Washington, DC – The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) condemned the arrest of Ramzan Bibi, a 55-year-old Ahmadi Muslim woman in Cheleki, Pakistan, on blasphemy charges. “While we recognize that the Pakistani government has made positive steps in promoting religious freedom over the past year, the arrest... Read more
By Chuma Nzeribe I understand our apprehensions over some videos and audio recordings of impending attacks and warfare against Ndigbo but there is need that we properly situate our reactions over them and lessen the drumbeats of war and look for best possibly ways forward. More than any other... Read more
From: Odimegwu Onwumere Pan African Re/Insurance Journalism Awards championed by Continental Re Plc has on May 27, announced winners of their fifth year awards at a virtual awards ceremony following travel restrictions occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic. This year’s award ceremony, was scheduled to take place during the... Read more
The Nigeria Football Federation has reached out to Super Eagles’ forward, Victor Osimhen who lost his father on Saturday evening, expressing grief and a groundswell of sorrow among the Nigerian Football family over the passing of the patriarch of the Osimhen family. Reports said Mr. Patrick Osimhen, 80, died... Read more
As herdsmen attacks persist in Delta State, the state government has changed its policy of waiting for the Federal Government and federal security agencies to bring to book suspected herdsmen kidnappers and other criminals abducting and terrorising citizens of the state, invading and chasing farmers away from their farms.... Read more
A United Kingdom based non-profit organisation, The Rural Gems (TRG) with operational office in Nigeria has expressed its willingness to transform the lives of rural Nigerian children through literacy and free IT training. With the theme ‘Inspiring learning among rural Nigerian children’, they bring libraries closer to rural children... Read more
The Association of South East Town Unions (ASETU) has petitioned Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban-kin Moon and the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, over what they called grand plot to annex Igboland by people from northern Nigeria. ASETU said the bizarre smuggling of... Read more
By Chief Dapo Fafowora I know Gambari quite well. I was the one who in 1981 brought him to the UN at his request as a member of the Nigerian delegation. He was then a senior lecturer at the ABU. In fact, the late Prof Audu, who was then... Read more
By Charles Ogbu (Twitter @Realcharlesogbu) The warning from people like former President Olusegun Obasanjo, former Chief of Army staff, rtd general TY Danjuma and a host of others about Buhari’s Islamisation and Fulanisation agenda is a little too late, I’m afraid. Those warnings are as useless as a... Read more
Environmental lawyers in the Niger Delta have expressed concerns over the looming public health danger occasioned by the contamination and massive death of fish along the Atlantic coastline of the region. The lawyers under the aegis of the Association of Environmental Lawyers of Nigeria (AELN) on Sunday urged the... Read more
