Nigeria has made giant strides in its fight against the HIV/AIDS, as more children are being born HIV negative. Again, the government has stated that every Nigerian who had tested positive to HIV would automatically be eligible for free treatment. This was disclosed by the Minister of State for Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, in Abuja, during the official opening of the central dissemination of the 2016 national guidelines for HIV prevention treatment and care, organised by the Institute of Human Virology Nigeria. The government also disagreed with critics that its HIV/AIDS programme had been a disaster, saying such criticism is a connotation of incompetence, compared with teh situation in other countries. Ehanire emphasised that the treatment for persons who test positive to HIV/AIDS would no longer favour a selected few. “I disagree completely with critics, not because I am compelled to disagree, but because nothing is happening around us that suggests that our HIV programme is a ...

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Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday declared free and compulsory basic education up to Junior Secondary School as an enforceable right for every Nigerian child. Delivering judgment in a suit filed by a civil society group, the Legal Defence and Assistance Project, Justice John Tosho declared that federal and state governments had constitutional duties to provide adequate funding for the free education scheme. The court held that failure of any government at both the state and federal levels to fund the scheme would constitute a breach of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The court noted that ordinarily, the right to free education in section 18(3)(a) of the Constitution was not enforceable like all other rights provided for in the Chapter 2 of the Constitution. But the judge held that the Compulsory, Free Universal Basic Education Act, of 2004, enacted by the National Assembly had elevated the right to an enforceable status. LEDAP had joined the Feder...

Militant groups in the Niger Delta have asked 18 South African companies and personnel to leave the region or risk attacks, The Guardian reports. File photo of Niger Delta militants The threat was contained in a joint petition to the South African High Commission in Nigeria and signed by General John Duku of the Niger Delta Watchdogs, General Ekpo Ekpo of Niger Delta Volunteers and General Hart Bradford of the Niger Delta Strike Force. They warned of an imminent attack on all South Africans business interests, adding that they could no longer sit and watch innocent Nigerians being killed in the southern Africa nation. The militants’ position was made known after their meeting in Port Harcourt on Wednesday, March 1. They condemned the recent attack on Nigerians and pledged reprisals that would target the country’s economic interests in Nigeria. Part of the petition read:  “Our attention has been drawn to the series of unprovoked attack, looting, shutting down of bus...

Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday declared free and compulsory basic education up to Junior Secondary School as an enforceable right for every Nigerian child. Delivering judgment in a suit filed by a civil society group, the Legal Defence and Assistance Project, Justice John Tosho declared that federal and state governments had constitutional duties to provide adequate funding for the free education scheme. The court held that failure of any government at both the state and federal levels to fund the scheme would constitute a breach of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The court noted that ordinarily, the right to free education in section 18(3)(a) of the Constitution was not enforceable like all other rights provided for in the Chapter 2 of the Constitution. But the judge held that the Compulsory, Free Universal Basic Education Act, of 2004, enacted by the National Assembly had elevated the right to an enforceable status. LEDAP had joined the Feder...

The fight against insurgency in Nigeria has yielded another success with the killing of a female member of the once dreaded Boko Haram. The female Boko Haram was reportedly killed in a confrontation with security forces The sect was recently routed out of the Sambisa forest, a vast area bordering Borno state, the most affected with other neighbouring states in the north-east. emale fighter has not been made known at the time of this report, it has brought to the fore a new narrative. Before this most recent incident, it was believed that the Boko Haram sect mainly used men as fighters while the members victimized the womenfolk using them as spies and lacing them with improvised explosive devices for detonation at spots. This has continued even after the Nigerian Army, with support from the civilian-Joint Task Force (CJTF), led by Muazu Alhaji Misiya, has decimated the camp of the insurgents.