The United States has once again warned that it may stop rendering military assistance to Nigeria if the country fails to protect human rights. The US Secretary of States, Antony Blinken, who gave the warning, also urged federal and Lagos State governments to sanction any individuals found to have violated human rights during the October 2020 #EndSARS protests when the white paper on the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and Other Matters is ready. He warned that if the rights violations persisted, the US government might evoke the Leahy Law to…

The top federal religious freedom advisory panel on Wednesday condemned the Biden administration for removing Nigeria from the U.S. State Department’s list of countries of particular concern (CPC). The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), which is a federal government commission created by the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, consists of commissioners who are appointed by the president and a bipartisan group of congressional leaders. "USCIRF is disappointed that the State Department did not adopt our recommendations in designating the countries that are the worst violators of religious freedom," said USCIRF Chair Nadine Maenza in a press release.…

A former senator and governorship aspirant in Ekiti State, Gbenga Aluko, is dead. The Ode-Ekiti-born politician was said to have died on Saturday after he collapsed in his office in Abuja. According to Television Continental, he was rushed to a hospital where he passed on. TVC reported that one of Aluko’s aides who spoke on condition of anonymity told Radio Nigeria that Aluko was neither sick nor exhibited any symptom of sickness. Another source disclosed that the late politician died of a heart attack. He was the son of the late economist, Sam Aluko. Aluko in 2018 contested the governorship…

President Muhammadu Buhari has described request for the unconditional release of leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, currently standing trial, as a difficult and heavy one but promised to consider it. He gave the assurance when he received a group under the aegis of Highly Respected Igbo Greats, led by First Republic parliamentarian and Minister of Aviation, Mbazulike Amaechi, at State House, Abuja. According to a statement by Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, Buhari stressed that the request runs contrary to the doctrine of separation of powers between the Executive and Judiciary.…