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Reuben Abati Reuben Abati The most exhilarating part of the US Presidential election 2020 is the fact that President Trump lost the election. It is what many observers thought would happen. They prayed for it. They wished it. In the end, that is what happened on Saturday, November 7, 2020. The major news networks called the election and announced Joe Biden as the President-elect of the United States. Whatever level of excitement that the election may have generated however, it was after all, an American election. It was one of the closest and most fiercely contested elections in American history. Over 160 million voters participated; turn out was 66.9%.  President-elect Joe Biden got over 74 million of the votes (the highest in 120 years), leading President Trump by over 4 million votes, and an impressive 290 Electoral College votes.  Trump had over 70 million votes, with 214 Electoral College votes. The turn out was very much about how this was an election like no other. It wa

Owens Wiwa Martin Luther King, Jr., reminded us that “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”  Twenty-five years ago, this November, my brother, Ken Saro-Wiwa, was executed for his work to rescue our Ogoni land in Nigeria from further destruction at the hands of Royal Dutch Shell. Not a day goes by that I do not miss Dede. He has especially been on my mind these past few years, and indeed more viscerally so in recent months. There has been this lingering unease that we, the associates of Saro-Wiwa, and seekers of social change and environmental justice, have failed him. Do not get me wrong. There have been some changes: some of them transformational such as the increasing focus on global corporate social responsibility as corporations are held more accountable for their environmental stewardship or lack of it. Owens Wiwa In parts of Ogoni, some incremental changes have occurred: the resumption of traditional environmental protection practices lea

Oga Tom Uhia The Nigeria Police Force has finally arraigned in court 72-year-old journalist, Tom Uhia, after # he was illegally held for 30 days in secret detention. This came after immense pressure from media rights group, Nigeria Union of Journalists and various human rights groups across the country. Oga Tom Uhia Uhia, Publisher of Power Steering Magazine, was arrested on the orders of Minister of State for Power, Jedy Agba, over a publication against him in July 2020. The police illegally arrested and detained Uhia while also barring him from seeing his lawyer and doctor. When he was arraigned in court on Monday, the police filed a 15-count charge bothering on defamation and injurious falsehood before an FCT High Court in Gudu District, Abuja. Uhia’s lead counsel, Paul Harris Ogbole (SAN), argued for his bail. See Also Journalism Nigeria’s Deputy Power Minister, Jedy Agba, Orders Perpetual Detention Of Journalist For Indicting Him In 2012 Dana Air Crash 0 Comment

Dan-Aji community of Faskari Local Government Area of Katsina State, where bandits abducted 26 girls, has countered the claim by the Zamfara State Government that no ransom was paid to secure their release from captivity. Sources told the Daily Trust that the girls were randomly picked from houses in Garin Aja on October 13, 2020, only to be released on November 6. The community shares a border with Zamfara State. “Those abducted included girls and spinsters. The bandits moved from house to house and selected their victims,” one of the sources said. “The abductors did not bother to pick children or the old; they carefully selected girls and young women who either lost their husbands or divorced. They also asked their parents to pay a ransom and get their wards back. The parents complied because they want their children back and safely,” another source said. The Zamfara State Government delegation, led by the Commissioner for Security and Home Affairs, Alhaji Abubakar Dauran,

Solomon Arase A former Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, says over 200,000 police officers are attached to political elites, a practice he termed “policing the elites against policing security spaces.” He spoke at the second edition of the national dialogue series of the Political Leadership and Training Institute (POLA) of former governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, held in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital, Daily Trust reports. Solomon Arase “We have about 400,000 police personnel in Nigeria, and 200,000 of those officers are with the political elites. What we are doing in this country is that we are policing the elites, we are not policing security spaces, and this is an issue we have to look into,” Arase added. Arase attributed the challenges facing the police to lack of political will to implement reports of many reforms done in the past. He said since 1999, Nigeria has had at least four police reforms from committees set up by past leaders “but unfor