…will go to court as well as write world body disassociating the youths from the loans The Prominent Civil Rights Advocacy Group; Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) said the new form of economic colonialism foisted on Nigeria by China, occasioned by her Toxic and Enslaving Loan Agreements with Nigeria will enslave the coming
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By: Isaac Ojo The Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee (CMAC), who is also the Chairman, clinical services and training as well as Chairman, Covid-19 taskforce of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH) Nnewi, Anambra State Dr Joseph Ugboaja has warned against politicization of issues of Covid-19. Dr Ugboaja dropped the warning during his weekly press briefing
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The Federal Road Safety Corps has noted with dismay the unruly, defiant and rebellious attack that resulted into an unprecedented degree of damage to both FRSC personnel detailed on patrol operations and the patrol vehicle by a tricycle rider in Benin, Edo State. The tricycle rider who was arrested in Benin, along Benin/Sapele road for
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Matagu Foundation, an anti corruption advocacy group has called for full scale and independent probe of activities of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Chief Ekene Enefe, Founder of the advocacy group made the call in an interview with newsmen in Awka on Thursday. Enefe described as ‘highly’ embarrassing and condemnable, the level of allegations
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…As Buhari appoints Bala Ciroma as Acting Chairman of EFCC The reported appointment by President Muhammadu Buhari of the federal capital Territory’s logstanding Commissioner of police Bala Ciroma as acting chairman of Economic and financial crimes commission (EFCC) has been described as a continuation of the northernization agenda of the current administration of the hierarchies
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The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi has commended the Executive Governor of Zamfara State, His Excellency, Bello Muhammad Matawalle for his magnanimity and commitment towards the eradication of road traffic crashes in the State, as he donates 2 Ford Rangers to the Zamfara State Sector Command of the Corps. According to
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By: PDP The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the confession by the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the Edo governorship election, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has further validated the position by his party’s former National Chairman, that he is unfit to hold office as governor of the state. The PDP in a statement by its National
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The Civil Liberties Organization,( CLO), South East Zone is apparently disturbed over plans by the Enugu State Government to engage the services of soldiers of the Nigerian Army in enforcing the use of face masks towards containing the spread of COVID-19 in the state. According to news reports credited to Prof. Emmanuel Ejim, Chairman, Expert Medical Advisory Committee,
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The Harvard Kennedy School of Government has appointed Patrick O. Okigbo III as a Senior Fellow of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) for the 2020/2021 academic year. Okigbo joins seventeen (17) other distinguished professionals from business and government to address issues at the interface of public and private sectors. Their role is
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The civil rights advocacy body in Nigeria:-HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has taken a swipe on the national Leadership of the Nigerian bar association “on its attempt to stifle creativity and muzzle freedom of speech by threatening the popular instagram comedian Lasisi Elenu not to make jest of their esteemed profession in his
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has queried Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello over his “manifest laidback” attitude towards COVID-19 prevention and management protocols, “resulting in spread and avoidable deaths in the state”. In a statement made available to The DAILY VENDOR, Kola Ologbondiyan,National Publicity Secretary of the party said “Our party is deeply worried over
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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit asking the Federal High Court, Abuja to order the Federal Government and Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to “publicly identify and name Nigerians who have so far benefited from any cash payments, cash transfers, food distribution and other reliefs and palliatives during the lockdown in
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…Advise affected landlords to petition EFCC The HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has urged the Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar to investigate the serious allegation of misconduct of some officers of the Nigeroan Air Force of Nigeria accused of being hired by Enugu State ministry of Housing to allegedly harass
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Bothered by the apparent failure of the Imo State Governor Mr. Hope Uzodinma and the pliant House of Assembly to take steps to check the growing number of attacks by armed Fulani terrorists and herdsmen in parts of Imo State, the Prominent Civil Rights Advocacy group-: HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has condemned
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Following the unfortunate road traffic crash involving 3 tankers and a trailer that were engulfed in explosion on Kara bridge of the Lagos- Ibadan expressway, the Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi has activated immediate and thorough crash investigation and subsequent prosecution of both the owners, and drivers of the 4 articulated
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