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Internally Displaced Persons Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday says Cameroon’s army has deported no fewer than 100,000 Nigerians who have fled an insurgency by Boko Haram since early 2015 and subjected some to torture, .  The deportations violate international and Cameroonian law and constitute one of the world’s largest recent cases of illegal forced repatriation, the rights group said...

Getting a divorce is never easy for anyone involved, but it is particularly difficult at the Yibin People’s Court, in China’s Sichuan Province, where one magistrate recently implemented a divorce exam that both the husband and the wife must fail in order for their divorce application to be approved. The divorce exam is the brainchild of Wang Shiyu,...

Eagle-eyed operatives of the Department of the State Service (DSS) during an operation on Tuesday evening arrested a Police Officer allegedly on his way to deliver arms and ammunition to Fulani herdsmen. An impeccable DSS source gave the name of the suspect as Amos Ishaya, a Sergeant in Nigeria Police Force (NPF). “Ishaya was arrested along Makurdi Road in Lafia, Nasarawa...

Saudi Arabia made a historic announcement on Tuesday, September 26, that it would now allow women, both indigenes and those living in the country, to get behind the wheel and drive. While this may seem trite given that we are in the 21st century and Saudi is about the only country where such law still exists, it is a great...

King Salman of Saudi Arabia has issued a decree ordering that women be allowed to drive, Saudi state media has reported.  Under the conservative kingdom’s previous laws, women were banned from driving. The decree orders the Saudi interior minister to draft and adopt necessary amendments to the traffic regulations and to form a special commission consisting of the ministers of interior,...

The Federation of International Women Lawyers (FIIDA) in Ekiti State has threatened a legal action against a member of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Dare Pelemo for alleged sexual harassment of a widow in the state. Officer in charge of the legal department of the Female lawyers, Kemi Atitebi  told Adaba FM News that different invitations sent to Hon....

Twitter logo Twitter says it is testing out increasing its character limit from 140 to 280. "Can’t fit your Tweet into 140 characters?" the company tweeted Tuesday afternoon. "We’re trying something new with a small group, and increasing the character limit to 280!" In a longer blog post, Twitter said it was experimenting with the move "in languages impacted by cramming," which...

A 35-year-old man who had been in coma and vegetative state for 15 years after involving in a car crash has shown signs of consciousness. This happened after a vagus nerve stimulator was implanted into his chest, researchers said Monday. The outcome, reported in the U.S. journal Current Biology, challenged the general belief that disorders of consciousness that persist for longer than...

Fayose exchanging pleasantries with VP, Osinbajo during a NEC meeting  Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, will on Thursday, September 28, formally declare his intention to contest for the position of president of Nigeria in 2019 under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The event is billed for the Golden Hall, Chelsea Hotel, Abuja at 11am. Special Assistant to the Governor on Public...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has dumped documents on the recall of Senator Dino Melaye (APC, Kogi) at the entrance of his office in the National Assembly. The documents whichever were in four ‘Ghana Must Go’ bags and one other were dumped around 11:00 this morning. Melaye’s office number 2.13 on second floor of the new Senate wing was under...