Author: Editor

A sobering report recently released by the UN Women and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reveals that in 2023, 140 women died daily in alleged femicide. According to the report, no fewer than 140 women and girls die every day allegedly at the hands of either their partners or close relatives. Femicide, the killing of women and girls, is a pressing social and health issue globally. It is one of the violence against women and girls under-reported. This means that one woman is killed every 10 minutes. That is why in the UN report, released on the…

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“Money doesn’t change men; it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish, arrogant, or greedy, the money brings that out; that’s all.” – Henry Ford. Last week, while extending our birthday wishes to the Governor of Yobe State, we underscored his honourable character and concluded by asserting that this was but one facet of what makes him a truly admirable leader, promising to substantiate this claim with further examples. Let us, however, not dwell on his commendable efforts in reforming and repositioning Yobe’s education sector since declaring a state of emergency on it upon assuming office on 29 May 2019.…

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