The Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadiq Abubakar, has reiterated commitments to the provision of enabling environment and improved personnel welfare package to encourage professionalism and effective service delivery. Abubakar made this known at the inauguration of the newly constructed housing units at the 105 Composite Group of the Nigeria Air Force (NAF) […]

It is 21 days since one-year-old Gold Kolawole went missing during a Sunday service at Sotitobire Prayer University in Solagbade area of Osinle Quarters, Oke-Aro, Akure.

Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State and Chairman of Nigeria Governors’ Forum spoke at the United States Institute of Peace – President Nancy Lindborg. He described Nigeria’s democratic journey as full of ups and downs rather than a destination with a clear road-map.

One of the targets that was vigorously pursued when the Federal Government proclaimed general amnesty for the rampaging Niger Delta militants, on June 25, 2009, was to ensure continuous flow of the black gold-oil- and uninterrupted inflow of cash into the nation’s treasury.

Operatives of the EFCC, Uyo Zonal Office in a joint operation with some of the Commission’s operatives from Abuja, in the early hours of Thursday, November 28, 2019, stormed a building described as ‘YAHOO ACADEMY’.

The lawmaker representing Anambra North in the Senate, Sen Stella Oduah, in this interview, speaks on the three bills she introduced in the upper chamber of the National Assembly.

THEY were the so-called big girls on campus. They behaved as if they were untouchable. But their cup overflowed when they not only allegedly beat up a fellow female student of the Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA, Boluwatife Adekunle, they also reportedly stripped her naked for allegedly dating the boyfriend of her roommate, Oluwadare Faith Tobiloba, who was said to belong to their group.

Three months into the closure of Nigeria’s land borders, many appear to be adapting to its effects.   The closure has not only brought about scarcity of imported food items in the country but has also escalated prices of imported staple foods like rice which is usually in high demand.

It is no longer news that abuse in all its forms is a daily reality for many Nigerian children, women, and girls. Although both women and men experience violence, evidence suggests that the risk factors, patterns and consequences of violence against women and girls are different than violence against men and boys.

Nigeria-born Akindotun Merino is a professor of psychology at the Argosy University, California, US. Merino, who has zeal for mental wellness, is County Commissioner for Behavioural Health in California where she has resided for many years.

‘I want a Nigeria safe for all women and girls. A country that nurtures the girl child to a meaningful future’. ‘A Nigeria where the voice of girls and women are heard.

Over a decade ago, a group of men who belonged to the same indigenous club had an annual get together where wives and kids were treated to good food, music and gifts. They were all in fairly jolly moods when Dinyo, one of the few unattached members walked in with a mulatto in tow.

One of Malta’s wealthiest men, Yorgen Fenech, was charged in a Valletta court on Saturday with complicity to murder in the car bomb killing of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017. The leveling of official charges against Fenech marked a milestone in the investigation into the murder of Caruana Galizia, a campaigning journalist who […]

The Australian state of New South Wales, home to the country’s largest city Sydney, rolled out mobile phone detection cameras on Sunday, hoping to cut the number of fatalities on its roads by a third over two years, transport authorities said. The mobile phone detection program, one of the first in the world, involves cameras […]

After a week of relative calm, thousands of anti-government protesters, including many elderly residents, took to the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday chanting “revolution of our time” and “liberate Hong Kong.” The protest, which took place in the bustling shopping district of Tsim Tsa Tsui, came after hundreds of people had marched to the […]