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The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, will soon begin an independent audit of detention cells in all police commands and formations in Nigeria. This follows approval of its request by Mr. Ibrahim Idris, Inspector-General of Police. The audit would also include all detention cells of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS. ACP Abayomi Shogunle, the Head, Public Complaints Rapid Response Unit, PCRRU, stated this in a statement Wednesday in Abuja. Shogunle added that the audit would enable the NHRC oversee the human rights situation of detainees as well as undertake general audit of the state of police detention facilities (cells) in…

Senator Atai Aidoko representing Kogi East senatorial district in Nigeria is been given by Abuja Division of the Federal High Court. Justice Gabriel Kolawole who delivered the judgment delivered that Aidoko wrongfully secured the senatorial ticket of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The court held that Aidoko was not properly nominated by the PDP for the March 2015 National Assembly election and consequently ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to immediately withdraw his Certificate of Return. It held that the primary election PDP conducted on December 7, 2014, in Idah, Kogi State, through which the sacked lawmaker emerged, lacked…

The Federal Government said, Wednesday, that the recent declaration of June 12 as public holiday will only come into effect after the amendment of the Public Holidays Act. Abubakar Malami, the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, and Minister of Justice, said “As it relates to public holidays, there is truly a Public Holidays Act, but it is about the process of amendment. At any rate, the Act can be amended and the process of amendment has been put in place. “So, when the Act has been fully amended, the declaration of the President will come into effect. It…

The 2026 World Cup tournament will be jointly hosted by North American countries- United States of America, Canada and Mexico, FIFA has indicated. The FIFA voters overwhelmingly opted for the financial and logistical certainty of a United States-led bid over a risky Moroccan proposal for the first 48-team tournament. The soccer showpiece will return to the US for the first time since 1994 after gaining 134 votes, while Morocco got 65 at the FIFA Congress in Moscow on Wednesday. The vote by football federations was public, in contrast to secrecy surrounding the ballot by FIFA’s elected board members for…

Street Interview A 40-year-old man from Ebonyi State in South Eastern part of Nigeria plies his trade in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital. He deals on second-hand shoes and exhibits them at Oron-Nwaniba Junction. Friday Otu, the second-hand dealer is a toast to many customers. Owing to the cheapness of his goods, customers usually swarm around him like bees and this makes happy. Shoes of different make adorn the space he created for himself at the junction. Anytime he lands the place with shoes, some of his kinsmen are around to wash and polish the wares to attract customers. Married…

An Enugu-based religious activist has boasted that he has amassed enormous spiritual weapons to stop President Muhammadu Buharí’s re-election in 2019. Prophet Anthony Nwoko, who spoke with newsmen in Enugu Tuesday, said that he would spiritually stop the election the same way God used him to annul the June 12, 1993 presidential election. This is coming at a time the presumed winner of the election, the late MKO Abiola is being posthumously honoured by Buhari. The Abia State-born prophet recalled that in “on January 2, 1993, I warned Babangida that if he does not allow me, Nigeria will be…

The Anambra Police Command has launched a manhunt for a middle-aged man residing in the Fegge area of the commercial city of Onitsha for absconding after allegedly raping an eight-year-old pupil of Lafiagi Primary School in the town. Residents of Calabar Street, where the man whose name was not immediately given was residing, had been complaining to the police of his frequent waylaying of school girls at odd hours and defiling them in the process. According to an eye witness, the suspect had lured the eight-year-old girl to his residence on her way to school, adding that although she continued…

As 2019 general elections approach, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has begun fresh moves to lure its former members, including former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Bukola Saraki, Senate President, and a host of others back into its fold as part of moves to make the party stronger for the big electoral contest. Also on the radar of the PDP are the duo of Engr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, former Kano State governor and Yakubu Dogara, Speaker of the House of Representatives, who defected to the ruling party in the build up to the 2015 elections. The party, Vanguard gathered, is currently leading…

The traditional ruler of Ogbozine Akpugo, in Nkanu West Local Government Area of Enugu State, has been murdered. Police sources said Igwe Stephen Obumneme Nwatu was allegedly killed by unknown persons while returning from a court sitting at Nkanu, the local government headquarters  Monday  afternoon. The traditional ruler who was accompanied by four policemen was said to have arrived the court premises when the court had closed, was alleged to have left the premises with the policemen. Police sources said that Nwatu was trailing one of his subjects who had some issues with him, with the policemen when they were…

Two big wigs including governors of ruling All Progressives Congress, APC have thrown their weight behind the candidacy of former governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, for the national chairmanship position of the party ahead of its June 23 national convention. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a national leader of the party, and Chief Bisi Akande, a former interim National chairman of the party, endorsed Oshiomhole. Already, two other aspirants- Clement Ebri, one-time Cross River State governor and Professor Oserheimen Osunbor, the then Edo State governor, home state of Oshiomhole- are also in the race. “My…