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    Friday, 27 October 2017

    Assault And Violence: Students Group Urges Rights Commission To Take Action Against Policemen And Thugs Loyal To Senator Saraki

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    A body of Nigerian student activists, under the umbrella of the Alliance Of Nigerian Students Against Neoliberal Attacks (ANSA), on Thursda...
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    Friday, 28 April 2017

    Nigeria’s Press Freedom Record Worsens in One Year, Reports

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    Nigeria has again recorded a decline in the international press freedom index, with six percent regression between 2016 and 2017. Accordi...
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    Wednesday, 29 March 2017

    Remain Calm, Dabiri-Erewa Tells Nigerians In India

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    Following multiple distress calls by Nigerian students in India concerned for their safety as a result of renewed attacks on them, Abik...
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    Thursday, 9 March 2017

    #UPDATE: Apo Six Killings : Court Sentenced Two Out of Five Policemen To Death, Discharge Three Others

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    An FCT High Court has convicted and sentenced two out of five policemen accused in the extrajudicial killings of six Apo traders in...
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    Monday, 27 February 2017

    Falana Restates Demand For El-Zakyzaky's Release, Accuses FG Of Disobedience Of Court Orders

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    Femi Falana, lawyer to Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, detained leader of Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), has, again, demanded that the Musl...
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    Sunday, 19 February 2017

    Two Children Die In Borno State IDP Camp Fire

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    Two children have died in a fire that razed a part of the Internally Displaced Persons Camp in Jere local government of Borno state.
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    Former Gov. Akpabio, Wife Plots Assassination Of Rights Lawyer Inibehe Effiong Over Corruption Probe, Persistent Criticism

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    Former Governor of Akwa Ibom State Senator Godswill Obot Akpabio and his wife Ekaette Unoma Akpabio are desperately plotting to assassi...
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    Audu Maikori, Chocolate City Boss, Released From Detention

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    The Nigeria police have released Audu Maikori, founder of Chocolate City, from detention, according to a tweet posted by the firm’s bus...
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    Monday, 23 January 2017

    Committee On Diaspora Urges Nigerians To Stop Going To Libya

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    The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora has urged Nigerians to desist from migrating to Libya, as...
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    Saturday, 21 January 2017

    Chief Of Army Staff Harassment Of Premium Times Publishers: FCT Police Command Curiously Sues For Peace After Public Outrage

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    A day after provoking national and international outrage by arresting two journalists from a well-known online publisher, the police co...
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    Nigerian Troops Attack IPOB Solidarity Rally For Donald Trump In Port Harcourt

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    Members of Biafran separatist movement Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) converged in Port Harcourt, Rivers to drum support for Donald...
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    Friday, 20 January 2017

    Bribe-Seeking Police In Lagos Instigate Mob To Beat Motorcyclist To Coma For Resisting Extortion

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    Two Nigerian police officers in the Bariga area of Lagos State, frustrated that a motorcyclist would not let them extort a bribe from h...
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    Nigerian Writers Urge President Buhari To Halt Harassment Of Journalists

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    A group of Nigerian public commentators, intellectuals, activists and writers have urged President Muhammadu Buhari to stop the harassm...
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    Tuesday, 17 January 2017

    Amnesty International Urges Nigeria To Release El-Zakzaky

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    Amnesty International, a human rights advocacy organization, on Monday called on the Nigerian government to release Sheikh Ibraheem El-...
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    Wednesday, 28 December 2016

    A Day With The Gay Community By Reuben Abati

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    I was invited to deliver the keynote address at this year’s special event on “Human Rights, Sexuality and the Law”, an annual symposiu...
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    Thursday, 22 December 2016

    Ogwashi-Uku Prison Inmate Dies Over Negligence As Prison Chief Threatens NGO Coordinator Over Exposé

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    Peter Onyema, one of many sick inmates held in dismal conditions at the Ogwashi-Uku prison in Aniocha South local government area of De...
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    Saturday, 17 December 2016

    #OccupyNigeria Protests: Appeal Court Affirms Jail Term For Trigger-Happy DPO

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    The Lagos division of the Court of Appeal has affirmed that Chief Superintendent of Police, Segun Fabunmi, must serve a 10-year prison ...
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    Wednesday, 7 December 2016

    Throwing a Lavish Party for the Dead By Okey Ndibe

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    I have said this before: one of the hardest tasks is to predict how Nigerians would react in any given situation. We are a perplexing b...
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    Fourteen Communities To Eradicate Female Circumcision In Osun State.

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    Efforts to eradicate Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Osun State received a boost on Tuesday as 14 communities from four local govern...
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    Saturday, 8 October 2016

    Peaceful Shiite Group Rejects Ban By Kaduna Government, Calls For Release Of Members

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