Issues

President of International Women Society (IWS), Nkoli Ogbolu, has urged the federal government to make legislation that will protect and empower the widows. Speaking yesterday at the IWS Skills Acquisition Centre, Lekki, Lagos, to mark the International Widows Day (IWD), ...

As banditry and kidnappings continue to worsen in parts of the country, the Nigerian Institution of Surveyors (NIS) has advocated production of City Crime Map to enable security agents to track locations, entry and exit points of criminals. NIS President, ...

In spite of interventions by stakeholders to broker peace between the Tiv and Jukun in Benue and Taraba states, five persons have been killed in fresh attacks on Gyenku in Ukum Local Government Area of Benue State. It was learnt ...

This time a Togolize A Togolize, Miss Kaifi Kayode, age 24 years of No. 4 Jazz Street Ayetoro Ijanikin committed suicide by drinking Snipper, a poisonous substance which has become the darling of the depressed and persecuted. The younger sister ...

The Divisional Police Officer Ilashe Division, SP Demian Okeke recently escaped death with the boat carrying him and his police team from Alakija to Ilashe collided with an on-coming boat. The boat was submerged and sunk into the river bed ...

Kano State Governor Abdulahi Ganduje has hinted that high-level discussions were on to resolve the feud between the Emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi 11 and the state government. Ganduje also described as allegation that a Gorilla swallowed N6.8 million from ...

The United Nations (UN) Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Edward Kallon has condemned last Sunday’s killing of 30 civilians in Mandarari Community multiple suicide attacks in Borno. Konduga is 38 kilometres east of Maiduguri, the state capital and had been attacked ...

The Save Humanity Advocacy Centre (SHAC) has urged the international community to rise against the killings of innocent Nigerians by Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) around the Lake Chad Basin region. SHAC, which made the call at the ...

An early morning inferno has destroyed relief materials worth millions of naira at the Presidential Committee on Northeast Initiative’s (PCNI) warehouse in Maiduguri. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the fire which, started at about 6.00a.m, consumed about ...

Jukun women took to the streets of Donga in Donga Local Council of Taraba State to protest against the incessant killings by suspected Tiv militias of their spouses. During a march to the palace of the first class traditional ruler ...