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UAE Condemns Terrorist Attack On AU Mission In Mogadishu The UAE has condemned the terrorist attack that targeted an African Union Transition Mission base in the Middle Shabelle region, southwest of the Somali capital Mogadishu, which resulted in deaths and injuries of peacekeeping mission personnel from the Republic of Burundi. …

Probe Police Officers Accused Of Kidnapping, Blackmailing And Extorting N18M From Anambra Businessman, HURIWA Tells IGP Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has expressed disappointment and sadness at the lack of action by the Inspector-General of Police Alhaji Usman Alkali Baba on a subsisting petition against Mr. Martin Ngoesina …

HURIWA Wants Ekweremadu To Withdraw From Enugu Gov Race Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria,(HURIWA) on Sunday, urged a former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, to back out of the 2023 governorship race in Enugu State. According to the group, Ekweremadu should quit the Enugu governorship …

AFDB Akinwumi Joins Presidential Race The President of the African Development Bank, Akinwunmi Adesina, may have joined the long expanding list of Presidential aspirants in the country. A coalition of 28 groups comprising women bodies, youths, the physically challenged reportedly contributed the N100 million to procure the expression of interest …

2023: Tinubu Campaign Director Dumps APC Abdulmumin Jibrin, a former House of Representatives member and director-general of Bola Tinubu support group council, has announced his official defection from the All Progressive Congress (APC) to a new party he is yet to announce. Jubril who has been in the forefront of …

UK Govt Faults Media Report On IPOB As a Terrorists Organisation The British high Commission in Nigeria on Friday 6fh May 2022 denied media reports that it’s government has designated the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, a terrorist organization. The government while dismissing the reports, said it is those members …

World Press Freedom Day 2022: IPC Reiterates Urgency of Stakeholders’ Collaboration to Safeguard Press Freedom The International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos-Nigeria on the occasion of this Year’s World Press Freedom Day (WPFD), 2022 joins the global community to raise concerns about press freedom violations. IPC prompts the Nigerian government to …

FCT High Court Throws Out Suit Against NUJ, Ogbeche The FCT High Court, Maitama on Wednesday, May 4, 2022 threw out a motion on alleged election fraud brought against the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) and Emmanuel Ogbeche of its FCT council by Mr. Donald Ugwu. Ugwu had dragged the …

2023: Engineer Sule Declares For Second Term …My development initiatives will earn me another victory Nasarawa State Governor, Engineer Abdullahi Sule, has declared his intention to seek re-election for a second term come 2023, stressing that the development initiatives of his administration will earn him another victory at the polls. …

HURIWA Urges Buhari To Prosecute Importers Of Bad Fuel Into Nigeria Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has ask President Muhammadu Buhhari to bring to justice the corporate bodies and individuals who imported toxic fuel in early February that precipitated a near two months long fuel scarcity all over …