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The International Day of the Girl Child is celebrated annually on October 11 to empower and amplify the voices of young girls around the world. The theme, this year, is “Digital generation. Our generation”.  Like every year, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) will celebrate International Day of the Girl Child 2021 reaffirming its pledge to promote the progress of girls and safeguard their rights. Significance Achieving gender equality and women's empowerment is an integral part of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals that UN member nations adopted in 2015. The International Day of the Girl Child holds the key to achieving this as empowering women and girls, who represent half of the world's population, is crucial to accelerating sustainable development. Nations need to pledge to assist young girls to grow into empowered women, who have access to proper healthcare, skill-based learning facilities and equal opportunities in a world free from gender-based ...

The terrorists who abducted Major Stephen Dantong from the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Afaka, Kaduna, on Tuesday have contacted the authorities to demand a N200 million ransom, FIJ can report. Around 1am on Tuesday, a contingent of bandits pulled up on motorbikes, invading the Army barracks to kill two soldiers, identified as Lieutenant Commodore Wulah and Flight Lieutenant Okoronwo. They also abducted Major Datong. FIJ gathered that the gunmen operated for hours and left without any hindrance. After they left, soldiers in the barracks made efforts to trail them but failed. “They couldn’t kill even one of them,” an NDA source lamented to FIJ. “They searched everywhere in the bush but couldn’t find them. They had fled away with their motorbikes.” FIJ understands the bandits subsequently contacted the defence academy to initiate negotiation on the payment of ransom before they release Datong. READ ALSO: Bandits Gun Two Officers Down, Abduct One at NDA Kaduna “They have called to ask ...

The  culture of Nigeria  is shaped by  Nigeria 's multiple  ethnic groups . The country has 527 languages, seven of which are extinct. [1]  Nigeria also has over 1150 dialects and ethnic groups. The three largest  ethnic groups  are the  Hausas  that are predominantly in the north, the  Yorubas  who predominate in the southwest, and the  Igbos  in the southeast. There are many other ethnic groups with sizeable populations across the different parts of the country. The  Kanuri people  are located in the northeast part of Nigeria, the  Tiv people  of north central and the  Efik-Ibibio  are in the south south. The  Bini people  are most frequent in the region between  Yorubaland  and  Igboland Nigeria's other ethnic groups, sometimes called 'minorities', are found throughout the country but especially in the north and the middle belt. The traditionally  nomadic ...

The Federal Government has expressed shock over  yesterday commencement of strike by members of National Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, despite a successful meeting with its leaders last week to sort out their grievances. This is as the government said it held a successful meeting with the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to iron out its grievances. A statement by the Deputy Director Press and Public Relations, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Charles Akpan, said the Federal Government through the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, was shocked that NARD directed its members nationwide to commence industrial action after having a successful meeting last week. The Minister spoke at an interactive meeting between the Federal Government and ASUU aimed at evaluating the implementation  of the Memorandum of Action, MOA, entered into by the parties. Addressing the press, Ngige said the meeting evaluated seven key issu...

Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel has prioritised signing a centre-back this summer, with Jules Kounde Chelsea’s top target, and has decided Kurt Zouma should be moved on. Tuchel identified centre-back as a problem position for the club after arriving at Stamford Bridge and the club drew up a shortlist of players to sign. That included Ibrahima Konate – who has joined Liverpool, Niklas Sule and Jose Gimenez but Kounde is the man they are pushing to sign. The France international, 22, is viewed as a player with great potential and would join Thiago Silva, Antonio Rudiger, Andreas Christensen, Cesar Azpilicueta, Reece James and Zouma as Chelsea stars who can play in a back-three. As per  The Athletic , Zouma’s future is far from certain. While he has proven himself in the air at both ends of the pitch, there are concerns over his ability to play out from the back. Tuchel has increasingly left Zouma out of the starting XI since his arrival and the club are now ushering him out...

By Dr. Ugoji Egbujo Abba Kyari is an enigma. A detective who craves the limelight. A replica of James Bond with the guns and guts, but without the women and drinks, perhaps. Someone said Abba would have solved Funso Williams and Bola Ige. When a hard nut falls on our head, we look to Abba Kyari and his team to crack it. I must confess, after solving the billionaire kidnapper Evans and helping to diagnose the Unknown Gunmen in the southeast, I will remain eternally grateful to Abba Kyari. My soul weeps. These are not great times for the super cop. A certain Ramon Abbas, alias HushPuppi, who lived more flamboyantly than any Saudi Sheikh while fleecing businesses and persons of hundreds of millions dollars in wire fraud, has been spilling the beans. Now singing like a canary and rolling on the floor for the FBI, hoping for leniency in a plea bargain, Hushpuppi has roped in the great Abba Kyari. Well, the noose on Abba Kyari’s professional neck could be the ...

Erling Haaland  says he ‘hopes’  Chelsea  are not planning a £150 million bid to sign him this summer. Chelsea have made the Borussia Dortmund striker one of their top targets for the summer window with  Thomas Tuchel  keen for the club to recruit a new forward. It’s also understood that Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich  is personally driving the club’s push to bring Haaland to Stamford Bridge . However, any deal for Haaland is likely to cost Chelsea at least £150m this summer, while Dortmund are adamant that the 21-year-old will remain with them for at least another season. When asked about his with a move to Chelsea at Dortmund’s training camp in Bad Ragaz, Switzerland, Haaland told reporters: ‘I haven’t spoken with my agent in a month. You might have the answer. ‘I am a normal person. That’s a lot of money for one person. I hope there is nothing in it.’ Erling Haaland has scored 57 goals in 59 appearances for Borussia Dortmund (AFP via Getty) S...