•Burna Boy Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has kicked against a five-year deal between Grammy Award-winning artiste, Burna Boy’s company, BrkFst, and Aspire North America, LLC, a subsidiary of Inspire Technology Inc. for the manufacture and distribution of vaping products in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, and Eu...
•Boko Haram insurgents The United Nations (UN) yesterday strongly condemned the abduction of internally displaced persons (IDPs), many of them women, boys and girls, in Borno State. The insurgents struck three Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in Ngala tow, the headquarters of Gamboru Ngala Local Government Area at the border of Camero...
•Troops The Human Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre), a leading Civil Society Organisation (CSO) in Nigeria, has condemned the actions of the Nigerian Army in intimidation and land encroachment against the indigenous residents of Ebute-Afuye in Epe, Lagos. HEDA therefore called upon the federal government and the Lagos Sta...
•Dr Nnimmo Bassey A renowned Nigerian environmental organisation, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), has condemned unequivocally, the planned commercial release of TELA maize in the country by the federal government. Recall that the federal government on Thursday, January 11, 2024 openly approved the open cultivation and commercial rel...
•Siminalayi Fubara The Rivers State Government, yesterday, expressed its unhappiness about the arraignment of some loyalists of Governor Siminalayi Fubara, in connection with the October 30, 2023 bombing of the Rivers State Assembly complex. The police yesterday arraigned the governor’s loyalists before the Federal High Court in Abuja. They we...
The International Press Center IPC’s Centre for Safety and Protection of Journalists (I-CSPJ) said it is extremely dismayed and frowns at the reported police invasion of ABN TV and forced arrest of a guest during a live programme in Umuahia on Tuesday, January 16, 2024. In a press statement signed by the Press Officer, Melody […]
•Wike and Fubara Stakeholders have continued to weigh in on the Rivers political crisis with the latest being the Rivers Elders and Leaders Forum which has condemned moves to impeach Governor Siminalayi Fubara. The group’s position was contained in a communique issued after its emergency meeting yesterday. The Forum which reviewed the recent d...
•Security Forces exchange gunfire in Guinea-Bissau The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) today condemned the violence that erupted in Guinea Bissau in the early hours of yesterday. The condemnation was contained in a statement issued by the ECOWAS Parliament in Abuja. It stated that the community learnt with deep preoccupation...