Category: Metro
Amnesty Int’l demands release of activist, Maryam Awaisu
Amnesty International (AI) has called on the Nigeria police force to urgently release activist and author, Maryam Awaisu, who was arrested by operativ [...]
Court orders release of ex Skye bank chairman, Tunde Ayeni
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has been ordered to immediately release a former Chairman of the defunct Skye Bank, Tunde Ayeni, w [...]
Nigeria protests unjust treatment as Ghana deports 723 citizens
Ambassador Michael Abikoye, the Nigerian High Commissioner to Ghana, has protested the unjust treatment of Nigerians by the Ghana Immigration Service [...]
Leah Sharibu still in Boko Haram custody one year after
One of 110 girls abducted from their school in Dapchi in February 2018 by Boko Haram militants, Leah Sharibu is currently still in the custody of the [...]
INEC replaces burnt card readers in Anambra
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has replaced the 4,635 card readers destroyed in an inferno at the head office of the com [...]
Onnoghen appears before CCT, pleads ‘not guilty’
Embattled chief justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen has pleaded not guilty to the charges filed against him at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT [...]
CUPP accuses FG of burning electoral materials in opposition states
The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of conspiring with security agencies to set electoral [...]
Former SGF, Babachir Lawal remanded, pleads not guilty to fraud charges
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday arraigned the immediate-past Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Babachir Lawal, [...]
Why we approved ‘giant broom’ at city gate – FCTA
The Coordinator of Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC), Umar Shuaibu, whose office supervises DOAS ( Department of Outdoors Advertisement Ser [...]
Fathers now impregnate daughters in Edo State – Ohenhen, Comm. Women Affairs
Edo State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Hon. Magdalene Ohenhen has revealed that it is becoming a normal thing in the state f [...]