WORRIED by the increasing rate of gender based violence, the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team, DSVRT, on August 24, 2017, organized a walk in the Epe area of the State to raise awareness and sensitize residents of the area about domestic violence, rape, child abuse and all forms of sexual violence. 

Gombe State Task Force Committee on Environmental Sanitation and other Related Matters vowed, yesterday, to continue to remove campaign posters of politicians from the streets of Gombe, even if they were that of President Muhammadu Buhari.

While some see it as an unparalleled show of disloyalty; coming from an employee to her boss (President Buhari), others define it as a show of courage and fearlessness. It is interesting to note, however, that every politician contacted strongly declined to comment.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino has felicitated with the players, technical crew, management, backroom staff and supporters of Plateau United FC of Jos over the club’s emergence on Saturday as new champions of the Nigeria Professional Football League.

With barely two months to the November 30 deadline given to the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) by the Federation of International Basketball Association (FIBA) to put an end to the leadership crisis rocking the federation, the National Assembly says it will do everything within its powers to ensure that normalcy returned to the sport.

Sixteen year- old, Bukola Zoffun , that recently emerged 2017 one-day governor of Lagos state has pledged to use her status to encourage Nigerian youths, especially those from ghetto areas to seek proper education.

The crisis rocking the Ekiti State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party took a new turn yesterday, when some of its members sent a protest letter to its National Caretaker Committee.

No matter how many prisoners you remove at the end of the legal year, it will not change anything

The people of Ovwore community, Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State, yesterday, issued a 14-day ultimatum to the Federal Government to pay compensation to them over their houses marked for demolition in the proposed Sapele/Agbor road dualization or they will block the East West Road and cause mayhem at the Amukpe roundabout portion of the road.

A MEETING between officials of the Ministry of Labour and Employment, and leaders of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, ASCSN, has resulted to the setting up of a seven man committee to midwife, fine tune and monitor the implementation of efforts at addressing the union’s grievances on the backlog of unpaid arrears to civil servants totaling more than N290billion.