•Protesters As Nigerians expect government’s intervention to ameliorate the biting hardship, Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, today, expressed displeasure over the continued detention of #EndBadGovernance protesters and demanded conditional release of them. The demand was contained in an open letter addressed to President Bola Tinubu, which ...
•DSS operatives The Department of State Services, DSS, has released Adejuwon Soyinka, a former editor of the BBC Pidgin Service, after detaining him for hours at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. This came as the International Press Institute, IPI, Nigeria, a global network of editors, media executives, and communication exp...
The Executive Chairman of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, Jalal Arabi, and the commission’s secretary, Abdullahi Kontagora, are currently in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over the alleged mismanagement of the N90bn 2024 Hajj subsidy. In a document sighted by our correspondent yesterday, the anti-graft age...
The Court of Appeal in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has dismissed an appeal filed by the Department of State Services (DSS) against a judgment in favour of Richard Abbey, a pipeline surveillance contractor with Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in Bonny local government area of the state. In a unanimous decision, the court presided ov...
•Police The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN has warned security agents in the country against detaining suspects beyond the time allowed by law. The AGF specifically admonished security agents to always abide by the provisions of section 35 of the 1999 Constitution in relation to rights of ...
•Nnamdi Kanu and his lawyers For quite a while, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has been detained and the continued detention has been a basis for widespread debate and controversy in Nigeria. Several leaders from the Southeastern region have been urging the federal government to release Kanu, including the [&...
•Niger Delta ex-militants Communities in the Niger Delta have threatened to cripple oil production in the region if the federal government continues to remain adamant over the growing clamour for the release of the detained Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Kanu has remained in a solitary confinement at the [&h...
•Nigerian professors detained in Cameroon The prolonged detention of several Nigerian professors by the Cameroon government for the past five years has sparked outrage. The professors were arrested in Abuja on January 5, 2018, by security agents and later repatriated to Cameroon, tried by a military tribunal, and sentenced to life imprisonment...
•Segun Olatunji A coalition of media associations and civil society organisations (CSOs) have given the federal government a 14-day ultimatum to prosecute those behind what they call “cruel detention” of the Editor of FirstNews, Segun Olatunji. Recall that Olatunji was abducted from his home in Lagos by military personnel. He was detained for ...
•CP Abiodun Alamutu A High Court of Justice in Ogun State, Abeokuta Judicial Division, has awarded N25m in damages against the office of the Ogun State Commissioner of Police and five others for the unlawful arrest and detention of one Sunday Mafe. According to a judgement obtained yesterday, April 2, 2024, signed by Justice E.O. […]
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