The Commissioner of Police in Imo State, Abutu Yaro, on Wednesday, explained why security operatives were embarking on indiscriminate arrests in the state. Speaking when the Orlu branch of the Nigerian Bar Association visited him in his office at the Police Command headquarters in Owerri, the CP disclosed that security …

Tension, Anger In Police Academy As Nigeria Police Refuse To Pass Out 418 Cadets Enrolled Since 2015 There is anger at the Nigeria Police Academy, Wudil, Kano State, as the police authorities led by the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, failed to pass out 418 cadet Assistant Superintendents of Police …

How the rating is calculated The liveability score is reached through category weights, which are divided equally into relevant subcategories to ensure that the score covers as many indicators as possible. Indicators are scored as acceptable, tolerable, uncomfortable, undesirable or intolerable. These are then weighted to produce a rating, where …

When on October 14, 2020, I saw Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s tweet “Donate via #Bitcoin to help #EndSARS”, I knew that he would eventually run into trouble with the Nigerian authorities. No government in the world would have offered him a pat on the back for inviting donations to a …

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has commended the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) for calling off its two months’ strike in the State. He has, however, directed the Accountant General of the State not to pay judiciary workers for the first week of June in which the ‘no work-no …

The Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministry, Enugu, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, waited in vain for the Department of State Services to bring a formal invitation to him on Monday. A source in the church added on Tuesday that the priest would not visit the office of the DSS until …

  Brazilian wife ‘COOKS her husband’s penis in a frying pan after killing him “in self-defence” and slicing it off when they argued about splitting up’ A woman has been arrested in Brazil on suspicion of killing her husband before cutting his penis off and cooking. Dayane Cristina Rodrigues Machado, …

We, Will, Keep Tweeting! “The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny:” – Wole Soyinka We are leaders of civil society organisations that work on governance, corruption, elections, digital rights & inclusion, women’s rights and journalism in Nigeria. We strongly support statements released by various …

Tomorrow in Lagos, President Muhammadu Buhari will commission the 156km Lagos—Ibadan standard gauge railway line, the first double-track standard gauge rail in West Africa, and the first Nigerian railway line to be started AND completed by the SAME administration, since 1960. Construction started in March 2017, and test-running commenced in …

  Vice Chancellor, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife Osun state has disclosed that the school spends over N80 million monthly on electricity bill and another N2 million on diesel to power its generators. This is as he claimed that the huge sum could be diverted to more challenging ventures when the …