*As police rescue 24 ‘hustlers’ from brothel By Evelyn Usman Among the sex workers rescued in Lagos, one has said she and her colleagues now collect N1,000 from customers due to economic constraints caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. She was among the 24 girls, who were trafficked from Akwa Ibom State to Lagos for prostitution, […]

By Prince Osuagwu, Hi-Tech Editor MTN’s Q1 financial result has shown that over one billion free text messages were sent by customers within the first four weeks the network introduced free SMS on its platform to ease the impacts of Coronavirus, COVID-19 pandemic on its subscribers. The gesture was in response to the challenge by […]

An ousted US health official warned Congress on Thursday that President, Donald Trump’s administration has no “master plan” to fight the coronavirus pandemic and is unprepared to distribute enough vaccines to immunize millions of Americans. Rick Bright told a House panel that without clear planning and an improved coordinated response, “2020 could be the darkest […]

We collect N1,500 from customers – 13yr old victim By Evelyn Usman Twenty-four girls who were trafficked from Akwa-Ibom State to Lagos, for prostitution, were rescued at Abbatoir, Agege area of the state, by the Police, Thursday. Arrested, were four men suspected to have brought them. The girls whose ages were between 13 and 22 […]

By Bashir Bello The Bank of Industry (BOI) has donated N20 million to support palliative arrangement for the downtrodden in Kano State. The state’s Commissioner for Information, Muhammad Garba said the donation was made to Fund Raising Committee on COVID-19 saddled with the responsibility of gathering the donations for further distribution to the less-privileged in […]

Anthony Joshua’s heavyweight title defence against Kubrat Pulev will be pushed back until at least October because of the coronavirus crisis, his promoter said on Thursday. Britain’s Joshua was originally scheduled to fight the Bulgarian at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on June 20, with a second date in July also mooted after the pandemic took […]

By Kingsley Adegboye Amrote Abdella, Regional Director of Microsoft 4Afrika Initiative, has spearheaded Microsoft’s investments in Africa across 54 countries. A statement said she works closely with the internal teams in the Middle East and Africa, and globally to enable and accelerate digital transformation opportunities across the continent. Before becoming Regional Director, Amrote was Afrika’s […]

Professor of political science, Jideofor Adibe, Wednesday said the chief of staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, would soon be part of the cabal in the Aso rock.

By Dirisu Yakubu ABUJA- Former Vice President and Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2019 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Thursday felicitated with media mogul, High Chief Raymond Dokpesi following the latter’s recovery from the coronavirus disease. Atiku took to his official Twitter Handle @atiku to offer prayers of thanksgiving to God […]

Former President of the Para Powerlifting Federation, Ms Queen Uboh Idris, has given out over N600,000 to 30 powerlifters, coaching crew  and some former para Olympic athletes. The gesture, according to her, is to alleviate the effects of the COVID-19 lockdown. Among the beneficiaries are paralympic gold medalist, Kehinde Paul; 2018 Commonwealth gold medalist, Omolayo […]

By Chinonso Alozie, Owerri A 23-year-old man, Uchenna Mbahotu, has been arrested by the Divisional police headquarters in Orji Owerri North local government area, in Imo state, for allegedly taken sexual advantage of two minors, named Chinaemerem Akagha 11-year-old and Nmesoma Akagha, 9-year-old. The Imo state Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Orlando Ikeokwu, yesterday in […]

ONE of the nation’s political parties, the Liberation Movement, LM, has urged the government to up its game in the battle against the raging COVID-19 pandemic, lamenting that current efforts lack bite.

The Leadership of the National Assembly on Thursday met with the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning to be briefed by the latter on the plan by the Federal Government to amend the N10.59 trillion 2020 budget passed by the National Assembly in December last year.

Aviation unions in the country, Thursday, advised the federal government to dismiss the Steve Oronsaye panel recommendation for the merger of service providers-the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, NAMA, THE Nigerian Meteorological Agency, NIMET with the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, the apex regulatory authority for civil aviation in the country.

The concerns of women and girls have not been given sufficient attention in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. This was the position of panellists at a webinar organised by Plan International Nigeria, Wednesday, on the topic “Women, Girls and COVID-19: Issues, Impact and Opportunities for Gender Responsive Social Transformation.” They called on governments at all […]