The Amnesty Int’l has urged President Muhammadu to declare rape a national crisis. The director for Amnesty International in Nigeria, Osai Ojigho said horrific incidents of rape “resonates because even in the spaces that women and girls should be safest from gender-based violence, the home, the schools and now places of worship, it is getting […]

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an urgent appeal to three UN special rapporteurs urging them to use their “mandates to urgently request the Nigerian government and the leadership of the National Assembly to immediately reverse the unlawful, disproportionate and discriminatory budget cuts to education and healthcare, and to stop the authorities from spending […]

The CLEEN Foundation has urged Nigerians to comply with all precautionary guidelines rolled out by the federal government’s Presidential Task Force (PTF) to halt community transmission of COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria. The foundation in a statement issued by its Executive Director, Benson Olugbuo, said a survey carried out by its observers found poor compliance to […]

Nigeria has confirmed 348 new cases of the novel coronavirus also known as COVID-19. Confirming the cases on its official Twitter handle, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control NCDC stated that 163 of the cases are in Lagos,  FCT-76 Ebonyi-23 Rivers-21 Delta-8 Nasarawa-8 Niger-8 Enugu-6 Bauchi-5 Edo-5 Ekiti-5 Ondo-5 Gombe-5 Benue-4 Ogun-2 Osun-1 Plateau-1 Kogi-1 […]

The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved the sum of N8.1 billion for the completion of the construction of Farin-Ruwa multipurpose dam in Nasarawa State. Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, made the disclosure at the end of this week’s virtual cabinet meeting presided over by President Muhamamdu Buhari. He said the project was started […]