The federal government has proposed N84.48 billion to implement a five-year national strategy to end child marriage by 2030.
Nigeria, Ghana, Burundi and Zambia were among the 15 countries elected to the United Nations General Assembly Human Rights Council.
The Public Complaints Commission says it received 1,281,984 complaints in the last two years and resolved 716,688 of them.
Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court has set aside Anojan Sivarasa’s death sentence over a Facebook post termed blasphemous against Islam.
Nigeria has condemned rising xenophobic attacks against Africans, warning that discrimination threatens continental solidarity, integration and peaceful coexistence.
Education stakeholders have called for adopting digital report cards in primary and secondary schools to improve access to results, preserve academic records, and prevent manipulation.
“The government coerces victims of forced marriage, including trafficking victims, to return to their Boko Haram husbands in Borno State demobilisation centres,” the report stated.
A trafficking report highlighted the role of Nigeria’s education ministry in Russia’s fraudulent recruitment of Nigerians to fight in Ukraine.
The U.S. has retained Nigeria in Tier 2 of its 2026 Trafficking in Persons report for not meeting the minimum standards for delisting due to corruption and official complicity.
The U.S. has listed Nigeria among countries with cases of child soldiers recruited by Boko Haram and ISIS-West Africa, warning of aid restrictions to Nigeria as a sanction.
