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Women Commission of the Trade Union Congress, Lagos State chapter, on Thursday called on the Nigerian Government to end rape and sexual violence against women and girls across the country. Chairperson of the union, Yemisi Oyejide, made the call on Thursday while leading a peaceful protest condemning rape at the Lagos State House of Assembly complex. Oyejide said incidents of rape perpetrated daily had gotten to a peak that all well-meaning Nigerians must condemn the act and see to it that offenders were heavily punished.  She stressed that the situation had become worrisome that some parents no longer allowed their daughters to visit friends due to the situation. She also lamented that perpetrators of such crimes against women and girls were often left off the hook.   News AddThis :  Original Author :  SaharaReporters, New York Disable advertisements :  from 24HRSNEWS via 24HRSNEWS from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/3iU2z3m via EDUPEDIA

The police in the Federal Capital Territory have arrested the suspected killer of Sunday Chukwujekwu Ike, Publicity Secretary of the Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria, who was murdered in his shop in the Gwarinpa area of Abuja on June 19, 2020. The suspect, Tukur Awwal, 31, was arrested by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad at his hideout in Suleja, Niger State. The suspect was said to have confessed to the crime and his involvement in some armed robbery operations around Gwarinpa and Gudu axis in the FCT. In a statement on Thursday by spokesperson for the command, Anjuguri Manzah, said one locally-made pistol and one live ammunition were recovered from him as exhibits. The statement reads, “Sequel to the ongoing investigation into the gruesome murder of Sunday Chukwujekwu Ike, the proprietor of Suncel Pharmacy, Gwarinpa, and Publicity Secretary of the Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria, the FCT Police Command has arrested one Tukur Awwal

Steve Bannon A former political adviser of United States President, Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, was on Thursday arrested for his role in an online fundraising scheme. The NBC reports that Bannon was charged with fraud by a Manhattan attorney for defrauding people of millions of dollars. Steve Bannon Yahoo News In a statement by acting US Attorney, Audrey Strauss, Bannon was said to have capitalized on donors’ interest in building a border wall to raise millions of dollars later channelled to fund the “lavish lifestyle” of “We Build The Wall” founder and public face Brian Kolfage.   International United States of America Breaking News News AddThis :  Original Author :  SaharaReporters, New York Disable advertisements :  from 24HRSNEWS via 24HRSNEWS from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/3hgS1uY via EDUPEDIA

Niyi Osundare Never give up; never give in; keep your eyes on the prize*   A sharecropper’s son,      He was no stranger to the buffets of Fortune Offspring of a caste so habitually abused      He told his blind, demeaning country: I AM A MAN   Those Forty Acres and a Mule      Never left the page on which Their pledge was scribbled. The demobilized      Hordes of ‘free’ Negro humanity   Wandered, homeless, in a strange American wilderness      Below the poverty line, below the Law Quarry of lynch mobs, separate, so unequal       Their very humanity the subject of perverse debate   From an abyss so abominable      A stubborn Hope emerged The future clear before its gaze      Its rousing song was Freedom Now   Tear gas and water cannon served the chorus to that song      With refrains by vicious dogs and bloody batons Prisons brimming with Freedom Warriors      And the staccato rash of targeted assassinations . . . .   Yours, John, is the legacy of Good

Olabisi Deji-Folutile I am eager to see how the current impasse between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will be resolved. Will the government adopt the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) as being proposed by the academic body or stick to its own Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS) which it has said is fraud-proof?  Or will ASUU eventually change its mind on IPPIS and agree to its use?  After all, the Federal Government has been paying lecturers through the platform for some months now despite the union’s opposition to its adoption.  As it is, there is no solution yet in sight. Rather, the issue seems to be getting more complicated. Just on Tuesday, ASUU said its UTAS was ready for an integrity test. Its president, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi, said the union had demonstrated the software to Nigeria’s education minister, Adamu Adamu, and other senior management staff of the ministry, including the Exe