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October 29, 2025

Katsina referral centre records 110 cases of sexual assault

Of the cases recorded during the period, 60 have been uploaded to the Child Protection Information Management System.

three-day training in Katsina
October 28, 2025

Funding cuts threatening work to end violence against women, says UN agency

UN Women, in a report published on Monday, warned that aid cuts shut down or suspend one in three women’s anti-violence programmes.

UN women logo
October 27, 2025

371,622 rights violation complaints received across Nigeria in September; North-Central tops list: NHRC

Mr Ojukwu said the September observatory reveals persistent and evolving threats to human rights across all six geopolitical zones.

National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)
October 27, 2025

Kaduna courts shut as judiciary workers begin strike

The federal and state high courts, the upper Shari’a court, and the customary and magistrates’ courts were under lock and key.

JUSUN logo
October 27, 2025

Gumi urges Sharia judges to grant wives’ divorce from abusive husbands without compensation

“A husband can simply…end a marriage, but when a woman seeks freedom from an abusive man, she is made to suffer further by being told to pay compensation,” said Mr Gumi.

Sheikh Gumi
October 27, 2025

Child Molestation: Educationists say early sex education now compelling

They said that early sex education would tackle teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases among adolescents.

Little children
October 27, 2025

IPOB Terrorism: Nnamdi Kanu abandons plan to defend himself, declares trial illegal

IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu, on Monday, abandoned his earlier plan to call witnesses in his defence.

Nnamdi Kanu
October 27, 2025

Child Trafficking: NAPTIP rescues 26 children, arrests orphanage owner, fingers NACRAN founder

Operatives of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons rescued no fewer than 26 trafficked children at an orphanage home in Benue.

NAPTIP agents
October 27, 2025

U.S. lawmaker Riley Moore says Tinubu complicit in deadly attacks on Nigerian Christians, seeks urgent Trump intervention

“My Christian brothers and sisters are being murdered in Nigeria, and this is me raising the alarm in the United States,” said Riley Moore.

Bola Tinubu and Trump
October 24, 2025

IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu fails to open defence again

The IPOB leader then sought an adjournment to enable him to prepare for his defence.

Nnamdi Kanu in court