Women Against Violence and Exploitation (WAVE) Foundation, a non-governmental organization (NGO), has called for the establishment of community centers to help survivors of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and reduce the prevalence of the practice.
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ASHENEWS reports that the Niger state governor, Mohammed Umaru Bago says that the blockade of some roads in Minna, the state capital by women and youth was not a protest over rising food prices but a trick to loot vehicles conveying food items from some parts of the country through the state by criminals.
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit, Zone B, has dismissed as false the claim that its operatives caused an accident in Jibia town, Jibia Local Government of Katsina State.
The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) has confirmed that six persons died in an automobile crash on Onueke axis at the Afikpo-Abakaliki road in Ebonyi.
The Police Command in Lagos State has confirmed the deaths of a man and a woman, suspected to be lovers, in an apartment at Ojodu area of the state.
The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) says the nationwide power outage is as a result of system failure from the national grid.
Ekiti Police Command has paraded one Alhaji Baboga for his alleged involvement in the killing of the two traditional rulers in the Ikole Axis of Ekiti On Monday, Jan. 29, 2024.
Former Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has told President Bola Tinubu to note that basic commodities, including a simple stapple – bread, are becoming out of reach for average Nigerians. He says Tinubu’s “economic policies, drawn from a so-called renewed hope agenda, are ironically dashing hopes, creating pain and causing despair.”
The presidency has urged Atiku Abubakar, the PDP presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, to provide better alternatives to challenges of the country.
Assailants have reportedly killed a 300-level female student of the Department of Economics at the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba, (AAUA), Ifeoluwa Adekunle while in her room.