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What women with mutilated genitals undergo during sex – Expert

Posted by admin Headlines, Women Politics Sunday, February 9th, 2020

By Lucy Osuizigbo-Okechukwu Dr Esther Somefun, a Gender and Reproductive Health Analyst, on Sunday, says that women who have undergone Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) find it difficult to enjoy sex. Somefun, work with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that it was difficult for circumcised women to enjoy sexual […]

China coronavirus deaths reach 811

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Sunday, February 9th, 2020

The number of deaths from the new coronavirus has risen to 811 in mainland China, the country’s National Health Commission said on Sunday. The death toll thereby surpassed that of SARS, a respiratory disease which caused a global health scare in the early 2000, and which also began in China. Across China, 89 new deaths […]

ECOWAS mobilising own resources to combat terrorism -Buhari

Posted by admin ECOWAS, Headlines Sunday, February 9th, 2020

By Ismaila Chafe President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, commended the renewed vigour by ECOWAS member countries to mobilise their own resources to combat terrorism. Malam Garba Shehu, a presidential spokesman in a statement in Abuja on Sunday, said the President spoke at the High Level meeting of the African Union Peace […]

Press Release: Much More Needs to be Done on Ogoni Cleanup – MOSOP

Posted by admin Headlines, Press Releases Sunday, February 9th, 2020

The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) wishes to express its concerns over the Ogoni cleanup. This is necessary following the recent media briefing by Mr. Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity in which he stated that “since the Ogoni Cleanup commenced in January 2019, with […]

The Bane of the Nigerian Health Care System – By Tochukwu Ezukanma

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma Sunday, February 9th, 2020

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | February 9, 2020 – The Nigerian political elite behave like a colonial or Apartheid elite. They inhabit an island of opulence and extravagance in an ocean of encompassing poverty and mass suffering. It is an island governed by vicious exploitation of the system, crass contempt for the people and […]

Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Exoneration Top MOSOPs List of Demands

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, February 9th, 2020

The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has listed four conditions as necessary for the resolution of the Ogoni problem. Top amongst them is the exoneration of the 9 innocent Ogoni activists including Ken Saro-Wiwa who were murdered on November 10, 1995 by the Nigerian state. This was part of the resolutions […]

IMO: Bye Bye: To a Phantom Governor – By Kenneth Uwadi

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, Governors, Imo, Kenneth Uwadi, NNP Columnists, State News Sunday, February 9th, 2020

By Kenneth Uwadi | Imo State | February 9, 2020 – It was Emerson who said in The Over Soul ‘’the soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know the truth when we see it; let the skeptic and scoffers say what they choose’’. In Imo , it was well known that Emeka […]

Needless Controversy over Amotekun! -By Abiodun Komolafe

Posted by admin Abiodun Komolafe, Columnists, NNP Columnists, South-West Sunday, February 9th, 2020

By Abiodun Komolafe | Osun State, Nigeria | February 9, 2020 – I hope it would not amount to ‘Hate Speech’ to make some confessions, especially, with a particular reference to Nigeria’s sociopolitical landscape. First and foremost, let’s not deceive ourselves: Muhammadu Buhari has seen it all as one of Nigeria’s luckiest few, favoured by God. So, […]

DETAILS: Explosion rocks Ekiti Govt House

Posted by admin Ekiti, Headlines, State News Sunday, February 9th, 2020

By Rotimi Ojomoyela There was palpable fear in Ado-Ekiti on Saturday, as a loud bang suspected to be bomb explosion rocked Ekiti state old government Secretariat. It was gathered that the explosion, which occurred around 7.05 am, ripped some of the buildings at the old government secretariat located at the Oke-Oriomi area of Ado-Ekiti, where […]

Terrorists almost bomb Lagos with 17 suitcases of explosives – Fashola

Posted by admin Lagos, Latest Politics, State News, Top Stories Sunday, February 9th, 2020

Minister for Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola has said terrorists with 17 suitcases loaded with explosives to bomb Lagos were almost missed by law enforcement in 2013 if not for citizen information. He disclosed that the attempt was foiled with the help of citizen information and the terrorists were tried without passing the information to […]