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TODAY YouTube The remains of former Minister of Information, Prince Tony Momoh, was on Thursday interred on Grail Land, Iju Hills, Lagos State, under strict observance of COVID-19 protocols. Newsmen report the burial was preceded by a Grail Funeral Hour of Worship in the Temple of God on Grail land at 4p.m. The funeral service was conducted by the Grail Movement, without the social convention of lying-in-state. Newsmen report that the hour of worship ended at exactly 4:33p.m., followed by a procession to the cemetery for burial. The media were not allowed either to move into the worship are...

More than 1,400 people are held after opposition leader Alexei Navalny is jailed, monitors say.

BBC News Published media captionAlexei Navalny says the latest case against him was fabricated A Moscow court has jailed Putin critic Alexei Navalny for three-and-a-half years for violating the conditions of a suspended sentence. He has been in detention since returning to Russia last month. He was treated in Germany for a near-fatal nerve agent attack on him in August. There have been violent scenes in Moscow - video on social media show police beating and arresting protesters who came out to support Mr Navalny. Thousands have rallied across Russia. Mr Navalny's suspended sentence for embez...

Life of Burkinabe investigative journalist in danger 4 minute read A voter entering a polling station in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 29 November 2015, Émilie Iob (VOA), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons No stranger to being under attack Burkinabe journalist Yacouba Ladji Bama was shot at, on his way home after co-hosting a panel discussion on electoral corruption. This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on 23 December 2020. On his return from the town of Dori, in the Sahel region, where he co-hosted a panel discussion on elect...

Following sustained agitation and militancy in the Niger Delta region, which remained unabated even after the judicial murder of writer and environmental activist, Mr. Ken Saro-Wiwa in 1995 and after the inception of the current democratic dispensation five years later, President Olusegun Obasanjo, on June 5, 2000 inaugurated the first board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Obasanjo appointed his senior special adviser on communication, Mr. Onyema Ugochukwu as the commission’s first executive chairman. Only last week, 19 years after Ugochukwu, President Muhammadu Buhari was...