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The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding, Nigeria (WANEP-Nigeria) and its member organisations has expressed concern over the increasing sexual assault and rape of women and girls in the country.This was contained in a statement on Wednesday by the National Coordinator, WANEP-Nigeria, Ms. Bridget Osakwe, entitled: ‘Urgent Call to End Gender Bases Violence and Protect the Rights of Women and Girls in Nigeria”.According to Osakwe, the recent cases of rape and sexual harassment of women and girls are expression of the deeper systemic disregard for women as widely reported by the media resulting in the death of the victims have sparked…

Democracy Day, June 12: PANDEF scores President Buhari’s address low, Calls for Unity and Understanding amongst NigeriansPan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, the apex socio-cultural body of the Niger Delta people, has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s Democracy Day address, to the nation, as rhetoric, apathetic, and largely, a promissory note, as usual.On this Democracy Day, PANDEF, had expected to hear commitment from  Mr. President on the Amendment of the 2010 Electoral Act, which he withheld assent in 2019; particularly, with off-season Gubernatorial Elections around the corner.After 21 years of uninterrupted democratic rule, the least President Buhari should bequeath to Nigeria, is…

Fellow Nigerians,The 2020 celebration of Democracy Day marks 21 years of uninterrupted civil administration in our dear country. This day provides us an opportunity to reflect on our journey as a nation, our achievements and struggles.It is a day to honour our founding fathers who toiled to establish our republic and every Nigerian who has worked tirelessly to sustain it.We are celebrating this year’s Democracy Day despite the COVID-19 pandemic which afflicts our nation and the whole world.It is indeed a very difficult time for everyone especially those who have lost loved ones to the virus and those whose sources…

A Nabbed suspect of the murder of the controversial murder and rape victim, who until her death happened to be a Student of university of Benin Nabbed by the DSS confessed that he was hired by RCCG Pastor to eliminate miss Uwa, who was pregnant for him and refused to terminate the pregnancy.According to the suspect Mr  Chibuzo who confessed to DSS that, it was the RCCG pastor that paid them 1.5 million naira to kill the year one UNIBEN student. The pastor impregnated the girl and asked her to abort the baby, but the girl refused.“So, he made arrangement…

By Chief (Dr.) E. K. Clark, OFR, CONMr. President, LET US CALL A SPADE, A SPADE!Let me, begin by, expressing earnest gratitude and appreciation to Mr. President, for congratulating me, both on my 92nd and 93rd Birthday anniversaries. I deeply cherish the thoughtful gesture, and the kind remarks. As Mr. President, rightly stated in the two congratulatory messages, I have rendered over 70 years of my life to the service of this country, starting from the age of 19. And it pleased the Almighty God to keep me up to this age, and in sound health. Accordingly, as long as, I…

Press Release                              June 5, 2020 WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY, 2020: NDWIRED CENTRE CALLS FOR #ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE FOR POLOBUBO /OPUAMA#As the global family commemorates World Environment Day 2020, today with the theme, ‘BIODIVERSITY’, the Niger Delta Women International Resource, Environment & Development Centre, NDWIRED CENTRE joins all of Earth’s peoples to employ the opportunity offered by this commemorative event to celebrate with all men, women and children. This year’s focus is very pertinent.  The more varied the earth’s fauna and flora are, the more confident we are in the earth’s ability to play its life-sustaining role. But the earth with its awesome powers…

By Iduozee Paul, BeninAhead of the governorship election in Edo State billed for September this year, the governor of Adamawa State, Alhaji Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri has disclosed that Edo State  is mainly a Peoples’ Democratic Party, ( PDP) state following its  zeal and ability to have emerged victorious in past elections in the state.Alhaji Fintiri said the forthcoming election will not be different. He made the statements in Benin City, during the party’s ward congress to elect ad-hoc delegates for the primary election preparatory to the in-coming governorship election.The Adamawa state governor said with the antecedent of the party in…

By Mbah Okemsinachi, YenagoaBayelsa State governor, Senator Douye Diri, has said there are similarities between his emergence as governor of the state and the June 12 saga as he paid tribute to those who lost their lives a few days to the state’s November 16, 2019 governorship election.The governor who described the deceased as the “Martyrs of Nembe’, noted that the lives of those innocent citizens were brutally terminated by anti-democratic forces.Governor Diri stated this in his Democracy Day message to Bayelsans and assured that he had no greater obligation than ensuring that people of the state lived in peace in order…

By Abraham IbiniSince the industrial revolution, the world population growth has increased exponentially, and with population growth, the environment has been affected profoundly. Today, the world is facing serious environmental challenges from gas flaring to the depletion of the ozone layer, deforestation, and other human activities which have resulted in the degradation of lands across the world, excessive heats, soot, pollution of the water as well as exposing society to diseases related to environmental pollution.June 5th of every year is set aside as the World Environment Day. It is the United Nation’s vehicle for encouraging awareness and actions for the…

After exhaustively discussed issues affecting the community, the Chiefs and the entire members of the community resolved as follows:That any person or group of persons parading themselves as cult group(s) in the Obuama Community will no longer be tolerated and if caught, will be handed over to the relevant security agencies.That any individual or group of persons from Obuama Community that will go and sign as guarantor(s)to secure the bail of these arrested cult boys will be tagged and published as sponsors of cultism and will be paraded as enemies of Obuama Community.That anybody arrested as a cultist and prosecuted…