17 year old Quadri Alabi has regained freedom from kirikiri. This was revealed in a post on Thursday by Public Interest and Human Rights lawyer, Inihebe Effiong. Effiong has demanded that the illegally abducted teenager should be compensated, publicly apologized to by the police and immediate removal of Amukoko Divisional Headquarters’ DPO, due to the...
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Myanmar Frees Around 4,900 Prisoners Including Political Detainees
The head of Myanmar’s military government granted amnesty to around 4,900 prisoners to mark the country’s traditional new-year, state-run media reported Thursday, and an independent watchdog said they included at least 22 political detainees. At least 19 buses with prisoners aboard left Yangon’s Insein prison and were welcomed outside the gate by excited family members...
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Bangladesh Court Issues Arrest Warrant For British MP Linked To Ex-Premier Sheikh Hasina
A judge in Bangladesh issued an arrest warrant for British lawmaker and former government minister Tulip Siddiq, a niece of Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was ousted in August last year in a mass uprising that ended her 15-year rule. The country’s official Anti-Corruption Commission has been investigating allegations against Siddiq that she and...
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Knife-Wielding Fan Attack Plateau United Forward, Vincent Temitope After Defeat Against Nasarawa United In Lafia.
Plateau United forward, Vincent Temitope, was attacked by a knife-wielding fan on Sunday after their Nigeria Premier Football League match-day 33 defeat against Nasarawa United in Lafia. Nasarawa United had won 3-2 against their North Central neighbours before a video of the player being treated for a cut around his neck surfaced. Vincent missed a...
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The Taliban Leader Assert Executions Are Part Of Islam
Days after four men were killed by gunfire in Afghanistan after they were convicted of murder, Taliban leader asserted that executions were part of Islam. The executions took place in sports stadiums Friday, the highest number known to have been carried out in one day since the Taliban returned to power in 2021. Rights groups and the...
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“We Are Exploring All Available Legal Options To Ensure That Justice Is Done”— Human Right Lawyer Speak Of Alabi’s Predicament
Public interest and Human Right Activist Inibehe Effiong in a post disclosed that they “are exploring all available legal options to ensure that justice is done” regarding Quadri Yusuf Alabi’s predicament, the teen in Peter Obi iconic photo during 2023 presidential campaign, handed over to the police by street hoodlums. Recall that TheSubstance News reported...
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Firing Squad Execute South Carolina Man Who Killed An Off-Duty Police Officer
A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the past five weeks. Mikal Mahdi gave no final statement and did not look to his right toward the nine witnesses in the room behind...
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META Whistleblower Testifies Before Senate Judiciary Committee On Facebook Practices Of Selling America To China
A Meta whistleblower just blew the whistle on Mark Zuckerberg—accusing him of working “hand in glove” with the CCP to censor speech. Sarah Wynn-Williams, who spent nearly seven years as Meta’s Director of Global Public Policy, dropped a series of bombshells during her Senate testimony. First, she alleged that Meta built “custom-built censorship tools” for...