April 23, 2014

  A 12-year-old boy, (names withheld), was on Thursday sentenced to 12 strokes of the cane by a Grade 1 Area Court in Karu, Federal Capital Territory, for stealing a mobile phone valued at N8, 500.  The presiding judge, Malam Hassan Ishaq, found the minor guilty of two counts of trespass and theft.  The judge

  After her successful First Lady’s Colloquy in the city of Lagos, Zuriel Oduwole, 11-year-old Nigerian-American child prodigy has been listed among the the 100 most powerful individuals in the world. New York & Singapore based Business Insider, a leader in Technology, Money, Entertainment and Market News recently released its annual list of the Worlds

  Following the non release of the secondary school girls kidnapped in Chibok, Borno State, a non-governmental organisation, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has urged the United Nations, UN, to intervene and secure their release from their abductors. Mr. Adetokunbo Mumuni, the Executive Director of the civil society group made this plea in a