High Chief Tajudeen Abimbola (left), Akogun Adebayo Akande, Akogun Bola Bogunbe, Chief Areoye Oyebola and Dr. Lekan Are at the launch of the revised second edition of Black Man’s Dilemma in Ibadan. PHOTO: NAJEEM RAHEEM

The European Union (EU) has called on the Nigerian Government to prioritize the rights and protection of Nigerian children from all forms of discrimination and intimidation. Speaking at the International Human Rights Day Event themed "Our Rights, Our Future, Right Now – Advancing Rights and Protection for Children in Nigeria," organized by the EU Rule…

President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Nwakuche Ndidi as the Acting Controller-General of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS). The Secretary of the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire, and Immigration Board, Ja’afaru Ahmed, announced Ndidi's appointment in a statement on Friday, following the expiration of the tenure of the current CG, Haliru Nababa. "The President…

  The BBC said on Friday it would continue to report on the Sahel region after the military junta in Niger suspended BBC radio for three months. It is the latest in a slew of Western media to be sanctioned by military juntas in the region of western and north-central Africa. BBC radio was to…

American international Folarin Balogun will be out of action for some three months after picking up a shoulder injury, Monaco coach Adi Huetter said Friday. "Folarin will undergo surgery in the next few days and will be out for around three months," Huetter told a press conference. After suffering a dislocated glenohumeral joint in his…

A man in Ondo, whose identity has been withheld by the Ondo State Police Command, set his wife ablaze and killed himself after a disagreement between them. The police in the state narrated this gory incident on its official page on X on Thursday. "Mr A was married to Mrs A, but along the line,…