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Stakeholders demand inclusive education, affordable therapy for special needs children

Nigeria, Feb. 28 -- Educators, healthcare professionals, parents, and disability rights advocates have called for urgent reforms in special needs care, advocating for inclusive education and affordabl... Read More


Speakership: Obasa's controversial return causes confusion in Lagos Assembly

Nigeria, Feb. 28 -- A top security official told PREMIUM TIMES that Mr Obasa was provided with security officials as speaker because his removal was illegal. "Obasa was not properly impeached as Spea... Read More


TRIBUTE: Edwin Kiagbodo Clark: A Lesson in Lofty Courage and Conduct

Nigeria, Feb. 28 -- If you were a peripatetic journalist or an itinerant political reporter in 1991, there is the likelihood that you would have encountered Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, elder-statesman, sena... Read More


Data modelling reveals heavy toll of USAID cuts on Africa

Nigeria, Feb. 28 -- Since returning to office in January, US President Donald Trump has signed more than 73 executive orders, many of which can be considered an assault on the rule of law and separati... Read More


Tinubu signs Nigeria's 2025 budget

Nigeria, Feb. 28 -- President Bola Tinubu has signed the 2025 Appropriation Bill, passed by the National Assembly, into law. The president signed the budget at a ceremony at the State House, Abuja on... Read More


Herbalist sentenced to 14 years imprisonment for attempted sexual assault

Nigeria, Feb. 28 -- The Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Ikeja, Lagos, has sentenced a herbalist, Segun Shina, to 14 years imprisonment for attempted sexual assault of a 10-year-old girl... Read More


EFCC arraigns ex-Abia governor, four others on N60.85bn fraud charges

Nigeria, Feb. 28 -- The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Friday, arraigned a former governor of Abia State, Theodore Orji. and four others on money laundering charges involving N60.... Read More


Gender-based violence against our cultural values - Emir

Nigeria, Feb. 28 -- The Emir of Ilorin, Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, has condemned the rising cases of Gender-Based Violence, stating that such acts are contrary to cultural values. Mr Sulu-Gambari condemne... Read More


'My father didn't sue his granddaughter over inheritance' - Herbert Wigwe's sister

Nigeria, Feb. 28 -- Joyce Wigwe, the elder sister of the late former group managing director and CEO of Access Bank, Herbert Wigwe, has addressed claims that their father, Shyngle Wigwe, filed a legal... Read More


What 35 years had done to the democracy project of the National Conference, By Jibrin Ibrahim

Nigeria, Feb. 28 -- Today is the 35th anniversary of the conclusion of the National Conference in Benin Republic. The expectation then was that a process had begun for establishing a new social contra... Read More