The Federal High Court sitting at Life Camp in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) under Justice Rosemary Kanyip has delivered a judgement in favour of the Kpaduma community against the FCT Administration (FCTA). It asked the FCTA to pay the natives the sum of N20million as compensation for infringement on their
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No fewer than 8,000 vulnerable children, most of them labelled as "child witches" and thrown out of their homes by parents and guardians have been rehabilitated and reunited with their families by the Child's Rights Rehabilitation Network (CRARN) in Eket local government area of Akwa Ibom State.This came into the
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Former senate president Ahmed Lawan, who represents Yobe North, has released N200 million cash to 545 members of his constituency as start-up capital to reduce poverty among them.Lawan who was represented by the former speaker Yobe State House of Assembly, Zanna Ali Machina, disclosed this at the venue of the
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A group, UNWomen, has called on President Bola Tinubu to guarantee equal gender representation with a minimum of 50 percent women in his cabinet, heads of agencies and parastatals.The UNWomen Country Representative to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Beatrice Eyong, made the request at the inaugural ReportHer Awards at the weekend in
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The Police Service Commission (PSC), has approved the dismissal of three senior police officers over cases of misconduct and abuse of office.Also, the commission reduced the ranks of nine other officers including a commissioner of police in an immense plenary meeting presided over by Justice Clara Bata Ogunbiyi, a retired
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National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) has rejected the Core Curriculum Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS) designed by the National Universities Commission (NUC). The association took the decision at its 52nd National Executive Council (NEC) meeting.NAAT said the CCMAS document under review was prepared and circulated without any input from its
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National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has attributed the slow pace of home-bound airlift of Nigerian pilgrims that performed the just ended 2023 Hajj rituals in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia back to Nigeria to logistics challenges.The commissioner of operations, Alhaji Abdullahi Magaji Hardawa, made this known while addressing journalists
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President Bola Tinubu has arrived Guinea-Bissau for the 63rd Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS.The News Agency of Nigeria reports that this is Mr Tinubu’s second foreign trip after his participation at the summit on “A
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Seychelles has allegedly imposed a ban on Nigerian passport holders, applying for short-term visa or holiday purposes.A travel content creator, raised the alarm on Saturday evening after receiving a rejection email.A screenshot of the mail, which was shared on Twitter partly reads, “We regret to inform you that your application
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Not less than 4,560 kilogrammes of skunk have been seized in interdiction operations in Lagos, Adamawa and Osun States by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in the last few days.The operatives also raided a ‘skucchies’ factory in Ogun State and arrested four members of a drug
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