Lagos’ War on Beggars: 911 arrested, but streets keep calling
Beneath the crackdown lies a harder reality: poverty, disability, homelessness, migration and unemployment continue to push people into the streets
Boundary dispute: Edo communities bicker over Supreme Court judgment
By Ozioruva Aliu – Benin City The indigenes of Iguomon in Uhunmwonde Local Government Area of Edo State have accused their neighbours in Ikhuonbo of using security officials to frustrate the execution of a Supreme Court judgment on a boundary dispute in their favour. Addressing a press conference, yesterday, an advocacy group, Edo People Advocacy […]
Let’s battle subsidy untruths together, govs woo Labour
According to the governors, fuel subsidy should not be removed until the Federal Government is confronted frontally on the issue.
Kaduna Killings: We lost 3 men, 8 cows poisoned, Miyetti Allah alleges
The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, in Kaduna State has expressed sadness over incessant human carnage in Kaduna especially in Southern Kaduna with the latest killing of a herder and subsequent renewed circle of killings
Court jails Cameroonian 5 years for human trafficking in Kano
A Federal High Court in Kano has sentenced a Cameroonian, Wamba Jean-Gaston, 41, to five years in correctional centre, for trafficking three young women and four men from Cameroon enroute Nigeria to Europe. The three female victims are: Belinga Ovanda, 19; Koussene Agnes, 21; and Meye Uwono, 27; while the male ones are Thomas Ange, […]
Ikare-Akoko mosque crisis: Akeredolu receives peace committee report
Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, on Wednesday, received the report of the peace committee set up by the state government on the Ikare-Akoko central mosque crisis. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Chairman of the committee and Chief of Staff to the Governor, Olugbenga Ale, led members to the Governor’s Office in […]
