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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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. ...

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 ...