Anambra Lawmaker Urges Support For Police in Fighting Crime

AWKA — A lawmaker in Anambra, Mr. Onyebuchi Offor, has appealed to well-meaning individuals and corporate organisations in the state to assist the police with logistics to fight crime Offor, representing Ekwusigo State Constituency in the state House of Assembly, made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka on Wednesday. He said that many private and public property, including police stations, were destroyed in Anambra during the EndSARS...

Over 100 Miners Kidnapped In Anka And Maru Local Government Areas

The Chairman of Zamfara Council of Chiefs and the Emir of Anka, Attahiru Ahmad says that more than 100 miners in Anka and Maru Local Government Areas of the State have been abducted by bandits. The Emir disclosed this in Gusau on Tuesday when the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Lucky Irabor visited Governor Bello Matawalle, adding that the bandits also killed 10 persons during an invasion of a mining site. The Emir said...

VAPP Act: Stakeholders Brace Up For Its Implementation In Adamawa

Disturbed by the alarming rate of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in society, the Adamawa state House of Assembly recently passed into the Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) Act now awaiting Governor’s assent. It against this background that, Stand To End Rape Initiative (STER) a Non-governmental organization with support from Spotlight Initiative organized a three-day capacity stakeholders workshop in Yola, Adamawa State on the need to adopt some components of the VAPP Act in Adamawa state and on...

Insurgency Has Exposes Women And Girls To Exploitation, Abuse And Discrimination-Fintiri

As all nations celebrate this year’s International Women Day, Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri of Adamawa state has reiterated his commitment to implementing policies and programmes that will empower and protect women and girls in the state. The Governor gave this assurance during a press briefing as part of activities marking 2021 International Women Day with the theme “Choose to challenge” and the sub-theme “Women in leadership, Achieving An equal future in a Covild-19 World” held...

Gunmen Kidnap Eight People In Taraba

At least 10 gunmen mounted a roadblock near Chanchangi town, located along Takum-Wukari road in Taraba state on Monday evening and forced a commercial van conveying 10 passengers from Takum to Wukari town into the forest. Maiwada Takum, relative to one of the abducted travelers, told Daily Trust that the kidnappers took eight people hostage including a one-year-old boy from his mother, who was travelling on the bus. Maiwada said the mother of the infant...

OPINION: Ransom Payment in the Gulf of Guinea

According to the Nigerian army, a ransom of $300,000 was paid to pirates in the Gulf of Guinea to secure the release of the crew of a Chinese fishing boat. The party that paid the ransom is not reported. The most likely possibility is that it was the Chinese company that operated the fishing boat. The episode sheds some light of the murky operation of kidnapping and ransom payment in the Gulf of Guinea. The Chinese fishing boat...

CBN to Appear Before Senate Over Missing $9.5m

Officials of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) are to appear before Senate Committee on Public Accounts on Tuesday, over the alleged disappearance of $9.5 million interest which was accrued from Petroleum Profit Tax (PPT) investment. According to the Chairman of the Committee, Senator Matthew Urhoghide, the principal sum deposited, tenor and rate of interest of the investment were veiled in secrecy. The PPT is a tax applicable to upstream operations in the oil industry....

UN Representative Calls For End To Violence Against Women With Disabilities

The United Nations representative on Spotlight Initiative Dr. Graci Ilori has appealed to government and non-governmental organizations to put an end to gender-based violence against women with disabilities in the country. She made the call during a press conference to commemorate this year’s International Women’s Day organized by the UN in collaboration with Spotlight Initiative held at Tufini Hotel Jimeta. “During Covid-19 pandemic, women and girl’s child have been exacerbated in the country. “The UN...

Court Remands Police Officer For Murder

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Nyanya, Abuja has ordered the remand of a policeman, Johnson Samanja, accused of shooting a 19-year-old boy. The court directive was issued on Monday after he was arraigned on a culpable homicide charge. Johnson was charged to court over the death of the 19-year-old who was shot in October last year. The trial judge, Peter Kekemeke, ordered Mr. Samanja, 51, to be remanded at the Nigerian Correctional...

IWD: Nigeria’s First Lady Calls To End Abductions of Schoolgirls

Nigeria’s First Lady, Aisha Buhari has called on all stakeholders to continue to exert their different levels of influence and bring the abductions of schoolgirls to an end. The Nigerian First Lady made the call in a message tweeted on her Twitter handle @aishambuhari on the occasion of this year’s International Women’s Day. This year’s theme: Women In Leadership: Achieving an Equal Future in a COVID-19 World is a strong call to appreciate the efforts...

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