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However, interviews with families of victims, retired police officers, human rights advocates, lawyers, and examination of police documents reveal a deeper crisis inside Nigeria’s criminal justice system. In the last five years, a troubling pattern has emerged across Nigeria’s South-East. Violent crimes, political assassinations, communal killings, and controversial arrests are frequently and swiftly linked by security agencies to the Indigenous …

The memorandum of understanding signed by President Donald Trump and President Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran lays out the political, military and economic consequences of the ill-judged decision to attack Iran on 28 February. The human cost is already clear. Thousands have been killed, many of them civilians, in Iran and Lebanon. The US, and by extension Israel, have suffered a …

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued its first comprehensive clinical guidelines for filovirus diseases as the Democratic Republic of the Congo battles an Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus. WHO said this in a statement on Wednesday, saying the new guidelines covered all Ebola and Marburg virus diseases in a single document and provided 16 evidence-based recommendations to …

Alhassan Yahya, President, Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), has announced plans for a National Security Summit aimed at strengthening collaboration between the media and security agencies to promote national development and security. Speaking at a news conference in Abuja on Wednesday ahead of the summit, Yahya said the event, themed: “Media and Security Agencies as Partners in Nation Building,” is …

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has condemned the alleged arrest, profiling and threatened deportation of Northern women by Ondo Amotekun operatives, describing the action as unconstitutional and discriminatory. The forum expressed its position in a statement issued on Wednesday in Kaduna by its Board of Trustees Chairman, Bashir Dalhatu. According to ACF, a widely circulated video showed Amotekun operatives arresting, …

A Nigerian community leader in South Africa has urged the Federal Government to engage Pretoria ahead of a June 30 deadline announced by anti-immigration groups. Ekos Akpokabayen, Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Nigerian Union South Africa (NUSA), made the call in a statement. Akpokabayen expressed concern that developments surrounding the deadline could heighten tensions and threaten the safety of …

The minority caucus of the House of Representatives on Wednesday delivered a scathing assessment of the state of the nation, accusing the government of President Bola Tinubu of failing to tackle worsening insecurity, deepening economic hardship and mounting threats to democratic institutions. The opposition lawmakers also alleged that the administration was focusing on political calculations ahead of the 2027 general …

The minority caucus of the House of Representatives has accused the federal government of neglecting governance, worsening insecurity and allegedly undermining opposition parties ahead of the 2027 general elections. Speaking at a press conference at the National Assembly on Wednesday, Minority Leader Hon. Fred Agbedi said Nigeria was facing a dangerous combination of insecurity, economic hardship and what he described …

The indefinite strike embarked upon by the Nigeria Union of Teachers in Oyo State has continued to generate concern among parents and education stakeholders over its impact on pupils and students. Some parents and teachers who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria in Ibadan on Wednesday said the prolonged closure of public schools had left many children idle, exposed …

A London jury has acquitted former Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke of all six bribery-related charges after a high-profile corruption trial that lasted several weeks. Nigeria’s former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has been cleared of all bribery charges brought against her by British prosecutors after a jury at a London court returned not-guilty verdicts on Wednesday. Mrs Alison-Madueke, who …