Seventy-five prominent Yoruba elders have vowed to pull the Yoruba nation out of Nigeria if the country is not restructured before the 2023 general elections. Acting under the aegis of Voice of Reason (VOR), a socio-cultural group, the elders made this known in an advertorial on page 25 of... Read more

The Peoples Democratic Party has described Nigeria’s sliding into a second recession in five years under the rule of  President Muhammadu Buhari as further evidence of his crass incompetence in governance. According to the PDP, President Buhari and his ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) should accept that they have... Read more

The Int’l Society for Civil Liberties & Rule of Law, otherwise known as Intersociety has released a new tally which put the number of people it verified as killed by Nigerian soldiers in Oyigbo, Rivers State at over 60. The rights group with a reputation for indept investigations into... Read more

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has condemned the reaction of Nigeria’s Information Minister, Lai Mohammed who dismissed the just released and scientifically evidenced special report of the Cable News Network (CNN) on the killing of unarmed demonstrators during the recent #EndSARS uprising in Nigeria. The demonstrations... Read more

WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) strongly condemns the Egyptian government’s arrest of Mohamed Basheer, Administrative Manager of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), and urges his and Coptic activist Ramy Kamel’s unconditional and immediate release. USCIRF Vice Chair Tony Perkins said, “USCIRF calls on the Egyptian government... Read more

A joint Biogas and Liquefied Petroleum Gas Operated Kitchen has been inaugurated at the Port Harcourt Maximum Security Custodial Centre, to convert human wastes to biogas energy. This was disclosed in a statement in Port Harcourt by the Public Relations Officer of the Rivers Command, Juliet Ofoni, a Deputy... Read more

First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s premier and leading financial inclusion services provider has announced its variant account products – KidsFirst and MeFirst – created to encourage the right savings culture among children from 0 – 17 years. The offerings have relevant enhancements including appropriate parental guidance and financial discipline... Read more

International flights from and to  Kano, Port-Harcourt and Enugu  airports  will resume before  December 25, the Federal Government has announced.. It also  lifted the flight ban on Lufthansa, KLM,  Air France and Qatar Airways, thereby paving the way for them to resume their operations in and out of the country. Minister of Aviation  Hadi Sirika  explained  in a... Read more

The King of Oyigbo town in Oyigbo LGA of Rivers State, Eze Mike Nwaji, has pleaded with the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, and the military hierarchy in the state to caution soldiers against the indiscriminate arrests of residents in the area. The monarch decried the trend of residents... Read more