Participants at the Gender- Based Violence, GBV, and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, SRHR, workshop in Owerri, Imo State, said the time has come to expose all forms of domestic violence against women. 

Bayelsa State Commissioner for Environment, Hon. Ebipate Apaingolo, has assured flood ravaged communities of government’s assistance.

A gangster who made a Hollywood-esque helicopter jailbreak was arrested in northern France on Wednesday after three months on the run, sources close to the case said.

Organizers of the Higher Institution Football League (HIFL) Pace Sports and Entertainment Marketing (PSEM) and the Nigerian University Games (NUGA) has assured that the semifinal matches scheduled to take place today Wednesday will hold as scheduled, Olufemi Olatunji, HISL Media officer revealed in a statement.

US rapper Cardi B surrendered to police in New York on Monday, charged with assault and reckless endangerment over an ugly brawl in a strip club that injured a female employee.

BENIN CITY—  HUNDREDS of women yesterday, in Benin City, Edo State under the aegis of National Council of Women’s Societies, Nigeria, Edo State chapter,  threatened to boycott the coming elections because  most of the political parties were not complying with the 35 percent affirmative action as proposed by the United Nations charter.

YENAGOA—BAYELSA State governor, Mr  Seriake Dickson, has said that Nigeria is sitting on a keg of gunpowder, as the country has become more divided due to leadership failure that has polarised the people along ethnic, religious and political lines.

The Minister of Interior, retired Lt.- Gen.Abdulrahman Dambazau, has directed the Police and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) to urgently map out strategies to curtail the resurgence of violent crisis in Plateau.

ABUJA —CHRISTIAN Association of Nigeria, CAN, and a faith-based NGO, Catalyst for Global Peace and Justice, CPJ, have appealed to the Federal Government to suspend political activities in the country until the abducted Dapchi schoolgirl, Leah Sharibu, and over 100 Chibok girls still in Boko Haram captivity regained their freedom.

CONTROVERSY, yesterday, trailed the rescheduled governorship primary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Lagos State as the panel of the National Working Committee, NWC, of the party, distanced itself from the earlier exercise conducted and fix today for a fresh primary.

These should be sober times. They should be times of introspection and self-appraisal when we all should be mindful of the days ahead. But our politicians are hyper excited, engaged in buying votes, casting votes and returning incredible figures even in primary elections in which only card carrying party members are involved.

In demonstration of Governor Godwin Obaseki’s commitment to sound environmental governance, officials of Edo State government have shut down an illegal abattoir located at Oluku Market, in Ovia North East Local Government Area of the state.

CHAIRMAN of Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has said the commission lacks the capacity and resources to prosecute all electoral offenders in the country.

Inter-Governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering in West Africa, GIABA, said, yesterday, it was worried that organised criminal groups and terrorist organisations have evolved sophisticated methods of channelling illegally acquired funds/property into the formal economy of countries, including Nigeria.

Ahead of Saturday’s national convention slated for Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, unveiled strategies aimed at ensuring transparency of the process.