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Rights

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
July 30, 2025

Kwara nurses join nationwide strike over poor welfare

“We are joining the strike because it is the directive of the national body. There is no demand we have made that the governor has not approved,” he said.

nurses
July 30, 2025

Labour expert reviews minimum wage options 

A labour expert, Jamiu Akolade, says shifting the minimum wage from the exclusive to the concurrent list has both positive and negative implications.

NLC protest
July 30, 2025

Oyo nurses to join nationwide seven-day warning strike today

“The strike is scheduled to commence at midnight on Wednesday, July 30, and will run through August 5, 2025,” the statement said.

Nurses