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An award-winning British film about witch-hunts in Zambia could play an important role in curbing violence against women if translated into local languages and distributed widely, according to human rights campaigners.  The film “I Am Not A Witch” - which tells the story of an eight-year-old Zambian girl accused of being a witch - was named the most outstanding debut...

The central bank of Nigeria (CBN) said on Monday it had injected $210 million into the interbank foreign exchange market, extending efforts to boost liquidity and alleviate dollar shortages.  The CBN said in a statement it had released $100 million earmarked for the wholesale market, $55 million for small businesses and individuals, and $55 million for certain dollar expenses such...

File Photo: Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau still at large Nigeria's ministry of justice on Monday said more than 200 people have been convicted in Nigeria on charges related to their involvement with Boko Haram. The convictions of 205 people in mass trials mark the conclusion of the second stage of the country’s biggest legal challenge to Boko Haram, which...

Some lecturers of Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta (FUNAB) and Bayero University Kano (BUK) have proposed the establishment of integrated crops-livestock settlements to address the protracted farmers-herdsmen clashes. The dons made the proposal at a validation workshop on controlled grazing, which was organised by Synergos Nigeria on Monday in Abuja. Prof. Olufemi Onifade of the Department of Pasture and Range Management,...

•Wale Oloko, Nigeria’s Consul-General in Guangzhou, China Mr Wale Oloko, the Consul-General of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in Guangzhou, China, on Monday admonished young Nigerians aspiring to travel to China for employment purposes to look elsewhere. Oloko told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that it had been and would continue to be difficult for unskilled Nigerians to secure...

475 people allegedly affiliated with Boko Haram have been released for rehabilitation by a Nigerian court, the ministry of justice said on Sunday. The first person convicted for the kidnapping in 2014 of Chibok schoolgirls, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment last week, was also handed an addition 15-year sentence, to run back-to-back, the justice ministry said in a statement.  More ...

It is the third day that the 2019 Buhari Initiative group is continuing  its demonstration demanding for the removal of the APC National Chairman, John Odigie Oyegun. The group commenced its protests on Thursday last week and participated in Friday's mass protests to the office of the Economic and Financial  Crimes  Commission  (EFCC) where the APC members attempted to submit...

There is a photograph, famous in Turkey, taken at the wedding of one of the nation’s greatest footballers, a Uefa Cup winner who played in a World Cup semi-final.  In the picture, Hakan Sukur is next to two witnesses, the nation’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the cleric Fethullah Gulen. A wedding is supposed to be one of the highlights in...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has commended President Muhammad Buhari for the award of operational licences to twenty-two firms for the construction of modular refineries in the country.  The Precision reports that the ex-president gave the commendation while performimg the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of Azikel Refinery, the first private modular refinery in the oil and gas-rich Niger Delta region. Though...

After the resignation of Jacob Zuma as South African president on Wednesday night, his erstwhile deputy and leader of the ruling African National Congress, ANC, Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday mounted the saddle as the fifth president of South Africa. But before he settles into steering the country out of its myriad of challenges, here are five things you need to know about the new...