A filmmaker has been slammed after he suggested that rape was ‘not a serious thing’ and that women should co-operate if they are being raped. Metro UK reports that Daniel Shravan also said that women should carry condoms in preparation for being raped as he tried to explain why ‘non-violent’ sex attacks should be legalised. […]

Anti-graft group, Nigerians Against Corruption, NAC, has described the conviction of former governor of Abia state, Orji Kalu, by Justice Muhammed Idris of a Federal High Court in Lagos as a mark that the EFCC boss, Ibrahim Magu, does not only mean business with the President Buhari’s anti-corruption war but has also earned himself a […]

The Kano State police command said it had arrested six suspected kidnappers and four armed robbers in addition to rescuing one abducted victim within the last one week. The state police commissioner, Mr Habu Sani disclosed this while addressing a press conference in Kano on Wednesday. “With renewed vigour and determination, Sustained Puff-Adder Operations, Community […]

By Chioma Onuegbu, Uyo A nonprofit organization, Centre for Citizens with Disabilities, CCD, has appealed to Akwa Ibom state government to enact and implement the Disability Law.  The Executive Director CCD, Mr. David Anyaele made the appeal yesterday in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state during a two-day symposium organised to commemorate the 2019 disability week to […]

Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, on Thursday, assured the Nigeria Institution of Surveyors (NIS) that his administration would continue to patronise its members in the state.

With an already groundbreaking lineup of acts on the bill for Flytime Music Festival 2019, Flytime Promotions has just announced the one and only African Giant and Grammy-nominated, BURNA BOY as the HEADLINING artist for #Day5 of its five-day music festival.

By Charly Agwam The Bauchi state government has set up a health committee, ‘Bauchi State Every New Born Care Action Committee’, (BaSENAC) for the dissemination of ‘Every New Born Care Action Plan’ (BaSENAP) in a bid to reduce infant morbidity and maternal mortality rate in the state. Speaking on Thursday during the unveiling of the […]

Recognised as  #OrangeChamp by US Embassy By Sola Ogundipe The Chairman of Nigeria’s foremost civil society coalition, the Transition Monitoring Group, TMG, Dr. Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi, has called for that every Nigerian woman and indeed women all over the world deserve rights to their body integrity if the world is to be free of violence against […]

By Marie-Therese Nanlong – Jos The embattled Plateau State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Hon. Damishi Sango as resigned and handed his seat to his Deputy, Hon. Amos Gombi. Sango officially vacated office on Thursday after having series of running battle with the Party’s stakeholders for over seven months. He however reiterated his […]

 The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire has said that only N15.2 billion of the N28 billion allocated to fund the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in the 2019 budget has been disbursed. 

 Some Aba residents in Abia have lauded the 12-year jail term  handed down to ex-Gov. Orji Kalu of Abia, by a Federal High Court in Lagos.

ABUJA-LEADERS OF the South East Geopolitical Zone have renewed their demand for the president of Ibo extraction in the 2023 presidential poll,insisting that it was the turn of the Ibo to occupy the position.

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru – Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari is currently meeting behind closed doors with Governors of the All Progressives Congress, APC, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting started at about 3pm. Present at the meeting are Governors of Ekiti, Borno, Gombe, Jigawa Niger, Kebbi, Nasarawa, Plateau, Edo, Kaduna, Osun, Ogun Kogi (Deputy). More […]

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri   The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, slated January 14 to hear suit a former Senator, Fidelis Okoro, filed against the Nigerian Police Force over alleged extra-judicial murder of his son.   Justice Inyang Ekwo ordered the service of hearing notice on all the defendants in the matter.   Okoro […]

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and some other civil society groups on Thursday lauded the 12-year prison sentence handed down to ex-Gov. Orji  Kalu of Abia, by a Federal High Court in Lagos.