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The National leadership of Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), has expressed dismay over the re-emerging incidence of school invasion and abduction of teachers and students across the country’s educational institutions. In a statement on Tuesday, signed by NUT’s Secretary General,…
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has warned in a major new report that countries must redesign their development pathways to reduce damage to the environment or risk stalling progress for humanity. The coronavirus pandemic is the latest crisis facing the…
The Gambia Immigration Department has denied claims of preferential treatment among ECOWAS citizens residing in the Gambia after claims that they pay unequal amounts of money to acquire residential permits in the country. The department said all ECOWAS citizens in…
The report which was released on Tuesday by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) also shows a spike in food inflation which jumped to 18.30% in November from 17.38% the previous month, while core inflation declined to 11.05%. The statistics…
Amnesty International said Tuesday that the use of excessive force by Guinean security force in the weeks following the country’s presidential election, has led to more than a dozen killed including a 62-year-old man presumably from torture. It said in…
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As part of the 16 days of activism against gender based violence in The Gambia, refugees met with right groups in the country to share their gender related concerns and seek means to holistically address them. WADR’s Veronic Njie was…
The police in Rivers State, South-South Nigeria, have confirmed that one of their officers shot dead a commercial tricycle rider in Port Harcourt, Thursday. The youth and motorcyclists, angry over the incident, rampaged through the area where the shooting took…
With 270 million people – more than the entire population of Western Europe – “marching toward starvation”, the head of the World Food Programme (WFP) has warned as he called for greater action to avert a “hunger pandemic. WFP Executive Director David Beasley…