Rights

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has deployed 1,400 corps members to Gombe State for the 2019 Batch B Stream II orientation course.

Ondo: Group sensitises 700 NYSC members on reproductive health rights

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The Lagos State House of Assembly

Lagos Assembly: Consumer protection agency bill scales second reading

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Detained leader of the Indegenious People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has arrived the Federal High Court Abuja for his re-arraingment.

IPOB: Nnamdi Kanu excited over UN ‘urgent appeals’ to Nigeria, Kenya

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Former South African President Jacob Zuma speaks to supporters after appearing in the High Court where he faces charges that include fraud, corruption and racketeering, in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, October 15, 2019. REUTERS-Rogan Ward-File Photo

Court rejects Jacob Zuma’s bid to remove graft prosecutor

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IPOB: Northern groups urges court to allow Igbo secede

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In protest of Qatar’s human rights violations, a group of Bayern Munich fans has called for the club’s sponsorship arrangement with Qatar Airways to be terminated at the end of the season.

Supporters campaign to end Qatar Airways sponsorship agreement with Bayern Munich

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Shawan Jabarin, director of the al-Haq human rights group, at the organization's offices in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Saturday, Oct. 23, 2021. Israel on Friday, Oct. 22, declared six prominent Palestinian human rights groups to be terrorist organizations, saying they were secretly linked to a left-wing militant movement. It was not immediately clear what the distinction would mean for the groups, most of which also protest rights violations by the Western-backed Palestinian Authority. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Israel envoy to visit US after NGOs labelled ‘terrorists’

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Eight Nigerians bag UK awards for ‘breaking glass ceilings’

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A widow, Dorothy Nnabode on Monday told the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) panel that the police shot and killed her husband in front of her.

NHRC urges police, others to find missing journalist

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FILE PHOTO - A vintage car passes by the U.S. Embassy carrying a Cuban flag during a motorcade in protest against the trade embargo on Cuba by the U.S. in Havana, Cuba, March 28, 2021. REUTERS-Alexandre Meneghini-File Photo

Cuba-U.S. tensions mount over pending protests on Communist-run island

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The Lagos State House of Assembly

Lagos Data Protection Bill scales second reading

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The chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Buba Marwa, says most of the cells involved in the sale of drug cookies online have been dismantled.

Buba Marwa asks NDLEA strike force corps to be ‘ruthless’ with drug barons

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Poland’s prime minister accused the EU of putting a “gun to our head” by demanding his country reverse judicial reforms while threatening sanctions, in an interview published in the Financial Times Monday.

Polish premier: EU putting ‘gun to our head’

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A former Assistant Director with the Department of State Services, Dennis Amachree, on Friday, said Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, should have joined the South-West Security Network Agency, also known as Amotekun.

Afenifere faults AGF over labelling of Sunday Igboho as terrorist

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The Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR) has pledged to collaborate with the Nigerian Army Resource Centre (NARC) to find practical solutions to insecurity confronting the country.

Nigerian Army refuses to reinstate officer despite court order

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