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Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) has sought Federal Government’s intervention to release Sulaimon Olufemi, who was sentenced to death in 2005 by a Saudi Arabian court for the alleged murder of a policeman in Jeddah in 2002. ...

Governorship aspirants in Kogi and Bayelsa states under the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mohammed Abubakar Audu and Preye Aganaba have asked the party to adopt direct primary to select candidates in the November 16 polls. The duo spoke separately to ...

Governor Emeka Ihedioha has set up an eight-man panel, chaired by Justice B. C. Iheka, to investigate the contracts awarded by the administrations of Chiefs Achike Udenwa, Ikedi Ohakim and Rochas Okorocha in Imo State. A statement issued in Owerri ...

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has deplored President Muhammadu Buhari’s continued deployment of the armed forces to allegedly emasculate the civil rights of Nigerians. The group stated this yesterday in a statement by its National Coordinator, Emmanuel ...

The Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RUST), Port Harcourt, as the unions declined to join the warning strike yesterday. NASU chairman, Bari Jonah, said the decision was predicated on the fact that the executive did not receive any ...

The five-day warning strike embarked upon by Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and the None Academic Staff of Universities (NASU) paralysed major activities at the nation’s ivory towers. At Nigeria’s premier University of Ibadan (UI), the workers complied with ...

The Awori have argued that it was high time they got the governorship positions in Lagos and Ogun states. Speaking at the celebration of Deputy Governor of Ogun State, Noimot Salako-Oyedele, on her leadership position, they charged Lagos and Ogun ...

Family pressure may have forced the Head of Service of the Federation, Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita, to throw in the towel as she has allegedly offered to proceed on an immediate retirement. Sources disclosed that her decision to bow out of ...

Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) Babatunde Fowler, has responded to the query issued him by Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari, regarding the low tax collections in the last three years he has held sway. ...

No fewer than 17 persons have been feared killed in a series of attacks on communities by bandits in Katsina State. In the aggression on Dantakuri and Barza settlements of Danmusa council area, 13 lives were reportedly lost. While the ...