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By Committee to Protect Journalists Bogotá, Colombia – Ecuadoran authorities should immediately annul fines imposed on seven media outlets for declining to reproduce a story published in an Argentine newspaper, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Monday. Government regulator The Superintendency of Information and Communication, or Supercom, on April 21 levied fines of US $3,750 each on the newspapers …

By Committee to Protect Journalists New York – A military court in Cameroon on Monday sentenced Ahmed Abba, a correspondent for Radio France Internationale’s (RFI) Hausa service, to 10 years in prison and ordered him to make a payment of 55 million Central African francs (US$91,133) Abba’s lawyer Clément Nakong, told the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Abba, who has …

By Alltimepost.com Benin City, Nigeria – Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has said the complimentary roles of alma maters are a veritable catalyst for the development of education in Nigeria, praising Eghosa Anglican Grammar School Old Boys Association (EGHOBA) for its scholarship award to thirty indigent students of the institution. Obaseki made the remarks in Benin City recently, while …

The Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday struck out the N100m fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by a former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Obanikoro, his wives, Fati and Moroophat, and his sons, Gbolahon and Babajide, had sued the anti-graft agency for what they termed an unlawful invasion of their …

By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku Benin City, Nigeria – Following the suspension of the Secretary to the Federal Government of Nigeria, Babachir David Lawal, over allegations of Fraud, the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) has called on the Buhari administration to set up an independent panel to probe such allegations. ANEEJ Executive Director, Rev. David Ugolor made the …

The Presidential Committee probing Director-General of National Intelligence Agency, NIA, Ambassador Ayodele Oke, and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, David Babachir Lawal, has invited some aides of the suspended NIA boss. But the Director-General is yet to be officially invited by the panel, led by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. This is even as the committee has summoned …

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has said that Nigerians did not elect General Muhammadu Buhari to function as “Friday President”, adding that he (Buhari) was now acting more like a ceremonial and part-time President. The governor, who said he was glad that his constructive criticism was getting to the President and his handlers, noted that it was not enough …

If the Yemi Osinbajo-led panel probing the allegations of financial impropriety against the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr. Babachir David Lawal, indicts him, either the former Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomhole, or former Deputy Senate Minority Leader, Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora, may clinch the top-ranking cabinet post. Both men are said to be on a shortlist …

Investigators are scouring for clues over what sparked a deadly, fast-moving house fire that killed five people, including three children, in the middle class neighborhood of Queens Village. Television news footage showed flames coming through the roof of the two-story home and roaring in upstairs rooms of the house as smoke poured from it. “It was a fire that moved …

Looming above Washington as Congress and the White House attempt to avert a funding shutdown in only five days’ time, Donald Trump’s central campaign promise to build a wall on the Mexican border threatens to bring the US government to a halt this week in a national display of dysfunction. On Sunday, even White House officials expressed uncertainty about whether …