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The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) on Monday said the commission in Kaduna state had introduced anti-corruption clubs in 48 secondary schools. Speaking with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna, Mr Godwin Basheru, the ICPC Principal Superintendent in charge of Education, said the aim of the anti-corruption clubs was to educate and enlighten youths on corruption. Basheru said the commission took the initiative because it considered youths, most of who are in secondary schools, as critical stakeholders in the fight against corruption. According to him, the anti-corruption clubs teach the youths how to handle corruption,…

“Rebirth of the African Woman” campaign, an initiative for social-economic empowerment and protection of women’s rights, especially the vulnerable ,was unveiled in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The unveiling was in commemoration of the 2020 International Women’s Day (IWD) on Sunday. International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated on March 8 every year with focus on movement for women’s rights, and this year’s theme was: “Each for Equal”. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the programme was unveiled by the Women Rights Network (WRN) in Abuja. Women groups and entrepreneurs, students, government functionaries and representatives of relevant government institutions…

OMD Worldwide, an Omnicom Media Group Agency, has been named Global Media Agency of the Year 2020 for the second consecutive year by Adweek, a leading advertising industry publication globally. The accolade marks the sixth time that OMD has been named Adweek Global Media Agency of the year since 2010. Profiling the agency in its February 24th issue, Adweek credits OMD for sustaining the stunning 2018 comeback globally that earned it the Global Media Agency of the Year title last year; and for leveraging that momentum to support the continuing investments in talent, technology and process that would make winning…

The mothers of the remaining 112 Chibok girls still in Boko Haram captivity have called on the Federal Government and other world women organizations to intensify efforts toward the release of their daughters. They made the call in a letter written to commemorate the 2020 International Women’s Day, which was made available to newsmen on Monday in Asaba, Delta. The letter was entitled: “Open letter to the World’s Most Powerful Women by Chibok Mothers on International Women’s Day 2020.” It was signed by Yana Galang, Monica Stover, Hannatu Dauda, Mary Shettima, Ladi Zanna Lawan and Rebecca Samuel, on behalf of…

An NGO, Women Against Violence and Exploitation (WAVE) Foundation has called on the government to declare Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) a criminal act, so as to strengthen punishment of perpetrators. President of the organisation, Mrs Lola Ibrahim, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja. Ibrahim said that the International Women’s Day (IWD) campaign, commemorated annually on March 8 was combined with the advocacy actions that seek to educate the public on the effects of FGM. “We are using the significance of the IWD to call on the government and other…

Women Sales Associations (WoSAs), an NGO in Bauchi State, have urged women of reproductive age to embrace Child Birth Spacing (CBS) to achive economic space in value chains of Rice, Soya Beans and Groundnuts. Some WoSAs officials from Dass, Toro and Bauchi Local Government Areas of the state gave the advice in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Bauchi. Members of WoSas are women engaged in agro processing and farming of Rice, Soya Beans and groundnut in the state. The Chairperson of the association from Toro LGA, Hajiya Yalwa Salisu, told NAN that women…

Prof. Segun Ajiboye, Registrar, Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) has said that the nationwide verification of teachers’ professional certification is not to witch hunt anyone but to sanitize the teaching profession. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the TRCN monitoring teams have begun the verification exercise targeted at rooting quackery out of the profession in Oyo and other states of the federation, including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Ajiboye, in an interview with NAN on Monday, stated that the nationwide monitoring exercise received the support of states and schools. According to him, no serious country will allow…

The Lagos State Police Command says it has arrested a 16-year-old girl for allegedly stabbing a 49-year-old security guard, Babatunde Ishola, to death while trying to rape her. This was contained in a statement issued by the state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Bala Elkana, and made available to newsmen on Sunday. Elkana said that the suspect, of No. 10, Olalemide Street, Aboru, said that the deceased, who was her father’s friend, invited her to his house to assist him in fetching water, as he lived in the house alone. “She has always been helping him with house chores and…

The Police in Lagos have arrested three suspects alleged to have been responsible for the removal of a human skull from a cemetery for ritual purposes. A statement issued by DSP Bala Elkana, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in Lagos State on Sunday, said policemen from Area ‘E’ Command, Festac arrested the suspects. Elkana named them as Dauda Tijani, 42; of No. 23, Omomwunmi St., Orege Ajegunle; Olawale Shodolamu, 70; a herbalist and Seun Falana, 37; a staff member of Trinity Cemetery in Ajegunle. He said that Tijani was intercepted at Alakija Bus stop along the Lagos-Badagry Expressway by…

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says 23 suspected cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) have been identified in Edo, Lagos, Ogun, FCT and Kano states, out of which one was confirmed positive “index case” with no death. NCDC Director-General, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, disclosed this while speaking with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja, adding that as of March 7, there was no new confirmed case of COVID-19 in the country. NAN reports that this was the eighth national situation report, following the confirmation of the first case of COVID-19 disease in the country on Feb. 27, 2020.…