“Our children spend more and more time online and as such, it is our duty to make the online environment safe” The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday published a report aimed at helping global stakeholders to end the growing scourge of violence online against children. WHO, in the new report, “What works to prevent online violence against children,” focuses on ways of curbing the grooming of youngsters via the Internet, sexual image abuse, cyber aggression and harassment in the form of cyber-bullying, cyber-stalking, hacking and identity theft. The report also showcases strategies and best practices to better protect children.…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) have urged the Federal Government to put an end to the fuel shortages and price hike in the country. The Presidents of NLC and the TUC said this in a statement, signed by Mr Ayuba Wabba and Mr Festus Osifo on Saturday in Abuja. It said that the fuel shortages, price hike and avoidable long queues in filling stations are unacceptable and no longer tolerable. The labour leaders said the Federal Government should put an end to the avoidable, unnecessary, crippling and pain-inducing fuel shortages and unapproved price hike of…
First, Mrs. Yamb has continued to observe Ghanaian news very closely. In one of her tweets, she even criticized the actions of our current president. She approached some politician; approached some of our political and media leaders to promote her vision of pan-Africanism. What do you care? By Rachael Fall I read an INCREDIBLE article written in the French language on a Sierra Leone-based blog https://regardelinfo.com/2022/12/01/mama-ghana/ about Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings whose life was ruined by the love affair between Papa Jerry Rawlings and one Nathalie Yamb. Under the guise of secrecy and because the memory of Jerry Rawlings cannot…
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has affirmed the candidature and nomination of the governorship candidate of APC in the July 16 governorship election in Osun, Adegboyega Oyetola, and his running mate, Benedict Alabi. Oyetola and Alabi are the immediate past governor and deputy governor of Osun. The court set aside the ruling of the Federal High Court, Abuja, delivered by Justice Emeka Nwite, nullifying the nomination of Oyetola and Alabi as the APC governorship and deputy governorship candidates. A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja had on September 30 nullified the nomination of Oyetola and his running mate, Alabi.…
Tragedy struck on Friday when five persons died in a road crash in Zaranda village on the Bauchi-Jos road. Yusuf Abdullahi, the Sector Commander, FRSC, disclosed this in a road traffic crash report made available in Bauchi on Saturday. The FRSC boss added that five other people were seriously injured in the crash involving one articulated vehicle and one commercial Galaxy Ford car around 7:05 p.m. He said it took the personnel of the corps barely 11 minutes to arrive at the scene of the crash to clear the site. The sector commander attributed the crash to speed violation, loss of…
By Cecilia Ologunagba On November 23, 2022, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution on the “Promotion of Inclusive and Effective International Tax Cooperation at the United Nations.” The resolution is expected to lay the foundation for the creation of a new system of international tax cooperation that should be universal in scope and approach. With this, member states agreed for the first time to have a convention on tax cooperation and to annually discuss global tax issues and review progress. The motion, submitted for consideration by Nigeria on behalf of 54-member African Group of States, was adopted by…
Airtel has partnered the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to connect over 300,000 students to digital learning in Nigeria. The Managing Director of Airtel Nigeria, Mr Surendran Chemmenkotil, said this at the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to flag off the initiative in Lagos on Friday. Chemmenkotil said that in the first year of the five-year partnership, Airtel and UNICEF would provide all the resources for digital learning to 620 schools. He said that the partnership was under the Reimagine Education Initiative. Chemmenkotil said they would also be providing reliable broadband connectivity and free access to a world…
The final year student of Federal University Dutse, Aminu Adamu who was being prosecuted for posting a tweet perceived to be an insult to wife of president Muhammadu Buhari, Mrs Aisha Buhari has been released. He was released following Mrs Buhari’s Friday withdrawal of the case from the court where he was standing trial. Aminu Adamu Aminu was expected to meet President Buhari before reuniting with his family. Recall that following Adamu’s Hausa tweet which reads: “Su mama anchi kudin talkawa ankoshi” (meaning: “Mama is feeding fat on poor people’s money”) on June 9, 2022, he was arrested and arraigned…
Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara has endorsed Atiku Abubakar for president. A former member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dogara fell out with the party over its choice to fly same-faith ticket for the 2023 presidential election where Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima emerged as candidates. The former speaker joined other members of the Forum of Christian and Muslim Political Leaders from the 19 northern states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Friday to adopt Atiku of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The Forum, which compose of religious leaders, women and youth organisations, described…
“As we all know, Nigeria is presently in a debt crisis – with a fiscal deficit well above the statutory threshold of 3%, an increasingly unsustainable debt profile, a rising cost of debt servicing worsened by the rising interest rates, and socio-economic investments sacrificed at that expense” Stakeholders including civil society organisations have revealed how private creditors plunge Nigeria into economic crisis as well as impede physical development. The one-day media presentation of research on the role of private creditors in Nigeria’s debt crisis, organised by Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) with support from Christian Aid (CA) held in…