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See alarming rate of Nigerian girls under 15 married out in 2015 . The Federal Government has said six million girls under 15 were married in 2015. Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Aisha Abubakar disclosed this in her address at a Programme to celebrate this year’s Universal Day of the Child which took place at the School ofthe Gifted, Gwagwalada, Abuja. The Programme, which had: “Children are taking over and turning the world blue” was organised by an international nongovernmental organisation, Save the Children in collaboration with the ministry. The minister, who was represented by Deputy Director, Child Development in the ministry, Ali Madugu, said a 2015 situation analysis showed that 36 million Nigerian girls married before the age of 18. She said child marriage remained a major developmental challenge affecting Nigeria. The minister said: “Children form an appreciable size of our population. The rate of child poverty remains high, with

34 Suspected IPOB members arrested for death of DPO The Police Command in Anambra State has arrested 34 suspected members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra in connection with the killing of a police Inspector in Nnewi. SP Haruna Mohammed, spokesman of the command made the disclosure in a statement on Saturday. Haruna said that some personnel and a Divisional Police Officer were also wounded while a police patrol van was set ablaze. The spokesman said that anti-riot Police Mobile Force, Counter Terrorism Unit, Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, EOD and Special Anti-Cult Unit Personnel and conventional police have been deployed to Nnewi and environs. Haruna said that on November 23 at about 11: 55am, there was intelligence report that members of IPOB were gathering near the Teaching Hospital, Owerri Road, Nnewi with intent to cause a breach of public peace. He said following the report, the police patrol teams led by the Area Commander, Nnewi, ACP Nnanna Ama,

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More headache for APC as mass defection looms   Aggrieved aspirants, govs fight hard, explore more options By Clifford Ndujihe AHEAD of the November 9 deadline for publication of particulars of governorship and state Houses of Assembly candidates by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, there appears to be more headache for the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC over what sources see as ‘’looming mass defection.’’ National Chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, and Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, weekend, were at daggers drawn over the latter’s comments that five million members had left the APC since Oshiomhole mounted the saddle of leadership. With a sizeable chunk of the APC governors ‘losing out’’ in the quest to get their candidates at various levels to fly the party’s tickets, some of them are said to chewing various options to realise their ambitions. Disturbed by the scenario and a brewing threat to his re-election plans, President Muh

BREAKING: ASUU Begins Nationwide Strike Academic staff Union of universities were directed to withdraw their services immediately. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has declared an indefinite nationwide strike. According to the organisation, the strike is to protest the poor funding of Nigerian universities. Led by its National President, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, ASUU declared the strike at the end of its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held at the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA) in Ondo State. All academic staff of universities were directed to withdraw their services immediately.

Bashir Ahmad, Personal Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on New Media, has revealed how the President obtained his attestation of result from the West African Examination Council (WAEC). The President was presented with a certificate tagged 'Attestation of Result' by an official of WAEC on Friday. The President's spokesman revealed how Buhari obtained his attestation of result. According to him, Nigerians can also obtain their attestation of results as the President did. He revealed the procedure via a tweet which read: "IN CASE YOU DON’T KNOW; just as President @MBuhari did, you can also obtain “Attestation of Results” from @WAECNigeria. Lost your certificate? Submit your two recent passport photographs and pay N20,000 in draft, WAEC will do the rest for you".  Source:saharareporters.com

WAEC has been accused of manufacturing examination result for President Muhammadu Buhari. The allegation was reportedly made in a statement issued by the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) in Abuja. Punch News confirmed this in a report published on Friday, November 2, 2018. “Let Nigerians be reminded that a few days ago, the opposition raised the alarm that there was an ongoin move to tamper with the records of WAEC and pressure the leadership into manufacturing a result for President Buhari. “Today’s action of WAEC has vindicated our earlier fears and confirmed our stand that WAEC is now competing with Oluwole Market in manufacturing documents," a statement by CUPP's National Spokesperson, Ikenga Ugochinyere reads. The allegation is coming following a tweet by Femi Adesina confirming the release of his secondary school certificate.   Source: pulse.ng

Says it’s N30,000 or strike Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja The stage seems to be set for a major confrontation between workers and government over new national minimum wage. While organised labour is insisting on N30,000 as new minimum wage, state governors have offered N22,500 as what the states would be able to pay. Addressing a press conference Wednesday, the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Mr. Ayuba Wabba, said that organised labour would maintain its stand on the implementation of N30,000 as new minimum wage and would not accept any move to negotiate it downwards. He said barring any change of position by government, workers would proceed with the planned strike on Tuesday. Wabba also tried to correct the impression that there was a stalemate during the tripartite negotiations, insisting that the issue of N30,000 minimum wage was conclusively resolved and the report signed He said, “More than 50per cent the stakeholders have signed the report, and there was no

Late Reus penalty puts Dortmund through Marco Reus scored a 120th-minute penalty as Bundesliga leaders Borussia Dortmund scraped past second-tier Union Berlin in the German Cup. United States winger Christian Pulisic opened the scoring for the hosts. But ex-Queens Park Rangers forward Sebastian Polter twice levelled for the visitors, either side of Maximilian Philipp scoring Dortmund's second of the night, to force extra time. But Germany winger Reus scored from the spot after a foul on Pulisic. Elsewhere, second division outfit Holstein Kiel sprang a surprise by coming back to knock-out top-flight side SC Frieburg 2-1. Schalke went through 6-5 on penalties after being held 1-1 at second-tier FC Koln , and Germany forward Timo Werner scored twice as RB Leipzig eased past Manchester City's Champions League Group F opponents Hoffenheim.

Michael Bloomberg shreds Trump’s politics, endorses Democrats At a time when the nation is reeling from a horrific attack against a religious group that killed 11 Americans, and from a bomber who targeted people for their politics, President Trump has chosen to inflame rather than heal — for the most cynical of reasons: He hopes to boost the election prospects of Republicans. Politics doesn’t get much more dishonest and depraved than this. The president’s decision to deploy more than 5,000 active-duty troops to the southern border to stop a caravan of a few thousand people reeks of partisan politics. The marchers are still weeks away, many of them are children, many have already turned back — and many more are expected to, as has happened with previous caravans. Our border security and asylum officers are capable of handling this job, including turning away anyone who attempts to cross illegally. The only reason to send in troops — and to call the caravan an “invasion,” an