The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), has kicked against the high number of expatriates in Nigeria’s oil and gas industry, adding that many expatriates and alleged quota abuses raise concerns about long-term national development impact. Comrade (Engr) Festus OSIFO, in an address at the recent National E...
•Sex workers The Nigeria Sex Workers Association has called on the authorities of law enforcement agencies to protect its members nationwide from harassment and abuse. NSWA made the appeal in a statement by its National Coordinator, Amaka Enemo, and made available to our correspondent today in Lagos, reports NAN. Enemo said that recent reports...
•Olajumoke Onibread Olajumoke Orisaguna, the Nigerian model fondly remembered as “Olajumoke Onibread,” has shared her heart-wrenching ordeal with domestic violence. Olajumoke became an overnight sensation in 2016 after accidentally walking into a photoshoot featuring British rapper Tinie Tempah, photographed by renowned Nigerian photographer T...
The Spanish Football Federation today accepted Atletico Madrid’s appeal against a partial stadium ban after racial abuse directed at Athletic Bilbao winger Nico Williams. Atletico were initially ordered to partially close their stadium for two La Liga matches following monkey chants heard by Spain international Williams at Atletico’s Metropoli...
•Anthony Sani Former Secretary General, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Anthony Sani has kicked against establishment of state police as proposed by the federal government. Sani, in a statement today noted that if the State police is eventually created, State governors will abuse the police and as well use them as attacking dogs against politi...
•Solomon Arase With talks about the establishment of state police gaining momentum in the country, the Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Solomon Arase, has warned state governors not to abuse state police. Arase, the 18th Inspector General of Police, made this known on Channels Television yesterday. On Thursday, President Bola T...
•Marwa and governors wives The Nigeria Governors Spouses Forum (NGSF), has called on the federal and state governments to declare state of emergency on substance abuse and illicit drug trafficking in Nigeria with a view to mobilising resources to tackling the pandemic. The call was one of the resolutions in a communique signed by Chairperson [...
•Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy-Ohaneye Minister of Women Affairs Uju Kennedy-Ohaneye has joined the manhunt and announced N2 million bounty on an Anambra based lawyer, Adachukwu Cukelu-Okafor, now on a run, who allegedly used broken bottle, knife and electric iron to “brutalise” the child said to be her niece. In a viral video, the [&...
The bloody legacy of past and present administrations has, over the years, presented the country as a killing field where no premium is placed on human life. The fact that little is done to remedy rights abuses and violations is simply troubling and soils the country’s image internationally. While state actors at different levels are […...
Former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kola Ologbondiyan has declared that the truce and declaration by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the Rivers State crisis was unconstitutional. The former member of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council said according to the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria (as amended), it w...

