Rights Group Accuses Oyo Police Personnel Of Extorting, Harassment of Businessmen
A civil right organization, the Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ) has accused a police personnel attached to the Testing Ground Police Station in Ibadan, under the control of the Oyo State Command of engaging in acts of intimidation, harassment and extorting an Ibadan based businessmen. A... Read more
Bayelsa Govt to withhold April salaries of 222 of its media workers
Bayelsa government has commenced its plans to downsize its workforce and directed the removal of 222 staff from its radio station and newspaper.   According to a letter signed by Rev Thomas Zidafomo, Head of Service, Bayelsa State, addressed to General Manager of Bayelsa Newspaper Corporation, the exercise is... Read more
Abuja Court Frees Boko Haram Suspects For Want Of Proosection Witnesses
A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Wednesday discharged two persons, Ibrahim Ahmed and Sani Argungu, arraigned for alleged ties with Boko Haram, for lack of diligent prosecution. Discharging the defendants, Justice Binta Nyako noted that Ahmed had been in detention since 2013 while Argungu had been detained since... Read more
New Presidential Special Adviser Niger Delta Affairs Pledges To Focus More on Reintegration
. Sets Up Eight-Man Review Committee The new Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs and Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Prof Charles Dokubo, has set up a Special, Eight-Man Review Committee to take an initial look into the activities of the programme. Members of the... Read more
2019: Group Trains, Advises Youths On Credible Election Processes
Nigerian youths have been enjoined to get involved in credible elections in 2019 by acquiring their Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) and refusing monetary inducements . Mr Chukwuma Okenwa, the National Coordinator of YouthDecide2019, a Non-Governmental Organisation, gave the advice in Port Harcourt on Saturday at Seminar on Understanding Election... Read more
The Danger of Playing Politics with the Soot
By Simeon Nwakaudu A few days ago, Nigerian Info, Port Harcourt  broadcast on her platform that Port Harcourt was the 4th most polluted city in the world. Upon  this controversial and fake information, the station’s  on-air personalities took turns to sell this false information, opening their telephone lines to... Read more
NDDC Assures FUTO Of More Development Projects
      The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has promised to execute more development projects at the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, FUTO. The NDDC Managing Director, Mr Nsima Ekere, made the pledge at the 30th convocation ceremony of FUTO, where he was given an honorary doctorate degree... Read more
Freed Boko Haram Commander Back To The War Front, Leads Attacks
Shuaibu Moni, who was released by Nigeria’s State Security Service, SSS, last year in a prisoner exchange deal with some of the Chibok girls, was the coordinator of the multiple Easter attacks in Maiduguri, informed security sources have said. On April 1, communities of Bale Kura, Bale Shuwarin, Jamine... Read more
Save Lagos Group Writes Senate, Seeks Withdrawal Of Ikeja Electric’s Operational Permit
. Cautions National Assembly against granting requests of agitation for state police A civil rights organisation, the Save Lagos Group (SLG) has written to the upper legislative chambers, Senate with a call on members to commence the processes for the withdrawal of the operational certificate of Ikeja Electricity Distribution... Read more
Nigeria Needs Restructuring, Not Elections
By Leke Agbarin-Agba The only way for Nigeria to get out of the current catastrophe that they have complained so much about, is through the restructuring of the polity to return to true federalism as was practiced before the military interventions of 1966. The middle belt and the south... Read more