By Yakubu Uba The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) on Thursday sensitised groups of Persons With Disability in Borno on Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) Addressing the groups, Dr Kyaw Wai Aung, a Sexual Reproductive Health Specialist with UNFPA said the programme was organised to ensure that noContinue Reading
By Okeoghene Akubuike The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), says the average retail price of a litre of Petrol increased from N189.46 in Aug. 2022 to N626.70 in Aug. 2023. It made the declaration in its Petrol Price Watch for Aug. 2023 released in Abuja on Friday. It stated thatContinue Reading
By Aderogba George International Police Officers from Spain have concluded a three-day training on effective management of Tafficking in Person and Smuggling of Migrants (TIP/SOM) for officers drawn from Nigeria Law Enforcement Agencies. The officers who participated in the training are from the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Nigeria Police andContinue Reading
By Olatunde Ajayi The Oyo State Chairman of the Nigerian Institute of Town Planners(NITP), Prof. Musibau Jelili, has called for effective urban planning to address frequent occurrence of flood and other environment related health challenges. Jelili, while speaking during his investiture as the 18th Oyo state chairman of NITP onContinue Reading
By Tosin Kolade The World Bank announced its commitment to reposition Nigeria’s irrigation farming for sustainable economic development and for food security on Thursday in Abuja. It announced the commitment when its team on Sustainable Power and Irrigation in Nigeria/ Transforming Irrigation Management in Nigeria, (SPIN/TRIMING) project officials visited theContinue Reading
By Jessica Dogo Prof. Umar Danbatta, Executive Vice-Chairman (EVC), Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), says Africa can overcome challenges of poverty, food insecurity, healthcare, and others, if she adopts and deploys Artificial Intelligence (AI). Danbatta stated this on Wednesday in his keynote address at the 11th Edition of the Digital AfricaContinue Reading
By Tosin Kolade Some stakeholders in the water, environment and health sector have called for a review of the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Policy to address the poor sanitation situation in the country. They made this submission at the Validation Meeting on the Situation Assessment of Sanitation and HygieneContinue Reading
By Peter Okolie Barely seven weeks to the Nov. 11 governorship election in Imo, registrants are yet to collect at least 134,000 Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs), INEC declared in Owerri on Wednesday. The Resident Electoral Commissioner, Prof. Sylvia Agu, told newsmen that INEC resumed the issuance of PVCs for theContinue Reading
By Ebere Agozie/Pauline Ochai The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Kayode Ariwoola on Wednesday swore in nine Justices of the Court of Appeal. Ariwoola while administering the oath of office to the new judges, said:”the level of public scrutiny of your conduct will, henceforth, assume astronomical dimension because youContinue Reading
By Tosin Kolade The Green Sahara Farms (GSF) on Wednesday announced that it had planted 386,000 trees in some communities to manage the impact of climate change in the country. The Managing Director of the farm, Mr Suleiman Dikwa, who said this while unveiling the Environment Social Governance (ESG) PrinciplesContinue Reading
