To enhance knowledge and implementation of the Violence against Persons Prohibition, VAPP law, and Gender Equally Opportunity, GEO law in Plateau State, the Women Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative, WRAPA, has organized a two-day workshop in that regard. Mohamed Maifada, the Senior Programme Officer, WRAPA noted that the VAPP law by the Plateau State government was timely, hence the need to enhance its knowledge and implementation. On her part, the Commissioner for  Women Affairs and...

The remains of the late Secretary-General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Dr. Muhammad Sanusi Barkindo, who died Tuesday night in Abuja at the age of 63, were interred at Damare Muslim Cemetery in Yola, the state’s capital. Barkindo’s remains, airlifted from Abuja, were received by friends and family members at Yola International Airport around 12:30 pm on Wednesday amid tears. The deceased was to conclude his second term at OPEC at the...