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  By Kunle Awoniyi Human Right Writers Association of Nigeria ,HURIWA  has called on President Buhari to desist from deploying security assets to monitor grape vine gossips. This is coming on the heels of the action of  the wife of the president on the detention of an undergraduate of the Federal University,Dutse,Jigawa,Aminu Adamu as abuse of power and absolutely unconstitutional. The right's group has decried the arrest and demanded the immediate and unconditional release from arbitrary arrest and unlawful detention of Aminu Adamu who was arrested on the orders of the wife of President mohammadu Buhari. HURIWA is of the opinion that the reason why insecurity has become overwhelming to much so that the security forces are finding it difficult to defeat terrorists is as a result of the present government penchant to consistently deploy security assets and manpower to monitor social media gossips and eavesdrop on telephone communications of NIGERIANS. HURIWA recalled that ...

By Elnathan Ekuri  The Labour party's Presidential candidate, Peter Obi has reacted to the killing of Victoria Chintex, the party’s Women Leader in Kaura, Kaduna State by suspected assassins. Chintex was killed on Monday, November 28, 2022, by gunmen, who reportedly stormed her residence and shot her dead while her husband sustained gunshot injuries on his leg. Reacting to her killing, Obi in a series of tweets on Tuesday whilst commiserating with the deceased family said the death of the women leader is a huge loss to the Labour Party. Obi stressed that the mindless killing of Mrs. Victoria Chintex, the Labour Party’s women leader in Kaura, Kaduna State, by yet to be identified gunmen was shocking and   her death is a huge loss to her immediate and extended family, and to the Labour Party. He reiterated that the killing and the loss of many innocent lives across the nation to gunmen and terrorists remain the reason why he has priorOtize the war against insecurity as h...

    By Agbetu Becky Second Republic Minister of Steel, Wantaregh Paul Unongo, is dead. Unongo died on Tuesday afternoon at the age of 87. The elder statesman died at a hospital in Jos, Plateau State. The former Chairman of the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, has been battling with ill-health lately. The late Unongo was born on September 26, 1935 and belonged to the Kwaghngise-Anure-Abera ancestry in Turan of Kwande Local Government Area in Benue.

  By Terseer Jackson The  Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Mr. Sunday Dare on Tuesday,  November 29, 2022 arrived Asaba the Delta State Capital, venue of the 21st edition of the National Sports Festival.  According to the press statement by the Director, Press and Public Relations, Sunday Dare and the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry,  Alhaji Ismaila Abubakar, joined the Executive Governor of Delta State Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa to receive the Torch of Unity after touring the 36 States of the Federation, including the Federal Capital Territory,  Abuja.  The event signifies the commencement of the festival with its arrival in Asaba the host State. The 21st National Sports Festival Torch of Unity commenced its movement after it was flagged off by President Muhammadu Buhari  on Tuesday, October 25, 2022 at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja.  The President who was represented at the occasion by the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, s...

   By Nkoyo Etim The Presidential Campaign Council ,PCC of the All Progressives Congress ,APC has said that it did not apologize to the former Governor of Cross Rivers State, Mr. Donald Duke, for erroneous usage of his picture in a documentary on the presidential candidate of APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. The Director of Media and Publicity of the Council, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, in a statement issued on Monday clarified that a purported statement currently in circulation credited to him did not originate from him.  Whilst insisting that the campaign council did not issue any statement on behalf of Tinubu to apologize to Duke , Onanuga urged the media and members of the public to disregard the statement as  fake news designed to create confusion and mislead the public. Onanuga reiterated that the Directorate of Media and Publicity of the APC Presidential Campaign Council did not authorise the said statement and  didn’t issue any statement of apology on behalf of the campa...

  By Esther Onuigbo In a reaction to the order of a Federal High Court in Abuja, on Tuesday , sentencing the Inspector-General of Police IGP, Usman Alkali Baba to three months in prison for flouting a 2011 court order, t he IGP has however directed the Commissioner of Police in charge of the Force Legal Unit to investigate the allegation in a bid to ascertain the position of the court and proffer informed legal advice for the IGP’s prompt and necessary action. The  verdict on the IGP’s committal followed a suit that was filed by a police officer, Patrick Okoli , who was unlawfully and compulsorily retired from the Nigerian Police force. The Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi in a press release disclosed that the IGP did not disregard the court order or the rule of law.  He said his office is not aware of any Court Order during the current IGP’s tenure, with respect to a matter making the round in the media that the IGP disobeyed a Court Order for th...

  By Nkoyo Etim       The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola laments on harsh economic realities having negative effects on the judiciary activities, stressing that the judiciary is not yet truly independent in Nigeria. Speaking at a special session of the supreme court held to mark the beginning of the 2022/2023 legal year and swearing -in of 62 newly Conferred Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN),Ariwoola made the assertion on Monday November 28 as he disclosed that the Nigerian Judiciary is not truly independent assessing from the financial. Justice Ariwoola says the annual budget of the judiciary is far behind what it ought to be, adding that the figure is either stagnated for a long period of time or it goes on a progressive decline when compared with the current realities in the market. While calling for an improvement in the welfare of the judicial officers, the Chief Justice of Nigeria noted that extremely poor and pitiable ...

  By V.C. Collins Determined to deliver free and fair elections in Nigeria’s general elections in 2023,the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has re-stated the disposition of the electoral body to bringing into fruition credible polls in africa’s most populous nation in the face of the repeated attacks on the Commission’s offices across the country. The electoral umpire decried how the repeated attacks on their facilities with the cases in Ogun, Osun and Ebony states may hamper with operations designed to make the general elections a huge success.   However, the INEC Boss re-emphasised that the commission would not be deterred by the challenges, noting that it was ready to conduct free and fair elections.   Mahmood Yakubu made the disclosure at the visit of the African Union Special Pre-Electoral Political Mission to the commission on Monday 28 November,2022. The most recent attack on INEC facilities took place i...

  By Agbetu Becky Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari has urged west african legislators to evolve implementable legal frameworks for mitigation of the ravaging global economic crisis that has taken a negative toll with untold hardship on citizens of west african countries. Speaking at the 2022 Second Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Parliament in Abuja yesterday ,whilst declaring the session open ,Mohammadu Buhari urged the sub-regional parliamentarians to use   the second session of the ECOWAS parliament to lay legal frameworks for community budget among many concerns for the west african sub-region. Buhari   reiterated that the global economic downturn has deeply affected the economies of west African countries as such he reminded the sub-regional parliamentarians that the sub-regional legislative session was timely and should be instrumental to the formulation of well-thought out economic recovery and developmental plans to put to an end the dire economic hard...

  By Terseer Jackson/ VC Collins The Minister of the FCT, Muhammad Musa Bello has disclosed that Abuja's aesthetics would open up the Guzape District for the development of the area and provide direct and indirect jobs to many Nigerians. Musa Bello said this during a tour of engineering infrastructure projects by contractors in Guzape II District.   Speaking at the end of the tour, Malam Bello expressed delight at the commencement of development of plots by owners especially in parts of the district where the contractor has provided infrastructure.  The minister was on a facility tour to ascertain the progress of work and challenges at the Guzape II District by the contractors . He reassured the contractors that efforts will be made to overcome the challenges which include elements of encroachment along the road corridor. He reminded the contractors that if they continue to deliver their work under global best practice, their impact would be printed in the sands o...

  By Terseer Jackson/VC Collins About one thousand four hundred youth athletes from the 36 States of the Federation and Federal Capital Territory ,FCT- Abuja will be competing in over thirty different sports, including football, basketball, wrestling among others as Delta 2022 finally commences. The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, made this disclosure in a chat with newsmen today in Abuja. Dare expressed optimism that at the end of the competition, budding talents will emerge and the country will witness more podium performances with them in subsequent global competitions. The Minister commended the Delta State government for the determination which has brought Delta 2022 sports meet into fruition, and also for providing Nigeria’s teeming youth with the opportunity to showcase their sporting talents amidst strengthening the unity of Nigerians. Dare has urged the participants and sports loving Nigerians to grace the Delta 2022 sports festival for glory a...

  By Collins Vershima/ Nkoyo Etim The Minister of Transportation Mua’zu Sambo has disclosed that the resumption date for the Kaduna-Abuja train services has been extended. He made this revelation at an inspection tour to assess the readiness of the Abuja-Kaduna rail services before the commencement of operations on Sunday in Kaduna. However, early this month, the federal government had promised that the Kaduna-Abuja train service would resume on Monday, 28th November, 2022. The rail service of the Abuja-Kaduna train was suspended following the attack on the train on 28th March, 2022 when terrorists planted explosives that derailed the train. The Minister, who could not give a definite date for the resumption of the rail service, stated that its resumption would not be more than a week. Mua’zu Sambo said his ministry has introduced a new system of purchasing tickets, which he said is the beginning of security checks that would assist the government to know who boards the train...

By Collins Vershima Upon taken the oath of office as the sixth democratically elected Governor of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke issued directives which would be backed by Executive Orders to revert to the constitutionally recognized name of Osun State, from the State of Osun and freezing of all Osun State government accounts in banks and other financial institutions and establishing a panel to carry out an inventory and recover all government assets. He added that all government insignia, correspondence, and signage should henceforth reflect Osun State rather than State of Osun, which he claimed was unknown to the Nigerian constitution. Adeleke in his inaugural address, recounted that since he was elected as governor, the former governor, Alhaji Isiaka Gboyega Oyetola, maliciously started putting roadblocks to make things difficult and almost impossible for the in-coming administration. The newly sworn-in governor decried how mass employments were carried out without budgetary...