President Muhammadu Buhari will on Monday depart Abuja for UK to participate in the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021 to 2025. The President’s spokesperson, Mr Femi Adesina, who confirmed this in a statement on Monday, said the summit would be co-hosted by the Prime Minister of the UK, Boris Johnson, and the President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta. According to him, the summit will bring together Heads of State and Government as well as stakeholders and youth leaders, and provide a platform for partners to chart a way forward towards transforming education systems in partner…
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Nigerians and by extension their businesses, expend about N7 trillion annually on power generation, a Renewable Energy expert, Mr Stephen Ogboko, has said. Ogboko, also the Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, Off Grid Tech Solutions Ltd., made this known at a virtual news conference in Lagos. He spoke on the theme: “Analysing the Benefits of Technological Innovation.” According to him, this is inefficient, expensive, noisy, polluting and of poor quality. He said that inadequate power supply had been a major challenge facing businesses in the country, forcing them to source for alternative power supply for their operations. The executive…
Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Director-General (DG) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), has said the contributions of Nigerians at home and abroad could positively impact the nation’s economy to bring about peaceful coexistence. The DG said this at a webinar to celebrate the National Diaspora Day on Sunday, in Abuja, organised by the Nigerians in the Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) to commemorate its establishment and its achievements so far. The event was themed: “Diaspora Integration for National Peace and Development”, which NiDCOM described as being anchored on the levers of peace that would accelerate Diaspora engagement for national growth and development.…
The federal government of Nigeria has further extended the deadline for National Identity Number (NIN)-Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) data verification to October 31. This is contained in a statement jointly signed by Dr Ikechukwu Adinde, Director, Public Affairs, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and Mr Kayode Adegoke, Head, Corporate Communications, National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) on Sunday in Abuja. They said that the decision was reached following a request by stakeholders to accommodate registration in hard-to-reach remote areas, foreigners and diplomatic missions in diaspora. According to the officials, the extension is also to address low enrolments in schools and hospitals, as…
By Racheal Abujah The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) recorded one death and an additional 272 coronavirus infections in Nigeria as at July 24. The NCDC released the information on its official website early on Sunday. The latest infections figure shows a decline, compared with 317 cases announced on July 23, an 18-week high in infections. The public health agency said that COVID-19 related deaths in Nigeria, Africa’s most populated country currently stood at 2,132 since the pandemic hit the country. The agency said that Nigeria had also tested more than 2.4 million samples for the virus out of…
Benue governor, Samuel Ortom has asked the presidency to stop alleged intimidation of patriotic Nigerians who, he said, were raising genuine concerns over the worsening security situation in the country. Bishop Mathew Kukah had, while addressing US Congress, said president Buhari was not only helpless in tackling insecurity in the country but also had nepotistic tendencies. In its response, the presidency had reacted to the Bishop Kukah’s address where it said the cleric’s statements against Buhari administration were disappointing. However, Ortom in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Terver Akase said the presidency should stop intimidating patriotic Nigerians who…
The Centre for Climate Change and Development Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu Alike Ikwo (CCCD AE-FUNAI), has observed that a review of the adaptation section of Nigeria’s revised Nationally Determined Contributions, NDCs, indicates that the range of sectors it includes as climate priorities were narrow. CCCD AE-FUNAI, based in Ebonyi state, has published several reports that are related to the revision of the Nigeria Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). The reports from the ongoing project by the Centre titled, “Promoting Public Engagement with Nigerian NDC Revision and Climate Action”, put together in collaboration with the World Resources Institute (WRI), covered the following…
Last week, Muslims the world over celebrated the eid-ul-adha or the “big eid” or “big Sallah”. We are, however, more interested in its meaning, implications and bearing on us as a nation. We need to look at spiritual milestones, hoping to find the seemingly elusive panacea for our ills. Eid means feast, festival or celebration, while Adha loosely means “sacrifice” (animal sacrifice), “offering” or “oblation”. It so got its name because it commemorates Prophet Ibrahim’s (AS) devotion to Allah (SWT) and his readiness to sacrifice Ismail, his son, for His love. The Qur’anic story has it that Ibrahim (AS) experienced…
The federal government of Nigeria on Saturday handed over additional 200 hectares of farmland to farmers under its Hadejia Valley Irrigation Scheme (HVIS), a N9 billion rehabilitation project in Auyo, Jigawa. The modern irrigation farmland, which was designed for rice farming in the state, was handed over to the beneficiaries by the Minister of Water Resources, Mr Suleiman Adamu, at Yamidi community in Auyo local government area. The project, which is being executed under the Transforming Irrigation Management in Nigeria (TRIMING) scheme, is supported by the World Bank. Adamu said that TRIMING was a special intervention scheme of the federal…
Five members of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) and three others who were seized by gunmen in Rivers waters on Monday have regained their freedom. Mr Edward Osagie, Assistant Director, Public Relations, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) disclosed this in a statement he issued late Saturday. According to Osagie, the release of the abducted people on Saturday evening was sequel to the intervention of the Director-General of NIMASA, Dr Bashir Jamoh and other stakeholders. “The Director-General of NIMASA broke the news after a phone conversation with the President-General of MWUN, Comrade Adewale Adeyanju at about 8:15pm…