UNICEF
Health Human Rights Nigeria Top Story

Girl-child: Increase in the cases of fathers raping their daughters – Tallen

Pauline Tallen, the minister for women’s affairs, condemned the growing number of rape and other acts of violence committed against young girls by their fathers and other members of society on Tuesday. In recognition of the International Day of the Girl-Child (IDGC) in 2022, Tallen made this statement at the State of the Nigerian Girls Read More…

Radio Nigeria
Aviation Business Infrastructure Top Story

Sanwo-Olu gets FG’s approval to construct Lekki Airport

Hadi Sirika, the Minister of Aviation, handed the proposed Lekki-Epe International Airport’s official Letter of Approval to Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Tuesday. At the 9th Ehingbeti Lagos Economic Summit, which was held at the Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Sirika delivered the letter to the governor on behalf of the Federal Government. Read More…

ICIR Nigeria
Nigeria Politics

2023 poll: CDD commits to objectivity, independence, and fairness

Prior to the general elections in 2023, the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) vowed to maintain its neutrality, independence, and impartiality. The guarantee was provided in a statement issued in Abuja by CDD Director Idayat Hassan. “The CDD is issuing this statement in response to false accusations made in a recently disseminated article concerning our Read More…

Culture & Arts News Top Story

U.S. submits 23 looted Benin bronzes to Nigeria

Twenty-three Benin Bronzes that were among the hundreds of items that the British took during their invasion of the Benin Kingdom in 1897 have been returned to Nigeria by the United States. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, praised the US for returning the stolen cultural property during the repatriation ceremony on Read More…

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Human Rights Legal Metro

Man dragged to court for allegedly beating up wife

Austin Anthony, 42, was charged at an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday for allegedly hitting his wife and breaking their three-month-old child’s arm. The defendant, a baker from Lagos State, is being prosecuted for assault, causing great bodily harm, and endangering life. His address is 16 Ajibade Street, Baruwa Ipaja. The offences were perpetrated Read More…

Punch
Agriculture Sports

Senator charges MDAs to promote sports

In order to encourage healthy living among its employees, Sen. Obinna Ogba (PDP-Delta) has on Tuesday recommended government Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) to ensure sports development in their organisations. Ogba, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Sports and a member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, expressed sadness that most MDAs in the Read More…

Sports

Lagos SWAN appeals the House of Assembly and security agencies for alleged intimidation

A petition has been sent to Lagos State’s Commissioner of Police by the Lagos State Chapter of the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN). Additionally, the SWAN chapter has forwarded copies of the petition to the state’s House of Assembly and Department of State Services (DSS) (LAHA). The petition, according to the chapter’s secretary Bunmi Read More…

Labour Metro

NLC applauds Sanwo-Olu’s proposed salary hike for workers in Lagos

The Lagos government has received praise from the Nigeria Labour Congress for the anticipated pay raises for state employees. The praise was given by the NLC Chairman, Mrs. Funmi Sessi, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Lagos. The announcement, she noted, “came at the appropriate time.” Gov. Babajide Read More…

Egypt Today
Business Top Story Trade

Nigeria laments low level of trade with Egypt

Nigeria lamented her poor trade with Egypt, one of the continent’s two economic giants, on Monday. Malam Nura Rimi, Nigeria’s ambassador to the northern African nation, observed that despite the size of the two economies, the volume of trade between the two was little. He gave a speech in Cairo at the inaugural Nigeria-Egypt Trade Read More…