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By Chioma Obinna The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has urged the Federal Government to complement its Compressed Natural Gas, CNG, transportation initiative with measures to reduce the cost of petrol and other energy inputs driving transportation and production costs across the country. HURIWA said the Federal Government’s directive to state governors to […]

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KABBA — Six persons have been killed and two others injured in a road crash along the Kabba-Odo-Ape Road in Kabba-Bunu Local Government Area of Kogi State. The Kogi Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mr Lawal Fagge, confirmed the incident in a telephone interview on Sunday. Fagge said the crash, which […]

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By Adesina Wahab The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has said no student association has been sidelined and that it has not breached any protocol in its membership of the JAMB Committee on Life Skills and Critical Thinking.A statement on Sunday by the National President, Comrade Akinteye Babatunde Afeez, the association also cautioned sister […]

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Citizens of two African countries can travel to the United Kingdom, UK without obtaining a traditional visitor visa in advance, according to the latest UK immigration rules.

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Seek Labour, civil society solidarity actions By Victor Ahiuma-Young LAGOS — The Joint Action Front, JAF, an umbrella body of pro-labour civil society organisations, has called on the Lagos State Government to engage striking lecturers in the state-owned universities and address their demands to end the ongoing industrial action. The lecturers, under the Academic Staff […]

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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has offered to support the education of Yusuf Aliyu, the teenage artisanal miner whose account of conditions at a mining site in Niger State went viral following the deaths of 37 miners.

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Seeks action against suspects linked to Ondo deaths ABUJA — Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has called for the immediate investigation and prosecution of persons found culpable in the deaths of 37 suspected illegal miners who died in the custody of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, in Minna, Niger State. Falana, […]

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By Ugochukwu Alaribe UMUAHIA — A pro-All Progressives Congress (APC) group, Renewed Hope for Greater Nigeria (RHGN), has urged the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to clarify plans for independently transmitting polling-unit election results during the 2027 general elections. The group warned against what it described as an attempt to […]

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Rejects calls for Audi’s removal, urges probe to run its course The Centre for Justice for Common Nigeria, under the Coalition of Nigerian Civil Society Organisations, has rejected calls for the removal of the Commandant-General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Professor Ahmed Abubakar Audi, over the deaths of 37 suspected illegal […]

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By Olayinka Latona ABUJA — The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, CBCN, has called on the National Assembly and the Federal Government to halt moves to enact the Foreign Aids (Regulation, Transparency and Disclosure) Bill 2026, warning that the proposed legislation could undermine humanitarian activities and fundamental freedoms. The bishops also decried the worsening security […]

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