•IGP Egbetokun and Tinubu A media executive and activist, Julius Adegunna, says even though the criteria used are not clear, the Nigerian public would definitely knock the recent award given to the Nigeria Police by the presidency as the Most Improved Service Delivery Parastatal (SERVICOM Unit) in Nigeria for the year 2024. His point is [&hell...
•Tinubu Two youth activists have disagreed over the plans of the President Bola Tinubu’s federal administration to hold a National Youth Conference (NYC) in the first quarter of this year. Both youth activists, Aluh Moses Odeh and Hassan Taiwo Soweto, who spoke to our correspondent separately yesterday on the necessity for the conference, app...
•Afe Babalola and Dele Farotimi For the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), this is not the best of times as it is facing a barrage of attacks over the handling of the matter involving legal luminary, Afe Babalola (SAN) and human rights lawyer, Bisi Farotimi. Policemen from Ekiti State Police Command last week stormed Lagos State […]
•Farotimi The determination of the police to stop activists from protesting the continued detention of human rights lawyer, Dele Farotimi, is creating deep anger. Despite Ekiti State Police Command’s claim that the decision to prohibit the planned protest was reached to ensure the safety of lives and property in the state, activists have refus...
•Hunger protest Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) has dissociated itself from the Russian flag hoisted during August 1-10 #EndBadGovernanceinNigeria protest. This followed arrest of its National Coordinator, Adaramoye Michael Lenin and Mosiu Sodiq by Department of State Security and National Intelligence Agency, reports The Nation. At a news confere...
•Activists of the NGO for the Ethical Treatment of Animals during Pope Francis weekly general audience today at The Vatican Animal rights activists briefly interrupted Pope Francis’ weekly audience at the Vatican today, holding up signs demanding an end to bullfighting. Two activists from PETA, an international charity which defends animal rig...
Frankfurt Airport, Germany’s busiest, has resumed operations after suspending flights this morning when several climate activists blocked runways by gluing themselves to the tarmac. Planes were able to take off and land again, the airport said on its website, but passengers were still advised to check on their flight status before setting off ...
•Oil theft Leaders and activists in the South-South region said the massive networks of the “big players”, who steal the nation’s crude oil in politics, and the oil industry have made the government, which lacked political will, powerless in halting their activities over the years. The stakeholders, speaking to our correspondents, on the backd...
•Bobrisky A lawyer and human rights activist, Deji Adeyanju, has faulted the six months imprisonment sentence handed down to controversial crossdresser, Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky, for abuse of naira. He also urged the courts to be mindful of the “cultural undertone” surrounding the spraying of naira notes in Nigerian social ev...
•Tinubu A coalition of human rights activists and lawyers has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to conduct a comprehensive investigation into allegations of corruption, crude oil theft, and procurement fraud estimated at N8 billion against Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ogalla, Chief of the Naval Staff. The coalition, which includes prominent figures s...

