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Sokoto Teenager’s Death: Family demands justice, prosecution of suspects

Sokoto Teenager’s Death: Family demands justice, prosecution of suspects

By Musa Ubandawaki, Sokoto SOKOTO — The family of 15-year-old Fadimatu Abubakar Gizo, who allegedly died after being sexually assaulted in Yarume Mai Hako village, Wamakko Local Government Area of Sokoto State, has appealed to the authorities to ensure justice for the deceased. The family also called for a thorough investigation and prosecution of the […]
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US-based NGO signs pact with Ejigbo LCDA to build library

US-based NGO signs pact with Ejigbo LCDA to build library

As part of efforts to inculcate reading culture in children and other residents of Ejigbo, Hope and Dreams Initiative, a non-governmental organisation, NGO based in United States of America, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding. MoU with the Ejigbo Local Council Development Area,LCDA to build a library in the area.

Lamentations of the physically challenged

Lamentations of the physically challenged

As the United Nations marked the world’s day for persons with disabilities, Nigerians have been urged not to treat those with physical challenges as outcasts but to make the environment a friendly one for them. Speaking at a social dialogue whose aim was how to remove all barriers and create an inclusive and accessible society for all, Ms Abimbola Ajayi, an architect and who is the immediate past Chairman of the Nigeria Institute of Architects, NIA, said it was a shame that disabled people who struggle to get educated in spite of their challenges cannot get a job in the country.

Teenagers in search of lifeline for dying mother

Teenagers in search of lifeline for dying mother

TWO secondary school students, Miss Ann Adamatie and Master Victor Adamatie, aged 16 and 13 respectively, have cried out to the Governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, and other kind-hearted Nigerians to save their 51-year-old mother, Mrs. Roli Adamatie, a teacher, who is suffering hiatal hernia with reflux esophagitis and peptic structure from the paroxysms of death.

Day journalists were brutalised for doing their job in Ogun

Day journalists were brutalised for doing their job in Ogun

It was a day the news hunters became the hunted. On that fateful day, two journalists, in the course of doing their job, had approached the Chairman of Sagamu Local Government Area of Ogun State, Funmilayo Efuwape, to seek her side of the story on the crisis that had engulfed the local government. But it was a move that dramatically turned into an ordeal for them as they received the beating of their lives.

Okada: Security threats that spurred okada ban in Delta

Okada: Security threats that spurred okada ban in Delta

FACTS have emerged that the outlawing of motorcycle, otherwise known as okada transportation in Warri, Effurun and Asaba in Delta State, November 1, by Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, was impelled chiefly by very serious threats to the security of the state.

Man stabbed to death over Chelsea/ Man City match

Man stabbed to death over Chelsea/ Man City match

Two suspects identified as Kayode Ogunwa and Oluwa Femi, are currently cooling their heels at the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Panti, Yaba, Lagos, following the stabbing to death of a hotel attendant, identified as Mr. Otumala Ukama Benson, a 32-year-old, a native of Benue State, over a misunderstanding during penultimate Sunday English Premiership League, EPL, clash between Chelsea and Manchester City football clubs.

IRC to raise $4m for flood victims in Nigeria

IRC to raise $4m for flood victims in Nigeria

Needed help has continued to come the way of victims of recent flood disasters in Nigeria, with the International Rescue Committee, IRC, sending a delegation to the country to render technical assistance and supports worth millions of dollars through an appeal fund planned for that purpose. It is doing this in collaboration with the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA.

You can no longer drink anytime you like in Jos

You can no longer drink anytime you like in Jos

A night outing after a hard day’s job was what they went for, but it turned out to be a costly one; one that ended in the ricocheting of guns, a blood bath which left 10 dead and several injured. The gunmen were said to have come in a Vectra car at about 8.30pm while customers at the S.K. Beer Parlour, located at Heipang in Barkin-Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State, had ordered drinks and were ‘cooling down’. The three men alighted from the car, brought out sophisticated guns from under their long dresses and sprayed people in the bar with bullets before speeding off.