ECOWAS Court Declares FG’s Twitter Ban Unlawful
The ECOWAS Court has declared the suspension of Twitter’s operations by the Federal Government from June last year till January this year as unlawful. The court gave the ruling in a suit filed by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project…
Court Clears Oyetola As Osun APC Governorship Candidate, Dismisses Suit
The Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a suit seeking the disqualification of Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, as the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for the July 16 governorship election scheduled to hold in the state. Delivering Judgement,…
Plateau Attacks: Arrest Criminals, Don’t Sign Peace Pact With Fulani Terrorists, HURIWA Warns Lalong
Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), on Thursday, warned Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong, not to sign peace pact with Fulani terrorists responsible for the perennial attacks on the state. HURIWA said gathering persons who…
OPAN Demands Immediate Release Of Detained Journalist Ikenna Ellis Ezenekwe
The Online Publishers Association of Nigeria (OPAN), the flagship organisation for digital news publishers has called for the immediate release of the publisher of 247ureports.com, Mr Ikenna Ellis Ezenekwe who was picked up by the Nigerian police at the FCT-Abuja…
Does Nigeria Deserve Us?
By Prince Charles Dickson “When the deaf man beats a drum for you to dance, just dance…” AbdulChukwudi According to online news outlet PREMIUM TIMES—Gunmen, believed to be bandits, killed at least 43 people including 30 soldiers and seven mobile…
2023: CNPP Calls For Drug Integrity Test, Medical Fitness Certificates of Candidates
Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has called on all political parties to ensure that all their candidates undergo drug integrity and health fitness tests ahead of the flag-off of campaigns for the 2023 general elections in September. The CNPP…
HURIWA Bemoans Robbery Attacks in Abuja, Says Police Officers Commercialise Services
…Says Self-defence Inevitable, Calls for Liberalisation of Arms’ Ownership Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA) on Sunday, bemoaned the rising spate of robberies and kidnapping by bandits in the Federal Capital territory Abuja in the…
Arrest of Journalist Ikenna Ellis Ezenekwe: Police Must Respect Citizens Rights And Act – Says CLO
The Civil Liberties Organisation, Nigeria’s foremost human rights and civil society organization, South East Zone, has called on the personnel of the Nigerian Police Force to ensure utmost respect for the citizen’s rights, stickler for professionalism and take actions within…
Five Children Among 50 Held 100 Days After Abuja – Kaduna Train Attack
Facts have emerged that no fewer than five children are among the 50 people still held by bandits after the insurgents attacked a passenger train North West of Kaduna State, near Nigeria’s capital, their families revealed on Wednesday as they…
Ike Ekweremadu, Wife, Remain In Custody Even After UK Court Accepted Kidney Donor Not Underage
Information available to The Street Reporters Newspaper, indicstates that the Westminster Magistrates Court, United Kingdom (UK), on Thursday accepted that the kidney donor in the case of former Deputy President of the Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice,…
ADC Presidential Candidate, Kachikwu, Urges Buhari to Resign over Worsening Insecurity
…Sympathises with Families of Victims The Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Dumebi Kachikwu, on Wednesday, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign amid worsening insecurity in the country. Kachikwu in a statement, said the attack on the…
