VIDEO: Customs Officers Act as Smuggler Ope Oloko’s Agents, Torture Suspected Whistleblowers in Badagry
A customs officer known as ‘Aboribo Custom’ and his colleagues at the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and the Nigerian Army have been caught on camera torturing two men whom they…
Strangers Left Nigerian Toddler to Drown in Garden Bin After Mum Went to UK Hospital
A court in East London, United Kingdom (UK), has conducted an inquest and heard that Mazeedat Adeoye, a two-year-old Nigerian baby, died after her mother left her with strangers. According…
Army Abducts Crypto Trader, Detains Him for 3 Weeks Without Explanation
It has been three weeks since Stanley Chukwu, a cryptocurrency trader in Abuja, was arrested by the Nigerian Army and detained without explanation or access to legal representation. His continued…
IGP Describes FG’s Pardon of Minors as ‘Gesture of Magnanimity’
Kayode Egbetokun, the Inspector General of Police, has described the freeing of some minors who joined the #EndBadGovernance protest from detention by the federal government as “a gesture of magnanimity”…
NLC’s Indefinite Strike Hits 5 States Over New Minimum Wage Implementation
The National Labour Congress (NLC) has embarked on an indefinite strike action in at least five states over the failure of state governments to implement the N70,000 minimum wage approved…
GIGM, Police Silent on Number of Abductees, Driver’s Status 2 Days After Kidnappers Attacked Bus in Kogi
The police and God is Good Motors (GIGM) are yet to confirm the number of abducted passengers and the status of a driver two days after kidnappers attacked their bus…
Bureaucracy Between Marine Ministry, NIWA Frustrates Firm Awarded 2023 Shipwreck Removal Contract
The National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) has plunged a company it duly awarded a multi-million shipwreck removal contract to into debt after illegally stopping it from executing the contract. Following…
FLASHBACK: How Soldiers Detained, Held Another Journalist for 2 Weeks
Last week, the 6th Amphibious Division of the Nigerian Army based in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, detained and held ‘Fisayo Soyombo, FIJ’s founder and editor-in-chief, incommunicado for three days. Soyombo…
NAFDAC Rejects Lagos Commissioner Tokunbo Wahab’s Misinformation on Viral Sachet Water Clip
The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has rejected a claim from Tokunbo Wahab, Lagos State’s commissioner for environment and water resources, about its involvement in…
Text Exposes Another Yabatech Lecturer’s N500-per-Student Extortion Attempt
New evidence has come to light implicating Michael Gbelela, a Yaba College of Technology (Yabatech) lecturer, for his attempt to extort N500 from students. FIJ earlier published audio evidence of…