The Service Public Relations Officer, Mr Sunday James made the disclosure in a statement to NAN on Sunday.
James said the girls were on their way to Cairo, Dubai and Oman on Emirates and Egypt airlines.
According to him, three of the girls were on Emirates airline to Dubai, while four were aboard Egypt airline to Cairo and Oman.
He commended the NIS Comptroller in charge of the Airport command, Mr Usman Abdullahi and his officers for doing
The Lagos Commandant of NSCDC, Mr Cyprian Otoibhi, while briefing newsmen on Thursday in Lagos, said the victims were rescued on Jan. 15 at 9.20 pm at No13 Abuke Oku Street, Iyana Ipaja.
According to the commandant, the victims were recruited by one Miss Micheal Omowunmi, who has spent two years in Mali, and one Mr Favour Owoke, who is at large.
“However, Omowunmi,
President of Nigeria Association of the Blind, Ebonyi State chapter, Mr Enyi Joseph Nwabueze, a lawyer, has cried out over the pathetic condition the visually impaired people are subjected to in the state, especially the ones schooling at Special Schools for the Blind in Opefia and Okposi communities in Izzi and Ohaozara local government areas respectively.
He lamented that aside the horrible conditions of the two schools which environments were overgrown by bushes, some girls in the school in Opefia had become victims of rape. In this interview with Sunday Sun, Mr Enyi narrated their ordeals. Excerpts:
How …
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The groups, which took them on a five-day training, noted that from research and observation, many adolescent girls in Nigeria face human rights abuses on a daily basis. Others include gender-based violence, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, and limitations on their mobility, education, employment,
The sanctions are starting to come in now, the modifications and exceptions; Ring girls have been banned from the Andy Ruiz and Anthony Joshua Saudi Arabia bout in line with the strict Islamic laws that govern that region.
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It is still unclear if alcohol and booze will be allowed at the venue as Saudi Arabia has been known to be a very closed society prior to this time but the kingdom seems to be welcoming foregners and opening its borders to the world with events such as this.
The bout …
Police in Northern Cape are investigating following the discovery of the bodies of two young girls in a deep freezer on Monday.
The two friends, aged four and five, were reported missing on Sunday in Bankhara.
Police spokesperson Brigadier Mohale Ramatseba said, while a search was under way around 9am on Monday, a neighbour informed them that she had found the two bodies in an unused fridge while placing her house keys inside.
“It is reported that the neighbours used to put their house keys in that freezer. That’s the reason she could notice that the kids are inside the …
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) yesterday disclosed that Nigeria had the second largest number of child-brides in the world, noting that at least over 23 million girls had been married as children.
• Says three of five girls suffer violence before 18 ·• Gov’s wife claims she married at 16 as a stark illiterate
UNICEF, a leading advocate for children in the world, also revealed that three out of five children suffered one or more forms of violence before reaching 18 with over 70 percent experiencing multiple incidents of violence.
Corroborating UNICEF’s statistics on child marriage, Aishatu Mohammed, wife …
An Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Wednesday sentenced an unemployed man, Ilias Mudashiru, to six months imprisonment for touching a girl’s breast in decently and stabbing her relatives.
Magistrate F. O. Sasanya convicted Mudashiru, 29, following his plea of “guilty” to a three-count charge of conspiracy, indecent assault and assault occasioning harm.
The offences contravened Sections 173, 263 (i) and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
She sentenced Mudashiru after listening to the review of facts given by prosecuting Sergeant Godspower Ehizoba.
The 112 Chibok girls still being held by Boko Haram will have spent five years in captivity if they are not released by next Sunday.
Over 200 students of the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State were abducted by the terrorists on the night of April 14, 2014.
Over a hundred of them were released following pressure from the federal government, and the intervention of well meaning Nigerians and the International Red Cross.
The Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) movement said yesterday that the girls have already spent 1, 819 days in Boko Haram captivity.
It said the anniversary …
