The ActionAid Nigeria (AAN), Resource Centre for Human Rights and Civic Education (CHRICED), and presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, have called for strategic approaches to ameliorate the plights of almajiri and other children in the country. They made the call in separate statements yesterday on t...
A joint security team of the Police and Anambra Vigilante have caught and detained six persons for allegedly contracting sick persons to obtain money under false pretence from the public. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, disclosed this in a statement issued in Awka and made available to newsmen [&hel...
No fewer than 27 individuals were arrested by the Lagos State Environmental Taskforce yesterday for engaging in street begging and causing public disturbances. The state Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, disclosed this in a statement, accompanied by a video shared on X.com today. Wahab revealed that among those a...
•Street begging The saying that ‘Youths are the leaders of tomorrow’ may not come to be as the state of the economy has made it difficult for most parents to provide the necessities for their children to nurture them as leaders. These youths, of which many are undergraduates, are now seen at strategic places begging […]

