Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Rights

August 4, 2025

NARD declares support for LAUTECH resident doctors’ strike

The association also decried the sharp decline in resident doctors in the Ogbomosho-based teaching hospital.

Lautech Teaching Hospital
August 4, 2025

Retired soldiers shut down finance ministry over unpaid entitlements

The retired soldiers accused the Military Pensions Board of abandoning their case and hiding behind technicalities to evade responsibility.

Retired army personnel at the finance ministry Credit: Punch
August 4, 2025

Breastfeeding: UNICEF advocates inclusive support systems for working mothers

”There is a critical need to strengthen systems that support mothers to breastfeed successfully,” said UNICEF.

Breastfeeding mother
August 4, 2025

Bashir El-Rufai vows to murder Nigerian troll, family members in unhinged social media post

“I am going to find you (it’s easier than you think) & unalive you and your family,” Bashir El-Rufai threatened an X user.

Bashir and threatening X post
August 1, 2025

NAFDAC seeks enabling environments for nursing mothers to breastfeed babies

NAFDAC has urged governments, institutions, and communities to create an enabling environment that protects and promotes breastfeeding.

Bauchi women
July 31, 2025

Striking nurses, midwives say 90% demands ‘have no cost implication’

“Our demands include the gazetting of the nursing scheme of service approved since 2016 and the creation of a Department of Nursing in the Federal Ministry of Health,” said NANNM.

nurses
July 31, 2025

IGP seeks police exit from pension scheme, blames law for ‘humiliating’ conditions of retirees

“The current state of affairs demands decisive legislative action to align the pension realities of the Force with the peculiar risks,” said the IGP.

Kayode Egbetokun
July 31, 2025

Elections: INEC, NOA strengthen collaboration on voters’ sensitisation

The commitment was made when NOA director-general, Lanre Issa-Onilu, paid a courtesy visit to the INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, in Abuja.

Yakubu, Issa-Onilu
July 31, 2025

Group condemns violent attack, assault on JoyNews journalists

It also called on the government to take “these concerns seriously” and address the excesses of the National Security operatives.

Carlos Calony and Jonas Dodzi Voegborio
July 31, 2025

PRAWA asks Tinubu, National Assembly to abolish death penalty in Nigeria

“Abolishing the death penalty would send a strong message of Nigeria’s commitment to dignity, justice reform,” said PRAWA.

Godswill Akapabio,Bola Tinubu/House of representatives Speaker, Tajudeen Abbas