•Protesting women and armed Fulani herdsman Suspected Fulani herdsmen today shot three persons dead while working on their farm in the Yelwata area of Benue State. Three others are in critical condition with gunshot injuries from the attack, reports Channels TV. The news of the early morning attack got to Yelwata community, which led to [&hell...
•Bandits Bandits have abducted at least 20 persons, mostly young girls and women in Moriki town, Zurmi Local Government Area of Zamfara State. A resident of Moriki, Sufyanu Moriki, told our correspondent that the victims were abducted on Saturday while fetching firewood on the outskirts of the town, reports Channels TV. “The abduction actually...
•Some of the victims (women and children) of Adamawa flooding The Yelewa primary school makeshift camp located in Yola-South Local Government Area in Adamawa State for the victims of the yesterday flooding, has children and old women dominating the number of the victims. When our correspondent visited the camp at about 10am today, children, o...
•Bullet ridden vehicle At least, 14 passengers, including women and children, have been killed in yet another attack in Plateau State. The incident comes a month after wedding travellers from Kaduna were ambushed and killed by a mob in Plateau, reports Daily Trust. The latest victims were reportedly killed along Chirang road in Mangor District...
•South African police South African police said today they were hunting for attackers who burst into a bar in a township outside the capital and killed five customers and wounded three others. The attack at approximately 10:30 pm (2030 GMT) yesterday is the latest mass shooting in the crime-ridden country, where murders average over 75 [&helli...
•ICC headquarters and Taliban terrorists The International Criminal Court today issued arrest warrants for two senior Taliban leaders, accusing them of crimes against humanity for persecuting women and girls. Judges said there were “reasonable grounds” to suspect Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada and Chief Justice Abdul Hakim Haqqan...
African workers represented by the African Regional Organisation of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-Africa) has called on African governments, regional bodies, and all relevant stakeholders to enforce zero tolerance for perpetrators of sexual violence against women. The call was made in a statement issued by ITUC-Africa Gener...
•Zou Zhenhao A Chinese student who drugged and raped 10 women in the UK and China was jailed for life today with a minimum term of 22 years. Passing sentence, UK judge Rosina Cottage said that to the world Zhenhao Zou, 28 appeared “well to do, ambitious and charming” but this was in fact a […]
UK Members of Parliament (MPs) yesterday voted to end contentious prosecutions of women in England and Wales for terminating a pregnancy, paving the way for a huge overhaul of how the country’s abortion laws are enforced. Currently, a woman can face criminal charges for choosing to end a pregnancy after 24 weeks or without the […]
•Benue massacre The founder of the Women Environmental Programme who has been working at the heart of numerous violent conflicts in Benue since 2001, Dr. Priscilla Achakpa, has said that women and children are the demographic hit hardest by the recent spate of killings in the state. While speaking in an interview with Arise TV […]
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