NSCDC rescues three abandoned children in Akure; Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Ondo State, says it rescued three children abandoned at different locations in the state. Corps Commandant Pedro Awili made the announcement in an interview with [...]
June 9, 2018
Human rights
Tony has been one of the most courageous, consistent and celebrated voices in the struggle for emancipation from military rule, freedom from northern hegemony and the establishment of democracy in Nigeria for the last 30 years and his words are [...]
March 28, 2018
Human rights
On Sunday, 27th August, 2017, the Imo state chapter of the Barr. Charles Ezekwem-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) paid heart wrenching sympathy and condolence visits to the families of the victims of the demolition of the ancestral Eke Ukwu Owerre [...]
August 28, 2017
Human rights
In a move likely to reassure Southerners residing in Northern Nigeria of their safety, governors of 19 northern states and traditional rulers of northern extraction, yesterday, vowed to protect the lives and property of Southerners in the North. They also [...]
July 29, 2017
Human rights
The Federal High Court in Lagos has fixed July 13 for hearing in a N300m fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by suspected kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike a.k.a. Evans, against the Inspector-General of Police. Evans, through his lawyer, Olukoya Ogungbeje, filed [...]
July 6, 2017
Human rights
I’m serving a jail-term of 130yrs imprisonment and I’m presently in my 8th year – Ankaful maximum security prison We appeal to the Nigerian government to please come to our aid. The condition here has been so unbearable for (we) Nigerian [...]
June 27, 2017
Human rights
Police Arrest Mother For Selling Her Baby – A 22-year-old lady along with six other suspects have been arrested by the Decoy Team of the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos Police Command over the sale of a day old [...]
May 15, 2017
Human rights
Chimaobi Okorie, a suspected killer of a police Inspector, Vincent Umeh, attached to Umuahia Zone 9 and a 30-year-old staff of Ecobank in Okigwe, Enyioma Okwudiri at the Okigwe Local Government Area of Imo state, has been reported to have [...]
April 17, 2017
Human rights
Beautiful Nigerian Airforce officer, Oladipupo Solape popularly known as ‘Shomzy’, who was shot to death by a colleague and lover, would be laid to rest in Badagry. Late Shomzy Oladipupo was killed by boyfriend, Lieut Kalu on Sunday, March 12 [...]
March 22, 2017
Human rights
Defendant Excretes In Courtroom: Lagos—Drama as defendant, Avekpon Bernard, 18, who is standing trial for conduct likely to cause breach of the peace, alongside 22 others, before an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, yesterday, excreted in the dock, while the Court [...]
September 21, 2016
Human rights
Benue Herdsmen Attack – AT least, 59 persons were late Saturday night and early hours of Sunday allegedly killed following the renewed hostilities between suspected Fulani herdsmen and farmers at Turan Council ward of Logo Local Government Area of Benue [...]
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) yesterday described the destruction of oil installations embarked upon by the Niger Delta Avengers as an invitation to another civil war. It also warned the militant group to desist from its “madness” of [...]
Onitsha massacre – A week after the slaying of pro-Biafra demonstrators in Onitsha, details of how the mass killing was coordinated by security forces has emerged. PREMIUM TIMES has obtained an insider account by a whistleblower, who [...]
Bombing Threats: ABUJA — Apparently moved by the threats of Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force, JNDLF, to bomb major government buildings in Abuja starting midnight today, the Federal Government, yesterday, called for an emergency security meeting. The meeting, [...]
A Niger Delta group, the Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force, has vowed to launch six missiles in the region. The group also warned against the deployment of helicopters in the South South zone by the military, saying it was going [...]
Militants Ambush Soldiers In Delta – Two soldiers and six civilians have reportedly been killed on Wednesday’s night attack on soldiers’ houseboat around a creek close to Omadino/Idjere junction in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State. [...]
Biafran War Massacre – The shocking massacre of the non-violence and unarmed members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), and the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), by security agents in Onitsha, have been [...]
With rising uneasiness over the menace of Fulani herdsmen, the governor of Abia State, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, has worked out plans to deploy the State Vigilante Services (AVS) popularly known as Bakassi Boys to communities throughout the state to assist [...]
Fulani Herdsmen – It is OFFENSIVE & UNACCEPTABLE that anyone officially (FG) or any arm of media will refer to the ethnic cleansing and genocidal murders and destructions that trail the trekking from the North of Nigeria through the MB, [...]
Suspected Fulani herdsmen have allegedly unleashed violence on the residents of Southern Kaduna, killing the traditional ruler of the Fadan Karshi district in Sanga Local Council, Bala Madaki and his nephew, Emmanuel Tanko, in a night attack. The [...]
Fulani Herdsmen – Gunmen at the weekend slain 83 cows at Adayi in Nasarawa Local Government Area of Nasarawa State. The monarch claimed that about 20 people have been killed by gunmen in the last few weeks. The killings were [...]
According to an update by a facebook user Jeff Unaegbu, Fulani herdsmen yesterday invaded the University Of Nigeria Nsukka premises with their cattles. They apparently came to graze their cattles but people are already beginning to see their move from [...]
The truth has emerged about the callous attacks by the Fulani Herdsmen, this includes their real identity and objectives. According to Madam Zainab Abba Haliru, from Kano, she had an interesting conversation with some temporary farm hands who [...]
THE Fulani herdsmen and some of their petty-traders have deserted towns and villages in Enugu State, following the attack on Nimbo Community in Uzo Uwani Local Government Monday morning. This was even as facts emerged that security men drafted [...]
Confusion arose in some areas of Kaduna State on Wednesday when the fight over a lady caused the killing of six people. According to an eyewitness, the fight started between two men on Sunday night over a woman. [...]
April 28, 2016
Human rights, Video
A coalition of various Civil Society Organisations under the aegis of Citizens United for Peace and Stability, on Tuesday, stormed the premises of the National Assembly, demanding the immediate resignation of embattled Senate President Bukola Saraki. The activities [...]
New information regarding the massacre at Nimbo in Uzo- Uwani Local Government in Enugu that left many dead, missing and uncountable property losses from rampaging nomadic mercenaries show that the attack was openly planned and coordinated under the knowledge [...]
Many people are reported murdered by suspected Fulani herdsmen who invaded Enugu Monday morning. State police spokesperson Ebere Amaraizu have confirmed the report. Amaraizu said the police and the army are responding to the situation. The suspected [...]
WITH 2 hours to air out and welcome relatives, including 95-year-old father, and lawyers Tuesdays and Thursdays, detained ex-NSA Sambo Dasuki will be grateful for small mercies from Justice Ademola Adeniyi of the Abuja Federal High Court. But [...]
MR Azibaola Robert, who is currently in the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s (EFCC) detention has alleged that the commission is pressuring him to indict ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, who is his cousin. Robert, who spoke through his [...]