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National Sex Workers Association, has appealed to the federal government to de-criminalise sex work in Nigeria for effective control of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. Women at junction Enemo made the appeal on Wednesday in Abuja while briefing newsmen at the inauguration of new report on `Understanding the high risk of urban sexual networks in Nigeria.’ The national coordinator said that everybody is at risk of whatever he does, adding that sex workers faced a lot of violence especially for from their clients, thugs and law enforcement agents. She…

Tragedy struck the city of Lagos again yesterday as a four-storey building collapsed in Lagos Island, injuring scores of residents with dozens others still trapped under the rubble feared dead. Yesterday’s collapse is coming barely days after a similar accident occurred in Abule Egba area of the state on Saturday, killing a woman and her baby. It was gathered that the building located at No. 3, Massey Street, Lagos Island, is owned by Kafo Family and managed by Isola Costa before its collapse on Tuesday afternoon. The structure was said…

Charles Omadime, a 36-year-old man, who allegedly shot his neighbour, one Ernest Uwanyerem, after climbing to the roof top of the victim’s bed room with a ladder, was yesterday arraigned before an Igbosere magistrate’s court Lagos. The defendant is facing a two-count charge bordering on breach of peace and threat to life preferred against him by the Police. The Police prosecutor, Inspector Steven Molo, told the court that the defendant committed the alleged offences on June 27 at about 3:30p.m. Molo alleged that Omadime conducted himself in a manner likely…

Gnami and Pakau communities in Kaduna have recorded two years of uninterrupted supply of electricity, the Federal Government on Tuesday has announced. It said the communities enjoyed uninterrupted power from the 90-kilowatt Solar PV off-grid system installed in the areas, as the villages were far from the reach of the national power grid. The Permanent Secretary in the power arm of the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Louis Edozien, said the feat was achieved through the renewable energy project of the ministry, which provides access to electricity…

Joachim Iroko, the man who named his dog Buhari has been discharged by a Chief Magistrate’s Court in Sango, yesterday. Magistrate O. O. Adebo said the prosecutor failed to substantiate his case against Joachim Iroko and consequently struck out all charges preferred against him. Mr. Iroko’s lawyer was ecstatic, yesterday, praising the court for the verdict. Mr. Iroko, 41, was arrested in August 2016 for causing a breach of peace after he was reported by his neighbour, for alleged insensitivity in Mr. Iroko’s action of naming his dog after the President.…