Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, has called for support from stakeholders in repositioning sports in the country. The minister made the call on Friday in Abuja at the launch of a book, “Sports in Nigeria: Going round in circles”, by a veteran journalist and sports administrator, Godwin Kienka. The minister, represented by his Special Adviser on Policy,...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has described the killing of a second-year student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Deborah Samuel, over an allegation of blasphemy as deeply distressing. Osinbajo spoke with newsmen on Friday at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, shortly on arrival from Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. The vice president said it is worthy...
The Nigerian Institute of Transport Technology (NITT), Zaria, has designed a training programme for drivers of Jesuit Refugee Services (JRS), an international Catholic organisation. This is contained in a statement by Mr Francis Thomas, the Public Relations Officer of the institute, on Friday in Zaria, Kaduna State. It said the drivers would be trained under the short term programmes of...
The Nasarawa State Government has reaffirmed its commitment toward empowering the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the state with requisite skills and knowledge to enable them to become self-reliant.Gov. Abdullahi Sule said this on Friday in Lafia during the graduation and symbolic presentation of 166 sewing machines and accessories to 166 trained IDPs.In a speech at the event, he also...
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The Senior Staff Association of Universities, Teaching Hospitals, Research Institutes, and Associated Institutions (SSAUTHRIAI), has appealed to Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, Emir of Ilorin to intervene in their impasse with Federal Government. Dr. Benjamin Akintola, the National President of SSAUTHRIAI, made the call on Friday when the unions paid a courtesy visit to the Emir in Ilorin. The visit is part...
Prof. Sunday Ododo, the Abuja Centre Coordinator of JAMB Equal Opportunity Group (JEOG), says no fewer than 383 candidates with visual impairment and other forms of disability sat for the 2022 UTME. Ododo, who is also the General Executive Officer of the National Theatre, Iganmu, Lagos State, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on...
The Senate President and Presidential aspirant on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen.Ahmad Lawan, has approved the appointment of Mr Iyke Ekeoma as the official spokesman of his presidential campaign organisation The appointment which takes immediate effect was announced in a release issued on Friday by Sen. Bello Mandiya of the Ahmad Lawan Campaign Organisation. The News Agency...
White House press secretary Jen Psaki has bid farewell to the White House press corps, standing in the Press Briefing Room for the last time on Friday. She was in the Briefing Room facing questions on crises old and new, foreign and domestic. The outgoing press secretary addressed the baby formula shortage and gun violence, immigration and war. She also...
An Israeli airstrike in central Syria has killed five people, including a civilian, the official Syrian news agency SANA said on Friday, citing a military source. “The Israeli enemy carried out airstrikes with a barrage of missiles… targeting some points in the central region,” SANA said. “The aggression resulted in the death of five martyrs.” It quoted the military source...
Th Abia State College of Health Sciences and Management Technology, Aba has warned its new students to shun examination malpractices, cultism and other social vices.The Rector of the college, Prof. Lawrence Chigbu, issued the warning on Friday during the matriculation ceremony for the 1,528 new students for the 20212022 academic session.He said, ”The fresh students, being admitted into this great...
Edo’s Gov. Godwin Obaseki on Friday in Benin blamed increasing rate of drug abuse in the state on the lingering Academic Staff Union of Universities’ (ASUU) strike. Reviewing the state’s security situation for the months of February, March and April, Gov. Obaseki said Edo recorded 19 drug abuse cases in February, 34 cases in March and 23 cases in April....
An Animal Scientist/Apiculturist, Mr. Kingsley Nwaogu, on Friday said the practice of beekeeping could mitigate the effects of Climate Change. Nwaogu said this while delivering an online presentation titled: “Organic Bee-Keeping and its Not Economic Impacts on Journalists Go Organic” in Abuja. According to him, bee-Keeping ensures the maintenance of natural habitat and biodiversity, which is beneficial to the environment...
Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta has urged the 786 graduands of the state’s skills acquisition programme to shun luxury living in order to grow their businesses. The governor gave the advice at the 2021 cycle graduation and distribution of business start-up packs to the 786 beneficiaries of the state’s Rural Youth Skills Acquisition (RYSA) programme on Friday in Asaba. He...
The Police command in Plateau says it has arrested two suspects over alleged trafficking of firearms from Plateau to the eastern part of the country through Nasarawa State. The Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said this during news briefing on Friday, in Abuja. Adejobi said the suspects were arrested, following credible intelligence gathered by operatives of the...
Ghana’s Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta on Thursday emphasized the nation’s partnership with the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) in its development as he addressed reporters at a news conference to give know the next annual meetings of the institution. Ofori-Atta described the meetings as seminal, in the context of a world seeking to rebalance itself in the wake of Covid-19 and...
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has condemned the gruesome murder of Deborah Samuel, a 200 Level student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, by some extremist fellow students on alleged blasphemy. In a joint media briefing by CAN and CAN-Youth Wing, on Friday in Abuja, CAN’s General Secretary, Joseph Daramola, said that the unlawful and dastardly action of the perpetrators must...
After a two-day interruption, the Naira returned stronger as it appreciated by 0.24 per cent or N1 against the green back at the Investors and Exporters Window on Friday. The Naira exchanged at N419 to the dollar, compared with the N420 it traded on Thurday. The open indicative rate closed at N417.70 to the dollar on Friday. An exchange rate...
Transactions ended on the Nigerian Exchange Ltd., (NGX) on Friday still on a positive note with market indices increasing by 0.34 per cent. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the market capitalisation increased by N97 billion to close at N28.625 trillion in contrast with N28.528 trillion achieved on Thursday. Similarly, the All-Share Index which closed at 53,098.46 against 52,917.76...
The head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today called on G7 nations to help anticipate future food shortages as war in Ukraine reduces supplies, raises prices at record levels and threatens the already vulnerable nations of Africa and Asia. “We need to actively identify ways to offset potential future gaps in global markets, working together to...
