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Rights

January 30, 2025

Nigerian couple arrested for selling six-year-old daughter for N450,000

The suspects, Christiana Ibanga and her boyfriend, Inyene Akpan, were apprehended for allegedly selling their own child for N450,000.

Armed policewomen
January 30, 2025

NLC threatens to sanction governors not paying new minimum wage, gives March deadline

NLC says stringent measures are in place to ensure governors and employers pay the new minimum wage before the end of March.

Governors
January 30, 2025

NLC to hold mass rally February 4 to protest telecom’s 50% tariff hike

The Nigeria Labour Congress has announced plans to embark on a nationwide rally on February 4 over the 50 per cent hike in telecom services by the Nigerian Communications Commission

NLC president Ajaero; telecom logos
January 29, 2025

Court dismisses Afe Babalola’s defamation suit against Dele Farotimi

The Federal High Court, Ado-Ekiti Division, on Wednesday, dismissed the defamation suit against activist Dele Farotimi.

FHC Ado-Ekiti
January 29, 2025

Police ask court to dismiss Afe Babalola’s defamation case against Dele Farotimi

The move to withdraw the defamation suit filed by IGP Kayode Egbetokun was stated in a notice of discontinuance dated January 29, 2025.

Babalola and Farotimi
January 29, 2025

Governor Bago seeks support for NAPTIP to tackle human trafficking

The governor made the call when NAPTIP director-general Binta Adamu-Bello visited him in Abuja on Tuesday.

NAPTIP agents
January 28, 2025

NHRC received 1,223 cases of child abandonment in December 2024: Official

The dashboard showed that the commission received 355,726 complaints of human rights violations in December.

National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)
January 28, 2025

Nigerian government urged to review child protection legislation

The stakeholders spoke in an interview in Abuja on Tuesday. They said that the proposed review of the CRA was long overdue.

NIGERIaN KIDS
January 27, 2025

Female lawyers seek end to slow justice delivery in GBV cases

Ms Onyenucheya-Uko decried the prevailing cases of GBV in the country, stressing the need to expedite actions to tackle the menace.

Female lawyers
January 27, 2025

U.S. denies residency to Nigerian woman after DNA shows sponsor not her biological father

“Mr Adex Odiete, her father, had been a victim of a paternity fraud perpetrated by the mother of Linda Odiete,” Mr Odiete’s lawyer said.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services