By Ismaila Chafe  President Muhammadu Buhari has successfully performed Umrah rituals, amid tight security, upon his arrival at the Grand Mosque in Makkah. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the president along side members of his entourage were led by a delegation from the General Presidency for theContinue Reading

By Aminu Garko The Director-General, National Orientation Agency (NOA), Dr Garba Abari has charged media practitioners to raise public awareness on the upcoming national census. Abari urged the media to saturate Nigerian airwaves and space with all the needed information on the population exercise. He made the appeal on ThursdayContinue Reading

By Thompson Yamput The members of staff, students and Alumni Association of Salem University Lokoja on Thursday, lauded the “pragmatic transformative visions and drive” of their Vice Chancellor , Prof. Alewo Johnson-Akubo. The University’s Registrar, Dr. Emmanuel Adejoh, gave the commendation in a statement in Lokoja, to celebrate the recordsContinue Reading

By Justina Auta Baobab for Women’s Human Rights (BAOBAB), a non-governmental organisation, has called for the promotion of the human rights of women in Anglophone West-African (AWA) countries. BAOBAB’s Executive Director, Ms Bunmi Dipo-Salami, made the call during a virtual regional convening of state and non-state actors in AWA withContinue Reading

Participants at an event to mark the 2023 International Day for Street Children   By Okon Okon An Abuja-based NGO, The Young Ambassador Against Drug Abuse Initiative (YAADA) is to enroll one million out-of-school children. Mr Saifullahi Usman, Chief Executive Officer of the YAADA, represented by Miss Esther Nwankwo, madeContinue Reading

Some of the Nigerian irregular migrants evacuated from Libya to Nigeria by FG/IOM on Tuesday    By Lizzy Okoji The Federal Government  in collaboration with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), has evacuated 152 Nigerians, who are stranded and lived as illegal immigrants in Libya, to Nigeria. The evacuated NigeriansContinue Reading