Kebbi State Government has signed a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU), with a Multi-national Medical Company, Johnson and Johnson West Africa Limited, in furtherance of efforts to provide quality healthcare services to the people. The Agreement involves prostate cancer support and partnership, mental health support and partnership, as well as HIV. The Commissioner for Health, Honourable Ja’afar Muhammad, initialled the MOU on behalf of the State Government, while the Country Manager of the firm, Mr. Gabriel Ogunyemi, signed on behalf of the company. On the occasion, Governor Abubakar Atiku Bagudu, who presided the event, remarked that, he felt honoured to be…
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Nigeria’s Chimamanda Adichie has been awarded the Women’s Prize for Fiction ‘Winner of Winners’ for her novel ‘’Half of a Yellow Sun’’. The prize founder and director, Kate Mosse, disclosed this in a statement made available on Thursday in Abuja. The novel, which originally won the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2007, was set in Nigeria during the Biafran War and dwelt on the end of colonialism, class, race and female empowerment and how love can complicate all of these things. Mosse said: ‘’I am thrilled that Half of a Yellow Sun has won the silver Winner of Winners. Our…
By Ahmed Attahiru Gusau Governor Bello Mohammed of Zamfara state on Thursday, signed four bills into law. The laws include: The law creating an official logo for the state government as a symbol of authority and the establishment of the Directorate for skills acquisition. Others are the law amending the Zakkat Board (2013), which includes collection, distribution and endowment and the law establishing the rural water supply and other matters connected therewith. The law creating official logo for the state government stipulates the regulation for its use and appropriate punishment for its abuse. Any official transaction of the government must…
Justice I. N. Oweibo, of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos State on Thursday, convicted and sentenced five illegal oil dealers to one year imprisonment each with an option of fine of one hundred thousand naira. A statement by the Spokesperson of the Commission, Wilson Uwujaren on Thursday gave their names as Seaman Abonima, Samuel Umoh, Ohoegbulem Vitalis Arikaibe, Adeoye Adegoke and Ali John Kiobowei. The convicts were arraigned today on a two-count charge bordering on illegal dealing in Petroleum products. They pleaded guilty when the charges were read to them. One of the count reads “That MV…
The Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, arraigned a lawyer, Taiwo Oreagba, before Justice Sherifah Solebo of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on a two-count charge bordering on alleged corrupt demand and obtaining by false pretence to the tune of N4,000,000.00. The defendant, who is a counsel to one Kelechi Uka currently under investigation by the Commission, allegedly collected the sum of N4,000,000.00 from one Henry Umoh supposedly to influence officers of the Commission to secure the release of her client (Uka). Count one reads: “That you, Taiwo Oreagba, on…
The Buhari Media Organisation, BMO, has observed that President Muhammadu Buhari is one leader that has done more to empower young Nigerians economically. The group made this observation in a statement signed by its Chairman Niyi Akinsiju and Secretary Cassidy Madueke, against the backdrop of the flag-off of the National Young Farmers Scheme designed by the National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA) to spur more youth interest in farming. “This is yet another Buhari-era initiative targeted at creating a new generation of farmers as well as ensuring more youth inclusion in agriculture. “From all indications, it is a programme that…
…Economic sector gets highest allocation By Tina George, Minna Niger state Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello on Thursday, presented the 2021 Appropriation Bill of N151,240,621,776.00 to the State Assembly. Tagged ‘Budget of Prioritized Realities’, the Bill was presented by the Deputy Governor, Alhaji Ahmed Ketso. Recall that Governor Sani-Bello is in isolation having tested positive for COVID-19. The proposed 2021 Budget, which is estimated at N151.2 billion is 2.71 per cent lower than the 2020 budget of N155.4 billion. The Deputy Governor disclosed that the economic sector has the highest allocation of N54.257 billion, which is 68.90 per…
The Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) has donated a Renal Centre worth N381 million to the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital (RSUTH) to support the hospital’s response to COVID-19 pandemic. The NLNG said the gesture was also to boost healthcare delivery in Rivers State, a statement on Thursday by Mrs Eyono Fatayi-Williams, General Manager, External Relations and Sustainable Development, NLNG, said. It said that NLNG’s Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Tony Attah, affirmed that NLNG was committed to supporting healthcare delivery in Rivers State, in line with its vision of “helping to build a better Nigeria”. Attah, was represented by Fatayi-Williams, at the…
A team of the Federal Operations Unit, Zone B, of the Nigeria Customs Service, Kaduna, operating along Kamba/Bunza road, was attacked by some youths after intercepting a vehicle laden with bags of foreign parboiled rice suspected to have been smuggled into the country A statement today by the unit’s Public Relations officer, ASCI MA Magaji, said as the officers came under attack by some youths from adjoining communities, carrying dangerous weapons; and a melee ensued as they tried to disarm one of the officers. ‘’As a result, a shot was fired, which unfortunately hit one of the youth on his…
The WHO says 28.5 billion dollars is urgently needed to finance the access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator to ensure equitable and worldwide access to vaccines and other equipment to combat the pandemic, an official said. The Director-General of the WHO, Tedros Ghebreyesus, disclosed this on Thursday while addressing the opening ceremony of the Paris peace forum. “We have two urgent requests for the international community: first, the aid accelerator will be no more than a noble gesture unless it is fully funded. “The current financing gap for the aid accelerator is 28.5 billion dollars, and 4.5 billion dollars is…