Vice-President Kashim Shettima has implored Nigerians to be patient with President Bola Tinubu led administration. Shettima made the appeal on Saturday in Kafur, Katsina State at the inauguration of an empowerment scheme sponsored by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Political Matters, Ibrahim Masari. The Vice-President emphasised...
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) says it is facing numerous challenges in addressing epidemic-prone diseases in the country. The Director General of NCDC, Dr Jide Idris, highlighted inadequate funding and substandard healthcare infrastructure as part of the challenges at states level during a news...
The Federal Government has placed a ban on leave of absence for health professionals relocating abroad. The Minister of State for Health, Dr Tunji Alausa, who disclosed this on Saturday in Abeokuta said that health workers going abroad to seek for greener pastures must “henceforth resign their appointment...
The Executive Director of UN Population Fund (UNFPA), Dr Natalia Kanem, has said the world needs 222 billion dollars in new investment to achieve set goals for women and girls by 2030. The information is in a statement issued by UNFPA Nigeria Country Office Communication Analyst, Adewole Ajao,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The First Lady of Borno State, Dr Falmata Zulum, on Friday, celebrated the International Women’s Day by distributing N150m cash and food items to 3,000 vulnerable women. The International Women’s Day (IWD) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political...
What is it about the sight of a woman’s naked body that evokes shame and disgust? Recently, artworks by Laetitia Ky, who has made the feminine body her primary subject, have gone viral on Nigerian social media spaces with the Ivorian artist’s unapologetic nude portraits and their unflinching depictions of menstruation...
The National Average Cost of a Healthy Diet (CoHD) per adult per day was N858 in January 2024, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), has said. The NBS said this in its CoHD report for January 2024 released in Abuja on Saturday. The bureau said the CoHD is...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Police Officers Wives Association (POWA) Borno State Chapter has distributed food items to the widows of deceased personnel who died in the line of duty and other vulnerable members in the state as part of the activities to mark International Women’s Day....
Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun has said the Anchor Borrowers Scheme in the state has nurtured over 40,000 agriculture entrepreneurs. Abiodun, who spoke on Saturday in Abeokuta during the 37th Lisabi Day celebration, reiterated his administration’s dedication to supporting young farmers and investors in land clearing, preparation, and...
Herbert Wigwe, his wife, Chizoba, and son, Chizi have been buried in his hometown Omueke, Isiokpo in Rivers State. The late Chief Executive Officer of Access Holdings Plc, his wife, and his son were laid to rest in a private interment following a funeral church service at...
By HARUNA AHMED, Sokoto – The Sultan of Sokoto and President General, Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, has directed Muslim Ummah to start searching for the crescent of Ramadan 1445 AH from Sunday. NATIONAL ACCORD reports that Ramadan, the ninth month of...
By TYAV SAM TYAV, Makurdi – Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia of Benue State has sent condolences to families of victims of Wa-ndoo in Mbalom, Gwer-East Local Government Area of Benue State, who were attacked by armed herders leaving over twenty people dead including children. NATIONAL ACCORD recalled...
Lagos State Police Command has arrested a mother for attempting to kill her sick child, using a poisonous insecticide, “Sniper’’. Police spokesman in the state, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday that the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, reported the attempt to...
Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo has expressed concern over the significant disparity between the number of expatriate quota and CERPAC issued by the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS). He said this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja by the Director of Press and Public Relations of the...
Recently, the Interim Administrator, the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Maj. Gen. Barry Ndiomu (retd), said a total of 1,659 beneficiaries of the scheme’s scholarships are now graduates under the PAP scholarship scheme from offshore universities. In addition, the Programme has trained more than 19,000 beneficiaries in vocational skills. Aside...
Chieftain of the Labour Party in Anambra, Mr Emeka Umeakuka, has said that Chief Barth Nwibe is the best man for the job of next Anambra governor, come 2025. Umeakuka told journalists in Awka on Saturday that Anambra needed a thorough-bred, home-grown grassroots politician with critical, creative thinking...
Rivers State Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Sydney Gbara, has the political crises in the state will soon end. Gbara told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Port Harcourt on Saturday that majority of Rivers people no longer enjoyed the drama making rounds...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Minister of interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, said stakeholders’ concerns over the recently-launched Expatriate Employment Levy (EEL) would be addressed by the Federal Government. Tunji-Ojo stated this at a meeting with a delegation led by the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mrs Doris Uzoka-Anite, to...
The role of women and their centrality to the growth and evolution of technology has been widely acknowledged. Yet, recent statistics show that women remain underrepresented in the technology industry. The last census results by the National Population Commission show that there are almost as many women as...