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  A human rights advocacy organisation, Take It Back (TIB) Movement, has demanded the immediate and unconditional release of Eleojo Opaluwa, Michael Adaramoye, popularly known as Michael Lenin and Mosiu Abolaji, who were reportedly abducted, blindfolded by the operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) and handed over to the police in Abuja.   The TIB, which made the demand on Monday said that Opaluwa, Lenin and Abolaji were abducted by the secret police...

The Akinmurele/Obe Governorship Campaign Council, the campaign council of the Young Progressives Party(YPP) in the forthcoming Ondo State governorship election, John Akinmurele, has demanded an immediate and unconditional release of the governorship candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the state, Ajayi Kunle Wizeman by the Nigerian police.   The YPP Campaign Council in a statement pn Saturday obtained by SaharaReporters also demanded the immediate and unconditional release of all the #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protesters arrested...

The Take It Back movement — one of the organisers of the just concluded 10-day nationwide #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protests against hardship on Saturday vowed to return to the streets with a 10-million-person march if President Bola Tinubu fails to address their demands.   For the past 10 days, protesters have taken to the streets of Abuja and other major Nigerian cities, demanding the reinstatement of fuel subsidies and reduced electricity tariffs, among other grievances.    They...

The leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress has demanded the immediate withdrawal of soldiers and other armed security personnel from union’s headquarters in Abuja.   On Wednesday night, SaharaReporters broke the news that a large contingent of armed security personnel, believed to be from the Department of State Services, stormed Labour House, forcibly entering and ransacking several floors, and confiscating books and files.  According to sources, the agents claimed the seized materials were used to...

Some elders and stakeholders in Northern Nigeria have announced their full support for the planned nationwide hunger protest tagged #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria scheduled to hold from August 1 to 10.     The elders and the stakeholders who made their position know in a statement signed by Prof. Usman Yusuf; ⁠Hajia Najatu Muhammad; ⁠⁠Mallam Salihu Lukman; and ⁠Dr. Umar Ardo, also made seven demands to the President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government.   In the statement obtained by...

A pro-democracy group, the Journalists for Democratic Rights, (JODER) has asked President Bola Tinubu to immediately set up an independent Judicial Panel of Enquiry to probe the allegations of high level corruption in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Ltd, (NNPC) and the World Bank operations in Nigeria.  The Minister for Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye had revealed that Nigerian World Bank officials take 40% from all loans obtained by Nigeria.  She had also revealed that some...

  The family of Richard Onumegbu, a civilian staff of the Federal Ministry of Defence, Nigerian Navy Base, Ojo, Lagos State, has raised the alarm, demanding justice for their son reportedly beaten to death by four Navy officers.    Narrating how Richard was killed, a family source in a video on social media said he was killed by the four Naval officers contracted by a young woman who was fond of bullying him and calling...