China’s Guangdong Province has unveiled plans to revamp public toilets to address issues such as long queues at women’s restrooms and encourage the repurposing of more toilets into gender-neutral facilities. The Guangzhou public sanitation toilet layout plan (2024-2035), released on the website of the city’s Bureau of coordinated administrative law enforcement for urban management, has…
Some school children in Bwari Area Council of the FCT, have appealed to striking teachers in the six-area council, to consider their plights and call off their two months industrial action. The children made the appeal in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday, in Bwari, Abuja, while baring their minds…
Elizabeth Macleod, a Scotland-based security expert, has expressed concern over the silence of parents and guardians of girls who are sexually harassed in reporting their abusers to the police. The expert made this known at a one-day workshop for stakeholders, organised by her team in partnership with Borno Police Command in Maiduguri. Macleod, who is…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 52-year-old businessman at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA), Kano, for trafficking cocaine. The agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. According to him, the suspect, who operates boutiques in Lagos and Onitsha,…
A total of 41 healthcare centres have been forced to shut down due to cuts in U.S. assistance in the provinces of eastern Ghazni and central Bamiyan in Afghanistan. Mullah Hamidullah Nisar, director of the information and culture department on Wednesday said a total of 39 healthcare centres have been closed, including 15 small clinics….
President William Ruto said Kenya has started discussions with the United Arab Emirates to secure financing to complete a regional railway after China cut infrastructure funding to the project. The railway connecting the Kenyan port of Mombasa with landlocked neighbours, as part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, ended in the Rift Valley in 2019,…
Gov Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra is set to deliver an address on national rebirth at the 2025 June 12 ‘Platform’ in Lagos, an event marking the country’s Democracy Day. This is contained in a statement by Gov. Soludo’s Press Secretary, Mr Christian Aburime, issued to newsmen on Tuesday in Awka. Aburime said that the event,…
Many pensioners who retired in 2024, have appealed to the Federal Government to release accrued pension rights to their Pension Fund Administrators (PFAs), so their pension entitlements can be paid while they are still alive. The pensioners, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Sunday, said they needed their…
Nigerian music superstars, Davido, Ayra Starr and fans of sensational singer Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems, have celebrated her for winning the highly coveted Best African Music Performance award at the 2025 Grammys. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Tems made history at the 67th Grammy awards on Sunday in Los Angeles…
Armed men suspected to be herdsmen on Monday invaded Yelwata community in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State, killing three farmers and injuring three others. A local resident, who requested anonymity, said the assailants stormed the area in broad daylight, shooting sporadically at anyone in sight. Youth leader Achii Matthias told reporters that the…
