The Anambra State government has applauded Professor Nkem Moses Chendo , Dean of the School of Postgraduate Studies of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University at Uli in Ihiala Local Government Area for emerging the president of the Chemical Society of Nigeria (CSN). Professor Chendo emerged the 15th CSN president at... Read more
December 16, 2020, Washington, DC The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today released the following new report on religious freedom conditions in Nigeria: Nigeria Country Update – This country update examines religious freedom conditions in Nigeria, which remained poor in 2020. Ongoing state violations include harsh convictions... Read more
A Member of the Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation and Coordinator for the South-South zone of the body, Mr. Emmanuel Ibah, is dead. He was 61 years of age. Family sources confirmed to the NFF that Ibah, who was also Chairman of the Akwa Ibom Football Association,... Read more
Rivers Attorney-General, Prof Adangor, 71 Other Lawyers Sworn In As Senior Advocates
News December 14, 2020
Rivers State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Professor Zacchaeus Adangor has been sworn in as a Senior Advocate of NigeriaM(SAN). Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, led a delegation from the State that attended the inauguration ceremony which was held at the Supreme Court, Abuja on Monday. Professor Adangor was... Read more
The family of Mrs Dalepel Collins, a middle-aged hypertensive woman, arrested and detained unlawfully by the Inspector-General of Police (IG) Monitoring Unit, since Nov. 25 in Port Harcourt, has appealed for justice. The family, through its Counsel, Cosmas Enweleuzo (SAN), also appealed to the I-G to cause the CSP... Read more
Some survivors of the Government Science School in Dankara, Katsina State, have explained how they survived the abduction carried out by gunmen. On Friday, gunmen on motorcycles stormed the Government Science School in Kankara late and engaged security forces in a gun battle, forcing hundreds of students to flee... Read more
A video showing the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), visiting his cows in Daura Katsina State, barely hours after hundreds of boys were abducted by bandits has elicited criticisms from several social media users. The pupils of Government Boys Science Secondary School in Kankara Local Government Area of... Read more
Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III led Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), has described the abduction of hundreds of Government Science Secondary School (GSSS), Kankara’s students, as a slap on President Muhammadu Buhari’s face. The apex Islamic body in the North said that, the boldness of the bandits... Read more
Nigeria’s Ambassador to the United States, Sylvanus Adiewere Nsofor, is dead. He died Thursday night at 85. Though there is no official statement, competent sources confirmed his death. A retired justice of Nigeria’s Court of Appeal, Nsofor assumed office as Nigeria’s ambassador to the United States on November 13,... Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to honour the invitation by members of the House of Representatives to address them on the security situation in the country as plenary commenced on Thursday in his absence. Members of the House of Representatives had earlier on December 1st passed a resolution to... Read more