Fifteen Nigerian Girls Trafficked To Mali

Crime & SecurityHuman Rights & FreedomFifteen Nigerian Girls Trafficked To Mali

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 21, 2022

ABUJA — The Network Against Child Trafficking Abuse and Labour in collaboration with the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons have secured the release of 15 Nigerian girls trafficked to Mali. The successful operation, according to NAPTIP in a statement released in the early hours of Monday, said the girls, one of who has a three-year-old boy and two pregnant, were released with the support of Action Against Trafficking in Persons and...

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The U.S. Should Not Designate Nigeria’s IPOB a Terrorist Group

ColumnsHuman Rights & FreedomNational SecurityThe U.S. Should Not Designate Nigeria’s IPOB a Terrorist Group

PilotnewsFebruary 10, 2022

The U.S. government should not repeat the mistake made by the Nigerian government of designating the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as a terrorist group. By Nkasi Wodu, Guest Columnist and Blogger In October, an American scholar argued in a Washington Times op-ed that the United States should designate the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a secessionist group in Nigeria’s South East region, as a terrorist group. To the casual onlooker, this could seem logical: IPOB has long been proscribed as...

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Human Rights & FreedomNewsPoliticsBenin Republic Government Extends Igboho Stay To Six Months

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 7, 2022

Counsel to Yoruba Nation activist Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho, Chief Yomi Alliyu (SAN), on Sunday night has confirmed that the Benin Republic government has renewed the incarceration of Igboho without any hearing. This is contrary to speculations following the announcement by an Abuja-based human rights lawyer, Pelumi Olajengbesi, at the weekend that Igboho will soon be released from detention. Alliyu had stated that “the government of the Republic of Benin has renewed...

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Sit-At-Home: Take A Cue From The Montgomery Bus Boycott, Stop Shooting Yourself in the foot

BusinessHuman Rights & FreedomNewsSit-At-Home: Take A Cue From The Montgomery Bus Boycott, Stop Shooting Yourself in the foot

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)February 7, 2022

ENUGU — The weekly sit-at-home order observed only in the south East have become a huge concern to leaders of thought, businessmen and well-meaning citizens and residents in that region as the end is not near insight. Logically one wonders what impact the order is actually making in the nation for only the southeast geopolitical zone out of the 6 zones in the nation routinely observe the order. In the past six months and counting,...

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Agbekoya Threatens To Release Sunday Igboho From Benin Prison Using Traditional Means

Human Rights & FreedomNewsAgbekoya Threatens To Release Sunday Igboho From Benin Prison Using Traditional Means

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)February 4, 2022

ABUJA — The President, Agbekoya Worldwide, Kamorudeen Okiki, has urged the authorities of Benin Republic to free the Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, or the group would use traditional means. Okiki spoke in Osogbo on Thursday during a peaceful rally held by the group, where it also demanded the restructuring of the country. Speaking further after he had delivered a letter containing seven-point demand of the group to Ataoja of...

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U.S. Pledges to Support Nigeria’s Fight Against Modern-day Slavery

Foreign PolicyHuman Rights & FreedomUnited StatesU.S. Pledges to Support Nigeria’s Fight Against Modern-day Slavery

PilotnewsJanuary 28, 2022

ABUJA — The U.S. government on Thursday pledged to support Nigeria in its efforts to combat modern-day slavery and all forms of human trafficking and smuggling. Ms. Kathleen FlitzGibbon Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Abuja said this at an event organised to commemorate the 2022 National Human Trafficking Awareness Month. The event, held in collaboration with the DEVATOP Center for African Development under its “TALKAM” Human Rights Project, had the theme...

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High Court Orders Nigerian Government To Pay Kanu N1b

Human Rights & FreedomLaw & JusticeHigh Court Orders Nigerian Government To Pay Kanu N1b

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)January 20, 2022

UMUAHIA — Abia State High Court presided over by Justice Benson Anya has ordered the Nigerian government to pay the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, the sum of N1 Billion over infringement of his fundamental rights. According to the court the damages to be paid to Kanu were for the invasion of his house. The judge stated that the defence counsel did little or nothing to defend the evidence...

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Sit-At-Home: 3days Complete Compliance, APC Youth Leader Shot Dead In Enugu

Human Rights & FreedomNewsSit-At-Home: 3days Complete Compliance, APC Youth Leader Shot Dead In Enugu

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)January 20, 2022

ENUGU — Residents in Enugu have heaved a sigh of relief as the earlier warned 4 days sit-at-home order was shortened to three days given the Federal High Court adjournment of court proceedings on Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, to Wednesday 16th February 2022. Like cats crawling out of holes, many were still afraid of stepping out of their homes out of fear at the early hours of Thursday. But by mid-day, more vehicles were seen on...

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Abia High Court Orders FG To Pay Kanu 1bn Over Abuse of His Fundamental Rights

Human Rights & FreedomLaw & JusticeAbia High Court Orders FG To Pay Kanu 1bn Over Abuse of His Fundamental Rights

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)January 19, 2022

UMUAHIA — A High Court sitting in Abia State has ordered the Federal Government to pay the sum of N1 billion to the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, as well as tender him an apology. The embattling leader of the IPOB had approached the Court to demand N5 billion over the invasion of his father’s house by the military on September 10, 2017. According to Kanu’s lawyer, Aloy Ajimakor,...

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Sit-At-Home: Complete Compliance In South Eastern States Of Nigeria

Human Rights & FreedomNewsSit-At-Home: Complete Compliance In South Eastern States Of Nigeria

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)January 18, 2022

ENUGU — The bloody destruction of properties on the 10th of January, 2022 in Enugu state and other states in the South East of Nigeria set the stage for compliance level today Monday 17th of January. In Enugu, economic activities were completely grounded and roads deserted, all schools and offices were completely shut down as no one wants to be a scapegoat in the hands of the unknown gunmen. Sadly, a repeat of this scenario...

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