In this powerful episode, Rimamnde Shawulu Kwewum speaks with Mercy and Prof Solomon Tarfa about the long and painful struggle to secure the release of children taken from their orphanage in Kano, Nigeria. They reveal disturbing allegations of: • Children being forced into conversions and given new identities. • Orphans taken from Asaba and transported…
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has called on the federal government to consider other strategies, including unconventional measures in addressing the security challenges in the north. In a communique issued on Wednesday at the end of the meeting of its board of trustees (BoT) in Kaduna, the forum said, the current approaches to fighting insurgents…
Nigeria has won the gold medal in the women’s 4×100 meters relay at the 2022 Commonwealth Games (CWG) in Birmingham, United Kingdom. The quartet of Tobi Amusan, Favour Ofili, Rosemary Chukwuma, and Grace Nwokocha also set a new African record with a time of 42.10 seconds on Sunday afternoon. The victory for Nigeria comes a…
Twenty-two civil society organisations under the aegis of Coalition Against Mass Atrocities in the Middle Belt have asked President Bola Tinubu to end the attacks and mass killings by bandits in the region. Address a press conference on Thursday in Kaduna, Gloria Ballason, Executive Director of House of Justice, and spokesperson of the coalition, expressed…
Samson Itodo, executive director of YIAGA Africa, says Nigeria needs character reform to ensure credible elections. Speaking at a conference on “Electoral accountability and democratic stability,” at the weekend in Kaduna, he said the political class believes that elections cannot be won without disrupting the process and bribing the judiciary. Itodo alleged that the Independent…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), led by Kabiru Turaki, has commenced reconciliation with the faction backed by Nyesom Wike, minister of the Federal Capital Territory (PDP). Turaki disclosed this at a press conference on Wednesday, in Abuja. He said the move followed an advisory by the court of appeal in Ibadan, Oyo state, which urged…
