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By Aderogba George Mrs Pauline Tallen, former Minister of Women Affairs, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ensure favourable conditions that will encourage more women into politics. Tallen stated this in Abuja, while speaking with newsmen on the sideline of the inauguration and unveiling of a bookContinue Reading
By Philip Yatai The First Lady, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, has disbursed N65 million grant to 1,300 women petty traders in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Mrs Tinubu explained during the event in Abuja on Thursday, that each of the women would receive N50,000 to grow and recapitalise their businesses. TheContinue Reading
By Emmanuella Anokam The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), has sought for technical assistance from Australia, Belgium and Canada to deepen Nigeria’s extractive industry reforms. The reform programme is designed to deal with challenges of corruption, oil theft, illegal mining, stealing of minerals, pipeline vandalisation and associated governance challenges.Continue Reading
By Desmond Ejibas The Medical Women’s Association of Nigeria (MWAN), has called for a global action against increasing abduction and violence against medical professionals in the country. National President of the association, Prof. Rosemary Ogu, who made the call at a news conference in Port Harcourt, said there was urgentContinue Reading
The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) will soon start transmission in vernacular to widen its reach, its Managing Director, Malam Ali M. Ali, has said. Ali disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja while on a courtesy visit to Dr Aminu Wada, Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission(NCC). He saidContinue Reading
By Philip Yatai, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Shortly after assuming office as FCT minister on Aug. 21, 2023, Mr Nyesom Wike announced short, medium, and long-term plans to restore the Abuja Master Plan. Wike, along with FCT minister of state Mariya Mahmoud, explained that overhauling the FCT would repositionContinue Reading
By Angela Atabo The Federal Government has inaugurated a Joint Steering Committee on National Housing Data Centre, to develop and implement a blueprint for ensuring transparency and easy access to housing. The Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Ahmed Dangiwa, inaugurated the centre on Tuesday in Abuja. Dangiwa said that Continue Reading
By Emmanuella Anokam, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) When the construction of the Dangote Petroleum Refinery Limited began in 2016, Nigerians were upbeat that it will crash the high price of Petroleum Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly known as fuel and also stop its importation. The refinery, in size of nearlyContinue Reading
By Ezra Musa The Arewa Concerned Citizens Forum (ACCF), has called for the establishment of the Nigerian Military Endowment Fund. The forum, in a statement signed by its co-founders, Alhaji Bello Usman and Dr Victor Bobai, in Kaduna on Tuesday, said that the move was to give back to theContinue Reading
By Funmilayo Adeyemi, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) The event played out like a rowdy parliamentary session, though, without a gavel to punctuate ruling or proclamation on a contentious educational issue. The occasion was a policy meeting, organised by the Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) recently in Abuja, which hadContinue Reading
