The Professional Golfers Association (PGA) is set to organise an Initial Professional Education (IPE) training programme for both male and female PGA pros in the country. The Director, PGA of Nigeria, Mr Samson Lawal who made this known in an interview on Saturday, said that the aim of the programme was to keep its members abreast with international standards in the discharge of their duties with the use of modern tools and technology as PGA pros. “The training would be a step for those who want to advance themselves in the profession to continue with ease. “Furthermore, it will put…
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President Muhammadu Buhari is currently participating in the 58th Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS at the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting started at about 11.00am with some cabinet members, including the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama, Interior, Ra’uf Aregbeshola and the Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari. Others in attendance at the meeting are National Security Adviser to the President, retired Maj.-Gen. Babagana Monguno, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina and some officials from Ministry of Foreign Affairs.…
The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, has said that the organisation is set to clamp down on wanted traffic offenders who have yet to effect payment of fines. In a statement issued by the Corps Public Education Officer (CPEO), Assistant Corps Marshal (ACM) Bisi Kazeem, Oyeyemi said that the corps would go after wanted offenders as from Monday, Jan. 25. Oyeyemi had on Friday Jan. 22 held the year’s first “Strategy Session of Zonal Commanding Officers and Sector Commanders on Zero Tolerance to Crashes in 2021’’. The FRSC boss said that the offenders, who were…
By Tina George, Minna The village head of Zugeru, in Wushishi local government area of Niger state, Maj.-Gen. Usman Mohammed has lamented alleged neglect by the federal and state governments in the areas of security and health. He said this on Thursday when he received Raise Foundation under its Women-led Integrated Protection Against Gender-Based Violence (WIPe-GBV) project, on advocacy visit to push for the end of gender-based violence in the state. According to Mohammed, while his community has been left to protect itself from armed bandits and other threats of insecurity, the federal government has abandoned the Federal Medical Centre…
The International Committee on Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (IFRC), on Friday, welcomed the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), a joint statement they issued from Geneva and New York has said. The statement quoted the President of ICRC, Peter Maurer, as saying “Today is a victory for humanity. “This Treaty – the result of more than 75 years of work – sends a clear signal that nuclear weapons are unacceptable from a moral, humanitarian and now, a legal point of view. “It sets in motion even higher legal barriers and an…
Nigeria on Friday, announced five deaths and 1,483 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 118,138. The NCDC disclosed this on its official website on Friday. The country has so far tested 1,225,179 people since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was recorded on February 27, 2020 in the country. The public health agency also confirmed additional five coronavirus-related deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing the death toll in the country to 1,490. The NCDC said that the new infections were from 22 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). It stated that…
Two ministers serving in the Zimbabwean government died of COVID-19 within a matter of days, prompting the country to announce on Saturday plans to further tighten lockdown measures. Late on Friday, the government announced that Transport Minister Joel Matiza had died after falling ill with COVID-19, less than two days after the country lost Foreign minister Sibusiso Moyo to the same disease. Four government ministers have succumbed to the coronavirus in Zimbabwe so far. According to unconfirmed media reports, several other cabinet ministers are fighting for their lives in a private hospital. “We are in a dark cloud that we…
Nigeria has expanded its public health response capabilities and is making progress in the public health sector after the nation’s first COVID-19 case last year. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo stated this on Friday at the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Reference Laboratory, Gaduwa, Abuja, where he underwent a facility tour. He was in company with the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire; Minister of State for Health, Dr Adeleke Olorunnimbe Mamora; and the Director-General, NCDC, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu. While noting “that we have a critical situation on our hands currently with the increasing number of cases being recorded”, the…
A Swiss criminal court on Friday found billionaire Israeli businessman Beny Steinmetz guilty of corruption and sentenced him to five years in jail. The court also ordered him to pay 50 million Swiss francs ($56.48 million) fine. The judgment is a landmark verdict in one of the mining world’s most high-profile legal disputes. Delivering judgment, the judge, Alexandra Banna, said, “It is clear from what has been presented that the rights were obtained through corruption and that Steinmetz cooperated with others to obtain them.’’ The court, she said, had therefore sentenced him “to a deprivation of liberty for five years”,…
The Supreme Court, has for the second time, refused the request by Alhaji Ali Abacha, a brother to the late Head of State, Sani Abacha, to unfreeze accounts traced to him and relatives of the late Abacha in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Jersey, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg. In a unanimous judgment on Friday, a five-man panel of the court, led by Justice Sylvester Ngwuta held that Ali Abacha’s case was statute barred, as at when it commenced in April 2004, at the Federal High Court in Kaduna. The judgment was in the appeal marked: SC/359/2010, filed by Alhaji Ali Abacha, said…