The federal government has signed shareholders agreement for the construction of Brass Petroleum Products Terminal Ltd (BPPT) to curb illegal refining and stabilise products price in the Niger Delta. Chief Timipre Sylva, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, at the signing ceremony on Friday in Abuja said the project would help to sanitise the system in the region Shareholders in the BPPT are the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the Nigeria Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and ZED Energy Ltd. The BPPT when completed will help close infrastructure gap in the distribution of petroleum products and also stop illegal…
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The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, French government, in collaboration with Oyo and Kaduna state governments, on Friday inaugurated a project to support women entrepreneurship in Nigeria. The project tagged, ‘’Support to Women Entrepreneurship in the Agri-Food Sector in Nigeria’’ has French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs as its donor. Speaking at the event in Ibadan, the France Regional Agriculture Counsellor, Dr Sonia Darracq, noted that the project was to extend skills development of women agri-entrepreneurs in Nigeria. Darracq stated that it was geared towards women’s greater empowerment and their dynamic inclusion in market networks, locally and…
Ondo State Police Command has said that it will not fold its arms and watch any protest, under whatever guise, in the state to degenerate to the #EndSARS mayhem. The Command’s spokesperson, DSP Tee Leo-Ikoro said on Friday that the police were battle-ready to forestall any breakdown of law and order by any individual or group. Several government property were destroyed by suspected hoodlums who hijacked the peaceful protest against police brutality, popularly known as ‘EndSARS’, held across the country in October 2020. Leo-Ikoro said that the command had deployed its men in all the nooks and crannies of the…
The WHO and UNICEF on Friday, applauded the Philippines for ending the polio outbreak almost two years after the highly infectious disease re-emerged in the country. In a joint statement, the UN agencies said the Philippines’ Department of Health (DOH) officially stopped the polio outbreak response on June 3. “The decision came as the virus has not been detected in a child or the environment in the past 16 months,” the statement said. The agencies said comprehensive outbreak response actions, including intensified immunisation and surveillance activities in affected areas of the Southeast Asian country, curbed the spread of the poliovirus.…
The Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN) has sealed 305 pharmacies and patent medicine shops in Kebbi for various offences. The PCN Director, Enforcement, Mr Stephen Esumobi, made this known while briefing newsmen in Birnin Kebbi on Friday on behalf of the council’s Registrar, Mr Elijah Mohammed. Mohammed said that the council sealed 20 pharmacies and 285 patent medicine shops. He said that the existence of unregistered medicine shops across the country was a major factor militating against rational distribution and use of medicine. “Also a large number of registered patent medicine shops carry out activities that are beyond their approved…
Amid worrying prevalence of childhood malnutrition in Nigeria, scientists and researchers in nutrition and dietetics have agreed on partnership to end malnutrition in the country. The two parties arrived at this resolution on Friday in Ibadan during the inauguration of Academic and Research Network for Scaling-Up Nutrition in Nigeria (ARN-SUNN) in Oyo state. A Professor of Human Nutrition and Dietetics at University of Ibadan, Rasaki Sanusi, noted that childhood malnutrition had been a public health emergency in the country for the past 30 years. “Malnutrition in under-five is a public health problem and it has been so for the past…
Afrobeat singer, Damini Ogulu, a.k.a Burna Boy, has received his Grammy awards plaque. The afrobeat singer’s ‘Twice as Tall Album’ won Best Global Music album at the 63rd Grammy awards, which was held in March in Los Angeles, United States of America. The singer took to his Instagram page @burnaboygram to announce the award of plaque, as he posted photos and a video clip of himself with the plaque. ”Early Morning deliveries from across the pond. “My parents prayed for excellent children, not houses, cars or “things”. “They asked my sisters for stellar degrees; one got a first class in…
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Thursday said that its Independent Investigation panel on allegations of violations of human rights by the defunct SARS and other police units will continue public sitting in Abuja soon. Answering questions from journalists in Abuja, the executive secretary of the commission, Mr Tony Ojukwu said that the panel would soon resume sitting. “We have the panel going on in 36 locations, Abuja is just one location, we are collating results now from some states where sitting has ended. “Abuja is not only burdened with physical public hearing, we are also, co-ordinating what is…
The Chairman House Committee on Youth Development, Mr Yemi Adaramodu, has given assurance that the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme would not be scrapped. Adaramodu gave the assurance at the unveiling of nine books on NYSC and a maiden NYSC film to commemorate the 48th anniversary of the scheme in Abuja on Thursday. He said that sponsoring a bill for scraping the scheme should not rattle the agency because any member has the right to sponsor bill at the National Assembly. “But the Speaker, the rest of us, the leadership of the house believe in the scheme and the…
President Muhammadu Buhari has challenged state governors to look inward towards finding solutions to security challenges particularly those occasioned by herders/farmers clashes in their states. The president gave the challenge during an interview with Arise Television which was televised on Thursday. He called for the resuscitation of the grassroots’ security panels in the Southwestern part of the country where traditional rulers and Local Government Councils were involved in ensuring peaceful co-existence in the communities. The president narrated an episode where, “two South West Governors came to me to say cattle rearers are destroying farms in their states. “I asked them…