…says victims need support not prosecution By Chioma Obinna & Chinelo Azike As the World Health Organisation, WHO, says every 40 seconds a person dies of suicide, psychiatric doctors at the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital Yaba, FNPHY, Lagos have called for the decriminalisation of suicide, saying the victims need support and not prosecution.   According to […]

By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja Ahead of the Bayelsa and Kogi governorship elections on November 16, 2019, Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, Thursday, urged the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, to actively participate in order to stop human rights violation. This was contained in a letter signed by the Convener, Concerned Nigerians, Deji Adeyanju and Convener, […]

Inaugurates implementation 7-man implementation c’ttee By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Thursday, disclosed that broadcast stations that air hate speech and inciting comments will attract N5 million fine. Mohammed stated this during the inauguration of the 7-man Implementation Reforms Committee of the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, towards […]

The wife of the Enugu State Governor, Mrs. Monica Ugwuanyi, Wednesday, advised women to be cautious of their health by engaging in the regular medical check-ups and routine exercises. Mrs. Ugwuanyi enjoined women to join in the cancer awareness campaign, while also advising them to undertake regular breast checks to ascertain their medical status in […]

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, has conferred the award of excellence and exemplary leadership on the Executive Chairman, Agege Local Government Area of Lagos State, Alh. Ganiyu Kola Egunjobi in recognition of his role in the fight against human trafficking. At the ceremony held on Wednesday in Lagos, NAPTIP […]

By Jane Echewodo Josephine Oyefeso of an  Ikeja High Court on Wednesday adjourned until November 21 for the adoption of final written addresses in the ongoing criminal trial of a former lecturer of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Afeez Baruwa. After the defence counsel, Ms. Taiwo Makinde told the court that they had just served […]

A snail farmer, Mr. Sunday Ido, on Thursday advised Nigerians to consume snail meat as a better alternative for protein following the ban on imported frozen chicken. Ido, the CEO of Real Snails in Calabar, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Lagos. He said following […]

By Marvelene Ekott The fear that runs through your mind when your eighty-year-old mother walks up and down your staircase every night weeping and soliloquizing that she wants to go home to her family and you wonder if you aren’t her daughter anymore. The hyperactivity of your middle-aged neighbour that always wants to climb to […]

By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja Less than 24 hours President Muhammadu Buhari presented the 2020 budget proposal of N10. 33 trillion to the National Assembly on Tuesday, Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, have raised grave concerns over items of the proposed budget, which include an increase of Value Added Tax, VAT, to 7.5 per cent, frivolous […]

…commends Jigawa State for attaining 2nd ODF status …as Jigawa initiates bill to ban open defecation By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja The Federal Government, Wednesday, disclosed readiness to kick-off campaign against open defecation on November 19, 2019. This was made known by the Minister of Water Resources, Engr. Suleiman Adamu, in a statement signed by […]