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  Catholic Institute for Development Justice and Peace (CIDJAP) is looking for an experienced person for the position: Job Title: OVC Protection Officer Job Reference No: CIDJAP-00001  Job Purpose The purpose of this position is to provide technical guidance and ensure the implementation of Protection activities for community based OVCs support in the 4GATES project component of CIDJAP Treatment, Prevention and Support for OVC Project. The OVC Protection Officer is under the supervision of the Program Manager, in collaboration with other thematic area officers organize a range of duties related to child protection. Responsibilities: The Protection Officer will provide technical leadership in protection OVC services. The OVC Protection Officer will have some combination of technical expertise and experience in OVC service areas that include; child protection, psychosocial support, education, child rights and advocacy. The OVC Protection Officer will guide the project technically in term

  Nollywood actress Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde has opened up on her Coronavirus experience while reacting to a debate on how Nollywood can adhere strictly to the health guidelines of COVID-19 before reopening productions on the popular filmmakers’ WhatsApp group, Filmic.    Vanguard reported that the veteran actress said she was treated by some infectious decease doctors who told her that many people are infected with the virus because there’s no widespread testing.    Omotola further revealed that when most people feel unwell, they attribute it to malaria, diarrhea among other ailments.   Recalling how she contracted the disease on a movie set, the actress said;    “I hardly fall ill and so when I left the set and started having chills the next day or so, I knew something wasn’t right. I thought it might be stress. This was on Monday, August 3. I waited till Tuesday and it got worse. I was shaking uncontrollably and my temperature was going through the roof.”   She also disclosed that inf

Abiodun Ogunyemi, the Anglican bishop of Zaria diocese has been arraigned before a chief magistrate’s court in Kaduna over alleged   “defamatory remarks” he made against Governor Nasir el-Rufai.    The Bishop who was arraigned on charges bordering on criminal defamation, injurious falsehood and criminal intimidation, had criticised the governor over the planned demolition of 110-year-old St George Cathedral in Zaria.    In a statement released in November 2019, Ogunyemi said that El-Rufai will never be president even though he is being groomed to take over from President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023.    However upon being arraigned on, the Biship pleaded not guilty and was granted bail. A member of the Kaduna Synod and a canon of the cathedral church of St Michael Kaduna stood in as surety.   The director of public prosecutions hinted that a peaceful resolution of the case is ongoing and the defence counsel also agreed to this.    The magistrate subsequently adjourned the case to October 2