A former minister of power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo, has said that most Nigerian leaders achieve very little while in office because they were products of bad followership. Nebo made the observation while speaking at the Transformative Leadership Conference 2021 organised by the Global Initiative for Development and Care of Women and Youth (GIDCOWAY), held in Enugu on Monday. Nebo, who was a minister between 2013 and 2015 and a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, noted that the lack of transformative leadership was a problem for the country. According to him, lack of visionary leadership and followership is…
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By Yakubu Uba UNICEF is set to screen at least three million children for acute malnutrition in the northeast. Folashade Adebayo, UNICEF’s Communication Officer in Nigeria, said in a statement issued in Maiduguri on Monday that the screening would be done with a grant from the government of Japan. She said the grant would assist UNICEF to work with mothers and other caregivers to boost community-based food production. It would also help in the detection, referral and monitoring of children with severe acute malnutrition in Borno and Yobe states. “Children with severe acute malnutrition are at a significantly higher risk…
President Muhammadu Buhari says Nigerians are better together and stronger in spite of occasional inter-ethnic tensions in the country. The president made this known at the 12th Asiwaju Bola Tinubu Colloquium held in Kano on Monday. “Despite occasional inter-ethnic tensions in our national history, it seems to me that we have all agreed on one point that notwithstanding our diversity of ethnicity, culture, language and religion, Nigerians are better together; even stronger together,’’ Buhari said. The president, who participated virtually in the event to mark the 69th birthday of the former two-term Governor of Lagos State, commended the celebrant for…
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila has called clerics in the country to pray for peace, unity and socieconomic prosperity of Nigeria. He gave the charge in Sokoto in a message to the funds appeal launch by the Sokoto state chapter of Jama’atu Izalatul Bid’a Wa Iqamtus-Sunnah (JIBWIS), for its 1442 AH actitivities. According to the speaker, who was represented by the member representing Wamakko and Kware federal constituency, Ahmed Kalambaina said, the unity of the country was not negotiable. “Our diverse religious, ethnic and political differences are meant to further unite us and not to divide…
The Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, BPE, Mr. Alex Okoh has set up a 6-point agenda in the next four years, including the encouragement of more private sector investment in critical sectors of the Nigerian economy through Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs). A statement by the spokesperson of the Bureau, Amina Othman made available to ASHENEWS on Monday, quoted the DG as saying that, “already the Federal government has simplified the PPP process which now allows private sector players to scout for projects to be financed through the PPP model.” According to the Director General, other areas of interest…
A massive container ship which had blocked the Suez Canal since Tuesday has been freed and re-floated, maritime service provider Inchcape Shipping said on Monday. The Panama-flagged ship, Ever Given, had veered off its course in a single-lane stretch of the canal during a sandstorm. “The MV Ever Given was successfully re-floated at 04:30 [0230 GMT] 29/03/2021. She is being secured at the moment,” Inchcape Shipping tweeted. The high tide overnight, which was accompanied by a full moon helped to free the ship, the service provider indicated. The vital waterway is expected to be ready to resume traffic by 11:00…
The massive container ship blocking the Suez Canal for almost a week, has been turned 80 per cent in the right direction, officials said Monday, raising hopes the vital trade route could soon be clear. But its owner said that while the giant ship “has turned”, it was still not yet afloat. The MV Ever Given, longer than four football fields, has been wedged diagonally across the canal since Tuesday, strangling world supply chains and costing the global economy billions. Suez Canal Authority (SCA) chief Osama Rabie said Monday that rescue efforts with tugs had succeeded in shifting the front…
By Women Power Africa Captain Asnath Mahapa is South Africa’s first black female Commercial Pilot and first South African black woman to acquire an Airline Transport Pilots Licence (ATPL). She fell in love with the idea of flying at the tender age of 13. Curiosity about why aircraft manage to stay in the air is what inspired her to consider this career. She started her pilot training at G&L Aviation and then moved to Progress Flight Academy where she obtained her Private Pilots License. She went on to complete her Commercial Pilots License on the 8th of October 1999. She…
By Oluwafunke Ishola The Lagos state government says 127,885 persons have so far received their first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines. The State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, made this known in a statement on Sunday. Abayomi said that the State Primary Health Care Board (SPHCB) in its day 10 report, revealed that 39,959 health workers, 54,200 essential workers and 33,726 strategic leaders had taken the jab. ”We have also identified some areas of concern on Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) overcrowding at some vaccination sites and the E-registration portal. “I want to assure residents that all these…
By Abujah Racheal The National Primary Health Care Agency, NPHCDA, said 513,626 persons have received the first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine across the country. The NPHCDA disclosed this in its official Twitter handle on Sunday. Nigeria commenced vaccination since March 5, first with healthcare workers who are mostly at risk of infections being the first responders. NPHCDA said that the vaccine roll-out would be in four phases, starting with health workers, frontline workers, COVID-19 rapid response team, laboratory network, policemen, petrol station workers and strategic leaders. “Phase 2 – Older adults aged 50 years and above, those with…