People with Disabilities
16 Dec
The CBM Global Disability Inclusion (CBM Global), on Friday, emphasized the need for Nigeria to take cognisance of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for people with disabilities in the country. Its said that the rights of persons with disabilities are still being overlooked. The Country Director, CBM Global Disability Inclusion (CBM Global), Ms. Ekaete…
11 Sep 2023
The Danish government offered an apology Monday to thousands of people with disabilities who were abused in state-run facilities, including with forced sterilisations or sexual assaults, beginning in the 1930s.
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Scores of protesters were at the National Assembly complex in Abuja urging the Senator Godswill Akpabio led National Assembly to reject the re-appointment of Dr Vincent Isegbe as the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS). Jointly led by Comrades Danesi Momoh and Igwe Ude-umanta, the group maintained that a reversal of Isegbe's…
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A Prosecution Witness, PW6, has revealed how the Head of Stakeholders Unit of the Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS), Emmanuella Eteta Ita, diverted money to her private school, Surestart School Ltd. The witness in the ongoing N2 billion fraud trial of Ita made this disclosure to Justice Giwa Ogunbanjo of the Federal High Court sitting…
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Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday refused to grant bail to the leader of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) in the terrorism charges against him. Justice Binta Nyako declined to grant Kanu bail on the ground that the earlier application he filed had been refused. The court held that the only…
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R&B icon R Kelly has launched an appeal to overturn his 30-year racketeering sentence, issued in 2022. The musician was convicted of racketeering and trafficking after a high-profile trial in New York in 2021, culminating years of accusations against him throughout his career. Although he was absent from the appeal, his lawyer Jennifer Bonjean contends…
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has scheduled the governorship primary election in Ondo State for April 25, 2024. The ruling party in its timetable and schedule of activities pegged the price for the Expression of Interest and Nomination forms at N10m and N40m respectively Ahead of the November 16, 2024 gubernatorial election in Ondo State…
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As part of activities to expand cultural and education exchange between Africa and the United States, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce yesterday held a special forum for their Advance With Africa program in partnership with the President’s Advisory Council on African Diaspora Engagement (PAC-ADE) at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. At the session, the PAC-ADE discussed its…
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Military air strikes have destroyed terrorists’ logistics storage base in Palele area of Niger State. Airforce headquarters disclosed that sustained air strikes by Nigerian Air Force (NAF) aircraft under Operation WHIRL PUNCH (OPWP) have continued to decimate terrorists and their logistics, especially in the Northwest and North Central regions of Nigeria. According to spokesman of…
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The official Royal Family website has merged the individual biography pages of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Previously, the couple enjoyed separate extensive profiles, but now their information has been streamlined into a joint page titled "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex." The new page begins with the statement:…
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Prof. Cyril Ndifon, the suspended Dean of Faculty of Law, University of Calabar (UNICAL), has told a Federal High Court, Abuja that Osuobeni Akponimisingha, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC)’s counsel, was not qualified to practice as lawyer. Prof. Ndifon, through his lawyer, Joe Agi, SAN, made the allegation in a…
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Russia's Belgorod region bordering Ukraine plans to evacuate 9,000 children following an uptick in deadly Ukrainian shelling, the region's governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said Tuesday. Kyiv's attacks on the territory have killed 16 people since last week, with shelling intensifying in the run up to elections poised to keep President Vladimir Putin in power until 2030,…