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UNAIDS has launched its 2025 Global AIDS Update, “AIDS, Crisis and the Power to Transform”, which shows that a historic funding crisis is threatening to unravel decades of progress unless countries can make radical shifts to HIV programming and funding. The report launched on Wednesday highlights the impact that the sudden, large-scale funding cuts from…
……Advocates for Environmental and Economic Sustainability By Emamuzo Iboma In a bid to promote environmental and economic sustainability, the One Million Tree Initiative, a non-governmental organization (NGO), has commemorated this year’s World Environment Day by planting trees and cash crops in Magodo Phase 1 Gateway Zone Estate, Lagos. The initiative reaffirms the NGO’s commitment to…
By Emamuzo Iboma A devastating incident in Lagos has claimed the life of a 9-year-old boy, Chinemerem, who was electrocuted in the Ilasamaja area. According to reports, Chinemerem and another individual, Qudus, came into contact with an exposed electric wire at their home. The incident occurred on Tuesday, June 10, when both victims were shocked…
Operatives of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) have rescued eight children suspected to have been stolen from Kano and a few other States in the northern part of the country and trafficked to the South–South and South-East by a suspected wanted inter-state child trafficking syndicate. The press officer of…
Rivers Govt Confirms Outbreak of Bird Flu, Alerts Farmers Barikui Felix- Port Harcourt The Rivers State Ministry of Agriculture has confirmed that an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, has occurred at a 3,000-capacity poultry farm in Iriebe, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state. The outbreak, initially reported on…
A prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, on Wednesday told a Federal Capital Territory High Court that statements made by the defendants were given voluntarily and under caution. The witness, Salihu Kadiri, who appeared as the third prosecution witness, made the assertion during a trial-within-trial before Justice Charles…
Ten days after the death of Somtochukwu Maduagwu, news anchor and producer with Arise Television, the police authorities have announced the arrest of 12 suspects in connection with the robbery incident. Somtochukwu, popularly known as Sommie, died in the early hours of September 29 when armed robbers invaded her residence in the Katampe area of…
HRC, NACA Collaborate, Enforce Rights of People Living With HIV/AIDS, Other Marginalized Nigerians The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), in collaboration with the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), as part of its implementation of the Global funds grant circle 7 (GT7), inaugurated the Access to Justice Coordination Forum to enforce the rights…
By Barikui Felix Wife of the Bayelsa State Governor, Dr. Gloria Diri, has called on relevant agencies to intensify efforts in arresting and prosecuting perpetrators of human trafficking and gender-based violence, regardless of their social status. Dr. Diri made the call during a three-day Niger Delta summit themed “Raising Teenage Ambassadors Against Traffickers and Propagators…
The United States Department of Homeland Security has announced plans to deport an additional 18 Nigerians listed on its “worst-of-the-worst” criminal register, bringing the total number of Nigerians scheduled for removal to 97. The development comes barely one week after reports that 79 Nigerians convicted of various offences had been marked for deportation. A follow-up…