The Orphans’ Care Committee of Jama’atu Izalatil Bid’ah Wa Iqamatis Sunnah (JIBWIS), Adamawa State chapter, has distributed Ramadan gifts, including foodstuffs and clothes, to 700 households housing over 3,000 orphans in Yola North, Yola South, and part of Girei local government areas.  The National Chairman of the organisation in Nigeria, Sheikh Imam Abdullahi Bala Lau, while unveiling the distribution of the items at the Federal College of Education, Yola, called on government at all levels...

…Accords Women Have Rights To Inheritance To address excessive spending during marriage ceremonies, the Tor Tiv, James Iorzua Ayatse, has fixed a maximum of N100,000 for marriage-related items. Similarly, the Tiv council has abolished the “kwase kuhan” festivities traditionally held at the father-in-law’s home and further prohibited cake-cutting at traditional weddings. The comprehensive changes to longstanding Tiv customs, many see as a historic transformation of the traditional system. Another new development is that Tiv women...

The Adamawa state government has announced the distribution of N611 million in intervention funds to 5,000 households in Yola-South affected by the flood in the state. The state Deputy Governor, Professor Kaletapwa George Farauta, made the disclosure in her office, saying food and non-food items are to be shared with victims of the Lamurde communal crisis. Farauta said the delay in distributing the fund is to enable the state emergency committee to authenticate the exact...

  Senator Oluremi Tinubu, First Lady of Nigeria has extended financial support totaling N50 million to 250 elderly citizens in Ekiti State, with each beneficiary receiving the sum of ₦200,000 under the Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI) Social Investment Programme. The presentation, which took place at Lady Jibowu Hall, Government House, Ado-Ekiti, formed part of the third edition of the Elderly Support Scheme tagged “Finding Joy in Old Age”. Speaking at the event, Senator Tinubu who was...

Officials of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) have reunited seven victims of human trafficking with their families in Dambatta local government area of Kano state. The victims, who were transferred to NAPTIP by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), were received last Saturday by the Kano/Jigawa Zonal Command of the agency. According to a statement by the Kano Zonal Command spokesperson of agency, Mohammed Habeeb on Wednesday...