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Human Rights & FreedomLaw & JusticeNewsCourt Adjourns Nnamdi Kanu’s Trial Amid Heavy Security in Abuja

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)July 26, 2021

ABUJA — There was obvious increase in security around the Federal High Court on Monday morning ahead of the resumption of the trial of Nnamdi Kanu. However, Kanu did not appear before the court as expected, which made the court adjourn the hearing till October 21, 2021. When the case was called up, the court was informed by the prosecution counsel, M.B. Abubakar, that the matter was slated for hearing and that they were ready...

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Human Rights & FreedomLaw & JusticeCounsels To Igboho To Block His Extradition

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)July 25, 2021

One of the legal team and supporters of Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo a.k.a. Igboho, Barr Ibrahim David Salami says they will prefer that he dies in the Benin Republic than allow him to be handed over to the Nigerian government. Salami who declared on Saturday vowed that everything would be done to ensure that Igboho is not extradited to Nigeria. Salami said the legal team of five in Benin has been receiving immense moral support from...

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Human Rights & FreedomReligionNorth Is Worst Hit By Banditry, Kidnapping-Dambazau

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)July 24, 2021

The former Chief of Army Staff, Abdulrahman Dambazau (rtd), has said the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Dr. Matthew Kukah, got it all wrong when he told the US Congress recently that Nigerian Christians, especially in the North, were being persecuted under the Buhari administration. He said, on the contrary, the majority of the victims of the ongoing terrorism in the North are Muslims. Dambazau, who is the former minister of interior, spoke in...

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Human Rights & FreedomLaw & JusticeCotonou Court Adjourn Igboho’s Trial as Nigeria Fails to File Extradition Charges

Beloved John (Staff Writer)July 23, 2021

Communications manager of Ilana Omo Oodua, Maxwell Adeleye has disclosed that  Nigeria did not file any charge against Sunday Igboho before he was arraigned at Cour De’appal De Cotonou, the Republic of Benin on Thursday. The Yoruba activist was arraigned at the court following his arrest at the Cardinal Bernardin International Airport, Cotonou on Monday night. He was arrested with his wife on their way to Germany. A statement issued by Adeleye on behalf of ...

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Foreign PolicyHuman Rights & FreedomLaw & JusticeHow Buratai Masterminded the Arrest of Sunday Igboho in Benin Republic

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)July 21, 2021

Facts on Tuesday revealed how Nigeria’s Ambassador to the Benin Republic, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai (retd), masterminded the arrest of the Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho. According to The Punch, a source in Benin Republic confided that the former Chief of Army Staff wrote the government of the West African country and insisted on the arrest and extradition of Igboho. It was gathered that former Army boss was at the...

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AfricaHuman Rights & FreedomLaw & JusticeThere is “An Urgent Need to Confront the Legacies of Enslavement” – UN

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)July 12, 2021

The United Nations Rights Chief, Michelle Bachelet, has on Monday called for countries to dismantle systemic racism and to acknowledge and provide “reparatory justice” for past wrongs like slavery and colonialism. Bachelet who spoke before the UN Human Rights Council, described how deeply embedded racism against Africans and the people of African descent continue to affect all aspect of their lives. In the presentation of a report which followed the murder of George Floyd by...

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