It is not the best of times for Nigerians as one of their own an Italian-Nigerian, King Udoh, who plays professional football in Italy has tested positive to the Coronavirus (Covid-19) on Thursday. Twenty-two year old footballer plays with Pianese, an Italian Serie C side. And now he has been isolated after a diagnosis with the disease. The footballer is said to be the first professional player to contract Coronavirus.
Author: Funke Busari
Rights of people living with disabilities is back on the front burner as Women’s Rights and Health project, a non governmental organisation advocate training and sensitization campaigns for such persons to create awareness on the laws preventing gender and sexual based violence.At a recent training, facilitators asserted that most of these persons are unaware of the laws prohibiting sexual violence as just as the disability law.Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on January 23, signed into law the Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities (Prohibition) Act, 2019, following 9 years of relentless advocacy by disability rights groups and activists.According to the World Health…
Trial of Azeez Fashola also known as Naira Marley continued on Friday before Justice I. Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos The judge adjourned till May 13, 2020 for ruling on the admissibility of documents brought before the court in evidence against the defendant and for the continuation of the entertainer’s trial for his alleged involvement in credit card fraud.Naira Marley is standing trial on an 11-count charge of conspiracy and credit card fraud, preferred against him by the Commission.At the resumed sitting on Friday, the prosecution through its second prosecution witness Augustine Anosike, an investigator and forensic…