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VIDEO: I can get a person jailed and throw away the keys, labour minister Ngige brags 

MINISTER of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, boasts that he has the power to get a person detained indefinitely in a videotape shared with...
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OPINION: The open society endangered

(Being a talk delivered at the UN World Anti-Corruption Day, Abuja, Dec. 9. 2019)                By Wole SOYINKA PRESENT here, I fully expect, is the...
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VIDEO: Gunshots, tear-gassing as DSS operatives disperse protesters seeking Sowore’s release

USING tear gas canisters and firing repeatedly into the air, operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, on Tuesday forcibly dispersed protesters who...
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Falana to sue DSS for contempt over Sowore’s continued detention

SENIOR Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, has said his legal team, representing Publisher of Sahara Reporters and Convener of the Revolution Now protests, Omoyele...
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Boko Haram: 25 children released from military detention

THE Nigerian military has released from detention 25 children who were once victims of the Boko Haram attack to the United Nations Children’s Fund...
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FLASHBACK: 12 times Buhari spoke about rule of law, promised to respect human rights

NIGERIA's Department of State Services (DSS), an intelligence agency operated under the presidency, has refused to release Saharareporters' founder Omoyele Sowore on bail despite...
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After 41 days in DSS detention, Sowore applies again for bail

OMOYELE Sowore, founder of Sahara Reporters and 2019 presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), has filed a fresh bail application to the...
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At least 20 of our members have been killed—IMN

  THE Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) says at least 20 of its members have been killed this week, after their violent clash with security...
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