Police Intensify Prosecution Amid By-Election Violence in Kano and Ogun
Security agencies have launched a sweeping crackdown on electoral violence during recent by-elections in Kano and Ogun states. In Kano, the State Police Command has arranged 333 alleged political thugs—some reportedly linked to government officials—for orchestrating disturbances during the Ghari, Bagwai, and Shanono by-elections. Commissioner Ibrahim Adamu Bakori revealed that the accused face charges in…
ECOWAS, EU, Germany Collaborate to Combat Growing Threat of Cybercrime in West Africa
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the German Federal Foreign Office and the European Union have convened a High-Level Briefing and Workshop on Cyber Diplomacy for the ECOWAS Permanent Representatives Committee (PRC) to combat the growing threat of cybercrime in Nigeria and other West African countries. According to a statement on Wednesday by…
Falana Demands Justice, Equity in Niger Delta at Ken Saro-Wiwa 30th Memorial Lecture
…Activists seek environmental audit, accelerated cleanup, and end to Ogoni marginalization Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, has renewed calls for accountability, equity, and environmental justice in the Niger Delta, declaring that the people of the oil-rich region “have no business with poverty.” Falana made the call in Port Harcourt…
Fubara’s Supporters Walk Out Mrs Ibas At First Lady’s Empowerment Programme
Barikui Felix There was pandemonium on Friday morning at an Event Centre in Port Harcourt, venue for the Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI), a pet project of the wife of the president, Mrs Remi Tinubu. Women of Rivers State walked out on Mrs Theresa Ibas as she was about to address them. The programme we gathered…
Cult War, Residents Flee Rivers Community As LG Boss Places Bounty on Gang
Cult War, Residents Flee Rivers Community As LG Boss Places Bounty on Gang Barikui Felix, Port Harcourt The Chairman of Emohua Local Government Council in Rivers State, Chief David Omereji, has placed a bounty of 30 million Naira on killer gangs terrorising Obele community in the area. Omereji made the pronouncement on Monday when he…
Nigeria, IOM Seek Greater Collaboration Against Irregular Migration
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, has said Nigeria is poised to forge better collaboration with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in tackling migration crisis, This is as she attributed the spate of illegal migration of Nigerians to the country’s huge demography explaining that over 70 per cent of the nation’s…
NUJ Condemns Assault on EBS Reporter, Demands Arrest of Kelly Okungbowa
The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Edo State Council, has strongly condemned the assault on Juliet Enabulele, a reporter with the Edo Broadcasting Service (EBS), who was attacked and manhandled by Kelly Okungbowa, popularly known as Ebo Stone, at a public event in Benin City on Wednesday, December 3, 2025. In a statement jointly signed…
A/Ibom Boundary Conflict: Widow of Beheaded Man Begs For Help
A/Ibom Boundary Conflict: Widow of Beheaded Man Begs For Help Uko Okon, Uyo A distraught widow, Mrs. Immaculate Sampson Akpan, whose husband was gruesomely murdered with his head chopped off by armed hoodlums who invaded the village of Ndito Eka Iba, in Ibeno local government area, from the neighbouring Eket local government area, has cried…