An advocate for constitutional democracy and Executive Director, Legislative Watch, Hon. Ngozika Ihuoma wants the judiciary to explain what remedies there are for Senator Orji Uzor Kalu who was held unlawfully for five months before his acquittal. Ihuoma who spoke to our correspondent in Owerri the Imo state capital said in near similar scenario, Chief Bode […]
…Taraba state Attorney-General has questions to answer Following the recent disclosure that a 27-year old Fulani graduate of Accounting, Abdulahi Aliyu has been held in the Jalingo Correctional Centre for more than one year without any criminal charge levelled against him or trial, the Rule of Law And Accountability Advocacy Centre (RULAAC) has called on […]
The Fulani ethnic nationality is considered one of the academically disadvantaged segment of the Nigerian nation but Abdullahi Aliyu defied the odds to go to school and graduate with honours from the Adamawa State University, Mubi. The 27-year old Abdullahi who graduated with a Second Class Upper Division grade in Accounting has hardly completed his […]
Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre (RULAAC) and Police Stakehokders Partnership Forum (PSPF), Anambra State have called out Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra state for not taking any decisive action on the extrajudicial killing of his citizen by the Police. In a statement signed by Okechukwu Nwanguma (RULAAC) and Chris Akor (PSPF) the duo […]
Journalists carrying out their lawful duties are not spared from brutality. With due respect to a few of them that are highly committed to securing lives and property, many security agents remain a burden to the nation. They can best be described as a necessary evil and deadlier than COVID-19.
Around 1:00am last Saturday morning, security agents locked down Fancy Hotel, Umuguma in Owerri West council area of Imo state and put 24 occupants of the hotel made up of guests and workers, in quarantine. The quarantine was informed by a case who tested positive to the coronavirus in Abuja whose trail and contact-tracing led […]
An activist lawyer, Inibehe Effiong Esq. has narrated how his client, a student activist and a cub journalist was arrested for publishing an article deemed critical of the presidency on a campus newspaper. The young journalist, Mr. Ayoola Babalola was swiftly bundled into a court the next day and allegedly denied the chance to contact […]
The World Bank Group has delayed disclosure for more than a year of an internal investigation examining an investment in a doomed Guatemalan dam project that has been linked to the murder of a local activist. The investment by the bank’s private sector lending arm, the International Finance Corporation, supported Hidro Santa Cruz, a project […]
Journalist in distress, Mr. Agba Jalingo who is being prosecuted by the Federal Government of Nigeria has petitioned the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court demanding that his case be reassigned to another judge. Crimefacts.news reports that the suit for which Jalingo is standing trial is numbered FHC/CA/59C/2019 and being presided over by Justice […]
