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The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and AccountabilityLab Nigeria have called for stronger inter-agency collaboration and coordinated mechanisms to ensure that victims of digital rights violations can access justice promptly and effectively.The call was made on Wednesday at a multi-stakeholder convening on “Building a Coordinated R...

The Director-General, National Orientation Agency (NOA), Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, has called on Nigerians to demonstrate greater respect for the nation by treating Nigeria’s national symbols with the dignity, honour and reverence they deserve....

Veteran Nigerian actor and film executive, Oludotun Baiyewu Jacobs, popularly known as Olu Jacobs, has died at the age of 84....

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a Mexican methamphetamine kingpin attempting to flee Nigeria and dismantled another industrial-scale clandestine laboratory, exposing an expanding international network seeking to establish drug production facilities in the country’s forests and rural communities....

Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Mohammed Ali Pate, said the intervention was part of a wider Federal Government strategy to expand access to essential healthcare and reverse the country's high burden of preventable maternal and neonatal deaths.The Feder...

As primary and secondary schools reopen across the country today parents and guardians are going to contend with paying higher school fees, as most private schools have increased fees by between 30 and 40 per cent....

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Outrage is growing over the right of Nigerians to record police officers while performing their duties in public, as human rights groups and the African Action Congress backed the position of the Nigerian Bar Association against attempts to restrict the practice....

By Chinaza ChukwumaThe Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to approve and use the modified digital logo of the Nigeria Democratic Congress for all elections conducted by the commission....