Canadian police arrest Indigenous journalist covering land rights movement
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the arrest of Indigenous Canadian journalist Karl Dockstader in relation to his reporting on an Indigenous land dispute in southern Ontario. RSF calls on the Ontario Provincial Police to drop all charges against him. Karl Dockstader, an award-winning journalist from the Indigenous Oneida Nation of the Thames, was arrested on September 2 in relation […]
STATE OF THE NATION: WHY I SUPPORT OBASANJO – PROF. SOYINKA
Professor Woke Soyinka, has thrown his weight in support of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who posited that Nigeria is more divided under President Muhammadu Buhari, and that the country is “on the very edge of total collapse.” “Today, Nigeria is fast drifting to a failed and badly divided state; economically our country is becoming a […]
VISA BAN: CISLAC LAUDS U.S, CALLS OTHERS TO FOLLOW SUIT
The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, CISLAC, has commended the move by the government of United States, for issuing visa restrictions on persons with history of electoral-related violence. The move, according to the Executive Director, Auwal Ibrahim Rafsanjani in a statement made available to Ashenewsonline on Tuesday, is primarily to restore fairness, credibility and transparency in Nigeria’s […]