The Founder, Women Aid Collective (WACOL), Prof. Joy Ezilo, says no fewer than 450 cases of violence against women were reported to the organisation between January and June 2022. Ezilo disclosed this on Thursday in Enugu while presenting the bi-annual report of the organisation. She said that the cases reported included rape, defilement, incest, domestic violence, child custody, neglect and non-maintenance. Others are denial of inheritance, harmful widowhood practices, malicious damage to property, forceful ejection, abandonment of spouses, early and forced marriage. She also said that a significant number of complaints were reported by male victims who complained about emotional…
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The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) has begun distribution of inputs and farm implements under its special intervention to support smallholder farmers in Edo. Thirty percent of the inputs would be distributed to women famers to increase opportunities for them, while 10 per cent targeted at persons with special needs. The items distributed include food dehydrator; motorised oil palm harvester, cashew racker, water pumps, knapsack sprayers, chemicals, growth enhancers and power tillers. Others are cassava stems, planters and cassava processing equipment, yam, maize, cashew and groundnut seeds, as well as coconut, oil palm and cocoa seedlings. Speaking at…
The Police Command in Delta has apprehended 25 suspected cultists in the state and recovered some items from them. The spokesperson of the command, DSP Bright Edafe, disclosed this to newsmen on Thursday in Warri. Edafe said that the hoodlums were nabbed on Sunday by a combined team of the State Anti-Cult Unit (SACU), Ibusa Division, and local vigilantes in Oshimili North local government area of the state. He said that the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Ibusa Police Station, was informed that the suspects were having their initiation at Zion Road, Ibusa. Edafe added that the Commissioner of Police (CP)…
The German government, World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have inaugurated a 40-million-euro resilience and essential services support for Northeast. The information is in a joint statement issued by WFP and UNICEF on Thursday in Abuja. According to the statement, the programme is funded by the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development through the German Development Bank, KfW. It states that the Resilience and Social Cohesion project will be implemented for three years by WFP and UNICEF. Under the programme, children from 0 to 23 months, pregnant women, school-age children, adolescent girls, female-headed households and…
An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Thursday sentenced the embattled Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju James, alias Baba Ijesha, to five years imprisonment for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl. Delivering judgment, Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo, held that the prosecution had successfully proven the charge of sexual assault of a minor and indecent treatment of a minor against the convict. ASHENEWS earlier reported that Ijesha had been convicted and awaiting sentencing.
An Ikeja Special Offences Court has convicted the embattled Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju James, alias Baba Ijesha, for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old minor. Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo, in a two-hour judgement on Thursday, convicted Baba Ijesha for indecent treatment of a child, sexual assault and attempted sexual assault Taiwo, however, discharged and acquitted him of count one and count six – sexual assault by penetration and attempted sexual assault by penetration. At the time of filing this report, the case has been stood down for a few minutes for sentencing of the convict.
Microsoft co-founder world’s fourth richest man, Bill Gates has said that he would gradually drop off world richest list. Gates said he has an obligation to return his resources to the society and will make a $20bn (N17bn) donation to his philanthropic fund. “As I look to the future, I plan to give virtually all of my wealth to the foundation. I will move down and eventually off of the list of the worlds richest people,” he said. Mr Gates’ net worth has more than doubled since 2010 when he first pledged to give away his wealth. He is currently…
A 27-year-old Kaduna-based ex-National Youths Corps member and entrepreneur, Miss Henrietta Gimbiya-Barde, says she grew an agro-processing business from N6,000 to N2.5 million, with six employees in three years. Gimbiya-Barde said in Kaduna on Thursday that her company, HIGIM Food Processing Company, processes and adds value to agricultural products for consumption. She added that the company was a subsidiary of HIGIM Investment Nigeria Limited, established in 2019 to process agricultural products into consumable powder. Gimbiya-Barde said that some of the products were blended with other nourishing elements to meet the nutritious needs of everyone, including people who want to gain…
The Debt Management Office (DMO), says Nigeria does not face the risk of experiencing “debt distress” due to its $15.9 billion Eurobonds. The $15.9 billion Eurobond is the foreign component of the debt Nigeria owes. The DMO posted the clarification in a statement on its website in reaction to an alarm raised by a member of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Robert Asogwa on Wednesday. Asogwa had expressed worry over the country’s rising debt, particularly the increasing accumulation of Eurobonds in the external debt component. “The unexplained government preference of Eurobonds at high…
President Muhammadu Buhari has urged officials of National Population Commission (NPC) to justify government’s confidence in them by returning accurate, verifiable and dependable data. The President’s Media Aide, Garba Shehu, in a statement issued on Wednesday, said that the president made the call during a trial census exercise in Daura, Katsina State, on Wednesday. The first phase of Census 2023 – the trial house listing and house numbering took off officially in selected local government areas of the country on Wednesday. To mark the commencement of the exercise, the commission accredited the president in his country home in Daura, Katsina State.…