Court Sentences Ex-SARS Operative to Death, Convicts 4 Others
Last Friday, a State High Court in Benin City, Edo Sate, sentenced to death a police corporal, Joseph Omotosho who served with the now defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) unit, over extra-judicial killing. Omotosho and four other police constables, alleged…
Over 300 Police Special Forces Arrive Kaduna to Battle Bandits
No fewer than three hundred and two officers and men of Mobile Police, Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU) and Police Special Forces under the auspices of Operation Puff Adder II, have been deployed to Kaduna to fight bandits. Nigerian Tribune reports…
How Armed Bandits Stormed Niger State Villages, Killed 10, Abducted 23 Villagers
Unknown number of bandits have stormed Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State, killing the District Head of Kusherki in the local council, Mas’ud Abubakar, abducting his wife, children and some others. The armed Bandits carried out a similar attack…
Minister Inaugurates Reform Committee For Ministry Of Defence, Nigeria’s Armed Forces
The Minister of Defence Major General Bashir Salihi Magashi has inaugurated a 21- man Committee to facilitate the Reforms of the Ministry of Defence and the Armed Forces of Nigeria. (AFN). Inaugurating the committee at the Ship House, Headquarters of…
Libel Case Against CrossRiverWatch, Agba Jalingo Adjourned Until March 21 As Bank’s Witness Fails To Turn Up
A High Court of Cross River State sitting in Calabar and presided over by Justice Maurice Eneji has adjourned a libel case against an online Newspaper, CrossRiverWatch and journalist, Agba Jalingo until March 21, 2021 for hearing after the witness…
Serially Raped: Another Page of Alleged Atrocities Perpetrated Under Buratai As Army Chief of Staff
How 53 Obigbo Young Women Were Abducted, Serially Raped At Mogadishu Barracks …As Intersociety Releases Names of 53 Victims Retired Lt Gen Tukur Yusuf Buratai as immediate past Chief of Army Staff chillingly left a legacy of monstrosity and barbarism…
The Police, Protests And A Good Sense Of History
By Citizen Agba Jalingo To my understanding, the goal of today’s #OccupyLekkiTollGate protest is to return global attention to the effrontery to reopen the toll gate where Nigerians were murdered for expressing their freedom to gather in disagreement with their…
Insecurity: Gov. Ugwuanyi Inaugurates 272 Special Constables for Community Policing
…Canvasses Residents’ Maximum Support, Co-operation Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, on Friday, inaugurated the 272 Special Constables from the 17 local government areas, recently recruited and trained at Oji River Police College, for Community Policing in the state. It…
BREAKING: Coalition Drags Tukur Buratai, 20 Others To 31 Foreign MISSIONS Over Heinous Crimes Against Humanity
The Eastern Rights & Intelligentsia Coalition has dragged former Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai (Rtd) and 20 others to 31 foreign missions in Nigeria over alleged heinous crimes Against humanity. In a statement on Thursday,…
Beko Ransome-Kuti: 15 Years After, Nation still Not at Peace – Says Group
Marking the 15th anniversary of the demise of Dr Beko Ransome-Kuti on Wednesday, February 10, 2021, the Beko Ransome-Kuti memorial Committee has said the country he fought for to institute its democracy is still not at peace. Insisting that his…
Genocide on The Horizon – Yorubas Write UN
In a letter titled “Genocide on The Horizon…” which was addressed to the Secretary General of the United Nations and the United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect, Yoruba elders under the aegis of Yoruba Council…
