By Florence Onuegbu The Wife of Nigeria’s President, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, has advised women to be ready to break barriers, so as to unleash their full potential. Tinubu gave the advice on Tuesday in Victoria Island, while declaring open the 23rd National Women’s Conference, organisedContinue Reading
Prof. Rodria Laline, one of TEXEM’s faculties By Abigael Joshua TEXEM UK, a United Kingdom-based leadership development organisation, says the unabated exodus of talents from Nigeria to the UK primarily, constitutes a major but surmountable hurdle for the country’s leaders. In a statement on TEXEM’s websiteContinue Reading
By Muhyideen Jimoh The Minister of Sports Development, Sen. John Owan Enoh has charged heads of departments in the Ministry to come up with strategic plan to harness and nurture talents discovered at the National Youth Games. Enoh stated this on Tuesday in Abuja at an interactive meeting with seniorContinue Reading
By Sani Idris The Centre for Water and Environment Development (CWED) has sensitised government-owned secondary schools’ students in Kaduna to the importance of hand washing and personal hygiene. The students are from the GSS Rigachikun, Kakuri as well as GGSS Kabala Costain. Mrs Doris Zakama, the Programme Manager of theContinue Reading
By Aderonke Ojediran Stakeholders have applauded the decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to officially include squash in the Los Angeles LA28 Olympic Games. The World Squash Federation (WSF), U.S. Squash and the Professional Squash Association (PSA) on Tuesday extended their gratitude to the Organising Committee of the LA28Continue Reading
By Reporters A cross-section of Nigerians in Abuja says balanced diet is out of their reach, due to the rising food prices and dwindling household incomes. They told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in separate interviews on Tuesday that the situation was worse, especially for low income earners inContinue Reading
By Ismail Abdulaziz Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu has described the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) as one of the key instruments of fighting poverty globally. She stated this at the launch of the Renewed Hope Conditional Cash transfer (CCT) on Tuesday in Abuja. Edu said thatContinue Reading
By Tosin Kolade The Federal Government has pledged to end continuous contamination of drinking water sources, as no fewer than 41 per cent of the country’s public water supply were contaminated with faeces. The Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation, Prof. Joseph Utsev, said this at the launch of theContinue Reading
By Naomi Sharang The Senate has inaugurated its Standing Committee on Legislative Compliance. This, it said was aimed at enforcing its resolutions on all its standing committees as well as all the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of Federal Government. The committee, chaired by Sen. Musa MaidokiContinue Reading
By Uche Bibilari The Vice Chancellor, University of Abuja (UniAbuja), Prof. Abdul-Rasheed Na’allah, says making right development choices as a nation is central to building and forming a modern nation. Na’Allah expressed this view at the Third Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Chair programme for Japanese Studies on Tuesday inContinue Reading
