“The situation stems from a combination of factors, including logistical hurdles, supply chain disruptions, and funding constraints,” she lamented.
Author: Abdoulaye Kay
“But we are also one of the highest consumers, producing 5.2M Metric Tonnes of dried cowpeas annually and consuming 3.6M Metric Tonne,” she said.
ASHENEWS reports that a WHO report as showing how gender inequalities in health and care work negatively impact women, health systems and health outcomes. The report titled “Fair share for health and care: gender and the undervaluation of health and care work”, which was released on Wednesday, said the outlines, under investment in health systems, resulted in a vicious cycle of unpaid health and care work lowering women’s participation in paid labour markets, harming women’s economic empowerment and promoting gender inequalities. It said that women comprised 67 per cent of the paid global health and care workforce, yet they face…
“We are very alarmed about forthcoming reductions in funding activities for some organisations amid global cuts to humanitarian assistance” says MSF country representative Dr Simba Tirima.
The money was taken from the CBN vault in the name of mobilizing international observers for the 2023 general elections “and allegedly shared with the top Officials of the State House, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, and others.
Seplat Energy JV/ NNPC E&P Limited on Wednesday disclosed that it had undertaken more than 90,000 eye surgeries in the last 12 years in its host communities of Edo, Delta, and Imo states. The Base Manager of the Western Asset at Seplat Energy, Mr. Emmanuel Otokhine made this known during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Seplat/NNPC E&P Limited “Eye Can See” programme at the Oba’s Palace in Benin. Otokhine said the initiative was part of Seplat’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme in areas where it operated. He said that the programme was designed to provide eye care, visual aid,…
It all appears that the suspended Senator Abdul Ningi is not alone in the N3.7 trillion budget padding allegation, as a civil society organization (CSO) focused on the Nigerian budget and public data, BudgIT, has confirmed the gap in the 2024 budget presented to the National Assembly (NASS). The Director and co-founder of BudgIT, Seun Onigbinde, who made the confirmation in an interview with Channels Television on Wednesday, said that Ningi was right if he posited that there was no detailed allocation for N3.7 trillion in the 2024 budget. ASHENEWS recalls that Ningi, who had alleged that N3.7 trillion padded the…
ASHENEWS reports that President Bola Tinubu has ordered the immediate re-opening of Nigeria’s land and air borders with neighbouring Niger Republic. A statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale on Wednesday, said Tinubu also directed the immediate lifting of travel ban against the country’s government officials. The statement further explained that the President’s directives were in compliance with the resolution of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government during its last extraordinary meeting in Abuja. ALSO READ Coalition faults Tinubu, ECOWAS’s fresh sanctions on Niger Republic He said: “President Bola Tinubu has directed the…
President Joe Biden clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, winning a majority of the necessary delegates and setting up what is expected to be a bitter, closely contested rematch with Donald Trump. The outcome had never been much in doubt. Biden faced token opposition as the party’s biggest names — Govs. Gavin Newsom of California and Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan among them — opted to sit out the race rather than challenge a sitting president who had already beaten Trump once. By clearing the field for Biden, 81, Democrats have gambled that he remains the party’s best shot at defeating…
On Tuesday, the Senate handed a three-month suspension on Senator Abdul Ningi over the allegation that the 2024 budget was padded to the tune of N3 trillion. Some members of the Northern Senators Forum, which Ningi chairs, had dissociated themselves from the allegation. “We, the undersigned on behalf of the Senators from the 19 Northern States and the FCT, under the aegis of Northern Senators Forum (NSF), hereby state that Senator Ahmed Abdul Ningi of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP, Bauchi Central), who also happens to be the chairman of our forum, was on his own in the claims he…