violence

Ex-Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, has talked about the worrisome state of the Northern part of Nigeria. Dogara believes that part of the country is slowly becoming the epicenter of violence and crucial steps must be taken to end that trend as soon as possible. According ...

The Factional Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Edo, Joseph Osagiede, recently accused the National Chairman of APC, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, of being responsible for the violence in Edo, but Adams does not agree. The APC leader recently distanced himself from the accusation and blamed the Edo ...

Ex-Senate President, David Mark has begged Nigerians to use the coming Christmas season to pray for peace, progress and political stability in Nigeria. David, in a statement signed by his media aide, Paul Mumeh, disclosed that divine intervention would aid Nigeria to overcome its current security, socio-economic and political issues. ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has come out to say that it fulfilled its constitutional duties in the conduct of the November Governorship and Supplementary polls in Kogi State. Director, Voter Education and Publicity (VEP) in the Kogi office of the commission, Ahmed-Bagudu Biambo, revealed this at a Post-Election ...

Deputy Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi has come out to say that those against the Hate Speech Bill are not aware of the dangers ahead if the bill is not passed into law. In a recent statement by Senator Abdullahi, he said the opponents are only ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has blasted the on-going violence in Boki Local Government Area of Cross River State, which has in the past one day, resulted in a yet to be ascertained number of deaths and deadly attacks. In a recent statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on ...

Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Paulen Tallen, has called for harsher penalties against perpetrators of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in Nigeria. She revealed this at a recent interactive session on Gender-Based Violence (GBV) with journalists by UN Population Fund (UNFPA) in Abuja on Thursday. Paulen, who was represented by Mrs Funke ...

Popular election monitoring group, The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) has said violence is being planned ahead of the upcoming governorship election in Kogi State. The group revealed this in a recent statement. According to them, politicians are working towards disrupting the November 16 election. CDD added that it ...

The Executive Director, Conscience for Human Rights and Conflicts Resolution, Mr. Idris Abdul has urged political parties, their candidates and supporters to stay away from violence during the November 16 governorship election in the state and the Kogi West senatorial election. In a recent statement, he begged INEC to live ...

Popular radio presenter, Melody Hassan has blasted Naira Marley over his new jam titled “Puta.” According to the CityFM OAP, the song encourages sexual violence. She said that “Puta” is actually a derogatory word which mean “whore” “bitch” and those that dance to the song are actually saying sexual violence ...

Nollywood actress, Venita Akpofure has shared her reaction to rumors of her five-year-old marriage being over because of domestic violence. Reacting to the news, Venita Akpofure revealed that the domestic violence part is not true. She shared that her now former husband is not a violent man. Her words, “Much ...

[youtube zM9P9nxNMA8 300 200] The political mayhem in Rivers State took another dimension today Tuesday July 9 as the speaker of the state House of Assembly was impeached in a blood-related saga. The house symbol of Authority, ‘Mace’ was broken, computer sets used by members of the Assembly were destroyed. ...