The IDIMUB Foundation has empowered 100 women of Azza community in Lapai local government area of Niger state with N1,500,000. The founder, Mumbu Idris told newsmen that he is dedicating the empowerment program to his late mother, who played a major role in his upbringing. The empowerment program, which is targeted mainly at poor and indigent women in the society, is part of its effort to ease the sufferings of the masses. According to him, the programme is also aimed at making the women self reliant and productive by using the financial support to set up small scale businesses. He…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
Political hush-hush and horse-trading were the resultant effects of two separate congregational meetings of the North and South governors held at different places and times a few weeks ago. The governors of the southern states of Nigeria met on 16th September 2021 in Enugu. Nine sitting governors and seven deputy governors represented the seventeen southern states at the Enugu meeting. Similarly, perhaps, in reaction to the meeting of southern governors, the governors of the northern states converged in Kaduna on Monday, 27th September 2021, and held an enlarged meeting of the Northern Governors Forum. In addition to the northern governors,…
Yiaga Africa has said that the results so far announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the Anambra governorship election, reflected the ballots cast on November 6, 2021. Its executive director, Samson Itodo said this at a news conference on the preliminary statement on the Anambra election. Itodo said that Yiaga Africa deployed 500 observers and 27 mobile observers to monitor the election adding that INEC had so far released results for 20 Local Government Areas (LGAs), remaining Ihiala LGA that was yet to hold. He said that Yiaga Africa, through the Watching The Vote citizens movement, deployed…
Google has announced the 34 funding recipients of the Google.org Impact Challenge for Women and Girls to strengthen the well-being of communities recovering from COVID-19. The President, Google.org, Jacquelline Fuller in a statement in Lagos on Monday said that women were nearly twice as likely to lose their jobs globally during COVID-19 as men. “It is vital that we elevate and support work that empowers women and girls to reach their full economic potential, especially in marginalised communities. “The pandemic recovery must be an inclusive one, and we know that when we invest in women and girls, we all benefit,” she said. The $25m global…
The Public Policy Research & Analysis Centre (PPRAC) has confirmed its “2020 Zik Prize for Public Service Leadership’’ on the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC Ltd, Mele Kyari. Conferring the award on behalf of the Centre, at the Eko Hotel, Lagos at the weekend, Mac Wabara acknowledged Kyari’s transformation of the fortunes of the Corporation from a position of loss-making into a profit- making venture. At a well-attended event also witnessed by the Emir of Kano, Aminu Bayero; Emir of Lafia, Justice Sidi Bage (rtd) and several other dignitaries, Kyari received the latest recognition from…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has advised the public against panic buying of petroleum products. This is contained in a statement by the spokesperson of the Corporation, Garba Deen Muhammad on Monday. According to the statement, “The NNPC has over 1.7 billion litres of petrol in stock and more product is expected to arrive into the country daily over the coming weeks and months. “It is therefore unnecessary to entertain any fear of scarcity of petrol throughout the festive season and beyond. “The NNPC is also not aware of any plan by government to cause an increase in the…
… Pantami scaled six hurdles; due process followed The Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO) chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has confirmed that the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami went through rigorous processes before his appointment as a Professor of Cybersecurity was approved. According to ASUU, Pantami’s application scaled six hurdles before it was ratified by the Governing Council. It clarified that external assessors were engaged to examine the Minister’s publications to earn the academic position. The internal inquiry confirmed that due process was followed by both the Governing Council and the management…
Ten members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), 2021, Batch C Stream 1 Orientation Course, in Abia, have won N3,750,000 as business start-up fund. Mr Omaka Nnachi, the Public Relations Officer of NYSC, Abia, in a statement on Monday, in Umuahia, said the corps members won the funds in an ‘Accesspreneur – All4One’ scheme. He said the programme was sponsored by Access Bank Nigeria Plc, as part of its corporate social responsibility. According to the statement, the fund aimed at empowering corps members with good bankable business proposals, by providing them start-up capitals and mentorship, to help scale up…
The Minister of Defence, retired Maj.-Gen. Bashir Magashi, says the prevalence of the various security threats in Nigeria has adversely affected food security thereby posing new dimension of threats to the country. Magashi stated this at the opening of a retreat for Defence Advisers/Attaches Conference, organised by the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) on Monday in Abuja. The conference/retreat has the theme, ‘’Advancing Counterterrorism Efforts through Enhanced Inter-Agency Cooperation: A Whole of Government Approach”. He said the attacks by Boko Haram Terrorists and Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) in the North East as well as banditry and herder/militia in…
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, convicted Abdulrasheed Maina, Chairman, defunct Pension Reformed Task Team (PRTT), and sentenced him to 8 years imprisonment. Justice Okon Abang, in his judgment, held that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had proven the essential ingredients of all the 12 counts preferred against Maina beyond reasonable doubt in the money laundering suit. Delivering the judgment, the judge sentenced the ex-pension boss to three years in count one, five years in count two, eight years in count three, eight years in count four, two years in count five, five years in count six,…