UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Wednesday said the adoption in Uganda of draconian new legislation targeting lesbian, gay and bisexual people was devastating and deeply disturbing.

Alex Otti of the Labour Party (LP) has won the March 18 governorship election in Abia State.

Thirty-seven-year-old truck driver, Buba Muhammed has been convicted and sentenced to 12 months imprisonment by a Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin on Wednesday for unlawful possession of 30 tonnes of solid minerals.

Russian forces used a large air-delivered munition on an apartment building on March 9, 2022, in Izium, eastern Ukraine, in an attack that killed at least 44 civilians and violated the laws of war, Human Rights Watch said today in a web report.

Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has asked the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) through an application made pursuant to the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, 2011 to provide it with details of the independence reportedly granted by President Muhammadu Buhari to the Commission in the exercise of its regulatory functions.

Labour Party Vice Presidential Candidate in the February 25 elections, Yusuf Datti Baba Ahmed, has said that Nigeria has no president-elect.