Two young men, identified as Okechukwu Caleb and his friend, Christopher Chimezie Onyejekwe, have accused officers attached to the Orile Police Division in Lagos State of abducting, assaulting, and extorting them in what they described as a “commando-style” operation that left them traumatised and financially drained. Caleb told SaharaReporters that the incident occurred on the night

The court ruled that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) successfully established a prima facie case against him and his company, Ismalob Global Investment Limited. Justice Mojisola Dada of the Lagos State Special Offences Court, Ikeja, has dismissed a no-case submission filed by social media celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha, popularly known as Mompha.  The court

Human rights lawyer, Barrister Inibehe Effiong, has condemned controversial Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi over his repeated public defence of bandits and terrorists, saying his continued audacity shows that the Nigerian government is complicit in the country’s worsening insecurity. Effiong was reacting to a SaharaReporters’ report on Gumi’s criticism of the United States’ threat to

   

The Niger State Independent Electoral Commission (NSIEC) has declared that the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates won all 25 chairmanship positions in the local government elections held on 1 November across the State. The announcement came after the collation and verification of results from all local government areas in the state. However, the election, under

The time for illusions has long passed. The President of the United States, Donald Trump, recently made a baseless and frankly bizarre allegation that Christians are being systematically exterminated in Nigeria. It is a dangerous fiction, designed not to save lives but to soften the moral ground for intervention. This is the same script: rehearsed,