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 Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Soyata Maiga has agreed to ‘take appropriate actions’ on request by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) to sue South Africa over xenophobic attacks on other Africans. The development, analysts ...

A driver has been confirmed dead and six students of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) injured in a head-on-collision involving a Vectra car and a Sharon bus along the Bauchi-Jos highway in Miri village, few kilometers away from the Bauchi State capital. Public ...

The Defence Headquarters has denied the claim by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) that the Nigerian armed forces were arbitrarily detaining children in detention facilities across the North East. In a statement, yesterday by Acting Director, Defence Information, Colonel Onyema ...

The 1 Division of the Nigerian Army has recovered and handed over 14 sheep and 120 cows believed to have been rustled along Kaduna-Abuja highway to the Kaduna State Government. The division’s Garrison Commander of the Division, Brigadier General Jimmy ...

The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) Nigeria has lamented the increasingly violent conflicts in the country, which has resulted in wanton destruction of lives and property. This follows its establishment of a weekly live radio programme in seven states ...

Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Babatunde Fowler, has disclosed that taxes contributed 60 per cent of revenues distributed at the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) in the last three months. Fowler gave the hint when Chairman ...

Yahoo Mail users across the world were unable to access their emails for several hours yesterday following the temporary crash of the site. The incident drew the ire of thousands of users, who had no clue of how long the ...

The Federal Government has identified improper demarcation between Benue and Taraba, as well as banditry and kidnapping as some of the major factors behind the raging bloodletting between the Tiv and Jukun ethnic groups in the northeastern state. A statement ...

State targets 5,000 women for empowerment, raise funding to N10b Three months after Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, signed the 2019 budget into law, the state’s financial plan is yet to be made available on the Ministry of Economic Planning ...

Rights activist, Chief Rita Lori-Ogbebor, has faulted the composition of the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), alleging that President Muhammadu Buhari breached the rotational clause in the enabling law establishing the interventionist agency. Maintaining that it was ...