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Targets improved healthcare access, confidentiality and referral services for secondary school girls The Kogi State Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) Project has commenced the training of healthcare providers drawn from the state’s 21 local government areas to strengthen access to adolescent- and youth-friendly health services, particularly for...

The Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Anietie Iniedu, has described the Nigeria Police Force and the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, as partners in the task of securing the nation, saying policing cannot succeed without the media. The Force PRO, Iniedu, stated this during a courtesy visit to the NUJ...

*says politician’s conduct is embarrassing to civil society A coalition of civil society organisations in Nigeria has called for an independent investigation into the reported attack on opposition politician Omoyele Sowore in Ekiti State on Friday, saying the politician’s conduct has become a source of concern. The coalition advised Sowore,...

The Senior Pastor of Dunamis International Gospel Centre (DIGC), Dr Paul Enenche, and his wife, Dr Becky Enenche, on Friday unveiled a pedestrian bridge constructed by the church on Airport Road, Abuja, within four months. Enenche said the church built the bridge out of love and commitment to impact. He...

Hon. Philip Agbese, Labour Party leader in Benue State and member representing Ado/Okpokwu/Ogbadibo Federal Constituency, has strongly defended the Federal Government’s proposed $21.7 billion supplementary external borrowing plan. According to Agbese, the funds are fully justified by the Tinubu administration’s massive investments in critical infrastructure and the gains recorded in...

The Donald Duke South-South Solidarity Group strongly condemns the reckless and contemptuous remarks recently made by Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State, in which he dismissed the presidential ambition of His Excellency Donald Duke as a joke. Governor Diri lacks the respect, courtesy, and moral standing to pass such a...

The Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) has commenced a five-day training programme for school principals and male teachers on preventing and addressing gender-based violence (GBV) in schools. The State Project Coordinator of Kogi AGILE, Alhaji Ahmed Tijani Oricha, said the training was aimed at equipping teachers with...

The State Project Coordinator of the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE), Alhaji Ahmed Tijani Oricha, the essence of training teachers is to enable them to mitigate Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in their schools. Alhaji Oricha stated this in a message to a training programme for principals and male...

The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has called for justice, due process and the protection of press freedom in the case of Farida Isiak, a 23-year-old journalist with Nagarta Radio in Kaduna State, who was reportedly sentenced to four years’ imprisonment or a fine of ₦1.75 million over a Facebook...

The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Wednesday warned the defence lawyers against delay in the trial of four suspected murderers of Ekpeyong Asuquo Owoh, an officer of the Department of State Services (DSS). Justice Joyce Abdulmalik gave the warming after two lawyers, Kelvin Ekwe and Geoffrey Uwadiegwu, who appeared...