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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 Edo state police command has arrested three members of a gang suspected to have been responsible for the kidnap and murder of a lawyer, Iyoha Osobase. According to TVC News, the forty one-year-old was abducted last month in Benin but was later found dead in a shallow grave inside a bush, close to the […]
The Federal Government has announced that only five airports will be reopened when flight operations resume on Saturday, June 21. According to a circular by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), asides the five selected airports, all others are to remain closed for further assessment. The memo further revealed that Nigeria’s airspace remains closed to […]
The Africa Security Forum International has called on the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu to establish a “Gender Violence Reduction Unit” within Nigeria Police Force and urgently review of operational procedural for handling raped cases in the country. Africa Security Forum made this call following the rape and brutal murder of Ms Vera […]
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 […]
The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says it has developed a COVID-19 contacts-tracing software application that can be deployed in all its locations across the country. The corporation disclosed this in a statement issued by its spokesman, Dr Kennie Obateru, in Abuja on Wednesday. He said the idea was in line with the Transparency, Accountability […]
New charges have been announced against all of the sacked police officers present at the death of African American George Floyd in Minneapolis. The charge against Derek Chauvin has been elevated to second-degree murder, court documents show. The other three officers, previously uncharged, face counts of aiding and abetting murder. Floyd’s death has sparked huge […]