The Ondo State Police has debunked claims from the family of a 23-year-old man, Dada Yusuf, who was said to have died days after he was detained and allegedly tortured by the police. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, Olushola Alayande, denied the claims that the victim died from torture. Alayande, who made the denial during an interview with the Punch online, said that the police had taken him to the police hospital in the state after he developed some illness, and he was transferred to a bigger hospital for dialysis treatment because the police hospital could not handle the treatment.…
Author: Soffiyyah Olamide
The family of a 23-year-old man, Dada Yusuf, is at war with the Ondo State Police Command over the circumstances behind his death, days after he was detained and allegedly tortured by the police. The family alleged that Yusuf died from the complications he sustained from injuries inflicted on him by the police while he was illegally detained. This is coming on the heels of growing concerns about cases of police brutality. Speaking with The Punch online on Sunday, 14 September, 2025, a relative of the victim, Afolabi Bisoye, disclosed that the deceased was arrested by some police operatives attached…
The National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) and Wildlife Justice Commission (WJC) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at strengthening wildlife protection in the country. The MoU, signed on Tuesday, 16 September, 2025, at NESREA’s headquarters in Abuja by the Director General/CEO of NESREA, Prof. Innocent Barikor, and Chief of Investigations at the WJC, Stephen Carmody, represented by the Regional Manager for West and Central Africa, Abim Isafiade, establishes a framework for cooperation to combat transnational organised criminal networks trafficking in wildlife, fish, and timber. The MoU is aimed at strengthening intelligence-sharing, enhance forensic and…
The Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Dr. Tony Ojukwu has disclosed that 365,224 human rights abuse cases were received by the commission in August alone. He made the disclosure at the presentation of the National Human Rights Dashboard, and the ‘Protection of Human Rights of Forcibly Displaced Persons through Information/Data Collection and Documentation in Nigeria’ initiative, spotlighting the plights of IDPs, Returnees, Refugees and Asylum Seekers tracked from May to July 2025, on Tuesday, 16 September, 2025 in Abuja. Ojukwu said, the commission got three hundred and and sixty four thousand, two hundred and sixty five…
The Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Dr Dennis Otuaro, on Monday, visited the Julius Berger Nigeria Plc Associated Furniture Producers (AFP) Showroom and its industrial factory in Abuja as part of his deliberate effort to deepen implementation of the programme’s objectives. Otuaro also visited PrimeTech, an international firm with a primary focus on sustainable design and construction of buildings, industries, civil structures, roads and infrastructure. He was conducted round the facilities by the General Manager of Julius Berger Nigeria Plc AFP, Oliver Cohnen, and Julius Berger’s Head of Corporate Security and Compliance, Poul Nielsen, during the visit. Otuaro was…
…30 arrested for operating fake registration centres President Bola Tinubu has announced that over 126 million Nigerians have been enrolled in the National Identity Database with their National Identity Numbers, NIN. The President, who was represented by the Secretary to the Government of Federation, Senator George Akume, at the 7th National Day of Identity, organised by the National Identity Management Commission, NIMC held on Tuesday, 16 September, 2025, in Abuja, said the government is interested in a Nigeria where every citizen’s identity is recognized, verifiable, and protected, and where no one is left behind in the journey toward development. The…
Operatives of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) have rescued eight children suspected to have been stolen from Kano and a few other States in the northern part of the country and trafficked to the South–South and South-East by a suspected wanted inter-state child trafficking syndicate. The Press Officer of NAPTIP, Vincent Adekoye revealed that they were rescued from a popular, privately owned orphanage operated by one of the Executive members of the umbrella body of the Association of Orphanage operators in Nigeria. Adekoye said the successful operation was carried out with the support of…
The statement by Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 presidential election, on Monday, September 15, 2025, is a new low in a recent streak of incendiary commentaries. He sounded a false alarm about “hunger and insecurity”, dismissed the transformative reforms of President Bola Tinubu’s administration, and likened Nigeria’s situation to circumstances that justified historic violent revolutions and uprisings in France, Russia and the Arab Spring. While garbed as a critique of the economic policies of President Tinubu’s administration, Atiku’s statement is nothing short of a tacit instigation of…
By O’seun Ogunseitan The image below is the result of the 2023 Presidential election. But the suggestion it has is not a fluke, that those who today, call everybody else in Nigeria tribalists and bigots, did not tolerate any alternative opinions and did not welcome any other candidates in their part of the country. Yet they claim others are tribalists and bigots, titles which only they qualify for. We can campaign for election but it is the height of all that is stupid for anybody to assume only they are right or that their candidate is the Holy Spirit itself…
The Nigerian Army has announced the arrest of a notorious commander of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its armed wing, the Eastern Security Network (ESN), identified as Ifeanyi Eze Okorienta, popularly known as Gentle de Yahoo. Okorienta was captured by troops of the 34 Artillery Brigade in a joint operation with sister security agencies at his hideout in Aku-Ihube, Okigwe Local Government Area of Imo State. According to the military, the operation led to the recovery of a cache of arms and items, including one English pistol, 120 rounds of 7.62mm special ammunition, 25 rounds of 7.62mm NATO,…