ASHENEWS reports that the Chairman of the Police Service Commission, PSC, Dr Solomon Arase has backed plans by the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) to provide free legal services to inmates in correctional facilities.
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The Management of the Benue Investment and Property Company Limited (BIPC) said the recent retrenchment of workers was necessitated by the need to retain a realistic workforce and minimise losses.
A don at the Department of Estate Management, Obafemi Awolowo University(OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun, Prof. Joseph Oyedele, says Nigeria needs $15 billion annually to fix the infrastructural needs of the country.
The fact that hunger is destroying the Country is infuriating and frustrating. The cost of a 50 kg bag of rice has skyrocketed, ranging from 60 to 77k, out of reach for the average Nigerian.
“This initiative is one of the steps we are taking to curb the continuous exodus of healthcare professionals from the country.
The Federal Government has indefinitely suspended mining activities within the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) campus and the OAU Teaching Hospitals Complex in Ile-Ife, Osun. This is pending investigations into suspected illegal mining activities in the area. The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr Dele Alake, announced the suspension shortly after meeting with the management of OAU, led by the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Adebayo Bamire, on Tuesday in Abuja. The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) had called for investigations into reports of illegal mining activities at OAU. The President of NANS Senate, Segun Elvis had said that the activities posed a…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says global growth in 2024 and 2025 is projected to hold steady at 3.2 percent, at the same pace as in 2023. This is according to the IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) Update Report for April 2024: “Steady But Slow: Resilience Amid Divergence” released on Tuesday in Washington DC. The report said the forecast for 2024 was revised up by 0.1 percentage points from the January 2024 WEO update and by 0.3 percentage points from the October 2023 WEO. It said the pace of expansion was low by historical standards, owing to both near-term…
The Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation, Prof. Joseph Utsev, has cautioned that 148 Local Government Areas (LGAs) across 31 states are among the highly probable flood-risk areas for 2024. Utsev issued this warning during the official unveiling of the 2024 Annual Flood Outlook (AFO) on Monday in Abuja. The theme of this year’s AFO is “Promoting the Use of Data Analytics and Modeling for Flood Risk Assessments and Food Security.” The Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA) leads AFO yearly predictions. The identified states are Adamawa, Akwa-Ibom, Anambra, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Benue, Borno, Cross-River, Delta, Ebonyi, Edo, Imo, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano,…
The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Sen. Abubakar Kyari, says Nigeria requires about 312,000 metric tons of seed towards achieving food security, food sufficiency and global security in 2024. Kyari said this at a High-Level Stakeholders’ Forum on Seed System Development, organized by Feed-the Future Nigeria Integrated Agriculture Activity, on Tuesday in Abuja. The minister was represented by the Director, National Food and Strategic Reserve, Dr Haruna Suleman. The theme of the forum is, “Enhancing Seed Systems Development for Improved Food Security: A Paradigm of USAID Interventions in Northeast Nigeria’’. Kyari said the ministry had outlined a series of…
The Federal Government has unveiled a guideline that will allow community members to own and manage water and sanitation facilities sustainably in the country. The Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation, Prof. Joseph Utsev, spoke on Tuesday in Abuja at the inauguration of the Framework for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Committee (WASHCOM) Formation and Management in Nigeria. The minister said the gesture is geared towards promoting sustainability and allowing communities to oversee the management of these facilities within their localities. According to him, the framework is expected to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of service delivery, as well as ensure…