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Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have rescued 19 pregnant girls from a ‘baby factory’ at Ayanwale area of Ikotun, Lagos, following a recent raid of the facility. A statement made available to journalists on Sunday by Lagos police spokesperson, Mr. Bala Elkana says the pregnant girls are between 15 and 28 years old. Two suspects involved in the …

Nigeria’s electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that 201,143 Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) were yet to be collected in Kogi and Bayelsa as of September 20. The commission disclosed this on Thursday in a progress report on PVC collection, which it started on September 2, ahead of the November 16 governorship elections in the two states. …

President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria has condemned the reported horrific acts at a ‘torture house’ in Kaduna where about 300 persons were rescued by the police. According to a statement by Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, in Abuja on Saturday, President Buhari condemned all forms of rights abuses whether of adults or …

Kaduna State Police Command said it had handed over to the state government the 300 inmates of a rehabilitation centre at Rigasa in Kaduna, rescued on Thursday. The inmates were rescued from a house where the police said they were chained and maltreated for at least three months. Parents of some of the children had disputed police claims that the inmates were …

The Department of State Services has said the publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, was still in custody because his legal team had yet to serve it with a copy of the court order granting him bail. Spokesperson of the DSS, Dr. Peter Afunnaya said this in a telephone interview with our correspondent, in Abuja, on Thursday. He said the DSS …

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has declared his readiness to waive his constitutional immunity to “enable the most robust adjudication” of several baseless allegations, insinuation and falsehoods against his person and office. Professor Osinbajo made this declaration in a tweet he personally authored this on Wednesday. Below is the full text of his tweet: “In the past few days, a …

The convener of #RevolutionNow protest and former presidential candidate, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, on Thursday, commenced a contempt suit against the Director-General of the Department of State Service, Yusuf Bichi, for allegedly disobeying the order granting him bail. Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja had on Tuesday granted bail to Sowore, who has been arrested and kept …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, alongside his counterparts from Nasarawa, Abdullahi Sule and Ogun, Dapo Abiodun, were in the spotlight during a side event at the 74th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) integration, to brainstorm on sustainable development in developing countries. The theme of the session was  “Bridging the Policy-Planning-Budgeting Gap for Achievement of …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, alongside his counterparts from Nasarawa, Abdullahi Sule and Ogun, Dapo Abiodun, were in the spotlight during a side event at the 74th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) integration, to brainstorm on sustainable development in developing countries. The theme of the session was  “Bridging the Policy-Planning-Budgeting Gap for Achievement of …

Insist tribunal’s judgement was perverse, occasioned miscarriage of justice Allege Buhari gave false information of fundamental nature The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its Presidential candidate in the last general election, Atiku Abubakar, on Tuesday, approached the Supreme Court, adducing reasons why President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election should be nullified. In a 66-ground of appeal they filed through a consortium of …