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UN: Treaty on older people’s rights moves ahead

Geneva, April 3, 2025 – The United Nations Human Rights Council began an intergovernmental process on April 3, 2025, to draft an international human rights treaty on older people,...

Group sensitises PWDs on their rights, privileges

Nsukka, Nigeria - Community Life Project (CLP), a non-governmental organisation, has sensitised People with Disabilities (PWDs) in Nsukka...

Bayo Adeyinka secures freedom for inmates to mark 50th birthday

In a remarkable act of compassion, eight inmates at the Ikoyi Correctional Center, Lagos, regained their freedom after...

I’m very angry with Putin over Ukraine — Trump

US President Donald Trump said Sunday he was “very angry, pissed off” with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, NBC...

HEDA files lawsuit against Shell, FG, others over…

The Incorporated Trustees of HEDA Resource Centre has initiated legal proceedings against Shell Petroleum Development Company Limited, the...
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Human Rights Lawyer Dele Farotimi remanded in prison

Human rights lawyer and activist, Dele Farotimi has been remanded in prison for allegedly defaming a legal luminary and founder of Afe Babalola University,...

Ijaw elders cannot guarantee reaction of Ijaw youth if…

Asari Dokubo says Ijaw Nation elders cannot guarantee the reaction of Ijaw youth if the Rivers State House of Assembly goes ahead to carry...

Sanwo-Olu grieves with families of Ojuelegba accident victims

The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on behalf of the people and government, sympathised with the families of those who died on Sunday in the Ojuelegba truck accident.

UNICEF calls for urgent action on sexual violence against girls in DRC

UNICEF has called for an urgent and significant scale-up of interventions and funding to respond to the escalating number of cases of sexual violence reported against children and women in North Kivu province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). 

UN Security Council rejects Russian resolution on Israel-Hamas war

UN Security Council rejected a Russian resolution denouncing the escalating bloodshed in the Middle East because it did not specifically blame Hamas for its surprise attack on Israel that claimed at least 1,400 lives.

Why WTO pushes for reform, warns multilateralism ‘under attack’

The World Trade Organization has pushed for reform at a high-level ministerial meeting in Abu Dhabi on Monday. It warned that economic headwinds and geopolitical...
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