PLASU Holds First Convocation In 12Years, Graduates 334 Students
The Plateau State University (PLASU), yesterday, announced that it will hold its first gradation on Saturday 6th February 2016, after 12 long years of unstable academic calendar as a result of turbulent moments since its evolution. Family members and friends of graduating students at the University, have been in high spirit as they are beginning […]
Trump Fires Acting Attorney-General For Refusing To Enforce Travel Ban
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday night fired acting Attorney-General Sally Yates for refusing to enforce his Refugee Order designed to protect the citizens of the country. The White House, in statement obtained by the Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York, announced the appointment of Dana Boente as the new […]
Zimbabwe: Mthwakazi Fury As Cops Storm Party Meeting
MATEBELELAND based political outfit, Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has warned the police not to interfere with its activities, saying such moves would be resisted with “dire consequences”. The warning comes after police allegedly disrupted the party’s executive meeting in Bulawayo on Sunday. According to the party’s secretary general Hloniphani Ncube, three police officers stormed the […]
Rant Of The Day – Be Spitting Up and Down
I don’t know whether this is a trend, but have you noticed the way some people just throw out saliva anyhow? The most irritaing of all these are those people that spit off the bus, you just see someone pushing his/her head out of the widow and spitting., c’mon! This is so unethical. Even on […]
Make Only the Children You Can Raise – Sanusi Tells Northerners
The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has appealed to northerners to change their attitude to marriage and child bearing, urging them to marry only the number of wives and produce the number of children they can adequately cater for in the interest of themselves, the region and the entire nation. The emir made […]
NGO Disburses N70 Million To 2,050 Women In North East
A non-governmental organizations, Civil Society Coalition for the Eradication of Poverty (CISCOPE) in partnership with OXFAM has disbursed N70 million to 2,050 households in Adamawa, Borno ad Yobe states. Peter Egwudah, the programme manager of CISCOPE who spoke on Friday in Michika during the monetary distribution, lamented the neglect of millions of internally displaced persons […]
Malawi Needs More Midwives Amidst Acute Shortage – Study
There is an acute shortage of midwives in health facilities across the country with a total of only 3233 midwives against the required 23 637, a recent study by White Ribbon Alliance for safe motherhood revealed. Professor Maurine Chirwa of Prime Health Consulting which carried out the study said serving midwives were below World Health […]
Oscar Pistorius Prosecutor Quits
The prosecutor who jailed Oscar Pistorius and former top cop Jackie Selebi has quit. News24 can reveal that career state advocate Gerrie Nel has given the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) 24 hours’ notice of his resignation. Nel is the former head of the now defunct Scorpions in Gauteng. His immediate resignation after 35 years’ service, […]
Reps Give CBN, Others Ultimatum To Account For $22.6bn Oil Blocs
THE House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on Oil Prospecting Licences, OPLs, and Oil Mining Leases, OMLs, yesterday, gave the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and others one week ultimatum to provide all relevant documents to ascertain the payments of about $22.6 billion oil blocs from application fees, royalties, signature bonuses and other fees by oil […]
Kenya Loses AU Commission Chairmanship To Chad
There were actual tears shed by the Kenyan delegation when it became clear that Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed would not become Chairperson of the African Union Commission. Soon after the vote, President Uhuru Kenyatta himself left the African Union headquarters leaving his Spokesperson Manoah Esipisu to wish the new AU Chair Moussa Mahamat […]
The Heart Breaking Letter Of A Sexually Molested School Girl
Hello friends The story above [below] has been making rounds all weekend..I find it very disturbing. As initiator of Show you Care, I have asked my colleague Hon Brian Mundubile, Minister in Northern Province to investigate immediately. I will also follow up upon my return from Europe and share my findings. I thank you all […]
Constitutional Court Rules On “genetic link” For A Surrogate Mother
Would-be parents must share some genetic link with the child if they want to use a surrogate mother, the Constitutional Court has confirmed. In November last year, the Constitutional Court had to make a decision on whether infertile would-be parents could enter into surrogacy agreements, specifically where the child would have no genetic link to […]
Mother Of 2 Commits Suicide Over ‘MMM Disappointment’
Gloria Samson, a Benue-based woman, has taken her life, leaving behind her husband and two children. According to Tribune, one of the reasons given for her tragic action is her investment in the crashed Mavrodi Mondial Money box (MMM). She was said to have invested a N400,000 loan she procured into the ponzi scheme. The […]
South Africa: My Wife Used Muthi On Me – Taxi Boss Accused of Raping Daughters
The Tembisa taxi boss who allegedly raped his two daughters and niece told the High Court sitting in Palm Ridge on Thursday that his wife was using muthi to make him fall in love with her. Dressed in blue jeans, a peach shirt and tan jacket, the man sat in the dock with his arms […]
Egyptian Women With HIV Hide From Social Stigma In Silence
Nearly five years ago, when Safaa* was 26 and a mother of two, she discovered that she had HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) – a disease which destroys the immune system of its host. To her, this was worse than a death sentence – it would force her to keep her medical history secret from even […]