By Martha Agas The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr Dele Alake, has unveiled the gender strategy document for Nigeria’s mining and steel sector. He also launched the Women In Mining In Nigeria (WIMIN) strategy document. During the event, Alake hailed the gender strategy as a significant milestone, underscoring theContinue Reading
By Millicent Ifeanyichukwu The Director of Lagos State Library Board, Mr Oyadipe Amoo, has called on students to make use of public libraries in their localities to explore, learn and have fun with books. Amoo gave the advice at the Year 2024 World Book Day with the theme “Read yourContinue Reading
By Aisha Cole The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Tuesday continued its humanitarian visits to the families of four victims of the stampede that occurred during one of its rice sales in Lagos. A high-powered delegation, led by ACG Hammi Swomen, the Zonal Coordinator, Zone A, visited theContinue Reading
By Oluwatope Lawanson Yiaga Africa, an NGO, has called for a four-year tenure for elective positions in Local governments to ensure uniformity in terms of office at states and federal levels in Nigeria. Cynthia Mbamalu, Director of Programmes, Yiaga Africa, made the call at an Advocacy Roundtable tagged:Continue Reading
By Lydia Ngwakwe Some food vendors and others selling souvenirs as well as umbrellas to beachgoers have commended the federal government for putting ” human face” to the demolition of properties on the right-of-way of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway. The vendors, low-income earners, spoke in separate interviews with theContinue Reading
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By Oluwatope Lawanson Yiaga Africa, an NGO, says its national debate competition will provide a unique platform for students across universities in Nigeria to articulate their vision for the nation of their dreams. Mrs Antonia Onda, Senior Programme Officer, Yiaga Africa, made this known at the South WestContinue Reading
By Precious Akutammadu Mr Moses Siasia, an entrepreneur, has urged governors of the South-South under the BRACED Commission (Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa-Ibom, Crossriver, Edo and Delta), to pay attention to entrepreneurship for the good of the people. Siasia, who is the Convener of the Niger Delta Micro, Small and Medium EnterpriseContinue Reading
By Joan Nwagwu The Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) has said that it conducted 5,592 occupational safety and health activities at various workplaces across the nation in the last one year. Mrs Maureen Allagoa, Managing Director of NSITF said this on Monday in Abuja during a tree planting ceremonyContinue Reading
By Itohan Abara-Laserian The National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) on Monday said it would soon picket offices of airlines across the country that had disallowed their staff from joining trade unions. Mr Ben Nnabue, the National President of NUATE made the disclosure during the National Campaign for theContinue Reading
