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The injury inflicted on one of the victim The House of Representatives Committee on Public Petition probing the death of an auto mechanic, Chima Ikwunador, while in police custody in Rivers State has adjourned sitting to December 10, 2020, over non-appearance by the police at the investigative hearing on Wednesday in Abuja. The deceased, a car repairer, died in controversial circumstances in police custody while being detained alongside four others.  The others arrested by the police include Victor Ogbonna, Osaze Friday, Ifeanyi Osuji and Ifeanyi Onyekwere. The operatives of the Eagle-Crack, an outfit of the state police command had in December 2019 arrested, detained and tortured the four Ikoku motor spare parts dealers for an alleged traffic offence and being in possession of stolen vehicles. At the commencement of the hearing, the police did not send any representatives despite being duly invited for the hearing. The chairman of the committee expressed displeasure over

Donkeys in Kano and cassava stems in Anambra – items recently given to some Nigerians as economic empowerment by government representatives – show how pitiable handouts are gaining momentum in the country. Although such “shamefaced empowerment”, as some critics call it, is not new, politicians now up the ante with more ridiculous and bizarre items. The usual items had included tricycles, motorcycles, and grinding machines, but pure water sachets and shoe-shining starter kits have now made the cut. Often the pitiable charity comes from taxpayers as federal lawmakers have covered such items under constituency projects. An aide to the Benue State governor once distributed wheelbarrows with the inscription, “Gov Ortom for You” arguing that the beneficiaries would use the wheelbarrows to run errands and hawk. Later the wheelbarrow empowerment resurfaced in Taraba as a member of House of Representatives, Maigari Bello-Kasimu, representing Jalingo/Yorro/Zing, distributed wheelbarro

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence in India says it made cocaine seizures worth 27 crore (102.92bn) from several African immigrants, including Nigerians in the last ten days. According to a report by Hindustan Times, four persons, including two Nigerians, were arrested as part of the confiscation with 502gm of the narcotic. However, the biggest seizure at the Mumbai airport was the 3kg of cocaine retrieved from a Guinean, Musa Kamara, on Tuesday afternoon. The 18 crore (68.61bn) confiscation by DRI is the largest at the Mumbai airport in 2020, the report says. The officials noted that the Guinean was recruited to be a drug carrier by the member of a racket, who took advantage of his need for money and medical attention to conceal drugs in his luggage. “It becomes easy for drug rackets to use people looking for medical tourism as the chances of them getting caught are lesser because of their genuine medical history,” an officer from DRI said. Aside from the Nigerians a

National Human Rights Commission, Executive Secretary, Anthony Ojukwu The Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Tony Ojukwu, has expressed concerns over the cases of violence against women and girls in Nigeria. Ojukwu spoke on Wednesday in Abuja during an awareness walk to kick start the 16 days of activism to condemn violence against women and girls which ends on December 10, 2020. The NHRC boss lamented that violence had subjected women to poverty, hunger and other health-related issues. He revealed that between March and June 2020, the commission received and treated 232 cases of violence against women and girls from the 36 states of the federation and the FCT. Ojukwu said as part of efforts to end the menace, the commission, in collaboration with the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), launched a mobile app called UNSUB. This platform connects survivors of SGBV to service providers.  He added that the platform provides informa

In clear contravention of Section 7 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act 2015 which prohibits arresting anyone in the place of another, the Uyo zonal office of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has allegedly detained one Mrs Urua after failing to arrest her son. Counsel to Mrs Urua, Inibehe Effiong, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday. According to Effiong, the EFCC has “invited, re-invited, arrested, re-arrested, detained and threatened his client multiple times since 2018.” The lawyer demanded an immediate and unconditional release of the woman. He alleged that the anti-graft agency had been engaging in a fishing expedition in their desperation to invent non-existent evidence to nail her to satisfy the cravings of the petitioner, Mrs. Eno Emmanuel Effiong, a younger sister to Mrs. Urua. Effiong said, “The woman’s family informed me that Mrs. Urua had been in the custody of the EFCC since November 6, 2020, following the refusal of the Uyo zonal head