States Should Urgently Adopt Laws to Enforce Child Rights Act A woman protests against underage marriage, Lagos, Nigeria. © 2017 / AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File (Abuja) – Child marriage remains prevalent in Nigeria because the federal and state governments have not adequately enforced laws to prevent it, Human Rights Watch said today. Nigeria’s rates of child marriage …
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Poet laureate, Prof Niyi Osundare, has said the more college degrees Nigerians acquire; the farther they tend to be from rational, independent thinking, critical cogitation, clarity of thought, and creative scepticism. He noted that it was the reason the country had “leaders who are busy looking for 19th-century cattle grazing routes at a time their …
Voters deserve leaders who aren't afraid of the truth Donald Trump has spent the past year trying to rewrite the history of the Jan. 6, 2021, siege on the U.S. Capitol. He's forcing Republican politicians and their media allies to choose between the expedient option — defending or ignoring Trump — and the patriotic one …
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President Donald Trump greets Fox News talk show host Sean Hannity at a political rally in Cape Girardeau, Mo., in November 2018. (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images) Stephanie Grisham, former press secretary to President Donald Trump, remembers the challenges that came from so many Fox News hosts having the direct number to reach Trump in the White …
Militants opened fire and burned homes in Zamfara state after military airstrikes on hideouts At least 200 people are believed to have been killed in villages in the north-western Nigerian state of Zamfara, in some of the deadliest attacks by armed bandits at large in the region. Gunmen, themselves fleeing from airstrikes by the Nigerian …
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