Amnesty International Urges Nigerian Authorities to Investigate Threats Targeting Sokoto Government Critic Hamdiyya Shariff and Lawyer Hikim

The global human rights organisation, Amnesty International, has called for an impartial investigation into threats against Hamdiyya Sidi Shariff and her lawyer, Barrister Abba Hikima, who are facing persecution in Sokoto State.  Shariff is being prosecuted by the state government for allegedly using “insulting or abusive language” and “inciting disturbance” following her criticism of Governor…

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Video: Left-Wing Protesters Set Up Guillotine at Trump’s Inauguration

Left-wing protesters brought a guillotine to Washington, D.C., on Monday as part of a demonstration against President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. “Left-wing protestors bring a guillotine to Trump’s inauguration. It says, ‘Come get sum,’” former member of the West Virginia House of Delegates Derrick Evans posted on X along with video of the scene. The protesters were…

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Iran Sentences Popular Pop Singer to Death for Alleged Blasphemy

An Iranian court has sentenced popular singer Amir Hossein Maghsoudloo, known as Tataloo, to de@th after he was convicted of blasphemy.   “The Supreme Court accepted the prosecutor’s objection” to a previous five-year jail term on offences including blasphemy, reformist newspaper Etemad reported online.   It said “the case was reopened, and this time the…

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Delta Police Arrest Girl and Her Boyfriend in Connection with the Murder of Her 10-Year-Old Sister (Video)

The Delta State Police Command has arrested two suspects in connection with the murdr of a 10-year-old girl, who is the sister of one of the suspects This was disclosed in a statement released on Monday, Jan. 20, by the Delta State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Bright Edafe, via his account on X (formerly Twitter). Edafe…

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