Africa has recorded the second-highest rate of pre-trial detention among world regions, according to a new United Nations report, which found that more than a third of the continent’s prison population is being held without having been convicted or sentenced. The report, Prison Matters 2026, published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime…
The Anambra State Police Command has arrested four suspected kidnappers in separate operations across the state, recovering a locally fabricated pistol, live ammunition, an axe and a vehicle allegedly used in kidnapping operations. The command said one of the suspects, identified as Okoye Ibegbunam Chukwuebuka John, also known as “Bone,” was arrested by operatives of…
Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez broke out a faux Southern accent during a Saturday campaign appearance in Tennessee. Ocasio-Cortez, seen as a likely challenger for either the 2028 Democratic nomination for president or for the Senate seat held by Democratic New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, accentuated her remarks while campaigning for Democratic Tennessee state…
Narrative control: the collapsing authority of the state The populist surge has become an existential threat to the establishment – and their response is ever-more authoritarian measures to govern what we can read, see and say. JACOB REYNOLDS This essay, originally delivered as a speech at Living Freedom Summer School last weekend, examines how the severe pressure…
By Desmond Mgboh, Kano The League of Civil Society Organizations, Kano State, has condemned the allocation of 1,540 plots of land and a gift of N100 million to grassroot leaders of the All Progressives Congress by the state government. A statement on Sunday and endorsed by 23 Civil Society organizations in the state led by…
Terrorists Sixteen soldiers have been killed and 23 others wounded in a terrorist attack targeting a military deployment in the Tera area of Tillaberi region in western Niger Republic, the country’s ANP state news agency reported on Sunday. “A terrorist attack targeting a military deployment in the Tera area on Friday, July 17, caused 16…
