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Vatican City – Pope Francis made an appeal for migrants Sunday, calling on the international community to stop deporting migrants to unsafe countries. “I express my closeness to the thousands of migrants, refugees and others in need of protection in Libya: I never forget you; I hear your cries and pray for you,” Pope Francis said on Oct. 24. “We …

By Igbotako Nowinta, Alltimepost.com Nigeria Bureau Chief Ahead of the World Climate Summit, (Cop 26) in Glasgow, Scotland, a frontline Nigerian environmentalist and political ecologist, Dr. Godwin Uyi Ojo, has called on the United States, United Kingdom and other rich countries to pay up their carbon debts to poor countries. Environmentalists, heads of governments and stakeholders in the climate change …

Nigeria Association of Women Journalists, NAWOJ, Imo State Chapter, on Thursday called on Women and the girl child to stand up against violence as well as the practice of Female Genital Mutilation, FGM, in society. NAWOJ State Chairman, Dorathy Nnaji, made this call at this year’s International Day for the Girl Child held in Owerri. According to her, discrimination and …

The InnerCity Mission, founded in 2004 by Rev. Chris Onyakhilome, is a faith-based, Child-Centered, Non-Governmental Organisation with presence in 82 countries around the world and has affected the lives of over 20 million children. …Mission wants Nigeria to chart map for humanitarian assistance United Nations has called for concerted efforts to rid Nigeria and the rest of the world of …

Vatican City – United States House of Representatives Speaker,  Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) discussed the environment, migration, and human rights during a visit to the Vatican on Friday. The Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development announced the visit on Oct. 8 in a post on its Twitter account, the Catholic News Agency reported at the weekend. It said: “We welcome …

By Osaze Osemwingie Ero All it takes for an innocent Nigerian to be arrested in Italy is to have had a phone conversation with anyone under investigation. To have appeared in a photo with such a person or even being friends on Facebook with such a person or in any association with the person is the Italian version of being …

PRESS STATEMENT OF THE CONFERENCE OF NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (CONGOs) In recent efforts at combatting the incursion of the Islamic State in the ongoing war with Nigeria, governors of some of the Northern States of Nigeria have announced the closure of markets, and expressly restricted the fetching of firewood as well as restriction on the sales of fuel above N5,000 to …

By Mrs. Wendy Igwema It all happened one morning, 4:am to be precise, on the 28th of October 2020. We were just waking up from sleep in our home in our home in Torino. Suddenly there was knock on the door. When I opened I saw about 9 Italian policemen. One of them was a woman.  I asked them what …

Benin City, Nigeria…The Civil Empowerment & Rule of Law Support Initiative, CERLSI has tasked Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, Delta State governor to adopt recommendations as contained in a Niger Delta Cultural magazine, WADONOR which details activities of tank farms in the Niger Delta and how to regulate them. On Friday, 22nd January 2021, a gas plant located on the Asaba-Agbor Expressway …

By Cale Brown, Principal Deputy Spokesperson, U.S. Department of State The United States has long noted its appreciation for the Government of Bangladesh’s commitment to hosting the Rohingya refugees but is concerned about the relocation of 1,642 Rohingya refugees to Bhasan Char and plans to carry out further relocations. The United States concurs with the UN that any such relocations …