assaulted by the soldiers shortly after he escaped from the hands of kidnappers. His mother, a police officer in Agbor, Delta State, Ehima Mercy said she found her […]
The detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, on Monday, dragged the Department of State Service, DSS, before the Federal High Court in Abuja, accusing it of grossly violating his fundamental human rights. Kanu, in the suit he filed through one of his lawyers, Mr. Maxwell Opara, alleged that a doctor […]
Fisayo Soyombo, Founder of the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ), is currently being detained at the Force headquarters, Abuja, by the police. Soyombo was on a long trip on November 23 when he received an SMS that read: “Good Afternoon sir, this office is conducting an investigation in which your name and phone number featured, […]
An Imo State born human rights activist and author, Comrade Paul Ikechukwu Njoku, has blasted governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State over a widely reported police brutality and extortion in the State. Activist Njoku who threatened the governor with another #Endsars mass protest in Owerri, the Imo State capital, over what he described as “resurgence […]
