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 POPE LEO XIV TO UNDERGO LUNG SURGERY Pope Leo XIV has announced that he will undergo surgery in the coming days to remove a lump on his lung, which was detected at a very early stage. During his weekly Angelus address in St Peter’s Square on Sunday, the 71-year-old pontiff told the crowd that a lung nodule had been discovered during recent medical checks and was highly localised. The statement by the Vatican press office adds that Doctors had recommended an operation to remove it, and that the procedure had already been planned.  It further confirms that his recovery was expected to take about one week. Born in Chicago, Leo became the first American pope in May 2025, following the death of his Argentine predecessor, Pope Francis, on 21 April 2025. He was elected on 8 May 2025 to lead the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics. Since assuming office, the former Robert Francis Prevost has gradually established his leadership style, speaking out on major global issues, including conflict...
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WOMEN RIGHTS GROUP TAKES ON PEACEFUL PROTEST AGAINST UNWHOLESOME WIDOWHOOD PRACTICES IN ANAMBRA STATE.(PHOTO).#PRESS RELEASE

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WOMEN RIGHTS GROUP TAKES ON PEACEFUL PROTEST AGAINST UNWHOLESOME WIDOWHOOD PRACTICES IN ANAMBRA STATE.



By Chidinma Ikeanyionwu


A group of Women Rights Activists, yesterday, staged a peaceful protest to condemn the unwholesome widowhood  practice of forcing a widow to drink the water used in washing the deceased corpse at a community in Atani, Ọgbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State.


The Women who gathered in numbers, before the Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Court of Anambra State, sitting at the Chief Magistrate's Court Awka, were seen holding placards with bold inscriptions, such as: "Stop Violence Against Women and Girls in Anambra State", "Ọgbaru Men and Women, Allow our Widows Some Peace", Stop All Obnoxious Laws and Harmful Widowhood Practices in Anambra State", among other inscriptions.


Speaking to newsmen during the protest, the Chairperson of Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP), in Anambra State, Miss Hope Nkiruka Okoye noted that the peaceful demonstration was only a way to make the women's voices heard, as well as, a clarion call on the Ọgbaru communities to review the existing obnoxious traditions and expunge all forms of harmful practices against women and widows in the areas.


Miss Okoye charged all well-meaning indigenes of Ọgbaru and indeed, Anambra State, both at home and in the diasporas, to lend their voices in speaking against every form of ill treatments against women and widows, not only in Ọgbaru communities, but also in all parts of the state. 


She urged the Anambra State Government, through the state's Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Court, to protect women and widows in the state; and ensure that justice is served on perpetrators of unpalatable windowhood practices against women and widows, irrespective of their social status.


Meanwhile, one of the suspects, a native of Atani in Ọgbaru Local Government Area, who forced a widow, Mrs. Patricia Eligbue, to drink water used in washing the deceased husband's corpse was, recently, arraigned on a 5-count charge, before the Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Court, Awka. 


When the charges were read and interpreted to the defendant, Mr. Albert Eligbue, a brother-in-law to the widow; pleaded not guilty of the charges.


However, the presiding Chief Magistrate, His Worship Genevieve Osakwe stated that, since the offence was a bailable offence, the Court would consider bail applicantion for the defendant.


The defendant, Mr. Albert Eligbue was granted bail in the sum of Five Hundred Thousand naira and, that he must provide a reliable surety, in the like sum, who must be the traditional ruler of Atani, the Onowu or the President-General of Atani community, with two recent passport photographs, and a valid  means of identification, among other requirements.


The defendant was remanded at the Nigerian Correctional Centre, Awka, and case adjourned further to the 7th day of June, 2023, for hearing.

 

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