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Women enjoy only two-thirds of men's legal rights despite reforms- Report

Nigeria, Feb. 26 -- Women across the world enjoy barely two-thirds of the legal rights available to men, and laws designed to guarantee equal economic opportunities are enforced only half the time. T... Read More


Amnesty demands probe into Plateau road killings

Nigeria, Feb. 26 -- Amnesty International Nigeria has called on authorities to investigate what it described as a recurring pattern of road blockades and killings of travellers in Plateau State, warni... Read More


Real reasons Egbetokun was told to resign - Sources

Nigeria, Feb. 26 -- Contrary to the official narrative that ex-police chief Kayode Egbetokun resigned for family reasons, sources in the presidency told PREMIUM TIMES that President Bola Tinubu asked ... Read More


EFCC arraigns three NRC directors over alleged N2.04bn fraud

Nigeria, Feb. 26 -- The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned three senior officials of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) before different judges of the Lagos State High C... Read More


Court hears recording of Diezani Alison-Madueke's heated exchanges with oil contractors who bribed her

Nigeria, Feb. 26 -- The UK Southwark Crown Court on Tuesday heard audio recordings of former Nigerian petroleum minister Diezani Alison-Madueke allegedly confronting two oil tycoons from whom she is a... Read More


US court sentences ex-NNPC official to 87 months over $2.1m oil bribery scandal

Nigeria, Feb. 25 -- A United States court has sentenced a former senior official of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Paulinus Okoronkwo, to 87 months (seven years and three months )... Read More


Tinubu decorates Disu, tasks new acting IGP on peace, security

Nigeria, Feb. 25 -- President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, at the State House, charged the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Olatunji Disu, to restore peace and strengthen security nationwide. Presid... Read More


N33.2bn Arms Funds Trial: Dasuki's co-defendant not detained in underground cell - EFCC witness

Nigeria, Feb. 25 -- An Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) witness has refuted the suggestion of detaining one of former National Security Adviser Sambo Dasuki's co-defendants in an underg... Read More


My vision for police, Nigeria - Acting IGP Disu

Nigeria, Feb. 25 -- The newly appointed acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), Tunji Disu, has pledged to phase out impunity, human rights violations and corruption, some of the practices under his... Read More


Akwa Ibom's Paradox: Luxury SUVs for ex-officials while pupils sit on floors

Nigeria, Feb. 25 -- A disturbing video from a public primary school in Ibiaku Itam, Itu Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, surfaced on social media recently. The footage captured a classroom in... Read More