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A pro-democracy group, Stand Up Nigeria has condemned alleged plans by President Bola Tinubu’s administration to appoint Gen. Hamza Al-Mustapha (rtd.) as the Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC). The group in a statement signed by its Coordinator Sunday Attah on Sunday said such a plan if true, does not only negate the pro-democratic principles which President Tinubu stands for but will erode the gains made over the years by the NSCDC.

Women Arise for Change Initiative on Sunday observed the remembrance of Kudirat Abiola, the late wife of late M. K. O. Abiola, 27 years after her death.   Kudirat, a pro-democracy campaigner, was assassinated on June 4, 1996, while her husband was being detained by the Nigerian Government. Her husband was believed to have won the 1993 presidential election which was annulled by the Ibrahim Babangida junta.

The story you are about to read is to salute Nigerian journalists for the risks they took (and still take) to provide news for readers. It is about how Editors of TheNEWS penetrated Potiskom prison where General Oladipo Diya, former Chief of General Staff, who just died, was spending a 25- year jail term, after…

The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, on Friday confronted the Chairman of the National Peace Committee (NPC) and former Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, when he (Abubakar) told him (Sowore) to “reconcile” with Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, presidential candidate of the Action Alliance.

The children of late Mrs Kudirat Abiola have dragged the Buhari administration to the ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja over the unlawful killing of their mother.

  The children of the late Alhaja Kudirat Abiola have called for justice for the assassination of their beloved mother, allegedly killed by Sergeant Rogers on the orders of Major Hamza Al- Mustapha (retd.), who is the presidential candidate of the Action Alliance in the 2023 election.   Kudirat was the wife of Chief M.K.O. Abiola, Nigeria’s hero of democracy widely believed to have won the 1993 presidential election which was annulled by the military junta of General Ibrahim Babangida (retd....

In December 2000, Sergeant Barnabas Jabila, alias Rogers, a member of the Strike Force and Presidential Body Guard narrated how he took part in three assassinations under the direct order of General Sani Abacha’s former Chief Security Officer, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha.   The squad was a specialised military team used by Al-Mustapha against his boss’ opponents.   Rogers was said to be serving in the military when he was ordered to report to Abuja for training as a member of the Strike Force....

The Chief Security Officer (CSO) of the late Nigerian military dictator General Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha (retd.), has disclosed how Prof. Yemi Osinbajo allegedly coached Sergeant Barnabas Jabila Mshiola, aka Sergeant Rogers, on what to say to implicate him in the various high-profile political assassinations in the country during 1990s military junta.  

YOUNGSTERS were on the roof of Camdean Primary while a parent council meeting was going on inside the school.