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The recent move by Edo State Governor Monday Okpebholo and Chief Judge Justice Daniel Okungbowa to establish a "Special Criminal Court 1" for cultism and kidnapping cases has generated significant buzz . The Governor’s declaration that he would sign death warrants for convicted kidnappers, coupled with the Chief Judge’s administrative action, has been framed as …
What’s something you used to believe as a kid that seems ridiculous now? It's what I believed as an adult that's now ridiculous. That America will in my lifetime become a shithole country and in worship of a moron
There is something almost childlike about Donald Trump’s obsession with being the first, the biggest, the greatest, the most unprecedented human phenomenon to have ever walked the earth. In Trump’s world, history did not merely pause before him, it barely existed. America, apparently, was wandering around in darkness until a golden escalator descended from heaven …
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This libel suit arose from SERAP’s 9 September 2024 publications (X/Twitter post and website statement) describing an unannounced visit by DSS officers (including a “tall, large, dark-skinned woman” and “slim, dark-skinned man”) to SERAP’s Abuja office as an “unlawful invasion/occupation,” involving interrogation/harassment, and linking it to broader government intimidation of civil society. The trial court …
DG DSS Adeola Oluwatosin Ajayi The Department of State Services (DSS), formerly known as the State Security Service (SSS), appears to have discovered a new national security weapon. Not surveillance. Not intelligence gathering. Not detention. Litigation. One begins to wonder whether somewhere within the agency’s legal department sits a frustrated Senior Advocate of Nigeria trapped …
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