The 2015 Africa Cup of Nations tournament kicks off in Equatorial Guinea tomorrow. Critics say the government wants to use the event to make people forget about poverty and human rights violations in the country.

In a conscious efforts to reduce the increasing rate of abuse on young adults especially girls, White world foundation organised its maiden capacity building and empowerment programme in Badagry to empower girls against predators.

LATE last year, Blackberry silently introduced the Blackberry Passport, and what a phone!

The International Federation of Women lawyers (FIDA) recently held its workshop where legal framework and mechanisms were discussed for the protection of Nigeria’s citizens especially women and children, against all forms of violence.

IT was a colourful gathering of both eminent and grassroots men, women and youths from both the South-Southern and South-East parts of the country, under the aegis of Southern-Eastern Peoples Development Foundation, SEPDF.

“I love people, particularly those who are willing to give 110 per cent to see a project done. For me, the success of Nigeria is the success of each and every one of us.”—DG NIHOTOUR

Muslims in the country have been urged to collect their Permanent Voter’s Cards (PVC) .

Those who have keyed into the policy are allowed to enjoy 10% tariff and 20% levy on imported rice, while on the other hand mere rice traders are allowed to import at 10% tariff and 60% levy.

A group of dock workers, under the Delta state branch of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN has sent a petition to President Goodluck Jonathan over alleged plans by the Nigeria Ports Authority, NPA to sack more than 10,000 Nigerian dockworkers.

NIGERIA yesterday observed this year’s remembrance for the country’s fallen heroes who died in active service as members of the Nigerian Armed Forces. This came at a time the family of a distressed former military personnel, Kingsley Iberi, who claims to have been wrongfully dismissed from the Nigerian Army, was lamenting and telling their tale of woe to every sympathetic ear.

Countdown to Zero: Defeating Disease, a new exhibition about scientific and social innovations that are ridding the world of ancient afflictions, opens at the American Museum of Natural History in collaboration with The Carter Centre in New York City today even as a total of 126 Guinea worm cases were reported worldwide in 2014, from the remaining four endemic nations of Chad, Mali, Ethiopia and South Sudan.

Eating out at fast food joints seems to be a way of life for most families, but one study has discovered a link between consumption of fast foods and a decline in testing ability among grade-school children. So detrimental are the changes in their body, say …

The Nigerian Insurers Association, NIA, has accused the Lagos State Government of frustrating its efforts to distribute the Nigerian Insurance Industry Database, NIID, device to law enforcement agents in the state.

Federal Government has been urged to protect genuine poultry farmers from going under as their products are now constantly adulterated leading to lost of millions of naira in revenue earnings.

Ahead of this year’s AfricaMagic Viewers’ Choice Award,AMVCA, the Regional Director(West Africa), M-net, Wangi Mba-Uzoukwu, has said the organisers are working round the clock to deliver another spectacular awards night.