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Int’l Girl-child Day: WARDC Urges Government Action On Menstrual Health Girls’ Rights

The Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC) has called on the Federal Government and all other relevant stakeholders to urgently address period poverty, strengthen protections against sexual violence in schools, and adopt a national policy on menstrual health to safeguard the dignity and rights of Nigerian girls. WARDC Founding Director, Dr. Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi, in […]

Withdraw ‘Dancing Around Figures’ Comment Or Come To Engineering Debate, Umahi Challenges Makinde

The Minister of Works, Engr. David Umahi, has demanded that Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde, withdraw his comment that he (Umahi) was “dancing around figures” when he appeared on Arise News Channel’s breakfast show or the governor should come forward for a debate on engineering practice, particularly road construction. Recall that the Minister had a […]

EFCC Begins Investigations Of 2 Suspects Over Undeclared $6k, £53k Cash At Lagos Airport

Operatives of the Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have commenced investigations of two travellers arrested by operatives of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) for allegedly failing to declare the sums of $6,180 and £53,415 cash in their possession. The suspects, Mamud Nasidi and Yahaya Nasidi, were […]