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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 ...

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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...

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