Artful dodging

Rights lawyer and activist, Deji Adeyanju, has threatened to petition various embassies to consider placing visa bans on Senator Godswill Akpabio, President of the Senate, over the alleged harassment of female lawmakers in the red chamber. Adeyanju, reacting to the incident on the Senate floor on Thursday, regretted that under the Senate President's watch, female…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that Hamas had handed over the body of a "Gazan woman" the day before and not that of hostage Shiri Bibas as agreed in the truce deal. "In an unimaginably cynical manner, they did not return Shiri to her small children, the little angels, and instead placed…

The Federal Ministry of Education has expressed its condolences to the families of the people who lost their lives in a fatal road accident in Kogi State. On Monday, seven people, including four students of the Federal University of Lokoja, lost their lives in a ghastly road accident at Felele on the Okene-Lokoja-Abuja highway. This…

President Bola Tinubu has said former President General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB) showed unusual courage and patriotism by admitting that the late M.K.O. Abiola won the June 12 election in 1993. This was as he saluted the former leader’s contribution to the country's history and development. The President said this on Thursday as the Special…

The Isese Human Rights Community (ISHRIC) has decried the alarming rise in ritual killings allegedly perpetrated by some Islamic scholars in Yorubaland.