By Hadiza Mohammed-Aliyu, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Gender-Based Violence (GBV) is any violence directed at an individual based on his or her sex or gender identity. It includes physical, sexual, verbal, emotional and psychological abuse, threats, coercion and economic or educational deprivation, whether occurring in public or private life. Whoever the victim is – […]

By Rasheed Sobowale The minister of transportation, Rotimi Amaechi who was in Madrid, Spain for a Climate Change event escaped being injured on Friday when he was attacked by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). IPOB group which claimed responsibility for the attack stated in a press statement seen by Vanguard that it is acting […]

The National Bureau of Statistics’ (NBS), has revealed that corruption in Nigeria slightly reduced in the year 2019. The NBS said this in its report tagged “Corruption in Nigeria: Patterns and Trend  2019”  released on Friday in Abuja. The report indicated that out of all Nigerian citizens who had at least one contact with a […]

By Olasunkanmi Akoni Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has described the invasion of the court and harassment of Omoyele Sowore by men of the State Security Service, SSS, on Friday, as “African wild dogs on a pack hunt.” Soyinka, in a statement titled ‘Lesson from the African wild dog,” written by Lycaeon Pictus, urged “President-General […]

10 Nigerian news today (12/5/2019) you might have missed. 1. APC Crisis: Buhari meets Party Govs in Aso Rock Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari met behind closed doors with Governors of the All Progressives Congress, APC, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The agenda of the closed-door meeting which lasted about two hours was not made open, […]