Army pledges to employ armed forces for census

The National Population Commission in Nigeria has been told by the Nigerian Army that it will be able to deploy troops during the census in 2023. It was stated that this was done to make it possible for the commission to successfully carry…

Lawyers beseech Tinubu to release Maina, son

A number of younger attorneys have sent an open letter to President Bola Tinubu, pleading with him to use his power as president to pardon the former head of the Presidential Reform Task Force, Abdulrasheed Maina, and his son, Faisal. The…

ECOWAS gathers for key summit on Niger coup

  Following the military chiefs of Niger's refusal to comply with an order to reinstate the elected president, leaders of the West African grouping ECOWAS will hold an emergency summit on the coup that occurred there on Thursday. The…