Dayo Johnson – Akure Youths in their hundreds staged a peaceful protest in Akure, the Ondo state capital calling for a reform of the police force and justice for victims of police brutality in the country. As at noon, the protest which literarily halted but commercial and business activities in the state capital was without […]

By Henry Umoru THE Senate has confirmed eight Justices of the Court of Appeal as Justices of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. The confirmation by the Senate yesterday was sequel to the consideration of the report of the Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, All Progressives Congress, APC, Ekiti Central led Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and […]

By Kingsley Adegboye The Managing Director of PWAN Plus Business Concerns Limited, Julius Olaniyi Oyedemi, has added another feather to his list of sprawling accomplishments, as he has just been decorated with the prestigious UN-POLAC Peace Advocate, by the United Nations Positive Livelihood Award Centre, UN-POLAC. By the virtue of the distinguished appointment, the renowned […]

Politician and businessman, Mr Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim has canvassed for efficient police services run by well-trained men and women, motivated, and well paid, consistent with acceptable Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), towards accountability, and the protection of citizens Fundamental Human Rights. Olawepo-Hashim, incidentally a notable civil rights leader, and a 1989 Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience stressed […]

Organizing For Opportunities Foundation (O.F.O.) has announced a date for its formal launching and the public presentation of Dr. Ugorji Okechukwu Ugorji’s book of poetry, titled ‘She is eternal and other poems’ to be chaired by Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, CFR, Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari. The organisation said in a statement that it […]

By Bassey Ekaette Nigerian youths on Thursday, 18 October 2020 launched a protest against an arm of the Nigeria Police Force, Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), which has reportedly become machinery for intimidation and harassment, and has remained in the streets across the Nation since then. The last 3 years have recorded pockets of careless killings […]

By Nwafor Sunday Award winning musicians have joined #ENDSARS protest seeking for the reformation of SARS and end to police brutality, assault and maltreatment in the country. In Enugu, where the protest is ongoing, Chinedu Izuchukwu Okoli aka Flavour has denied himself the comfort in his house to join protesters who are furiously demanding an […]

  By Henry Umoru Emeritus Professor of Literature and Renowned Writer, Professor John Pepper Clark is dead. The poet is the younger brother of former Federal Commissioner for Information and South South Leader, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark. In a statement signed by Prof. C. C. Clark, for the family and Mr. Ilaye Clark, for the […]

By Joseph Erunke NORTH EAST elders have identified frustration occasioned by worsening insecurity in the country as reason for the unabated protests against operations of police Special Anti-Robbery Squard,despite scrapping of the unit by the federal government. The elders under the aegis of Coalition of North East Elders for Peace and Development (CNEEPD)said scrapping of the […]

By Henry Umoru Emeritus Professor of Literature and Renowned Writer, Prof. John Pepper Clark is dead. The poet is the younger brother of former Federal Commissioner for Information and South-South Leader, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark. In a statement signed by Prof. C. C. Clark, for the family and Mr. Ilaye Clark, for the children and […]