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By Ken MejuThe near absenceof mention of issues critical to women in the Nigerian media will soon be athing of the past. This is because journalists rising from a training on theimplementation of the United Nations Resolution on Security, UNSCR 1325, havemade personal commitments to project issues on abuse of women rightsparticularly in conflict situations greater attention. They also promised toraise calls for inclusion of women in peace-building. The was the outcome of a training on amplifying women’s voices for peace and implementing the UNSCR 1325 was a collaboration between the West African Network for Peace-building, WANEP, Nigeria and her global…

Nze Ogbueshi Nwoshia ObodoekweThe remains of Nze Nwosha Obodoekwe, father of a Port Harcourt based journalist attached to National Point Newspapers and human rights defender, Styvn Obodoekwe, will be laid to rest on Friday, February 8, 2019. According to information released by Nze Alex Obodoekwe on behalf of the family and made available to this publication, the late Nwosha Obodoekwe, an Ozo title holder fondly addressed as Ogbueshi Ezenwamadi, will be buried in his family compound at Okuzu-Umuezegbogu village, Oba, (near Onitsha) Idemili South Local government Area of Anambra State in accordance with Christian burial tradition. The burial arrangement released…

By Constance MejuSometime late December 2018,while presenting the 2019 Federal Budget Proposal to the joint session of theNational Assembly in Abuja, President Muhammadu Buhari claimed that work on theOgwashi-Uku Dam has been completed and commissioned. Normally, such informationwould have been allowed to go the way of most budget items as has been the casewith national, state and local government appropriation bills.But because awareness on citizen responsibility to good governance is beginning to grow, a concerned native in that town, the headquarter of Aniocha South Local Government in Delta State, who believed that silence in the face of wrong doing is…

DIG Peace Ibekwe A.While campaigningin Awka, Anambra state last month, President Muhammadu Buhari told SouthEasterners, Ndigbo that he had not been appointing people from that zone intotop decision making offices because he has not found any who merits such intheir midst. He was responding to criticism over the appointment of the newInspector General of Police who he picked again from the north even asNigerians are shouting coarse that these appointments have continually beenone-sided.Thepresident could have also been indirectly making no apologies to Nigerian womenfor by-passing the next most senior police officer, DIG Peace Ibekwe A., a woman,to pick his candidate,…

Thereare certain simple things you can do to stop serious damage to your health.After the age of 50, one may experience many types of illness but one of the most worrisome is Alzheimer which will not allow you to be able to look after yourself and thus, cause a lot of inconvenience to you and your family members. Thankfully, research is saying you can halt its advance by acting wisely now.Here is a simple exercise handed down by a doctorand confirmed effective even if simple. This will reduce the onset of thedreaded illness while also improving the following: Body weight, hypertension,…

Asthe count-down to the 2019 general elections enters the last month, Nigerianshave been warned to expect a wave of terrorism worse than the Fulani Herdsmen.Freedomfor the Nation Outreach’s general overseer, Pastor Samuel Akinbodunre in a NewYear message, said Nigeria will experience another sect of insurgence worsethan the Fulani Herdsmen.TheSouth African based cleric revealed according to an internet monitored report,that there is arms build-up in the country.Accordingto him, God showed him in a vision, a house heavily guarded by security agentsbut peeping into it spiritually, he saw the house loaded with ammunitions inpreparation for2019 elections.Onthe presidential election slated for February 16,…

Theyear 2018 ended on a good note for the people of Twon Brass. The people of thatkingdom collectively chose to dedicate their home to God led by the King andQueen, chiefs, elders and pastors last December.Itwas a day of proclamation by King Alfred Diete-Spiff, Amayanabo of Twon Brassand chairman Bayelsa State as he called on all to repent leading the repentanceprayer on behalf of the people and kingdom as in biblical times.Membersof the Pastors Forum in the kingdom backed the proclamation/repentance sessionswith prayers for the return of the people to God and attendant peace in theland and consecrated the new…

The blame for what Nigeria hasbecome falls on you and me. Not Buhari, not Jonathan, not Obasanjo anddefinitely not Abacha.Our wickedness stinks to theheavens as we go about our daily lives, pulling down everyone and everything tobecome rich. We import substandard products, fake drugs and expired baby foodunfit for human consumption and we have the nerve to complain about leadership?We even steal from widows,orphans, and refugees. We take their food and sell it for profit. Noconscience. Nothing is sacred. No one is spared. We build substandard roads,schools, houses, hospitals, all for profit at the expense of human life; aninvaluable item…

The Midwest Movement condemns inthe strongest words possible, the sacrilegious actions of suspension of thesubstantive Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), His Lordship Hon. Justice WalterOnnoghen and the purported appointing of an Ag. Chief Justice in the person ofIbrahim Tanko Mohammad, JSC. We herebyDEMAND the immediate annulment of this “coup” against the NigerianConstitution.The reasons given by PresidentMuhammaduBuhari for taking these weighty and clearly unconstitutional steps areas flawed as they are an embarrassment to the entire Nigeria nation and MidwestRegion of Edo and Delta States in particular. The provision of the Constitutionis very explicit on the processes for removing and replacing the…

By Iduozee Paul, Benin CorrespondentA legal practitioner, Peter O. lyhiokhai acting on behalf of his  colleagues has filed a  motion for a stall of execution  order in the Supreme Court seeking to restrain Chevron, Keystone Bank and other  concerned bodies from having any financial transaction with the Itsekiri Regional Derivation Development (IRDC), on grounds of  alleged financial fraud and embezzlement.   lyhiokhai’ while processing the motion of stall of execution at the  Appeal Court in Benin City, Edo state, said the non- execution of vital projects in the communities where the oil company is sited led to the filing of…