No fewer than 500 cases of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) cases have been reported to the National GBV Dashboard by the Kaduna State Government with five cases being prosecuted as of the end of September. Mr Jamilu Ladan, the UNFPA State Sub-Implementing Partner Coordinator at the state’s Planning and Budget Commission (PBC) disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna on Sunday. “As of the end of September, Kaduna State...

The Nigerian Senate has ordered an investigation into last Friday’s attacks on four banks and a police station in Otukpo, Benue State. On Friday, October 20, heavily armed robbers gunned down more than eight persons including four cops when they attacked the Otukpo police station and raided four commercial banks in the commercial district of the town. Millions were carted away from branches of First Bank of Nigeria United Bank of Africa, Stanbic IBTC Bank...

Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Gombe State Command, have arrested 76 suspects in connection with same-sex weddings. Buhari Sa’ad, State Public Relations Officer of the command disclosed this while parading the suspects before journalists at the command’s headquarters in Gombe on behalf of the state Commandant, Mohammed Muazu. Sa’ad said out of the 76 suspects, 59 are males with 21 said to have confessed to being homosexuals, adding that 17 females...

…Orders adequate deployment of operatives for security, safety In light of the current global security challenges, with particular attention to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Inspector-General of Police, Acting IGP Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, emphasizes the importance of law-abiding conduct and the pursuit of peace in all interactions with fellow members of the public. ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, Force Public Relations Officer, Force Headquarters in a press statement with reference no, CZ.5300/FPRD/FHQ/ABJ/VOL.6/71 stated that the IGP urged individuals to...

Anambra state government through Operations Clean And Healthy Anambra, OCHA Brigade has paraded six suspects for drugs trafficking, phone snatching, cable vandalism and other related crimes. The suspects were arrested in different places during raids in Awka and Bridge Head Onitsha. The raid was carried out by the joint enforcement team of OCHA Brigade and Anambra state Vigilante Service who were on a 24hr surveillance in critical flashpoints in the state. Addressing the press during...