A Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, on Friday, granted bail to 114 #Endbadgovernance protesters in the sum of N10 million each. The presiding judge, Justice Obiora Egwatu admitted the defendants, including some underaged persons to bail shortly after they pleaded not guilty to the charges preferred against them by the Inspector General (IG) of…
The Nigerian army on Saturday, announced the dismissals of two soldiers-John Gabriel and Adamu Gideon, allegedly involved in the killing of Goni Aisami, an Islamic cleric in Yobe state. The acting commanding officer in charge of army’s 241 Reece battalion in Nguru, Lt. Col. Ibrahim Osabo, told journalists that a joint board of inquiry set…
IT seemed a depressing day. Sunday July 18, 2021. News filtered that another military aircraft had crashed or been shot down. That would have been the fifth military aircraft lost in seven months by a debt-ridden country, facing serious insecurity and barely coping with grinding poverty and hyperinflation. My thoughts were not really on these,…
By Samuel Vincent in Abuja The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday confirmed the appointment of Dr. Salamatu Suleiman and 11 others as Chairman and members of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). The confirmation followed the presentation of a report by the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele. Opeyemi, while presenting the…
A group known as “Coalition for Peace and Progress,” has declared that, a former speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, is the most suitable to be the running mate of the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu. Addressing a press conference on Saturday in Kaduna, the coordinator of the…
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, (SAN), has called on the governors of Benue and Plateau states to immediately ban open grazing and prosecute suspects linked to violent attacks. In a statement on Sunday expressing sympathy to the two states over incessant killings, Falana described the recent spate of attacks as “genocidal”. He said, “It is…
