FUNKE AKINDELE: THE CONSEQUENCES OF PLEADING GUILTY IN A CRIMINAL CASE
Mrs. Akindeke and her husband were arrested for violating the social distancing regulation. Their lawyer, I believe, advised them to plead guilty. They did and they were convicted and sentenced to 14 days of community service – whatever that meant. Their conviction thus made them interestingly one of the very few known Coronavirus-related convictions in […]
Journalists are under attack for their COVID19 coverage- RSF
Journalists around the world are being harassed, assaulted, and silenced for their reporting on COVID-19. Dictators and oppressive leaders have placed your right to information directly in their cross-hairs. From Hungary passing a “coronavirus law” allowing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to consolidate power and suffocate the press, to China expelling 13 U.S. foreign correspondents in an effort to censor information related to the […]
COVID-19: Tambuwal extends ban on Inter-state movement by another two weeks
By Ado Hassan, Sokoto Sokoto state Governments Aminu Waziri has extended by another two weeks the ban on the interstate vehicular movement from and into the state. Tambuwal made the announcement at a meeting Thursday following the expiration of the first leg of the ban which terminated by 12 midnight of Friday 10 April, 2020. […]
Nigerian Consular tackles Chinese officials over Indiscrimination against Nigerians
VIDEO: ‘Stop seizing the passports of our citizens’ — Nigerian diplomat tackles Chinese officials Razaq Lawal, head of the Nigerian consulate in Guangzhou, Guangdong province of China, has tackled Chinese officials for seizing the passports of some Nigerians in the country. In a trending video, Lawal was seen addressing a Chinese official he referred to as “director”. […]