Senate Moves to provide for Right to freedom from hunger
THE Senate Tuesday began moves to address the country’s food security problems as a Bill to make provisions for freedom from hunger and the right to adequate Food of acceptable quality, the right of every Child to Basic Nutrition yesterday scaled second reading during plenary.
I will work, leave good legacies to protect my name ― Okowa promises Deltans
By Festus Ahon – Asaba Delta State Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, has said he has a covenant with the people of the State and would work to protect his name by leaving good legacies behind at of his tenure in 2023. Okowa, who stated this, when he played host to the Young Nigerian Rights Organization, […]
Teens arrested as Spain police smash global paedophile ring
Seventeen people, most of them teenage boys, have been arrested in Spain for sharing images of “extremely violent” child pornography on Whatsapp, police said Tuesday following a two-year investigation spanning three continents. The arrests came as part of a wide-ranging international probe led by Spain’s national police, in which 33 people were detained in raids […]
FCT: School owners lament high tax levies
ABUJA–PRIVATE school owners in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT,have lamented the upsurge in taxes and levies by the FCT administration, appealing to the latter to look into it as it was affecting their operations.
Fayose to PDP members: I am sorry for my mistakes
Rotimi Ojomoyela – Ado-Ekiti Former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, on Tuesday appealed to all the aggrieved members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state to drop the hatchet and work together in the overall interest of the party. Fayose, who apologized to all the aggrieved PDP members Ekiti, said the […]
Protests rage in northeast India over citizenship bill
Protestors in northeast India clashed with police, set fire to tyres and cut down trees to block roads on Tuesday in a shutdown across the region hours after lawmakers approved the government’s new citizenship bill. The legislation, set to go before the upper house on Wednesday, will fast-track citizenship claims from immigrants from three neighbouring […]
