Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Pauline Tallen, has promised to collaborate with the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) to tackle human trafficking, prostitution and child labour in the country. The information is in a statement issued by Mr Shehu Maikai, the Director of Press of the ministry on Tuesday. Maikai stated that Tallen made the promise when the Director-General of NAPTIP, Mrs Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, paid a solidarity visit to the ministry. He quoted the minister as saying “women and children are the worse hit in the area of human trafficking, hence the promulgation of the…
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According to a press statement issued on Tuesday by the IPOB media and publicity secretary, Emma Powerful, any herder who remains in the region after the 14-day ultimatum must rear his cows in an enclosed ranch or face the music for flouting the law. The Indigenous People of Biafra has warned Fulani herdsmen in the South-East region of the country to shun open grazing of cattle. According to a press statement issued on Tuesday by the IPOB media and publicity secretary, Emma Powerful, any herder who remains in the region after the 14-day ultimatum must rear his cows in an…
According to Gaya, the ongoing amendment to the Electoral Act No 6 of 2010 would not confer voting right on underage married girls, referred to as child-wives. The Senate committee on Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has rejected a suggestion that underage married girls should have the right to vote. The committee chairman, Kabiru Gaya, disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja at the flagship interview programme of the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN. According to Gaya, the ongoing amendment to the Electoral Act No 6 of 2010 would not confer voting right on underage married girls, referred to as child-wives.…
The Nigerian government has declared Kogi, a state in the north-central region of the country, a high-risk state for refusing to acknowledge the existence of the disease. The country’s Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 on Monday noted that the Kogi government had failed to report testing, lacked isolation centres and warned Nigerians to be cautious of visiting the state. It said having analysed the pandemic in the country, 22 high-burdened Local Government Areas within 13 states in the country had been identified. The National Incident Manager (NIM) of the PTF COVID-19 pandemic, Mukhtar Muhammad, said this on Monday during…
The three states of Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara that made up the Sokoto Basin have charged the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to spearhead the exploration of the crude oil in the Sokoto Basin. The charge was made on behalf of the governments of Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara, where the Basin is, by the Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal. According to Tambuwal, who spoke at the first quarter 2021 Public Lecture series at the Usmanu Danfodio University (UDU) in Sokoto, which was chaired by his Kebbi State counterpart, Sen. Abubakar Atiku Bagudu, “The Sokoto State Government and that…
The federal government Tuesday extended the NIN-SIM linkage deadline by eight weeks. This is coming ahead of the February 9 deadline given by the federal government for the submission of National Identification Number (NIN). The federal government had at the expiration of the initial January 16 deadline for the submission of NIN, decided to extend it to February 9 for all telecoms subscribers that have registered for NIN including those that were yet to register for NIN to submit their NIN for linkage with their SIM card. The new deadline, which is now April 16, 2021, was conveyed by the…
Nigeria’s federal government on Monday said the expected delivery date of Covid-19 vaccines has shifted from February ending to April. Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, at a sensitisation meeting on Covid-19 vaccines organised for Christian leaders by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), in conjunction with the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Abuja, said the vaccines would not start arriving until March or even April. The federal government had earlier announced that it would receive the first batch of 100,000 vaccines the end of January. It later shifted the arrival date to February due to what…
The Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA). Dr. Shuaib Faisal, has disclosed that the delay in the arrival of COVID-19 vaccines was because countries were negotiating price reduction, safety and effectiveness and required logistics to stop ongoing community transmission of the virus. Faisal stated this in a statement issued yesterday by the agency’s Head (Public Relations), Mohammad Ohitoto tiled: “Investment in COVID – 19 vaccines will strengthen PHC system in Nigeria”. This is coming as MTN has announced a donation of $25 million to support the African Union’s COVID-19 vaccination programme. Faisal said, “While the country appreciates…
The Presidency on Monday said there was no date set, yet, for the announcement of a new Inspector-General of Police. Current IGP Mohammed Adamu is expected to leave office today, Monday, as he attains the retirement age. But, speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, Presidential spokesman Garba Shehu said he is not aware of the imminent announcement of a new police chief. “The President returns to Abuja on Tuesday,” he said. “He should be on his desk by Wednesday. I don’t know when he will do this. One thing I can assure you is that in places sensitive like that,…
Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has said he does not agree with those who claim Nigeria has “a new Buhari from Sudan” in Aso Rock. Obasanjo stated this while answering questions in a virtual interview with historian, Toyin Falola, on Sunday. He expressed his worry over the spate of insecurity in the North West of the country, where President Muhammadu Buhari is from. Obasanjo then urged the President to wake up and fight banditry and other crimes especially in the northern part of the country. He said, “I thought I knew President Buhari because he worked with me. But I used…