Gunmen Abduct 2 Dredgers In Lagos
Suspected kidnappers have abducted two sand dredgers at Eleko Village in the Ibeju-Lekki Local Government Area of Lagos State. Sources revealed, yesterday, that the victims were kidnapped on Tuesday. It was gathered that the gunmen, who came through the lagoon around 9a.m., shot sporadically before they took the two dredgers away in their speedboat. It […]
Ethiopia: First Ever Women’s Manufacturers Exhibition, Bazaar Opens
Federal Small And Medium Scale Manufacturing Development Agency in collaboration with Trade Ministry organized first ever four -day bazaar and exhibition to women engaging in manufacturing industry. Opening the exhibition yesterday, Agency Director General Asfaw Ababe said : ” As women in manufacturing have long time knowledge and experience ,they are capable of meeting the […]
Tragedy – Mother, Four Children Die In Inferno
A woman and her four children were killed by a midnight fire at Malam Inna quarters in Gombe, the Gombe State capital. The victims – a housewife, her infant child, and three stepchildren – were asleep when the fire started, witnesses said. The fire is believed to have started at about 3 a.m. when electricity […]
Xenophobia – MTN ‘Shuts’ Offices In Nigeria, Police ‘On Guard
Police in Nigeria are reportedly guarding offices of the mobile phone giant MTN in the capital Abuja after protesters against xenophobic attacks in South Africa tried to storm it on Thursday. According to BBC, the offices were sealed off and no-one was “being allowed to enter the building”. An unnamed senior manager at the Abuja […]
Feature : Growing The Next Generation With CAVSI
The moment you discover what you live to die for, then life is worth living. Quite a number of times, our problems can be solved out of the government, our community can grow without the attention of the local government chairman if we decide to use what we have effectively. Most times, the greenlight the […]
Borno Women React To Emir Sanusi’s ‘One-Wife-for-the-Poor’ Proposal
Mixed reactions from women in Borno have trailed the move by the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II, to ensure that poor men did not marry more than one wife. In an interview on Wednesday in Maiduguri, some women said they wholeheartedly supported the move, while others thought the idea was out of place. […]
Girl Allegedly Sets Up Friend For 10-Man Gang Rape
The Ekiti State Police Command has arrested a student of a college of technology in the state, Yetunde Kayode, for allegedly tricking her friend into the hands of a 10-man gang of rapists. The culprits allegedly raped the victim as part of the ritual to initiate her into an occult group. Yetunde, who was arrested […]
Govt Approves New Environment Policy
The Nigerian government has approved a Revised National Policy on Environment which seeks to capture some of the emerging issues in environment matters. This was revealed, Wednesday, by the Minister of Environment, Amina Mohammed, after the meeting of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, presided by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja “We […]
Kenya: Women Dealt Body Blow As Gender Bill Flops In Senate
An attempt by the Senate to increase the number of women in Parliament suffered a blow when Senators opposed to the bill skipped voting. Opposition lawmakers were attending the National Super Alliance (Nasa) rally at Jevanjee gardens, Nairobi and failed to turn out for the crucial vote that would have increased the number of nominated […]
Rant Of The Day – Sane Or Almost Insane?
We have tried educating a lot of men about sagging. I mean, we have tried telling them what sagging is and why any freeman, free in the sense of free shouldn’t sag at all. Well, I am still trying to understand some people’s fashion sense or dress sense. When you are trying to ‘copy’ copy […]
Sudan: Italy, UNFPA Start Project To Prevent Uterine Cervix Cancer In Eastern Sudan
The Italian ambassador and the country representative of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) in Sudan signed an agreement to support “Prevention of Uterine Cervical Cancer in Eastern Sudan” today. The one-year project, funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation with an amount of € 400,000 is expected to start in March this year, the […]
South Africa: Paramedics Save One-Day-Old Baby In Witbank
Paramedics on Tuesday saved a one-day old baby found in the rain next to the Puma Stadium in Witbank, Mpumalanga. A security guard found the baby in the field near the stadium’s main entrance at 17:25 and paramedics were called, ER24 spokesperson Annine Dormehl said in a statement. The baby girl had hypothermia. She had […]
49-yr-Old Father Of 9 Accused Of Dumping Daughter’s Corpse In Canal
A father of nine, Adekunle Adewusi, yesterday, appeared in an Ebute Meta chief magistrate’s court for allegedly disposing of his child’s remains inside a canal. The prosecutor, Sergeant Kehinde Omisakin, told the court that the 49-year-old man, who lives at Folorunaho Kuku Street, Opebi, Ikeja, committed the offences on February 7, at about 10p.m. Omisakin said […]
Activist Seeks Help For People With Disabilities
A YOUNG man at Walvis Bay is appealing for help to support people with disabilities at Walvis Bay. Mario Thaniseb says most people with disabilities are lonely, although they live with family members, who are expected to be their support. He says there is still a problem of stigmatisation and discrimination against people with disabilities […]
3 Million Kenyans Need Relief Aid
Close to 3 million Kenyans are in need of relief assistance, official said. The Secretary of Communication and State House Spokesperson, Mr Manoah Esipisu, in his weekly address to the media in Nairobi on Sunday, said the number had doubled from 1.3 million in August 2016. Mr Esipisu attributed the situation to the drought that […]