Following increasing cases of rape and gender-based violence in the country, the National Orientation Agency (NOA) described the menace as evil against humanity for which all Nigerians should work together to stop. Director-General of the Agency, Dr. Garba Abari, in ...
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WANEP canvasses improved security, protection of women, girls
The West Africa Network for Peace Building, Nigeria (WANEP-Nigeria) and its affiliate organisations have expressed concern over the increasing sexual assault and rape of women and girls in the country. It stated this in a statement issued by its National ...
Read More »NIS Commences Continuous Migrants E-Registration Nationwide
Following the gradual easing of the Covid-19 lockdown nationwide by the Federal Government, Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Muhammad Babandede, has directed commands to gradually commence Migrant e-registration exercise from Wednesday, July 1, 2020. A statement issued by ...
Read More »Governor Diri asks task force to open churches in Bayelsa, gives fresh guidelines on Corona Virus
Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri has asked the state task force on COVID-19 to open worship centres that run afoul of measures imposed by the state government to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in the state. He, however, urged ...
Read More »ERA tasks FG on UNEP’s emergency measures in Ogoni, seeks overhaul of HYPREP
Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has urged the Federal Government to as implement the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) emergency measures on the clean up of Ogoniland. Executive Director of ERA/FoEN, Dr. Godwin Ojo, said it was ...
Read More »CAPPA Tasks Federal Government On Transparency, Participatory Governance
The President Muhammadu Buhari administration can rebuild confidence in its anti-corruption crusade by removing the veil of secrecy in the conduct of government business and respecting the right to information and free speech, the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa ...
Read More »Stakeholders berate ‘politicisation’ of Ogoni clean-up process
Worried by the slow pace of work at clean-up sites in Ogoni, Rivers State, stakeholders have decried the ‘politicisation’ of the exercise, which has dragged for five years. Urging the Federal Government to focus on the project, they called for ...
Read More »NIS Boss Tasks Officers to Focus On National Causes In Service
Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Muhammad Babandede, has advised officers of the agency to focus on national development, while in service. In a statement issued in Abuja and made available to newsmen, Public Relations Officer of the NIS, ...
Read More »Ndume Canvasses Part Time Status For Lawmakers Over COVID-19 As Aborisade Flays Call To Slash FG Workers Salaries
Former Senate majority leader, Mohammed Ali Ndume, has canvassed the immediate adoption of part time legislative status for National Assembly members, insisting that all overhead costs and salaries of public servants with the exception of low salary earners be slashed. ...
Read More »HURIWA Tasks Buhari On Herdsmen, Boko Haram’s Killing Of Christians
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has tasked President Muhammadu Buhari to end the genocide and attacks on Christians and farmers by armed herdsmen and Boko Haram terrorists, which have snowballed in the last five years. It faulted ...
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