Fulani socio-cultural association, Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore (MAKH), has announced the establishment of its own private security outfit called Miyetti Allah Vigilantes nationwide in response to an alleged increase in attacks against the Fulani pastoralists. According to the group, the vigilantes would operate according to the constitutional provisions and... Read more
USD 1.5 billion available to football community, including men’s and women’s professional, youth and grassroots football, through a system of combined grants and loans under strict compliance requirements Each member association to benefit from USD 1 million grant to protect and restart football, and an additional USD 500,000... Read more
Communities hosting Shell’s Estuaries Area (EA) oilfields in Bayelsa on Wednesday urged the oil firm to review its annual development funding from $1 million to $10 million and other social obligations to them. The communities which make of four Cluster Development Boards (CDBs) ,Iduwini, Mein, Kou, and Bassan funded... Read more
. Says prolonged detention portrays Nigeria as back to full blown dictatorship The Human Rights Writers Association Of Nigeria (HURIWA) has condemned the indefinite detention of Nigerian humanist, Mr. Bala Mubarak on the allegation of publicly insulting Prophet Muhammad on His Facebook page. HURIWA which noted that the... Read more
ABIDJAN (Reuters) – An independent review has found that the African Development Bank rightly cleared its president, Akinwumi Adesina, of abuse of office, paving the way for him to seek a second term. Whistleblowers in January accused Adesina, who has held the AfDB’s top job since 2015, of abuses... Read more
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) denounced the execution of five aid workers on July 19 in northeast Nigeria by the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP), a Boko Haram faction. ISWAP militants claimed responsibility for the killings of these workers they had abducted last month. In... Read more
The people of Ndokwa of Delta State have given the Federal Government fourteen days to meet with their demands or they would cripple oil and gas operations in the country. Youth wing of Ndokwa Neku Union (NNU) in a well attended press conference at Kwale, Ndokwa West Local Government... Read more
The world’s biggest COVID-19 vaccine study got underway Monday with the first of 30,000 planned volunteers helping to test shots created by the U.S. government — one of several candidates in the final stretch of the global vaccine race. There’s still no guarantee that the experimental vaccine, developed by... Read more
Washington, DC – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) denounced the execution of five aid workers on July 19 in northeast Nigeria by the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP), a Boko Haram faction. ISWAP militants claimed responsibility for the killings of these workers they had abducted... Read more
Every year, July 28 is marked as World Hepatitis Day (WHD). It is a day dedicated to increase the global awareness and understanding of viral hepatitis and the diseases that it causes. Viral hepatitis is inflammation of the liver caused by a group of viruses known as hepatitis... Read more
