I Don’t Believe In Killing Bandits, They’re Innocent Until Proven Guilty – Defence Minister

Bashir Magashi, Minister of Defence, has said he does not support the idea of killing bandits. Magashi was quoted as saying in aTwitterpost on Thursday by Lauretta Onochie, aide to President Muhammadu Buhari on social media. According to Onochie, the defence minister stated that bandits are innocent until proven guilty. He, however, said armed bandits…

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Opinion

2023 Election Law Bulletin: Is Adeosun or Pantami qualified to be the next President?

-P. D. Pius, Esq It was on 14th day of September 2018, that Adeosun resigned as Minister of Finance due to the alleged NYSC Certificate forgery scandal. It was about the first time a high Nigerian government official will resign due to allegations of past wrong doing. What is of interest here is whether an…

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New Law Empowers Lagos To Take Over Tinubu, Fashola, Ambode’s ‘Alleged Corruption Cases’ From EFCC — Report

A new law passed by the Lagos state house of assembly and signed by Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the governor, will establish an anti-corruption agency that has the “exclusive” rights to probe cases of corruption that have to do with the state, according to PUNCH report. The agency when set up will take over cases relating to Lagos…

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Students’ Killing: Nigeria At War, Buhari Must Seek Help — Soyinka

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka on Saturday said the government of President Muhammadu Buhari must seek help as Nigeria is at war. Soyinka spoke while reacting to the brutal killing of three of the abducted students of Greenfield University, Kaduna. The Nobel Laureate, in a statement, said Abukakar Atiku had summed up the nation’s feeling…

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Features

‘THANK GOD BUHARI WON 2015 ELECTION’

Inside Stuff With MARTINS OLOJA As a spiritual person and a political analyst in this country with arrested development and where the god of the big man is his belly, I am persuaded that we should continue to thank God, the Almighty that Muhammadu Buhari, a soldier, a farmer, a politician and a Fulani big…

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Innocent Chukwuma’s death: A big loss to humanity — PRAWA

PRAWA joins the human rights community, Nigeria and his immediate family in mourning the departed kind, strategic and impactful high achiever, Mr. Innocent Chukwuma. Our departed comrade, Innocent, channeled his physical, mental and intellectual resources to the cause of humanity. His contributions in different spheres of human rights protection and promotion especially to police…

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Opinion

Social media and mob justice: We’re all potential victims, By Fredrick Nwabufo

I once witnessed a macabre execution – early 2000s. It was a quotidian day in Onitsha – except for a sudden alarm jarring everyone grinding away in the day’s humdrum. Thief! Thief! Swiftly, commuters, traders and idlers became vigilantes. They encircled a young man and bludgeoned him until he was lifeless. No questions asked. No…

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11 farmers shot dead while asleep in Nasarawa

Gunmen have killed eleven farmers in Ajimaka village, a Tiv settlement of Ekye Development Area in Doma Local Government Area of Nasarawa State. The President of Tiv Development Association (TIDA), Peter Ahemba told Channels Television that the gunmen invaded the community in the early hours of Saturday when the villagers were deep asleep shooting…

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People Are Reporting Killings As If It Had Never Happened Before – Garba Shehu

President Muhammadu Buhari Senior Special Assistant to President, Garba Shehu, on Friday said Nigerians are reporting death under his principal’s administration like it had never happened before. The Presidential aide in his statement said killings had been in existence since and President Buhari seems to be a target in the way it is being reported now.…

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World Bank Report: Nigeria Overtakes Congo in Poor Accessibility to Electricity

In a virtual engagement with reporters in Abuja on the Power Sector Recovery Programme (PSRP), the bank officials said 25 per cent of Nigeria’s population do not have access to electricity supply. The Word Bank also stated that many of the over 200 million Nigerian population with access to electricity had battled prevalent blackouts and…

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