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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
January 27, 2025

Gospel singer Timileyin Ajayi pleads not guilty to murdering girlfriend Salome

Gospel singer Timileyin Ajayi, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of his girlfriend Salome Adaidu.

Timileyin Ajayi
January 27, 2025

Afe Babalola to withdraw defamation suit against Dele Farotimi

Legal icon Afe Babalola says he is ready to withdraw his criminal defamation suit against rights activist Dele Farotimi.

Babalola and Farotimi
January 24, 2025

Imo lawyers boycott courts over alleged murder of colleague

Mr Nwowu was shot on Wednesday evening in his Mgbidi hometown by yet-to-be-identified assailants.

Lawyers
January 24, 2025

Pensioners beg Tinubu’s govt to pay their pensions, accrued rights, increments

Also, the union’s spokesman, Etheleert Ibeh, urged the government to pay all the increments.

President Bola Tinubu
January 24, 2025

Tariff Hike: Telecom subscribers kick against NLC’s proposed strike

NATCOMS president Deolu Ogunbanjo said the protest was uncalled for, as it would send wrong signals to investors.

Joe Ajaero and Telcos