GIOTV reports that in the latest shocking instance to expose the country’s endemic sexual assault problem, at least seven men have been detained in western India after a 16-year-old girl said she was raped hundreds of times by hundreds of men. According to CWC chairman Abhay Vitthalrao Vanave, the girl, who was homeless, told India’s…
Following the report by the Lagos State Judicial Panel indicting the Nigerian army and police officers in the shooting of peaceful protesters at Lekki tollgate, The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has announced that it is filing a lawsuit against President Buhari’s government. SERAP said it is suing Buhari to compel the arrest of…
The federal government has announced the possible resumption of flights between Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Recall flights between both countries were suspended in March over issues relating to COVID-19 protocol. Speaking at a media briefing on Monday, Mukhtar Muhammad, the national incident manager of the presidential steering committee on COVID-19, said that…
A 23-year-old old barber, Kwame Amponsah who was found guilty of sodomizing 12 schoolboys at Atawase, a suburb of Nkawkaw in the Kwahu West Municipal Assembly has been sentenced to 114 years imprisonment by an Mpraeso Circuit Court in Ghana. Head of Kwahu West Social Welfare Department, Victor Fayi said the incident came to light…
Ex-presidential aide, Reno Omokri has finally broken his silence after Lagos State Inquiry on the Lekki tollgate shooting indicted both the Nigerian army and the police. Reno said the report has vindicated him. He wrote: ”Can everybody who doubted and insulted me when I said that the Satellite Sentinel Project was able to prove that…
The photos of Chidinma Ojukwu, the prime suspect fingered in the murder of Super TV boss, Usifo Ataga, arriving court this morning has been shared online. The trial of the murder of Super TV boss, Usifo Ataga, continued today November 16, at the Lagos State High Court, Igbosere. Here are photos of Chidinma arriving the…
Men of the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested two traffic robbers who terrorize commuters along the Iyana Oworo to Old Toll Gate, Ketu stretch of Lagos – Ibadan Expressway. A statement released by RRS says the two suspected hoodlums were arrested while combing hideouts believed to have been used by…
A man has been arrested by the Taliban for reportedly selling 130 women in northern Afghanistan, after duping them into believing they would be marrying into money. Officials said on Tuesday, November 16 that the man was arrested in northern Jawzjan province late on Monday, November 15. Damullah Seraj, the Taliban provincial police chief, told…
Five persons, including a 10-year old boy, on Tuesday, lost their lives following an explosion at an industrial gas retailing outlet in Ladipo Spare Parts Market, Lagos. Mr. Ibrahim Farinloye, acting Zonal Coordinator, South-West Zonal Office, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), confirmed the development in a statement in Lagos. Farinloye said the cause of the…
Former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Attahiru Jega, has taken a swipe at Nigerian leaders saying they are the cause of Nigeria’s problems. While speaking at the Maitama Sule Leadership Lecture Series, organized by the Students Wing of Coalition of Northern Groups (SW-CNG), in Katsina State, on Monday, November 15, Jega attributed…