Author Archives: Joe

23
Feb

Safe Schools Initiative’s account rises to $4m as US transfers $2m

Joe Education No Comments
The United States of America yesterday transferred $2 million donation  to the Multi Donor Trust Fund (MDTF)  of the   Safe Schools Initiative, thus shooting the account to $4 million. The Safe School Initiative (SSI) is a project  aimed at meeting the education needs of internally displaced children  affected by the ongoing conflict in North …
21
Feb

21 Year-Old Student In Court For Alleged Rape Of 8 Year Old Girl

Joe CHILD ABUSE No Comments
A 21-year old student, Ahmed Musa, on Thursday appeared before a Chief Magistrates’ Court in Katsina for alleged rape of an eight-year-old girl. Musa, according to Police First Information Report (FIR), committed the offence at about 2.30 p.m. on Feb. 5. The report stated that one Sakina Muhammad of Kofar-yamma Quarters in Zango reported the matter …
21
Feb

Police blame me for my daughter’s rape, protect rapist – Mother of eight-year-old girl raped by security man

Joe VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY No Comments
Thirty-six-year-old Sola Adebisi was sobbing because of the sexual attack on her eight-year-old daughter, Lola (not real name), who was defiled by a security guard but because she and her daughter are now being victimised by the police for reporting the case. “One of the policemen even said to my face ‘Like daughter like mother.’ Are they implying …
20
Feb

2 Arrested Over Attempted Murder Of 2-year-old Girl

Joe Right to life No Comments
  Two ladies, identified as Sade and Elizabeth have been arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command at Ago – Owu village in Itori town for act of cruelty to a two-year-old child. The ladies were said to have gagged the baby girl before abandoning her in an unoccupied room adjoining a 12 room bungalow apartment after they had also tied her …
20
Feb

NYSC, Mercy Corps Partner on Adolescent Girls’ Education

Joe Day of charity No Comments
A global humanitarian agency, Mercy Corps, has gone into partnership with the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to implement a project tagged: ‘Educating Nigerian Girls in New Enterprises (ENGINE)’. Mercy Corps is the lead implementing partner for ENGINE, which is a multi donor-funded programme supported by DFID, Coca Cola Export Company and the …
15
Feb

WOMAN GAVE BIRTH AT THE CAMPAIGN RALLY OF MUMA GEE

Joe Right to life No Comments
It was a thing of joy, a sign of blessing and endorsement from God when a woman gave birth during the campaign rally of Muma Gee last Friday. Immediately the Mother of the newly born baby named the child Muma Gee, as a sign of remembrance of the encounter with the great woman.And to crown it all, the baby was given instant scholarship from Muma Gee, …