The Niger State Government has refuted an online publication claiming that Niger state now confirmed case of COVID-19 in the state. According to a press statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mary Noel Berje, the said publication was actually referring to the first case of COVID 19 confirmed in Niger Republic […]
The Principal of Bethlehem High School Abule Ado, Rev. Sr. Henrietta Alokha may have given her life in exchange for those of her pupils who she frantically endeavored to save before losing her own life in the razed school building. Bethlehem High School Abule Ado was among the buildings affected in the petrol pipeline explosion […]
A legal practitioner in Nigeria, Assam Assam, has asked lawyers and judges to rise up and save the nation’s judiciary. “These are troubling times and for our profession these times represent the most debased and bestial moments,” Mr Assam, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, said. “Judges of our apex courts are now being subjected to […]
The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has described it as unlawful to banish a citizen of Nigeria without a lawful order of court. The Nigerian opposition coalition said it received with shock, the news of the ‘illegal and arbitrary dethronement and purported banishment of the Emir of Kano Muhammad Sanusi II by the APC […]
Angry youths of Mmahu community in Egbema, the Ohaji-Egbema council area of Imo state Sunday exceeded the bounds of decency when they smashed the official vehicle of the Imo state governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma. Uzodinma had visited the village in response to a distress call to a violent restiveness in the wake of the death […]
The night was thick with trepidation and the feeling of helplessness, asphyxiating. From anxiety, it was utter gloom as loved ones waited with bated breath. Eventually, the long wait had come to an end with the shattering pronouncement by the doctors that Ndubuisi Emenike was dead. Then the wailing began; tears flowed freely as even […]
House of Representatives member, Dagomie Abiante (PDP, Rivers) has expressed doubt in the preparedness of the Federal Government to battle the widely spreading Coronavirus infection. Contributing to the motion for the lawmakers to proceed on recess over fears of Coronavirus, Abiante recalled that a motion to bring back Nigerians stranded in China was thrown out […]
A 38-year-old suspected internet fraudster, Azeez Adebowale, has been arrested with a mini coffin containing fetish materials found in his possession, when his house was raided by operatives of the Ibadan Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on March 2, 2020. Adebowale, who claimed to be using the coffin as a […]
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open to the Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu urging him to use his leadership position to “instruct the Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi to immediately, fully and effectively enforce the judgment stopping all Lagos hospitals and health facilities from demanding compulsory blood donations from any patients […]
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to the Senate President, Dr. Ahmad Lawan, urging him to use his leadership position to “ensure that the bill that would allow ‘repentant Boko Haram terrorists’ opportunities to access public funds to enjoy foreign education is immediately dropped, and to sponsor bills that would […]
