By Dirisu Yakubu ABUJA- The youth wing of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Thursday, called on the federal government to immediately make public the whereabouts of Abubakar Idris popularly called Dadiyata who was allegedly picked up by a team suspected to be operatives of the Department of State Security, DSS, earlier this month. The protesting […]

As part of efforts to bring back moral values in children,  National Character Parenting Summit, NCPS, organised a family programme titled, ‘Character Focused Parenting’, aimed at ensuring positive parenting, nurturing and training of Nigerian child. 

Esther Ijewere is an enterprising social activist, gender advocate, columnist, author, mother of two and the Executive Director of Rubies Ink Initiative for Women and Children. An Olabisi Onabanjo University-trained Sociologist, as a social advocate, she is the brain behind W.A.R- Walk Against Rape, an advocacy initiative created to lend a voice for the victims of rape and demand justice. She is also a columnist with a national daily, a platform used to celebrate exceptional women with inspiring stories across the globe. In her bid to seek balance with her work, she started the fast-growing community for Men called ‘Men who Inspire.

An Abuja based dietitian, Mr Paul Okoh has advised persons living with haemophilia condition to stay away from Zingiber officinale, commonly known as ginger.

The Ogun state government has offered automatic employment to 20 residents of the state. The Governor of the state, Dapo Abiodun publicly offered the 20 newly employed civil servants automatic jobs to mark the commencement of the launch of the official job portal.

As parts of effort to commemorate this year’s Pan-African Women’s Day and in line with the global theme which addresses maternal and neonatal mortality in Africa, the female staff of Jumia Nigeria have rallied support for new mothers and other patients who could not meet the discharge requirement as a result of unpaid medical bills at the Ikorodu general hospital by helping them to offset their outstanding bills.

Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State on Thursday promised to provide operational and logistic supports for the successful hosting of the 2019 Badagry Diaspora Festival.

DELTA Governor, Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, on Thursday, urged contractors handling state government projects to adhere to timelines for executing the jobs.

Authorities and community leaders have been urged to prioritise the need to develop child language and continue to pay deserving attention to language disabilities and general communication disorder for a proper child upbringing, a professor of Linguistics in Child Language and Communication Disorder at the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Shirley Yul-Ifode, has advised.

The United Nations Development Programme, UNDP, have advocated increased role for Nigerian women especially in the areas of decision making, planning and allocation of land and other critical natural resources in the country.

Leader of the proscribed Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, and his wife Zeenat,  have been reported to be their way back to the country three days after embarking on a medical trip to India. Sheikh Zakzaky and his entourage departed New Delhi in a commercial airline at 5pm Nigerian time today. In […]

Barcelona begin their title defence and Real Madrid will hope to launch their revival as La Liga returns in Spain this weekend.

Former Kogi State commissioner of Information and member of the Kogi APC Elders Council, Dr. Tom Ohikere said the incumbent governor, Yahaya Bello despite his political mistakes remained the candidate to beat in the November 16 governorship election.

ENUGU – MUSLIM community in Enugu North senatorial districts, Thursday called on governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi to recognise and include them in the affairs of governance.

Instagram on Thursday added a way for users to easily report deceptive posts at the photo and video-oriented social network owned by Facebook.