Thursday, November 12, 2026

Rights

August 13, 2021

49 Nasarawa prison inmates studying for PhD, graduate, postgraduate degrees: NCoS

The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) in Nasarawa says 49 prison inmates are studying for doctoral, postgraduate, and graduate degrees.

Prisoner
August 13, 2021

Junior school student sues Ekiti government, demands N15 million compensation

The student’s father, a police sergeant, had allegedly mobilised his colleagues to manhandle her teachers for punishing her.

Kayode Fayemi
August 13, 2021

GBV: UN to interview Nigerians on sexual violence prevalence

UN has commenced a national survey to provide a comprehensive analysis of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in Nigeria.

Sexual violence
August 13, 2021

We expect youths to save Nigeria from collapse: APC

Nigerian youths can find solutions to some of the toughest challenges facing the country and the African continent, says the All Progressives Congress (APC).

August 12, 2021

AEDC staff bags six months jail sentence for disconnecting customer unlawfully

According to the chief magistrate, Section 5 provides that electricity consumers must be given a maximum of 10 days for payment of electricity bills.

AEDC official on electricity pole
August 12, 2021

Strike: Nigerian doctors must stop competing with God, says Ngige

Health minister Chris Ngige said Nigerian doctors must not misuse their God-given opportunity to save lives with incessant industrial actions.

Labour minister Chris Ngige (Credit: Punch Newspaper)
August 12, 2021

Nigerian Army replies Peoples Gazette, says claims of Col. Sakaba’s widow false, baseless

The Nigerian Army says it had paid all entitlements due to late Colonel Ibrahim Sakaba to his next of kin through his wife Oluwaseun Sakaba.

Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Major-General Farouk and late Col. Ibrahim Sakaba
August 12, 2021

SSS denies family, lawyer access to film director two weeks after arrest over links to Israeli filmmakers, IPOB

Younger brother to the detained filmmaker told The Gazette that SSS has denied him access to family and lawyers for two weeks.

August 12, 2021

Rights activists mourn Mohammed Fawehinmi’s death

Centre for Human and Socioeconomic Rights says the demise of Mohammed Fawehinmi, the eldest son of the late legal icon and activist Gani Fawehinmi, is a terrible loss.

August 12, 2021

NGO trains 60 Berom, Fulani, others as peace advocates in Plateau

The peace initiative intends to connect communities separated from each other due to years of violent conflicts.

Simon Lalong