Crime

Guinea-Bissau: An Urgent Wake-up Call to ECOWAS and Int’l Community

By Paul Ejime Africa seldom makes international news headlines unless wars (and they must be bloody), military coups, humanitarian catastrophes, disease pandemics, hunger, famine and pestilence are involved. With other parts of...

NDLEA Arrests 83-Year-Old Grandma, Seizes Drugs

Nigeria’s anti-narcotics agency has arrested an 83-year-old woman for alleged drug trafficking, detained a South African woman with...

RAF Fairford Incident And Need For UK’s Homeland Defence Forces

By Dean WilsonAmerica’s withdrawal of its bombers from RAF Fairford, following a suspected terror plot against the base,...

NDLEA Intercepts Italy-bound Traveler, Foils N5b Drug Shipments

Nigerian drug enforcement operatives intercepted an Italy-bound traveler carrying 4.8 kilograms of cocaine hidden in shoe soles and...

Lagos Police Arrest Officer Over Anti-Igbo Video

The Lagos State Police Command has identified and arrested a police officer seen in a viral video making...
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Navy Hands Over Seized Contrabands To Agencies in Badagry

The Forward Operating Base (FOB) of Nigerian Navy, Badagry, Lagos has handed over seized contrabands and rescued victims of human trafficking to relevant agencies...

Groups set to host national anti-corruption conference in Abuja

The Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) and the Centre for Fiscal Transparency and Integrity Watch (CEFTIW) are set to host a two-day National Conference on Anti-Corruption from July 11 to July 12 in Abuja.

UN wants rights chief to act on crimes against…

Lagos, June 20, 2024 – The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has been urged to provide a public update of...

How Nigerian man stabs stepfather to death in London

Adejuwon Olufemi Alexander Jnr Oyekan, of Hayes, stabbed his 54-year-old stepfather, Jason Thompson, in a violent outburst in his own home. Adejuwon Olufemi Alexander Jnr...

ECOWAS court to investigate unresolved killings of 11 journalists

The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice in Abuja has fixed hearing for May 19, 2023 in a suit filed by Media Rights Agenda (MRA) seeking to compel the Federal Government to properly investigate the unresolved killings of 11 journalists.

SERAP sues CBN over ‘unlawful regulations on customers’ social media handles

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) over “the failure to delete the patently unlawful provisions in the Central Bank of Nigeria (Customer Due Diligence) Regulations directing banks to obtain information on customers’ social media handles for the purpose of identification.”
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