HURIWA knocks El-Rufai as bandits kill 446 people in six months
…Insists Governor il Failure who watch on as marauders slaughter residents …Says Kaduna a place of sorrow, tears and blood under El-Rufai Prominent civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), on Sunday, lambasted Governor Nasir El-Rufai…
Drug Trafficking: How NDLEA Operatives Arrested David Mark, Blind Nigerien, 2 Pakistanis
A blind citizen of the Niger Republic and Two nationals of Pakistan have been arrested for cocaine trafficking in Nigeria, even as many other suspected illicit drug traffickers have been taken into custody nationwide. While the Pakistanis were apprehended at…
N500m Stabilization Fund: The Lie From Abuja And The Silence From Calabar
Barely forty days to the end of former Cross River Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke’s administration, in a petition dated April 16, 2015, Cross River lawyer and former presidential aide, Okoi Obono Obla, petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,…
US Court Reveals True Status Of Hushpuppi, Sentencing Date
United States Attorney’s Office for Central District of California, Los Angeles, has reacted to reported sentencing of the alleged international internet fraudster Ramon Abbas popularly known as Hushpuppi. The US Attorney’s office disclosed that he will be sentenced on Monday,…
Immigration Redeploys 100 Officers, Dismisses 8 Personnel Over Corruption
The Comptroller General of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Isah Jere Idris has disclosed that eight personnel from the service and a wide range of sanctions for 18 others found to have committed offences bordering on indiscipline. He has also…
Real Reason Nigerian Government Is After Ekweremadu’s Properties – HURIWA
Questions Timing of EFCC’s Action Civil rights advocacy group, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has faulted the move by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, which culminated in an interim assets forfeiture order by a Federal…
More Trouble For Ekeremadu As FG Moves To Claim 40 Of His Properties In Nigeria, USA, UK, Dubai
Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, Nigeria, has ordered an interim forfeiture of 40 landed properties belonging to a former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, who is currently in custody in the United Kingdom….
2023: Acrimonious Campaign, Hate Speeches Signs Nigerian Politicians Lack Understanding Of Democratic Governance – CNPP
Conference Of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has called for a better understanding of politics in a democratic society like Nigeria, saying that hate speeches and acrimonious political campaigns are major signs that Nigerian politicians are yet to recover from many…
Unreported Attacks, Kidnappings Still Rampant In Kaduna Communities, Arewa Network Laments
The Northern Emancipation Network has lamented that despite the successes claimed by government, rampant attacks on rural communities in Kaduna state persist and people are still kidnapped at will on almost a daily basis. The Arewa Network, making the revelation…
IGP Orders Probe Of Alleged Assault On Female Officer
The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba has directed the Commissioner of Police in Osun State, Olaleye Faleye to investigate the alleged assault on woman Inspector Olorunsogo Bamidele by her Divisional Crime Officer (DCO) in Osun State. The IGP’s directive comes…
Auditor-General’s Report: Lagos Lawmakers Begin Probe Of Indicted Ministries, Departments, Agencies
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the Lagos State House of Assembly has begun a probe of Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the government in relation to the State’s Auditor-General’s report for 2021. Hon. Saka Solaja, chairman of the committee,…