The trial of the embattled leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, and his wife, Zeenat, resumes today at the Kaduna State High Court. The presiding judge, Justice Gideon Kurada had during the last sitting on January 26, adjourned the case to March 8 and...
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ActionAid Nigeria, a social-justice Non-Government Organisation, has called on government at all levels to scale up investments in public services, including healthcare services. The Country Director, ActionAid Nigeria, Mrs Ene Obi, made this known in a statement in Abuja on Monday to commemorate the 2021 International Women’s Day Celebration....
The Federal Government is working towards the establishment of specialized courts and judicial divisions that would focus on sexual and Gender-Based Violence (GBV). The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN made this known while speaking at a virtual session on `Special Event on...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says no fewer than 2, 167 people have been vaccinated in Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) against Ebola. WHO Regional Office for Africa stated this in Ebola Outbreak Situation Report posted on its twitter @ WHOAFRO. According to the UN health...
In its effort at encouraging industrial development, the Nigeria Import and Export (NEXIM) Bank, has reiterated its commitment to support industries in the country to boost local production. Speaking after a monitoring visit and inspection of facilities at Dutse Granite Company, a Nigerian based Marble and granite producers in...
Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State says the All Progressives Congress (APC) has so far registered about 2.5 million members in the ongoing membership registration/revalidation in the state. This is contained in a statement by Mr Abba Anwar, Chief Press Secretary to the governor on Monday in Kano. Mr....
President of the Senate Ahmad Lawan has commiserated with the victims of fire disaster at Potiskum Central Market, Yobe state. Senator Lawan’s Special Adviser on Media, Mr. Ola Awoniyi, said this in a statement in Abuja. According to him: “The senate president sympathizes with those whose stalls, wares and...
The Kwara State Government has announced that the 10 grant-aided missionary schools would remain shut down over the Hijab (religious veil) controversies until further notice. This was contained in a statement by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development, Mrs Kemi Adeosun on Monday in Ilorin....
At least 20 people were killed and hundreds injured after four accidental explosions ripped through a military camp in Equatorial Guinea and obliterated neighbouring residential areas. Footage broadcast by the TVGE channel showed buildings burned and flattened in a wide radius around the Nkoa Ntoma camp in the economic...
Six people including civilians were killed when a military detachment was ambushed in Northern Burkina Faso, security sources said Sunday. The Nation, among the world’s poorest, is struggling with a jihadist insurgency that has killed more than 1,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands. “A unit from Gaskinde (Soum...
Explaining the couple’s dramatic exit from royal life, Meghan said she was denied help during her mental health crisis, which was targeted by lies, and that there was official concern about the skin color of her unborn son. Meghan, whose father is white and mother is Black, spoke out...
The Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Mr Tony Ojukwu, has said that women deserve a future free from any form of violence and should be respected and included all spheres of nation building. Mr. Ojukwu made this nown in a statement signed by Fatimah Mohammed,...
By JACKSON UGBECHIE – The recent celebration of the 5th anniversary of the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP) in Kebbi by the Federal Government spearheaded by the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, was a breath of fresh air. President Muhammadu Buhari must have gushed with joy...
The two Nigerians Samuel Udoetuk Wills and John Orji bag a death sentence in Ghana A High Court in Sekondi, Ghana has sentenced two Nigerians, Samuel Udoetuk Wills and John Orji to death over the kidnap and murder of four Takoradi women in 2018. The death sentence was passed...
The President of the Senate, Mr Ahmad Lawan, has felicitated with Nigerian women as they celebrate this year’s International Women’s Day. In a statement on Sunday by his Special Adviser on Media, Mr Ola Awoniyi, Mr Lawan described the theme of this year’s celebration, “Choose to Challenge”, as apt...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja- The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has registered 269 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in the country to 158,506 As at Sunday (7th, March 2021), the public health agency also recorded five (5) new COVID-19-related deaths, raising the...
Ghana suffered a nationwide power cut on Sunday, the West African country’s electricity provider GRIDCo said, as it attempted to restore power. The Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) said it was dealing with “a total system shutdown”. “At approximately 2.10pm on Sunday March 07, 2021, a challenge in the...
Today the World celebrates the International Women’s Day, a day traditionally set aside for celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. For Africa, and for the ICT community in the continent, this day provides the opportunity for reflection and the possibility of grounding our shared aspirations...