Dozens of Myanmar activists shouted messages to relatives from packed prison vans outside a court Wednesday after being detained in a violent student protest crackdown that sparked international condemnation and fears of a return to junta-era repression. Student-led rallies calling for education reform have twice been brutally suppressed in recent days, drawing fierce criticism from overseas and Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition, which said the tactics echoed those used under the former military government.

More women have increasingly been stripped of their choices in the social system only to be given full regards in the area of procreation deu to the continuous laws by some governments in the wake of civilization . For instance, in Iran, Draft legislation aimed at boosting a flagging birth rate threatens to reduce Iranian women to “baby-making machines” and set their rights back by decades.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised the alarm at the seemingly-targeted killing of its members and supporters in Rivers as this month’s general elections draw nearer, wondering whether those who are bent on suppressing the opposition at all costs have finally unleashed their killer snipers.

The Senate, Wednesday, okayed Senator Musiliu Obanikoro’s second coming as minister. Opposition from All Progressives Congress, APC, Senators and few members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, last week stalled screening of the former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, for ministerial appointment. The APC Senators had protested the inclusion of Obanikoro following […]

THE waning hopes of proponents of generational shift recently received a new surge of life with the emergence of the youthful Julius Gbabojor Pondi, who clinched the House of Representative ticket of the ruling party, the People’s Democratic Party to vie for the seat of Burutu federal constituency.

Some senators from the Northeast zone on Tuesday lauded the efforts of the Nigerian Armed Forces for successes recorded in the fight against insurgency. While raising a point of order at the floor of the Senate, the senators said that just as they had raised alarm when the insurgency was at its peak, it was only right also commend successes.

THE March 12 rescheduled Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, election holds tomorrow amid plethora of unresolved issues that if swept under the carpet, the Congress and indeed, Labour movement, could not only lose its pan-Nigerianism or Africanism, but also die a natural death.

A Traditional Ruler in Edo South, the Enogie of Oghobase has pledged support to Governor Adams Oshiomhole and ensure victory for his party, the All Progressives Congress, in the forthcoming elections based on the numerous developmental projects in the state.

Former Chief of Army staff and Minister for Defence, General Theophilus Danjuma tuesday met with President Goodluck Jonathan behind closed doors at the official.

OSOGBO—Civil servants in Osun State trooped out yesterday to protest alleged non-payment of five months salaries by the state government.