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…Calls for nationwide action against insecurity The leadership of the NBM of Africa Worldwide, a Pan-African organisation, has expressed deep concern over the growing wave of child abductions and worsening insecurity across the country, warning that the trend poses a grave threat to Nigeria’s future and national development. In a statement issued on Monday by its President, Dr. Charles Chimezie …

Abuja, Nigeria – The Nigeria Good Governance Research Centre (NGGRC) has added its voice to growing public calls for the retention of a mandatory real-time electronic transmission of election results in Nigeria’s Electoral Act. In a statement made available to journalists on Saturday February 7th, 2026, by its Chairman, who equally double as an international conflict resolution expert, Comrade Igbotako …

Members of the family of late Vera Uwaila Omozuwa, a 22-year-old Microbiology undergraduate of the University of Benin, are demanding justice for their daughter, nearly six years after she was raped and murdered inside a church in Benin City, Edo State of Nigeria. Omozuwa was attacked on May 27, 2020, when she went to the Redeemed Christian Church of God …

Nigerian human rights advocacy group, known as The Security Situation Room, has called on the nations’ law enforcement agencies to respect the rights and dignity of suspects, stop stripping them half-naked in cells and bringing them out in public in the same debasing manner. A statement issued by the Convener of the Security Situation Room, Douglas Ogbankwa Esq. on Tuesday …

By Douglas Ogbankwa he Security Situation Room is inundated by Cries of Relatives of the 52 Students of the Ambrose Ali University, Ekpoma who were recently remanded in prison on Monday the 11th of January 2026. In the same vein, we also condemn the resort to forceful taking of livestock of citizens on the Nigerian Highway under the pretext of …

civil rights advocacy group, the Vanguard for the Independence of the Judiciary, has raised concerns over the continued detention of hundreds of Nigerians who have not been convicted of any offence but remain in custody due to what it described as excessive and unattainable bail conditions imposed by some judges of the Federal High Court. The group said this in …

Eben Enasco Kelvin Ovbokhan Igbinovia, the embattled Ohen of Okhoromi Community in Oredo Local Government Area, is in an uproar, where he has been alleged of committing multiple offenses including sexual harassment, land grabbing, cultism, and demolition of buildings belonging to residence of the Community. They also said since he assumed the position of the chief priest of the community, …

By Erasmus Ikhide Nigeria’s secrete Police, known as the Department of State Services (DSS) has come under fire for its recent arrest and detention of human rights activists, Marxist Kola Edokpayi and several others in Benin City, Edo State capital. The activists were preparing to stage a solidarity protest in support of Captain Ibrahim Traore, the President of Burkina Faso, …

By Kelvin Uwaibi Subject: An Earnest Appeal for the Reconsideration of the Suspension of Governor Siminalayi Fubara and Reinforcement of Democratic Principles Your Excellency,President Bola Ahmed Tinubu,President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,Aso Rock Villa, Abuja.March 20, 2025 Dear Mr. President, I write to you today as a devoted and patriotic citizen of this great nation, Nigeria. I deeply appreciate …

By Erasmus Ikhide The Nigeria Army’s handling of Private Ruth Ogunleye’s case has raised serious concerns about the treatment of female soldiers who accuse senior officers of sexual abuse. While the Army said Ruth Ogunleye was discharged from the service on medical grounds, Ruth told the world that she earlier sent a handwritten letter of withdrawal from the service after …