The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in Nigeria has commenced a novel plan to educate and empower People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in Nigeria. This is contained in a statement signed by Mr Abdulkadir Ibrahim, National Coordinator, Network of People Living With HIV/AID in Nigeria (NEPWHAN) in Abuja on Saturday. Ibrahim said that the initiative was collaboration between the NEPWHAN and National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), Federal Ministry of Health, under the National AIDS and STIs Control Program (NASCP). He said the programme is solely and fully funded by PEPFAR. “The initiative known as Patient Education…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The Bauchi State Primary Healthcare Development Agency (BSPHCDA), has constituted a 19-member Crisis Communication Center (CRICC), to create awareness on the COVID-19 vaccine. Dr Rilwanu Mohammed, Executive Chairman of the Agency, stated this at the inauguration of the committee on Saturday in Bauchi. Mohammed said the committee was set up in accordance with directives of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA), to mobilise participation in the Phase II COVID-19 vaccination exercise. He said that such awareness creation activities were necessary to promote behavioural change and encourage acceptance of the vaccines in the society. “The myths on the vaccines have to…
Gunmen allegedly shot a local vigilante dead at Saturday’s Isoko South local government area constituency I bye-election for the Delta House of Assembly. Acting police spokesman in Delta, DSP Bright Edafe confirmed the development to newsmen in Warri. Edafe, who did not explain how the incident happened, said the dead must have been hit by stray bullet. An eyewitness said that the incident happened at about 3:15pm at Irri Ward 10, Unit 5, adding that the hoodlums were probably on a mission to snatch thumb printed ballot papers used for the election. “The hoodlums armed with sophisticated weapons shot sporadically…
A 23-year-old student of Auchi Polytechnic has committed suicide. The National Diploma (ND) 1 student of Public Administration was found dangling from the ceiling of his room on Friday night. He was said to have left a terse suicide note behind. According to a source who pleaded anonymity, he instructed that his mobile phone be given to one Sandra whom he begged for forgiveness in the suicide note. The source said that the Sandra was his girlfriend and that they were course mates. “Solomon was in class on Friday and left for home after class. We only came home later…
The Police Command in Edo said on Saturday that they rescued five victims of abduction and arrested two suspects in connection with the crime committed on Friday. The spokesperson, SP Bello Kontongs said in a press statement that arms and ammunitions were recovered from the suspects. He said the operatives acted on a tip off that suspected kidnappers, accosted a vehicle conveying a corpse from Lagos to Imo on the Benin-Lagos bypass, and they kidnapped three occupants of the vehicle. “On receipt of the information, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) Egba Division, SP John Emmanuel, mobilised operatives and the local…
The Rotary District 9125 has organised computer code training for 50 computer teachers drawn from the 17 local government areas of Plateau. The Rotary President of Naraguta Jos, Mrs Hauwa Eferemo, said on Saturday in Vom, near Jos, that the training programme was organised to mark the African Code Week. Eferemo further said that the progamme was powered by SAP, UNESCO, Youth mobile, Coderina, the state Ministry of Education and the Rotary District 9125. According to her, the aim of the training entitled: “Train the Trainers ” is to empower secondary school computer teachers with the requisite skills for computer…
Access Bank Plc in collaboration with Xploit Consulting Limited on Saturday trained 150 widows and orphans on business innovation in Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The Director of Communication of Xploit Consulting Ltd, Mrs Grace Taiwo, while addressing the participants, said that the training was to equip them on business skills. Taiwo said that the training covered Kwali, Kuje, and Bwari Area Councils in the FCT. She said that the organisation and the bank ensured that the widows and orphans selected from the three area councils were adults and vulnerable. According to her, the aim of the training is to equip…
Three presidents and their wives stood sombrely side by side at the National Sept. 11 Memorial, sharing a moment of silence to mark the anniversary of U.S. worst terror attack with a display of unity. President Joe Biden and former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton all gathered at the site where the World Trade Center towers fell two decades ago. They each wore blue ribbons and held their hands over their hearts as a procession marched a flag through the memorial, watched by hundreds of Americans gathered for the remembrance, some carrying photos of loved ones lost in the…
El-Kanemi Warriors of Maiduguri on Saturday dropped back to the Nigeria National League (NNL) in spite of thrashing DMD FC of Maiduguri 3-0 at the ongoing super 8 play-offs in Enugu. In the third match of the Northern Conference played inside the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu, Ibrahim Mustapha scored a hat trick on the trot in the 32nd, 73rd and 85th minutes of the game, but the goals could not save the Warriors from the exiting the super 8 competition. The game between Niger Tornadoes and Gombe United, the second of the day played simultaneously, stalemated at 0-0 enabling the…
Ten primary school girls in the Federal Capital Territory have been awarded over N3 million in scholarships for three years to study Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Mrs Funmilola Ojelade, the President of Association of Professional Women Engineers in Nigeria (APWEN), presented the dummy cheque to the girls at the event on Saturday in Abuja. The scholarship programme, which is tagged “Invent it. Build it,” started in 2018. Ojelade said that this year’s event is tagged “National Security, Printing and Minting Plc (NSPM) Scholarship for Girls in STEM”. “The Invent it, Build it’ is being carried out in all…