Addressing journalists after the incident, he accused the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, of masterminding the attack out of personal vendetta. A human rights lawyer, A.K. Musa, has condemned the invasion of the Kuje Magistrate Court, Abuja, by armed police officers during the arraignment of activist, Omoyele Sowore, describing it as a desecration of the

The legal representative of a students activist, Isah Mokwa, Ibrahim Usman Wali, has said that the police, in their usual manner, are using administrative delays to keep his client in custody.  Amid the bureaucratic reasons, Mokwa, a postgraduate student at Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, remains in custody until tomorrow, Saturday, 25 October, as proceedings

The Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), Nigeria, has condemned the continued detention and alleged assault of human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, and other protesters by the Nigeria Police Force, calling for their immediate and unconditional release.   In a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Mrs. Chinyere Oge Kalu, IPAC described the arrests as a

The Gombe State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Colonel Abdullahi Bello (rtd) has lost his life in a road accident. The Gombe State government announced this in a statement issued by Director-General, Press Affairs, Ismaila Uba Misilli, on Friday. Misilli said the late Bello died in an accident along Malam Sidi-Gombe road. “The Gombe

Bago had said during the World Food Day celebration in Lagos State on October 16, that he paid graduate assistants N500,000 to work in his farm. The Niger State Governor, Umar Bago, has confessed that he lied about paying graduate assistants N500,000 on his farms to attract investors. Bago had said during the World Food