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The move is believed to be part of efforts to monitor and block payments and financial inflows connected to the platform, which has consistently exposed corruption, impunity and human rights abuses by Nigeria Police Force. The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, has expressed deep frustration with SaharaReporters’ investigations, particularly its coverage of the recent police promotion scandal, SaharaReporters …

Two years ago, Gaza’s largest city was sprawling with life. Classrooms brimmed with schoolchildren, markets were full of shoppers and beachside cafes offered respite for those escaping the stresses of a besieged enclave. A Palestinian looks on at the site of an … Gaza City boasts a rich history, inhabited for thousands of years and shaped by successive takeovers from ancient civilizations. …

SERAP urged him to “reject the imminent pay rise for politicians and encourage your vice-president, governors and their deputies, and lawmakers to do the same.” The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked President Bola Tinubu to order the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) to halt the “unlawful” pay rise for political and public office holders, including …

President Donald Trump’s plan to deploy troops to Chicago is an abuse of power, the Democratic governor of the US state of Illinois has said. There is no emergency that justifies the National Guard being sent to Illinois and the US president is “attempting to manufacture a crisis”, JB Pritzker said in a statement. Trump visited the US Park Police …

Speaking on how the abduction happened, Obiora said, “It happened around 9 pm on Saturday, July 26, 2025, along Zaki Biam–Wukari Expressway. David Obiora, from Anambra State, one of the students of the Nigerian Law School in Yola, Adamawa State, who were recently abducted along the Zaki Biam–Wukari Expressway in Taraba State, has revealed that their abductors have been operating …

One of the problems with assessing President Donald Trump’s legal retribution campaign against his foes is the many things we don’t know. FBI agents seen loading a car after the … We don’t know, for example, what evidence the administration actually has against all these people. The fact that it has now launched investigations into key figures involved in every major probe of Trump …

•Says ADC members will choose presidential candidate Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Saturday said he is more interested in a better Nigeria, adding that he is not desperate to be the country’s president. Abubakar said this while speaking at an affirmation ceremony for new defectors into African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Lagos on Saturday. Atiku, who was the guest …

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine would continue to fight for its freedom in an address to the nation on its independence day. “We need a just peace, a peace where our future will be decided only by us,” he said, adding that Ukraine would fight back against Russia “while its calls for peace are not heard”. He continued: “Ukraine has …

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has criticised the Nigerian judiciary, saying it has been “deeply compromised” and that corruption among judges has turned courts into “a court of corruption rather than a court of justice.” In his new book, Nigeria: Past and Future, Obasanjo laments the steady decline of the Nigerian judiciary’s integrity, warning that justice has become commodified in Nigeria. …

 He was also accused of attempting to cover up for operatives of the state-owned security outfit, Agunechemba, who allegedly brutalised and stripped the corps member naked. A Local Government Inspector of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), identified only as Mr. Anayo, in Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State, has come under intense criticism after describing the brutalisation …