Save the Children and a juvenile court in the Sicilian city of Catania have signed a protocol to improve the hosting system and the protection of foreign unaccompanied minors. Nearly a quarter of unaccompanied migrant children and teens present in Italy are hosted in the region of Sicily.
The humanitarian vessels Ocean Viking and Geo Barents both rescued groups of migrants in distress at sea off Libya over the weekend. Meanwhile, hundreds of people were intercepted and returned to Libya.
The Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Pauline Tallen, has said that she would initiate a conversation with the Minister of Interior to make psychiatric tests compulsory for couples before they are married.
A Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday ordered former House of Representatives Speaker Yakubu Dogara to vacate the seat he currently occupies in the Green Chamber of the National Assembly.
But in a swift reaction yesterday, the former speaker vowed to appeal the judgment
Ahead of his 80th birthday on Tuesday, former Nigerian Ambassador to Germany, Prof. Akinjide Osuntokun, reminisces on his life as a lecturer, a diplomat, an author and member of the Canadian Society of African Affairs conferred with Presidential Honour of Equatorial Guinea among others. He spoke with GBENGA ADERANTI
