STEPHEN OLUFEMI ONI reports on the efforts of the Kwara State Police Command under new CP Paul Odama to nip kidnapping and other acts of criminality in the bud in the state When the new Kwara State Commissioner of Police, CP Paul Odama, assumed office on September 9, 2022, he left no one in […]
The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), has continued its unrelenting fight for the protection of civilians in armed conflicts through a legal framework, which the group is now urging President Muhammadu Buhari to sign in order to ensure the Protection of Civilians (PoC). CISLAC for months has been expressing concern over the growing worrisome […]
Thursday, October 20 marked two years since youths protesting across the country against brutality perpetrated against Nigerians by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the police and other security agencies were reportedly killed by security forces at the Lekki Tollgate in Lagos State. The incident, which was later tagged, “Lekki massacre” snowballed into a […]
Any harmful act of sexual, physical, psychological, mental and emotional abuse perpetrated against a person’s will based on the gender is referred to as Sexual and Gender-based Violence (SGBV). Many have attributed the causes to be cultural, economic, political or legal. Stakeholders Stakeholders in Ekiti State have continued to institute framework to nip the menace […]
Victims of the October 8, 2021 military invasion of Izombe community, in the Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State have appealed to Governor Hope Uzodinma to expedite action towards ameliorating their plights. The security forces, led by soldiers, invaded Umuokwu, Umuorji and Ndioko communities all in Aborshi Izombe Autonomous Community on that day, […]
Gradually they are getting there as development is progressively spreading across Bayelsa State. The state would have development more than it is now if there were access roads to these communities especially communities that produce oil and gas. No access roads. No pipe borne water. Most of them also lack public power. There […]
Two states in the South Western part of the nation, Ogun and Oyo worried by the rising cases of crime along their borders have decided to tackle the menace headline by agreeing to set up a Joint Border Security Task Force to address the spate of kidnapping, armed robbery, cultism, farmers-herders clashes, banditry, ritual killings […]
As Lagos population grows daily with attendant increase in waste generation, experts recently met to chart ways on how best the state can attain a circular economic status through strategic management of waste generation. MURITALA AYINLA writes Going by the global population trends in the 21st century, there is increased migration from rural to […]
STEPHEN OLUFEMI ONI in this report examines the menace of street begging in Kwara State, especially in Ilorin, the state capital, and steps being taken by the government to curb the crisis Street begging is, to all intents and purposes, an undesirable social phenomenon plaguing many African countries, particularly Nigeria which prides itself as […]
With spare parts dealers in Akure, the Ondo State capital blaming Deji of Akure of moves to impose a chairman on the market, ADEWALE MOMOH writes on the crisis and parties involved The situation in the major spare parts market in Akure, the state capital of Ondo, is becoming increasingly tense as a result […]