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Rights

August 16, 2023

Aviation workers suspend planned strike as NCAA intervenes

NUATE had, in a circular issued on Tuesday, said aviation security workers would embark on an indefinite nationwide strike over poor wages.

National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE)
August 16, 2023

SSS, Twitter sued over tweet profiling Igbos, linking lawyer to IPOB, ESN

A legal practitioner, Maxwell Opara, has filed an alleged defamatory suit seeking N10 billion in damages against Twitter and the State Security Service.

MAXWELL OKPARA
August 15, 2023

Rights commission received 122 complaints in July in Kano: Official

The cases border on women’s rights, abandonment by family, sexual and domestic violence, rape, child labour, unlawful arrest, detention, and torture.

National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)
August 15, 2023

Advertising council orders nationwide destruction of ‘All eyes on the judiciary’ billboards

ARCON said the advertisement was “controversial and capable of instigating public unrest and breach of public peace.”

All eyes on the judiciary billboard [Credit: Twitter]
August 15, 2023

Two arraigned over illegal demolition of N800 million Lagos property

The two alleged culprits are facing a six-count charge of conspiracy and illegal demolition of the four-storey building belonging to Hakeem Olawuyi.

IKEJA MAGISTRATE
August 15, 2023

U.S. jury indicts Trump, associates in 2020 election investigation

The former president was indicted in Georgia after investigations into reports that he tried to overturn the state’s 2020 presidential election results.

President Donald Trump
August 14, 2023

South Africa’s lion farming cruel, linked to international criminals: World Animal Protection

While the skins, paws and skulls are handed over to the canned hunters as prized trophies, the skeletons are left to dry in the sun, packaged and sold to Asian buyers.

World Animal Protection and Lions
August 14, 2023

Naira Redesign: Tinubu shouldn’t make suspended CBN boss Emefiele scapegoat, says Tunde Bakare

Mr Tinubu said the ousted CBN governor oversaw a “rotten financial system” in which a few persons made “bags of money.”

President Bola Tinubu,Godwin Emefiele and Tunde Bakare
August 11, 2023

NLC urges FG to prioritise youth employment, development

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has urged the federal government to prioritise youth employment.

Nigerian youths
August 11, 2023
President Mohamed Bazoum and Hadiza Mabrouk