The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has strongly condemned the killing of Deborah Samuel, a second year student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto for alleged blasphemy. The Governing Council of the Commission while reacting to the killing in Sunday in…
Following an alleged controversial religious activity in Ekiti State; Ekiti State Police Command clears the air, calls for calm. A press statement issued to Blank News Online by Ekiti state police spokesman, ASP Abutu Sunday reads: The Ekiti State Police Command wishes…
The Independent Investigation Panel on Human Rights Violations by the defunct SARS and other units of the Nigerian Police Force on Monday issued a warrant of arrest on the Commissioner of Police in charge of legal services at the Force Headquarters, CP…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Monday said the billionaire drug baron fingered in the N3 billion tramadol deal involving the embattled suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari-led Intelligence Response Team, IRT, is now in their net. A statement…
The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has said the nation’s correctional facilities (prisons) are now impregnable to attacks, insisting that the federal government has taken all needed measures to secure them against intruders. The Minister made this assertion on Friday in…
Making Huge Capital From Kanu’s Detention Attacking Anambra Frustrate Soludo’s Effort To Free Kanu A Group, Coalition of South East Youth Leaders, COSEYL has said that some elements in the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB were responsible for attacks in Anambra State….
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has began assessment work on rehabilitation of principal correctional facilities in Port Harcourt and Lagos. The United Nations body is targeting the rehabilitation of correctional facilities in both Part Harcourt and Lagos after…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has been compiling reports of alleged mismanagement of public funds by the immediate past Chief of Staff to Ex-governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State, Mr. Odili and could pick him up anytime soon, credible sources…
A Retired Judge of the Court of Appeal, Justice Mudashiru Oniyangi on Tuesday called for the decentralization of the Supreme Court to allow for speedy dispensation of justice in the country. Oniyangi, gave this advice in Abuja while celebrating his retirement from…
For the umpteenth time at the independent Investigative Panel on defunct SARS and other units of the Nigerian Police Force, the orders of the panel were again flagrantly disobeyed by the Commissioner of Police Legal, Mr. Ogbeh Ochogwu, of the Force Head…
Embattled Commander of IGP-Intelligence Response Team (IRT), DCP Abba Kyari is in another legal battle, as the Independent Investigation Panel on Human Rights Violations by the defunct SARS and other units of the Nigerian Police Force, on Friday ordered the Chairman of…
A petitioner, Nnaemeka Orjiakor has demanded a compensation of N10 million from the police for alleged arbitrary arrest, detention and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in 2019. Orjiakor made this demand on Wednesday at the Independent Investigative Panel on human rights violations…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it has submitted names of its nominees to replace the sacked Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi and his Deputy, Dr Eric Kelechi Igwe. The National Chairman of the PDP, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, made the disclosure on…
A complainant, Michael Uzoagba has demanded a compensation of N115 million from Nigerian Police for his alleged unlawful arrest, detention and property seizure in 2018. Uzoagba, made a plead for the compensation on Tuesday at the Independent Investigation Panel on Human Rights…
-From Our Special CORRESPONDENT: The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA on Monday arraigned the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari and six others before Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court 8, Abuja, on an eight count criminal charge…
Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, aka Evans, and two others, have been declared guilty of kidnapping and sentenced to life imprisonment by a Lagos High Court, sitting in Ikeja. Justice Hakeem Oshodi of the Lagos High Court in Ikeja on Friday sentenced the man popularly…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK: In what could be referred to as MIRACLE, seven women who allegedly faked blindness, using innocent children to extort money from unsuspecting members of the public, suddenly started seeing when Police rounded them up. Twenty–two…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja and presided over by Justice Zainab Dimka Abubakar has granted an application by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA to detain for two weeks embattled Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)- From Our CORRESPONDENT: A Federal High Court in Damaturu, Yobe State has rejected applications seeking for “stay of proceedings” filed by a former Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Abdu Bulama and four others in a N450 million…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Sunny A. DAVID: The Indigenous People of Biafra has allayed fears that there will be four days sit-at-home protest in the South-East to mark Nnamdi Kanu appearances to court next week. In a statement by the Media…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum has signed into law, the 2022 budget of N269.6 billion passed by the State Assembly. The Governor also signed two laws: Borno State Child Protection Act, and Violence Against Persons Prohibition Act….
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Albert OGRAKA: Chairman of Delta State Investments Development Agency (DIDA), Mr. Paul Nmah, has commended the State Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa for being keen and supportive of various laudable investment projects in the state. This…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Michael J. EKOKORUWE: THE Special Adviser to the Governor of Delta State, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa on peace building and conflict resolution, Chief Edwin Uzor, has resolved the leadership tussle crisis in Ellu kingdom, Isoko North local…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)- From Editor’s DESK: THE Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives had said that the report of the Lagos EndSARS judicial panel has clearly attested to an attempt by officials of the All Progressive Congress, APC, led Federal…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): United States has called on both Lagos and Federal governments to respond to the report submitted by the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on the #ENDSARS protest. The US Embassy in Nigeria in a statement on Tuesday…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): ON Sunday, the South East Council of Traditional Rulers and Christian Leaders urged the Federal Government to free Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, and to put an end to the deaths and…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Independent Investigative Panel on allegations of human rights violations by the defunct Special Anti – Robbery Squad (SARS) and other units of the Nigerian Police at a resumed sitting on Tuesday listened to the argument of the…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Tony Ojukwu has condemned the incident on Friday October 29 at Justice Mary Odili’s house as violation of her rights to privacy, integrity of her judicial personality, premises…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): A Federal High Court in Lagos has granted the application by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, for the interim attachment of a vessel MV Cha Yanee Naree used to import 32.9 kilograms of cocaine into Nigeria…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA: MINISTER of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has vowed to pursue and recapture all inmates who escaped from the Abolongo, Oyo, Oyo State, Custodial Centre of the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) on Friday night, 22 October, 2021 when the…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Albert OGRAKA: NIGERIAN lawyers have been urged to appliy international best practices to distinguish themselves as legal practitioners of repute. Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, Bashorun Askia Ogieh, FCNA,…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Onoriode ETATSEMI: DELTA State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Isaiah Bozimo Esq, has appealed to the members of the state House of Assembly Committee On Rules, Business, Legal And Judicial Matters for a cordial working relationship with…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK: THE Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has frowned at recent recurring contradictory court decisions and orders, mostly arising from ex parte applications in political matters. The NBA President, OLUMIDE AKPATA in a statement on 30 August…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: THE Nigeria Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has commended the decision of the Federal High Court, Abuja which ruled in favour of six women harassed and abused during raids in the capital city by Environmental Protection…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: A Sierra Leonean Judge, Justice Tonia Barnett has said war is a reaction to jeopardised rights, even as she stated that it is only those that have not witnessed war that call for it. Barnett,…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: THE Management of Access Bank Plc have been issued a seven-day ultimatum to urgently cause an independent investigation and redress the wrongdoings to one of its staff, with a written apology or risk legal action….
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE trial of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, at the Federal High Court Abuja has been adjourned because of Kanu’s absence in court, just as Justice Binta Nyako called the DSS…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, has congratulated Justice Theresa Diai, on her swearing-in As the Acting Chief Judge of Delta State. In a Statement, Elumelu expressed delight over her appointment and said…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, has applauded the Delta State Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa for signing the Judiciary Autonomy Law as passed by the State House of Assembly granting full operational…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael J. EKOKORUWE: THE six months land dispute/crisis between Igbide and Emede communities in Isoko South local government area of Delta State that claimed many lives and property worth millions of naira destroyed, have been finally resolved…
