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Nigerian Guild of Investigative Journalists, NGIJ has urged Buhari – led administration to be decisive, nonpartisan and follow rule of law in its fight against corruption. This is contained in a release issued in Lagos and signed by the President of the Guild, Wale Abydeen and made available to pressmen. …

Nigeria’s government says it has arrested 296 illegal immigrants since the closure of its border on 2 August, 2019. Lai Mohammed, the country’s Minister of Information and Culture is upbeat that the closure of the nation’s  land borders has yielded positive results, contrary to views of teeming Nigerians. In August, …

Abdulrasheed Abdullahi Maina, former Chairman of Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT) was on Monday granted a tough bail condition of N1 billion. He was granted bail by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. Asides the N1 billion bail, Maina is to provide two sureties in like sum. Both sureties must be …

Egyptian security officials have raided the offices of the country’s last major independent news outlet, which has been described as the last bastion of press freedom in Egypt. “Plainclothes security forces have raided Mada Masr’s office in Cairo,” the website tweete. “Staff are currently being held inside, and their phones have been …

The French Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe, on Monday, promised a series of new measures to prevent spousal murders. The announcement came two days after tens of thousands of protesters marched in Paris and elsewhere, demanding an end to what activists have termed “femicide” or the killing of women. Government figures …

When in September, in the wake of Xenophobic attacks on Nigerians, Air Peace Limited Chairman, Allen Onyema volunteered to fly Nigerians in South Africa back home, the entire nation was awash with his praise. Nigerians were being brutalised and killed by savage South Africans. There was uproar in the land …

Campaigners have hailed the launch of Nigeria’s first sex offender register as a vital step towards tackling reported cases of sexual abuse, which are rising across the country. The publicly accessible online register of people prosecuted for sexual violence since 2015 will allow public bodies and police authorities to conduct …

One of six members of a kidnapping syndicate has recounted how the syndicate got to its target businessman, Abubakar Bashar, by using information from the boy who herds his cow for him. The syndicate member, Bello Abdullahi, spoke to newsmen on Monday in the Adamawa State capital, Yola, where he …

For stealing a one-month-old baby in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, a 39-year-old woman, Mercy Momoh, was on Monday sentenced to three-year imprisonment. Momoh was tried and convicted by an Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court on a count of stealing a baby. The police prosecutor, Sergeant Samson Osobu, told the …

The Lagos State Government has tranquillised the lion found in a house at the Victoria Island area of the state. The Head of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit, Mr. Yinka Egbeyemi, confirmed the development to our Correspondent on Monday. He noted that the lion was …