Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has been honoured with the award of ‘National Nutrition Vanguard’ by the Nutrition Society of Nigeria (NSN) in a brief ceremony held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. The award was in recognition of the vice president’s outstanding and immense “contribution to national development and particularly nutrition development in Nigeria. Prof. Hafiz Abubakar, former Kano State Deputy Governor and a member of the NSN Board of Trustees, who read the citation, said Osinbajo…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The Permanent Secretary, State House, Tijjani Umar says the State House 2023 budget proposal of N21.1 billion is comparatively lower than the 2022 appropriation of N40.1 billion by 19.01 billion. Umar revealed this when he led other top management staff of the State House to defend the 2023 budget proposals before the Senate Committee on Federal Character and Intergovernmental Affairs, on Thursday in Abuja. In his submission, which also included details of the 2022 budget performance, the Permanent Secretary noted that there was a marginal decrease in the personnel cost due to the anticipated retirement of 40 staff in 2023.…
Sadiya Umar Farouq, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, says the Federal Government will partner the World Bank to conduct a post disaster rapid impact assessment. Farouq, who stated this at a Ministerial briefing, said that the assessment would use the Global Rapid post-disaster Damage Estimation (GRADE). This is contained in a statement signed by Farouq’s Special Assistant on Media, Mrs Nneka Anibeze, on Thursday in Abuja. “This exercise is intended to give an immediate understanding and estimation of the extent of damage and loss caused by the flood. “This rapid estimation is needed, because the physical…
Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited (BASL), operator of Murtala Muhammed Airport Two (MMA2), on Thursday said it had reinstated the 37 dismissed workers after resolutions were reached between aviation unions and the company. Mr Oluwatosin Onajala, Head, Corporate Communications, confirmed the development in a statement issued in Lagos on Thursday. Members of all the unions in aviation on Tuesday embarked on an unannounced protest over alleged sacking of the 37 workers of the company. The protest impacted heavily on scheduled flights and other operations, with early morning passengers left stranded. The unions barricaded the entrance and exit gates of the terminal…
The Cross River government on Thursday launched the 2022 Integrated Measles Vaccination Campaign in Calabar. The campaign, which would run from November 3 to 10, would feature the introduction of Rotavirus and COVID-19 vaccination. Rotavirus is the most common cause of diarrheal disease among infants and young children. Nearly every child in the world is infected with a rotavirus at least once by the age of five. The Cross River Deputy Governor, Prof. Ivara Esu, said at the launch of the campaign that measles is a dangerous disease for children and must be checked. He added that “today, people are…
FBNQuest, the investment banking and asset management business of FBN Holdings Plc, has urged private mid-cap companies to explore the capital financing options available in the local financial markets. The Managing Director of FBNQuest Funds, Mrs Ijeoma Agboti, gave the advice at a media parley on Thursday in Lagos. According to her, the current economic headwinds facing mid-cap businesses place a demand on business leaders to carefully plan their capital needs with a view to optimisation and defensive positioning. Agboti said while the outlook for the business environment remained uncertain over the next six months, there were strong opportunities to…
“Lack of network coverage in core rural areas will not exclude those applicants there. In all local government headquarters, we have network coverage and we have made provision for them to come to their various local government headquarters and register” As the National Population Commission (NPC) launches its online e-recruitment portal for the 2023 Population and Housing Census, the Federal Commissioner who represents Sokoto state, Chiso Dattijo Abdullahi has assured that applicants from core rural areas will not be secluded because of lack of network coverage. He gave the assurance during the official launch of the e-recruitment portal in Sokoto…
A coalition, 100 Women Lobby Group, has blamed low number of female candidates in 2023 general election on lack of internal democracy in political parties, saying that most parties are not gender sensitive. Mrs Felicia Onibon, the National Coordinator of the Group stated this at a meeting tagged, “Dissemination on the Analysis/Review of the 2022 Party Primaries and its Implication on Women Political Participation in 2023” in Abuja on Thursday. The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) had released a report indicating that only 10.1 per cent of the candidates for the 2023 general election were females. “We all know…
The Sokoto Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured interim forfeiture of eight properties from the Federal High Court. One of the forfeited properties marked by the EFCC ASHENEWS has reliably gathered from source that some of the properties belong to high profile politicians, some of who are holding elective positions in the state government. Another reliable source from the zonal command who wants to remain anonymous told ASHENEWS the Federal High Court had granted the commission an interim forfeiture until owners of the properties come to claim their ownership. Another property marked by the…
The federal government has handed over the 228 hectares Gari Irrigation Project to farmers in Jigawa and Kano states. Five local government areas of Kazaure and Roni in Jigawa state, and Kunchi, Dambata and Makoda LGAs in Kano state, under the Hadejia Jama’are River Basin Development Authority are benefiting. The handing over was done by Mrs Oyeronke Oluniyi, Director, Irrigation and Drainage, Federal Ministry of Water Resources, on behalf of the Minister, Mr Suleiman Adamu. Oluniyi in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja on Thursday, said the project was part of efforts to support government’s food security and…