A Sokoto-based women’s organisation, ‘100-Women Group’, has begun a house-to-house sensitisation to curb the recurrence of Gender Based Violence (GBV) and other harmful practices in the state. Hajia Fatima Umar, the group’s Coordinator, led the sensitisation at Magajin Gari in Sokoto North Local Government Area on Wednesday. Umar said the group considered educating women and […]
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has approved a law to stop the stealing of human organs and tissues, his health minister has said. Stealing of human organs and tissues is happening in a nation where they lured women into unnecessary surgeries. Local media recently reported cases of women recruited for domestic work in the Middle East […]
The Police in Kano, on Wednesday, dragged a 24-year-old Imamu Tijjani, before a Kano Sharia Court in Fagge for allegedly stealing a pot cover valued at N3,000 and tN13,500 cash. Tijjani, who lives in Kofar Na’isa Quarters, Kano is charged with theft. The prosecutor, Insp Abdullahi Wada, told the court a complainant, Rashida Abubakar reported […]
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said, on Monday, it intercepted 726 migrants, including women and children, and returned them to Libya during the past week. “In the period of 21-27 May 2023, 726 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya,” IOM said in a statement. So far this year, the organisation has rescued 5,784 […]
Fuel queues returned to Nigerian cities on Monday as many motorists scrambled to get petroleum products, hours after President Bola Ahmed Tinubu announced his government would stop fuel subsidy regime. During his inauguration, Tinubu declared that there would no longer be a petroleum subsidy regime as it was not sustainable. The President said the current […]
Several countries, on Monday, formally presented goodwill messages and letters of solidarity to President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Special envoys of the countries presented letters to Tinubu after his inauguration as the 16th President of Nigeria. Among the countries are Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom, United States, South Korea, Brazil, Japan, Cape Verde, […]
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Monday, agreed to “immediately” upgrade the diplomatic relations between the two countries. They will also exchange ambassadors, the Egyptian presidency said in a statement. The move came during a phone call by al-Sisi to Erdogan to congratulate the Turkish president on his re-election for […]
The Sudanese Army and the Rapid Support Forces, on Monday, agreed to a five-day extension of a cease-fire agreement they signed on May 20, Al Arabiya News reported. They reached the cease-fire agreement after negotiations in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah. The two sides stressed commitment to allowing safe passage of all civilians from […]
A gale of reactions and condolences has trailed the death of a Media Icon, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, who died in Abuja, on Monday, at 71. The NewsZenith reports that his son, Raymond Dokpesi Jnr. announced his death in a statement. “High Chief Dokpesi was a beloved husband, father, grandfather, and friend to many. He will […]
My Fellow Citizens, I stand before you honoured to assume the sacred mandate you have given me. My love for this nation is abiding. My confidence in its people is unwavering and my faith in God Almighty is absolute. I know that His hand shall provide the needed moral strength and clarity of purpose in […]