UNICEF’s Child Protection Specialist, Dr. Wilfred Mamah, has appealed to the Kaduna state government for more funding for the implementation of the child right protection law. Mamah made the appeal at the weekend in an interview with journalists in Kaduna during the training of lawyers for the implementation of the law. Kaduna state passed the…
The federal government has suspended the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Adamawa state, Hudu Yunusa-Ari. The Director of Information in the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Willie Bassey, said in a statement on Thursday, that President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the immediate suspension of Yunusa-Ari pending the completion of an…
Three people were killed while two others were abducted in an attack on Ungwan Galadima in Gonin Gora, a suburb of Kaduna metropolis. A resident of the area who confirmed the incident in a telephone interview said the bandits invaded the community at about 1am on Thursday and operated for over an hour. He said…
A former chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Plateau State, Letep Dabang, has been appointed the Director-General of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship campaign council in the state. The state Publicity Secretary of the PDP, John Akans, made the announcement in a statement in Jos. The statement said, “The Plateau State chapter…
By Daniel Dauda in Jos Hundreds of residents of Abattoir Area, Giring Ward in Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau state on Friday, protest against alleged nefarious activities of a Lebanese who specialised in defiling minors. The residents who trooped to the Giring Police Station in their numbers alleged further that the Lebanese made…
The Niger state police command has denied reports that bandits have threatened to invade M.I Wushishi housing estate in Minna, the state capital Sources in the estate had alleged that the bandits, believed to be miners operating around the area attacked the estate in broad daylight, breaking cars and windows of houses in broad daylight…
