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The Public and Private Development Centre (PPDC) has secured the release of more than 60 convicted detainees after paying fines totaling over ₦5 million, as part of its efforts to decongest correctional facilities across several Nigerian states. PPDC’s Chief Executive Officer, Lucy Abagi, disclosed this during the 2025 Access to Justice Parley in Abuja, themed …

By Esther Ososanya The controversy over Comfort Emmanson’s treatment aboard an Ibom Air flight has deepened as  The Network for the Actualisation of Social Growth and Viable Development, a Civil Society Organisation (CSO), has demanded a full investigation and offered her free legal support. The group’s head, Omoniyi Akingunola, condemned the incident, calling it “unfair, …

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