Donald Trump was on Friday sworn in as the 45th President of the United States of America with a promise to make American interests the focus of his presidency.
The Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, and the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP have appealed to the United Nation’s Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye, to prevail on the federal government to end the ongoing intimidation and harassment of journalists.
The protracted communal clashes that have claimed several lives and led to destruction of houses and farmlands in Agatu Benue State seem to have come to an end.
International medical charity, Medicine Sans Frontier, MSF, commonly known as Doctors without Borders, has said that as many as 170 persons may have been killed as a result of the bombing that took place in an Internally Displaced Persons Camp, in Rann, Borno state.
The Publisher of National Trail Newspaper, Inuwa Bwala has been arrested by a team of the Nigerian Police, led by the AC Criminal Investigation Department, Borno Police Command.
