Category: Human right

By Charles Onye, Abakaliki Members of the Biafra Zionists Federation, (BZF), have vowed to go ahead with their planned declaration of Biafra on May 30. This is also as the Zionists have faulted the call for referendum by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. The group spoke this through its self-acclaimed President, Mr. Benjamin Onwuka. Onwuka claimed that President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the security agencies to intimidate the pro-Biafrans. He said that already, “fighter jets deployed for that…

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  Fawehinmi’s unveiled statue at Ojota, Lagos. Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Sunday urged Nigerians to draw strength from the legacies and exemplary life of late Chief Gani Fawehinmi. He urged them to do so in fighting poverty and improving the society for the benefit of generations to come. Mr Ambode, who was represented by his Deputy, Idiat Adebule, made the call at the unveiling of the remodelled statue of late Fawehinmi at Liberty Park in Ojota…

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  Smart-Cole, veteran photo journalist. Veteran journalist and photographer, Sunmi Smart-Cole, has narrated how he collapsed due to shoving and pushing by security operatives attached to President Muhammadu Buhari at the colloquium held to celebrate Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s birthday in Lagos last week. Smart-Cole, who was the former head of photography in the presidency, is currently receiving treatment in a hospital at Ikoyi, Lagos.  He threatened to sue the Department of State Service over his alleged maltreatment at the…

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  Mr. Ilo Jude Ilo, the Nigeria office director for the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) has been released by the State Security Service, hours after he responded to a summon by the secret police. Mr. Ilo confirmed the development to PREMIUM TIMES around 11:45 a.m. today (Friday). His visit to the Abuja Command of the SSS in Asokoro District was exclusively reported by PREMIUM TIMES when his colleagues and associates could not communicate with him for…

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The Commissioner of Police, Ekiti State,  Abdullahi Chafe and International Federation of Women Lawyers(FIDA), have vowed to go against perpetrators of  human rights abuses, saying heavy punishment awaits any one convicted of such crime. The duo who specifically advised Nigerians to refrain from meting out jungle justice on suspects of crime to promote administration of criminal justice in the country gave the advice in Ado Ekiti at the weekend during a programme organized by  FIDA on the administration of Criminal…

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