•A policeman rough handles Jide Oyekunle of Daily Independent (middle) during the protests in Abuja yesterday Below is a press statement issued today by the International Press Institute Nigeria concerning attacks on journalists covering the ongoing nationwide protests: The Nigerian National Committee of International Press Institute (IPI Nige...
•Shehu Sani and Obasanjo A civil rights activist and social critic, Shehu Sani, has narrated how he shielded ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo from being assaulted by inmates of the Kirikiri Maximum Security prison in 1995. He spoke in Abuja at the second edition of Nigeria’s Lecture and Award event themed, “25 Years of Unbroken Democracy: Challe...
Police authorities in Delta State have denied attacking protesting women in Ughelli, Delta State yesterday. The clarification came following reports that the police had shot at women from Oteri-Ughelli in the Ughelli North Local Government Area of the state who were protesting against alleged incessant harassment and extortion by policemen in ...

