ASHENEWS reports that Niger state governor, Abubakar Sani on Saturday, attended a ‘Charity Polo Match’ in a bid to strengthen the entertainment campaign for early detection of Breast Cancer in the society. The Charity Match was part of the series of programmes organized by his wife, Dr Amina Sani Bello and founder of Raise Foundation. Speaking at the event, Sani Bello said that he was at the exhibition match to support the Foundation in the awareness campaign in discovering the ailment early for proper treatment. “We are here because of Raise Foundation, to lend our support to Breast Cancer awareness and…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
Raisi spoke after Biden said U.S. would ‘free Iran’ Those who create insecurity ‘must be dealt with’ – Raisi President Ebrahim Raisi said Iran’s cities were “safe and sound” after what he called a failed attempt by the United States to repeat the 2011 Arab uprisings in the Islamic Republic, Iranian media reported on Saturday as protests continued for a 50th day. Iran’s clerical leadership has struggled to suppress demonstrations which erupted in September after the death of young Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini who had been detained by morality police for flouting strict laws on women’s dress. Hundreds of…
The Federal Government, in collaboration with the International Fund for Agricultural Development-Value Chain Development Programme, has distributed rice farm inputs worth more than N25m to farmers in Enugu. The inputs were distributed on Saturday during the beginning of the Agency’s 2022/2023 dry season Agro-input distribution at the IFAD/VCDP office in Enugu. The items to include bags of rice seeds, bags of NPK fertilisers, bags of Indorama Urea fertilisers, herbicides of selective and non selective. Others are, rice planters and harvesters, de-stonning machines, water pumps, rice milling machines, casava processing machines Addressing the famers, the National Programme Coordinator, Dr. Fatima Aliyu,…
Twitter has announced a subscription service for $7.99 a month that includes a blue check now given only to verified accounts as new owner Elon Musk works to overhaul the platform’s verification system just ahead of U.S. midterm elections. In an update to Apple iOS devices available in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the U.K., Twitter said users who “sign up now” for the new “Twitter Blue with verification” can receive the blue check next to their names “just like the celebrities, companies and politicians you already follow.” But Twitter employee Esther Crawford tweeted Saturday that the “new…
By Justina Auta The Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Pauline Tallen, has urged state governments to establish safe spaces where survivors of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) can seek medical, psychological and social support. Tallen made the call at the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum in Abuja. Safe space is a place or environment in which a person or category of people can feel confident that they will not be exposed to discrimination, criticism, harassment, or any other emotional or physical harm. The term safe space also refers to places intended to be free of bias, conflict, or potentially threatening actions,…
By Justina Auta The Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen, says 34 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have domesticated the Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) Act 2015 to curb incessant cases of violence across states. Tallen, who said this during the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Ministerial Forum in Abuja, added that 32 states have also domesticated the Child Rights Act (CRA) 2003. She said the acts would help in reducing the menace of violence, especially Gender-Based Violence (GBV), ensure perpetrators are prosecuted, provide support to survivors and protect the rights of women, girls and children and men…
India has called on rich countries to fulfil a decade-old promise to provide $100 billion in annual climate finance to developing nations. In 2009, a coalition of economically developed countries – including the USA, France, Germany, and the UK – pledged to give climate change-impacted nations $100 billion (€101 billion) per year by 2020. This promise has not been met, India’s government said on Friday – and needs to be increased. “The goal of $100 billion per year of climate finance by 2020 and every year thereafter through till 2025 is yet to be achieved,” the government said in a…
An auto crash on Saturday, claimed lives of five persons and two injured at Isma village on the Bauchi-Jos Highway. Yusuf Abdullahi, Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Bauchi State, confirmed the figure when he spoke in Bauchi on Saturday. He said two other persons were seriously injured in the crash which involved one Peugeot 406 car and a DAF tanker. He attributed the cause of the crash to speed violation. “Seven persons were involved in the fatal crash, and they include three male adults, three female adults and 1 female child. “Two each of the…
The Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Iyorcha Ayu on Saturday, held a consultative meeting with Bauchi state governor, Bala Mohammed. Ayu accompanied by the Director-General of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council, Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto, former governor of Jigawa, Sule Lamido and Mohammed met behind closed doors. The delegation arrived in Bauchi in the evening to meet Mohammed over pressing issues in the party. Speaking shortly before the meeting, Ayu described Mohammed as one of the major national stakeholders who contributed to the development of the party. “We are here to brief you on some of the…
By Justina Auta The Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Pauline Tallen, says the nullification of the Adamawa All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Sen. Aisha Dahiru-Binani (Adamawa Central), is unacceptable. Tallen said this during the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Ministerial Forum in Abuja. The minister, who described the problem that led to the nullification as a party issue, said that the judgment should be reversed, as the results of the governorship primary election clearly showed that she won. She added that “the nullification of our only female candidate for the governorship in Adamawa is unacceptable. “It is unacceptable to…