•Policemen The Anambra State Police Command yesterday, Wednesday, August 20, 2025, arraigned four suspects over separate cases of child defilement before the Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Court sitting in Awka. Following their arraignment, the accused persons were ordered to be remanded at the Correctional Centre pending further c...
•General Abdourahmane Tchiani Niger’s lawyers have announced a two-day strike tomorrow and Friday to protest against the military government’s dissolution of the West African country’s justice unions. The lawyers accuse the junta, which seized power in the jihadist-hit Sahel nation in a July 2023 coup, of threatening the independence of the ju...
•Anambra CP Ikioye Orutugu The Commissioner of Police in Anambra, CP Ikioye Orutugu, has ordered the clampdown on any unlawful gatherings in his effort to tackle the rising cases of supremacy battle among cult groups in the state. Orutugu said the development follows the security intelligence-led policing and community information, which sugge...
•Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo The federal government has vowed to commence clampdown on irregular migrants in the country from August 1, 2025. Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, made this known in Abuja after a meeting with the Nigerian Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA), reports Nigerian Tribune. He noted that there...
•Tinubu At least 10 journalists have been arrested in the past one year in what seems like a targeted clampdown on free speech with the use of the controversial Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention etc) Act, 2015. Journalists from the International Centre of Investigative Reporting (ICIR), the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ), The...
Police authorities in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have ordered a clampdown on vehicles without number plates. In a statement yesterday, the FCT Police Command spokesperson Josephine Adeh said the move is part of efforts to curb crime in the area. “The FCT Police Command has observed with serious concern the manner in which motorists [&...
•Media clampdown The wave of abduction of journalists that continues to grow under a so-called democratic government has no doubt become a point of concern for media practitioners who now have to worry about their safety as they discharge their duties. The concerns are not only for reporters, editors and every media practitioner but also [&hel...
Licensed Bureau De’Change operators have expressed support for government’s crackdown on persons selling and buying foreign currencies on the streets. President of the Association of Bureau De’Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON) Aminu Gwadabe, advised that the ongoing raids and arrests of such traders should not be misconstrued, reports The Na...
The naira yesterday slid further at the parallel market in spite of the clampdown the federal government ordered on foreign exchange market speculators. Bureau De Change (BDC) hubs were raided in Abuja, Lagos and Kano and some operators were arrested, reports Daily Trust. Despite the raids, however, the naira plunged further with a dollar exch...
•Police Daredevil kidnappers have continued to unleash terror on citizens in different parts of the country in defiance of security arrangements put in place to tackle the issue of abduction for ransom, which has lately assumed the level of commercial transactions. For instance, three riot police inspectors were kidnapped on Friday evening in ...
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