•IGP Kayode Egbetokun The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has ordered the immediate posting of Seven Assistant Inspectors-General of Police (AIGs) to various strategic offices and the posting of eighteen Commissioners of Police (CPs) due for AIG ranks, pending approval from the Police Service Commission (PSC) to AIG offices nati...
•Sokoto Governor Ahmed Aliyu and Shafi’u Umar Tureta Amnesty International has accused the Sokoto government of influencing the arrest of a social media user, Shafi’u Umar Tureta. In a statement, the human rights group said the social media critic, who was arrested by heavily armed policemen, posted a viral video of the “lavish and extravagant...
•National Youth Service Corps members Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig.- Gen. Yushau Ahmed, has warned corps members to stop posting camp activities on social media. The D-G said posting happenings in camp on social media is a violation of the scheme’s standing rules and policies, reports Daily Trust. Ahmed, wh...
A shop owner in Iran, Zeinab Khenyab has been sentenced to two years in prison after publishing photos without a headscarf, the U.S.-based human rights network, HRANA, said today. According to the network, Zeinab Khenyab was earlier sentenced to three months in prison in December in another case, for “propaganda against the state.” The woman [...

