Doctors and nurses should be reporters of sexual assaults to appropriate authorities, a rights campaigner, Mrs Bose Irosi, said on Friday. Ironsi, also a retired midwife, said in Lagos that doctors and nurses saw rape and other sexual assaults only as medical issues requiring medical attention without seeing the human rights angle. She spoke during training on sexual assault trauma management. The training was organised by a British Council Programme in Nigeria: Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption (RoLAC) funded by the European Union. Twenty-five medical doctors, nurses and social workers from Island Maternity, Alimosho, Igando, Gbagada and Ikorodu general hospitals attended the training.…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
Former Super Eagles handler Adegboye Onigbinde has questioned the basis for the selection of players for the friendly double-header against Algeria and Tunisia. The Desert Foxes of Algeria on Friday night piped the Super Eagles by a lone goal to extend their unbeaten run in all matches to 19. Onigbinde said only Gernot Rohr, the Super Eagles Technical Adviser can give an account of the players and their style of play during the friendlies. “There is one thing we must accept, and that is that I am not close to the team. I don’t know on what basis Rohr made…
Youngstars Development Initiative, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), says more than 8,000 females across 35 African countries have signed up on its First `Female and More Mobile Application storytelling and empowerment programme. The initiative is for 30 Days Module storytelling and empowerment programme, Mr Kingley Bangwell, the Executive Director of the group said on Friday in Abuja. This was during the unveiling of the `Female and More Mobile Application created by the group. Bangwell said that the platform was designed to become a storytelling platform for building self esteem of young women so they could have better belief in themselves. He…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 151 new COVID-19, infections in the country. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle on Friday. The centre said that the 151 new cases brought the nation’s confirmed COVID-19 infection to 59,992. It stated that the cases were reported in nine states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory, but no death was recorded. Consequently, the number of COVID-19 fatalities stood at 1,113. The NCDC said that Lagos state recorded the highest daily infection with 71 new cases followed by Ogun and Kaduna with 26 and 17…
The Desert Foxes of Algeria on Friday pipped Nigeria’s Super Eagles 1-0 in an international friendly in Austria as the African champions extended their unbeaten run to 19 consecutive wins. The match, played at the Wörthersee Stadium in Klagenfurt, saw Borussia Mönchengladbach star Ramy Bensebaini scoring the match’s only goal. The Algerians piled up pressure on the Nigerians, scoring after just six minutes when full-back Bensebaini followed up a rebound from a header off a corner-kick with the Eagles’ defence in disarray. Algeria continued to press forward as Nigeria struggled to settle into the match. The Super Eagles’ first real…
The legal officer of Environmental Rights Action, ERA, Mr Nosa Tokunbor has asked the former chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), Mr Nnimmo Bassey, not to convene any board staff meeting. Tokunbor, in a statement issued in Benin on Friday made available to ASHENEWSONLINE, said Bassey lacked the power to convene and address a meeting of the ERA Board Staff Meeting. According to him, the purported ERA/FoEN Board staff meeting being organized for staff of the organization by Bassey, is illegal, and of no effect whatsoever because, he added, he…
The Bauchi state government on Friday asked the Emir of Misau, Ahmed Suleiman to tender an apology for negligence of duty. Recall that the state governor, Bala Mohammed suspended the first class Emir and two other traditional rulers over land crisis between farmers and Fulani herders in the area. The Senior Special Assistant on Media to the governor, Mukhtar Gidago in a statement obtained by ASHENEWSONLINE on Friday, said the warning was contained in the government white paper from the report of the Administrative Committee of Inquiry, which looked into the land dispute between farmers and herders in Zadawa Ward…
By Obike Ukoh When President Muhammadu Buhari inaugurated the current board of the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC, on Thursday, June 27, 2019, he charged the members to be fair and just to all tiers of government. He urged the 31-man board with Chief Elias Mbam as Chairman, not to compromise the commission’s constitutional mandate for whatever reason. Mbam’s first tenure of five years ended in November 2015, and was re-appointed by Buhari in 2016, but his name was not immediately sent to the Senate for confirmation. He and other members of the commission were eventually sent to…
The Police Service Commission, PSC, has approved the dismissal of 10 senior police officers and ordered the prosecution of six, while nine others were demoted. A statement by the spokesperson of the commission, Ikechukwu Ani and made available to ASHENEWSONLINE on Friday, said “the Commission also approved the punishment and severe reprimand for eight officers, reprimand for 10 and letter of warning for three other officers. Three officers were however exonerated. “The Commission took these decisions at its 9th Plenary Meeting which held in Abuja on Monday, 28th and Tuesday 29th September, 2020 and presided over by its Chairman, Musiliu…
President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on winning the 2020 Nobel Prize for Peace. The president’s congratulatory message was conveyed by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Friday. Buhari described the award as a well-deserved honour for the frontline UN agency at the forefront of addressing hunger and promoting food security. The Nigerian leader appreciated the tireless work of the WFP in providing the needed succour to vulnerable and displaced persons in North-Eastern Nigeria. He also paid tribute to all brave humanitarian workers who lost their…