The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) on Thursday, reassured Nigerians of the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines in the country. Executive Director, NPHCDA, Dr Faisal Shuaibu, gave the assurance when Mr David Anyaele, Executive Director, Centre for Citizens with Disabilities, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), visited the agency in Abuja. Represented by Dr Bassey O. Bassey, Director, Disease Control and Immunization, NPHCDA, Shuaibu urged Nigerians to erase misconceptions about COVID-19 vaccines and ensure they were vaccinated against the virus. While pledging the agency’s commitment to ensure inclusive healthcare for People with Disabilities (PWDs) in the country, Bassey tasked…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
In a bid to reduce its reliance on monthly federal allocation for its revenue, the Adamawa state government was fully prepared to develop its livestock industry and agribusiness in general, according to Dr. Ishaya Dabari, the state’s finance commissioner. Dabari, who stated this on Thursday, in Yola, added that pursuing the agribusiness programme had become necessary to serve as alternative to oil and the monthly federal allocation. Dabari noted that the livestock value chain was an internationally recognised vibrant business similar, to crop farming and was not restricted to any particular tribe or nation. The 2019 statistics of the Adamawa…
The Association of Deans of Agriculture in Nigeria Universities (ADAN) has honoured the Director-General of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Dr Nteranya Sanginga, with an Award of Excellence for successfully pioneering the IITA Youth-in- Agribusiness programme. The IITA Advocacy, Promotion and Outreach Lead Officer, Godwin Atser, announced this in a statement on Thursday in Ibadan. According to the statement, the award was presented to the IITA boss during the 64th Annual General Meeting of ADAN held recently in Nasarawa. It quoted the ADAN Committee Chairman, Prof. Olumuyiwa Jayeoba, as saying that the association was proud of the impact…
Tourism Ministers from Africa have agreed to speak with one voice to let the world know that the continent is being unfairly treated in the area of COVID-19 Vaccines distribution. The ministers reached the consensus at a meeting in Sal Island, Cape Verde to ratify the agenda for their 64th Conference of United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) Commission for Africa. Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture is leading Nigeria delegation to the conference which opens today. Speaking after the closed door meeting, Mohammed said they discussed the agenda for the conference as well as the UNWTO Global Tourism…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has denied allegation that it failed to remit 80 per cent of its operational surpluses into the Consolidated Revenue in the last five years. Dr Kingsley Obiora, CBN Deputy Governor in charge of Economic Policy, said this at the senate public hearing on 2022-2024 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) in Abuja. Obiora was reacting to an allegation by Sen. Solomon Adeola (APC-Lagos) that the CBN has not remitted its operational surpluses for five years. He said 80 per cent of the apex bank’s operational surpluses had always been remitted to the CRF on yearly…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) says it has begun phase three tracking of over 118 Executive and Constituency projects worth N4.5 billion in Yobe. Mr Laban Emmanuel, ICPC Team Leader in the state, disclosed this on Thursday in Damaturu. He said the tracking started on Aug. 31 and would be concluded on September 12. Emmanuel said projects to be monitored were scattered across 11 local government areas of Fika, Potiskum, Gashua, Jakusko, Nguru, Fune, Yunusari, Yusufari, Gujba, Bursari and Karasuwa. He said the team of trackers comprised ICPC officials, quantity surveyors, journalists and Civil Society…
A former director of the British Safety Council, Mrs Ibironke Adeagbo, has told the British Government to deploy advanced technology to assist Nigeria to overcome `horrific’ school abductions, taking place in northern Nigeria. Adeagbo made the appeal in Abuja on Thursday, while reacting to the latest kidnapping of students at Government Secondary School, Kaya in Zamfara in north-western Nigeria, where up to 73 students were kidnapped on Sept. 1. She said that Britain should not watch helplessly as the country it brought to existence “passes through a depressing phase with incessant kidnappings and snapping of innocent school kids from classrooms.…
Pop Central, a media company is set to excite reality show enthusiasts as it debuts “The Rush’’, a high energy, adrenaline pumping and physically intense reality show. This is contained in a statement issued by Yinka Obebe, Pop Central Television Chief Executive Officer, on Thursday, in Lagos. Obebe stated that the show would be on screens from October and would run till December. He added that 16 contestants would be selected after an audition to compete in groups for eight weeks and engage in 39 meticulously designed intensive physical and mental tasks. “`The Rush’ is designed to be both exciting…
The National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA)’s Integrated Farm Estate and fish villages in Borno are set to provide jobs for over 4,000 farmers, particularly IDPs returning home. The Executive Secretary of NALDA, Prince Paul Ikonne, said while on an inspection visit of the project located in Jere Local Government Area of the state. Ikonne said in a statement on Thursday in Abuja that the 100 hectare farm estate would create over 1,500 jobs. He added that the 40 fish farms being established would give over 2,500 women an opportunity to earn a living from fish farming, processing and packaging.…
The Nigerian Army says the troops of the Joint Task Force, North East Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK), have eliminated six terrorists and recovered cache of arms and ammunition in recent encounters in Borno. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. Nwachukwu said that the troops of 25 Brigade, had on Wednesday, neutralised four terrorists of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), terrorists who were on espionage on Damboa-Bulabulin- Maiduguri road. He said that the terrorists ran into a fighting patrol team at Kukawa and were neutralised in the fire…