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  Says ‘time for Buhari to act’ The Centre for Democracy and Development, (CDD), has said that 10 deaths and 129 cases of violence and electoral crimes were recorded in the just concluded polls in Kogi and Bayelsa states. This is according to an analysis of the elections done by...

  Federal High Court in Lagos has fixed November 28 to hear Nigerian Army’s preliminary objection to a suit seeking to stop the controversial Operation Positive Identification (OPI). Justice Mohammed Aikawa, on November 5, 2019, ordered the military to suspend the operation, pending the determination of a suit filed by...

  President of the General Assembly (PGA), Amb. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, says the United Nations must continue to insist on protection of the freedom of expression and association around the world. Muhammad-Bande stated this at an interactive session with representatives of civil society organisations at the UN headquarters in New York...

  A Human Rights Lawyer, Mr Femi Falana says that the National Assembly has no power to enact a law on hate speech for the entire country. Falana said this while discussing as a panelist at Digital Voting Summit organised by RestoreNaija, an NGO, on Monday in Abuja. He said...

  Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Saturday governorship election in Kogi State, Musa Wada, has attacked the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, and Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, for their alleged anti-democratic roles in Saturday’s poll. The PDP candidate said...

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has submitted its report on the governorship elections conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Bayelsa and Kogi States held last Saturday where-in it laments the electoral violence in the two states. In the NBA reports signed by Mazi Afam Osigwe, the Chairman,...

    Human Rights Lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, has warned that if nothing was done to address impunity in the electoral system, Nigeria would continue to witness decreasing rate of voter turnout in future elections. He said this while decrying reports of electoral violence in the Saturday governorship elections in...

President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed that his government was disturbed by the strikes in the education sector. “Government is fully aware of the challenges in the university and will continue to do its best to address them,” he said. NAN reports that Buhari stated this in Ibadan on Monday at...

The first ever trauma care conference in Nigeria holds in Lagos on the 19th of November 2019 with the theme "Trauma Care: The Way Forward." In a statement issued in Lagos on Monday, the Director of the convening NGO, Trauma Care International Foundation (TCIF), Dr Deola Philips, said it has...

Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, has maintained that the State Government would continue to collaborate with the University of Ibadan for the development of the state. The Governor, stated this while speaking at the 71st Founder’s Day and Convocation ceremony, held at the International Conference Centre, University of Ibadan...