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Scio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a Freedom of Information Act request to the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Governors’ Forum, Ekiti state governor Dr Kayode Fayemi and Sokoto state governor Aminu Tambuwal, and other 34 governors urging them to use their “leadership position to urgently disclose details of payment of pensions […]

What is now clear in words and in deed is that Nigerians are amongst the most lawless people on earth and the Buhari administration may just have set the tone for executive lawlessness with the assault against the judiciary arm of government after last Friday’s unprecedented invasion of the Federal High Court in Abuja by […]

Even as the Department of State Services (DSS), has discounted video footage of its officers invading the Federal High Court, Abuja premises to re-arrest Omoyele Sowore, #RevolutionNow convener and publisher of Sahara Reporters, dismissing the video as video as “mischief for propagandist purposes,” the presidency has come out in support of the brigandage and lawlessness, […]

The United States government has said it is deeply concerned that the publisher of the online news portal, Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, who is also the convener of #RevolutionNow protests, was rearrested last Friday by the Department of State Services (DSS), less than 12 hours after he was granted bail by a court of competent […]

Human rights lawyer Femi Falana (SAN and lawyer for Omoyele Sowore, RevolutionNow convener and publisher of Sahara Reporters has painted a grim picture of what transpired at the Federal High Court in Abuja last Friday from the time the court premises were invaded by officers of the Department of State Services (DSS), until when Sowore […]

Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi experienced a dose of the peoples’ anger in faraway Madrid Spain, where he was attacked by some Nigerians as he took part in the 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference, dubbed COP25. Although Amaechi was lucky to have been rescued by Spanish police officers who whisked him off the venue to […]

The Reformed Oghomwan Mandate Group (ROMG) has commended the leadership of the Edo State House of Assembly for declaring vacant the seats of the 12 members-elect who are yet to present themselves for inauguration into the seventh Assembly as well as two others that failed to meet the constitutionally approved 181 sitting days.   The […]

Kano State Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has signed the new Kano Emirate Council Bill into law. The bill for the creation of four emirates councils transmitted by the Governor scaled from through the third reading and finally passed at the assembly and forwarded to the governor on Thursday.   The new Kano State Emirate Council […]

Kaduna State High Court yesterday ordered the Department of State Services (DSS) to transfer the leader of Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, and his wife, Zeenat, to the Nigerian Correctional Centre, Kaduna. Kaduna State government is prosecuting the IMN leader and his wife for culpable homicide, unlawful assembly and disruption of public […]

Some Nigerians living in the Spanish capital city of Madrid, on Friday attacked the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi while on national assignment. Amaechi said he escaped the scene of the attack and left unhurt.    “Some minutes ago, I was attacked by a few misguided Nigerians while on national assignment at a climate […]

There was general pandemonium at the FCT High Court after gun-toting operatives of the Department of State Service (DSS), on Friday, re-arrested Omoyele Sowore, Convener, #RevolutionNow Protest, and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare, shortly after Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu adjourned the day’s proceeding till Feb. 11, Feb. 12 and Feb. 13, 2020 for definite hearing. Eye-witness accounts […]

The Department of State Services (DSS) has complied with the order of Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court in Abuja, directing it to release the convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore, and his co-accused, Olawale Bakare within 24 hours. Both men were released Thursday night, a few hours after the judge fined DSS […]