Nigeria is clear to start building Africa’s second-largest hydroelectric plant after the government settled an arbitration case that was holding it up.
The Mambilla dam complex, now priced at $4.8bn, is to be built by a consortium led by China Energy Engineering and Sinohydro....
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The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, said the conflicts between farmers and herdsmen can best be resolved through community action....
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In spite of President Muhammadu Buhari winning the 2018 African Union (AU) Anti-Corruption Champion Award, the United States seems not to trust the Nigerian government to properly utilise the $308 million Gen. Sanni Abacha’s loot stashed away in Jersey for....
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Shehu Sani, a former federal lawmaker discloses that he was incarnated in an underground cell by anti-graft commission for EFCC during his 30 day-detention. The former lawmaker says his fundamental human rights were unjustly and unfairly breached by the during his incarceration by the...
The Federal Government and South-West governors have reached an agreement on Operation Amotekun. Laolu Akande, the Special Adviser to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, made this known via his verified Twitter handle this evening....
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Osinbajo and governors from the Southwest are discussing Amotekun at the villa. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is currently locked in a meeting with governors of Nigeria’s Southwest region over Amotekun, the region’s newly launched security outfit, a highly placed source in the.....
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The Western Nigerian Security outfit codenamed Operation Amotekun remains an illegal entity, the FG has maintained. According to The Nation, the Federal Government has insisted the Western Nigerian Security outfit codenamed Operation Amotekun remains....
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The Federal Government says there is no evidence to back up claims made by Transparency International that Nigeria is currently the most corrupt country in West Africa. Transparency International in its new ranking, placed Nigeria at 146 out of the 180 countries on the 2019 corruption perception...
Two retired military generals openly support the Amotekun security network which was recently inaugurated by governors of the southwest region. Brigadier General Kunle Togun (retd) says the Amotekun initiative is a means of defending the southwest territory from invasion.....
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The President Muhammadu Buhari-led government has been called upon to arrest the Yoruba leaders promoting the establishment of the new security outfit, Amotekun in the South West. Making the call in an interview with the Sun at the weekend is the National President General of Miyetti Allah…...
Emboldened by the huge support from the people of the South West region in particular and across the states of the country in general, the South West governors have moved fast to give legal backing to the regional security outfit, codenamed Operation Amotekun which they launched on January 9...
Human Rights lawyer, SAN Femi Falana has reacted to the federal government’s claim that ‘Operation Amotekun’ is illegal. He expressed discomfort as the bias shown by the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami with his statement that the ‘issue of security is...
Adams, in a letter to Malami, added that he has advised Southwest governors to shun government’s position on Amotekun. A lawyer, Malcolm Emokinovo Omirhobo, on Friday, filed a suit at a Federal High Court in Lagos, to challenge the...
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The Federal Government has declared a regional security outfit, Amotekun, formed by states in the South-west geopolitical zone as illegal. In a statement issued on Tuesday by the Minister of justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, the Minister said that....
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Falana says Malami puts himself under undue pressure and also exposed the judiciary to ridicule over Sowore’s release.
Femi Falana, human rights lawyer has again tackled Abubakar Malami, Attorney-General of the Federation over Omoyele Sowere’s matter....
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A frontline human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has tackled the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami (SAN), for the Federal Government’s disregard to court orders and rule of law.....
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Human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, has said Mr Abubakar Malami, SAN, Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, lacks powers to order the release of any detainee out of mercy....
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The Federal Government has given reasons for not releasing the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky. Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), in a statement issued yesterday, stated that the Federal Government...
The publisher of Sahara Reporters’ has been nominated for an honour award in the US. Omoyele Sowore was nominated by US lawmaker, Josh Gottheimer, for the Prisoner of Honour Award in the....
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The United Kingdom government has commended the release of former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, and #RevolutionNow convener, Omoyele Sowore. The UK reacted through its Acting High Commissioner in Nigeria, Gill Atkinson.....
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