RIVERS COMMUNITIES DEMAND JUSTICE OVER ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION
Communities throughout the Niger Delta have reiterated their demands for justice, restoration, and acknowledgment following decades of environmental deterioration associated with oil and gas exploration....
POLICE WARNS SOWORE AGAINST PROTEST OVER DEMOLITION IN LAGOS
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Olohundare Jimoh, has warned activist, Omoyele Sowore, and others against mobilising protests over recent demolitions in the state....
NASARAWA ENVIROMENT MINISTRY SOUNDS ALARM OVER UNCHECKED MINING HAVOC
The Nasarawa State Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources has indicated that the inability of officials to manage the influx of miners into the state...
QUICK MILLITARY RESPONSE AVERTS BLOODY CLASH IN BENUE
Personnel of the Joint Task Force, Operation Whirl Stroke (OPWS), have promptly intervened to cease a violent communal dispute between the Ugambe community in the...
AFTER PUBLIC BACKLASH, ASABA ORPHANAGE OWNER SURRENDERS TO NAPTIP
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons said Christopher Nwoye, the owner of Happy Home Orphanage, a controversial facility in Asaba, Delta,...
CBN SAYS ALTERNATIVE PAYMENT CHANNELS LIFTING RURAL, UNDERSERVERED NIGERIANS
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has characterized alternative payment systems as an essential support mechanism for rural populations and marginalized communities throughout the nation....
OIL LEAK POLLUTES FARMLANDS, RIVERS IN BAYELSA COMMUNITIES
An oil spill from an 8-inch crude delivery pipeline at Oil Mining Lease 29 has polluted Nembe communities around the Santa Barbara River in Bayelsa....
POPULAR TIKTOKER FACES JAIL TIME IN KANO OVER CONTROVERSIAL VIRAL VIDEO
BY MUNIRAT BALOGUN A Magistrate Court convened in Kano has mandated the detention of renowned TikToker, Ashiru Idris, popularly recognized as Mai Wushirya, at...
OWODE ONIRIN TRADERS PROTEST OVER KILLING OF SEVEN PERSONS
BY MUNIRAT BALOGUN Traders at the Owode-Onirin Motor Spare Parts Market have urged the Lagos State House of Assembly to establish an autonomous investigative panel...
TEENAGE BOY FOUND DEAD AFTER SUSPECTED SUICIDE IN MAKURDI
By Aishat Momoh. O. A teenage boy identified as Tersoo Veregh was found hanging from the roof of his father’s house on Lorkyaako Street,...