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Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has said that the National Identification Number, NIN, violates the constitutional rights to privacy of Nigerians.

HURIWA further tasked civil rights leaders to seek legal ways to quash the policy, expressing anger at the idea behind of introduction the policy by the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy.

The rights group said the explanation made by the Minister in Paris France shows that the federal government has plans to spy on the citizens.

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The Minister of Communications and Digital …

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has said its Monday’s sit-at-home order remains cancelled.

IPOB’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, said anyone found to be enforcing the sit-at-home order across the Southeast is an agent of the Department of State Services, DSS.

Powerful urged people of the Southeast to go about their normal businesses, adding that anyone caught enforcing the order would be treated as an enemy of the region.

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In a statement he issued on Thursday, Powerful said: ‘We the global movement and family of the Indigenous People

Ifeanyi Ejiofor, one of the lawyers of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has narrated what actually transpired at the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, leading to the adjournment of the secessionist leader’s trial by Justice Binta Nyako.

Ejiofor, who appeared on Arise TV on Thursday, a day after the appearance of Nnamdi Kanu in court, said the legal team did not walk out on Nyako.

Justice Nyako was forced to adjourn the case till January 19, 2022, due to the absence of Kanu’s legal team.

Kanu had earlier on Wednesday engaged the operatives of …

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has accused the Buhari government of trying to set the South East on fire over by dragging the trial of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.

The group noted that there is a persistent choreographed mismanagement of the prosecution of Kanu which, according to it, has been turned into a comedy of political persecution

The human rights advocacy organisation, however, warned the youths of South East not to take the bait of reactionary forces working to instigate social upheaval in the region.

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Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Wednesday protested the refusal of the Department of State Services, DSS, to allow some lawyers access into the Abuja Federal High Court.

DSS brought Kanu into the court at about 9:52 am.

The secret police had barred lawyers, journalists, and traditional rulers from entering the court building as his trial resumed.

DSS also denied delegates of the Igbo Traditional Rulers access to the building.

Anambra: Kanu Never Gave ‘No Election Order’ – Abaribe

The traditional rulers are in Abuja in solidarity with the IPOB leader, whose late father was …

UN political chief Rosemary DiCarlo has stated that the risk of Ethiopia ‘descending into widening civil war is only too real’, pointing out that the political repercussions of ‘intensifying violence in the wider region would be immense, compounding the many crises besetting the Horn of Africa’.

The UN under-secretary-general who addressed the Security Council yesterday explained that despite much speculation on how the Ethiopian crisis will unfold in the coming weeks, ‘in a country of over 110 million people, over 90 different ethnic groups and 80 languages, no one can predict what continued fighting and insecurity will bring’.

According to …

Unknown gunmen on Monday night murdered Air Vice-Marshall Mohammed Maisaka (rtd) at his residence in Rigasa, Igabi Local Government area of Kaduna State.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that until his death last night, the retired senior Air Force Officer was the Proprietor and Managing Director of MSK Hospital, a medical facility he was said to have established to help the highly populated community of his residence.

AVM Maisaka (retd) was one time Director of the Nigerian Air force Medical Services and an ABU Teaching Hospital Lecturer of Internal Medicine, who helped in producing hundreds of Doctors across Nigeria …

France on Tuesday handed back 26 treasures that were looted from Benin during colonial times, fulfilling a promise made by President Emmanuel Macron to restore a lost part of Africa’s heritage.

Benin President Patrice Talon and Culture Minister Jean-Michel Abimbola travelled to Paris to bring home the artefacts that were snatched by French forces 130 years ago.

Talon said he felt “overwhelming emotion” at recovering the objects taken during the ransacking of the kingdom of Dahomey in the south of present-day Benin, including a royal throne.

Speaking to reporters at the presidential palace in Paris, where France signed over the …

The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) on Tuesday reiterated the call for the separation of the office of the Attorney-General and that of the Minister of Justice.

The CNPP, while reacting to the accusation by the Nigeria Governors’ Forum against the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, over his special interest in the controversial $418m refunds requested by consultants with respect to the Paris Club refund.

The umbrella body of all registered political parties and political associations in Nigeria also backed the governors of the 36 states of the federation on the accusation that Mr. …

Fuel scarcity is gradually biting hard in Damaturu and other parts of Yobe State with the resurfacing of long queues in filling stations where the product is available.

Checks by Africa Daily News, New York reveal that many petrol stations within the metropolis have remained closed over lack of product.

In few other stations where it is available, motorists have to wait in long queues and spend hours to get fuel.

Inusa Mamman Mohammed, a taxi driver who after spending about five hours lamented buying a litre of petrol at the cost of N175.

“We do not know what is …