Kanu’s Lawyer Criticizes Justice Nyako’s Adjournment Order and Calls for Immediate Release of Client

The legal team of detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has faulted the indefinite adjournment of his terrorism charges by Justice Binta Murtala-Nyako on Monday, describing the process as a nullity. Kanu’s lead counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, who has described Monday’s court proceedings and subsequent adjournment as a joke on…

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BREAKING: Nigerian Police Disciplinary Committee to Recommend Return of Salaries and Allowances for Officers Found to Have Falsified Age After Retirement

  The Force Disciplinary Committee (FDC) of the Nigeria Police Force will call for the immediate retirement of police officers found to have falsified their ages or violated service regulations to extend their tenure beyond the mandatory retirement date, SaharaReporters has learned.   According to police sources, the FDC will also recommend that the implicated…

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The Gilded Age of Animal Advocacy: Shaping America’s Ethical Landscape

Photograph Source: kallerna – CC BY-SA 4.0 For the nonhuman animal cause, the 19th century’s end would bring to a close a defining period—a transformative 30-year era beginning in 1866, with the founding of the first animal welfare society. It is a story of activism and activists like George Thorndike Angell, Henry Bergh, and Caroline Earle White, who…

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