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Flashback to a time when women and girls were able to attend school. UNICEF supported Zarghuna Girls School with educational supplies, teachers’ training, and assists in repairing the infrastructure. Credit: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe by Abigail Van Neely (united nations) Monday, September 18, 2023 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Sep 18 (IPS) …

Nollywood actress, Mary Remmy Njoku has demanded justice for late Nigerian singer, Mohbad. The thespian, in an Instagram post on Saturday , while weighing in on the controversies surrounding his death, queried the government over the value of human life in the country. Mary, who noted that she wasn’t a …

Its Director-General, Prof. Fatima Waziri-Azi made the commendation in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. She was speaking in view of the donation of two four-wheel drive vehicles by the Canadian government to Nigeria. The vehicles were presented to the agency by …

When Mike Ashley sold Newcastle United to a Saudi-led consortium for £305m in October 2021 it shone a huge spotlight on the club. Many questions were raised including how Saudi Arabia’s human rights record might reflect on everyone associated with the club. But inside the Newcastle United dressing room, players …

“I used to transport sugar from Malawi,” said an anonymous driver, who was arrested for migrant trafficking. “In 2016, I had to wait for several days at a border crossing in Tanzania for customs checks. I was approached by a man who offered me a lot of money to transport …

The Ogun State Police Command has arrested one Babatunde Kolawole after he was found with a fresh male corpse in Ado-Odo Ota area of the state.   Spokesperson of the command, SP Omolola Odutola, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, August 27, 2023, said that the suspect claimed …

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) says it will hold Russia to account if the Wagner Group, a private military contractor of, violates human rights in the wake of the Niger coup.   The ECOWAS Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security, Ambassador Abdel-Fatau Musah said on Friday, …

Detectives at the anti-crime unit of the Ondo State Police Command have arrested 26-year-old Franklin Akinyosuyi, a suspected internet fraudster otherwise known as ‘Yahoo boy’ with a human skull and fetish items in Ondo town, the headquarters of Ondo West Local Government Area of the state.     The suspect …

Global supply chains for solar panels have begun shifting away from a heavy reliance on China, in part because of a recent ban on products from Xinjiang, a region where the U.S. government and United Nations accuse the Chinese government of committing human rights violations. But a new report by …

Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa who was a member of the Justice Doris Okuwobi-led Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and other matters, has said that the leaked Lagos State Government memo on the mass burial of 103 victims of the …