The illegal oil cartel in the Niger Delta comprises influential Nigerians and foreigners, including top military operators, government officials, highly-placed and retired oil industry players, politicians and business persons, and they are the financiers of oil bunkering syndicates, which over the years have plunged the country’s economy in the abyss of decline.
In August 2020, a musician, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu (22), was sentenced to death for sharing a song alleged to be blasphemous via WhatsApp. The song was said to have contained profane content. 
It is five month today since the October 20 Lekki tollgate shooting that changed the course of the nationwide #EndSARS protest against @PoliceNG brutality and end to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) outfit, a notorious unit accused of perpetrating human rights abuses. 
“Kanu, uncharacteristically, has not mentioned Mr Mefor’s name since the fallout between them happened last year but constantly attacks Asari Dokubo and Mr Uwazuruike during his broadcasts. bit.ly/3vEa0D7 
IN 2018, the World Poverty Clock found that six Nigerians fell into extreme poverty every minute. In contrast, five Vietnamese left the poverty cycle each minute in the same year, according to The ICIR analysis of World Bank data. 
THE Akwa Ibom State Govt this year released the Account General’s annual report and audited financial statements for 2019. A thorough analysis of the report reveals that the offices of the Gov & SSG made several questionable and extra-budgetary expenses in 2019. cc. @EditiEffiong 
There were feelings of excitement among the people of Ohuru-Ndoki Community when three contractors were prequalified to bid for their road project in 2008. They were happy that after a long wait, their prayers were about to be answered. 
SOME agencies of government are frustrating Nigerians’ access to public information by denying requests made under the Freedom for Information Act (FOIA), 2011. tinyurl.com/y24b5fjx
...had fired live ammunition to disperse Pro – Biafra protesters.
The Nigerian army said the protesting Shiite members were armed with stones and petrol bombs which they used to attack soldiers. tinyurl.com/y4mj7ojp
Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, the @HQNigerianArmy’s spokesperson at the time said in a statement that “their leader, so-called ‘Abubakar Shekau,’ is believed to be fatally wounded on his shoulders.” tinyurl.com/y4mj7ojp 
#TheICIR chronicles major issues the @HQNigerianArmy led by General Tukur Buratai have lied about to the Nigerian public from 2015 to date, despite damning evidence confronting their claims. icirnigeria.org/lekki-shooting…
The Lekki Shooting: Checking the facts
Fourteen-year-old Samaila Abdulrahman arrived Malkhoi Camp in 2014 tucked by the side of his aged grandmother, both saddled with all their worldly belongings after a journey of 30 kilometres from Gwoza, Borno to Yola, Adamawa State. @ProfZulum bit.ly/3k9if37 
The #BokoHaram insurgency in the North East is being fought on many fronts. #Nigeria’s response is twofold: a kinetic & a non-kinetic response.
Despite his loss, he wants to continue life, become a doctor, so he can help wounded people.
Management staff of the agency are at the centre of the allegations, which are already subject of various petitions and ongoing investigations by anti-graft agencies and an internal disciplinary panel. #NAFDACFraud
For many years, @DanaAir, a domestic airline operator in Nigeria, raised millions of naira through inflight donations to Sri Sai Vandana Foundation, an illegal organisation that was not registered until Oct 2018 after #TheICIR started its investigations into the airline’s charity
